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Analyze the performance of your website using GTmetrix

September 1st, 2010

“Fast is better than slow.”

It’s one of the ten philosophies that Google have. More

So everybody deserves a fast web experience.

GTmetrix can help us develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for our users.

Studies show that users leave a site if it hasn’t loaded in 4 seconds; keep your users happy and engaged by providing a fast performing website!

GTmetrix uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow to grade your site’s performance and provides actionable recommendations to fix these issues.

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Add Facebook Like Box with Fan and Status post to your website

August 28th, 2010

The Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.

The Like Box enables users to see how many users already like this page, and which of their friends like it too, read recent posts from the page, like the page with one click, without needing to visit the page.

Here are some examples for adding Facebook Fan Box to your website or blog. Use and customize as required or compatible with your design.

First of all you need to create the group/page for your website and get the page id, replace the id below with your obtained id.

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Type anywhere in language like Nepali, Hindi with Google Transliteration IME

August 25th, 2010

For those people whose native language is not English and want to use own native language over internet must benefit from this Google service.

Google Transliteration IME is an input method editor which allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script. Note that this is not the same as translation — it is the sound of the words that is converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. Converted content will always be in Unicode.

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25 Must have Firefox extensions for power users

August 21st, 2010

Here is a list Best and Popular Firefox addon/plugins for power users. These plugins makes your web browsing safer, smarter and easier.

1. FireDownload :

The FireDownload extension for Firefox and Wyzo lets you manage and accelerate your web downloads up to 10x faster! With FireDownload, download acceleration is seamlessly displayed within the downloads window. Try the ultimate download accelerator!

2. FastestFox – Browse Faster :

Save time by speeding up repetitive tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, see definitions, auto-load the next page, improve searching, and more. FastestFox will dramatically enhance your productivity!

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Access two or more gmail accounts in a same browser, at the same time

August 16th, 2010

Generally, you can access only a single gmail account in a browser at the same time. It’s quite troublesome to sign out one and login another.

Here is a small trick which enables you to login/access two or more gmail accounts.

1. First go to this Link and Login with your gmail account.

2. Click on Edit at “Multiple sign-in”

3. Select “On – Use multiple Google Accounts in the same web browser”. Then also select the check boxes.

4. Then Click on “Save”.

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15 Best and Popular Web Analytics tools for your website

August 11th, 2010

Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. Web analytics is not just a tool for measuring website traffic but can be used as a tool for business research and market research. Web analytics applications can also help companies measure the results of traditional print advertising campaigns. It helps one to estimate how the traffic to the website changed after the launch of a new advertising campaign. Web analytics provides data on the number of visitors, page views, etc to gauge the traffic and popularity trends which help doing the market research. More on web analytics

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