Google’s Page Speed Online – suggestions to speed up your site

April 1, 2011 |  by  |  Google, Sites, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed Online is a new web-based tool that allows users to analyze sites at any time - in any browser. It offers tailored suggestions for how a user can optimize their site. It also features new Mobile Analysis, which lets developers analyze their site as viewed by a mobile browser, and get suggestions specific to mobile optimization. Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load

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HeyWire App now for Facebook allows users to send texts and tweets via SMS

March 31, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, Mobiles, News, Sites  |  1 Comment

HeyWire, a service developed by MediaFriends that offers a free SMS service is debuting its Facebook App that will allow Facebook users to send both texts and Tweets via SMS from within Facebook. Here’s how it works. Similar to other free texting apps, HeyWire users are given a real phone number to send and receive unlimited texts with friends and family worldwide. Users can send messages via the HeyWire Facebook App or the HeyWire apps for iOS and Android devices. Texting conversations actually follow users from the HeyWire Facebook App to their smartphone apps, which is useful. Unlimited texting with

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Summify Picks The Top 5 Articles You Should Read

March 31, 2011 |  by  |  Concepts, Sites  |  No Comments

Two Romanian hackers and entrepreneurs Cristian Strat and Mircea Pasoi who are passionate about technology and Internet startups started ReadFu which later called Summify. Summify is a service that creates a periodic summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks viz Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader aggregated and de-duplicated in one place, and delivers it by email. Only the good stuff is delivered Summify distills the social web, boiling down the torrent of daily information into a summary of the top five (by default) most important and relevant stories that day. You can change the

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Skype Launches a Network for Teachers

March 30, 2011 |  by  |  News, Sites  |  No Comments

Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms. It is created in response to – and in consultation with – the growing number of teachers using Skype to help their students learn. It's designed to help like-minded teachers find each other and share inspiration and resources. About Skype in the classroom Teachers all over

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Worlds largest indoor photo – 4000 megapixels

March 29, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff, Sites  |  No Comments

This phenomenal 360-degrees photo which is actually created from 3,000 individual photos stitched together into a single image that is 280,000 x 140,000 pixels. That's around 40 gigapixels, or 4000 megapixels. If you printed this photo it would be 23 meters (or 78 feet) long! Using a Canon 550D and 200mm lens; print size 23m x 11m; stitched file size 280GB; cut into 85,000 tiles for web delivery. To control this image, use the controls on the screen or click and hold your mouse button on the photo, and move your mouse around. To zoom in and out, use your mouse

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Amazon unveils Amazon Cloud Drive, Cloud Player for Web, and Cloud Player

March 29, 2011 |  by  |  android, Cool Stuff, News, Sites  |  No Comments

Amazon.com have introducing Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web, and Amazon Cloud Player for Android today. These services enable customers to securely store music in the cloudand play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are. Customers can easily upload their music library to Amazon Cloud Drive and can save any new Amazon MP3 purchases directly to their Amazon Cloud Drive for free. "We're excited to take this leap forward in the digital experience," said Bill Carr, vice president of Movies and Music at Amazon. "The launch of Cloud Drive, Cloud Player for Web and

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Win An iPad2 shoot a video using IM+

March 29, 2011 |  by  |  Apple, Cool Stuff, Gadgets, Sites  |  No Comments

Here is a chance to grab brand new 16GB iPad 2 WiFi for free just download any of the free or paid versions of IM+ shoot a video of yourself chatting in IM+! Then, post it to YouTube and email us the link and your contact information to contest@shapeservices.com for your chance to win a brand new 16GB iPad 2 WiFi! No purchase necessary to enter this contest. Users may enter this contest by using any version of IM+ available for download from iTunes App Store or ShapeServices Shoot a video of yourself using IM+ in an unusual or funny way,

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BlogBard – Changes blog text to speech

March 28, 2011 |  by  |  Blogging, Sites  |  No Comments

BlogBard is a free service where you can listen to blogs instead of reading. It converts the text blog into speech which can then be listened on ipod, iphone, smartphone or table. It offer two ways to add the blogs you want to listen - 1. Search for your favorite blog in the search box given on the homepage.(Enter keywords, blog name or the RSS/ATOM blog feed url.) 2. Listen to blogs in your Google Reader, or Bloglines account, by logging in through our website. How to add voice to your blog, follow two steps given below- 1. Listen to

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The value of being LinkedIn- Infographic

March 27, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff, Sites  |  No Comments

LinkedIn recently passed 100 million users (its population is bigger than most countries). LinkedIn is one of the fastest growing social networking sites in the world. While its numbers pale in comparison with Facebook and Twiiter, catering to business professionals give it an unique advantage. Seeking to capitalize on its growing notoriety, owners recently decided to take the company public, filling for an IPO last month. LinkedIn has become an essential networking tool for professionals across all demographics. While the comparisons to Facebook are inevitable, the way people use LinkedIn to connect to others reach a different market. But how do you

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Bit.ly unveils new mobile site

March 19, 2011 |  by  |  Mobiles, News, Sites  |  No Comments

Bit.ly has unveiled new mobile site which will allow tablet and smartphone users to shorten, share and track links on the go. The HTML5 optimized version of Bitly’s webite is cross-platform so it works on a variety of devices, including the iPad, iPhone and Android devices. The mobile site includes a number of mobile-centric features that make the site easier to use. 1. If you shorten a link while your phone isn’t connected to the internet, Bitly will save the link and shorten it when you have internet connectivity. 2. Hold down on any link in your bitly history

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