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· January 31, 2008 at 7:03 am · Hot Web Topics, Online Tools, Popular Posts
Tags: addons, google calendar, Greasemonkey, guide, help, tips, tricks
Ever since I did the Google Reader guide people have been asking me to do another post like that about some other service. I do use Google Calendar a lot as well so here are a few Google Calendar tips and tricks that you might actually get some use out of.
Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Calendar
· January 27, 2008 at 8:41 am · Popular Posts, Web Hosting
Tags: ajax, dns, domains, lookup, network, Resources, whois
Here are some of the best networking tools on the Web these days:
- Network-Tools.com - Ugly interface but a little something for every network tool loving freak.
- Pingdom Tools - The best looking set of network tools, ping, traceroute and page loading tools included.
- DNS Goodies - Lots of goodies here to love from whois, ip check, ping and more.
- Traceroute.org - Need to do a traceroute from more than one location? The interface is horrible but the info is handy.
- DNS Stuff - Another list of your generic domain name tools. Also has a paid service for more perks and choices.
- My Nameserver - Tons of DNS related lookup tools here. Also good to look up abuse, domain name worth and more.
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· December 19, 2007 at 3:19 pm · Free Hosting, Popular Posts
Tags: best-of, free, graphics, hosts, links, photos, Resources
Looking for a for a free place to upload a few of your pictures? There is no shortage of places online, I can promise you that for sure. Over the past few weeks I’ve been gathering my own list up, checking it twice and have found for you 42 of the best photo or graphic hosts out there today.
I know that some people don’t like to register to get this type of service so the only requirement that I had for this list would be that you can upload without registering - with the exception of Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket and some of the known and trusted photo hosting resources.
Here is the list of free photo or graphic hosts:
- Flickr - 20 MB monthly upload limit / unlimited bandwidth
- Zooomr - 100 MB monthly upload limit / unlimited bandwidth
- Visadig - Max file size 1.6MB / unlimited bandwidth
- Photobucket - 1 GB disk space / 25 GB monthly bandwidth
- Image Vimage - Max file size 2 MB / bandwidth unknown
- TinyPic - Unlimited photo hosting and bandwidth
- PutPix - 2 GB of space / 10 GB bandwidth / 2 MB file size limits
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· December 13, 2007 at 6:38 am · Hot Web Topics, Interviews, Popular Posts
Tags: dan cohen, flakes, interview, pageflakes, portals, start-pages
Your start page says a lot about you. Do you like tons of information flying your way - or do you like to keep it short and simple? I recently got the chance to have a quick chat with one of the leaders in the start page arena Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes. From taking the start page idea of out Pageflakes to what his favorite pagecasts are - I tried to cover it all with minimal fluff.
How important is user feedback and experiences (good and bad) when it comes to the Pageflakes product?
Dan: It’s extremely important and we have ongoing dialogues with our users through the blog and support forum. We monitor this full time and read & respond to every email. Our product plans include user requested information by way of reviews and feedback. We always have a representative from customer services support team involved in our product sessions.
This is to not only know how our site is produced & written, understanding sessions etc but also to represent the user base and their comments/suggestions into our future plans. They aggregate the most popular requests and common denominator feedback so we acknowledge this as paramount in our product plans. Ongoing dialogue internally and with our users are taken extremely seriously into our product design development strategies.
Start pages have a history of being something that people spend five minutes on, get caught up on whatever they want to watch - clocks or kitten saying funny things. Why should somebody invest the time to spend more time with Pageflakes?
Dan: A great number of users spend more time on Pageflakes than email and social networking sites. The old generation of personalize pages i.e. my Yahoo would result in people clicking for a moment and then visiting another site. But the old RSS information was sports, news and stocks related so if the user wanted to read more, they’d click through or venture to other websites.
With Pageflakes, users can check bank balances, email, network, visit social networking flakes so the interactive elements on Pageflakes is richer and includes flakes that users couldn’t do before. We are revolutionizing what people are doing on the Web. Technology has changed and Pageflakes is more of an engaging experience by definition to keep users on the page longer. They are learning and digging deeper into topics individually and interacting with other like minded individuals.
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· September 19, 2007 at 7:16 am · Popular Posts, Web Development
Tags: alternatives, cms, content, list, management, publish, WordPress
No doubt that WordPress is the king of the hill when it comes to content management these days. It seems like in a lot of people’s eyes they can do no wrong. There have to a few other choices out there though right?
Now don’t get me wrong, I am totally happy with Wordpress - but, there are several cool alternatives that might be worth checking out for your next web project.
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