Opera releases new Release Candidate, Download now.

Opera has released the new release candidate and officialy announced the release data of Opera 10 Web Browser as September 1.

"The release candidate pushes us closer to the final launch of Opera 10," said Jan Standal, vice president of desktop products at Opera.

The latest version is best version thats coming on opera with lot of features like Turbo boost to increase speed, tab previews, speed dail etc.

Already Opera mini has occupied no.1 place in mobile browsers. But in desktop version its long way back to gaints internet explorer and Mozilla. It has also tough competition with Google Chrome and Apple's Safari.

Download Opera New RC Version Now and enjoy speed browsing.

GRUML, a Google Reader for Mac Users

Google reader is a fantastic app to read your feeds daily. It embeds in the browser and helps you to read latest updates of feeds.

Mac users can now use GRUML, a new desktop Google reader application for Mac OS.
Gruml is a lightweight application and instead of using it in browser, you can use it as a desktop client. It has lot of features like starring, sharing, liking posts and also twittering the posts you find interesting.

Final version of Gruml will be released soon, currently its in Beta. Though you may find some small bugs in the application its definitely worth trying.

What they say in their official website!

Gruml allows you to view and manage your feed subscriptions of your Google Reader account on Mac OS X.Read your newsfeeds, manage them in folders, tag them, and much more – all in sync with your Google Reader account.

Download Gruml now and have a try.

Gmail is now 3rd largest email service

Good news for Gmail lovers. Now Gmail has become the 3rd most visited email service in US. It recently surpassed AOL.

Gmails rate of traffic growth is increasing enormously. From July 2008 to July 2009, the number of unique visitors to Gmail has increased from 25.3 million to 36.9 million.

If the trend continues, gmail may soon surpass Windows Hotmail which has 47.1 million monthly visitors.

However, it will be difficult for gmail to surpass yahoo, Yahoo the best email service provider is getting more than 100 million monthly visitors.

How to make your computer faster in 2 secs?

After opening so many applications, many of you may observe that your computer becomes damn slow and obiviously everyone will be irritated with it.

Some think that restarting PC may help to make your system faster. Yes ofcourse restarting PC will have impact on speed as it clears memory. But restarting will make you to lose some time.

Instead of restarting, you can directly freeup ram and hence make your system faster in just one click. Follow these steps to make your computer faster:

• create a shortcut on the desktop.
• %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks Type this in the location box of shortcut item.
  
• Name the shortcut as you wish and keep it on desktop or quick launch.

Now whenever you think that your computer is running slow, click on the shortcut and it will freeup used ram and hence making computer back to normal.

Instead of restarting, this tweak will help you to make your computer faster.

3 easy steps to Optimize WordPress Blog

With the millions of WordPress blogs out there how do you compete for visitors? The first thing to realize is that there is hope. You just need to make a plan of attack and follow through with it. In this article you will find some useful tips on putting your WordPress blog the map.

1. Utilize permalinks. Notice how some blogs posts have url that resemble mathematical formulas? These urls are actually queries to your WordPress database. Human beings and search engines have a hard time figuring what your page is about by looking at that type of address. Think of it this way which makes more sense yourdomain.com/shoesthatfeelgreat or yourdomain.com/?P=12? The recommended permalink structure is either /%postname%/ or /%category%/%postname%/. Some people recommend that you put the date or the year in before the postname(e.g. /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/). Which from a database point of view makes sense but from a SEO point of view it does not. Since your blog is probably new and does not have a lot of traffic don't worry about it. Focus on SEO first. If you get a stampede of visitors you can always switch to a dedicated server.

2. Install a SEO plug-in. There are few great plug-ins on the market. All-in-one SEO is a perennial favorite. It gives you the ability to customize every aspect of your meta tags. Another plug-in is called Platinum SEO - a personal favorite. A key feature is that automatically adds a 302 redirect entry anytime you change the name of a post or page on your blog. This is critical when you have a post that is already indexed on search engines and people are linking to it. For more info on 302 redirects see this article.

3. Build a Sitemap. Having a sitemap for your website helps search engines catalog your site. The best plug-in to use is Google sitemaps. Its name is somewhat misleading because it actually builds and reports to all major search engines.

These are just a few strategies that will help make your blog visible on the net. Feel free to contact us to find out more.

Article Source: EzineArticles

Google vs Yahoo vs Bing Search results Comparison

BlindSearch is the real test you can do with popular search engines like google, yahoo and bing.

Type in a search query in the Blind Search website and hit search. You will get 3 columns with search results from google, yahoo and bing randomised. Then vote for the column which you believe best matches your query. Since you dont know which results belong to which search engine and hence you cannot show any partiality for search engine you like the most. The columns are randomised with every query.


The goal of this blindsearch is just to see what happens when you remove the branding from search engines. How differently will you perceive the results?

Now you can test the search engine legends with few queries you do daily. For example search around 10-20 keywords and vote them, then you can come to know which site is giving best results for most of the queries.

Visit BlindSearch now and start comparing.

How to get more traffic to your Blog or Website?

The following are the some of the best ways to get extra traffic to your website:

1)Using Web Design and CSS Galleries: If you think your website is very well designed and creative then you can apply for css galleries. There are many such galleries that list web sites with very good designs. So if you are rated at top you will get enough traffic.
eg: Website Gallery Roundup

2 )Leaving Comments on Other Blogs: You just go to different big Blogs in your niche and post your comments on the post, along with the post you can also link back to your blog or website. Try to make your comments very catchy so that most number of people read it.

3)Signature in forums and emails: You should go around different big forums and be active over there. Along with this give your signature with the link of your site this may get you some traffic. Also you can attach your website in your email signature to get extra traffic.

4)Putting your url on all the online profiles: Create many online profiles in different sites. Most of them allows you to share your webpage. If some sites dont have separate column to share your website, try to mention it in some or the other place this may bring you traffic.

5)Social book marking sites: First signup to the popular social networking sites like facebook, twitter, orkut etc. Then use it with good effect this may give you 1000s of visitors.

6)Using article directories: This is used to be a very good way of promoting your site. It helps you to submit your posts in their article database. Some of the popular sites are ezinearticles, goarticles etc. This sites also have a good search engine exposure.

7)Using cross feed promotion: You can exchange links on your website and RSS feed. Suppose there are three bloggers (A, B and C) that want to use the cross feed promotion to gain some traffic. Blogger A would place a message like “Visit our partner site Blog-B.com” on its RSS feed footer. Blogger B would do the same but with a link to Blog C on its footer, and Blogger C would finally complete the loop linking to Blog A.
The readers of each of those blogs would probably notice those footer links, and some would end up clicking to check what that “partner” blog is all about.You can also use different link exchange structures, like all bloggers would place a footer link to all other bloggers on their RSS feeds.

8)Exchanging Links with Partner Sites: Exchanging link with similar kind of websites gets you more traffice. For example a movie news website puts a music website in its link partner, both of them will be benefited. This not only increase traffic but also increase pagerank.
Put a link to the other websites on the sidebar, with a headline like “Partner Sites” or “We Recommend,” and end up with more visitors at the end of the day.

9)Email bloggers and keep in touch: You can keep emailing bloggers in your niche about your best content. This will let them know what you are doing and quality of your work and if they like it they can make a mention in their blog.

Post in comments if you wanna suggest some other ways of getting more traffic..

Xbox Live Updates starting Today(August 11)

Few days back microsoft announced the next major update in Xbox dashboard will be available on August 11(today).

The update will be having following new features:

• Live Games on Demand.
• You can rate the games.
• You can change the display of achievements.
• You can sort friends list as per last login, last account activity etc.
• Advanced Video Display Options.
• Netflix party support
• Avatar Marketplace and Avatar Awardables.

Mass Effect, BioShock, Assassin's Creed, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga and Sonic the Hedgehog are some of the confirmed titles. Hope you enjoys this major upgrade of xbox.

How to Open Bookmarks faster in IE, Firefox?

If you have organised all your bookmarks neatly and in folder structure then its really easy to open bookmarks faster even if you have lot of favourite websites.

I basically organise all my bookmarks in a folder structure. All sports based websites in one folder, social networking sites in other, video sites in another etc. And I will create some special folders for quick access of my favourite sites. For example daily I will open gmail,facebook, nytimes, yahoo, espnstar etc and so I kept all this bookmarks in one folder. I prefer Mozilla than IE and everyday after starting mozilla, I simply go to the special folder which has daily visited sites and click middle button(scroll button) on the folder. This will open all the bookmarks in that folder in different tabs of Mozilla. The same middle button click can be used in IE as well.

First go to Bookmarks->Organise bookmarks in Mozilla or Favourites->Add to favourites in IE and create quick folders for the sites that you daily visit. And I am sure you can daily save ample amount of time while browsing by navigating bookmarks faster.

Monitor your websites with 247webmonitoring service

Having a good uptime is essential for the success of any website. With 247webmonitoring service,you can get notifications whenever your site goes down. So you can quickly fix the issue and convert your customers into more sales. Along with a availability, a good response time is key measure for any site. You can also get to know how long your site takes to respond throughout the month through variety of charts.

The key features of this Monitoring service are

• You can monitor http, https, ftp, smtp, pop3, imap, ping and even check dns.
• You can get statistics by Cool Graphs, Pi Charts and historical reports.
• You can be notified by SMS and/or email when your site goes down.
• You can monitor content by setting up some phrases for your page.
• You can find out how fast your site is from different locations through multiple location monitoring service. This will be in live shortly.
• You can temporarily disable alerting during maintenance of your site.
• Also it provides 24x7 email support.

Moreover its free. You can monitor upto 5 sites with your account and monitoring time periods will be 15, 30 & 60 minutes. Visit this free webmonitoring Service for more.

Buy and Sell your Online Accounts like blogger, twitter etc

Have you ever thought of selling your blog, email account, twitter account or any other online account? Then Assetize is the site for you to sell any of the online accounts.

What to Sell?
Assetize supports accounts from all online networks. Here's a sample list of platforms that you might want to buy or sell an account from (what you'd buy buying or selling in parentheses):

• Blogger/Blogspot (blog url: username.blogspot.com)
• Friendfeed (account name: friendfeed.com/username, with followers/friends)
• Gmail (email account: username@gmail.com)
• Google Groups (group account: groups.google.com/group/username, with members)
• Ning (developed social network: username.ning.com, with members)
• Twitter (account name: twitter.com/username, with followers and past tweets)
• Wordpress (blog url: username.wordpress.com)
• Yahoo! Group (group account: groups.yahoo.com/group/username, with members)

You can also buy and sell accounts from networks that aren't in the list above. Simply select 'Other' in the Account Type field and type in the name of your network.

So you can create accounts in popular sites and sell them. Earn good amount of money in Social Networking Sites specially in FaceBook and Twitter.

You can just demand the price you are expecting for your online account or bid them.You can sell any of your accounts at Assetize.

Windows 7 new features over Vista

Everyone is talking about windows 7 now. Lets see what are the main features available in it.

Improved Taskbar with preview:
You can get preview of icons on the taskbar with the new windows 7. Move over the icons and you’ll see thumbnails of every file or window that is open currently, Also microsoft made drag and drop feature to easily arrange the icons in the taskbar in required order.

Jump Lists:
Jump list feature helps you to quickly reach the files you've been working with. So right-clicking on the excel icon will show your most recent excel documents. And if there are other files you want to use most frequently, you can pin them to the Jump List so that they will be just away from a couple of clicks.

Shake and Snap Feature:
When you wanted to compare two open windows in vista, you had to manually resize your open windows to show them side by side but With Windows 7 snap feature you can easily compare two open windows. Snap windows to both sides and it’s easier than ever to compare those windows.

With shake feature you can minimize all the windows, restore them, make gadgets on the desktop invisible etc.

Better Search Engine:
Searching is the most important feature required in world wide web or computer. Can you imagine the world without search engines like google,yahoo and bing. In windows 7, you can get a better search engine at startup.Also you can build libraries for easy access of same type of files like photos,videos etc.

Easy device management:
Unlike in earlier versions of windows where for each connected device you get different screen, With Windows 7 you get a single screen to show all Devices, Phones and Printers to connect, manage, and use them.

Faster and More Responsive Performance:
To improve performance, Windows 7 is designed to make PCs start up, shut down, resume from standby faster than its earlier versions. It also provide better power management options to your battery for longlife during journeys. Unlike in Vista, Windows 7 also reduces interuptions and popup messages.

Windows Touch:
With Windows 7, if you've got a touch-screen monitor, you can just touch your computer screen for a more direct and natural way to work. Use your fingers to scroll, resize windows, play media, zoom etc.

There are lot of other features as well. If you have impressed with windows 7. you can try it free from Microsoft official website.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Alpha Version released

Mozilla has released next version of the browser Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 on friday.According to Mozilla, Firefox 3.6 includes enhanced speed performance to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, startup speed tweaks and several other changes to compete its rival chrome.

In previous versions of Firefox, some users experienced a problem where parts of the screen were not properly displaying after Firefox was open for long periods of time. Firefox 3.6 alpha 1 has fixed this issue. This version also fixed several stability and security issues.

Mozilla is planning to release the final version of firefox 3.6 in November. Only at that time we can come to know whether it is a major upgrade or just a minor one fixing bugs in earlier versions.

The Windows version of Firefox 3.6 will also support some Windows 7 features like Aero by which you can see desktop through transparent open windows.

Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux from Mozilla's developer center.

How to measure performance of any website?

Measuring Performance is very important for any website. Measuring performance can tell us in what all the parts we are lagging compared to competitors and what are the ways we can follow to reach competitors. Google provides some of the best tools to track performance and the best thing is they are free of cost.

1) Google Web Optimizer: Google Optimizer is a free tool that allows testing of your site's content and design. You can create new experiments and check out the results from your website. If the results are not satisfied, analyze in what are all the areas your website is lagging and take quick decisions to overcome them.



2) Google Analytics: Google Analytics provides free conversion tracking. You can track the stats of visitors, how much time they are spending on your site, what pages they are visiting etc, thus knowing the customer interest in your webpage. Also you can keep goals to be achieved to track sales, conversions etc.


3) Keep a Poll/Survey: You can ask your customers to take a short survey or poll to get their feedback. Suppose your website is a sales site, then you can ask them what makes the product buying, what features they liked, suggestions and improvements etc. This is one of the best ways in finding out how to improve your web site performance and hence sales.

Can Google Chrome OS give tough competition to Microsoft, apple?

Google is now coming up with a new operating system Google Chrome OS. Since long time there were rumors in the web about the Google new OS. But they have officially confirmed in the Google Official Blog recently.

In the blog they state that “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.”

Microsoft launched Bing recently to compete google and now Google planning to launch new OS to compete Microsoft. It looks like a healthy competition between two giants. But Google OS will be a big threat to Microsoft. Already IE share is reducing everyday and is taken by Mozilla and Chrome. If the new OS of google tastes success then we can expect a tough competition between Apple, Microsoft and Google. And we can get better OS with best features.

Only time will answer whether Google chrome OS can takeover Apple's mac and Microsoft's windows 7.

Turns your mobile phone into Wi Fi HotSpot

Recently while surfing I came across this application, so thought to share with you people. If you have an unlimited GPRS data plan in your mobile, then with this application, you can turn your mobile phone into a Wi Fi hotspot. That is, it takes your cell phone connection of GPRS and makes it available to other devices over Wi Fi that seek to connect.

1. Install Joiku application on your mobile phone.

2. Choose an "Access Point".

3. When you launch this application, your laptop detects it as an available Wi Fi access point in network.

4. Connect to the wifi network.

5. Enjoy unlimited Surfing from your laptop by paying only GPRS mobile bill.

The free version (Light version) supports only http browsing. For more features you need to get premium version.

This Software supports most of the top mobile phones like Nokia N97, N96, N95, N91, E90, E75, Nokia Express music editions and more than 30 other Nokia models. It also supports Samsung Omina, G810, Sony ericson IDOU etc

Go tho Joiku site to Turn your Mobile into WIFI and select your phone model in the dropdown list and download it for free.

Photo Editors: Top 5 websites to play with your Photos

The following are top 5 websites by which you can make fun photos of yours and also play with your friend photos.

Photofunia
Are your photos looking dull because of same background? If so, you can try to apply some amazing effects through PhotoFunia to make your photos unique and fun. In short, PhotoFunia allows you to upload your own pictures and modify it into a desired effect.

Myheritage
This site offers a face recognition technology and provides many funny effects to play with your pictures. They offer Celebrity Morph, Look-alike Meter, Celebrity Collage and Tag Photos.

WriteOnIt
In this site you can easily create your fake pictures, captions, magazine covers and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

HairMixer
All you need to do, is upload your picture on the left side of the website and select a picture in right side and mix hairs for your uploaded picture.

Magmypic
Wanna see your self on the cover page of worlds greatest magazines? Then you can use this site to fullfill your dreams. Simply upload your Pics and select the avamagazines and you are done.

Create Stunning Flash Websites with Free Flash Web Builder

Did you anytime felt that building flash webpage is difficult? Now its made very simple with Wix flash web builder.

Easy to use drag and drop editor. No technical skills required. And the Webpages built are Search engine friendly.

In this site, You Can Choose From a Wide Variety Of Templates Or You Can Create It In Your Own Style. It Can Be Used for Creating Intro Pages. You Can Also Add A Navigation Bar And Can Add Many Pages With It.

And also there are many New Features which you can use in your pages like you can add an Ipod like page and Can Upload Your Songs To Their Server. Then Visitors Can Listen Those Songs Online..

And there are many other features available on the website. Just visit this Flash Web Builder Site and give it a try

Earn more money from In-text Advertising with Infolinks

Infolinks is the next generation of In-Text Advertising, leading the industry with the most relevant in-text advertising links and the highest revenue share - guaranteed.

In-Text advertising inserts text link advertisements within the content of your website, usually in the form of double-underline hyperlinks. Upon a hover of the mouse, a floating informational bubble opens with content from an advertiser. If clicked, the visitor is directed to the advertiser’s landing page and you earn advertising revenue.Infolinks will automatically insert highly relevant In-Text ads into your website’s content, ensuring you record high conversion rates and higher advertising revenues.

The best thing is they accept all websites no matter how small it is and you can also keep google ads along with infolinks ads.

I was using Kontera before infolinks and I hardly made any money. But once I started using infolinks, my earnings increased almost 4 times to that of Kontera.

There are pros and cons of both of them and I would share them here as I have used both of them.

1. Kontera pays very low where as infolinks pays high
2. Kontera has very less ads but info links has far more ads to display on pages.
3. Kontera has Ads which at times does not load but thats not the case with infolinks
4. Kontera is well established for quite some time now but infolinks is pretty new to it.
5. Kontera serves accurate ads, while infolinks may serve some non-accurate ads also.

Join Infolinks and start earning more money from text advertising.