In addition to its content, a website’s layout and design play major roles in the website’s success. As a site visitor you would not want to visit a site that has the information at a different part of the page than you would prefer. Other things that you as a visitor might not be happy with are particular fonts used on a website, the colors and backgrounds used, and the borders of the tables. If you are facing such a problem on any website, one of the things you could do is send an email to the developer or fill…

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Imagine you have two forms of a sentence, both grammatically correct; how do you decide which one is the more appropriate option to go with? You could ask your English teacher or friends. Or you could get a little creative and Google both sentences; the one with the more search results will be the one mostly used by people. This could be helpful in determining the appropriate sentence. A website that provides this “Google” feature in a more convenient way is “Phras.in”. Phras.in is a free to use website that lets you compare two different sentences in the abovementioned Google…

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Video conversion software is quite abundant on the web. Normally they follow a simple rule: if it is freeware it supports conversion of only a few formats; and if it is a paid application it can handle most file format. But following its motto of “good software must free” Freemake has created a greatly useful video converter that in addition to being feature-rich, is also a freeware. Freemake Video Converter is a freeware sized at 10 MB and compatible with Windows operating systems. After you install the program, this is what it looks like: The program’s most basic feature is…

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Are you trying to locate a place you have not been before? Or perhaps you need to give your friends the directions to your house? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you could use maps. Maps are an excellent way to mark your position and locate where your destination is. Like many other things today, maps have been ported to the internet. If you are looking for a practical online maps tool, then Tinymap is definitely an option worth exploring. Tinymap is an online map service. It is completely free to use and it lets you view…

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If you have a very busy day ahead of you that demands you to complete many tasks, then a to-do list would be highly helpful. A lot goes on in our minds and it is easy to lose track of chores when our schedules are tight. To-do lists ensure that we don’t forget about the important things. By checking them, and checking off tasks, we can constantly monitor our day’s progress. To-do lists can be created online. One website that supports the creation of to-do lists is FIshMemory. FishMemory is a great website that can be used to form to-do…

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Having a small smartphone is fashionable. The smaller the phone, the easier it is to manage in your pockets. But with small phones, it is equally easy to misplace them. How many times have you misplaced your phone and not been able to find it when you most need it? The answer is probably “many times.” If you know that your phone is somewhere around you, then you can use your landline to call your cellphone and then follow the sound of cellphone’s ringtone and find your phone. But if you do not have a landline or a friend nearby…

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Today Apple announced the release of version 5.01 of their web browser, Safari. New in version 5.01 is support for extensions – 3rd party applications that add functionality to the software. Mozilla’s Firefox was the first browser to support extensions, with Google’s Chrome browser being the second major browser to support extensions. The announcement comes in context of quite a few recent changes to Apple’s Safari browser. The 5.x versions of Safari support HTML 5.0 (still a working draft from the W3C). Most notable is the support for the video tag, meaning that videos can be streamed without using an…

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Whenever you are online, there is one thing that you have to always be afraid about. Is somebody snooping? Today with progresses in technology, it is much easier to collect details from your computer, than it was a few years ago. This is why you have an array of anonymous proxies available today that helps you browse websites more securely. However, many a times you’re at the mercy of the proxy server to be running and using a proxy website means your website hidden under the banner of the proxy website. I have also tried other anonymous services that allow…

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