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How To Create Album Art For iTunes

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:56 +0000

There are many music lovers out there who are always busy downloading music to update their collection of iTunes. iTunes is a very popular software application which people have been using all around the world for maintaining a digital collection of music. But many of those find problem while managing the songs downloaded by them. Now have you ever thought of downloading other application which can solve this problem of yours? If no then give it a thought and start using web application called art4itunes which will prove quite beneficial in keeping your songs in a systematic order. With this web application you can find cover art for the itunes present in your collection.

Create Album Art for iTunes in four simple steps -

Step 1: Export Song List as plain text from iTunes

iTunes 8: Select a playlist, then click File > Library > Export Playlist (use Plain Text)
iTunes 7 and older: Select your ‘Music’ library, then click File > Export… (use Plain Text)

Step 2: Upload song list below in the motioned field

Step 3: Album covers and track listings will be displayed for your iTunes music collection!

Step 4: Drag and drop the album covers onto the image box in iTunes.

I am sure after getting to know about this you might want to give this a try. But it would be better if you have some preliminary knowledge about the application so that handling it becomes easy for you. There are different ways by which you can get a cover art for your albums by making use of art4itunes. One way which is easy in comparison to other one is to use software available on the website which helps you in getting cover art automatically. It takes very less time and you do not have to export the lists of songs when using it.

But if you are a perfectionist and want everything to be done properly then other way is best suitable for you. In this you have to visit the homepage of the web application where you will be asked to export the list of songs for which you want to obtain a cover art. After exporting the list you have to upload it. Once both the things are done cover art and titles will be displayed for your music collection. You can choose anyone which you find the best. After using art4itunes managing songs will become an easy task for you.

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10 Tips To Become Social Without Using Social Media

Nikita Porwal — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:02:29 +0000

A famous writer once said, “Getting social is a cup of tea of an extrovert.” Therefore always try from your end to be an extrovert. An introvert can never be a great social person. If any of the following questions is hindering your mind then follow the tips given further. Are you in mood of making your social circle? We are all social beings and like to spend time with others, right? If you want to improve your social skills, then it is better that you start with yourself. To become social, you must take positive actions along with your extrovert nature. Although social media has given us great opportunities to get social with world around, yet there are many places where you need to be social without social media. With that in honeytechblog shares Top 10 Tips to become social without using social media, which is sure to help!

1.Remove Shyness

First tip of getting social is removing shyness from your end. Never be shy in any matters and see the crystal results.

2.Eye Contact

Make an eye contact. First of all to be social you need to have self-confidence. Without this virtue, you will not be able to believe in yourself

3.Conversation

Talk part in conversation with friends and relatives. Try to talk to the people around you. To start with you can take part in conversations about subjects in which you are familiar with. You can ask questions or tell jokes to become a part of the conversation.

4.Hang-in or Hang-out

You have to give your effort to become social. If you are alone at home, then try to give a call to your friends and relatives. If they are free, you can ask them to come over to your place.

5.Interact

Try to mix up with others. During office or school lunch hours you can sit with a group of your classmates and colleagues and have your lunch. You can also ask them to share your lunch with them. To become social you need to interact with more than one or two friends

6.Talk About Our Self

We all love to talk about our self. You can ask people to tell something about themselves and share their experiences on a particular topic. You can draw out their interests and ask further questions on them. If they share their sorrows with you do sympathize with them. Moreover, if others ask you to speak about yourself do not hesitate to do so. Rather share your experiences and interests with them.

7.Extra Curricular Activities

Take part in various competitions like sports, cultural or any competitions or probably one that you are already good at.

8.Party Animal

Do not turn down any invitation offer. If your friend has invited you for any party celebrations try to accept the offer. It is the best way to tell others that you like the company of others. You can also invite others to your home.

9.Be An Optimistic

Try to be an optimistic. People like to spend time with optimistic people rather than wasting time with so called pessimists who are always upset with this world. You must try to find out ways to be happy and always be positive.

10.Genuine Compliment To Others

To begin the conversation you can always compliment people. Irrespective of age, people like to get compliment. Moreover, it is also a great conversation-starter.

Bonus

Making your conversation interesting is by knowing about others and doing things or favor for others can help in building your social status.

Great socializes make other people feel contented and interesting. How do they do that? By being really getting legitimately fascinated in other people, if you are talking to someone and you feel boring or inferior, ask yourself the reason. Is it really all your accountability? Perhaps yes, because all you need is to become social by yourself and not by force! Getting social will not only bring up your social status but will also boost your confidence, which is the ladder to any success in life!

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50 Inspiring Book Cover Designs

Nikita Porwal — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:58:12 +0000

There is a huge effort involved in writing a book, be it any kind. But whether the book will lead the market or not largely depends on the book cover design. Because people do judge a book by its front and back cover most of the time. In fact, a book cover’s design could be the influential factor in how the book could perform in the marketing stage, and a tasteless bland cover design would certainly not do you any kind. So one need to go for a professionally crafted book cover design and should be designed by an expert graphic designer who actually knows the book business.

Only an expert designer can make your book stand out from the crowd. Before concluding on any graphic designer or illustrator make sure you discuss lot of important things such as theme, direction and audiences you wish to target, so that he/she can understand your perspective on this better. Of course, there are many hidden aspects on which designers need to work on and those could be time-consuming as well. Some of the books available on the market are really inspiring, so we at honeytechblog did a search on Top 50 inspiring book cover designs which are designed in an excellent way.

1. American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent

2. Brute Souls Happy Beasts And Evolution by Rod Preece

3. Can They Do That by Lewis Maltby

4. Clown Girl by Monica Drake

5. Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg

6. Customs of the Kingdoms of India by Marco Polo

7. Day in Day Out by Terezia Mora

8. Death in the Andes by Morio Vargas Llosa

9. Doctrines and Visions by Noam Chomsky

10. The Error World by Simon Garfield

11. Forgetting Things by Sigmund Freud

12. Freakonomics by Steven d. Levitt

13. Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang

14. In Defence of English Cooking by George Orwell

15. Keep Your Head Down by Doug Anderson

16. King Arthur in the East Riding by Simon Armitage

17. Missing Men by Joyce Johnson

18. Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes

19. Never Trust a Thin Cook by Eric Dregni Dregni

20. On Shopping by India Knight

21. On Seeing and Noticing by Alain de Bottom

22. Payback by Margaret Atwood

23. Peace by Richard Bausch

24. Salt by Jeremy Page

25. Sedaris by Kevin Kopelson

26. Send Me by Patrick Ryan

27. Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley

29. The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells

29. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F.Scott Fitzgerald

30. The Economics of Innocent Fraud by John Kenneth Galbraith

31. The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell

32. The Lumberman’s Frontier by Thomas R. Cox

33. The Open Road by Pico Iyer

34. The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

35. The Queen in Hell Close by Sue Townsend

36. The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn

37. The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo

38. The Snobs by Muriel Spark

39. The Weight of Nothing by Steven Gillis

40. Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo

41. Two Stars by Paul Theroux

42. We Meet by Kenneth Patchen

43. We Saw The Light by Daniel Kane

44. What is All This by Stephen Dixon

45. When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale

46. Where I Was by James Kelman

47. Who is Conrad Hirst by Kevin Wignall

48. Why Look at Animals by John Berger

49. Wonderful World by Javier Calvo

50. Yummy by Lusy Cousins

We hope you found the above stuff inspiring and you might also like Top 50 Inspirational Web Designer’s Portfolios. Also do let us know, which of the book cover you found interesting via comment. You can add Honeytechblog on Facebook and follow us on twitter as well!

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A Comparative Study On LCD TV

Nikita Porwal — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:16:33 +0000

We all wish to grab as much information as possible when it comes to buying something new, especially when something is really expensive and important. Right there, we need to do a little more digging before buying, take for example LCD TV. LCD TVs, with the decreasing price tag and better performing features are quickly becoming a very desirable alternative to typical CRT set. It does carry some great advantages over Plasma TVs like lower power consumption and no burn in for static displays, which are vital features. No doubts, that LED TVs are better in terms of picture quality, but while looking at the high price tag we feel LCD TVs are the best option available today.

However, before you crack the latest deal on LCD TV, do some homework on what kind of LCD you require. Be precise on the few things such as Native Pixel Resolution, Scaling, Motion Response Time, Contrast Ratio, Brightness, Viewing Angle, Tuner and other Connection Considerations. If you are new then search for a decent LCD TV buying guide then decide further. The next perplexing thing one would face is to decide, which Company LCD TV to buy? There are hundreds of companies looking out to sell their product to you, but when looking for best try your hands on with top companies.

To reduce your work a little on deciding which company to go for, we at honeytechblog have done a comparative study on LCD TV from best companies. Right now, Samsung is the ruling star in the market when it comes to LCD, yet there are other brilliant firms such as LG, Sony, and Panasonic accessible in the market. This is general un-biased comparison that will help your way to best company LCD showroom.

Sales Ratio

When you look at the sales ratio over all, Samsung is the top seller of LCD TV; it sold 2.6 million units of LCD televisions in 2009. Sony is the close competitor, where as we have LG on the third place. So if you want to go by top selling product then go with Samsung LCD TV.

Design

Samsung definitely know what it takes to build up a real stylish product. The company has enormous work to build distinctive style product such as LN55B650 55″ 1080p LCD HDTV and other. It comes with smashing good looks, Touch of Color™ design and DLNA technology means you can harness your entire home network through your HDTV. When it comes to design, also look at the stylish LCD Monitor like Samsung SyncMaster T220 they built, I think they are truly the industry lead in designing aspect.

Technology

Top selling might by Samsung, but Sony LCD TV technology are better. This goes well, for people who do not mind spending few hundred dollars extra for getting better features than Samsung. If you wish to get great TV Experience and do not want compromise with the price, then the Sony is a great option with advance technology. Sony TV’s are beyond doubt great for your viewing experience. They have the most technologically advanced equipments and the Latest innovations always ready for you.

Features

This is a very debatable topic, while it is clear that Samsung LCDs are better studded with features than LG TV, on the other hand Sony could be a tough competition. Of course, Sony comes with advanced technology, but Samsung can fetch you similar features at much lower rate. So we prefer going with Samsung again.

Picture Quality

Picture quality usually varies with model to model of any manufacture you go for. It purely depends on the setting you have for the TV. But on the bottom line, personally I like to go with Samsung LCD TVs as they offer great picture quality.

Audio Quality

Audio usually depends on person to person, some of them believe in going for one particular brand. But LG have huge market for speakers and they build better sound quality than other companies. In fact, you get great audio experience with LG and Phillips.

Price

We all look for something specific when buying LCD TV, it could be great design, features, picture quality or audio quality. But at the end we have to work out on price tag. So it merely depends on your budget when buying one, but according the sales ratio we can figure out that Samsung LCDs are best and more sold. For example, Samsung LCD TVs ranges about $280 for a 22-inch screen and for Sony you would pay about $400 for a 19-inch screen approximately.

Customer Service

Customer service is better with LG and Sony when compared to Samsung. So make sure you speak about it with the shop keeper before you make a buying decision.

Conclusion

Comparing these giants is not easy as they all are industry lead and rule in one way or other. In fact, we feel deciding which one is better than other depends more on one’s personal preference than anything else as we only know what kind of product to conclude on. However, when you do not want to shed extra dollars, then Samsung is a great preference. After all, value for money for this company is more than anything you could achieve from other brand. Your price will be justifiable with Samsung. Happy Shopping.

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Top 50 Sites To Watch Free Online Videos

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:42:55 +0000

Gone are those days when we had to wait long to catch up our favorite show or a movie trailer on Television. Today online video is the newest trend in media and increasingly people are getting involved to watch anything they wish. Watching online videos are exploding around us and thanks to Internet for giving us a very amazing way to experience news and entertainment. According to an interesting post shared last year by mediapost, a whopping 158 million U.S. Internet users — or 80% of the nation’s online population — watched online video. And of course the figure is rising each day, in fact the success of sites such as YouTube over few years has helped open the door for those who desire easy access to watch and share videos over the internet. Most people get their hands on YouTube or Google Videos to catch videos, but then there are many other alternatives that can offer great videos too. So with that in mind, honeytechblog has segregated the Top 50 sites to watch free online videos in terms of music, movies, educational, TV and news.

Top 10 Sits To Watch Free Music Videos Online

Music is everywhere, it permeates our world. Everyone knows music has power and is importance in everybody’s life. So if you are looking to watch music videos online then check out the below sites that provide music video fans with a high quality experience to watch favorite videos and discover new artists.

1. MTV

2. AOL Music

3. Yahoo Music

4. Vh1

5. Artistdirect

6. Yallwire

7. In

8. Roxwel

9. Blastro

10. MySpace Music

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free Movies Online

Did you miss your latest movie release at theater? No worries, you can catch it over few interesting sites that offer you to watch full movies online. In fact, watching movies online is the ultimate way to enjoy a movie because it’s instant, you can watch a movie on your giant HD flat screen, or on your laptop while sipping your favorite drink at a local coffee shop – or while travelling. So check back to the following sites when looking to improve your movie watching experience.

1. IMBD

2. Google Video

3. Hulu

4. Veoh

5. Dailymotion

6. Metacafe

7. Onlinewatchmovies

8. Joost

9. Movies-on-demand

10. Babelgum

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free Educational Videos Online

Everybody needs to watch educational videos when they truly want to learn something. Because when you watch something and learn, it comes out better than reading materials. Following are sites that offer you best educational videos across the web. They have everything from tutorials for kids to graphics designer to just about anything.

1. Educationalvideos

2. Archive

3. Brainpop

4. Nationalgeographic

5. Fora

6. Videojug

7. Learner

8. Greenenergyty

9. Neok12

10. PBS Video

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free Online TV

Missing favourite television show due to various reasons is a common thing. But no more as you can catch the repeat telecast of it via various following sites. Online video search engine has created a better way for people to search, discover, and watch their favourite TV show online. So make sure you come back to the following site when desire to watch Television shows online.

1. YouTube

2. Freetvonline

3. Surfthechannel

4. Chooseandwatch

5. History

6. Videosurf

7. Blinkx

8. Tvshack

9. Letmewatchthis

10. Free-tv-vidoe-online

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free News Online

We all wish to get updated about latest news around the world, but we should have reliable source for it. Below given sites are especially dedicated to offer you latest news across the world and which are reliable too. You can watch news videos online in about all categories such as tech, politics and business.

1. Abcnews

2. BbcNews

3. Cnn

4. Cbsnews

5. Foxnews

6. Ndtv

7. Thedailytube

8. Forbes

9. Ctv

10. Thecurrentaffairs

We hope you have a great experience visiting these videos sites and also let us know if we missed some of your favorite online video sharing sites. Meanwhile, you can follow us on Twitter and subscribe for our RSS feed to get update on each post of honeytechblog!

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Top 10 Tips To Enhance Personal Branding

Nikita Porwal — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:59:37 +0000

Personal branding has been one of the biggest trends in 2009 and one that is probably to play an indispensable role in 2010. Yet, even as everyone agrees on its importance and that it is fast growing, very few people could actually master the art. Most people mistake personal branding as to build better product, but it is actually to build better perception of yours among others. That’s because when you are online, your presence is important and people will judge accordingly whether you like it or not. So you really need to care about other’s perception about you as a brand. And most people also think personal branding is difficult, but if you believe in your skills and ability – it becomes easier for you to sell your brand. The basis of personal branding is that success doesn’t come from personal development or hard work. Instead, personal branding proponents claim that success comes from self-packaging with needed skills.

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First everyone should understand that personal branding is just not a buzz word or a way for self-promotion today. It is process by which we can market ourselves to other and this can be done not only by famous celebrities, but also by every individual online. In other words, your personal brand is who you are, what you do, and your leading quality in the eyes of your ideal target market. Through social networks or social media you can get in touch with tons of people and this network will help you build your brand. Today there are ton of social media tools available to help you achieve incredible heights in no time and each one should understand the process to master it. With that in mind, honeytechblog today shares Top 10 Things To Do To Master Personal Branding to achieve your desirable success.

1. Select Niche

Personal brand in nutshell, is nothing but who you are and so it becomes important for you to select a niche for your persona. To separate yourself from the rest of the crowd, create your own niche that increases your visibility and preserve your reputation. Your selected niche should involve the application of one’s name to various products. For example, celebrity real-estate mogul Donald Trump uses his last name extensively on his buildings and on the products he endorses (e.g., Trump Steaks). When branding yourself bear in mind that you must create a strong and reliable brand.

2. Identify Your Positives

Never be weak at your mission, you need to build up goals that can be achieved in a particular time. And for that you need to identify your positives and forget what is negative. Set up you goals and write down your mission statement along with a development plan on how to go about. Your statement must tell everyone what you do and who you serve. Note down some inborn skills that match up to your personal mission. Perfect, cultivate and grow these talents to move ahead.

3. Be Precise and Clear

It is obvious that you want all the business you can possibly get your hands on but that is not how to grow a strong and reliable for long time. You need to specialize. You cannot certainly be all things to all people. You must be precise and clear about that one particular niche that will serve your audience neatly. Don’t run behind ten different things and lose your precious clients. Accept the fact, if you might be good at one particular thing and perform that well, so that you never miss any opportunity to grab your audience. It is ok to be narrowed down than to be dumped.

4. Establish Yourself In Chosen Niche

The key to productively branding yourself and doing it successfully is to first establish yourself as an expert in your chosen field. Once you have done that concentrate on who you are and what you stand for within your selected niche. Your next step will be getting the word out through a variety of social media channels that are viewed by the people most likely to be interested in your message.

5. Let People Locate You Easily

Now that you established in your niche, you should allow people to locate you easily. Create social profiles at Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and more, so that you are spread all over, so audience can locate you easily. But make sure you maintain your social profiles, otherwise your whole brand can go for a toss. Use business cards and email letters to strength your brand identity. Highlight your personal brand message with professional marketing communications tools. Every email message gives you a direct chance to connect your personal brand with a new company or individual.

6. Build Your Reputation

Building strong reputation is the most important thing you could do to maintain your brand. Create your own personal branding website with your domain name, so that when web surfers and other employers search your name, they get information about your career history, personal information and educations qualifications. Build a solid personal brand with online activities which will further promote your personal mission and emphasize your career success optimistically.

7. Explore Your Audience

Audience is what we need the most to build up personal brands, they are the people that would pay attention to your work and also spread the good work around. So if you trying yourself to wrong hands, and then certainly it will be a waste of time. You must locate what consumers and companies will be interested in what you have to offer. Your audience should be your niche group of people and you must try by all means to give them as much value as you can sooner or later.

8. Locate Your Competitor

This field today is too competitive to rest on your laurels. You should make sure that your name remains in consumers mind when they need you, may be in next six month or later. You cannot assume that they would remain your loyal buyers if you fail to keep your relationship current with them and your competitors will grab your buyer. So locate who is your competitor and stay ahead of them without trying to break their status.

9. Monitor Your Brand

A personal brand is just like an exotic sports car, where you cannot afford to let it run at top speed without any maintenance. If you do so, it would burn itself up. Likewise, in personal branding you got to regularly monitor your brand to keep it relevant, alert, emotionally connected with audience and to be different from the competitor. It is all about seizing every opportunity to meet someone new and maintain the pace with it.

10. Content Is Still The King

People enjoy reading fresh and relevant content, which is unique or in some way special to them. So to do this, you should customize your pitch to fit their preferences. Using social media – Twitter, Facebook or Social bookmarking sites, you can spread your information online and make connection with like-minded people. Write articles and blogs that can augment audience’s knowledge about your brand in the industry.

Of course the most important factor here is trust! You must build trust with your audience, just think about service provider in your own life – be it your manager, your hair stylist or your account – all get your business because they carry good relationship with you, and that counts in so far as the service they provide. Try building personal rapport with the things you and your audience have in common. Bottom line is trust; your consumer/buyer must trust you emphatically!
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Top 10 Reliable Free Batch Image Resizer and Processor

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:19:06 +0000

The most practical and fast solution is what we look for in anything we do today. Because we have less time and resources, so we need make the best of what is available. But at times we tend to lose quality in urge of getting done things faster and land up in something we may not really like. Hence if you get reliability, steadiness and quicker way of performing act, it would be great. Same applies to any kind of softwares available, you use them to save time and at the same time it should produce satisfied results, without compromising on quality.

Especially if you happen to be a web designer or developer, then dealing with converting images to various sizes could be of headache. Converting them to different sizes is a necessary and the result should be best at the end. So doing it hand by hand is of course not feasible for hundreds of thousands of images. Here using batch image processor can help doing hours of work in few clicks and in almost no time. With most of the batch image resizer and processor you resize, rotate, and convert pictures easily. They offer compatibly with most formats such as JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and more others.

On the other hand, such software also helps in our day to day life when it comes to sharing photos over social networks or others. High resolution pics could consume lot of your time to send it over emails. So, here at honeytechblog we have listed Top 10 reliable batch image resizer and processor that can resize and process image files, along with supported formats, and dramatically reduce internet transfer times, enabling you to quickly and easily prepare your image collections to be published on the web.

1. ImageBatch

ImageBatch is a free lightweight batch converter for images, based on LibGD graphic library. Currently supported image formats are JPEG, PNG and GIF. With ImageBatch you can resize, crop, rotate, flip your images and draw watermarks on them. Watermarks could be based on user text or user image. ImageBatch is expected to work under any Windows platform, starting from Windows 95. Installation is not required and supports Windows for now. It is really easy to use – you just choose working directory, filetypes, setup operation setttings and press “Start” then. After that, execution process could be stopped at any time, using “Stop” button of progress dialog.

2. Fotosizer

Fotosizer is a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps – 1. Photo selection, 2. select resize settings, then 3. Start the resize! With Fotosizer, you can shrink JPEG image files, along with other supported formats, and considerably reduce internet transfer times, enabling you to quickly and easily prepare your image collections to be published on the web. It also helps you unlock the photos from your digital camera. Use Fotosizer to batch resize your photos making it easier and faster to email to friends, upload to photo sharing websites or upload to websites that offer photo printing services. Resize quickly and easily using a preset list of sizes including iPod, iPhone.

3. Phatch

Phatch is open source and works on Linux, Mac Os X and Windows. Phatch is a user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners, and 35 further actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. The website carry a extensive documentation and also allows users to install specific extensions, so that any users beginner to advanced will find the software easy to use and extend.

4. FixPicture

FixPicture is amazing online image editing application, which is one of the fastest ways to resize, crop, rotate, and convert your images and pictures. You also manipulate your pictures by giving grayscale, blur, sharpen, emboss, normalize and other effects. The tool has two versions Flash and HTML and there is no registration required as well. You can upload your image directly from the URL or a hard drive. This one supports over 400 file format: pictures (jpeg, tiff, png, gif, bmp, tga, and more RAW files (crw, nef, raf, cr2, dng, and more.

5. Irfanview

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative tool designed converting and batch processing images that goes well with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7. This is extremely simple tool for beginners and also for powerful experts. Some of the exciting features would include, supports almost all file format, file search, toolbar skin option, Cut/crop, IPTC editing, Lossless JPG rotation, loads of plugins, Capturing, hotkeys and much more worth giving a look.

6. Resize2mail

Resize 2 mail is an online resize website utility developed for digital camera owners, webmasters, people travelling or anybody who quickly wants to resize a digital image for email or publishing on a web site. To resize your image is now as simple as one, two three, and no need to open an image editor for this! Select the image you would like to resize with Browse option, select the size you would like your new image to be, and finally click on okay and wait for the next page to show up. Save the resized image on your PC and email it to friend, family, colleague or office.

7. ImageConverter .EXE

Image converter.exe is a free image converter works on Windows. This is a fast and flexible image conversion program, which allows support for converting to over 15 formats. It features over 20 effects which can be applied in any conversion process, and even in batch mode. It makes the application out of box as it offer Image Conversion Wizard, which helps with a step-by-step dialog that allows you to select files, set conversion properties (JPG to BMP), apply effects, and set how the converted files will be named. To make the process simpler, Image Converter .EXE includes the MediaView Extension from SoftTech InterCorp, form which converting between image types and apply effects can be done by simply right-clicking them. Convert and Rotate 120 selected files right from Windows Explorer.

8. Dosize

Dosize is an online utility that is very helpful for users who upload photos to the Internet or email. Many sites and email programs do have file size necessity that your photos might not meet. So on Dosize, you can resize, shrink and email all your pics under one roof. The application allows image resize up to 10 pictures at a stretch. It is simple to work with, select picture, select preferred resizing option and click ok. Then it will ask for email id where you pics need to be sent. It supports only JPG format and there is no registration required. It one of the best free online utility to resize, shrink and email your photo images.

9. FastStone

FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that intends to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. You can also check our review on FastStone.

10. PIXresizer

The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode. A great companion for webmasters and digital photographers.

These are some of the best photo resizing and processing software available on the web and I’m sure there are lot more. So, if you have any of your favorite reliable free batch image resizer and processor, then do share it with us via comment. Meanwhile, you can follow us on twitter and key in your email on our RSS feeds to get every post update on our site!

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Top 10 Useful PDF Converter Tools

Nikita Porwal — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:23:08 +0000

Today Portable Document Format is by far the most popular document format used to exchange document/data electronically on different computers. People mainly use PDF to manage huge information in electronic files as handling bulky papers could be of headache. However, storing graphics, tables, charts, images or hyperlinks is also very much possible. The interesting part with PDF files is that you can convert the PDF in to any other application and vice versa. Converting files features certainly make task for the user much flexible. You will find many conversion tools available across the web that helps to convert different formats to PDF, but many might just waste your time. So, here with honeytechblog compiles the list of Top 10 useful PDF converter tools that you might need anytime.

1. Verypdf – PDF To Word Converter

PDF2Word (pdf to word) software enable export the text, images and other contents from pdf document into word document, so you can reuse your PDF content, pdf to word software will preserving text, layout and bitmap images in the generated word document. PDF2Word (pdf to word) software is a standalone program and does not require Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or even Acrobat Reader.

Interesting features of Verypdf PDF to Word:

Convert PDF files into Microsoft Word documents;
Batch PDF to Word Conversion;
Standalone software, MS Word, Adobe Acrobat and Reader NOT required!
Support Command Line Operation (for manual use or inclusion in scripts);
Support Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 platforms;
Automatically resize PDF page to fit your requirement;
Accurately preserve Text, Pictures, and Layout;
PDF to Word is easy to use;
Support multiple document conversions (Batch Processing);
Support drag and drop files and batch conversion;
Support PDF1.6 protocol (formerly only supported by Acrobat 7.0);
Converted files can be automatically loaded immediately after conversion complete;
Support page ranges (all, from to, individual pages);
Support English, French, German, Italian and other languages;
Support delete graphics and pictures from the generated Word document;
Support encrypted PDF files;
Five reconstruction modes for PDF to Word conversion;
Convert PDF file to flowing MS Word document without text boxes;

2. Aceconvert – PDF to TXT/XML Converter

Aceconvert For PDF to TXT/XML is a powerful and comprehensive piece of software that provides you with the possibility to convert PDF documents to TXT or XML files. Aceconvert For PDF to TXT/XML is a standalone program and does not require Adobe Acrobat, or even Acrobat Reader.

Interesting features of Aceconvert For PDF to TXT/XML:

Up to Adobe Acrobat v1.6 (Acrobat 7.0)
Type1, /MMType1, /TrueType and /Type0 fonts.
WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, AdobeStandardEncoding and custom encodings.
Universal Character Set (UCS) via Unicode Adobe Glyph List
Font ligatures
Identity-H encoding (horizontal writing)
14 Adobe Standard Fonts
Extensible Metadata Platform XMP
Marked Content – Property List
Improve the values paradigm eliminating the value wrappers.

3. Pdfapps – PDF to HTML 2.0 Converter

Convert your PDFs into easy HTML using this powerful, versatile application! Using PDFs on your website can negatively affect users’ opinion of your business and encourage them to seek the information they need at other, user-friendly sites. So make use of this application and solve the issue related to PDF converter.

Here are some key features of PDFapps Convert PDF to HTML:

Quick and Accurate.
No need to reformat HTML documents – converted PDFs retaining exact style and formatting.
Batch convert 1000s of PDFs at once.
Fits seamlessly into your website.
Fully configurable HTML naming options.
Add META tags during conversion process.
Conversion options allow you to target the HTML version you use.

4. Frameworkteam – PDF To Image Converter

PDF to Image Converter is a specialized and comprehensive piece of software intended to help you convert PDF documents to image format in batches. It can convert PDF to JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG AND PCX image formats.

Interesting features of Frameworkteam PDF to Image Converter:

Quickly convert PDF document to Image format.
Supports batch PDF to Image conversion.
Supports generate multi page tiff files.
Supports outputting result pages to be customized.
Supports encrypted PDF file.
Supports conversion of vector graphics into image files.
Supports image formats, such as JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG AND PCX etc.
Supports conversion into 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 4-bit grayscale, 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit, 32-bit format image.
Supports compression of tiff image, such as LZW, PackBits, RLE, CCITT Group3, CCITT Group4 etc.
Supports any resolution in the generated Image files.
Supports drag and drop of files.
It does not require Adobe Acrobat or Reader support.

5. Pdftoexcelonline – PDF To Excel Converter

Use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly-editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, it’s entirely free.

Interesting features of Pdftoexcelonline PDF to Excel:

Create high-quality easier-to-edit excel files
Save time with truly intelligent PDF to excel converter
Retain the look and feel of the tables, unlike the alternatives
Convert faster
Convert more accurately
Convert in batches

6. Frameworkteam – PDF To TIF Converter

PDF to TIFF Convert is a windows tool to convert PDF document to TIF in batch. It can convert PDF to multi page tiff file. It supports compression of tiff image such as LZW, PackBits, RLE, CCITT Group3, CCITT Group4 etc.

Interesting features of Frameworkteam PDF to TIF:

Quickly convert PDF document to TIF format.
Supports batch PDF to TIF conversion.
Supports generate multi page tiff files.
Supports outputting result pages to be customized.
Supports encrypted PDF file.
Supports conversion of vector graphics into tiff files.
Supports conversion into 32-bit, 24-bit, 12-bit, 8-bit gray format image.
Supports compression of tiff image, such as LZW, PackBits, RLE, CCITT Group3, CCITT Group4 etc.
Supports any resolution in the generated Image files.
Supports drag and drop of files.
It does not require Adobe Acrobat or Reader support.

7. Automatoractions – PDF To MP3 Converter

This program takes a readable PDF file such as a manual or scanned portion of a book that has the correct orientation and converts it into a text file then from that text file converts it to audio. It automatically converts the text to mp3 audio which will be exported into a new playlist (PDF to MP3) on your iTunes. The file will also be placed on your desktop if you wish to move it some other place. There will be a dialog to to prompt you if you want to delete the text file or leave it.

Interesting features of Automatoractions PDF to MP3:

Quickly convert PDF document to MP3 format
Convert PDF to MP3 and Import to iTunes
First convert to document and then to speech
Supports huge files also
User-friendly and quick

8. Laux-it – PDF To PowerPoint Converter

Laux-in PDF to PowerPoint with graphical user interface is a simple application for making interesting PowerPoint slides.

Interesting features of Laux-it PDF to PowerPoint:

This application converts PDF documents into PPT formats:
PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint), PS, EPS, PNG, BMP (Bitmap), TIF, JPEG, PCX
It also supports conversions from the command line (batch mode).
You do not need additional commercial software. You just need GhostScript (free downloadable).
The application also enables to print protected PDF documents.
The test version available.

9. Aidecad – PDF To DXF Converter

Aide PDF to DXF Converter is a powerful windows program that will help you convert your PDF files to usable and editable DXF files quickly and easily.

Interesting features of Aidecad PDF to DXF:

Convert thousands of PDF files to DXF files in one easy step.
Batch convert all pages in each PDF file.
Extract embedded raster images from PDF files.
High Quality, High Performance, and Simple to use.

10. Processtext – PDF To Lit Converter

ABC Amber LIT Converter is an advanced utility which converts your LIT (Microsoft Reader) files to any format you wish (PDF, HTML, CHM, RTF, HLP, DOC, and many more) easily and quickly. The software supports a batch conversion, a run from command line, more than 50 languages. Batch conversion ability allows you to convert a unlimited number of LIT files at a time.

Interesting features of Processtext PDF to Lit:

Reads LIT (Microsoft Reader) files and converts to PDF (doesn’t require Adobe Acrobat to be installed), HTML, RTF (MS Word doesn’t need to be installed), CHM, HLP, TXT (ANSI and Unicode), DOC (MS Word), etc.
Supports batch conversion
Easy to use and easy to set up
Supports multiple charsets
Supports advanced PDF export options
Supports multiple HLP and CHM export options
Bonus: converts books to RB (Rocket eBook), FB2 (FictionBook) and PDB (Palm) (since 2.02)
Command line support, multiple language support, skin support… and more!

These are the best PDF converter you will come across web. Some of the tools may charge you few bucks, but just the mention they are truly worth it. However, make sure you first use the free trial available on each and go ahead. Hope this article was useful and you get regular updates us through RSS feeds.

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How To Integrate Facebook In Firefox Browser

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:51:22 +0000

There is no ifs and buts about how interesting Facebook is, but once you enter the world of this social-networking you will probably be a bit besieged with great entertainment methods, social events and interest groups it carry. So obviously you would want to enhance the experience and access it fast from anywhere. That is why, we have cute little tools such as Facebook Toolbar that can be integrated with your Firefox browser and stay up-to-date with latest Facebook activity just on the go while browsing website of your interest. In other words, if you have this excellent toolbar installed in your browser, you will never miss any friends request, pm or event invite at your Facebook account, while at work or in middle of anything.

Interesting Features of Facebook Toolbar

Facebook Toolbar integrates the facilities offered by your favorite social networking website into your browser.

Search Facebook from anywhere

The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results.

Get Notified

Icons on the toolbar tell you how many new pokes, friend requests, and messages you have. A pop-up will notify you when your friends update their statuses, write a new note or interact with you on Facebook.

Connect with Friends

Click the icon to open the Facebook friends sidebar. You can sort your friends by name or status and easily interact with them and their profiles.

Share Content

The share button lets you share the page that you are currently browsing by sending it to friends or posting it to your profile.

Look and feel

Once the toolbar is installed, you will notice a tab opened that will visually explain how elements in the toolbar works. The chief elements from Facebook Toolbar are – Search option, a drop-down menu having, Quick Links, Home, Five Notification Buttons, Share and Login. Further you will locate a small icon facing Search option, which will offer you to hide or open Friends Sidebar.

In case you are already login at Facebook, the Sidebar will show list of friends that are online. For each of your friends you will have few details such as profile photo, name and date of last updated. Another interesting feature you will find here is quickly send your friends a message with options like write a message, post something on the wall or poke friend. Other options in the drop-down menu of “Quick Links” might impress you with Profile, Photos, Groups, Friends, Notes, Events, Privacy Settings, Links, Account Settings, Videos and Toolbar Settings.

Furthermore, you will have set of buttons on every browser’s page namely Application, Share, Chat, Calendar and Notifications. The deal does not close here; in addition you will find a button next to Quick Links menu that will take you to Facebook Homepage. Here you can find number of unread messages and posts written on your wall.

How does Facebook Toolbar work?

As I told you there is a left side that offers information about your online friends, here you can open or hide the statusbar by clicking on script-like icon placed in search bar. You can next find out more about friend’s status just by keying the name in search box. If you want a picture about the changes made in your profile go to Quick Links menu, here you have posts, short notes, new groups and account settings.

For events information that you have already joined in, click on events link that will give you description of past and future events. Obviously here you have details of event type, location, and guest and attendance status of yours. You can react whether you are Attending, Not Attending or Maybe just by hitting placed without visiting the event page. Also check out on your top-right corner, you will locate search-for-events link that will help you create new events.

Accessing videos is a piece of cake, all you need to do go to Quick Links and click on “Video” and you will find snapshots of every video posted by you and your friends on Facebook. The most interesting feature, which could actually simplify your work, is one that would let you update your Facebook status right from the toolbar. Edit applications page can help you change further settings.

Most important part of Facebook is certainly uploading pictures and this toolbar will help you create a new album or even edit the present one in few clicks. Finally your Facebook toolbar also allows you to edit the Notifications page, which offers you actions that needs to be taken. For example, when you receive a new message, when someone write on your wall or any event invite.

Conclusion

We at Honeytechblog think that Facebook Toolbar is a cool tool and is highly recommended for any user. Even if you already know how to play around with Facebook, this add-on will certainly help you make your work quicker and organized. This user-friendly tool can no doubt will be of fun and help you save time, by maintaining your favorite social network uninterrupted even at work.

Although Facebook Toolbar is here for quite some time, there are many users unaware of it. With that in mind this review is been written. We hope the information was useful to the readers and do share your experience working with Facebook Toolbar with us via comment.

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Top 10 Christmas Gift Ideas For Your Girlfriend

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:59:00 +0000

While many guys settle on thinking that cards, cakes and flowers are the ideal gift to their girlfriend, but not many realize that a special occasion requires special gift for the special person. You will find many occasions to gift her cards and bouquets, but this is Christmas time and your gift to her must be very unique. Small, simple and sentimental things do wonders when presented as gift especially to girls. Such gifts will be great to express your love in the most heartfelt way and in turn make your relationship stronger. So, just give you some unique gift idea for girlfriend, honeytechblog has brought Top 10 Christmas Gift Idea For Your Girlfriend, that will not hurt your pocket.

1. IPod – Gifting an IPod can be a great idea if there is a carving with your love note decoded on it. She will soon start bragging about this special gift among all her friends. And hey don’t forget to preload all her favorite number so that she enjoys her favorite music anywhere she goes.

2. Video Shoot – Get yourself in front of camera and express your love for the special lady. Send her this video recording and see the expression on your girlfriends face. It would be unmatchable and every time she will look at the video, she will just fall in love more with you!

3. Reunion Surprise Party – Remember those old and gold friends who helped you both getting close to each other? Yes, get them all at one place and have a reunion party. I’m sure your girlfriend will have a wonderful Christmas Eve remembering those old good times with friends.

4. Special Date – If you are planning to make her feel really special, then take her for a romantic date on Christmas Eve. Probably first a walk at beach side, then candle light dinner at her favorite restaurant. But then make sure you have already booked the table and ordered for the Christmas cake and campaign (if she likes) well in advance.

5. Testimonial/Blog Post – We always say love is a feeling that cannot be easily expressed, but at least give it a try. Try to express your feeling in writing; write down how incredible and important she is to in term of Testimonial. And then post it in her Orkut profile, in your blog or send it via email if you don’t have either. I’m sure she will take a print out of your writing and keep it forever.

6.Register a domain – If your girlfriend is a web savvy person then this could be just right gift for her. You can register a domain in her name and ask to start blogging. Even if she not, encourage her to blog as blogging is such a beautiful thing that soon she will start to love it.

7. Personalized Photo Frame – Although this might not sound unique to you, but getting a personalized photo frame is sure romantic. If you have a sketched photo of your both then that’s the one should be on the frame.

8. Handmade Gift – I know that could be the most difficult thing for guys. Making something nice with hand is certainly difficult, but then it could be any small things such as handmade card or a sketch. She how her face lightens up with the gift that has your personal touch.

9. Be her Santa – If she desires something for a long time, then this is the occasion to get her that gift. Think, you will probably know what she is been asking for and buy it, so that she does not wait for Santa to drop the gift on Christmas Eve.

10. Common ones – If you are not convinced with the above given ideas then yet there is a hope. Go for the common ones such as – Perfume, Chocolate basket, Accessories, Flowers, Books, Watch, Cloths and Shoes!

Your girlfriend holds a special place in your heart, so let her know about this feeling with the help of the above mentioned special girlfriend gift ideas. Merry Christmas!

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Top 10 Camera Mobile Phones Of 2009

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:49:15 +0000

Gone are those days when we use to see mobile phones as a single utility device. Today it is much more than picking up calls and sending SMS. You can play music, record videos, watch clips, pay bills, store data, browse internet, get interesting apps on it, take pictures, share it on Facebook, flickr, and much more. Most of the people find taking pictures as the best utility of all, as capturing beautiful moments in life is just unbeatable. While you are on a college trip, or on a family vacation – good quality camera mobile phones can replace professional cameras in taking snap. But then landing up buying a camera cell which is not-so-good can certainly spoil your good moments when you take a hard copy of it. There are certain things you should remember before buying any mobile phone.

In case of camera phones, most of the people make a mistake of thinking that the higher the megapixels, the higher the quality of the phone. But no, megapixels play only 50% of the role and other features you must look at are, autofocus, sensor, flash, optical zoom, speed, interface, panorama options etc. Phones without camera are of rare “phenomenon” today, but not every handset can offer you the best quality. We have already reviewed Top 10 Music Phones of the year and this article on honeytechblog intends to provide information of Top 10 Camera Mobile Phones Of 2009, so that you pick up the best.

1. Sony Ericsson Satio

This definitely one of the best the camera phone of the year. This 12.1-megapixel camera with Xenon flash and intuitive touch focus gives you stunning, high-resolution shots you’ll want to blow up big and keep. With the Sony Ericsson Satio camera phone, all your favorite stuff is just a touch away. Tap directly into TV series, mobile videos, podcasts and music via the ingenious full-touch media menu on this amazing entertainment phone.

Interesting Features of Sony Ericsson Satio

Camera Options – 12.1-megapixel with Xenon flash, auto-focus, Geo-targetting, Image stabilizer, red-eye reduction, video recording, 12x digital zoom and much more.
Screen – 360×640 pixel – 16,777,216 color TFT touchscreen
Display – 3.5? touschreen, 16:9 widescreen display with 16 million colors
Memory – SanDisk microSD™ support
Networks- GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA
Colors – Black – Silver – Bordeaux
Connectivity – Wisepilot™ turn-by-turn navigation, Bluetooth, Google Map, WiFi and more.
Sizes – 112.0 x 55.0 x 13.0 mm – 4.4 x 2.2 x 0.5 inches
Weight – 126.0 gram

2. iPhone 3G S

With a 3-megapixel autofocus camera and a photo application that makes it easy to share, iPhone 3GS is the most photo-friendly phone ever. The new 3-megapixel camera takes great still photos, too, thanks to built-in autofocus and a handy new feature that lets you tap the display to focus on anything (or anyone) you want. You can now also shoot video, edit it, and share it — all on your iPhone 3GS. Shoot high-quality VGA video in portrait or landscape. Trim your footage by adjusting start and end points. Then share your video in an email, post it to your MobileMe gallery, publish it on YouTube, or sync it back to your Mac or PC using iTunes.

Interesting features of iPhone 3G S

Camera options: 3-Megapixle with AutoFocus, Crop, Rotate, Geotagging and video recording
Display –Touchscreen 480 x 320 pixels (3.5 inch)
Size – 115.5 mm (4.55 in) (h), 62.1 mm (2.44 in) (w), 12.3 mm (0.48 in) (d)
Connectivity and Network – Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth, USB 2.0/Dock connector, Quad band GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz GPRS/EDGE including, A-GPS; Tri band UMTS/HSDPA 850, 1900, 2100 MHz. 3GS also supports: 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
Special features – Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, Cut, Copy, Paste, Voice Memos, Voice Control and much more.
Memory – 32 Gigabytes
Weight – 4.8 Onces

3. Nokia N86 8MP

Nokia’s best camera phone till date with 8MP resolution sensor and this phone and 28mm wide angle lens. Take ultra high-quality pics with the 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, flash and Carl Zeiss optics. You can also capture clear images in bright and dark conditions with a wide exposure range, variable aperture and high speed shutter. And then share photos through Ovi*, email and MMS, or print them with a compatible printer. Capture DVD-like quality video day or night with a wide exposure range, stabiliser, and integrated video light.

Interesting Features of Nokia N86 8MP

Camera Options – 8 Megapixels with AutoFocus, Dual LED Flash, Video recording.
Display – OLED Display screen, 16M Colors
Size : 240 X 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
Memory : 8GB
Connectivity – 3G, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, Radio
Weight – 5.36 oz

4. Samsung Memoir SGH-t929

Samsung Memoir is widely known as a camera with the mobile phone. With 8.0 megapixels, a Xenon flash and a host of dedicated camera functions, the Memoir sets a new standard. But the Memoir™ doesn’t stop there. It’s also a music player, a full Web browser, a GPS navigation system and one of the most advanced touch screen phones in the world. The photo quality is superior, and the overall feature set is very striking. It does carry great performance.

Interesting Feature of Samsung Memoir

Camera Options – 8 Megapixels with Xenon flash, auto focus, multiple shooting modes, Smile Shot smile and video recording with camcorder.
Display- 240 x 400 pixels, 262 144 colors, TFT
Network – GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA 1.8 Mbit/s/HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s
Special Features – Caller groups supported, 1000 -names capacity, Multiple Numbers Per Contact, Picture ID, Ring ID
Multimedia and Music Player – MPEG4, 3GPP, H.263, H.264 – MP3 ringtones, AAC, AAC+, WAV, MIDI
Size – 4.17 x 2.11 x 0.55 inches
Memory – microSD/microSDHC
Connectivity – USB, Stereo Bluetooth
Weight – 4.40 oz

5. LG KC910 Renoir

Renoir takes super-sharp 8 megapixel pictures that can be edited in camera and are instantly ready for sharing online or printing. The phone’s list of features includes some that are usually only found on extremely high-end standalone cameras, such as Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, a Xenon flash, auto and manual focus, sensitivity up to ISO 1600 and geo-tagging.

Camera Options – 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, manual focus and xenon flash
Video recording (MPEG4, 320 x 240 pixels, 120 frames/second)
Display: Touch screen, TFT LCD, 262k colors, 240 x 400 pixels (3 inches)
Audio – MP3/AAC/AAC+/AAC++/WMA formats
Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Memory: MicroSD Card Upto 16GB
Connectivity: 3G, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, Radio.
Size: 108 x 55 x 14.5 mm
Weight: 110g

6. Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905

The 8.1-megapixel C905 Cyber-shot™ phone is equipped with Xenon flash and is always ready to capture the best moments of your life. C905 has all the functions you need for perfect pictures, smart Contrast balances light and color, face detection helps you focus on people and many more.

Interesting Features of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905

Camera Options – 8 MP pixels with autofocus, xenon flash Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, smart contrast, image stabilization, smile detection and videocalling
Video recording – QVGA@30fps
Display – TFT, 256K colors
Size – 104 x 49 x 18-19.5 mm
Memory – Memory Stick Micro (M2), up to 8GB, 2GB or 8GB card included
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/
Connectivity – Bluetooth, USB
Weight – 136 gram

7. Samsung M8910 Pixon12

Samsung M8910 Pixon12 is the world’s first 12-megapixel camera phone for instant photo shoot. The Samsung Pixon12 enables users to take perfect pictures quickly and easily, thanks to a Dedicated Camera Power Key which gives users fast one-touch access to the camera function. Once the camera is turned on, users can point and shoot, capturing images as fast as today’s advanced digital cameras. The Samsung Pixon12 also features fast image saving, so users can move to their next shot within around 2 seconds.

Interesting Features of Samsung M8910 Pixon12

Camera Options – 12 MP with Tracking Touch Auto-Focus, Image Stabilization, Beauty Shot.
Video Recording – D1(720×480)@30fps, QVGA@120fps
Display – AMOLED Resistive touchscreen, 16M Colors
Size – 480 X 800 pixels, 3.1 inches
Memory – microSD, up to 16GB,
Connectivity – Bluetooth, USB
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/ HSDPA,7.2 Mbps, HSUPA
Weight – 120 g

8. Nokia 6700 classic

Capture and share print quality images with this 5 megapixel camera. The comfortable and straight forward design makes clicking photos quick and easy. This is actually the lowest priced 5MP you will locate on the market with excellent web browsing and call quality features. The most interesting part apart from camera options, you will find is the battery life. It comes with solid 12 hours battery life with music player on.

Interesting Features of Nokia 6700 classic

Camera Options – 5 Megapixel with Autofocus, LED flash, Active toolbar, Photo editor on device, Color tone modes: normal, greyscale, sepia, negative and Direct printing to compatible picture printers.
Video Recording – 640 x 480 @ 15fps or 352 x 288 @ 30fps
Display – TFT screen, 16M Colors
Size – 240 X 320 pixels, 2.2 inches
Memory – MicroSD Card Upto 8GB
Connectivity – 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, Radio.
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/ HSDPA,TCP/IP support
Weight – 113 grams

9. Samsung T939 Behold 2

The Behold® II is the latest Android phone with corporate email synchronization, WiFi, and visual voicemail. And its Webkit-based browser is fully integrated with Google applications so you can check Gmail, automatically add an event to your calendar, and find directions with Google Maps. The Behold® II also features a 3.2” AMOLED screen so you can view your graphics, photos and YouTube videos in clarity. And it is everything you need for multimedia, offering 16GB of expandable memory, Bluetooth 2.1, MP3 music player and a 5MP camera/camcorder with auto-focus, flash and 8x zoom. It’s truly something to behold.

Interesting Features of Samsung T939 Behold 2

Camera Options – 5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging and video recording.
Display – AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size – 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
Memory – microSD, up to 16 GB,
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/HSDPA
Connectivity – Bluetooth, USB
Weight – 4.2 oz

10. Nokia N97 mini

The sleek Nokia N97 mini integrates the web into your life and seamlessly connects you to your friends and favorite online services. It is younger than Nokia N97 and also comes with different design, slid opening, and better features. With this you can capture high resolution pictures and record video in DVD quality. Further impressive part is that you can save up to 10 hours of quality video on 8GB internal memory, or store up to 30 hours with a microSD external memory card.

Interesting Features of Nokia N97 mini

Camera Options – 5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light and Geo-tagging
Video Recording – VGA@30fps and VGA@15fps
Display – TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size – 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
Memory – microSD, up to 16GB
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/HSDPA
Connectivity – Bluetooth, v2.0 microUSB
Weight – 138 g

You can no doubt drop the option of buying a camera for yourself, if you pick any phone from the above list. These phones are best of the year and hey it is Christmas time. So probably you could get one for your loved one as a beautiful surprise gift. Happy Clicking!

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Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools

Nikita Porwal — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:12:36 +0000

With over 70 Million users on Twitter, it is definitely the “buzz” word of the year. Yet there are people who do not know about tracking and analyzing their stats, influence and success on Twitter. Today there are many social media tracking and analytics tools available that can track your performance on social media sites like twitter. These tools are essentially tweet analyzing software that assists a company/individual with various kind of analysis including sentiment, behavioral and other analysis. Monitoring your tweeting habits and tweet content can helps you get maximum benefit and also will work well for overall improvement. But then if you do a google search for such tools, you will come across many in which some of them can be really annoying and time wasting. So, honeytechblog has compiled Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools that you would need it sometime or other.

1. Twittercounter

TwitterCounter is a great twitter service that offers updated statistics of your followers, following, and daily tweets. You could further compare absolute growth of multiple twitter accounts or also compare them with your competitor’s expansion. Track, measure and redesign your strategy on twitter.

2.Twitteranalyzer

It is an interesting tool that helps to get all kind of statistic chart about you and your friends behavior at Twitter site. If you love using Google Analytics then this tool is sure to impress you. Some exciting features of Twitter Analyzer are – you can see how followers are online presently, who retweets your messages, what people are writing about you, Twitter following stats, your Tweeting habits and many more

3. Tweetstats

Tweetstats graph down your twitter stats including, tweets per hour, per month, tweet timeline, and reply statistics. Also show you TweetCloud and how many twooshes you have had.

4. Twitalyzer

Twitalyzer is a free tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on dozens of useful measures of success in social media. This powerful tool can help you measure influence, popularity, velocity and generosity of your twitter account.

5. Twitturly

Twitturly tracks the URLs flying around the Twitterverse and provides a quick, real-time view of what people are talking about on Twitter. Each time someone tweets a URL to their followers on Twitter, Twitturly takes note of it and applies it as a vote for that URL. The more votes a URL has in the last 24 hours, the higher it ranks on Twitturly’s Top100. It’s that simple.

6. Tweeps

What do they tweet about? How much do they tweet? How social are they? Do they use hashtags? Share URLs? Tweeps.info answers these questions and more. It analyses the content of Twitter users’ tweets to find interesting statistics about them. These statistics are updated several times a day, to keep the information fresh in the fast-moving world of Twitter. You can use Tweeps.info to help you decide who to follow, who you would like to be following you, or just to discover interesting information about Twitter users.

7. TwitterGrader

Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile. It looks at a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those followers and the level to which you are engaging the community. It takes just a few seconds to generate your free report

8. Twitscoop

Twitscoop is a real-time visualisation tool which enables users to “Mine the thought stream” provided by Twitter. The algorithm used cuts every English non-spam tweets into pieces (“tags”), and ranks them by how frequently they are used versus normal usage. The web application detects growing trends in real-time, identifies breaking news (earthquakes, plane crashes, political events, new tech products etc.) and monitors specific keywords along with custom graphs that display the activity for any given word on twitter. Twitscoop can essentially be described as your real-time web’s monitor.

9. Tweettronics

Tweettronics is a tool to analysis, discover, track and engage with Twitter conversations about your products, brands, and topics.

10. Monitter

It’s a simple twitter monitor, that let you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying about.

11. TweetBuzzer

Tweet Buzzer lets you see which brands get talked about most on Twitter. You can see and track the top tweeted brands in a 24 hour, 7-day, or 30-day period.

12. spy

Spy is an easy-to-use tool that visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and other social networks. This can listen in on the social media conversations you’re interested in. What do you want to listen for? Great for watching Twitter on a big screen.

13. Retweetrank

Retweetrank lets you find rank of any twitter user. With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown and an RSS feed can also be grabbed for the same. Monitoring retweets can provide a better understanding of audience to the originator while others can see the most interesting tweets of a user.

14. Twittas

Find out when was your first tweet made, find out how fast you are tweeting, evaluate your twitter profile, evaluate your twitter profile, See how long you are on twitter and which celebrities arrived after you, find out with whom you’ve been interacting more and much more under one roof.

15. TwiBuzz

Twibuzz is a tool that let’s you see how often people are using Twitter to tweet your favorite keywords in real time. Try terms like swineflu, or compare two terms like google,apple. TwiBuzz will plot the current and historical tweet rate in tweets per minute (TPM) for your search term(s). TwiBuzz tracks a predefined list of terms, but you’ll find that it’s easy to add to that list. Once a term is added, TwiBuzz will have it’s first TPM data point for that query within a few minutes.

16. Peoplebrowsr

PeopleBrowsr analyzes 1407440 tweets mentioning Hollywood top stars and rates them as positive or negative.

17. Tweetwhatyouspend

Tweetwhatyouspend is a free tool that makes cash tracking easy! Get a grip on your spending! TWYS answers the question – “what happens to my cash between trips to the ATM?”

18. Twitterholic

Check out the top Twitter users and find out your Twitter stats on Twitterholic. You can locate stats from Top 100 to Top 1000.

19. Twitnest

Twitnest is a neatly designed tool that visualizes twitter’s social graph. You can discover who is following who. Auto-group, automated grouping of users in social graph. Zoom In/Out – mouse wheel Who knows whom? – click on a user to see who’s he/she following.

20. Eventtrack

Eventtrack is tool for tracking people in the moment using Twitter as an interface but extending to multiple other services as well.

21. Socialtoo

SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and learn more about your relationships. Send surveys to your followers and more!

22. Repeets

Repeets tracks the hottest Twitter retweets. You can view the most recent hot tweets, the top tweets over the last hour, day, week, and month.

23. Tmtt

tmtt is a twitter application to calculate the time in which a message travels between people. Login with the Twitter account and pass the generated message in your tweets.

24. Emotionstream

emotionstream is a data mining research project that searches for emotion patterns on twitter. The goal behind this project is to develop algorithms to find trends about what is making people happy, laugh or surprise in real time by using twitter data.

25. Klout

Discover how influential you are on Twitter with Klout. See who influences your friends and measure the impact of your content. Klout uses semantic analysis to determine what a person talks about and then measures how influential they are on that topic.

26. Web2express

Web2express Digest uses open semantic and NLP tools to analyze millions of twitter conversations and blogs as they come online each day. It auto-discovers trending topics from fresh web contents and thus allow people to view new web conversations around topics. The same real time web analysis platform enables marketers to efficiently monitor products, brands, companies or competitions in real time.

27. SuiteSpot

Takes live data feeds from Twitter, Flickr, blogs and SMS messages then ‘repurposes’ all of this into an exploratory scene which grows and reacts to the constant stream of incoming content. People can then view this content on either: the SUITE SPOT website, a digital display or a gestural interface in the main foyer.

28. Flackr

Flackr is a realtime news tracker dashboard that carries Twitter news sources, twitpic images and comments. Flackr tracks many different news sources on twitter. Instead of having to follow them all, you just follow Flackr, and we’ll filter out the hot news for you so you can concentrate on what’s important.

29. Xefer

Xefer is great tool that analyses your Twitter and at present data of your tweet volume, concentration in addition to their quality, which is measured by replies.

30. Xpenser

Track time and expenses via Twitter (or email, SMS, IM, call and say your expenses, use the FireFox Plugin, etc). Tag, search, import, export, track mileage, convert currencies, etc. No more forgetting your cash expenses, no more half-day expense entry sessions.

31. Writersdb

Submission tracking app for writers, features Twitter integration. Let your followers know when you’ve sent out a new story (or batch of poems) for publication. The Writer’s Database will keep track of all the markets for your writing, and the status of all the manuscripts you’ve sent out to each market.

32. Cheaptweet

CheapTweet scans Twitter for the best deals, coupons and sales that people are tweeting about. CheapTweet lets users rate deals by saying It’s Cheap (it’s a good deal) or It’s Lame (it’s not a good deal). Deals move to the Cheapest Tweets section if they get enough votes. Spammy behaviors like duplicate tweets are penalized.

33. Twick

Twick’in allows you to cloak, track and share your affiliate links on Twitter.com

34. ObjectiveMarketer

Social Media Channels provide an unprecedented way to manage relationships with your customers and prospects. It is one of the first, enterprise grade end-to-end campaign management, analytics and community engagement solution. You will find most of the features of any content authoring and publishing tool like Posting, URL Shortening, tracking, scheduling, multi account management. Also it is the only available application that provides Camapign Management across Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook.

35. Retweetradar

Retweetradar finds out trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed on Twitter.

36. Gracts

Gracts.com is an eco-social experiment. The idea is to get Twitter users to Tweet about their environmentally friendly activities and to encourage their Twitter followers to do the same. Twitter makes use of something called hashtags to group related Tweets together.

37. Archivist

The Archivist – If you have used Twitter search before, you may notice that you can only go back a certain amount of time and/or number of tweets for a given search. The Archivist is a Windows application that runs on your local system and allows you to archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis for a given search.

38. TwitterTopTwenty

This is a top 20 list of everything on twitter including stats, users, and trends.

39. TweetEffect

Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. They list all the Twitter updates that had an effect on your follower numbers. Updates that made people leave are displayed in red, others in black.

40. Twitterfriends

With TwitterFriends you can find out the hidden network of Twitter contacts that are really relevant for you. Visualize the network of your relevant contacts and their contacts. See who of your Twitter friends are online this very moment. Read some stats about your Twitter account

41. Tweetag

Tweetag display the most discussed topics in the last 24h in general, or the most talked topics related to a given topic. You can also get a free email alert whenever a keyword appears in Twitter Lists of your choice.

42. Twitteryam

Twitteryam is a service that lets twitters know how much their twitters are worth.

43. Tweet-Rank

With Tweet-Rank you have a chance to learn about the quality of your tweets by knowing which ones won or lost followers.

44. MicroPlaza

MicroPlaza looks at your Twitter network and displays all the links shared by the people you follow with associated tweets. We call these tiles. The tool only looks at public timelines and tweets, not direct messages or protected accounts.

45. Tweetply

Tweetply tracks down popular tweets that with a lot of replies.

46. Iate

Automatically tracks tweets about restaurants. Find out what twitter users are saying about restaurants near you. What are they eating? What local restaurants are popular? Share what you ate.

47. Quickrate.thummit

This tool offers sentiments analysis, based on conversations on Twitter. This web application identifies latest buzzwords, actors, movies, brands, products, etc. (called ‘topics’) and combines them with conversations from Twitter. It does sentiment analysis to determine whether each Twitter update is Thumms up (positive), neutral or Thumms down (negative).

48. TweetPsych

TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform.

49. Tweetburner

It helps you track down the links you share on Twitter

50. Tweetwasters

Check how much time you spend of Twitter

These are the best twitter tracking and analytical tool we came across, and if you have any more interesting and useful tools to share, then we would love to hear from you. You can also follow me on Twitter!

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Top 20 “How To” Sites For Just About Anything

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:40:51 +0000

With the number of netizens increasing day by day, it would not be wrong to say that technology has bettered the way we look at our lives and day to day activities. Actually with changing times and hectic lifestyles, people want everything to be better, quicker and faster. Right from “what should I wear to today” to “how to make money online” everything is been surfed online to get the answer. With that in mind honeytechblog today will give you some interesting sites that can be used for just about anything. Check out Top 20 “How To” Sites For Just About Anything.

eHow

eHow is an online knowledge resource with more than 337,000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything”. eHow content is created by both professional experts and amateur members and covers a wide variety of topics organized into a hierarchy of categories.

CNET

It is a part of CNET website, where the tech expert offer you free online how to classes and tutorials on everything from iPhone technology to photography. You can search for more than 1,000 tips offered and help on various buying guides and tech related topics.

Howstuffworks

HowStuffWorks is a commercial edutainment website that was founded by Marshall Brain explaining the how many things work. The site uses photos, diagrams, videos and animations to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language. It covers hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP.

Wikihow

WikiHow is a wiki-based community with an extensive database of how-to guides. wikiHow is a wiki, which is a website that anyone can edit. It operates on open source software and an open content licensing model allowing free use and community ownership of the content. wikiHow’s mission is to build the world’s largest and highest quality how-to manual.

Howto.wired

Wired is one of the most interesting website you will come across. While many may not that that it does have a How-To section that is full of help. This is the site carries many technology tutorials that truly help you in figuring out how do things yourself. In How-to Wiki you can search the library, create an article, join the community, and many more.

How to write a resume

How to write a resume is all-inclusive sites that assist a job seeker with how to write a resume without any costly mistake. Further the site also helps you to write cover letter, distributing a resume to hiring managers, and assistance for composing a thank you letter. This site is been designed for everyone from a novice job hunter to the hr professional.

Garysimon

If you are looking for some web design information then this is your source. It gives you fully comprehensive step by step tutorial, from design to HTML & CSS. Gary Simon has over 8 year of experience in web and print industry and offers excellent design tutorials. You will also learn how to make money here.

Howtodothings

HowToDoThings strives to solve people’s everyday problems by compiling reliable information from experienced contributors and making it available to inexperienced readers. Some category would include, Automotive, business, careers, health and fitness, spirituality and many more. Explore and have fun.

How-to-podcast

How To Podcast is an interesting sites that teaches you how to create podcast in an fun way. The site further comprises of everyday terms, step-by-step instructions, informative articles, video tutorials, and real world examples.

Howtodrawmanga

Do you love manga? If so, then you will have great time visiting how to draw manga. You can find amazing tutorials on drawing manga. Apart from taking online manga classes, you can also read online manga, check the blog, and take part in manga forums for more interesting stuffs.

How-to-meditate

We all know the importance of mediation, who has time to join those lengthy classes? That’s why, how to meditate was created to offer practical information about Buddhist meditation in clear, simple and easy to understand for all. You can also check out breathing mediation, Meditation for Beginners – Videos, Books on Buddhism & Meditation, and many more links.

Wonderhowto

WonderHowTo.com is a community-fueled, search engine and directory for Free How-To Video. With an index of more than 225,000 videos (October 2008), they provide the largest, most contemporary, and most diverse resource in this increasingly vibrant space.

Makezine

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

Howstuffismade

Howstuffismade (HSIM) is a visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products. It is a free, independent, academic resource published by engineering and design students, who research and produce summative photoessays describing the life cycle of the product, with a view to improvement.

Digital-photography-school

Digital Photography school is a website with simple tips to help digital camera owners get the most out of their cameras. Discover how to use your digital camera with their Digital Photography Tips. They have a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography.

Howtocleanstuff

This is a bright and beautifully designed website offering you tips on how to clean stuffs. There are latest guides on cleaning just about anything. You can learn everything from How to wash a rabid monkey to how to clean your PDA.

Treehugger

TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. They have handful of excellent tips on how to go green on your daily life and make it better.

Howtogeek

How to geek offers awesome collection of computer tutorials that carries everything from building your own computer to how to work with open source software and much more. You should not miss this site if you find yourself in from of computer every now and then.

Video-tutes

Video-tutes is one of the most admired website that offers video tutorials for variety of software programs including Photoshop cs2 & 3, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash 8 and Flash 8 video, Adobe Premiere pro and more, 22 titles in fact. Tutorial video collection is designed to help beginners and those wishing to learn new software to become productive faster & those wanting to advance their skill set.

Blog-tutorials

At Blog Tutorials, you get help on how to build a blog (or improve your blog if you already have an existing one). Whether it’s about blog software, writing, or even earning from your blog, this is the source for everything on blogging.

These are some How-to sites that you will not regret visiting. We all are here to learn and share, go ahead enjoy surfing through. Meanwhile, you can also follow me on Twitter and bloggers here have a great opportunity to join hands together with – Bloggers On Twitter.

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10 tips to reduce the Bounce Rates of websites

Honey Singh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:35:51 +0000

With so many websites offering many different information on a specific topic, the typical Internet user is now more impatient when it comes to looking something up. Just by skimming through the page from which an Internet user entered, they already have an idea if it’s worth the time to scour through the other pages. This is why many websites and blogs end up with a high bounce rate. This is especially common for blogs that have recycled material from other websites that have a stronger authority over the subject. Here are 10 tips that will help blog owners reduce their bounce rate and enable them to gain a higher earning power.

1.Adopt a stimulating web layout and attractive web design

First impression is the last impression so if your web layout or landing pages are cursed with design flaws then user don’t really bother to stay. The design of your web page should mature enough to drag the user attention. The users will read the content of your website and then starts checking the layout only if it stimulate there senses. The impressed users will sure come back again on your website and hence total time spend by them on your site will also increased. So you should remember to follow

A Good layout structure.
A watch over on best trends of creative designs.

2.Don’t over complicate your navigation menu. It should be placed where normal users would expect it to be placed.

Testing and creations are the part of innovations but we should remember the basic facts and human perceptions. If you plans to play “hide & seek” with the navigation’s then you may loose the visitors. Even though you have a nice content on the webpages and blogs but if users are unable to trace them then this is the big cause for your Bounce Rates. Always keep in mind that top area are most visible portion of your webpage and users generally expect the navigation menu over there. So you should remember to follow

Some basic information’s of the site should always be indicated on navigation. It should be top, top-right or top-left (depend on your layout).
If you are using jQuery or javascripts on navigation then make sure to check the cross browser compatibility.

3.Keep it simple. Try to minimize the number of pages you have on your website

Image from the flickr photo stream of soxiam

Whenever a post is extended into pagination then user distract after seeing 1-2 pages. Make your website simple so that it takes less time of users and they can see your other posts.

Note: Don’t confused with the pagination of single post and the pagination of webpage.

4.Have very well written and interesting content. Publish all original works and never duplicate anything from other websites.

Image from the flickr photo stream of like_shipwrecks

If you think that you copied a content and you should not refer to original work then you are on the wrong direction. By giving the credits to the original sources you can gain your own credibility. Always remember that “When you copy a content from single source then it is a duplicacy but when you coped the contents from different resources then it is termed as research”

5.Don’t forget to optimize your content with keywords, but don’t make the mistake of stuffing them too much into the articles.

Keywords are the things which are used by the users to search on the search engines like google, bing and others. So if you wants to prepare an elaborate and optimized post then you should use the keywords within your articles. For example, I have a post titled “Top 250 list of Twitter clones sites” then i’ll used the keywords like “twitter clones“, “twitter clones from china” , “twitter clones from Spain” and so on. The resultant will increase the value of keyword “twitter clones” on the search engines.

Note: Please make sure to maintain the naturalistic post so that users can spare handsome amount of time on your page without smelling anything suspicious.

6.Make sure that your keywords are specifically targeted for the content on your website.

The bounce rates are often due to lack of relevant content on the site but many times it dude to wrongly optimized keywords. For example you optimize your post title “30 Free Google Android Applications” to a wrong keywords like “Free Google Wave” or “Google applications” then users hitting on the post may not be interested on it.

7.Don’t forget to optimize your most effective keywords by starting a PPC campaign

Pay-per-click ad campaigns are most responsive and quick way to drag traffic from search engines on particular keywords. Bounce rates are often due to non-targeted users, if you are any services or product company then you should try the PPC campaign for most relevant users. For example if you are a technical university then you should start the PPC campaigns on keywords like “B.Tech admissions” , “M.Tech admissions” and others.

8.Take the time to develop a well thought out linking system. Develop partnerships with other website owners so that you can have exposure through linkages.

9.Minimize the exposure of distracting elements such as pop ups.

Pop ups , new windows and surveys are often irritating for users so please try to avoid them on your website.

10.Check if your website can easily be loaded with all the important elements intact regardless of the operating system platform being used.

Website loading time is also a crucial factor for the bounce rates. Its quite obvious that sites having heavy loading time are responsible for higher percentage of bounce rates. You should know that how to optimize website loading time and performance.

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How to show RSS feeds in a Wordpress Page and Posts

Honey Singh — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:01:16 +0000

Most of the bloggers having different blogs (on same or other domain) wants to aggregate the updates on the same page. If you wants to show different blogs latest post links on a wordpress page then its very easy to show rss feeds within wordpress with the help of simplexml. The following codes displays the feeds from the single feed url.

$xml_file = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/honeytechblog'; $xml = simplexml_load_file($xml_file); $xml_channel = $xml->channel->item; for ($i=0; $i<5; $i++) { //print_r($result); ?>


 
  echo $xml_channel[$i]->title."

";
 }
 ?>

There are some parameters which can customize your requirements like:

$xml_file = Feed Url for example i use $xml_file = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/honeytechblog';
Value of i for no of links, for example i<5 shows 5 links of the feed

Alternate Code

(tested on various clients blogs)


  error_reporting(0);
 $url = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/micro-news";
 $xml = simplexml_load_file($url, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
 echo $xml;
 if ($xml == "")
 {
 echo "Feeds are down, Try again later";
 }
 else
 {
 $blog = $xml->channel;
 for($i=0; $i<3; $i++) {
 ?>
 item[$i]->title; ?> 

  }
 }
 ?>

Note

If you wants to run this php code apart from the Wordpress themes i.e in wordpress posts and pages then you need plugins like Exec-PHP. Exec-PHP will executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets .

This post is dedicated as an answer to amitbhawani question

Is there any Wordpress Plugin which shows 5 Recent Posts of any Feed in a Wordpress Page? Ex :Show my news blog latest posts on about page

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