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Application Programming Interfaces

June 10, 2005 | In software | No Comments

From the July 2005 issue of PC World magazine:

To take advantage of a site’s API, you need some knowledge of common Web programming tools. Google’s downloadable API kit contains a manual on how to use it, along with sample Java and .Net code. Flickr provides a wealth of APIs, as well as code samples. You’ll find documentation and more for Amazon’s APIs here; Yahoo’s is here.

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KeePass Password Manager

June 9, 2005 | In software | 1 Comment KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

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ASP Website Builder

June 9, 2005 | In web design | No Comments

If you like ASP.

EzASPSite,is a simple to install complete basic ASP WebSite that can be easily adapted to fit your Website needs. It contains all the basics to get your very own ASP driven website up and running in minutes.

Powered by the great Web Wiz Forums and GuestBook. It is ideal for anyone who is looking to create a personal or business website. It also can be used as a community portal with a membership capability developed off the Web Wiz Forums core. The integrated html editor makes it easy for those with little html experience to easily design webpages for their site.

This is the best way to get started off with your own website and have the capabilities to continually expand from.

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Marketleap Search Engine Marketing Tools

June 8, 2005 | In marketing | No Comments

Link Popularity Check is one of the best ways to quantifiably and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total number of links or “votes” that a search engine has found for your website.

Marketleap has designed this link popularity tool to help website owners find out who is linking to their site, but also to give a useful benchmarking report to quickly show where you stand in comparison to competitors and other major online players.

Search Engine Saturation simply refers to the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website domain. Not all search engines report this information but enough of them do to create some meaningful benchmarks for your search engine marketing campaigns.

Keyword Verification. Our verification tool checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword. It’s important to be in the top 3 pages of a search result because most people using search engines don’t go past the 3rd page.

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How to Pitch

June 6, 2005 | In blogging | No Comments Mediabistro shows you how to pitch story ideas to dozens of media outlets including Fast Company, Wired and Slate. There are articles on Getting Started in journalism, as well. Good stuff for aspiring professional bloggers.

For a chuckle read Gizmodo’s How To Write Technology Reviews: Our Insider�s Tips.

Check out People Finders to track down that hard-to-find person you really want to interview.

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100 Free Fonts

June 2, 2005 | In web design | No Comments Top 100 free fonts from DaFONT. Here’s an example of the Blade Font:

10 Signs You May Have Webular Standarditis

June 1, 2005 | In web design | No Comments

1. You suffer night sweats and heart palpitations after dreaming you are being chased by swarms of angry divs.
2. You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, and the Future Unemployed.
3. When blowing out your birthday candles, you wish first for your site to validate, second for world peace.
4. You experience guilt and remorse after using three break tags on one page.
5. The preschool teacher complains your child won’t color inside or outside the lines�she’ll only indicate colors on a separate sheet.
6. You are overcome with nausea in the dining room department at IKEA.
7. You live in an apartment, have hay fever and don’t know a petunia from a radish, but you mutter frequently to your spouse about “being in the garden.”
8. Your Visa hits an all-time high from ordering Eric Meyer CSS books.
9. You have disturbing fantasies of TP-ing Bill Gates’ house, wearing only a cardboard box.
10. In a moment of road rage, you call another driver a “spacer.gif�an alt-less spacer.gif.”

10 Signs You May Have Webular Standarditis
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