Facebook Removing Links, Boxes and Info Sections for Applications from Jan 2010

Thursday, December 24, 2009
Hope this is because of Facebook's recent privacy issues.



IMPORTANT: Facebook have announced that all links, boxes and 'info sections' for applications will be automatically REMOVED from your profile in January. To continue using this application you need to add a bookmark for it now.

Google Enables YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp Previews in Gmail

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Google introduces a new enhancement that allows photos and videos from Flickr, Picasa and Youtube to be seen in the e-mail itself. You don't need to leave gmail anymore to see them.

In order to enjoy this feature, You have to enable it from Setting --> Lab and enable the setup one by one.
 


I test these nice features youtube preview works great. But, unfortunately Flickr shows "Photostream not available" I have to check the feature more closely and will post you the updated news. Here is my test mail which I used to see youtube video preview. So enjoy sharing favorie Youtube videos, beautiful snaps from Flickr & Picasa to your friends.


Google Enables YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp Previews in Gmail

40+ Useful & Handy Web Designer’s Web Services & Tools

Sunday, February 15, 2009
Source: www.noupe.com

Nothing can be more useful than handy tools you can use “on the fly” in your design process. Whether you’d like diagramming application, create vector images, format or optimize CSS code, generate patterns- you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier. Today we wanted to share with you a comprehensive list of more than 40 online tools that will really make your life easier and on the fly.

1. Are My Sites Up

Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down. With the free service, you may check up to 20 sites, unlimited notifications are sent via email or SMS text message to your cell phone, site checks are performed 25 times per day.

2. Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Check out the gallery for some interesting examples.

3. Scrnshots

ScrnShots is an easy way to take, find, and share screenshots of web and screen based design. You can upload unlimited screenshots to your account, tag your screenshots for easy retrieval, search screenshots by keywords for inspiration, use the provided links to embed screenshots in your website and many features you will find to be useful.

4. Drop

Use drop.io to create and privately share your files by web, email, phone, fax, and more. Drops are protected from search engines so you can conveniently share what you want with whom you want.

5. EmChart



Using a relative unit such as EM is a great way to maintain the vertical rhythm of a web page when a user resizes text in their browser. Constantly reaching for a calculator to compute the correct EM value to use every time you need to is also a great way to drive yourself mad. EmChart is very useful for calculating bottom margins, line-heights (which are unitless, but the formula still applies), top margins, and top/bottom padding among other things. It’s also really handy for keeping nested relative font-sizes straight. Built on this formula for computing the EM multiplier is: desired pixel size / current pixel size = multiplier.

6. HTML-Ipsum

A handy Lorem Ipsum App. that provide Mac-friendly outputs with: Coda clips, Textmate bundles & Menu bar app.

7. Pixastic

Pixastic is a JavaScript library which allows you to perform a variety of operations, filters and fancy effects on images using just a bit of JavaScript. I find this tool very useful when i try to quickly edit an image when my computer is not around.

8. Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer is an online application helps you create color schemes of different types and it may facilitate your looking for the optimal color palette by controlling the saturation and contrast level for the chosen color schemes.

9. Lovely Charts

Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that helps you create professional looking diagrams such as flowcharts, sitemaps, wireframes and more. Try out the demo here.

10. HTM to PDF
An online service that convert webpages or raw html code into PDF documents. I remember my first freelance job was to save the user’s input in an online form into pdf document, did it in ASP and worked great but took a lot of time to figure out how to do it.

11. Preloaders


An online animated gif preloader that makes you choose the background color code desired, Pick the foreground color code you want, Set the sizes of the preloader, if needed, Choose your animation speed, choose the type of preloader.

12. Down For Everyone Or Just Me

A very useful tool to help you quickly check any site if it’s down for you only or for everyone.

13. Klock

Keep track of anything with Klok’s simple work timer and visual display of how your days “fill up”. Check out the full feature list.

14. Enkoder

The Enkoder helps protect email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people.

15. Websnapshot

Another great tool for taking snapshots for any web page. Simply enter the Url and Press Snap. Or Drag&Drop it from your browser. Click on the Thumnails to Save. With Auto Save Checked, the thumnails are immediatly saved to your ’save’ folder.

16. TypeChart

Typechart lets you preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. You can easily browse typographic styles, download CSS, compare Windows (ClearType) rendering with Apple font rendering.

17. WTFramework bookmarklet

Ever wondered which JavaScript framework was used on a specific website but was too lazy to check the source code for the answer. WTFramework is a pretty simple and straight–forward bookmarklet that can do this job easily for you.

18. Pencil


The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

19. Web Development Project Estimator

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

20. 280slides

Let’s you create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world.

21. BackType

Whenever you write a comment on a blog or other website, BackType attributes it to you. You can also identify and connect with the people who’s thoughts and opinions you value; follow their comments in your Dashboard

22. FeedCompare

An online web tool that you can use for comparing FeedBurner feeds and check out your competitors growth.

23. SmushIt

Smushit.com is a service that uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality.

24. Dexrex

Dexrex is the free add-on for archiving IM & SMS text.

25. Jott

Jott makes sure you stay on top of everything. You can capture notes, set reminders and calendar appointments, stay in touch with friends and family, and interact with your favorite web sites and services…all with your voice!

26. Fresh Books

With Freshbooks you can easily track time and send Invoices and Estimates Online. They make it very easy to track everything related to invoicing. Create project invoices in advance and you don’t have to worry about forgetting one.

27. SifrVault

An online Repository of sIFR fonts.

28. SproutBuilder

Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more.

29. Snipt

Snipt is your collection of frequently used commands or code snippets.

30. ShiftSpace

ShiftSpace (pronounced: §) is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web. Check out all the nice features < a href="http://www.shiftspace.org/features/">here.

31. Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer is a Firefox add-on that automatically shows you what software is used on the websites you visit. It identifies most CMS, e-commerce and wiki and message board systems, JavaScript frameworks and more.

32. Favicon generator & editor

This tool provides an easy way to convert any GIF, PNG or JPEG to ICO which is supported by all modern web browsers. It also enables you to create favicons from scratch via a handy online editor. Additionally the editor lets you manually tweak generated favicons to ensure the best possible result.

33. BgPatterns

This tool provides an easy way to quickly generate tiled patterns. It will allow you to tweak, edit, and resize a wide range of patterns, change its color and more.

34. Kuler

kuler is an online web-based application by Adobe that helps you create and share color themes by several options such as “Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary, Compound, Shades or Custom”. Users can also collaborate, comment and share color themes based on predefined color formulas or you can create custom themes by using Kuler’s interactive color wheel.

35. FontStruct

Is a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.

36. Vector Magic

Convert bitmap images to vector images with a few simple clicks. Just upload your image and Vector Magic will vectorize it for you.

37. Tartan Designer

Generate tartan patterns. For scottish lovers and fancy designers!

38. GoldenRatioCalculator

If you want to dramatically improve composition of your website design, you might need to consider applying the divine proportion to your design. This tools calculates the golden ratio for your designs.

39. Picmarkr

PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free. It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos.

40. TweetDeck

Aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets.

Cheers!
GetSearchEngineRank.com

Webmaster Conference at Google India

Friday, February 13, 2009
Google Webmaster ConferenceGoogle India is organizing a conference for webmasters (and bloggers*) at their Bangalore Office on February 28 to help you with your webmaster related questions and how you can leverage Google tools to improve your site’s performance.

The full day event, known as Search Masters ‘09, will include presentations and interactive sessions with Google’s Search Specialists and Product Managers including Adam Lasnik (search evangelist at Google) and Rajat Mukherjee of Google Custom Search.

Here’s a complete list of topics that will be covered at Google Webmaster’s conference:
  • Webmaster Central and Best Practices: Understand the webmaster resources that Google offers and how to find help for your site through them.
  • Webmaster Help Forum: Learn about the community where you can find answers to your Search and Webmaster related questions.
  • Google Custom Search: How to harness the power of Google to create a search engine tailored to your needs and interests.
  • Building Mobile Friendly Websites: Find out why there is a need for mobile friendly websites and learn how to go about building them.
  • Google Analytics and Website Optimizer: Learn how you can gather, view and analyze data about your website traffic.
The webmaster conference is a free but invite-only event. Google India has sent invitation emails to some India webmasters (and bloggers*) who in turn can request an additional invite from Google and pass it on to their friends.

So if you know someone who has already received an invite for this conference, he may help you secure an invite by passing on your request to Google India.

*I think this conference is not just limited to webmasters as some bloggers may have received official invites as well.

Source: www.labnol.org

Cheers!
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SearchCamp is here! Keep an eye on 28th February & 1st March 2009

The dream of all SEO, SMO, SEM & Internet Marketing prefessionals have finally taken shape in reality. Thanks to Mr. Ezhil Raja, Mr. Syed Nazir Razik & their friends, "Searchcamp" is ready to knock you out!

The SearchCamp team has a huge plan. They are trying to arrange a video conference with Mr. Matt Cutts, the father figure of Google. They have also palnned to bring some experts from Google India. If they are unable to join the SearchCamp, there is a possibility to arrange a video conference with them as well.

We alll know about the huge success of Searchcamp 2007. We are sure this year it will be even more fun!

If you are an SEO, SEM & Internet Marketing professional or interested in SEO, SMO, SEM & Internet Marketing, make sure you won't miss it. It is an oppurtunity of a lifetime!

See you there! Here are more details...!

SearchCamp is a two day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Search Engine Marketing space to talk about search engine advertising, including optimization and marketing issues. The event is scheduled for the 28th February & 1st March 2009.

This is the second edition of the event and the first edition happened during 6th & 7th of October 2007, at Tidel Park, Chennai. SearchCamp will feature workshops, debates and keynotes on the present state and evolution of Search Engine Marketing.

Why Search Camp..?

Because search marketing is one of the most if not THE most accountable forms of advertising your business today.

So what are you doing about capturing search traffic for your business?

* Do you rank for the keywords that are mission critical to your business?
* Have you optimised your local listings for maps and mobile search?
* Have you optimised your corporate videos for search?
* Do you optimise your corporate blog?
* Have you trained your technical staff in good SEO practice?

We could keep asking questions, the one you need to ask yourself is this - Are you happy with your return on investment from search marketing?

If not, then you need to attend SearchCamp 2009, India’s leading search marketing Conference.

Topics To be Discussed in The 2 day Camp.

Day 1 of SearchCamp will focus on Organic Search, and Day 2 on Paid Search. Following are the broad areas of content that will be covered during this edition of SearchCamp. Exact sessions can be found here - Sessions

Organic SEO

* Keyword Research
* Onpage Optimization
* Converting SEO Traffic
* Technical Issues for Developers
* Copywriting
* Brand Building
* Link Building
* Local Search Tactics

Paid Search

* PPC Keywords & Bids
* Landing Page Strategies
* Automated Bid Management
* APIs
* Tracking Conversions

Social Media Marketing

* Hot Trends
* Online Reputation Management

Web Analytics

SEM Careers

Add your name in the Participants list

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List of 186 Social Video Sharing Websites with Page Rank & Alexa Rank

Thursday, February 12, 2009
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