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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Based on a spider, the service at xml-sitemaps.com will generate the increasingly popular XML sitemaps for free, up to 500 pages. Chances are, if your website has more than 500 pages, it is not a static website and you should have your sitemap generated based off your database or a plugin, if you’re using a [...]

If you find yourself using Gmail often, and doing it through the browser based client, there’s an exciting theme for Gmail that you might want to have a look at. It works as an add-on in Firefox that replaces Google’s CSS file for the Gmail interface. It works for all of Gmail’s interface, skinning the [...]

The best way to judge a camera is by seeing the photos it produces, and what better place to find tons of photos than Flickr? Since all cameras stamp their make and model to the JPEG files they produce, and Flickr gathers this information, they recently started organizing pictures by camera model. You can find [...]

A recent survey says that 90% of Americans are tired of the bullshit customer service robots that pick up the toll-free lines, anywhere from AT&T to Verizon. Sometimes it takes going through 9 different options before finding out the number to press to get to a customer support representative, other times you need to go [...]