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The Best of Free Open Source Windows Software

The logo of the Open Source InitiativeYou use Windows and whenever you need some functionality or software you go about searching the internet for free and open source software that you can easily download and get your job done. But one thing that worries you is security – the issue of spyware and adware. The internet is full of Open Source softwares. There are a number of software download sites available. However, when presented with long list of softwares, each one with numerous reviews, you find it really difficult to gauge different softwares to suit your needs. This is where Open Source Windows comes in handy to give you a quick relief. Read More »

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How to Create a Twitter App for WP Tweetbox

Creating a Twitter app for WP Tweetbox is very easy and takes less than a minute. WP Tweetbox is a WordPress plugin that adds a highly customizable Tweetbox at the end of blog posts and pages. Tweets are branded with your own website URL.

Register your own Twitter App

To use WP Tweetbox, you need a Twitter Application for your domain name. All you need to do is register a new Twitter Application and provide the API key. The plugin does the rest. Read More »

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How to Get Short URLs on Your Own Domain

Twitter Short URLs Having your own short URLs will help you get the maximum exposure on Twitter. Linking to your blog from Twitter with URLs redirected from URL shortening services makes your domain name invisible and this valuable piece of real-estate on your twitter timeline and in your friend’s updates area is as good as lost. Why not take the space that rightfully belongs to you back in your control and use it for your advantage by displaying your own domain name?

Here are some ways you can have short URLs displayed with your own domain name without having to host a URL shortening service.

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How to Password Protect Your Files and Folders

Password protect your filesIt is crucial to password protect or encrypt sensitive files and folders on your computer or on flash drives. For example, when you service your computer, you want to be sure that some of the important documents are not compromised in any way. In case you lose your notebook, tablet, USB drive, or external hard disk you want to be sure that important data is always safe. The cost of sensitive information therein can outweigh the cost of the equipment. Here is a quick way to protect the files and directories: Read More »

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GetSocial Sports the Official Twitter Tweet Button

TwitterGetSocial WordPress plugin adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts. The latest release 1.3 of GetSocial comes loaded with the new Twitter Tweet button well integrated and many more useful features to enhance social networking on your WordPress blog. Users can still use the earlier Retweet button from Tweetmeme if they prefer. Read More »

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3 Mistakes That Will Drive Your Readers Away

This is a guest post by Stacey Cavanagh from Manchester, UK, who works for Tecmark SEO Manchester.

bad design For bloggers, writing to a big audience is often something they aspire to do. Online of course, this often involves not just acquiring traffic, but keeping it!

Whether it’s SEO, social media networking, PPC or anything else driving your traffic, you need to find a way to keep that traffic coming back. Essentially, you have to turn your one time visitor into a regular reader.

Getting this nailed down takes time, effort, trial and error. But there are three mistakes that I’m pretty sure will drive your readers away every single time.

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3 WordPress Plugins to Enhance Your Blog Archive

Have you optimized the Archives page of your blog? A well-designed archive has a lot of potential to bring in loyal visitors to your blog or website. Let us understand how you can pour new life into the old content of your blog.

News archive

The Archives page on your WordPress blog acts like a sitemap. It helps visitors browse through the content on your blog. Yet this is one of the pages likely to be ignored by bloggers when optimizing their blog or website. It is important that this page is as user-friendly as possible as it provides links to all the pages on your blog. Optimizing the Archives page will certainly help in converting new visitors to returning ones.

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Managing an Effective Social Media Campaign

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Social media seems to be getting more and more complex by the minute. There are so many methods and websites to keep up with that it can be enough to make your head spin. It’s important to stick with the basics when first starting out so as to not get overwhelmed. That’s why we’ve compiled some of the easiest, most straight forward methods for managing an effective social media campaign right here. Read More »

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Remove Background from Photos using Microsoft Office

Now you can use Microsoft Office to easily remove background from digital photographs. Microsoft Office 2010 has intelligent image editing tools that can help you extract images from complex or cluttered backgrounds.

Remove background without Photoshop

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