Archive for December, 2009
Breathtaking: New Year’s Fireworks Shows For Celebrating 2010
Happy New Year to all of you. We wish you best of luck and all the success for you in 2010. This is the celebration day everywhere so we thought why don’t we share the colors and creativity of fireworks ceremonies of 2010. In this post, we featured few breathtaking and wonderful videos of fireworks shows from few cities of the world. In the next few hours we will be adding more fireworks ceremony videos from other cities as well. At this moment, I am sure these would be good enough to get inspired.
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Sydney’s New Year’s fireworks display
2010: New Zealand welcomes the new year
2010 Taiwan UP Fireworks Show Taipei
London Fireworks on New Year’s Day 2010
16 Popular Website Redesigns Of 2009
This post is dedicated to the redesigning of websites in 2009. This post will give you an opportunity to express your criticism or to show your love for these redesigned websites . Overall, websites showing in this list are simple, sleek and decent having a look of current web 2.0 trend. The usage of color scheme, font selection and look and feel of presentation is really cool and attractive. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them in detail it will must boost your creative logo design ideas professionally and motivate you to design your new website in a way that people will never forget that you have made it. This is a list of 16 Popular Website Redesigns Of 2009 For Your Inspiration and Information.
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69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009
The year 2009 is almost ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2010. I hope designers, developers and programmers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. They are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009 at Work. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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An easier and faster solution for cross-browser testing. You can preview and test your web pages on leading browser and operating systems. This will help you get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the internet.
Are you stuck sharing feedback in text documents and email? Notable makes it possible to put your feedback directly on the webpage, highlighting your points exactly. With Notable you can quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser.
With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. With Google Calender, you can let your family and friends see your calendar, and view schedules that others have shared with you. You can get event reminders via email or have text messages sent right to your mobile phone.
With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
Zapproved is a lightweight Web tool that makes group decision-making faster, easier and more accountable. It is a unique solution that introduces peer-to-peer and organizational techniques to improve the process of building consensus.
With PhotoSnack it’s easier than ever to upload photos, create great photo slideshows, and share them with your friends and family. And by the way, it’s free.
You can use this service for free online storage and document sharing. You can store files up to 5GB, and share with anyone, and collaborate on a single document. It will allow you to view Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from your Web browser.
ConceptFeedback could be a great idea for marketers, designers and developers, provides a free and simple tool for getting third-party reviews on design concepts. Concepts may be posted publicly or privately and can include websites, logos, advertisements, videos, and more.
DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
This is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. You can upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional. This is so easy to use, it saves your time and gets you paid faster. You’ll actually love invoicing. You can keep track of your expenses, for both projects and yourself and easily re-bill clients on project expenses.
Glasscubes brings together a collection of online collaboration tools which facilitate better team working and improved communication. It will help you to replace email or existing methods of collaborating by using their online collaboration tools that simply enable users to improve how they work together. Glasscubes is perfect for small/medium size organizations, teams and people organizing projects.
With Remindo you can connect, share and collaborate with your team and clients. It will help you to create your company branded intranet in minutes and access it from anywhere on the web. Use it free for up to 3 GB of storage.
HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success. HootSuite lets you manage your entire Twitter experience from one easy-to-use interface.
Color Scheme Designer is a brand new interface, as well as the engine, all rewritten from the scratch. Rapidly increased precision and color space conversions, better preview, enhanced scheme creation system, unique scheme IDs and permanent URL of the scheme.
Mint is a modern, powerful, easy and secure web–based solution for online financial management. You can register anonymously using any valid email address, and then add the log–in information for the online bank, credit union, credit card and investment accounts you want to consolidate in Mint.
You can 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, you can do it entirely free.
CeeVee is really easier and smarter way to create and share your résumé with anyone. It can simplify the process of posting your resume online.
The web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
PHPanywhere is a new online service that’s changing the way people develop on the web. They enable users to develop and maintain their php/html projects online using any standard web browser.
Zamzar is dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats. You can easily convert 1GB file. Its gives you 100GB inbox to store your files.
For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
TimeBridge is a web application that makes it incredibly easy to schedule and lead great meetings and follow up after you meet. This could be your best tool for calendar-wrangling, agenda-making, note-taking, team-motivating and a secret weapon in the battle against workplace inefficiency.
Quicken Online simplifies Internet banking by automatically organizing your financial accounts “ including checking, savings, investments, loans and credit cards “ in one place. You can use Quicken Online to easily and automatically track your spending so you know very easily where to save and when to spend and the best part is, it’s free.
CodeRun Studio is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE), designed for the cloud. It enables you to easily develop, debug and deploy web applications using your browser.
CoTweet is a platform that helps companies reach and engage customers using Twitter. You can manage up to six Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login and assign tweets to your colleagues for follow up. Finally, a way to Get Things Done on Twitter.
Creately is an Online Diagramming and Design is a joy to use. Its designed for ease of use and collaboration. It takes ‘easy’ to a whole new level by intelligently adapting to the kind of diagram you are drawing. Creately has been designed so you can draw just about anything, fast and easy.
Bidsketch is an application that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful proposals. Multiple ways to present your proposals ensure clients get what they want. You can export to PDF or share online. Every client gets a portal that lets them view and comment on their proposals.
Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors.
Go2Convert is a set of free web based tools that allow you to convert, resize a picture without having to install any software on your computer. It is not meant to be a complete Image editing software package. It is meant to be an easy to use solution to convert, resize your pictures and digital photos without the need to learn a complex software package. Once you convert, resize an image, you can choose to copy image’s URL or download it directly to your computer – It doesn’t get easier than that.
Taweet is a social calendar and event promotion application for Twitter. Taweet adds a whole new dimension to your Twitter experience.
If you’re wondering whether it’s a good idea to paint your kitchen red, you can test it with Colorjive. It just takes a few clicks. You don’t even have to pick up a brush. You can paint virtually with Colorjive. They have got thousands of colors for you to choose from. They have a basic account that is absolutely free. With a free account, you can upload a single photo, paint three objects in that photo and save three different versions.
Verb is a user focused task management and sharing application. If you have things that need to be done, then this is for you. Verb was built with individuals and small teams in mind. It is the perfect solution for freelance designers and coders who want to manage themselves and their collaborations.
Having a good uptime is essential for the success of your website. 247webmonitoring will monitor it 24X7 from their servers and notify you whenever it goes down. This will check your website every 15 minutes to know it is up. They will send you notification by email or SMS when it goes down. So you can quickly fix the issue and you can stay happy. This way you can relax and focus on your core business. In future, you will also find out how fast your site is from different location.
Tracer is a brand new way to generate more visits and page views. You can get credit when content is copied from your site. It will help you to measure and understand user engagement and Improve your search engine ranking.
Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code. Most of us have to cleanup the HTML code manually in our working life. This web tool defintely help all of us in that situation and you also find this worth bookmarking.
Timetonote is a web based collaboration tool that helps you and your team keep track of all interactions with customers, leads, or anyone important to your business. It helps you keep track of your contacts information and of what needs to be done next about them. With Timetonote, you know who you’ve talked to, what you talked about, and what you need to do next.
MyFontbook is an unique online font viewer that helps save designers time by providing a number of tools to view installed fonts quickly and easily. Unlike a classic font management tool, MyFontbook is platform independent and can be used freely through any web browser.
An intuitive interface makes managing tasks fun. You can set due dates easily with next Friday or in 2 weeks. It has an extensive keyboard shortcuts make task management quicker than ever. Remember The Milk allows you to receive reminders via email, SMS, and instant messenger (AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Skype and Yahoo! are all supported).
ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.
Preezo is an Ajax web application that gives you the power to create and share professional quality presentations over the web without software or plugins.
This is a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything. Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free.
MyFax Free lets you send a fax at no charge through the Web to 41 countries including the US, Canada, most of Europe, China, Japan, and South Korea. MyFax supports 178 files types including files created by most popular word processors and graphics programs.
With Shareflow you can share your team conversations so everyone involved can clearly see what’s being said, and you can all get more done. The more you use email, the more work you create for your team. Important information gets lost in the shuffle. The Shareflow bookmarklet gives you one-click access to post content from the web to any of your flows. You can use the bookmarklet with Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Gmail to share your email on a flow. Create multiple flows to organize different projects or teams. You can add or remove someone at any time and invited members can create their own flows, so different teams can work amongst themselves.
Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
Present.ly is an award-winning microblogging platform that keeps your company connected in real-time. Increase your team’s productivity by posting updates, sharing files, exchanging ideas, and more.
Creating your own website with Moogo is incredibly easy. Moogo offers you a simple way of creating your own easy-to-update website with style even if you have never created a website in your life before. Moogo is perfect for individuals, small businesses, clubs and organizations, sport teams, real estate…or making a website for your band or your pet.
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems.
Pict is a free image hosting service that lets you upload and share your images with one click.
You can upload images up to 3.5Mb, JPG/PNG/GIF formats supported, it has automatic image resizing, multiple uploading & much more.
Clicktotweet is the best, easiest and simplest way to promote your stuff on Twitter. Now, whoever clicks on the link will have the message automatically added to their Twitter status box, then they simply click to tweet.
Task.fm is a realy simple reminder and task management tool. Just use task.fm to create reminders that can be dilivered via sms, email or voice call. Task.fm is smart enough to understand your natural lnguage so you don’t need to bother entering daters manually. Instead, just type something like “meeting with bob next Tuesday at noon” and they will pick out the date, time and event automatically. You can create reminders on the task.fm site, through email or Twitter. Task.fm is free and allows you to create an unlimited number of reminders.
Font Burner is the easiest way to add great fonts to your website. Just pick one of over 1000 quality fonts, add a chunk of code to your site, then sit back and admire your beautiful typography.
With Live Mesh, you can synchronize, share and access files with all of your devices, so you always have the updated copy of your files. It’s very simple and easy that you can now access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file. The best of all this service is powered by Microsoft and absolutely free for everyone.
Ta-da List is a simple tool that lets you create to-do lists. It’s really useful and absolutely free. Ta-da List is the web’s easiest to-do list tool. You can make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn’t be simpler but Ta-da List is the web’s simplest and fastest to-do list maker.
A fast service where you can copy/paste your code, recipe, anything else and give the link to your friend. You can select your preferred languages and possibility to edit pastes. This service support for a large number of syntaxes that you would need.
Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two “Buckets” Follow meaning you wish to follow them back and Ignore meaning you don’t wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter.
Cozi is a free web service that helps families manage crazy schedules, track shopping and to-do lists, organize household chores, stay in communication and share memories”all in one place.
Server Check is the online server checking resource. You can check if a website is working or if a server is offline, lookup a server’s IP address, search for other domain names and websites hosted on a server.
Twitterfeed is a free service that will automatically tweet any post directly via your rss feed on twitter that you publish on your blog.
Box.net’s online file storage makes it easy to securely share content as a link or a shared folder with anyone inside or outside your company. This will help you create an online workspace where you can share project files, add comments, assign tasks, start discussions or create new content.
EmailTheWeb is the only web-based service that allows you to email any web page to any one. The entire web page is emailed in a flash and is captured as it is now. Your recipient will see the same exact page as you.
Cometdocs is a one of its kinds free online document conversion interface that offers a large set of document conversions that can’t be found anywhere else online. Its unique features include on the fly OCR conversion capabilities, over 50 different conversion options and proprietary XPS and PDF conversion abilities that retains formatting, images and text in the selected output format. And best of all its available free of charge for everyone.
Ronin is a flexible application designed for creative professionals looking for an easy, affordable, web-based way of managing clients and invoices. You can send invoices and estimates in multiple currencies. The dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of account activity for all of your staff users. Quickly access existing invoices and create new clients. Manage your account with simplicity.
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.
The only thing that people can do through email that they can’t do with Twitter is send files. Now with TweetaFile, you can. Pictures, videos, documents… whatever you want to share with your followers or individuals, you can do it with Tweetafile.
imgur is the simple image sharer. It’s the best way to host your image, and is always completely free. Sharing your images has never been easier.
Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogs, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.
DocJax is a search engine for documents, which allow you to search documents and e-book from everywhere, preview them and even download them for free.
With Checkvist you can easily work with multiple outlines or hierarchical to-do lists. Extensive use of keyboard navigation and shortcuts allows you to create an outline exactly with your typing speed.
35 Exceptional Logo Rebranding Of 2009 For Your Inspiration
This is the post dedicated to the logo rebranding in 2009 of few renowned brands. This post will give you an idea in one place for great logo design trends in this age. It helps you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new logo for his client or himself. Overall, logos showing in this list are simple, sleek and decent having a look of current web 2.0 trend. The usage of color scheme, font selection and look and feel of presentation is really cool and attractive. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them in detail it will must boost your creative logo design ideas professionally and motivate you to design your new logo in a way that people will never forget that you have made it. This is a list of 35 Exceptional Logo Rebranding In 2009 For Your Inspiration and Information.
If you want to share more logo that has been rebranded in 2009 please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ)
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)
Thanks to Brand New that is the source of Logos above.
Awesome Photos Captured By Photographers With Great Timing
Today, we are showing you Awesome Photos Captured By Photographers With Great Timing. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
You are welcome if you want to share more creative photographs and images that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
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Thunderbolt over the sea by nini_filippini
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Snowball Fights by Eibo-Jeddah
Hungarian skies by realityDream
Let’s Share, Collaborate And Communicate With Glasscubes
Glasscubes brings together a collection of online collaboration tools which facilitate better team working and improved communication. It will help you to replace email or existing methods of collaborating by using their online collaboration tools that simply enable users to improve how they work together. Glasscubes is perfect for small/medium size organizations, teams and people organizing projects.
Glasscubes takes project management online and using a combination of features and tools addresses the key challenges faced by project managers. Their version control feature is perfect if you need to work from the latest version of a document, and need to find it quickly. Rather than having multiple versions scattered across multiple computers and email addresses, keep them stored in one place – and always keep the latest version available. You can then comment – sending notifications at any stage.
Built-in contact management systems allow users/organizations to improve the way they manage their contacts. Often a little simpler than traditional customer relationship management systems, contact management systems focus on delivering improved ways of managing your contacts. Improving your contact management is proven to save time and money.
Organisations across the world meet with many obstacles. The latest is ensuring your are prepared for significant downtime this winter due to swine flu (H1N1). If predictions are correct, nearly 30% of the national workforce is going to be struck with it (and that’s before we consider parents who are required to be at home for sick children). What is important therefore is having a resource in place, such as an online intranet solution which can be securely accessed from anywhere by any computer – ensuring your employees can still communicate and work – even when they are unexpectedly away from the office.
Salient Features
- Share files and documents
- Branded workspaces
- Online discussions
- Online document editing and previews
- Share online workspaces with project contributors
- Share any size or type of document
- Calendars per project and per individual
- Tasks to manage key milestones
- Facilitate online discussions
- Make announcements
- SMS and email notifications
- Manage individuals and companies
- Track sales opportunities
- Manage customer issues
- Manage call backs, meetings and progress
- Create your own custom fields
- Import contacts from any .csv file
Colorful Illustrations of Santa Claus
Here are few beautiful illustrations of Santa Claus on the special day of Christmas. We hope you will enjoy this post as it has different style of colorful artwork and digital creations. These are the wonder creations of artists and painters who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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Santa Claus Poster by TAMER KOSELI
Hurries of Santa Claus by Ruskatukka
P&G Santa Claus by Thodoris Tibilis
Santa Claus by cannella-cannella
Santa’s Workshop by RobbVision
Santa Claus Commission by raccoon-eyes
LayerOnline: Need For Speed – Google loves it fast
Professional bloggers and webmasters know that nowadays having good content on a website is not good enough to rank high in Google and other search engines. The ranking is also determined by the loading speed of your website. The faster the better. The loading speed also directly determines the cost of CPC for your AdWords campaigns. No matter how good your content is, if your landing page loads slowly, it would directly be taxed on your CPC. Therefore, SEO experts, bloggers and webmasters are constantly looking for faster web hostings. Unfortunately, many hosting companies are unable to meet the need for their users. Their web services are often overloaded or down, left alone fast web hosting. That’s where LayerOnline comes in. Now, bloggers and webmasters are able to gain an unfair advantage in website speed with LayerOnline.
LayerOnline web hosting was designed from the ground up to be digg, slashdot and stumbleupon effect ready. We understand the needs for speed and uptime of website users. Our web hosting is able to outperform our competitors by 60 times or more, and able to maintain 100% uptime even under digg effect. How do we do it? In this article we will explain some of the technologies we use.
Under the Hood
LayerOnline uses many optimization technologies, the most noticeable ones are FastCGI, PHP Opcode Cache, and HTTP Compression. We also offer many features such as free DDOS-Protection, unlimited inodes and we are one of the greenest hosting companies.
FastCGI
There are three ways of serving PHP webpages under Apache Web Server:
- CGI/suPHP
- Apache PHP Module
- FastCGI
With CGI/suPHP method, a PHP process is called each time a php page is hit, and quit after the page is served. This means for each php page hit, it requires one PHP process. Each PHP process takes quite a bit of memory and is slow to initialize. The constant running and quitting of PHP processes also stress the server, making it slower. The CGI method doesn’t scale well since if there are 100 page requests at the same time, there would be 100 PHP processes running, and 1000 PHP processes if there are 1000 page requests, which will soon cause memory errors and eventually bring down the server. With PHP running as an Apache module, there is only one PHP engine per Apache process, so no need to run another PHP process, hence saving some memory. However, there are also issues with this approach. Some PHP extensions are not made to be thread-safe and can cause problem in this setup, also if the PHP engine crashes, it would bring down the entire Apache web server because it is part of the Apache process. Running PHP as a module also means that if Apache is serving a long PHP request, it cannot serve other HTTP requests. Also if you don’t have any PHP-based websites, you still need to load the PHP module in each Apache process, wasting memory.
FastCGI solves both problems of CGI/suPHP and Apache PHP module. FastCGI serves PHP pages from a PHP application server seperated from Apache. Apache serves all regular HTTP requests and passes all PHP requests to the application server. This setup is the most efficient since FastCGI process is always alive and ready to serve, offload the heavylifting work from Apache. Therefore in this setup, Apache server is more stable, uses less memory and can serve more HTTP requests faster. This is the method which LayerOnline uses.
Unfortunately, most hosting companies are still in the CGI/suPHP era, because FastCGI is expensive and complicate to setup. Since the CGI/suPHP solution doesn’t scale well, to prevent the servers from overloading and crashing, these hosting companies need to quickly suspend users with the most PHP processes during peak load, cause loss of money and troubles for the website users.
If you like to see some benchmark numbers for FastCGI, you can check out Brandon’s blog.
PHP Opcode Cache
Each PHP page must be compiled into machine code before it can be executed. This compiled binary is also known as the opcode. Without a PHP opcode cache, the compiled binary is simply discarded after execution, and must be recompiled for each page hit, resulting in wasted CPU cycles. There are three main opcode caches in PHP world: Eaccelerator, APC and XCache. LayerOnline supports all three. In LayerOnline’s setup, Eaccelerator is loaded by default, APC and XCache are loaded on-demand by the applications. These opcode caches are compatible and can accelerate all PHP applications. For popular PHP applications such as WordPress and Drupal, they go even further by detecting and integrating opcode cache’s APIs to accelerate many of their internal functions.
HTTP Compression
All major web browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Opera support HTTP compression which can download web pages at up to 90% faster. However, the web server must support this technology. There are two types of HTTP compression methods: gzip and deflate. LayerOnline support both of them. Many popular PHP applications are able to make use of this technology and therefore able to send the web pages at a much faster rate. LayerOnline servers also cache all the cacheable compressed pages in memory so no CPU cycles are wasted.
The Result
So, do all these speed optimizations really improve ranking? Do they really pay off? If they are as good as LayerOnline claims to be, how well do they do for LayerOnline’s own search engine rankings? Does LayerOnline really offer the fastest blog hosting? Well, check out our ranking with the following keywords in Google, Bing and Yahoo:
fastest blog hosting
fastest forum hosting
fastest php hosting
fastest web hosting
fastest wordpress hosting
fastest joomla hosting
fastest drupal hosting
fastest phpbb hosting
fastest vbulletin hosting
fastest ffmpeg hosting
fastest green hosting
fastest <keyword> hosting…
Try your favorite search keywords relate to hosting above, chances are LayerOnline is either 1st position or within the first page. Wait, there is more, try some search phrases related to hosting speed, reliability and features, such as:
highest performance <keyword> hosting
fastest <keyword> webhost
100% uptime <keyword> hosting
green hosting <keyword>
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…
You can probably come up with hundreds of them, too many to list here. That’s one page against millions of keyword optimized homepages and subpages, and those hosting companies with higher page rankings. Not bad is it? So what Google has to say about LayerOnline? Try these searches:
fastest reliable <keyword> hosting
cheapest fastest <keyword> hosting
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world’s cheapest fastest reliable <keyword> hosting
So there you go, according to Google, LayerOnline is world’s cheapest, fastest and most reliable blog/web hosting. Well, with less than $2/month and $6.99 domain names, FastCGI, 100% uptime guarantee and all the fantastic features, you be the judge.
Colorful Collection Of Must-Have Free Christmas Resources (Exclusive Designers Kit)
Christmas day is just coming and every one is getting prepared for himself to celebrate this holidays with much more enjoyments. Designers are also excited in this Christmas as well to come up with exclusive designs specially for Christmas. Sometimes, general users also love to use or change their wallpapers on the desktop as per the currently going events. For everyone like you, we have compiled a list of Must-Have Collection Of Free Christmas Resources (Exclusive Designers Kit). I hope designers will surely like this collection as well all the other guys will love it as it has lots of resources like icons, wordpress themes, tutorials, wallpapers, cards and much more. So enjoy the collection of resources, And yes Happy Christmas in advance!
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Inforama, A Powerful Document Automation System For Enterprises
Inforama is a Java based Document Automation system which allows document templates to be created quickly and easily using OpenOffice. Templates are populated with data from parameters, databases and other datasources before being generated into PDFs for printing and emailing.
They have recently releaseVersion 1.4 that includes some significant enhancements and bug fixes including the following…
- Merge OpenOffice documents on the server and export to multiple formats including .pdf and .doc
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