December 2, 2008
Last week we did a post on 5 CPA (cost per action) alternatives to Adsense for website monetization. The networks reviewed can potentially make website owners lots of revenue. However they do require much hand-selection and niche targeting. If your website or blog goes over a much broader subject and user base, then “contextual advertisements” [...]
December 2, 2008
A traditional watermark is a variation in the thickness of paper that is visible under certain conditions. Watermarks have been used for security purposes for a long time. They have also been used by paper manufacturers as some indication of quality. In the digital age, watermarks are defined in a different way. There are basically [...]
December 2, 2008
So you are a huge Firefox fan? You have it customised to your liking and are always on the hunt to find out a theme or extension that would make your browsing more productive? Great, then you must keep up with Firefox Vogue with help from Fashion Your Firefox Through Fashion Your Firefox, Mozilla offers [...]
December 2, 2008
With November over and only 3 weeks to Christmas (!), here is a roundup of what we’ve done over the past month. 7 new writers had their first story published, Jason brought out 12 podcasts, but the biggest event of the month was of course the MakeUseOf domain being stolen from us and then being [...]
December 2, 2008
Oosah is a Web 2.0 content hosting service for digital media files, such as photos, videos, music and general audio files. Currently, Oosah offers one Terabyte of storage space. The platform is very intuitive to use, but also offers interesting features for advanced users. Since it is web-based, it should work with any operating system. [...]
December 1, 2008
RSS Feeds have become an essential way to keep up-to-date with many different online sources of information ““ in fact without it, tracking blog updates would be next to impossible. To those of you with a feed addiction, it may come as some surprise to learn that RSS adoption is still surprisingly low across web [...]
December 1, 2008
Who hasn’t noticed those little RSS subscribe buttons (Add to Google, My Yahoo, Netvibes) popping up all over the web like Starbucks in the suburbs? If you’re like me, you were drawn into the gadget-rich world of iGoogle by just one of these buttons. One minute I was trawling for articles, blissfully convinced that Facebook [...]
December 1, 2008
Comments have become an essential component to blogging. Comments allow readers to communicate directly with the blog author and the other readers of that blog. They enhance the value of the information provided in articles without authors having to constantly update posts. The Disqus comment system for WordPress takes commenting to another level with a [...]
December 1, 2008
If your Twitter experience has been a little hum-drum recently, check out these tools to help you make the most out of the biggest microblog network out there! Twitter Classification Script for Greasemonkey One of the most effective ways of quickly gauging the quality of someone you discover on Twitter (maybe you got a notice [...]
December 1, 2008
Jackson has previously covered the Cooliris plugin for the various browsers. In this article, I would like to discuss more about Cooliris for the iPhone. For all those who are still not sure what Cooliris is, it is a browser plugin that enables you to surf the Web with a cinematic style. The wall on [...]
