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MyTravelToolbox.com – Build Better Travel Sites

January 26, 2012

My Travel Toolbox (MTT) is the perfect service for cash-strapped webmasters that know their sites don’t look half as good as their competitors’, and are nowhere as informative. This plug-in lets them have sites that are nicer to look at and which come packed with all the right features, without having to hire a single designer or coder just to have a better site. MTT is specifically focused on the travel industry, and it’s a platform that lets webmasters improve their sites by adding lots of tools to them. You can have airport codes displayed on your site, show international dialing codes, explain international electricity standards, list international travel requirements, include a currency converter… in short: add all the kind of information that people who are traveling somewhere look for online sooner or after. And if you provide it to them from the very beginning, then that’s basically it. You’ll have them in your pocket from the start.

All of these tools can be added with zero effort, as you simple have to cut and paste a line of code into your site for the relevant tool to be displayed. And you can get started for free, as there’s a “Basic” plan that costs nothing. If you have a larger site and need more tools, or if you want the ads that come with the free plan to be removed then you can sign up for any of the five paid plans that are available. Even the less expensive plan (the “Silver” plan, it costs $9.95 per month) can have all ads removed.

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PhotoUpz.com – Remove People From Photos

December 10, 2011

There’s lots and lots of online tools for improving and enhancing photos. Sites like Pixenate, Splashup and Mugtug have always made it super-easy to turn any photo of yours into the kind to post on a site like Facebook or Flickr for all to see. Yet, even when there’s hundreds and hundreds of apps for having images edited right on your browser, there’s still a good couple of operations that are tricky to pull off. Take removing objects and /or people from any image, for example. Even by conservative standards, that’s something we’d willingly do to one out of three pictures that we take. And there’s no easy way to do it. Unless you turn to a service like PhotoUpz, that is.

PhotoUpz lets you edit any photo of yours in ways that are certainly powerful and different. An application that you must buy and download, it lets you remove people, objects and parts of the scenery from any photograph. You can remove tourists that are making faces in the background, you can take away that unglamorous hot dog stand that spoils that great photo with the love of your life… and come to it, you can remove your ex from any photo. You don’t want to bin the only photo you have at the Leaning Tower of Pisa just because “that” person is next to you. Using PhotoUpz, you’ll be able to make the necessary adjustments until your image is usable again.

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InboundWriter.com – Improve Your SEO

August 10, 2011

InboundWriter is letting people master SEO in a way they can but find appealing nowadays: socially. InboundWriter provides bloggers and webmasters with a ready chance to know what people are searching in real time. They can explore the words that are more recurrent when people are looking for content online, and that is done in just a couple of clicks, as bloggers and webmasters simply have to specify a couple of words that are connected with the topics they usually write about (or that they are thinking about tackling). Using that as a starting point, InboundWriter can go through search engines and social media websites and determine which words they should use in the posts they write.

And the way everything works, creative writers get to know not only which words should be used but exactly where words should be placed within the texts they are penning. Any text that is created using InboundWriter is actually given a popularity score, so that figuring out how likely any piece is to be successful can be measured well in advance. Which is just incredibly useful if you are a budding blogger, of course.

InboundWriter is free if you intend to optimize eight or less documents each month. If you must handle more than that, then you can sign up for a paid monthly plan ($ 19.95) giving you the chance to optimize an unlimited number of documents.

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DiggersList.com – Sell Furniture Online

August 4, 2011

Taking the Craigslist model and circumscribing it is the name of the game here. DiggersList is like a lite version of Craigslist, but not in the sense of the features that are provided or the actual efficacy of the site. No, what one should compare here is the actual scope of each site. DiggersList is like Craigslist, but only that for home improvement classifieds. All kind of appliances, building materials and hardware can be listed on the site. And just like Craigslist, these listings come at no cost.

This is a site that can play a vital role in all kind of renovation projects. No matter what one wants to change or renew, be it a door or a floor or the house’s entire plumbing system, DiggersList makes it possible to buy the necessary materials and equipment in the fastest way of all. Searches are executed both by ZIP code and by city name, and users can set down the mile radius that applies.

And just in case you realize you’re not brave enough to renovate your home by yourself after looking at the listing featured on this site, you might like to give uKnowa more than a passing glance. That is a marketplace where contractors bid for jobs posted by people like you and me. Like DiggersList, you can join it for free.

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SnackTools.com – Create Widgets For Your Blog

May 15, 2011

There are different ways to have a more engaging website. On the one hand, you can try to master coding and do all the necessary fine-tuning yourself. On the other, you can try a service like SnackTools, and reap great results in less time than it would take you if you opted to do things manually.

We can define SnackTools as a repository of tools that will let bloggers and webmasters create rich media widgets. Widgets for conducting live surveys, widgets for posting content such as videos and photos, widgets for sharing PDFs as if they were books whose pages can be flipped… these are some of the most interesting widgets that can be created through this website

And all the widgets that can be built using SnackTools will be usable on virtually every major blogging platform and CMS – Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Joomla and Drupal are all supported. And so are social media sites like Facebook, Twitter et al.

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Incapsula.com – Optimize And Protect Your Site

May 5, 2011

With its ability to optimize and enhance just any site in a way that is both fast and cost-effective, Incapsula stands as one of these services that webmasters are bound to try out at one point or other in their lives.

Incapsula is an optimization service that can be used by any person who has a website and a domain. It can enhance its overall response time, and the way in which it handles files and data.

Incapsula can be used in a really straightforward way, as all that needs to be done is making a DNS change for the optimization process to be carried out. Nothing has to be downloaded or installed by users of Incapsula for the enhancement of their sites to be made effective. Plus, Incapsula protects all the sites that it optimizes, as webmasters are provided with a threat control dashboard for keeping everything in check.

A tiered approach to pricing means that both emerging and established webmasters will be able to use this service – Bronze, Silver and Gold plans are provided to meet the actual bandwidth needs of everybody. And a free plan is likewise provided.

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QmapStudio.com – Improve Your Business Processes

April 9, 2011

Letting companies improve their business processes is what this new Internet tool is all about. The way Qmap Studio works, every single person who is involved in any such process will get to realize his importance therein, and how to become a stronger link in such a chain. Managers, analysts, employees… everybody will become actively involved.

The analyses that Qmap Studio can carry will let any organization realize how to minimize expenses and maximize profits, and returns on investments are going to be shown in months instead of years.

Qmap Studio has a simple interface which can actually be mastered as quickly as one masters Microsoft office, and Qmap Studio can be used by organizations of all sizes, regardless of their actual IT infrastructure.

Qmap Studio can be evaluated at no cost for 30 days. Once that period has come to an end, you will be able to buy a copy in any of the several ways that are supported – by credit card, by BACS, by purchase order…

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Glitter.im – Glitter Text For Your Profile

March 24, 2011

Nowadays, there are more ways than one to have a spiffier social profile. There is a certain trend to let you do more with pictures – splitting them up, coloring them, using borders and backgrounds… the amount of applications for doing that on Facebook alone are endless. But no matter how far things are taken, there is something that is never going away: applying glitter effects to the actual texts within your profile.

And that is exactly what this new web tool lets you do. On this site, you will be allowed to choose a font and different glitter effects for an embed code to be generated. Upon pasting it on your profile, you will be unleashing the desired effect.

Revolutionary? Novel? Unique? Not really. But it is as useful as ever when it comes to telling the world that Edward Cullen is the cutest character in celluloid history. And it is completely free.

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HealthMonth.com – Become A Healthier Person

March 7, 2011

Health Month is a web-based game for people who want to improve their health. As its creators themselves say, Health Month is all about combining the science of nutrition and behavior change with the concept of social game playing. The idea here is to let you improve your health, one month at a time. You choose the one aspect you would like to improve from the following ones: dietary, fitness, relationship, mental health and financial health.

A rule will be set down for that month, such as eating more vegetables, smoking half the number of cigarettes you habitually smoke, or sitting less in front of your computer, and doing more exercise. Anyway, you will work at that for the whole month, after which you will add new rules and try to abide by them. Until rule by rule and month by month you have overcome all that there was in the way of leading a healthier life.

This is a really interesting approach – the more seriously you take some situations, then the harder it is to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. It is important to learn to let your hair down, to take things more calmly. Sites like this one are necessary for people to understand that relaxation will lead them to where they want to get much faster. So, this gets a definitive thumbs-up from me.

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VisualBee.com – Better PowerPoint Presentations

February 28, 2011

This is the one site you should head to if you fear your PowerPoint presentations are a bit lacking when it comes to sheer visual force. On Visual Bee, you will be able to have any presentation that you have created enhanced in a really radical scale. This is done in a really easy way – simply installing the provided plug-in will let enable Visual Bee to go through your content and have it largely improved in graphical terms. A library of over 15,000 images is used for these purposes.

Yet, note that aspects like your logo will be respected, and that you are the one having the final word on the design itself. If there is something that you feel clashes with your original concept, then you can have that taken away on the spot. That is not a problem.

Two versions of Visual Bee are already available: Visual Bee Free, and Visual Bee Premium. Only the premium edition of Visual Bee lets you brand your design, and have access to as many images as mentioned in the first paragraph – the free version is limited to about 3,000 images only.

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Commitie.com – Motivate Yourself & Realize Your Goals

January 10, 2011

What better time for an application like Commitie to be released than January, the month in which we all start trying to come to grips with all our New Year resolutions? Well, Commitie is here to provide as much focus and determination as anybody could need to make each and every single resolution happen.

Users of Commitie are enabled to pick these habits that they need help instilling, and then the application will let them track the way that they are progressing. Users are actually asked to log in the relevant data manually, and then Commitie will be able to graph everything out for them. And when the time comes, they will also be enabled to see reports highlighting how well-headed (or not) they are.

In the end, it is obvious that the one who can really make a resolution come true are you and only you. But we all need a helping hand at times. Commitie offers that: some assistance towards achieving your goals. It is not going to make you instantly get fit or stop smoking. But it will most likely help you get motivated. And that is a good start indeed.

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ConceptFeedback.com – Have Your Website Analyzed

December 3, 2010

Concept Feedback is one of the clearest resources that webmasters have for measuring how the design of their sites is actually being beneficial in terms of conversions. This company will let them submit their sites in order to be analyzed by specialists that can pinpoint their hits and misses, and then suggest ways to set all that is wrong to right.

And this service is available for much more than websites, actually. Landing pages, mockups, wireframes and interfaces can all be analyzed and measured to the same extent. As a matter of fact, the company can even review applications and provide their developers with a full evaluation.

In that sense, Concept Feedback is a truly realized system. And you can hire as many evaluators as you want to test your site (or application). Each will cost you $ 100. You can choose up to five different experts for each featured category (Design, Usability, Strategy and Copy). And it is perfectly possible to focus on one of these categories only, too.

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SeoSUE.com – All You Need To Know About SEO

October 18, 2010

Understanding how search rankings work is not easy. Far from it – sites become popular and fall from grace so quickly that webmasters know there is not such a thing as a winning formula letting their sites rise to the top and stay comfortably there.

Keywords, backlinks, tweets and retweets… there are a hundred aspects at play. And keeping a grasp on as many of these as possible is the challenge that every webmaster faces daily. And even if he devotes himself to the task in full, it is going to be a time-consuming and tiring task. Fortunately, there are tools like SeoSUE available.

Generally, SeoSUE is an online service that enables webmasters to explore the sites of their competitors in order to understand why they are better ranked than theirs. This service can look for and uncover the vast majority of tactics and strategies used by those who have been around for a while, and let people who are just getting into the World Wide Web implement them on their own sites.

And SeoSUE is a free service. All you have to do is input the URL that you need explored for an analysis to be carried out. And there is no limit to the amount of consecutive analyses that you can carry either. You will be able to have your each and every competitor examined if that’s what you want.

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StaffGuardian.com – Keep An Eye On Your Staff

March 8, 2010

It is not uncommon for workforces to become spread and distributed nowadays, and for employees who usually work at a specific location to end up working somewhere other than there. This new service aims to make the whole experience easier not only on staff members but also on the ones who have to look after them.

In general terms, this site provides a platform whereby the status and the location of staff can be viewed at all times, and that also makes for notifications to be sent out whenever anything should happen. Employees update what they are doing in a way not that dissimilar to the updating of statuses in social platforms like Facebook or Twitter (IE, “Just arrived”, “Meeting in Washington, be back on Thursday” ), and that is taken as the starting point for knowing their whereabouts at all times.

This web-based solution comes in three different incarnations, and the big difference seems to be the actual number of users that are supported – the “Value” plan offers support for 10, the “Medium” package supports 30, and the “Premium” plan supports up to one hundred.

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CoCreateLondon.com – Improving London Collectively

March 3, 2010

I am featuring this site if only because I would love to see similar ones come along and cover major cities in the US. The title of the website itself is pretty clear, and it gives you a good indication of what to expect if you visit it.

It is a community resource with a concise aim: the betterment of London.

The site involves suggestions that are put forth by users, and then voted upon both by other users and site visitors. When I checked it out, some featured suggestions included “Putting air conditioning on the tubes would improve life in London during the Summer 100%” and “Encourage more frequent outdoor dancing!”. The one that topped the list, incidentally, was the suggestion that read “Free wi-fi hotspots in public spaces across town”.

I don’t really know if someone is paying any heed to these suggestions. But as a starting point, these sure are interesting. And the fact that people could actually have a key input in the way their hometowns are evolving just can’t be obviated, much less dismissed.

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Donubi.com – Promoting Your Site The Social Way

February 4, 2010

Donubi is a social network revolving around a premise which is quite novel: the real stars of the network are not the users, but their sites. That is, the idea is to let users openly promote their sites and discover new ones in the process.

The concept is interesting to say the least – after all, is there an easier way to promote a service than simply helping out other people in the same position as you? Besides, promotion of this type is far more likely to result in longstanding users instead of “one and done” visitors that just won’t give your site a second glance.

In a certain sense, Donubi adheres to a “what you put in, is what you get out” since comments die after a period of time (currently 30 days). This means that anybody can top the list of sites under a specific genre if they put the necessary effort in.

The comments that are provided (“advice” in the site’s parlance) will bear either a plus or a minus sign, and that advice will directly affect the listing of your site. Collecting good comments will rank you higher, whereas a number of bad comments will result in your site ending up buried in the lower ranks.

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Disciplanner.com – Get Disciplined And Succeed

January 4, 2010

Being organized to accomplish your long-term goals is something that will certainly lead to having a more successful life. Why? Simply because it is an effective way to know what you are going to do on a daily basis.

Some people need to be more organized to work and get things done, and this site has all the resources you might require in order to keep track of all your long term goals.

Sometimes you feel that life is crazy and you do not have time to take a look at the whole panorama to see how far or close from your aims you are. That is why this site has come to save the day by providing you with an interesting service that will be greatly enjoyed by self-learners that want to keep track of their progresses, without having to deal with daily scheduling and complicated calendars.

Disciplanner.com is not about exercising, studying or working, but about the way you keep track of your advances to see if you have any improvements or not. The good thing about this system is the fact that you just need to commit to weekly goals and record time. The service is simple and you will not have to pay anything for that. In case you want to learn more about this service you just need to give the site a try at www.disciplanner.com.

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HelloHealth.com – Managing Online Medical Attention

January 2, 2010

Health is something vital and you already know it. This site was created in order to provide users with the opportunity to communicate among themselves, no matter if they are doctors or patients.

So, this site can be accurately depicted as the place where doctors and patients are allowed to get in touch effectively.

In this way, these professionals can take care of different documents as well as managing different matters related to their patients’ health in person and online. This is a whole new way to understand personal treatment and medicine due to the fact that it adds real time technology to the medical equation, to make more efficient all the processes related to different treatments. This is why you will not have to be worried about having to talk to a receptionist, or going through administrative procedures because the system will take care of it for you.

It could be said that HelloHealth is a revolutionary new experience that intends to combine office and online visits to maximize medical attention. The site is pretty clear when it comes to explaining all the conveniences of this service and you are free to learn more about it after you it a visit at Hellohealth.com. Give it a try and see how technology is making medical treatments much more dynamic.

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Rootein.com – A Smooth Way To Improve Your Habits

December 3, 2009

Getting healthy habits and improving the way you live is not that difficult, but it might pose a difficult to some. I think it all boils down to having the determination to keep going at something without losing sight of where it is you are headed.

And that is exactly what this site aims to let you do: to keep you motivated as you work up your “rooteins”.

Leaving aside that most unfortunate word play, the site is good in every sense. A calendar is provided to make it simple for you to track your progress, and features like daily reminders and a slack detector will “gently” nudge should you go missing too many days in a row. Mobiles are already supported, and you can both receive reminders while you are on the go and access the Rootein site from anywhere.

The idea, then, is to make the serious task of building a habit a fun enough activity so that you stay engaged and do never lose interest. These services are all rendered at no cost, too, so trying the system out is a mere matter of taking a few moments of your time to do it.

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WebNotes.net – Optimize The Way You Work

November 28, 2009

WebNotes is a new solution that was developed in order to provide users with an efficient service for handling notes and creating scans in a very fast way. Among the many services you are provided by this solution you have the possibility to monitor the web totally effortlessly, as well as tracking and collecting content using the system’s media monitoring features.

Professionals will be able to use this site in order to carry out ordered researches, and arranging their files within several folders. In addition to this, they can create news scans for all their clients.

This could be a good opportunity for you to take notes when you need to, being able to highlight text on different PDFs and webpages. Imagine that you are finishing your thesis research and you need to keep everything well-organized in order to collaborate with your colleagues. What would you do? You can use this service in order to accomplish that goal in a very simple manner.

In this way you will be able to better-allocate your time, and maximize how you work by adding strategic analysis and suggestions.

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