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Get Traffic to Your Website – Link Building

Zack — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:53:12 +0000

As you have a unique website with a great design and some nice content, another thing you need to consider is getting people to your websites.

The most traditional way to do this is to tell your friends about your website, ask them to take a look and give you some feedback. Of course the result is limited, unless you have thousands of friends willing to offer you advises.

And the better way is to make your website visible on internet. You can write guest post on famous blogs, like problogger, but this is not easy, because you need to have really good writing skill and you need to be familiar with those famous blogs. If you can do this well, it sure will bring you a lot of traffic.

If you are not confident with your writing, you may consider about build links to improve your PR rank so that people can find you through search engine like Google. It’s much more easier to do this. All you need to do is to go to other websites and leave your link of your website there. For example, you can go to your favorite blogs and forums, write something containing your link.

This is quite a drudgery to some people, you can get some Link Building Specialists to do it for you. Most of them have their own Link Building Software, using this kind of Link Building Services, you will get a lot of links very soon, and people will find your website via Google.

MP3Mixx: Online Legal Music Store

Zack — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:19:35 +0000

MP3Mixx is a online music store, offering more than 3,000,000 legal MP3 tracks to download. They have the world’s largest database of MP3 musics, and update everyday, hundreds of songs will be added, you can find the latest album here.

All musics provide by MP3Mixx are in MP3 format, you can put them into all kinds of music players, take them with you anytime and anywhere.

They’ve got a large library of artists, albums and songs. You can find all kinds of music here, from Rap to Jazz. Also whoever artists you like, Eminem, Beatles or Jack Wagner.

The design of the website is very clear, easy to understand. You can get to the song or artist very fast and download music right away. I tried to play some music tracks, it loads very fast, play smoothly. The quality of the sound is very nice. They organize songs by albums and artists, I can download the whole album. Or listen to every songs to find those I enjoyed.

It’s good to see more this kind of stores online, makes it much more easier to the songs or art pieces we can enjoy.

Visit MP3Mxx, find your favorite artists and try out some songs, and let me know how you feel about this service.

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Get Your Own Facebook App

Zack — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:36:30 +0000

The world of software development is changing. More and more softwares go online now, SAAS (Software as a Service) is the new way of running a software company. Instead of downloading from internet, we use softwares or play games directly in a browser. Facebook is the best example. The most popular game center nowadays is not a install-able software on your PC, but a website – Facebook.

Facebook is not just for games or business, it’s about everything of our life now. A Facebook account is not enough, people’ve started to create their own Facebook Page. Not only companies, but also bloggers have their own Facebook App. Do we need a Facebook Page or App? The answer is positive if you have a online business(including blogs).

Actually it’s not that difficult as you might imagine. There are a lot of talented programmers out there, like AES Connect, can help you to get your own Facebook App online. They offer services like Facebook App Development and Facebook Game Development. You can visit their website to find out more information.

Don’t be the last one, get your Apps now.

Proxy Pro: Full-featured Remote Control Software

Zack — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:53:59 +0000

After my last review of remote control software, Techline, I came across to Proxy Pro. Proxy Pro is another remote desktop software with rich advanced functions. You can use it to control your client’s computer which is far away from your house.

It’s different from Techline, you need to install it before you start to control remote computer. Proxy Pro offers a lot of great features, such as drag and drop file transfer. This is a amazing function, you can get a file from a remote computer as easy as copying on a local device.

Remote clipboard is another interesting stuff. Right click and copy from a remote computer, you will get it at local computer as well. Very helpful, especially when you need some text from remote PC, like password.

Here is a list of useful features of Proxy Pro, take a look, you may find something interested you:

Remote Control: ability to view screen activity on an end-user’s remote machine,
and with proper authorization, take control of and send keyboard/mouse inputs to
the remote machine in real-time

Remote Clipboard: ability to copy selected items on the screen of a remote
machine into the clipboard on the remote machine and transfer the contents to the
clipboard on the technician’s machine, and vice versa

File Transfer: ability to drag-and-drop files or directories on the remote machine to
the technician’s machine, and vice versa

Host-based Chat: ability to chat with the end-user on a remote machine, and any
other technicians connected to that machine

Remote Printing: ability to print selected items from the remote machine to a
printer attached to the technician’s machine

Host Administration: ability to view and edit configuration settings of the PROXY
Pro Host installed on the remote machine

Remote Management: ability to generate inventory of hardware and software
assets on remote machine, and to query and change certain system setting

For more information, please visit Proxy Networks.

HireAHelper.com: Online House Moving Company Finder

Zack — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:50:26 +0000

Last month, I’ve experienced my first house moving, it was a disaster.

The first thing is that I can’t find any local movers, as I said, this is my first time to do the moving.

And finally I’ve got a number from my neighbor, we settled down with the price on the phone. But when they come to my house, they raised the price. After a short negotiation, we got back the price we settled at the first place. But it’s really bad experience. If I know they do business like this, I would never make that call.

A new website comes to my eyes today, which can exactly solve this problem. HireAHelper.com can help you to find local helpers including moving, cleaning and garden help. They offer contact information for these services and, the most important thing, customer reviews. This will help you to find out how good their service is, and how their customers said about them.

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Techinline: Online Remote Support Software

Zack — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:17:33 +0000

I’ve tried some remote desktop support softwares, they are really useful. You know, you don’t need to go out to your client’s place where can be miles away, and it can be raining or cold.

The only problem is that you need to install it on your client’s computer first. Sometimes it’s not easy to guide a client to install a software. Trust me, I’ve been there.

I recently come to a website, Techinline, they offer remote support software ONLINE. Which means they allow you to control your client’s computer via your browser, without install a software, but just a plugin. This is interesting, I tried it out right away, it’s better than I expected.

Here is how it works:

1. Client side: Ask your client to visit FixMe.it(nice domain), install the plugin for the browser, and then a client id will be generated. You gonna need this id.

2. Expert Side: You go to techinline.net/expert, login your account:

You need to install a plugin for expert functions as well:

And then you will see the expert page, enter the client id here for connection.

If connect succeeded, you and your client will both see a new page, here is your client’s page:

And this is your page:

You may notice there are several buttons in the middle, they are the main functions for expert. Let’s try View Remote Desktop to take a look at your client’s desktop.

After you clicked on the button, your client need to accept your request:

Then you can start to help your client, you will see the whole desktop with a control banner on the top. The color of the screen is lower down for better speed, but that’s not important. It’s smoother than I thought, well done.

As everything goes SaaS, it might be a trend that remote support software will go online. And Techinline is the first in the industry, as a pioneer, I think they’re doing a great job.

Website: Techinline
Service: Online Remote Support Software

Web-Based Software: Directory of Web-based Help Desk Software

Web-Based Software: Directory of Web-based Help Desk Software

Zack — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:12:51 +0000

Saas(Software as a Service) is getting much more popular today. Most software companies provide a online version of their products now. We can see a lot of help desk software out there. They are all very powerful and well-designed, so the question is how to find the best one for your company.

Web-Based-Software.com is a directory of web-based help desk software. This directory listed out a lot of great online software including project management software tools, CRM, helpdesk software and so on. I found that the information of CRM and Help Desk category is very detailed. They have the instructions of every software and reviews written by their experts, this is the difference between Web-Based-Software.com and other directories–they have their own experts to review software that submitted to the website.

If you are looking for a CRM or Help Desk software for your company, I guess Web-Based-Software.com would help you.

If you are running a CRM or Help Desk software company, you can submit your website to Web-Based-Software.com as well. They provide free listing or you can become an advertiser and place pay-per-click (PPC) ads.

Website: http://www.web-based-software.com/crm-help-desk/

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Ace Project: Free Online Project Management Software

Zack — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:56:51 +0000

AceProject is a free project management software. There are several project management applications out there, but this is the only one I found that offering free account. You can try it out and find out if it’s the right one for you before you pay for it. The design of AceProject looks professional and its performance is quite great compared to several web applications.

Another good thing is that they have a new mobile version that is compatible with all mobile devices and also all desktop browsers like IE, Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

AceProject helps you manage several project management aspects such as project costs, expenses, timesheets, task management, documents and more. AceProject’s performance is great compared to several web applications.

Feature list:

Project Management
Manage projects with basic and advanced PM features, such as task dependencies, which ensure a by-the-book workflow.

Document Management
Upload documents to projects/tasks and share them with other users. Documents can be locked and even made public.

Timesheet Management
Fill out your time sheet online using our time tracking tool, with a time clock. Send it for approval and generate time reports.

Expense Management
Record expenses against projects and tasks and submit them for approval. Stay on budget by tracking every project’s cost.

Collaboration
Communicate, work together & get projects done as a team. Get email notifications and task reminders, among others.

Reporting
Track your users’ day-to-day workload with several reports, be it calendars, statistics, Gantt charts and custom task reports.

HR Management
Gather all human resources and external collaborators in one central place, with advanced security and access rights.

You can also add your own logo and adapt colors to your corporate image to build your own band.

Here is the full-featured demo for testing out. You can see how it looks like in the picture below.

Website: http://www.aceproject.com

Demo: https://demo.aceproject.com/login.asp?

Invoicera Launches Magento Extension to Automatically Send Invoices from Magento Store in Real Time

Zack — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:08:22 +0000

Invoicera, one of the leading online invoicing and billing solution provider has recently announced the integration of magento with their services which will enable magento store owners to automatically create invoices within Invoicera when an order is placed in their online store and professional invoices will be send automatically to customers in real time.

Invoicera integration with Magento will save most of the time of Magento store owners who, so far used to send invoices to their customers for each order manually. This integration would also provide online store owners an option to send invoices in their own customize invoice format that one can easily prepare in their Invoicera account with Invoicera’s customize template feature rather than Magento’s standard invoice format. The remarkable feature of this service is that all the online store merchants can avail this service without spending a single amount.

“Thousands of online retailers rely on the Magento eCommerce platform and we are so thrilled that Invoicera will now be a part of it with this new extension .We are constantly looking for ways to bring more value to our clients, and adding the Invoicera functionality to the Magento ecommerce platform is a great way for us to help our clients engage their customers and get more sales” as said by Mr. Manish Chauhan, AM-Marketing, Invoicera.com

Invoicera is a pioneer in providing trouble free invoicing solutions to its users and adding this new feature will definitely provide them an edge over the other highly competitive invoicing solution providers.

For more details one can visit Invoicera at http://www.invoicera.com/blog/updates/now-send-professional-invoices-to-your-magento-store-customers-in-real-time or drop an email to support@invoicera.com

Friend or Follow: Find Out Who Are Not Following Back

Zack — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:12:33 +0000

Friend or Follow is a simple twitter tool to help you find out who are not following back. You just input your twitter username(no need for password), it shows you all those you followed but not following back. You can then decide to unfollow or send them a PM to remind them.

Friend or Follow also shows who are following you but you are not following back. You can easily follow them back one by one.

VISIT Friend or Follow

Interview with Linode VPS Hosting Provider

Zack — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:05:23 +0000

Back to January, I’ve written about Linode as a reliable and low cost VPS hosting provider. I got quite a lot of respond from my readers, they want to know more about Linode.

Thus I tried to reach Linode, fortunately, they are willing to share more with us. So I sent out some questions to do a interview with guys from Linode.

Here is the full interview, thanks to Linode for the detailed answers.

1. Why you guys choose VPS as your business? Why not do it like a traditional company, you know, covering shared hosting, dedicated servers and so on.

When Linode started, virtual private servers weren’t being marketed as a mainstream service, so no other hosting companies were offering them to their clients — the two choices for hosting at the time were shared and dedicated. Shared hosting limited the user to software installed by the host and offered little flexibility, and while dedicated servers offered complete administrative control over a system, they were very expensive and were outside the reach of many small site owners and hobbyists that were on limited budgets. Additionally, the resources included with dedicated servers often exceeded the needs of the user and would remain underutilized.

This gave Linode a prime advantage as it allowed us to offer an affordable product, that enabled users to have total control at the fraction of the cost of a dedicated server. As no other hosts were offering such a product at the time, this positioned Linode as the exclusive “go to” company for virtual private servers. Linode has helped define the VPS hosting industry into what it is today, and we are proud to have been able to play such an important part in what is now a thriving market.

2. We’d like to hear your story of starting the company, how did you start it? What kind of problems you were facing? What’s the most important decision you’ve made to make this company success?

Linode was started in 2003 by our founder and CEO, Christopher S. Aker. Tired with the limited control offered with shared hosting, as well as the hefty costs associated with dedicated servers, Christopher embarked on a mission which he felt would revolutionize the hosting industry: to offer a product which empowered users with the flexibility of a dedicated server, at the cost of a shared hosting package. Christopher extensively researched the virtualization platforms available at the time, until finally settling on UML (User-Mode-Linux). UML allowed the resources of an ordinary dedicated server to be split up into segments and distributed to virtual machines, which a user could then deploy their distribution in and begin managing. With the concept conceived and a virtualization platform decided on, Linode was born and the domain “Linode.com” was registered on January 26th, 2003.

While the concept alone would demand the attention of geeks and the technologically savvy, Christopher also wanted Linode to appeal to those with little-to-no prior Linux administration experience, so he began developing a powerful control panel which would give users complete control over their virtual instances: the Linode Platform Manager (LPM), or more commonly known as the “Linode Manager” today. The Linode Manager gave users control over the standard operating controls of a Linode (power on, power off, reboot), but more importantly it introduced new and unseen features such as being able to deploy and delete distributions on the fly, disk management controls, configuration profiles, an out-of-band console (Lish), and more. While these controls benefited seasoned server administrators, they also aided novice users as it gave them the opportunity to try various distributions and configurations.

The initial stages of Linode and its proprietary components took Christopher 6 months to develop. Christopher hit a number of snags during the development process as he had entered into uncharted waters; virtual private servers and automated control panels were almost unheard of at the time, so every line of code and business decision required a lot of thought and planning in order for Linode to be able to work the way Christopher had envisioned it to.

Upon completion of the development phase, Christopher placed an order for his first batch of servers and colocated them into Linode’s first datacenter selection in Dallas, TX which was owned and operated by The Planet (now known as SoftLayer). On the morning of June 16th 2003, Linode officially opened its doors to the public and began trading.

Linode has made a number of significant changes and improvements since June 16th, 2003 — the move from UML to Xen, the expansion to five datacenters across the USA and Europe, a plethora of new features (free resource upgrades, bandwidth pooling, private networks, the Linode Library), and more. After almost 8 proud years in the VPS hosting industry, Linode’s core principals and Christopher’s vision has remained untainted by its success; we will proceed to grow and improve on our services, and will continue to do what we do best: provide kick butt Linux virtual private servers!

3. What do you think about Cloud Computing, while Amazon EC2 is doing such a good job, everyone is talking about cloud computing. Do you have any plan to go Cloud.

We’re always excited to hear about new and emerging technologies and can certainly understand why the cloud computing model has been such a success. While Linode does not currently employ the “per hour” billing scheme that most conventional cloud providers have adapted, Linodes do still operate in a cloud environment in the sense that Linodes are provisioned at the click of a button, are charged by the instance-day with a minimum of a one month prepayment, are completely scalable, and can be migrated between hosts and datacenters. We also offer a robust, fully functional API which allows customers to streamline their Linode deployment process:

- http://www.linode.com/api/

With that said, Linode is certainly interested in the cloud computing concept (what geeks wouldn’t be?), but unfortunately we cannot make any comment as to where we stand with a conventional cloud offering at this time — keep an eye on the blog :)!

4. What’s your blueprint? Do you have some big steps coming soon?

We’re always looking for ways to improve, and definitely have some exciting new features and offerings in the works. Unfortunately this information is still classified and is safely locked away in the Linode vault, but be sure to keep an eye on the Linode Blog for updates:

- http://blog.linode.com

5. What makes Linode different from other hosting company? I am not talking about products, but culture.

When Linode launched in 2003, Christopher had one vision in mind: To offer a reliable product that he himself would love to use. Almost 8 years later, Linode has stayed true to this vision despite its overwhelming success. The people behind the daily operations of Linode are just like you — we’re geeks, bloggers, marketing gurus, and developers. We love what we do, and we feel it is important to listen to the feedback given to us by our valuable customers as this gives us an idea of which direction they would like to see Linode moving in. Since the very beginning, customer satisfaction has been more important to us than the bottom line of our balance sheets which we feel has aided us in our success, as opposed to those entering the hosting industry with the intentions of making a quick buck and moving on. We’re in it for the long haul, and we hope to have the opportunity to continue serving our valuable customers for many more years to come!

Again, thanks to Linode for the interview as well as the great VPS hosting service. We can see the reason why so many people love Linode in these answers.

VISIT Linode.com

Facebook Acquires Beluga

Zack — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:08:30 +0000

Facebook has acquired Beluga.

Beluga helps groups of friends stay in touch on the go. Use it to plan a night out or just share updates and photos. It’s instant, intimate and simple. Best of all, it’s completely free.

Here is the official Press:

We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired Beluga!

Since launching Beluga, we’ve appreciated all the enthusiasm and positive feedback from our users. We’re excited to continue to build our vision for mobile group messaging as part of the Facebook team. Beluga and Facebook are committed to create new and better ways to communicate and share group experiences.

For now, Beluga will continue to function as it does today. Your Beluga account and data will not be lost. We’ll be providing more details on future plans for Beluga in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

Ben, Lucy and Jon
Team Beluga

Entri: Free Collaborative Document Sharing Tool

Zack — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:03:34 +0000

Entri is a free collaborative tool for writing and sharing documents. Say you are writing an article for your blog and you want to share with your readers before you publish it to get feedback and allow changes.

VISIT Entri

Imo.im: Powerful Encrypted Web IM

Zack — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:11:00 +0000

When talking about Web IM, you may think of Meebo or eBuddy, here is another choice, imo.im.

Imo.im uses SSL protocol to protect your content. You can log in to MSN(Live Messeger), Google Talk, Skype, Facebook, totally 8 different services.

Here is the log in page, looks like a desktop environment. Everything is very easy to understand and use. It runs very smooth, nice user experience.

Imo.im supports file transaction, chat log can be save as well.

VISIT imo.im

Enhance Your Website with Apture

Zack — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Apture is a pop-up info window service. If a user highlight a word on your web page, Apture will pop-up with information of the word. This may enrich your website content. It’s fast, very easy to install and looks pretty cool.

To use Apture, you need to sign up, just follow the instruction:

After sign up, you will got the code for your website, paste it above tag.

If you do the code right, you can click on Check Your Site, it shows a successful message:

Apture is now installed on your website, you should go back to your website to check out how it works:

Looks nice, isn’t it.

Apture has some other settings, like Multiple Sites Search, Apture Site Bar and you can even monetize with Amazon. Why don’t you try all of them out yourself?

Website: http://www.apture.com

Run All Softwares from the Cloud with Spoon

Zack — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:16:38 +0000

Spoon is a service that lets you run your desktop softwares from the cloud. It offers most of the popular free(open source) softwares, like OpenOffice, Firefox, Chrome, Skype and so on. You can even run eMule to download BT files.

Spoon virtualization lets you run desktop apps anywhere with no installs –
at work, at home, or on the road.

To use Spoon, you need to install the Spoon plugin.

After the plugin is installed, select a software you want to run, click on Launch Software. Here I am testing the Paint.NET, a image editing software I used.

After loading, everything works like local software, very smooth.

The concept of Spoon is kinda saving your time for downloading and installing a lot of softwares in your computer, the session of the software is still running on PC, that’s it runs so fast.

I love this idea, it’s especially great for handsets like Netbooks.

Free Ad Service: ToDoMore.com

Zack — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:37:33 +0000

ToDoMore.com is a Free Ad Service website, you can post your ads on this web for Free. Now don’t spam, go to ToDoMore.com to post your ads.

Google Shut Down Google Search in China

Zack — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:21:16 +0000

Google’s search website in China, Google.cn, has been shut down and is now redirecting to Google.com.hk. All Google search services, including web, news and images were moved Google Hong Kong.

As reported by some Chinese users, if you are using iGoogle, you will not be redirect to Google Hong Kong.

I was expecting Google can make some changes to Chinese web market, but what I’ve seen is Google being assimilated by the Chinese market. I’ve got to said Google didn’t understand web users in China. You know what, many Chinese people told me that they never used Google, some even said they never heard of Google, maybe it’s a right move for Google to leave China, but I can’t help feeling disappointed.

Read the full article on Gearor Magazine.

Google Releases Google Buzz

Zack — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:13:50 +0000

You may already know about Yahoo Buzz, and now Google is going to release Google Buzz, a new social networking feature of Google, which will be integrated into Gmail and available for mobile phone.

One thing attracts me is that Google Buzz will automatically follow 40 people for you. These 40 people will be ones that you contacted most frequently.

For more information, you can visit the Google Buzz official page: Google Buzz.

And this is a introduction of Google Buzz from Google official blog: Introducing Google Buzz.

The following two videos are from Google blog to introduce Google Buzz and how it works on mobile phones.

Twitter Testing Local Trends

Zack — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:07:13 +0000

Twitter is testing a new feature on 1 percent of users, it’s called Local Trends. Local trends helps you to find out trends around the location you selected, it only supports 15 U.S. cities. If the testing goes well, local trends will be released to the public next week.

[via: Mashable;TechCrunch]