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Social Networks are the focus of many businesses this year for various reasons: communicating to customers, pushing a brand, driving in traffic and of course, search engine optimization. However not all social networks deliver well on all these benefits. This PDF entitled The CMO’s Guide To: The Social Landscape clearly outlines what the social media [...]

Online file conversion tools are fairly popular, but a surprisingly small number of online tools will allow you to convert a PDF file to a graphic format such as PNG, JPEG, GIF or BMP. One of these free online tools is zamzar.com, and it will take in for conversion a PDF file, or nearly any [...]

If you know your way around computers and the Internets chances are you’re constantly being asked technical questions, sometimes out of need other times out of curiosity. Most of them are about the Internet and how it works, and ironically the answer to them is always on the Internet.
How Google Works is a short SWF [...]

Why you might want to surf the web anonymously, it’s not for me to question… In the old days, you had to find a good proxy list and try and try and try until you found a good anonymous proxy that didn’t take half an hour to load a web page. Today most anonymous surfing [...]

Cross-browser compatibility, often times a nightmare to web developers. When you have to target various browser versions, such as Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 together, it becomes nearly impossible to use the same machine to host these applications together. You could use a VPS and there are some tricks allowing one to run IE [...]

In case you haven’t discovered it yet, there’s an online photo editor the likes of Photoshop and it’s completely free. While not a replacement of Photoshop for graphic designers, it’s an easily accessible online tool that can allow you to quickly made adjustments to a photo, when in places where all you have is Paint.
It [...]

Designers and developers alike are in constant need of more Lorem Ipsum, and most are familiar with lipsum.com. If you don’t know what Lorem Ipsum is, you must be really new to the scene, but all is not lost, there is a wikipedia article for you.
There’s a more advanced alternative to lipsum.com that you can [...]

Window 7 introduced a neat feature where you can preview the window of an application by putting your mouse over it in the taskbar. Most modern browsers, including Firefox, have made use of this Windows 7 feature and are now using it to display all the tabs in the taskbar. However not everyone finds it [...]

The first of our series of unnecessary Windows processes you can do without: JSQ.exe sits there just in case some day you may stumble upon a Java Applet, in which case JSQ.exe delivers JRE (Java Runtime Environment) files that were pre-fetched at an earlier time, thus allowing the applet to start faster than usual. If [...]

So you’ve set your domain to point to some new nameservers, and here comes the waiting game. But at times, the waiting game can turn into a nightmare when, without a preview of what the website looks like, you’ll be surprised at what our friends over the ocean are seeing while you’re confidently waiting for [...]