Optimize your website with Sitonomy

Curious to know what technologies, affiliate networks, advertising networks and analytical tools your competitors use for their websites? Check Sitonomy.com to analyze and optimize your own.Sitonomy is a free service that allows developers and designers to find out which technologies are used in a...

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Top 10 Developer Skills for the Future

Meghan of Microsoft Jobs Blog recommends TechRepublic's Justin James' advice on the 10 skills developers will need in the next five years:1. One of the “Big Three” (.NET, Java, PHP)2. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)3. Web development4. Web services (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML)5. Soft skills6. One dynamic...

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Search Engines in the pre-Google era

James Svoboda who has completed 10 years working on SEO related activities recounts his experiences with Search Engines in the pre-Google era and it makes for interesting reading. He talks about Meta Search, Web Directories, Pay Per Click, Affiliate Programs and catastrophic SEO events like AltaVista’s...

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Get out of your Comfort Zone

In a recent blog post, Scott Hanselman has a motivating note on the need to go outside your comfort zone so as to be to be well-rounded and balanced.Get and stay out of your comfort zone is Rule #1 on Bob Parsons (CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com) 16 rules to live by. I find that list inspiring.Related...

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New hands-free Twitter interface: Brain-computer

Adam Wilson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student, posted a status update on the social networking website Twitter—just by thinking about it (via Short Sharp Science). It was done using software built upon the BCI2000. The software translates thought-induced changes...

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HOW TO implement online cropping feature for uploaded Images

Snipshot is a cool website that not only let's you crop images online but also enhance, rotate and save them as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF. It also offers a free API that lets you use Snipshot for your own website.If you wish to implement the feature all on your own, Mikesdotnetting has a neat ASP.NET...

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What do CTP, RC, RTM, RTW mean?

I always wanted to find the precise meaning of the acronyms Microsoft uses to refer to the stage of a product in the software release life cycle. I found the most comprehensive explanation on Phil Haack's blog and copied it verbatim here for future reference.Community Technology Preview/CTPCTP stands...

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Book Review: Almost Perfect

Almost Perfect is the story of WordPerfect (a word processor for personal computers) as told by Pete Paterson, owner of a failing drapery business who jumped onto selling software, head it's Sales and Marketing division and drove annual sales to half a billion dollars in a span of a decade. The entire...

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Fireshot - Firefox/IE Image Snipping Tool

If you like the simplicity of the Snipping Tool in Windows Vista, you will also like FireShot, a Firefox/IE browser add-on. The cool thing about FireShot is that it allows you to edit & add annotations to an extracted image.Steps to add a note to a extracted and cropped image -Install the add-on...

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What Makes a Good Blog?

The answer is no big secret but the following indicators are backed by figures from a survey by Vizu (PDF link)“Quality of writing” counts for a lot driving readers’ choices of which blogs they will read as well as helping them to determine which blogs are credible and high qualityTopical focus is a...

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Scrabble Rules

I recently ran into a web application (with source code!) called Scrabbler that lets you cheat at Scrabble. It triggered a lot of childhood memories.(Picture courtesy: Wikipedia)I spent endless hours as a kid playing Scrabble with my cousins. There was a great thrill in finding words and placing them...

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Comparison of Payment Gateways

There are a number of Payment Gateway options to handle payments online. Finding which one is right for you based on cost-effectiveness and reliability requires some comparative analysis. Some Payment Gateway service providers' websites thankfully provide such a comparison -Here is Authorize.Net's comparison...

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MIX09 Presentations

If you could not make it to Las Vegas to attend MIX09, you can take comfort in the fact that you can still watch over 100 presentations online that are powered by Silverlight. They are also available for download in WMV, MP4, WMA, MP3 and some in PPTX formats.I wish the listing also had the duration...

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Have you tried GMail Autopilot?

I always lie. My mother told me to - Spotted on a T-shirtGoogle continues the tradition of perpetrating April Fools' Day hoaxes.Considering that most GMail Labs features are unusual, I fell for the Autopilot hoax. After all the Text Stats feature in Amazon and the email analytics feature in Xobni do...

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