If you are a short on cash, don’t spend your money on stuff, you don’t need, but give priorities on the things you really want.

How are you going to buy Windows Office if you forgot to pay the water bill?
Instead, Looking for an open-source. A very good alternative to a very expensive software as Windows Office is Open Office.

Also, don’t buy a commercial operating system, for instance, by purchasing a Windows Vista. Look for a good open source software as Ubuntu that integrates firefox as default browser as well.

There are constantly gadgets and new technology popping up every single day. I know Gadget Advisor and I found some really top extensions for Firefox. It’s one of my reference sites where I like spend several minutes surfing like a monkey from post to post to find gadget or tech news.

Gadget Advisor provide you with some of information to read and research that focuses on the products and news that can be significant useful for your job.

You can find reviews about Computer Hardware as Computer software, as well. I was reading an interesting article about Logitech universal remote, today.

I have talked many times in the past about how critical it is to regularly back up your computer data. Here are some excellent online backup service, to help you to back up, and be secure.

The one major thing I appreciate is that the navigation is immediately obvious, with a blog style. Visitors can quickly view the top gadgets and tech news. I reccomend you to make a jump. Usually, when I find one site that interesting, I take consider it and tell everyone I can about it.

Are you interested like me to have multiple Twitter and Gmail accounts? Well, this article could interest you and give all information on how manage multiple Twitter and Gmail account in two simply ways and completely free.

I think, I’m not the only person has signed multiple Gmail accounts, for different utility. The trouble when you switch from one Gmail account to another is that you lose time. This happens especially when you logging in to your account at short intervals.

So, if you are interested, to check different Gmail accounts togheter, to solve this problem, you can use Gmail manager add-on for Firefox.

Gmail Manager 0.5.5 allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

That being said, if you going from one Gmail account to another, all you need to do is to right click on the Gmail icon in the Firefox taskbar, and choose your particular account to login. Once made it, you will automatically will be logged to your chosen Gmail account.

To help prevent some of the damage this plugin allows you to use secure connection for your accounts.

Do you have thought to have more categories for your Twitter posts? Ok, the first problem is that you can not do that in Twitter. Unfortunatly Twitter don’t allows you to create multiple categories for each account. It only allows to putting all your eggs in one basket.

The answer is that you can create multiple Twitter accounts for different topics that you want to tweet.

Step 1) Once you have multiple Twitter accounts, you find it troublesome to log into many twitter accounts.

Step 2) The Mattinator allows you to tweet to multiple Twitter accounts from one place.

Sooner or later the inevitable will happen and the video online will become the future of blogging. Next2friends didn’t want to include blog post or a series of pictures into his package.

While the other social networks includes videos as part of their service, Next2friend wanted to put videos on his home page and it shows.

The Next2friends interface is well designed and it is evident that a lot of time and care has been put into making it as accessible and intuitive as possible.

The first thing you’ll see when you display the homepage are the videos. On the homepage you can notice a list of the latest videos, where the video popularity are estimated through vote by others site visitors.

Going beyond videos, Next2friends give to each users a complete profile page that is made of many sections that allows you to control your photo, friends, blog, and much more.

Live Video Broadcasting From Your Mobile Phone

Unlike other social networking, Next2Friends has added one unique additional feature that should motivate many early users. Next2friends lets you work and create a live video broadcast from your cell phone. Actually it is in beta and this service is not available for all cell phones, yet.

How Does It Work

• Install. Install Next2Friends live on your mobile phone in minutes.
• Broadcast. Broadcast live video from your mobile phone to friends and family.
• Share. Share your videos or embed in your Next2Friends profile or blog.

The mobile phone models supported are: Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.

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I found this great resource that it’s very useful in my opinion if you want upload all documents format and convert it into an easy, speedy, online multimedia magazine to publish and distribute online. The new web-based service called “Calameo“, allows anyone to transform all most popular document formats into highly customizable and very attractive full-screen flip-page magazines.

PDF file, .doc, excel, OpenOffice presentation can be used to create Calameo magazine that can be shared via email, or social news sites. Calameo also provides an embeddable piece of code allowing any interactive documents to be shared on any web site or blog.

Overview

Calameo is a web-based service that instantly creates interactive web publications, in order to improve your reading experience. Using a simple interface, you are given some degree of control over how organize your documents.

Through a quick and easy zooming, good search functionality, and scrolling through the document and a simple and intuitive user interface, you are given some degree of control on how display your online virtual publications.

Personalization is one of the better part of Calameo that allows publisher to change the background image, music, interactive link, etc). Calameo-generated documents provides a great way to public document online to anyone on the web.

Calameo allows you to create multiple publication channels and organize multiple types of documents. Also reader can start discussion on any document you have configured.

Key Features

Document conversion: Calameo can convert any document for a max of 100MB size. The Specific document formats supported are: Microsoft word( .doc, .rtf), Microsoft Powerpoint( .ppt, .pps), Microsoft Excel( .xls), Adobe PDF(Version 1.1 to 1.6), Fichier Texte( .txt), Fichier HTML(.htm, .html), OpenOffice( .ods, .ots, .sxc, stc).

How Does It Work

The document converted into Calameo, it’s displayed within a custom flash player. On the top left area of the Calameo player we can find the following options:

• Publication.
• Subscriptions. It allow to readers to navigate through other content channels.
• Thumbnail view of all pages. It allows to view publication through thumbnails.
• Full screen view. Allows to get the full screen mode.
• Bookmarking. Bookmarking specific pages for later review.
• Zoom-in zoom-out. It allows to zoom in and out of the document for maximum visibility.
• Audio Volume. This option allows you to set audio volume for document that contain audio as well.

The sharing of documents and information has become critical not only for business professionals, but also for individuals. With Calameo the file sharing was not so easy through its embeddable snippet of code.

Calameo also believe in the value that a social media strategy can bring to any site or business in order that anyone can easily repost any Calameo publication to some of the most popular social news sites such Facebook, Digg or Reddit.

Calameo allows you to invite as many people as you want to watch, comment and discuss about your publications through the Calameo interface.

As computers are becoming more popular, its accessories are also becoming expensive. For instance, if you are working at home, You may lose a lot of ink by printing labels, reports, invoices, your own promotional materials, and other similar things.

Companies make a lot of money on selling you the ink cartridges, without necessarily sell you the printer. One alternative to save money is by using high-quality generic and remanufactured cartridges that are compatible with your printer.

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Don’t worry. Here are a few inexpensive ways to buy printer ink.

• You can looking for stores that refill ink cartridges. For about 1/3 the cost of buying and with the same quality, you can get printer cartridges refilled. Either way, it is much cheaper than buying brand new cartridges.
• InkStop is a company that provides off-brand compatible cartridges for most name brand printers. The cartridges they offer are cheaper than the cost of brand name cartridges. InkStop also has a recycling program for used cartridges.
• Buy a refill kit. The kit contains the ink and a syringe and you refill your own cartridge at home. (Be sure to wear rubber gloves, it can be messy.) You can find refill kits on the internet and on eBay for $8-$10.
• Walgreens drugstore is a company that send out ink cartridge to be refilled. It offers printer cartridge refills at cost of $10 for black ink, and $15 for color cartridges.
• Printpal provides discount cartridges. You can either buy refilled/refurbished cartridges from them, or send yours in to be refilled.

Do you spend much money on ink for your printer? The printer has become the most important asset for those who own a computer. But, original Ink cartridges can become very expensive, whether you have an HP, Canon, Brother, Epson, Lexmark, Dell, Xerox or other printer.

The solution is high-quality generic and remanufactured cartridges that are compatible with your printer. If so, InkjetDeals.info is here to help you save money by offering online discounts for generic and genuine Lexmark printer ink. It is all quite simple actually, since these sites guide you to the right cartridges depending on your make and model of inkjet printer.

A trackBacks is a methods to request notification. For instance, a blogger B has written something interesting and that attracts. A blogger A has read what blogger B has written and want to send a TrackBack ping to him.

If blogger B receive many trackback, it can see all sites that have notified a particular post listed on his site.

So, when readers go on site B, they can read the site A and all related post that have reference on site B.

TrackBack was first created by Ben and Meana Trott after was launched Movable type and was been integrated into the features of most popular blog platforms as Wordpress and Typepad.

TrackBacks is similar  to pingback technology which provides security of checking to see if the pinging site actually exists.

Security

But can we be one hundred percent certain, that trackback are not used for other purpose? Unfortunately like any thing this system don’t prevent that automated trackBacks pingbots lets anyone send spam messages. In fact, trackback are used by many websites to send messages about mortgages online, online poker and viagra.

How To activate Trackback By default In Movable Type.

Go to your blog Config > Preferences > Publicity/Remote Interfaces/TrackBack

Check the checkbox “Allow TrackBack Pings”

How To activate Trackback By default In TypePad.

Go to your blogs>configure>preference>comment and trackback preferences:

Check the checkbox “hold comments and trackbacks for aproval” and set default trackback status set to “new posts accept trackbacks(for receiving trackbacks).

How To Activate Trackback By Default In Wordpress:

Go to your blogs>setting> discussion

Check the checkbox “Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.) “(for sending trackbacks)

Check the check box “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)” (for receiving trackbacks).

Conventional wisdom says that social networks were born online with MySpace. It’s not true. The first social network was ClassMates.com. Created by Randy Conrads in 1995, the Classmates.com website helps users find, connect and keep in touch with friends from throughout their lives – including work, school, college, etc. Later the inevitable happens and last ten years has seen a grow” a “flourishing” in Social Networks like Friendster, Facebook, etc. Below, cronological list of other social networks.

 What About Social Networking Sites?

A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes. The resulting structures are often very complex. Source: Wikipedia.org

I see an unbundling of the services that make up social networks. While sites such as facebook or frienster, user can create a profile, add friends, and share similar interests, digg, de.li.cio.us or my 76newsalways.com are only user-submitted sites. Once you submit content, other people read.

In order to know the key point of differentiation between these two types of social networking, first we need to divide those sites under two different category: Note: That is a my teory, so if you are disagree I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Centralized And Decentralized: What Do You Think?

For instance, Digg or Delicious are an example of a centralized social networking. Every time you submit a story, a feature allows users to vote search results up or down using a voting system. In this cas users are active partecipants and their actions influence the whole community.

That is because all members of Digg use the principal page of the different categories to stay updated with the hot stories around the website.

Twitter has become my favorite site and can be considered as a decentralized social network. That is because the system allows you to create your own micro communities and your actions inside those communities will not affect other members outside of them. You can decide who you follow, and other people in turn will decide if they want to follow you back or not.

Conclusion

By now you should know what I want to say when I talk about centralized and decentralized social networks. Social networking give you a chance to promote your website, yourself, express your opinions and much more.

I personally use each of these two type social networking. I think that networking is part and parcel of the independent publishers day-to-day work. There are few people these days that do not have a network broader than that of a generation or two ago.  What do you think?  people should avoid to promoting itself on social networking like Facebook, or their own content on sites like digg?

The sharing of files and information has become critical not only for business professionals, but also for private. Here a quick roundup of the places and tool for Torrenting.

Sites For Sharing Legal Content

Bittorrent. BitTorrent is the global standard for accessing rich media over the Internet.

Bt.etree. This site is provided by the etree.org community for sharing the live concert recordings of trade friendly artists.

Btsharp. Is a .NET library that allows you to seamlessly integrate native peer-to-peer support for scalable content distribution into your applications.

Torrent.ibiblio. Providing BitTorrent access to ibiblio content.

Beta.legaltorrents. Is an online digital media community.

Linuxtracker. A centralized location for Linux related software, all delivered by torrent.

Revision3. Is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike aggregators, mash-ups, and user-generated video sites, Revision3 is an actual TV network for the web, creating and producing its own original, broadcast quality shows.

Torrent Clients

ABC is an improved client for the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file distribution solution. ABC is based on BitTornado which extended from from Original Bittorrent Core System , coded by Bram Cohen.

Arctic Torrent. A minimal BitTorrent client. It wont have all the pretty features that other Torrent apps have, but focuses on low memory and cpu usage.

Azureus. It implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users.

Bitcomet. Is a download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or more.

Bittyrant. Is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance.

Flashget. The FlashCheck is a free add-on program for FlashGet. It allows you to easily send URLs to be downloaded with FlashGet on your computer from any other computer by just sending an email.

Foxtorrent. Is a open source FoxTorrent Firefox extension that lets you stream torrents as they download, from your web browser, with zero configuration needed.

Other Torrent Resources

Slyck. Site community for torrent.

Torrentfreak. Is a weblog dedicated to bringing the latest news about BitTorrent and everything that is closely related to this popular filesharing protocol.

Sclipo. Sclipo is a social learning network for teaching through video & webcam, and meeting people of common interests.

Are you a passionate of video clips? Do you have a Youtube account? Well, you may be interested to know this new free tool called “Youtube insight”, that analyzes all the information relate to your Youtube videos. Once you have uploaded videos, or manually added videos, you are ready to check out al their stats.

A nice addition to your Youtube control panel is the inclusion of a free web-based tool that will give to bloggers and advertisers a better idea of how a video Youtube is going and how it compare to others. One of the most useful things you can do to better understand and improve the quality and quantity of web traffic on your video, is to learn how to track, monitor, measure.

For instance, through Youtube insight you can learn how your video works on different parts on the web or you might learn that your videos are most popular on Sunday,  or that new videos that play off previous content become more popular more quickly.

Key Features

• How many times the video has been watched in different world geographic regions.
• How many time it takes for a video to become popular.
• Compare the popularity of a video with others in the market.
• It shows how users find your video, whether by searching on Youtube or Google.

Effective Viral Marketing Strategy

Google insigh could well change many of the strategies that we currently use to increase our traffic. Could also be a great way to know how to develop your brand and then selling services or products which leverage one’s established market trust. The trick, as with any marketing effort, is to both be unique and communicate your message.

How Does To Start

All you have to do is enter into your account “My Videos” page and then click the “insight” button near to each of your video clips. Whether you want to see all your youtube stats, you must go into your “account” and scroll down to the botton where you will see on the left a link to Youtube insight.

Conclusion

Youtube Insight is set up to offer a very rich experience to improve your video popularity. It gives an inside look into the viewing trends of your videos on YouTube. You can learn more about your Youtube videos, what works and what doesn’t. If you are a marketers like me and you aren’t making the most of YouTube then you are missing out on an incredible resource that can attract thousand of new visitors.

There are some important things you should remember when trying to choose a web host. The criteria for choosing between a free web host and a commercial web hosting solution are slightly different and must be evaluated good. For instance, how many sites per server do you host? Happens that hosting companies often have many servers and your bad luck might bring you on a slow or buggy. You may also have email problems with your host and receive a huge list of spammers.

So, here a bunch of pratical and useful advice to find a web host that doesn’t suck.

Hosting for sale. Can happens that a very good web hosting company was bought by a not good web hosting company and you just transferred away from.

Tech Support Comedy! You call for tech support and you receive an answer by one person with an Indian accent “Sir what is your problem?” …and you’re a woman.

Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long. You must wait for more than 40 minutes before to get the most common support options. If so, before you choose a web hosting make sure how long till first to get a response and how long till answer provided.

We are member of… They claim to be a member of the BBB( Better Business Bureau), instead is a show which takes place on the third Sunday of every month in Birmingham called the Birmingham Bizarre Bazaar.

Ruby on RailsYour, please! web hosting don’t provides RoR (Ruby on Rails) and the tech on the phone. Check up that they added both Ruby on Rails and phone on your web hosting account.

When Advertising is Too. You find a free web hosting service, but since you use it you notice they place ads all over your page.

Bandwidth. Is the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. This isn’t the most important criteria. You’ll probably never be able to take advantage of it because of resource limitations as TOS, and a couple hundred page views a day, say probably uses only a few gigabytes in a month.

TOS (Terms of Service). When you choose a web host service make sure there is no some kind of limitation on your resources. Some will be vague about resource limitations, others more explicit. You’ll have to dig for this info, which is usually inside the TOS. Remember to read this document, which will includes any details as refunds, uptime guarantees, and other important details.

How many domains will you need?  Many low cost hosting  give you from one to few domains. Whether you intend to expand your business and build more than one site, or to publish more than one blog, make sure you can host all your domains under one plan.

Number of Databases. Some hosts offer unlimited domains, but give you a paltry number of databases to work with. Sure, you can put more than one blog in a single database, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

What do you need for a good support. Make sure your service host provides email, chat and/or phone support. If you’re new to hosting(or not) I’d recommend finding a host that offers phone support. Trying to explain what you don’t understand in an email or in a chat can be laborious and frustrating. If your host has just deleted your account without warning, you won’t always get an immediate answer by phone but it’s a relief when you do.

How To Find A Web Host

Web hosting Geeks website is a great way for people to read the web hosting reviews on site. Whether you want find all the the information regardless of whether it is simple hosting or multiple domain hosting, it the just place. The Hosting Geeks interface is well designed and allows you to browse the site and you will certainly find what you are looking for. Layout is impressively clean with a table with the Top 10 Web Hosts of 2007.

The host rank are estimated through vote from one to 10, but there are other information such as, Web Hosting Provider, features, web hosting articles, and the web hosting review. In this way you can compare all hosts and find the right service to suit your needs.

On the left of the site there is a menu that allows you to choose, Multiple Domain Hosting, Top 10 Web Hosting, Free Domain Names, Free Google Adwords, Free Yahoo Marketing, and you will find much more if you keep looking around.