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Top 5 Mozilla Firefox Add-ons[Extensions]

February 23, 2011 Leave a comment

As everyone knows mozilla firefox is a safest and fastest browser in all the browser categories.Here is the statistics for usages in browser by the users in 2009 , 2010 and 2011 till now.

Source:w3schools.com

There are tons of addons available on the net for mozilla firefox which can improvise the functionality of the browser.These extensions are free to download as well.As there are lots of addons available, its always very hard to choose which is the best for you.Though its completely depends on the users choice and needs they can select one or more and add into their browser but here is a snap shot on the basis of statistics given in the site on Weekly reviewed,popularity and downloads.

1. Adblock Plus

2. Video DownloadHelper

3. NoScript

4. FlashGot

5. Greasemonkey

These are the top 5 add-ons  which i got it from http://addons.mozilla.org and sharing with you.There are other plenty of extensions available for us to make our web experience better and smarter.

Let us know which add-ons did you like the most?

Youtube – Life in a Day

February 22, 2011 Leave a comment

On July 24th 2010 youtube launched a project called “Life in a Day”-The story of single day on earth, where thousands of people around the world participated in this campaign and they uploaded the videos of their lives to youtube.Life in a Day will be a documentary film based on the real life single day story of different people  around the world directed by Kevin Macdonald a Oscar Winning Director and Produced by Ridley Scott.This documentary film will be released later in 2011.

For more information on Life in a Day campaign check it out youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday

As a part of this campaign Amit Agrawal a famous and well known blogger from India has also uploaded a documentary video on his daily routine life  in Youtube-Life in a Day campaign.

Amit’s Website : http://labnol.org

How To Get The Ideas To Write A Blog Post

February 18, 2011 Leave a comment

Finding the ideas for the blog post may be an easy task for those who are experienced and veteran in the blogging industry but this is not the case of the beginners. For beginners this part must be the toughest one because present arena of the blogging there are many quality content are already exists and meet that kind of quality will take some time and patience for them.

Here are some key ideas which i found from my experience i would love to share with you guys with the hope that you will like it.

1. When your question became a solution : This is very true when comes to finding any idea about anything.Lets take example of writing a unique blog post.you put your whole energy in finding what should i write then suddenly one idea sparkled in your brain(left brain 🙂 ) why can’t i write on this “How to get the idea for blog post”.That’s it ..you got it !!!

2. Brainstorming : This is a very powerful technique to getting ideas or finding solution for any concern.Mostly this technique will give you a positive and innovative  results.

3. Getting clue from other blog or content : Just imagine you are breaking your head for your blog post and you are getting nothing coming to you.Try sometime not to put pressure on your brain,better start reading other blogs on the same niche which you have and may be you can get some idea from them to write something new for your blog.But here i would like to advice you please get just idea from other content or blog post please don’t ever duplicate those contents on your blog.This is violation of the webmaster guidelines.

4. Let Your Mind Free : Always a great idea will come in a free mind so let your mind free like a bird.Let it go wherever he wants to go.Don’t be misunderstood on this(Let it go wherever he wants to go) because right now your mind is inside the sphere of search of blog post so your whole concentration would be on your topic itself.

5. Be Sharp and Watchful : Ideas are everywhere only thing is you have to have very sharp and watchful.Be always sharp,active and watchful ideas will come to you without any hassle.

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Content Farms: A Threat to Quality Content

February 17, 2011 Leave a comment

Its been always a headache for any search engine company to detect and prevent webspam from their search results and now content farms became another headache for them.Since Google is a most used search engine on the net, so its a big challenge and huge responsibility for them to provide safe ,useful and informative results for users.

Now a question arises here “what the hell this content farms is?

Content farms is thousands of low quality and uninspired contents which is written for just to drive more traffic out of that make lots of money.Because these contents are based on the highly searched niche or keywords so they get good rank and appears in the front page of the search results.

Recently Matt Cutts has written in the Google official blog about the new Google Chrome extension which is going to help the users to prevent from the web devil such “Content Farms”.

How this new Chrome extension will help to prevent from the content farms?

As Matt Cutts has written in the Google blog

Today we’re launching an early, experimental Chrome extension so people can block sites from their web search results. If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results.

Source:The Official Google Blog

As Mr Cutts has mention in the blog and ask the readers,writers,blogger and all those internet users to block those sites using the new Chrome extension,which they think that is a content farms sites.

Install Google Chrome Extension from here : Personal Blocklist By Google


How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog Using WiseStamp Browser Addon

February 16, 2011 Leave a comment

There are lot of smart ways to drive more traffic to the blog and WiseStamp browser addon is one of them.I would say this browser addon is one of the best for users which can allow  us to customize the email signature with their latest tweets,recent blog post,Facebook status,eBay items and many more.

It gives us the facility to add many social services and profiles like facebook,twitter,Linkedln,Yahoo,Gmail,AOL,Hotmail and many more.Once you install and added this addon in your browser automatically it will insert your customized signature in your outgoing mail.Have a look…

How WiseStamp drives more traffic on your blog ?

As plenty of social networking applications supports this addon and many of them you must be using it so all the latest activity will be shown and sent through your outgoing mails everyday.This will bring many organic visitors on your blog on daily basis.So i think this is the smart way to drive more traffic on your blog.

How to Install WiseStamp browser addon ?

Installing wisestamp in the browser is a very easy process.Before i proceed i would like to mention here Wisestamp addon will support almost all the well known browser.

1. Go to the website http://www.wisestamp.com/ and click on Install

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4. Once addon installed in the browser it will ask to restart the browser.

5. After restarting the browser WiseStamp preferences window will pop up.A small window will ask you whether you would like to have a quick tour – that depends on you either you can click start to quick look on this tour or just close this small window.

6. This is the configuration part here we can customize the signature and feed all the required data.We can also insert the picture left before your signature.

7. Once you done feeding all the data in required applications and services then you are done.

8. Now you try composing any mail … amazing perhaps this is right word came out from me perhaps yours too 🙂

I liked this addon so much what about you ?