Many weeks back after much deliberation, I decided to give CloudFlare a shot. As they describe themselves… CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks….

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I’ve been using Contact Form 7 on all my WordPress blogs for a long time. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. I love the flexibility that Contact Form 7 offers in creating your own contact form. You can choose which form fields you want to add, which ones should be set to required. And, you can also allow your visitors to send you attachments. The spam filtering is pretty good and I’ve…

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Yesterday, we told you how to get your Outlook.com email. Outlook.com adds a great new feature that allows you to easily recover messages that you have deleted and here is how you go about this. Step 1 Select Options > More Email Settings as you can see in the screenshot above. You’ll notice the little options icon in the top right of your browser. Step 2: Under Customising Outlook, select Advanced privacy settings Step 3: Select Let me recover deleted message. With these 3 steps, you would have configured Outlook.com to give you the option to recover deleted messages. Step…

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I enjoy all web tools that let me create impressive cartoon icons and avatars. In these tools I particularly enjoy tools that let us create icons resembling the cartoons or animations we already know. For example I have been using and having fun with the Avatar icon creator, the South Park icon creator, and the Simpsons icon creator a lot. Creating an icon that looks like you as well as a popular cartoon often has amusing results that are fun to share with your friends. Adding to the list of these tools is the wonderful “Androidify.” <p style=”text-align: center”><img class=”size-full…

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Thanks to the internet we now have the convenience to call our friends and family members for free no matter where they are. For those who own an iPhone and would like to call their loved ones from any part of the world where they have access to a wifi connection they can use Tango! Tango is a brilliant free iPhone video calling service that connects people around the world with friends and family no matter where they are. A great thing about Tango is that it isn’t just limited to iPhone, it can also be used on iPod Touch, iPad…

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Being a blogger myself, I know how important it can be to size down images. I often have to resize images so that they fit within the site layout. But the problem with resizing images is keeping their quality intact. The quality almost invariably goes down each time you resize an image. Fortunately however, I have found a freeware program that has helped resize images while maintaining a picture quality that is viewable. This freeware is “Resize Magic.” Resize Magic is a freeware compatible with Windows computers. The freeware comes as a standalone application although it can also be downloaded…

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PDF documents are not designed for editing later. This is why modifying the information within a PDF document is inconvenient. If you have a PDF file that you need to edit, your best bet is to first convert the file into a Word document (DOC files) and then edit the text from within Microsoft Word. To convert your PDF files into easily editable DOC files, check out a web service called “PDF to Word Facebook Version.” PDF to Word Facebook Version is a simple to use web tool that works through Facebook. Only people with Facebook accounts can start using…

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Correcting mistakes on printed documents can become a tedious task if you do not have its digital copy. First you will need to make a digital copy by typing up the entire document in a text editor, and then editing it according to your needs. Thankfully however OCR technology allows us to recognize text from digital images and auto-create text files from them. One website that conveniently lets you use OCR technology is “Online OCR.” Online OCR is a free to use website that lets you upload a digital image of any document; text in the uploaded image is then…

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If you are operating multiple computers at your home or office, then you might be shifting a lot from one keyboard-mouse set to another. Since each computer has separate keyboard-mouse sets hooked to it, shifting is a necessity. However through the usage of a brilliant tool name Synergy Plus, you can use the same keyboard-mouse set on as many computers as you like. If you have multiple computers running connected via LAN, then Synergy Plus lets you control them all using a single keyboard-mouse set. IT professionals, in particular, will find this to be very helpful as it allows them…

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If you are a Google fan who uses the combination of Gmail on Chrome, then you must have come across many Chrome extensions that complement Gmail. Many of these are new email notification tools and are a great help to the Gmail user. However, sometimes the developer couples this simple function along with many of other Google’s service to produce a cluttered mesh. For a simple Gmail email notifications tool, give Gmail Notifier a try. Gmail Notifier is a browser extension for Google Chrome that works perfectly for all Gmail users. The extension is based on the much similar Google Mail…

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