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How To Determine a More Accurate SEO Ranking For Your Site
Search engine optimization. It's a controversial topic these days. Lots of professionals have their own opinions about what constitutes a good SEO strategy. Some people insist that a solid keyword strategy is the only thing that matters, while other SEO pundits lambast the "keyword" contingent. I've been involved in this field long enough now that there are three solid truths in the SEO field, at least as of today.
How to Track What Others Do on Your Computer With iSpy
Have you ever been in a situation where you suspect someone has been using your computer, but you just aren't certain who is doing it and what they're actually doing when they're logged in? This situation comes up more often than you might suspect. The computer use may be completely innocent, or the person may actually be trying to poke around your personal files to discover private information about you.
4 Creative Uses For A VNC Server
Other than just using VNC clients to connect to a remote computer, what can you really use VNC servers for? When you stop and think about it, the ability to connect to and control a remote computer using free software like this is pretty cool. In this article, we are going to put together four remote-control systems that you can use to control various entertainment and display systems throughout your home, from a single, central computer.
Instantly Visualize Data & Information With Google Fusion Tables
Whether you're putting together a report for work, or you just want to represent information on your blog in a graphical way, Google Fusion Tables can help. Google Fusion is actually a feature embedded into Google Docs, that lets you transform raw information that's stored in a tabular or spreadsheet format into a more visually appealing way.
Easily Send Command Line Emails with Blat
Blat. Not exactly the word you envision would be the name of a tool that you can use to send out emails to anyone in the world, from any application or software tool that you desire. It more sounds like the sound that a raw egg makes when it hits the floor. Well, that's exactly what I'm going to introduce to you today, if you've never heard of it before.
How To Control Running Services With The SC Command [Windows]
One of the things that I find myself doing much more often since diving into IT is monitoring and checking the status of services running on computers that are running across the company. There is the standard way of managing services which most people use because it's well-known and fairly easy. But what about another way?
The Top 8 Radio Talk Show Hosts With Online Streaming
While searching for an interesting topic this week, I realized that we've never really covered radio talk show hosts here at MUO. Both David and Dean discussed how you can get started in your own talk show host career by launching an Internet radio show, but what if you're looking for popular radio show hosts to listen to while you're online?
Create Impressive Text Art With ASCII Generator 2 [Windows]
When I was just a kid - about 9 years old - my brother and I would purchase those new computer magazines that had all kinds of neat programs and other "computer tricks" in them. Back then, computer programs consisted of BASIC software that you could type into the terminal a line at a time, save it on the floppy disk and then run it to watch some fun ASCII-based graphics or game flash across the screen.
Organize Your Piles Of Files & Other Stuff With Stuff Organizer [Windows]
One of the things that I've been procrastinating about for a very long time is sorting through all of the pictures, videos, data files and wide assortment of other "stuff" that's scattered throughout my computer like a cluttered basement that's just waiting to be cleaned. The only thing is that I can never find the time to actually tidy up my computer.
Create a Full Page News Ticker Display with CSS & RSS Widgets
If you're a news blogger, the importance of staying up to date on breaking news is critical. Ever since I started covering more news-related events on my own blog, I realized how important it was to constantly monitor real-time news. Since I use two screens with my laptop, I realized that I could set up one screen to be exclusively for streaming incoming news.
Shut Down Unwanted Connections To Your PC With CloseTheDoor
When computers work well, things are pretty cool. Every component of your PC just....works. But when you get one of those nasty little downloads - one of those little scripts or apps that dig its way deep down into the heart of your computer - it can be unnerving. Luckily, there is a new tool you can use to manually go through and clean up those evil processes.
How To Create A Data Backup Tool With SyncToy & VB Script
We've covered a lot of backup solutions here at MUO, and all of these solutions are great, but if you're working in an environment that is wary about free 3rd party software packages, or companies that want to stick with Microsoft products only, then you may find yourself without a good solution. Enter SyncToy and VB Script.
How To Make Your Own Basic Internet Browser Using VBA
When you really stop to think about it, an Internet browser in its simplest form isn't really that impressive an application. I mean, yes, the Internet is amazing by anyone's standards. The concept of linking so many of the world's computers and mobile devices within this massive network, that is epic. But the concept of transferring a text file with special code in it onto a computer screen is not really a big deal.
Put Your Command Line On Steroids With Swiss File Knife [Windows]
Sometimes, the fastest way to accomplish a task such as sorting files or editing text documents is to use quick command line tools. there is a really cool tool called Swiss File Knife (sfk), which extends the sort of scripting set we've all become accustomed to.
Organize Everything In One Place & Link To Files On Your Computer With KeyNote NF [Windows]
One of the most difficult aspects of having so many projects going at once - between being a writer, blog owner, engineer and programmer - is keeping everything sorted and organized. The one thing that consumes a lot of my time is not so much tracking the tasks that I need to do, but re-locating the text files and word documents where I kept notes or created my to-do lists.
Create a Really Useful Personal Information Dashboard Page With Google Sites
Creating webpages used to be such a tedious process. Aside from the hassle with deciding where to publicly host the page, you needed to learn HTML and then figure out how to program the page so that it didn't look like some amateur threw it together. These days, there are countless websites that will let you create a webpage in mere minutes, without any knowledge of HTML whatsoever.
How To Edit Thousands of Wordpress Posts With Just One SQL Command
Growing a blog takes years, and a whole lot of pain and struggle. Then there are the major transitions, when you realize that you have to make some major changes, and it's going to take a whole lot of work. There are a number of major changes I've had to make on my own blog, but one of the most difficult was that I had used a certain manual method to insert Google ads into my blog articles.
3 Ways to Integrate Google Plus Into Your Blog
Well, I finally caved in and adopted Google Plus. It wasn't willingly - with most new fads, I like to wait it out to see if, like 90 percent of most new and exciting online phenomena, it fades away into the ether of cyberspace. In the case of Google Plus, I was instantly reminded of so many other failed projects in the past - Google Wave, Google Video Player, Google Notebook....the list goes on and on.
PRTG Monitor - A Free Bandwidth Meter For PCs In Your Home Network
Have you ever been in a situation where your Internet is just dragging along, while you know that you're the only person on your network, and you're hardly using any bandwidth? There are plenty of tools out there that will help you with analyzing your home network and assist you with increasing your Internet speeds on that network.
10 Occupy Movement Websites You Have To Check Out
Unless you've been living under a rock, then the odds are pretty good that you've heard a little bit about the "Occupy" protests that started in New York City on Wall Street and then spread like wildfire across the country and across the globe. There are actually some very cool "Occupy" websites that have launched since the protests began in October, and I wanted to share a few of them with you.