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Handset Detection Optimizes The Mobile Web Experience

One of the fastest growing segments on the Internet today is the mobile web. More and more people are starting to surf through websites and download a myriad of content onto their cell phones, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Unfortunately, much of the Internet has been designed to be best enjoyed on a full-size computer. For designers and developers, there is an additional issue of addressing all kinds of different mobile devices with different levels of compatibility and different screen sizes.To help address this issue, Handset Detection offers an integrated solution that will direct visitors to the right place depending on their smartphone, cellular phone, or other mobile device of choice.

Search Engine Marketing and Optimisation Security Tips and Tricks

Google.com Powered With SSL For Encrypted Private Searching

If you spends more time on the internet then I am sure you want more control and security over your online communication. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection being used for encrypting information travels on networks. Its usually recognized by a web address containing "https" or a browser lock icon, as we have seen it with many e-commerce or banking sites, well not just for banking and e-commerce, people uses it for private exchange and for processing credential information as well.

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7 Tools And Applications To Help You Save Electrical Power

Leaving our appliances on while we are not using them is a terrible waste of electrical power. There are parts of the world that do not have electricity at all; we should do our part to respect the resources we have and save them whenever / wherever we can.Below you will find a list of 7 tools to prevent wasting electrical power. I believe that each entry in the list serves a useful purpose; read about each one and choose the one (or more than one) that suits you best.

Browsers Tips and Tricks

How To Organize Yourself Using Opera With Agenda

I have just finished writing about an Opera widget which Google users will appreciate. Now, on my path to discover great widgets for Opera, I have found yet another tool that will help anybody who likes to keep a virtual diary.

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Congratulations To The Winners Of Magic Members WordPress Plugin

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Mobile Apps Tools

Skype 2.0 Is Here But With Lack Of Full iPad Support

The new Skype 2.0 has the ability to make calls over 3G networks. However, the down side is that Skype is offering free Skype-to-Skype calls over the 3G network only till August 2010 after which a fee will be charged. Normal Skype-to-Skype calls remain free though.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

Absolutely Amazing Concept Art That Make You Say Wow

One of the most unique and common forms of art on the Internet these days is called concept art. This is a form of illustration where main goal is to convey a visual representation of the design before putting it into the final product. Here are some eye popping examples of concept art created with Photoshop to impress you.

Tutorials

How To Draw Simple Sketches In Opera

If you are an Opera user who has not familiarized himself with its widgets, you are missing the best Opera has to offer.Opera has gone with a completely different direction with its widgets. Unlike Chrome’s extensions or Firefox’s addons that need the browser to function, Opera’s widgets are standalone applications that can be executed without even opening the browser. They can sit neatly on your desktop and can serve a multitude of functions.

Best of the Web Image Tools Tools

9 Cool Websites You Need To Bookmark To Manipulate Your Photos

The most fun way to use image manipulation technology is by using it on our own photographs. Morphing our photos can produce some very amusing results which will surely entertain us. Many websites offer image manipulation services. For you all I have gathered a list of 9 such entertaining website that let us have fun with our images. Check out each entry in the list and you will definitely find something that will manipulate photos to achieve amusing results.

Best of the Web Mobile Apps Tools

10 Great iPhone Apps For Daily Life Usage

Even if you have countless apps already on your iPhone, you are still looking for the next best application out there. That is exactly what makes the iPhone so enjoyable – endless great applications waiting to be discovered. Below you will find a list of 10 great free iPhone applications that I have gathered. All of them are must-have apps to realize your phone’s true potential. Give each one a try.

Extras Rss/feeds Tips and Tricks

Supercharge Your Google Reader & Read Your Feeds In Style With FeedSquares (Chrome Extension)

To read updates on the Blogger pages I am following, I use Google Reader. If you are unfamiliar with Reader, it is Google’s service that lets us read any Atom and RSS feed online or offline. Every since its main release in September 2007, it has been tried out many Google users and is now quite popular.Although I am happy with the convenience that Reader provides (the ability to read all our Atom plus RSS reads on a single dashboard) I feel that Reader’s interface could be revamped and made more visually appealing. One tool that achieves this is FeedSquares.

Best of the Web Operating System

A Quick Look At What Google Chrome OS Can Do

Google is designing an open source operating system called Google Chrome OS. This OS is exclusively designed for web applications. So, if you spends most of your time on web/internet then this is going to be the fast, simple and more secure computing experience for you. This OS was announced on July 7, 2009 and it is expected to be released during second half of 2010.

Browsers Tips and Tricks

Get Google ToolBar On Opera To Improve Productivity

When I read about web browsers online it seems that all the headlines are captured by Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. With their massive library of useful extensions and addons, both these browsers offer a great user experience. But the web browser which I have only recently started to extensively use is Opera. Addons for Opera are called widgets and they, too, provide great convenience to their users.

Search Engine Marketing and Optimisation Tools Web Applications

HP Gloe Helps You Tag And Find Web Content Relevant To Any Location

Nowadays search engines are focusing on content that is relevant to a user’s location. But one cannot rely completely on results generated by any search engine. The results can be biased as search engine optimization techniques can be used by any site owner or blogger.HP is one company that has realized the unreliability of location-related search results on search engines. What they have produced as a result is their own geotagging (sort of) service, called Gloe.

Browsers Tips and Tricks

Double Click Any Word To Get Definition In Chrome With Google Dictionary

Not all people who use the internet are native English language speakers. Mainly due to this reason, many users come across unfamiliar words on websites. Even native English speakers can run into this problem, but less frequently. To understand the unfamiliar word we can look it up in a physical dictionary or preferably, use the internet to look up the word.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

Breathtaking (3D) Portraits That Look Like Real But Aren’t

Computer graphics are continuously turning the digital art into reality and I always wonder to what extent it will go. You may find 3D CG characters and portraits that looks very real and it gives very incredible feeling that how can human characteristic be mimicked by computer graphics. This 3D art is too realistic to be mistaken as actual photographs. You won’t believe it? Let’s take a look at these CG portraits. You will surely be mesmerized and get motivated to create your own. I hope that you enjoy these amazing portraits as much as I did!

Chat Contacts and Networking Education and Learning

MicroMobs: Easily Create Real Time Collaborative Chat Groups

Online social networks are a great way to stay in touch with our friends and family. But these networks cannot always be satisfactory. Take Facebook for instance. When we share content on Facebook we do not have full control over who gets to see the content. And with Facebook’s ever changing privacy settings, we cannot get a grip on how the system works.

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Get A SuperCharged Context Menu For All Highlighted Words In Chrome

Chrome is a wonderful browser. Its speed and constant updates keep it ahead of the game. The gaps left in the user interface are quickly filled out by great 3rd party extensions.One type of such extensions pops up a menu of options each time we highlight a word on a webpage. The options in the popup menu can be of searching through a search engine, looking up the meaning or synonyms of the word using a variety of online dictionaries, or even checking which online stores is the ‘word’ available on (if the highlighted text is a product).