Posted by Dickey on Jan 29th, 08 | Filed under
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SuperScreenshots is a screenshot generator which can generate a high quality screenshot of any website within seconds.
Screenshot generator is a good service for bloggers who always write about coll and new web services. By using such services, we can capture the whole page, then we can use other image editing tools to select section that we need.
SuperScreenshot is an example of screenshot generator which provide a few options for users. For example, you can choose the dimension, either capture the Top Screen or Full Page. Besides this, you can choose the size of image capture and also the format (either JPG or PNG). The screenshot below show the capture of techsnack.net:
SuperScreenshot
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Posted by Dickey on Jan 8th, 08 | Filed under
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Badged.net, Bookmarkz!, TopRank Social Bookmarking Tool, and Add to Any are 4 services which cerate an all-in-one social bookmarking buttons for your blog. Copy and paste the generate javascript code to your blog and it works immediately. No setup and no cost!
Badged.net
Badged.net lets you add your favorite social bookmarking badges to your blog. To create your badge, simply type your page title and URL. After that, select your social bookmarking website which you want to include and then hit the Create Badges button. Badged.net will then generate a javascript code for you. You can then open your theme files and paste the code. There are around 18 social bookmarking websites support by them.
Bookmarkz!
Bookmarkz! support more social bookmarking website then the others. Currently, it support around 94 websites which categorized into 3 groups. Bookmarkz! also provide more features such as display the social services as image, text, or both. You can also specify a character separator or just leave it blank. After that, you can press the Get It! button to retrieve your javascript code. Similar to others, copy and paste the code in your theme files.
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Posted by Dickey on Jan 5th, 08 | Filed under
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Blog readability test is an interesting tool to test your blog readability, to determine what level of education is required to understand your blog.
I discovered this interesting tool today and would like to share it with my readers. Enter your blog/website URL and hit enter, the result will appear after few seconds.
There are a few reading level: Elementary school, Junior high school, High school, and Genius. I am not sure how they determine the level of education required to read our blog, but i guess this is depends on the design/layout of our website.Try to check out google.com, it required Genius level to dead!
TechSnack.net required Junior high school level to understand! Check you blog now and let me know what’s your blog readability level!
Blog Readability Test
Posted by Dickey on Dec 31st, 07 | Filed under
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I had launch my 1st Entrecard contest since 18 December and this contest and today is the last day. I had sent out the credits. Please inform me if i make any mistake. I will run my 2nd Entrecard contest soon. Please come back and join the contest. Thanks!
Posted by Dickey on Dec 26th, 07 | Filed under
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BitNami Stacks let you install your favorite open source CMS in just a few clicks. The Application Stacks include the open source application and all the dependencies, such as Apache, MySQL, PHP or Ruby.
Have you try to setup your own website using any open source application? Before install the open source application, you need to install a web server such as Apache, database such as MySQL, and PHP or Ruby. If you are not a web designer or developer, it may take whole day just to install these applications! Now, BitNami Stacks solved these problems by packaging the open source application and the necessary dependencies into a single installation file.
All you have to do is download the installation stack and follow the wizard. The installation stacks are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. For example, if you want to install Wordpress, you can go BitNami Wordpress Stack and download the latest binary. After that, follow the wizard to setup your Wordpress account. After the installation complete, your Wordpress CMS will be ready to go! With these simple installation steps, even the most non-technical person can use it!
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Posted by Dickey on Dec 24th, 07 | Filed under
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Design,
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This countdown is generate by an online tool using flash. It is very simple and you can choose the text color, background color, countdown date, and also the text under the timer.
You can then set the size of the countdown timer. Here, i set my timer size to Normal. After you done all the settings, press the Generate Countdown Now button and it will give you a HTML code. Embed them into your website/blog and you can see the result immediately.
Click here to get one for yourself!
Update: This flash counter not working anymore.
Posted by Dickey on Dec 22nd, 07 | Filed under
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There are a lot of articles that talk about Entrecard. These articles tell you what is Entrecard, how it can be used to increase your traffic, and some of them even discuss about the quality of Entrecard traffic. But, some of my readers still not very clear about it, so i decide to write an article which mainly focus on new bloggers.
Before you continue, you must believe that Entrecard can really bring traffic for you. I assume that you already have an Entrecard account and you had read the Entrecard’s “Help”. If you don’t have an account, you can click here to register.
I had signup Entrecard about 1 week ago and i had read a lot of articles about it and try my best to gain as many as credits. I believe a lot of new Entrecard users do not know how to utilize it to boost up the traffic. So, i decide to summarize a few methods that i had used:
- Visit websites that required low credits to advertise and try to leave comments to them:
Let say you join the Computers and Internet categories. There are around 83 websites under that categories. As you can see, there are a lot websites which require not more than 30 credits to advertise. Now, try to visit those websites and drop your card. Ok, why i ask you to visit these websites? The reason is pretty simple if you pay attention to your Inbox( which is at your right hand side under Dashboard).
Popular websites receive a lot of cards everyday, so they won’t notice your card, unless they view the statistics. But, small/new websites will keep notice any new cards drop and visit them. At least this is what i had done when i join Entrecard. So, pay attention to the “low cost” websites first.
- Visit every single websites in Entrecard community everyday and drop your cards:
Maybe you will think that this method conflicts with the first method. No, they are not conflict but focus on different things. The first method will put more effort on building relationships with other bloggers which is quite important if you really want to grow your website. While the second method focus on gaining as much credits as possible so that you have enough credits to advertise on other websites. You can use this method to gain more than 300 credits per day! But i personally not agree with this method, as many people claim that they have non-quality traffic from Entrecard. I hope that at least you spend around 2-3 minutes on a website before you switch to another.
- Choose new but potential websites to advertise:
After you gain enough credits, you may start consider to advertise on other websites. You may try to find some “low cost” website first. “Low cost” doesn’t means “low quality”. This is because some of the Entrecard members are quite new so they require lower credits to advertise. Try to find them out and advertise at their websites.
- Create an Entrecard community and invite your readers to join:
As you can see, i had create n Entrecard community for my readers. Why? Because this method can encourage you and your readers to visit each others more frequent and then increase your advertising cost. I had create this community few days ago and my advertising cost increase more than 20!
- Create a post about Entrecard so that your readers know about it. When your readers join them, they will join your community also. This method will then increase your advertising cost.
- Create Entrecard contest for your readers:
You can give Entre credits as rewards for your commentators, RSS subscribers, or even for readers who blog about your contest! This can be done after you gain enough credits. You can see sample contest on my blog.
- Make sure you have a very SEXY logo:
A lot of users don’t really create a logo for Entrecard, they simply use the default style provide by Entrecard. If you are one of these users, i think you probably need to read William Montanaro’s article about How having a sexy Entrecard increases popularity. The reason behind this is pretty simple, SEXY logo can attract more readers, right?
As you can see, i focus on how to increase our advertising cost. This is because the higher the cost, the higher ranking you will get. As you can see, TechSnack.net has a 7th rank in Computers and Internet category. This will definitely attract more readers.
Last but not least, i hope you can take part in my Entrecard contest or join my Entrecard community. All the best for you!
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Posted by Dickey on Dec 18th, 07 | Filed under
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I had go through a lot of blogs which having contest about Entrecard. They are giving free Entre credits if you post an article about their contest. Two example of them are xaviermedia.com and afrogtokiss.net. They are giving free 700 Entre credits and 2000 credits respectively, but you must fulfill their requirements.
Now, i would like to announce that TechSnack.net shows appreciation towards great commentators by giving free Entre credits to them. I currently have around 500 Entre credits and i plan to give them to my commentators. For every single comment, i will give 4 Entre credits. I wish to create a Entrecard community among my readers and encourage more people to join Entrecard.
Prize: 4 Entre credits per comment.
Deadline: Contest begins December 18, 2007 and ends December 31, 2007. All Entre credits will be sent out at January 1, 2008.
Rules: Only valuable comments will be given credits. Comments such as “nice” or “i like it” will not receive any credits. Although not necessary, but you are encouraged to write an review about this contest so that more people know about this.
How to join: You must have an Entrecard account in order to receive Entre credits. Once you register an account, write a comment on this post, together with your email address. Only email addresses which exist on this post can receive Entre credits. So, make sure you write your email address for me.
Note: Only comments between this contest can receive credits, and comments on this post will not receive any credits.
You may also join my Entrecard community.
Posted by Dickey on Dec 8th, 07 | Filed under
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Filelime is a free file hosting service which provide free 150MB spaces with 5 multiple uploads. No registration required. Filelime is among the latest website which provide file uploading and hosting service.
There are a lot of free file hosting service that you can found. From my previous posts, i introduce about SHARE, EatLime, and also top free file hosting server. Now, i would like to introduce filelime, another file hosting server which has its unique feature. They introduce upload progress bar, which will show your upload progress in real-time! This is really useful as we can estimate how long we should wait and we may also know how much is the upload speed. The screenshot for the upload progress bar is shown below:
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