• Google’s SEO Starter Guide – http://bit.ly/ewho
• SEO Guide for Designers – http://bit.ly/f0aAHL
• SEO Basics -http://bit.ly/wOKVAM
• Beginner’s Guide to SEO – http://mz.cm/fN79RB

Whether you have hired a SEO expert or not, once you are done with optimizing your website, you can keep a track of how well your website is performing using a free tool – Site Seeker.

Site Seeker is a simple, yet effective tool to find out your site ranking against the top search engines for the keywords that you want your customers or readers to find you.

To check how your website is faring, just

1. Enter the search keyword (This will be the keywords that your customers/reader search to get to you)
2. Enter your website’s domain name.
3. Choose the search engine you want to check against. (Currently Site Seeker v2.2 supports Ask, Google, Bing and Yahoo – along with a few regional variants)
4. Click search and the software will sift through the search results and find the position of your website for the keyword!

Simple as that!

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Spam Assassin is a powerful spam filter with its wide global and local (Glocal) network tests, includes regular update of whitelist and blacklist sites.

Administrator can be comfortable in configuring the SpamAssassin, add newrules to the existing text.  As mentioned its an open source project, well its free to use and distribute with certain terms and conditions. Cheers to Apache.org! API is well designed, abstract and logic is powerfully encapsulated. SpamAssassin can be added to existing mail servers or users own mail client suite.

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For Users

The most notable enhancement has been the introduction of the Type Interface feature that accelerates the javascript performance of many heavy-duty websites. As per Mozilla, this feature accelerates javascript execution by over a rate of 30% – which is pretty impressive.

TI is a feature in the SpiderMonkey Javascript engine which generates type information about Javascript programs through a combination of analyzing the program’s code and monitoring the types of values as the program executes. This type information is used during JIT compilation to generate more efficient code; Firefox 9 includes modifications to the JaegerMonkey JIT compiler to use inferred type information. This compilation mode, which is the default in Firefox 9, speeds up major benchmarks like Kraken and V8 by over 30%, and gives a large speed boost to many JS heavy websites.

Second is a much welcome upgrade likely to improve the experience of MacOS X Lion users. The change added theme integration and also two-finger swipe navigation to the OS X version of firefox.

The update also fixed a lot of security and stability issues where users had reported crashes due to some large instances of the HTML5 <video> implementations.

For Developers

For the developers, the Type Interface gives a chance to add that extra amount of javascript functionality to make their websites snazzier – however, to provide a consistent user experience across multiple browsers, developers may refrain from going ahead with heavy javascript modifications.

Mozilla has also improved upon the standards support for HTML5, CSS (font-stretch, text-overflow) and MathML. And more importantly, the update has added a way to assess if the user has opted for DNT (Do Not Track) using javascript. While this is a great feature, we have to wait and see how many ad agencies and web trackers go ahead and respect its optimal usage.

Recommended Update

Also with Mozilla embracing the auto-update process, Firefox may have already been updated  for you. If not, you do know where to get it from right?

Bleeding Edge

Also, Mozilla has adopted the new bleeding edge release channel called the Aurora that is one-step better than the nightly but not release-ready. If you are up to it, read what we had to say about it and download it here.

During the installation process you are prompted to select either for commercial or personal use. For personal use,  its free and this should not stop you from using teamviewer.

Create session for you to login to your partners PC or wait for the session to authenticate your partner to use your PC. It depends on who wants to remotely use whose PC!

ID generated is session based and varies with each session.

On the successful connection, you can virtually feel the control of your partners PC to the precision and handle it as though you were handling yours.

Start fullversion, its Free!

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SLAX – Amazingly simple, powerful, portable

Open Source (OS) + Operating System (OS)

Slax + OS + OS = SOS ( Sexy, Super, Simple Operating System )

Slax is a linux based operating system and has no racism factor on computers, it can mingle with any machine and socialize well within no time. Its not a hungry resource monster demanding to feed on the processor and RAMs, yet it can deliver all the requirements with ease and happy.

Well, open source projects are free and Slax is a no exception. Provides a good user interface and basic required tools. The most useful aspect of having an OS on external hard drive is that you can no more fear about connecting your flash drive to a virus infected computer, you got it what I meant.

Unzip the Slax and Zip up all the PC problems. You got more way to see and think about your computer  – The Linux way. The slax modules vary from artwork to utilties, so you wont get bored with this operating system.

Chive is a database management tool similar to PhpMyAdmin. It provides a web-based interface to manage all the administrative activities of database management. Chive is a PHP-based plug-n-play web application built on top of the famous Yii PHP framework. Since it is open-source, licensed under GPL, you can even extend its functionality to suit your needs.

Inline Editing

With Chive you can perform basic SQL activities like select, update, insert, alter and more with an aesthetically designed UI coupled with the interactivity of JQuery. All tabular data are inline editable including column attributes – makes your job quicker and easier. Further, inline editing is supported for all column types – TEXT, FILE, DATETIME, ENUM, BLOB etc.

Syntax Aware SQL

You can use Chive to create and test your SQL queries before using them in your application. It provides a syntax aware editing area to create your query. Even complex queries are handled well for good readability and understanding. You can even bookmark these queries to repeatedly use them later on. The bookmark feature is best used for custom maintenance/log queries.

SQL Profiling

Another important part of testing your queries are also analyzing them. If you have a large database and queries that join many tables together, you may want to profile your queries to check its performance. Large applications are known to be bogged down by badly written database queries.

Other Notable Features

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Things need to go better with other over all developments in web world, so Firefox is no separate anymore. There always exist a gap between advancement of technology and follow up, so we can expect better future products again from FireFox.

There are whole lot of features added to Aurora, pop up windows that can be used as a web development tool, and also you have an option of an inspector who tells what the content of the web page is of and of what type… ah all the relevant details of the webpage. Aurora is worth the download.

This story can offer another open source software piece, sliced enough to convince the purpose – jMetrik.

jMetrik is a free and open source software application for classical and modern psychometrics. It includes features for item anlaysis, item response theory and test equating.

Features are too many to specify – summarizing it below

1. Item Response Theory
2. Item Response Theory Equating
3. Test Scaling
4. Frequency Analysis
5. Descriptive Statistics
6. Item Analysis
7. DIF Analysis
8. Pie Charts
9. Bar Charts
10. Histograms
11. Kernel Density Estimation
12. Confirmatory Factor Analysis
13. Nonparametric Item Response Theory Characteristic Curve Estimation

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Whether you’re a consumer, business, government agency, or educational organization, you need to read and annotate PDF documents and fill out PDF forms. You need your PDF Reader to be:

• Fast – so you’re not waiting forever to read files.
• Lightweight – so it’s easily deployable and doesn’t exhaust system resources.
• Secure – so you don’t get infected with viruses and can keep sensitive information safe.
• A Platform – so you can extend the Reader by creating your own value added capabilities for internal use or for resale.

The Foxit Reader is a small, fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, and print any PDF file. Unlike other free PDF readers, Foxit Reader also includes easy to use collaboration features like the ability to add annotations, fill out forms, and share information with social networks. Foxit Reader has a small footprint that starts up instantly, renders PDF files quickly and uses very little memory, which is especially important with today’s handheld devices. The Foxit Reader is packed full of convenient and easy to use viewing, commenting and printing features that make document collaboration simple. Foxit Reader’s secure platform insures worry free operation against malicious virus and provides a secure and reliable digital signature verification platform for exchanging electronics documents without putting the user at risk from falsified documents.

Another truly amazing open source project added to the basket, all your documents can be created with ease and the documents can be ported to other office suite for compatibility purpose.

Create word documents, spread sheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more for free.

Great software

OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years’ software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. The result: OpenOffice.org 3 does everything you want your office software to do, the way you want it to.

Easy to use

OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you’re already using another office software package, you’ll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language. And if you already have files from another office package – OpenOffice.org 3 will probably read them with no difficulty.

and its free!

Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose – domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees – anyone you like.

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