Posts under ‘Online Tools’ Category

The best uptime monitoring tool: Pingdom

You know when you sign up for your website hosting, they always give you that 99.9% with conditions. Basically, a 99.9% means that your site should not be down for more than 43.2 minutes in a month. The total number of minutes in a month is about 43200 minutes or 720 hours. So, 0.1% of downtime is actually very minimal. Out of this much time, your host should only down… Continue reading

Try Bing Desktop Search (No reason why)

Well, too many questions here. First, Google had a similar product earlier, the Google Desktop. Which sat on your computer indexing all your files and additionally letting you search the internet right from the desktop. It was a nice idea but not something that people found really useful, as probably they already had gotten used to the way of searching via the browser or search tabs on browsers. I was… Continue reading

An Online Marketing Project Management Tool

When it comes to project management for online marketing (including SEM & SEO), there aren’t many tools available dedicated to the stream. Many online marketing folks I know use either their own custom made in-house tools (which are mostly ported from other intranet CRM like platforms) or a set of free tools or general purpose project management tools (like Basecamp). Project Management Tasks in Online Marketing There are lot of… Continue reading

How to Use Pinterest for Business

So Pinterest is blowing up the blogosphere, social media and growing at an alarming rate. No doubt, it’s the new experiment for social media gurus. Everybody’s money is on Pinterest. And amidst all the hype, we have an E-Book on how to use Pinterest for business! From the awesome team at Hubspot, this one comes at the right time with the right thing. Go grab it! What it Offers?… Continue reading

Download Adobe PDF Reader for iPhone, iPad

Adobe Reader, the universal tool used by millions worldwide to read PDF files on their computer, has now been ported to Apple’s iOS as a free native application.

With the new iOs Adober Reader app, you can view PDFs on your iPhone or iPad.

According to Adobe –
Easily and efficiently access the widest range of PDF file types—including PDF Portfolios, password-protected PDF documents and Adobe LiveCycle rights-managed… Continue reading

Find best web hosting plans based on site traffic requirements

Every time you need a new website hosting plan, it’s a riot choosing the best hosting plans. They come in all convenient sizes, VPS, Shared, Dedicated with bandwidth limit, without limit and what not.

One thing I’ve learned over the years, is that these “packages” are an eye wash. When they say unlimited bandwidth, that doesn’t really mean unlimited. You won’t figure it out unless you read the terms… Continue reading

Heatmap plugin for WordPress: Click Heat Dynamo

Webmasters do a lot of guessing. Which ads would users be clicking more, which pages are read more and the like. Google Analytics give you a good level of understanding but when it comes to the fine details, like which area of the website gets more clicks, which links are navigated more etc, Google Analytics cannot give you the exact details. This is where heatmaps  can help you. And they… Continue reading

Voice to voice translation with Google Android App

Imagine you’re in Tokyo, you don’t speak Japanese and you need to ask a person there a question. And he doesn’t speak English either. Tough situation right? Google has released its updated version of Voice to Voice translation app which should help in situations like above. The good thing is that it supports lot of languages. The Voice to Voice translation App has a conversation mode, where in you select… Continue reading

WordPress Plugin to mask affiliate links: Link Cloaking

Let’s say you have hundreds of affiliate links on your website. And all those affiliate links are ugly with long urls that if detected by an user would be avoided given a chance. But you still want people to click through your affiliate links and possibly drive you some sales. In such situations the solution is a link cloaker plugin.
What is Link Cloaking plugin – what does it do?… Continue reading

Free Reverse Phone Lookup Services

What is Reverse Phone Lookup Service?

A reverse telephone lookup service directory (also known as a gray pages directory, criss-cross directory or reverse phone lookup) is a service that let’s you find all the details about a phone number including the customer details. However, unlike a standard telephone directory, where the user uses customer’s details (such as name and address) in order to retrieve the telephone number of that… Continue reading