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Splitting MP3 File to Tracks/Ringtones? Try Free Online MP3 Cutting Tools

Pavan Kumar — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:11:22 +0000

Though there are lots of mp3 splitting freewares and sharewares, they are no match for the current generation of tools which do the same job on a single page of your browser. Nobody would like to install a software to perform a small job which need not be performed again. We shall see two online free services to cut mp3 files to tracks of desired duration.

The two web services for splitting mp3 files are cutmp3.net and mp3cut.net. Both look very similar in their names and does the same job, but there is one major difference for which I prefer the first one. Coming to the features of both the tools, they do the same operation, takes your mp3 file and desired starting and end points as input, splits the file and provide the split mp3 for download.

Both the tools are very simple to use and fast in processing. You can mark the initial and final duration through a slider and can also listen to the selected part to make sure you have marked the proper selection points. The only difference between the tools is that the former does not upload your mp3 file to their server, but the latter does and this results in a comparatively slower performance.

You may sometimes need to convert audio to mp3 format or video to mp3 before using these tools.

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How to View NSFW Videos, Photos & Content in Office

Pavan Kumar — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:38:06 +0000

Not Safe/Suitable For Work or Not School/Work Suitable (NSS / NWS) is an objectionable type of content which you should not open in workplaces or schools. This article is not about proxies to bypass network restrictions, but to help avoid any circumstances where the user can accidentally open an NSFW site while at office/ school.

Variably SFW is a service which helps you check any site before opening if you doubt whether the site is NSFW. The page has a text box where you enter the url which needs to be tested. Once you click on preview, you will be redirected to a page which has a slider which can be slid to display the content partially to confirm if it is a page safe for work. Slider can be moved for more contrast if the page looks legit, otherwise you can avoid visiting the page and protect yourself.

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Retain Website Visitors When Moving Web Hosting

Pavan Kumar — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:37:21 +0000

If you are a webmaster who has hopped web hosting among different providers, I am sure you have observed the slight dip in traffic for one / two days when the website move is done. This is because it can take upto 36-72 hours for all domain name system servers (DNS) to propagate. The problem is more if you delete the files in your old host or there is some database connection issues with older host after you moved.

I recently found a way which can help you to some extent to bring your visitors to new location and show them all new content on your website. This also ensures that you don’t work anymore on your older host and lose data after some time. The solution is OpenDNS CacheCheck.

CacheCheck is an OpenDNS support tool which helps you check the IP address for a particular website on their different servers. You can verify here if your websites are properly resolved by OpenDNS. If you find any problem, they can refresh the same within a maximum of 20 seconds. If you are moving a website, here is what you need to do:

Transfer all your website content (files, database etc) and make sure everything is fine on the new hosting environment.
Change the nameservers on your domain registrar.
Goto CacheCheck page, enter the domain name you just moved, scroll down and click "Refresh the cache".

This refreshes the data on their servers resulting in your domain resolution to the new address. Though this change is reflected only for OpenDNS users, you should not forget that millions of internet savvy people are using OpenDNS and their number is a considerable count.

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Searching Ideas? Get One Here – Trade Ideas Online For Free

Pavan Kumar — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:17:45 +0000

Ideas are the most important flashes on mind which has brought all of us to the state we are in. Human race has been constantly growing as a result of ideas which take birth in one’s mind and spread towards the achievement. Ideas are better when we get them as intuition rather than the result of thought process.

It would be better if we have a database of ideas where different users add in their ideas and the ones in need gets them. A simple idea from you, can be a viral project some day if it reaches the right hands. The idea swap is the idea database I am referring to. This service provides you with unlimited ideas at a cost of one idea of 150 characters at most. This idea site is just like stumble upon where you are not sure what kind of idea is pitching in next. You will find number of ideas which are not categorized in any way, but few of them really make sense and are easy to implement in out lives.

As you keep swapping the ideas, you will come across lots of stupid ideas, but at the same time, a number of very good ideas can be found. This is a tool which can be a fun as well as a helper. Add your idea and get numerous ideas which may even change the way you think. The neat interface and fast performance can make you addicted to this tool if you get a good feel of it in the beginning. During my 10 minute browsing, I could find the ideas from trash cans to radar detector which also includes the solution to runway delays due to snow in airports

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Sharpen Your CSS Skills With Free Online CSS IDE

Pavan Kumar — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:32:03 +0000

If you are an internet user involved with websites / blogging, you probably know the importance of CSS for any website. All the websites you see today look so beautiful and well organized mostly because of CSS. Apart from those very few websites which totally use flash, all other websites depend on CSS for styling and formatting for the neat presentation.

If you are a person who is new to web industry and want to learn some basics of styling to improve the presentation of a website, head over to W3Schools. You can understand all basics of CSS within few hours. You may also refer to html css tutor tool which can help refresh your HTML knowledge as well. Testing these codes which you write in HTML / CSS is a process which involves time in switching between your HTML Editor, web browser and refreshing the page.

CSS Desk is a cool web application which help you sharpen your CSS skills by helping you practice HTML and CSS coding without switching applications or refreshing page. The page has been divided into three sections – one for editing HTML, one for editing CSS code and the final one is to view the result of what you have edited in other sections. This tool is a clean user friendly application which can fasten the process of CSS practice. They also provide you with an option to download the code which you have edited. You can also save it on their server with an URL if you want to use the same for re-use / demo purposes.

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Free Unlimited Time Whois Privacy Protection for Web Domains

Pavan Kumar — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:12:50 +0000

Looking at the title, you might be thinking about some marketing offer or some contest where you can win some domain privacy deals. But what I have found now, looks like a bug and I wish my readers to take full advantage of this before it is fixed.

Sometime back, I had updated you about Name.com for its unbelievable cheap .com/.net domain offers and cheap .im domain name offer. Though they don’t exist anymore, you now have another very good chance to grab without even requiring a credit card. All you need is a domain registered with Name.com.

Domain whois privacy used to be a free package (at Name.com) with domain name until few months in past. Recently when I registered a new domain, I observed that it is no more free and we need to pay $1.99 for privacy. Also the domain name prices have gone bit higher compared to what they used to be.

What is Whois Privacy?

Domain Privacy / Whois Privacy is the service offered by different domain registrars to protect personal information of the domain owner like address, phone number, email address etc. If you do not enable privacy, your details can be easily viewed on any whois lookup service.

How to save dollars and get FREE WHOIS privacy for any domain on your Name.com profile?

Login to your Name.com account and navigate to Account section where you can find the details about your existing products.
Check all the domain whois privacy checkboxes and click on "renew checked products". If you cannot find such whois privacy details, click on the domain name to go to domain info page and enable whois privacy details.
You will now be taken to shopping cart where have to enter the Promo code as: FREEWHOIS. If you are not redirected, click on Your Cart in the top right corner.
Now, you can notice that all your shopping cart amount get converted to discount and you need not have to pay anything. As the shopping cart account gets reduced to $0, you can proceed without a credit card. Click on Account Credit radio button for your payment option.
Accept the terms and checkout.

How $100?

Here comes the secret which I called as bug. You can repeat the above process any number of time to get all your domains’ whois privacy extended to 1 more year every time you checkout. If you have numerous domains and you renew privacy of each to say 5-10 years, you have saved even more than $100. Note that if they are not fixing this issue, you can extend your whois privacy for an unlimited period of time.

Here is the proof that I have renewed WHOIS privacy of my domains for a long time.

Note: If you are registering a new .com/.net domain with Name.com, you may use the coupon code COMASYOUARE which can get you a domain for $8.25.

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Image Optimization Tips for Organic SEO Ranking

Pavan Kumar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:38:52 +0000

Recently I was going through my Google Analytics data and was looking the referring sites section and found that more than 2% of my traffic is coming from Google Image Search. I was surprised to see that as I never got more than 2-3 visits from Google Image Search everyday on my old blog. The only reason for this massive increase in traffic from Google Image Search is Image Optimization.

Apart from writing a good article there are many other things that need to be taken care for a blog post and image optimization is one of them. There is nothing much to be done to optimize your images and it just takes few seconds. The main things for image optimization are proper name for the image, alt tag and proper positioning.

Important Points for Image Optimization:

SEO Friendly Image Names : The first you have to do is to rename the file with proper name. "image001.jpg" or "DSC001.jpg" doesn’t make sense for the search engine. If your image is related to a mobile renaming it something like "Nokia-5800-Front-View" makes sense. Search Engines cannot read the image to find what it is, instead they read the image name and otehr things like alt tag, surronding text etc to get more information about the image. So do rename your images to something meaningful and relevant to the current context.

Use Effective Alt Tag : Alt Tag will give more information about the image to the search engine. You have to use better text and keywords thus helping the search engine to know more about the image. For example if you have got a mobile realted image you can have the alt tag as – alt="Nokia Slim 5800 Mobile Side View" rather than – alt="mobile".

Proper Placement of Images : Search engines usually read the text surrounding the image to know more about it. So we need to take care in placing the image near to the relevant content. For example, if you are writing an article with general mobile trends in market in the first paragraph and then about a specific mobile in the last paragraph, it makes more sense to place the mobile related image closer to the last paragraph.

Using Relevant Anchor Text : When you are trying to use anchor text to link images, it is always a better idea to use text that is more relevant to the images. It would be better to use "Click Here for Nokia Mobile Images" or "Nokia 5800 Pictures" rather than using "Click Here".

If you keep the above points in your mind you will definitely get good amount of traffic from the image search results. You can always check for the total indexed images of your website by typing "site:yoursite.com" in "http://images.google.com". Google also suggests users to use JPEG rather than other formats. Also use hyphens (-) instead of unserscores (_) between words of the image. Finally if you are using images from other sites, rename the image and change the dimensions to avoid image duplication issues.

If you have any other thoughts and points do share with us in the comments section.

Also read: Image optimization for fast websites, Remove frames from Google images traffic

This article is written by Samrat who blogs at TechHail. TechHail is a technology blog on Computers, Mobiles, Internet, Windows, Software, Tips & Tricks, SEO and Blogging.

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The Conceptual Google Adsense Trial Accounts

Pavan Kumar — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:59:20 +0000

Ever heard of Google Adsense trial accounts? No chance! They don’t exist till date. But this is what I suggested Google Adsense team when they asked me to fill a survey for them. Indian Adsense publishers were invited for the survey and the prize is Apple iPod Touch. Details here. Entry only through invitation.

As I guess most of you have submitted your valuable opinions and suggestions, I would like to share what I suggested them and would like the feedback from you readers as this can influence Google’s Adsense team in some way and favoring thousands of Adsense aspiring webmasters and bloggers.

Adsense is an unmatched industry leader in online advertising and every budding webmaster / blogger / internet marketer wants to be an Adsense publisher, but getting an Adsense account these days is a very difficult task. I see many of my online friends and readers who run a successful blog are still waiting for an AS account.

Disadvantages of no Adsense account for budding webmasters:

Publisher may lose interest in content generation – growth of an aspiring person is affected.
He/She may join some unethical ad networks and finally comes into conclusion that all ad networks (including Adsense) are fraud. This is the current state of survey sites – though there are good survey earning opportunities, users always try to keep away from them.
As account applications get rejected for NO REASON, the real address of the publisher gets blocked. They can’t change their home just to get a new address for Adsense account. Same with phone number, website etc.
As blogging is a growing career option, it gets tough to choose blogging as profession if they don’t have an Adsense account. Most of the content / news websites depend mainly on Adsense for revenues.
Anyone can lose patience for resubmitting the same application form again and again for more than 15 times. Result of this can give raise to ad networks which don’t have a sole existence, but serve Adsense ads to fill their ad inventory. The publisher who has to get the entire revenue will start getting a small percentage of what he exactly earns. I am sure Google cannot be happy with this

The above are the reasons I could think while writing the post. The solution is ADSENSE TRIAL ACCOUNT. Though they have not assigned me a job of designing such a system, I wish such trial accounts come true in short future.

Google Adsense Trial Accounts

These accounts are short lived Adsense accounts of a test span of say 7-15 days.
Users can directly sign up for an account and get complete access instantly.
Ads are served as normal, but not paid. Hope everyone is happy to run Adsense ads for free if they can get an approved Adsense account.
Complete statistics like impressions, clicks, CTR, eCPM and earnings (eCPM and earnings are those they could get if it were an approved account, right now, they are just displayed, but not paid).
After the trial period is over, users get notification through mail / Adsense reports page if their account is approved or not.
No need to change tags after approval, but if rejected, you are welcome to remove the tags.

What Google do behind the scene?

Algorithm + bots decide if an account needs to be approved. Bots can identify whether the content is suitable or inappropriate according to Adsense policies. Google in the mean time gets complete details about site traffic, demography, user behavior and other required stats which influence account approval process. Only in few particular cases, a staff review can be expected.

Your suggestions / views / ideas:

Though I don’t bother about number of comments I get on any post, I request every reader to post a comment below sharing your views on such Adsense Trial accounts. If the response is impressive, there may be chances that Google can implement this in later stages.

Note to readers: It takes some more time for me to return to normal tone of blogging as there is a major shift in my personal and professional life at this time. Meanwhile check out my new website Deadly Tips where you can share your tips which rolls out of your blog niche and get a link back

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Watch TV Channels Live Free Online – Anywhere Any Language

Pavan Kumar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:45:53 +0000

There are many times you would like to watch TV channels for free online in live streaming. There are many websites which serve for live broadcast of important international channels, but most such services are paid and those which are free won’t work all the time and many a times, you will see them out of service.

If you are interested to watch TV channels online for free, TVU networks is the best service for you. If you want to watch free TV channels online, you need to download their free TV software called TVU Player which is available for free download. Download, install and run the free TV software and you will be able to select which language channels you would like to tune into and get a long list of available in your language. You can not just watch international channels, you can watch any channel from any language of any country without any bounds or fees.

You can also make use of the channel search feature available with the software which enables you to search any available TV channel if you know the proper name. There is also an option to browse through different TV channels based on its category – like sports, news, movies etc.

It is also possible launch your own TV channels with the help of TVU network broadcasting all time with content which can vary from your own shoot of tourist / home video or the series of your favorite movies. All you need is just a high speed internet connection. You can also monetize the video broadcast with TVU and make some handsome money if you channel gains popularity.

TVU Player is available for Windows and Apple Mac and TVU Broadcast software is available for Windows and Linux, but you can try to run Windows software on Linux / Mac.

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How To Run Multiple WordPress Blogs with Single Installation

Pavan Kumar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:34:20 +0000

It is a very nice idea to run multiple blogs on various niches you can work on instead of messing up everything at the same place. At the same time its a pain to install WordPress for every blog, maintaining the various blogs, plugins, upgrades etc. There are few options for you to ease the process of managing multiple blogs with single installation.

1. WordPress MU

WordPress MU can be used along with a Domain Mapping Plugin with a workaround as illustrated here. Wordpress MU offers the same features as WordPress, but this facilitates you to build unlimited number of blogs and users. The most popular Wordpress.com blogging platform with hundreds of thousands of blogs work on the same WordPress multi user version of WP.

2. WP – Hive: WordPress Plugin

This is for those who run all the blogs alone. Like you are the only administrator of your entire blog network. WP-Hive is a WordPress plugin which enables you to run multiple blogs across multiple domains and subdomains (and NOT subdirectories as of now) with single installation core files, plugins and themes. This is a benefit as by upgrading your blog only once will move you out of all securty threats for the installed versions, but at the same time another problem may arise if the plugin loses its compatibility with new version of WP.

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