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Who Isn’t into Wetpaint?

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A wiki is a kind of website that allows anyone to edit it and share stuff like text, photos, videos, etc. Launched on March 6, 2006, Wetpaint is an example of a free wiki hosting service which lets people easily create a free wiki website for sharing and collaborating. Its wiki service can be used for several purposes and even non-techie people can utilize Wetpaint without learning html coding. You can start by choosing what your site is going to be about, then select a style for your site and choose whether you want your wiki to be public or private. The registration process is hassle-free and all you need is a valid email address in order to sign up.

Written by chubs

December 10th, 2010 at 6:25 am

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Getting High Speed Email in Costa Rica

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Active travelers can have a rocking time in Costa Rica. The unbelievably diverse landscape allows you to roam around the cloud forest one day, stopover on an active volcano the next day, and enjoy relaxing on warm sandy beach the third day. But the urge to check your mails needs to be fulfilled even when on a wonderful trip to Costa Rica, right? So, just set up your Blackberry or other Smartphone with your Outlook Express through your hosted Exchange provider.

Setting up your wireless with Exchange Server host makes your official life hassle-free even amidst your holiday mood. It keeps you in constant touch with your mails, which is indubitably very important. One thing that should be following before the set up with Exchange email, is to check whether your phone is compatible with the local providers service. And, the other utmost to be careful about before using MS Exchange is to verify with your home country’s local wireless providers about their roaming compatibility with Costa Rica’s wireless carriers. Moreover, don’t forget to also check with Costa Rica’s wireless providers about their offers on the web hosting Exchange service. So

Costa Rica has an estimated population of 4,253,897 and the official language of the country is Spanish. But since Exchange 2010 hosting is present in the Spanish lingo too, the local populace of Costa Rica can enjoy browsing through in their native tongue. Wow! Now that’s great! Isn’t it!

Should You Hire Freelancers to Design Your Sites?

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When working on a website or web application, you generally tend to outsource the projects to various locations. In most cases, you’d probably be used to the idea of hiring web design studios for the major design-related projects you’ve got, as you want to ensure quality and timely delivery. However, many people disregard the option of hiring a freelance web designer, only treating it as a last resort or something they should only use for small projects. Can using one benefit you?

If your primary concern is the quality of the designer’s work, you can easily verify that by looking at their portfolio – and if you want to ensure that they can actually deliver a product that suits your particular needs, you can hire them for a short project as a test drive. Remember, you don’t have to mention that you have a long-term project in mind – that way, you can gauge the designer’s skills and attitude towards the job in the best way possible.

Also, some people are concerned with the ability of freelance web designers to deliver their orders on time – this can indeed be a problem when working with freelancers in general, but it can also be tested very easily using the methods above. With this in mind, try to stay in touch with designers you’re particularly satisfied with, as they tend to be a rarity nowadays – sadly, more and more people are offering low-quality services and prolonging their delivery to no end.

Written by Harry

November 18th, 2010 at 5:06 pm

Funny Farm Word Games

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Some people wh recently discovered Funny Farm Word Game find it insane. Some would play hours on end. This is so far a Facebook word game that has taken the interest of many people.

One has to guess words that are related to a specific topic, and shows you the number of letters needed to fill in the blanks and make the necessary connections. The really insane part is that a series of word games that are all connected. When you correctly guess a word that is in the adjoining word puzzle it opens up a new puzzle level for you to play. You can however switch between puzzles using the cool navigational mini-map.

Written by Harry

November 10th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

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Small Business Server 2003 R2 and 2008

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Running different significant operations that too at a low budget is a must for small and medium enterprises, isn’t it? But how? This is where Microsoft Small Business Server plays a significant role providing SMEs all the necessary benefits and technologies that only large companies could afford to have otherwise. Windows Small Business Server is mainly designed for running network infrastructure of SMEs, this include both intranet and internet access. The focus of Small Business Server is that it can combine many of Microsoft’s premier technologies in an installation that can run on a single server—combining messaging, directory services, and security tools into a single, affordable solution for small businesses.

With the upgradation of Small Business Server to new versions, lot have been added and changed every time. It all started with BackOffice Small Business Server 4.0, which was then got upgraded to BackOffice Small Business Server 4.5 then to Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 then to Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 which then got upgraded to Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2 and finally to Microsoft Small Business Server 2008. These are some of the differences which could be thought of now, but there are lot more to it! Don’t forget to browse through and enjoy the benefits of Small Business Server hosting. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Harry

October 13th, 2010 at 6:20 pm

To Do Lists

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Same as with real life, in cyber, time is considered as a very valuable commodity. Generally, productivity pays, while procrastination usually costs us a lot of time and money. It usually leaves us exhausted, stressed out and unreliable in the eyes of colleagues. Many people use “To Do” lists as the remedy. For those who use the web heavily, they are lucky to find a number of to-do list products that have been recently released. They are very convenient to share and could interface with existing software.

Here are some of the besones:
Web 2.0 To Do Lists

* Bla Bla List
* Ta-da List
* Tudu List
* Remember The Milk
* Voo2Do

Written by Harry

October 10th, 2010 at 10:50 am

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Listing of Web 2.0 Applications (Part 4)

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Group-O-Matic–a free service which helps people form local groups of friends and strangers for different kinds of events. Each different group is given a common web page that will be used in promoting their group and enlisting new members.

Trendio–a neat community-based game. You will be able to see how good you are in predicting the future of politics, news, sports, entertainment, or technology. The site will be able to rank trends in many categories, and this will depend on how much buzz they are able to get in online media. The users can trade in these trends with fictive money, similar to shares in a stock market.

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September 10th, 2010 at 11:44 am

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Listing of Web 2.0 Applications (Part 3)

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eXpresso–a powerful new way to share and manage your Excel Spreadsheets. Available online, a real time collaborative environment for users of Excel spreadsheet.

buzzoop–a social cataloging service. It helps you catalog and retrieve at a later time what you have looked at when you were simultaneously window shopping on the internet. It is also a community, in which information that you catalog is being shared with your family, friends, and other members of the community.

Written by Harry

August 10th, 2010 at 11:37 am

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Edit Your Photos with Picnik

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Picnik is a free online photo and image editing web application and is claimed to offer the newest, the best and the most efficient online editing service there is. Picnik’s most popular and most distinctive feature is its online image editing service. Users can upload photos from their hard drives and start editing them using Picnik’s wide range of photo editing tools. After editing, users can either save their photos to their PC’s, e-mail them or upload them to any of the available sharing sites. Picnik also has this sleek, clutter-free interface which allows users to easily navigate their away around the editing page. As for registration, you only need to provide a username, your e-mail and password, and to specify your year of birth before using this excellent powerful application.

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July 10th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

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Listing of Web 2.0 Applications (Part 1)

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Skillr–a a global recruitment service and advertising platform. Seekers can boast about their skills. On the other hand the recruiters will be able to sort out these candidates, also used is a search for simple candidate

Mygetgo’s–they are free and they are fully customizable internet. It starts where one decides on its contents. The links and even the way it all looks allows one to easily get the best from the internet. Mygetgo can be made a homepage, also agroup of friends can use it as a common homepage.

FilesTube.com–a search engine that has been designed to search for files in the different file sharing and uploading sites. It is a rapidshare search engine that could search the options of different file formats. With the metadata information that have been collected, the results are relevant and high quality and relevant.

Written by Harry

June 10th, 2010 at 10:59 am

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