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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.

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 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.

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.

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).

Best of the Web Mobile Apps Tips and Tricks

11 Websites To Help You Find iPhone App Reviews And Recommendations Easily

Apple has three major devices out that are in popular demand: iPod Touch, iPhone, and now the iPad. In addition to their hardware, what their owners love about them is the availibility of countless applications. From little tasks to big ones, applications for these devices can make jobs easier. Other applications are made for pure entertainment and make owning an iDevice all the more worthwhile.

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Take Your Blog To The Top Of Search Results With SEO PowerSuite

You may have the greatest blog ever with mind-blowing design and captivating content, but if you just sit and wait for people to come and read it, chances are they won't. In today's world you need to get out there and promote your blog to get more eyeballs on your writing. One of the best ways to do it is by optimizing your blog for the search engines.If you take a look at the traffic sources of the top blogs in any niche you'll notice that a large chunk of their visitors come via search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become one of the most effective promotion tools in the blogger's arsenal. But when you blog regularly, reply to comments, and work hard to grow a community around your blog you may not have enough time to invest in SEO, and professional SEOs charge an arm and a leg. So how do you optimize your blog without stealing the time from blogging or forking out for SEO services?

Browsers Tools

Use Google Maps Without Leaving Your Current Page With Mini Google Maps

Google has released many useful products to the internet community. Most of these products are free and many computer users benefit from them. Take Google Maps for instance; it shows us the map of almost any location in the world. All we do is type up the location’s name or its longitude / latitude to obtain its map.

Best of the Web Mobile Apps Tools

Top 5 Software To Secure And Locate Your Lost Cell Phones

Today’s cellphones are mini-diaries in which we store all our information. The smartphones of we use are feature rich and allow us to store text, pictures, videos, and anything we can save electronically. This is why losing a phone is not only a matter of losing our financial investment, but also of losing our personal data.Phone owners therefore, should know what steps can be taken to help them in the event of a lost phone. Here are 5 web services that help users relocate their phones or at least protect their data in case of phone loss or theft.

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Now Control Your Twitter Accounts Via Email

Application developers have created many clients for various social media websites. Most of these clients are targeting at the Facebook and Twitter community. From what I have observed, Twitter clients outnumber the Facebook clients; but Twitter clients often lack originality. Many of these clients are similar to each other and do not offer anything special. Even if they do offer something special, Twitter catches up and makes that ‘special’ feature a built-in Twitter feature.Because of all that, a unique Twitter application is a rarity which is what makes TweetyMail such a wonderful find.

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3 Chrome Extensions To Enhance Your Grooveshark Music Listening Experience

Streaming music online lets us listen to any song without having anything stored on our computer. Moreover since the procedure takes place in our browser, it does not depend on our operating system so any OS user can stream music online.One wonderful online music streaming website is Grooveshark. Visitors can quickly create an account (although an account is not necessary to start streaming music), then go on and create their playlist. Playlists are played within the built-in player of Grooveshark.

Education and Learning Tips and Tricks Tools

HeadMagnet Helps Remembering & Memorizing Names, Faces, Dates, Quotes and More

Our memory always loses some stuff that we do not use regularly. This is something all of us know. This is why some of us do not know fractions anymore and cannot explain them to our children; this is also why we cannot sometimes remember the names of certain celebrities or places.What we need is something that helps us revise everything we do not want to forget. What we need is Headmagnet.

Mobile Apps Tools

Free Cooking Apps That You Can Download On iPhone Today

You find yourself in your apartment, hungry. You had pizza the previous night and do not want to order any fast food. You want to treat your taste buds with something out of the ordinary and delicious.Smartphones like the iPhone can help you out in such situations. If you want to find a new place to eat, then Urbanspoon will be greatly helpful. But if you want to enjoy the fruit of your labor and cook something yourself, then a number of iPhone applications can be used to obtain a unique and tasty recipe.