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Gmail Increases Attachment Size

June 30th, 2009

gmailFor all you Gmail users out there.  This just in, you can now send an attachment that is up to 25mb. This is up from the 2omb it used to be. So enjoy that extra 5mb when you send an email……i know i will.

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Best Stock Photo Websites

June 25th, 2009

When you are designing a website or any content really you mostly always want to add some stock images to it, to give a good looking feel, Here I’ve listed 3 best websites where you can download stock and royalty free images for free. That’s right i said free as in ZERO.

1. StockVault

stockvault

2. PhotoCase

photocase

3. Stock.xchng

stockxchng

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Transformer Text In Disguise

June 23rd, 2009

transformersSo in honor of what will most likely be the biggest movie of the summer we found a great tutorial to make the transformer style text.

PSHERO has this great tutorial check it out. God i love robot text.

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The Battle of the Free Media Players

June 22nd, 2009

vlc-playerIf your looking for an alternative to the standard video / audio player like windows media player then i would definetly check out two players in particular that can play pretty much anything you throw at them. Also the one of the benefits of these players is that you don’t need to install those codecs or codec packs to get them to play files as it’s all built in to the software. So check them both out.

1. VLC Player

2. KMPlayer

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Find All Those Duplicate Files

June 20th, 2009

filefinderI don’t know about you but i find that make multiple copies of files but that takes up valuable space.  With Fast Duplicate File Finder you can find all those duplicate files.

You can scan local, external, flash-based, and network drives with Fast Duplicate File Finder. There are several convenient features like the ability to automatically mark the older of the two duplicate files as the one that will be deleted or moved, protection of system and program files, and a shortcut to immediately jump to the actual folder where a duplicate you’d like to examine is residing.

It’s only available for Windows but it still a great tool. Also it’s free. Check it out.

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Seo Tools to Check Up On Your Competitors

June 19th, 2009

background_seoFirst off some people might not know what SEO is. SEO stands for “search engine optimization”.  SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines.

Here are a couple great tools to check the status of your site and also your competitors.

Website Grader – Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website.

Feed Compare – A free web application that you can use for comparing FeedBurner feeds.

Multi-Rank Checker – You can use this tool for multiple domain check-ups for Google Page Rank and the Alexa Ranking.

These tools should get you started but we will have more SEO tools in the near future.

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DVDSmith Movie Backup

June 19th, 2009

dvd-backup-leftCombining powerful functionality with a straightforward interface, DVDSmith Movie Backup provides an easy way to transfer DVD information onto your hard drive. In Full Disk Mode, DVDSmith Movie Backup can backup, clone or copy DVD movie to computer as DVD folder, ISO file. DVDSmith can copy and decrypt the whole movie DVD to a local hard drive with excellent reliability, speed, and ease of use.

Download DVDSmith Today

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Check Your Websites Compatibility

June 18th, 2009

cross-browser-compatibilityOne of the most important things to do when your making a website is to check to see if displays correctly in all browsers.  Browser Shots is a great website that will do this  and will give you screen shots for you to compare to see if your website looks similar across all browsers.

Check browsershots.org to test your pages.

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Acrobat.com Has Some Useful Tools

June 17th, 2009

acrobatRecently Acrobat.com launched a new site and it has some useful tools that are free of charge. Of course they want you to upgrade to the premium access but you still get some great features for the free basic access. Some features include uploading large files to share and send to friends and family that would normally be blocked by your email. They also have a feature to create pdf’s online.

You will need a adobe userid and password but this is free.

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Free Web Development Tools

June 16th, 2009

kompozerDon’t know how to code web pages and don’t want to spend a fortune on expensive programs like Go Live. Don’t sweat it there are always free alternatives to those expensive programs. Here are a couple examples to get you started.

Amaya – Amaya is unique in several ways, one of which is the ability to edit multiple documents simultaneously on the web. This is a great feature for webmasters; Amaya allows the user to browse and make web pages
from scratch or copy and paste content from existing sources. Editing and browsing are combined in a single tool. It has a collaborative annotation application that lets you add comments or remarks to any web document or add them to a part of the document that you select.

KompoZer – One of the most important features is still that editing take place in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode allowing you full control of layout as you work with your web design.

These two programs should get you started. Good luck and happy web designing.

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