Posted by Lim on Sep 8th, 08 | Filed under
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QuarkBase is a powerful tool, which can “dig” everything about a website. For example, you can get the WHOIS information, traffic ranking, social popularity, total feed readers, and also the blogging platform (if the website that you traing to check is a blog).
To get information about a website, simply provide the domain name and press the “Search” button. I try to search for “techsnack.net” and below is the screenshot of the summary of my blog:
At the rught hand site, it will show you the domain owner, summary of the website, alexa ranking, and also the blogging platform that you are using.
There are also some tabs at the top of the page, which will bring you more details of the website information. For example, the Intro tab will show you the introduction of your blog, your blog description, about and contact page.
The Popular tab will show the social popularity while the Traffic tab will show the details of alexa ranking. The Technical tab shows you the framwork and programming language that had been used to create your website. You may also get hosting information through this tab.
QuarkBase
Posted by Lim on Jul 10th, 08 | Filed under
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WriteToMyBlog is a web based word editor which support publish blog entries to various platform.
This cool editor let users to write post without logging to their panel, and post the same blog posts to different blogging platform. The editor seems like having more features than what Wordpress provided.
It is totally free to use the service. As usual, you need to provide your blog post’s title and content. After that you can publish the post within the website.
Here, you can provide up to 3 blog accounts, which means you can publish your post to 3 accounts at the same time. They support Wordpress.com, Wordpress self host, Blogger.com, TypePad, Movable Type, and DotClear.
WriteToMyBlog also comes with spell checker, which is a must tool for every bloggers.
WriteToMyBlog
Posted by Lim on Jun 18th, 08 | Filed under
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Google Docs users may discover that they can start upload, preview and share PDF documents. Google had announced this feature in the blog and every Google Docs users can enjoy it.
Following Scribd, SlideShare, Docstoc, Google finally launched PDF documents sharing service. With this service, Google Docs users can upload and share PDF documents.
Currently, users can only upload and view the PDF documents, but they are not allow to edit. Also, the maximum size supported is 10MB for documents upload from PC, while 2MB for documents from web.
I hope that Google will implement the PDF editing feature in future. Furthermore, if Google let users to save documents directly to PDF format will be the best.
Source: Google docs blog
Posted by Lim on May 8th, 08 | Filed under
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SocialScan let webmaster check a link popularity among well known social sites.
It is important for every webmasters/bloggers to check their sites’ popularity among well known social sites. If your score is high, that means you will get a lot of traffic everyday.
To use SocialScan, simply enter your URL and hit enter. The system will automatically get the ranking from social sites and return results for you.
Note: If your scores is low, don’t give up. You may still get good traffic from search engine even you don;t score high ranking in social sites.
SocialScan
Posted by Lim on Apr 8th, 08 | Filed under
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Pligg is the most popular digg-clone open source application. There are a lot of websites which built using this free open source application. I would like to introduce a few popular websites which built using Pligg.
Mixx
Mixx is the most popular website which built using Pligg. It is highly customize to suit the users needs. There are a lot of Digg users start migrating to Mixx.
Design Float
Design Float is focus to collect and organize design related articles across the web. With blue color as its background, it gives users a very clean and neat feeling. Anyone can submit articles about design and art.
P2PViNE
P2PViNe is a social bookmarking site for the latest news about file sharing and p2p news. There are a lot of active users who posts article about p2p topic. You can get anything about p2p there.
FoxieWire
FoxieWire is a social site which is a source for any Mozilla news. If you are a Mozilla fan, you must check it out, look for latest and good plugin to improve your Firefox speed and functionality.
Blogging Zoom
The contents of Blogging Zoom must come from blogs. It is focus on users who tired of the mainstream media and content. It is also a highly customized Pligg site, which i think may attract a lof of users from Digg.
Pixel Groovy
Pixel Groovy is a user controlled tutorial directory, which contains a lot of tutorial about design. Web designers may found useful resources there.
There are a lot of websites created using Pligg, with different templates. The 6 websites that i mention have very good interface design, which i believe will attract a lot of users. If you like to create a Pligg website, you may refer to their design and then choose either free or customize template.
Download Pligg
Posted by Lim on Apr 3rd, 08 | Filed under
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Let say you discover a website and you want to check who is the website owner and the company that hosted it, then you may need whoishostingthis.com and whoistheowner.net.
whoishostingthis.com
This tool let you check the company that hosted that website. You can type any website URL and it will check through the database. They even provide bookmarklet button for user. This tool is really great for users who always want to search for such information.
whoistheowner.net
This tool is similar with whois command, which will discover any domain’s owner by querying more than 350 whois servers in the world. To prevent misuse, user had to type in the security code before start searching their database.
whoishostingthis | whoistheowner
Posted by Lim on Apr 2nd, 08 | Filed under
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I am sure almost all internet users know what is Digg. There are a lot of open source digg-clone application for download. I would like to share some of the example of such applications.
- Blinkk – Blinkk is an application which combine digg, del.icio.us, and forum into a platform. View screenshot here.
- Vote up/down Package for Drupal – A plugin for Drupal CMS which can create a voting system which similar with digg.
- PHPDug – An open source digg-clone which support templates and has a very clean interface. It has several extra features such as automatically add stories from RSS feeds and multilingual support. View demo here.
- Vote It Up for Wordpress – It is a Wordpress plugin to create the voting system. It support the latest Wordpress 2.5.
- Upwarded – Simple digg-clone application. But unfortunately i can’t found much information about it.
- Last but not least, Pligg – The most powerful digg-clone application which support templates and plugins. There are a lot of Pligg users, so i believe you can easily get support by the community.
I personally like Pligg and PHPDug over the others as i felt both of them has better interface, which you can modify through the template.
Posted by Lim on Mar 3rd, 08 | Filed under
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Audiko is a simple service which help you to cerate a ringtone for your favorite song and share it with other users.
There are a lot of website which provide ringtone downloads for free. Zedge is a very good example which provide video, ringtone, wallpaper, and theme download for free.
But sometimes we may want to create ringtone ourselves due to some reasons. We may need software to cut the song, a software to explore your phone, as well as a cable or bluetooth device to connect to your phone.
So, why don’t you try Audiko? It take 2 steps for you to cerate your ringtone. Simply upload your song (they only accept mp3 file), and then start to choose your favorite portion. After you had done, you can then listen or download your ringtone directly to your mobile through the WAP link. They even provide .m4r format ringtone for iPhone users.
Audiko provide an embedded code for users to put the ringtone on any websites or blogs. Cut and paste the code to your blogs and you can share with your readers. If you are lazy to create your own ringtone, you can always browse their gallery and choose your favorite ringtone to download.
Audiko
I install dofollow plugin as a reward for my commentators
Hi, i just want to make an announcement that i had install dofollow plugin as a reward for my commentators. For readers who not really know what is dofollow, you may visit Big Bucks Blogger, it has a very details on how this plugin works and how to configure it.
Besides this, i also activate my top commentators plugin. I actually install and activate this plugin since i start this blog, but i deactivate it when i move to my new themes. Now, i decide to activate it again and hope can get more comments with the help of dofollow plugin.
Finally, i hope that my readers can take part in the discussion, give comments on my post, or you can drop me a mail if you have any question about computer, software, or internet. I promise i will try my best to find solution for you. Thanks.
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