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Make Calls from PC to Phone for FREE

I just stumbled on a site that is able to make free calls from PC to phone. Perhaps there are other better site or method to make calls from PC to phone, but this is something I just happen to know when checking out some forums and thought of sharing it with all of you.

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A Quality and Free SEO Software to take your website in top Search Results

Website  optimization(SEO) is the most critical step needed first to take its information to various search engine results & its  really becomes important when a lot of tasks to be done starting from keyword research, link building , submission of urls to various search engines & other important tasks. What if , a software do it for you in a more easy & efficient way.

Web CEO, is the most popular softwares for SEO, keeps you free from all the tasks for SEO of your websites & handles all the critical side of  SEO like site submission, linkink analysis, keyword research & lots more in a more easy way. Web Ceo is availabe free of charge but comes with more enhanced features in its paid editions.

Some Web CEO features:

  • Submit websites to various search engines
  • Analyze a website’s position in search engines for any keyword
  • Keyword Mining from competitor’s pages
  • Advice for General Search Engine Compliance
  • Analyzing Link Popularity (Number of Links to Your Website)
  • Analyzing Backward Links vs. Competition
  • Advanced Position History report
  • Partner Finder tool
  • Blog Communities  Submission tool.

Web Developers Guide | Using Firefox FireBug made easy (Video)

Firefox Addon FireBug is one of the easiest & efficient way for web developers to edit CSS in Firefox browser. Its a tool which easily captures the fine CSS elements, allows to change the style, css & provide the instant view of the changes made. Although the changes are not permanent but helps to make important desicions regarding the different views , styles in the web pages after observing the results of the change.

This  is a nice video from kristarella in which Firebug’s usage  is nicely explained with a coverage of tools

Find your website/blog Page Ranks(free)

According to Wikipedia.com
PageRank is a family of algorithms for assigning numerical weightings to hyperlinked documents (or web pages) indexed by a search engine. Its properties are much discussed by search engine optimization (SEO) experts. The popular search engine Google to help determine a page’s relevance or importance uses the PageRank system. Googles founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed it while at Stanford University in 1998. Here you can find the Page Rank of your blogs & websites.

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How to Backup and Synchronise Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox

If you bookmark a lot of websites & love to save important webpages as bookmarks, it’s always a good idea to have them backed them up somewhere. The best backup place, of course, is the Internet where all your bookmarks stay safe from any possible hardware failures that may cripple your PC.

We are going to How to effectively backup and synchronize your bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox, one of the most widely used web browsers.

Delicious for all!

Del.icio.usDelicious is no stranger to us, being the largest online bookmark organizing and sharing service. Meanwhile, Delicious also offers official add-ons for Firefox and Internet Explorer that keep the bookmarks in your browser and your Delicious account completely synchronized. If you’re using another browser, simply grab the Bookmark on Delicious bookmark-let and use it to save bookmarks in your Delicious account (rather than your browser).

You can add Inforids.com on delicious.

Of course, Delicious isn’t the end of the world, and you can choose from various other options if you want to. Read on!

Mozilla Firefox

We all love Firefox. With over 6000+ add-ons and counting, there are always more than one ways to get something done with this browser. And backing up bookmarks is no exception.

Like IE, manually backing up bookmarks in Firefox is dead simple.

Using Xmarks

Xmarks (previously Foxmarks) is a solid add-on that can sync your bookmarks and even passwords across multiple PCs. In addition, Xmarks can suggest tags for new bookmarks, and show information about your visited sites based on this bookmark database.

Xmarks is also available as Foxmarks for IE 6 / 7 and Safari 3(Mac OS X only), though with significantly less features.

How do you organise, backup and sync your bookmarks? Let us know your techniques. Say in the comments.

Using .htaccess to Prevent Images Hotlinking & Saving your Web Hosting Bandwidth

Did you ever noticed that your images are being hotlinked on someone else’s server and consuming your server bandwidth? This is actually is direct linking to a web site’s files (images, video, etc.).without your permission.

It is bad, as it not only stealing our images, it also take advantage of our bandwidths. Since web hosts charge based on the amount of data transferred, bandwidth is an issue.

Hotlinking should be stopped because others undesirable consequences like switcheroo can often occur.

Using control over.htaccess is one of the most efficient way to prevent image hotlinking. Go through the following steps:

Creating & Placing .htaccess in Root (main) directory

Simply open a notepad & save it as .htaccess without any extension behind. If already have the .htaccess uploaded to your server, simply edit it like in step 2.

Editing .htaccess File

Paste the following code in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ http://yoursite.com/other_image.jpe[NC,R,L]

Note: In Last line of the above code the image other_image.jpg is not hotlink protected or your server can go into an endless loop.

In the above code yoursite2.com can used be stop hotlinking from specific outside domains only, such as myspace.com, blogger.com and livejournal.com

If you want to display 403 Forbidden error on hotlinking simply paste the following code instead of the code shown above.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F]

Remember, Hotlinked images can only be replaced by other images, not with an HTML page.

Using .htaccess to prevent hotlinking helps you block some legitimate traffic using these techniques.

What do you think about other ways to prevent images hotlinking on your blogs? Do you like this technique? Share with us your views.

Google spins Docs preview into Gmail without Leaving your Inbox

Gmail users who share Google Docs with friends and coworkers now have an easy way to preview documents right inside their inbox. In the last post where we have seen how to Twitter from Gmail account, made use of Gmail Labs.

Now Gmail Labs have added a new way to peek at the content of shared Google Docs documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without opening them in another tab or window.

The feature follows previous preview features for YouTube videos, Google voice, Yelp reviews, and Flickr and Picasa albums.

How to activate Docs Preview in Gmail?

Google Docs previews in mail can currently be activated under the “Labs” tab in Gmail settings.

To activate Docs Previews in Gmail, just go to Labs, Enable Google Docs previews in mail & click on Save Changes.

Gmail will automatically detect when Docs files are linked within an email and display the name and type of document below the email. Click the “show preview” link quickly discover whether a linked file is useful or spam either.

How to Twitter from your Gmail account using TwitterGadget

Twitter is now most popular micro blogging, it is no less than an addiction & has become very common service to meme “what are you doing”. So, making this service more useful I have come up with a great tool which allows you to use Twitter while checking email on Gmail.

Gmail, the most used powerful service from Google, has a very good feature called Labs, which adds usability power to your Gmail account by adding various addon features & more experimenting features that are under developments.

Gmail labs feature using which you can embed twitter into your Gmail inbox. TwitterGadget is a new tool that essentially allows you to have all of the main features of Twitter inside of Gmail as a Google Gadget.


To Use Features of Twitter inside of Gmail  follow these three steps:

Log into your Gmail Account & Go to Settings.

Click the ‘Labs‘ Icon & Enable ‘Add any gadget by URL‘, then click ‘Save Changes

Click ‘Gadgets‘ & Enter the URL

http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml

& then click ‘Add

You’re done! Enjoy using Twitter in Gmail.

How to Avail WordPress Ping Facility to get Max Exposure and Inbound Links

In my last post, We have just seen how to update all those popular & most used search engines in one click, about blog updates using Ping-o-Matic.

For WordPress user, updating & notifying different services & search engines becomes more easy as wordpress as integrated Update Services Feature.

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post.

In turn, Update Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update. Now people browsing sites like Technorati or Sphere can find your most recent posts!

Ping Services That I Use

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com/


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://1470.net/api/ping


http://api.feedster.com/ping


http://api.moreover.com/RPC2


http://api.moreover.com/ping


http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2


http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping


http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://bitacoras.net/ping


http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC


http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc


http://blogmatcher.com/u.php


http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc


http://coreblog.org/ping/


http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt


http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/


http://ping.amagle.com/


http://ping.bitacoras.com


http://ping.blo.gs/


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc


http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/


http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.myblog.jp


http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.weblogs.se/


http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2


http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/


http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2


http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/


http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/


http://rpc.newsgator.com/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php


http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b


http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php


http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2


http://www.blogoole.com/ping/


http://www.blogoon.net/ping/


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1


http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php


http://www.blogsnow.com/ping


http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi


http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php


http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud


http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php


http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php


http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2


http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/


http://xmlrpc.blogg.de


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

This is the list of Pings that I use to notify & update different services. This is a recommended ping list for a WordPress blog.

If you want the update services to be pinged, just Copy & Paste all the above update service URIs listed under “Update Services” on the Setting -> Writing under the administration screen.

Every time you post these services will be notified of your blog post increasing your online exposure & inbound links.

How to Send Blog Updates to 25+ Search Engines Instantly for Free

Bloggers need to update the Search Engines regularly to index the most recent content URLs. Going to each search engine & updating then separately is not a good option. Why not submit you blog at once & update all those popular & most used search engines in one click? Yes, Its possible using Ping-o-Matic.

Ping-o-Matic is a free service that updates different search engines that your blog has updated.

This site pings blog updates to 25+ different blog search engines including WeBlogs, Feedburner, Technorati, My Yahoo, BlogLines, News Gator, Google Blog Search etc

Just go to the site & enter your Blog name, Blog home page (URL) & RSS URL.


Select the services to ping & Click the Send Pings button. And its done.

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