KIDTECHGURU

Proper understanding is one of the key ingredients of good and effective communication. Understanding determines whether or not people would understand the things you want to convey. This is true not only in public communication but in all aspects of communication, even in written discourse. With that being said, we must see to it that we make people understand what we say so that our efforts in trying to communicate with them will not be in vain. If you are a writer and you write about things that are not that common to people, you must at least take into consideration the wide variety of readers that might have an access to your work and by that, you need to make them feel that understanding your work is not that hard at all.

At www.rockthepost.com, business ideas, usually hard to understand, are made easy to be comprehended by people who have the mind and the heart to get involved in such field. This serves as a place where people talk about business and try to understand one another. This is an example of technical aid for better understanding as it was created to make sure that people from any walk of life understand this one difficult field. It helps every one of us, even those who don’t plan to get involved in business, understand what business is.

If you’re using Windows Live Messenger, you’ll know that it’ll automatically stores your chat history in your computer so that you can access them anytime you want and find out what you’ve said a few weeks ago. That sounds quite useful but here’s a better tool.

IM History is a desktop app that helps users store their chat history online and allows them to view and access them online on their Web browsers using a one-click access from their PCs. Currently, IM History supports multiple IMs such as AIM, Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Pidgin, Miranda, Trillian, QIP, etc.

Before you IM History records your chat logs, you can upload and merge existing history archives. The impressive search feature enables you to search for chat logs by bookmarks and links, word/phrase or by contact. You can even create a metacontact for your multi-IM chat buddies or edit the contact details.

There are tons of website value calculators out there on the web and none of them are special to me – just taking into account of basic features such as technorati authority rank, alexa rank, Google Pagerank, number of backlinks from major search engines, website history and many more. Some of these estimators include WebsiteValueCalculator, YourWebsiteValue and Dane Carloson’s project using Technorati API.

You might have heard one of them before but there is one new start-up called Stimator which really impressed me at first look especially its wonderful interface. Touted as a “A Real-Time Website Value Estimator”, this free tool enables you to find out how much your website is worth by grabbing data from multiple sources such as the stock market taken from Yahoo Finance (I don’t think any developer have implemented this great idea).

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If you don’t have any Adobe software to manipulate your PDF documents, then I would suggest you to head to MergePDF which helps you combine multiple PDF files together for free and quickly. Since it comes free, it definitely has some limitations such as a maximum of 10 input files and individual file size must be 5MB.

Also, all uploaded files are immediately removed from the database after you’ve downloaded your combined PDF document due to security issues. MergePDF comes in handy especially if you access PDF documents frequently and sometimes when people send you a file in different parts, you can easily merge it using this useful and simple tool.

Another alternative tool is the popular PDFHammer. Not only does it provides a similar feature of merging documents, it’s also a web-based application that helps users re-arrange pages in any way you want and delte individual pages.

The world’s most popular free desktop mapping software – Google Earth, said on Monday that there are releasing an advanced 3-D mapping technology that enables users or even geographers to explore the amazing underwater world as if you’re swimming. The folks there said that you can even swim through undersea canyons as deep as the Mariana Trench and encounter creatures like a critically endangered, prehistoric fish called the coelacanth.

To starting using this new feature, you would have to head to the Google Earth website and download the Google Earth 5.0 beta. Next, put a check mark next to the ‘Oceans’ layer in the Google Earth software.

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Want to make your tweet stands out in your followers’ timeline, well some Twitterers would capitalize several words to emphasis it or just the first letter of each word. Here’s another useful tip that helps your followers to notice your tweets much easier. That is by inserting cool characters such as a heart shape, an aeroplane, happy face and even the rook, knight and pawn symbols found in the International chess.

Known as TwitterKeys, you can select from over 100 different characters from this collection and copy and paste it in your tweet. It’s developed by Boris and Sander of The Next Web.

Most of you might have heard of iStock which features a large collection of stock photography. Of course, you would have to pay for them if you want the watermark to be removed. It doesn’t comes cheap – prices range from $1 to $27. If you don’t want to burn a hole in your pocket to get these images, then I would suggest you to try out a website called Photl.

It provides exclusive high resolution images and was touted as the “the owner and distributor of the largest collection of exclusive free photos”. You might wonder if it’s illegal to download these photos but as the founder explains on the site “All the photo images are subject to extended license on usage (Extended Royalty Free). They are absolutely free and are intended to be used in commercial activity.”

Comes in eight different languages, Photl enables you to search for stock photos which are taken by professional photographers. Users can filter their search by selecting the colors they particularly want and sort the results by number of downloads and date of download. This free service only limits up to 45MB but I bet you’ll hit the target easily as the photos there have large sizes. You can select three different sizes before you download (small – 1280X1024, medium – 1920X1440 and large – 4368X2912).

Photl also makes you search experience a better one by showing you the related keywords to your search. This allows you to browse similar images.

If you want to know how “hot” or “cold” on Twitter, you can head to Twitemperature and find out so. Twitempeature is a special start-up that measures the “temperature” of your interaction in the microblogging community and taking into consideration of what tweets you post rather than the number of followers or updates you’ve.

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How to get more visitors? The content below are simple tips to help you promote your contents. Maybe you have used some of them, and also there should be some tips you have ignored. In this post, you can know a lot of promoting ways. Before you read below, you should know that web promoting is a long-time process, you should have target and plan, and also should be ready for doing this.

1. Add title for every webpage

Add a 5-8 words title for every webpage. The title should be simple and short, and make sure it can represent the most important content. Title will be displayed as a link in search engine results, so you need to attract the visitors via writing a attractive title. Also, you need to add your website name in title and a few important keywords. All webpages should have different title.

2. Add description via META tag

Beside title, search engines are interested in META tag too. This is a description to describe the contents. And also you can add some keywords into META tag. But now META tag seems not really useful, but SEOers often do this.

3. Add your keywords in bold font

Search engines attach importance to bold font text, because text in bold means important content. So make sure add a few keywords in bold font, and try not to use image as title. Remember, add a few<> tags will be helpful, but add a lot of them will be dangerous.

4. Make sure your keywords in the first paragraph

Search engines hope that they can find a few keywords in first paragraph. Google loves the webpage which is in every 100 words there are 1.5-2 keywords. Other place you can put your keywords in to ALT or COMMENT properties.

5. Navigator must be clear enough

Some webmasters like to use frame or iframe in webpages, that is a serious problem for search engine. Although search engine can find your content page, they may cannot find your navigator to find more. If you use Javascript or even Flash in navigator design, though the navigator will be very beautiful and wonderful, the search engine cannot deal with these types of navigators. You can add another navigator in links at footer of webpages. Also, some spiders do not like dynamic pages with arguments, so you need to try to avoid link to URL with “?”, and you can use urlrewrite instead.

6. Create special pages for a few important keywords

SEOers do not recommend to use bridge pages to cheat search engines, these pages will let the whole website be in danger. But you can create some special pages include different keywords or key phrases. For example, you do not need to introduce all your services or products in one page, you can use many pages to do this, so that every page can have its independent keyword.

7. Submit your website to search engines

It seems not very useful at present, but if your website is really good and search engines have not capture your website, you should submit by yourself. Remember, do not use any software to submit your website automatically, that is unhelpful and dangerous.

8. Adjust your main content to get better rank

You can change the most important pages or default page and let them get better rank. Some software can help you to check your rank, and compare your rank with other websites in keywords.

9. Submit your website to main directories

Make sure your website is in Open Directory, this directory provides contents to main search engines. It is very important for Google.

10. Be professional

Make sure your website has a focus, like Education or Finance, because professional website can have a lot of fixed visitors and target customers. You can submit your website to professional Yellow-Page system, that is useful sometimes.

11. Request the links exchange

You can ask some similar websites for exchanging links. The best choice should not be the big traffic websites because the webmasters will ignore you, you can consider about smaller websites. Friend-link should be an independent page. Remember, notice the quality of target website.

12. Write articles with your website address

You can write some free articles and publish them to professional news websites, you can use short description about your website to promote it. You can get a lot of links if you can successfully do that.

13. Print your website address on Name Cards, Printings, Books, etc

That’s a traditional way but it is really useful sometimes, make sure your domain is easy to remember.

14. Promote via traditional media advertisements

Traditional media should not be given up. Both newspapers and magazines are really helpful for you if you can show your website address on them. Please put your website as add-ons, to remind the reader to find more at your website. Professional magazines are even better, because the target readers are fixed.

15. Provide free services

Everyone love free services. Free services can help you to attract more people to visit your website. Create free services need a lot of time or money, but they are really helpful to promote your website. For example, provide free mail services, free information publish, or any other things you want. Something special or interesting will be even better.

16. Publish some news

Find some valuable event about your website, like interviews about you. You can publish them on your website. Or even create some news about your website and publish them to news media.

17. Add a footer in all your e-mails

Most of the E-Mail systems support to add signatures, they will add as footer of all the mails you have sent. Add signatures about your website can help the recipient to find you.

18. Create mail list and send mails to your users like news or promotions

That is the best way to let your users know more about your website. You can ask your users to submit their E-Mail addresses for you to send these mail, you can use mail list to make it easier. But remember, do not send any SPAMs!

19. Organize A Contest

Why not hold contest? It can attract a lot of visitors and try to let the prizes be amazing. The prizes can be promotions or your products, that is really useful to get more visitors.

20. Ask your visitors to add your website in bookmark

You can add a bookmark icon on your default page, it will be easier for visitors to add your website, but you should never force to do this.

21. Exchange advertisements

Just like exchange links, but you should exchange the banners, size can be much larger than links.

22. Paid for advertisements of search engine

If you need, you can pay for advertisements, the best choice for ads is search engine, because search engines sell attentions from visitors. You can use CPM or CPC for your ads.

23. Paid Placement

Another PPC mode from search engines, nearly all search engines have this service except for google, you can pay for a better place or rank.

24. Submit your website to ‘compare and purchase’ websites

It is a easy way to promote your products, but if your websites do not sell anything, you can ignore this tip.

That’s all. 24 simple tips, if you can do all of them, you are doing a successful social-network marketer!

Besides playing with the pricey Adobe Photoshop to edit a portratit of yourself to become a smart or beautiful one, I know that there are many free tools out there on the net that enables you to do so too.

One of them is Moonjee. It’s a free, user-friendly and entertainment-oriented Web 2.0 application geared towards the younger adult audience. The company’s flagship solution, Make a Face™, provides an easy way to easily upload portraits, transform facial features, blend and analyze faces and share creations with friends.

Under the “Make a Face” section, you can customize the look of the face to a funny, ugly/attractive, young/old, male/female one. By combining multiple faces, you can find the average look of the face or even shows you the face of the baby. If you’re artistic, adding a mask or tattoo on the portrait is also possible.

Currently, the folks there are coming up with a funny face widget and several other Moonjee widgets, which will increase CPMs and user engagement teamed with Glam Media. Currently, the Moonjee users are engaged in the Moonjee website for an average of 12 minutes – where they can upload their own face and transform it in creative ways.