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Well this video says it all.

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This cool web application which uses non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images. So why is this awesome, well it reduces your images file size which in turns makes you web pages load quicker. It a cool tool if your trying to make a speedy website. Check it out.

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Well it’s time for a little self promotion. We at Wired Together have a great deal for new customers who are looking for some reliable web hosting.  Just use the coupon code “wired” and you’ll recieve 15% off your initial order.  Deal expires on August 31st.  Please feel free to ask us anything before you sign up.

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This isn’t really a tip but more of a fun post. Everyone knows about easter eggs in movies but there is also easter eggs in Software as well. What is an easter egg, basically it’s a hidden feature that is not present by the naked eye. So here’s an easy one you can do with firefox 3.0 or higher.

Type about:robots in the address bar and hit enter. Wow wasn’t that exciting

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Use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly-editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, it’s entirely free!

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First 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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It’s a little harder for us Canadians to get our favorite TV shows on the internet compared to our neighbours to the south but that doesn’t mean we don’t have some options when it comes to online tv. All major Canadian networks stream tv shows from there website. Below is a list of sites you can get your free tv fix on without having to do a lot of searching around.

CTV - Lots of Shows like The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Desperate Housewives, Fringe, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost

CTV HD – CTV also offers some shows in HD which is great but your limited to 3 shows since this is in beta.

Global – Global has a dozen of shows were you can watch full episodes like 90210, The Office, 24, Heroes, House, Bones, Days of our Lives

City TV – Watch a couple shows like Chuck and Ugly Betty

Now there are more places to stream online content from like the comedy network or discovery channel but most of these are owned by ctv so you can see all that stuff from there site.

Also sometime in the near future Canada should have access to view video from Hulu.com which has a ton of shows. But until then enjoy.

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Let’s face it, the theme that comes with wordpress as the default is not very flashy. There are plenty of places to spice up your blog and of course it’s all free so don’t bother paying for a theme. For instructions on how to upload a new theme, click here.

The Wordpress official site – Check out the official site has they have a ton of themes for free.

Wordpress Themes Base

We will have more free templates later so check back often.

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This is a just our way of saying thanks for checking out our blog. When you order a service from us Wired Together, use the code wiredblog and receive a one time 15% off. Thanks again an we hope you come back often to read our blog.

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Hey everyone. This is our first post on our brand new blog. We started this blog to make the web world a little easier. It’s our goal to lend a helping hand. Although we run a Web hosting and Design business, we are here to help with any questions you may have. So sit back and hopefully you’ll find this blog informative. Thanks for stopping by

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