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Tips To Protect Your Website From Google Hacking

2010-03-03T06:41:00.000-08:00

What is Google hacking?

Google hacking is a technique that uses complex Google search and other Google applications to filter specific information from a large number of search queries. It is done to detect websites which are vulnerable to numerous exploits.

If you run a commercial website then you must be aware of these threats online and must take the required preventive measures against these threats. These are the basic and most important things which you must know about security.

Note: This information is being shared with you only to help you secure your website better and protect it against hackers.It is strictly advised not you use this information to cause any damage to anybody's resources. It completely depends on an individual, how he uses a piece of information and the author of this post will not be responsible for anything.

Some queries which can expose vulnerable parts of your website to a hacker

"Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Server at" intitle:"index of"

This query will expose all the open directory link in your website if any.

"BEGIN (DSA|RSA)" ext:key

Displays links to private keys.

filetype:inc intext:mysql_connect

This query will open links to files containing Mysql connectivity information.

filetype:conf slapd.conf

Links to configuration files for open LDAP.

inurl:"wvdial.conf" intext:"password"

Configuration files for WVDial.

ext:pwd inurl:(service|authors|administrators |users) "# -FrontPage-"

Files containing Microsoft FrontPage passwords

intitle:"Index of" pwd.db

Pwd.db files, potentially containing encrypted username and passwords

"Apache/* Server at" intitle:index.of

Query for locating any Apache web server.

inurl:config.php dbuname dbpass

Config file containing db username and db pass.

( filetype:mail | filetype:eml | filetype:mbox | filetype:mbx ) intextassword|subject

Files containing private emails and information in emails.

Tips to protect your website from Google Hacking

Upload a bank HTML file on your server in those directories which shows links to server files.
Use .htaccess file to secure your confidential files and URL's.( Guide to htaccess intro)
Google hacking Honeypot : It is designed to provide reconnaissance against attackers who use search engine as a hacking tool.

10 Websites To Host And Share Large Files For Free

2010-02-27T08:23:00.000-08:00

It is sometimes a headache to store and share large file and backup those big files. You can always spend money to buy premium accounts to store big files but how about using free services and saving those bucks instead. In this post you can use all these websites listed to host large files at absolutely no cost. Though there is a limit to host a file size for free account holders but it's a good enough space to share most of the stuff you want.

Storage And Sharing Large Files

Sendspace: Upload unlimited files upto 300MB/file for free.

GigaSize: This website allows you to host 10 files, size of Max 300MB/file.

FileFactory: A popular file hosting website which allows you to host 25 files of size upto 300MB/file.

TurboUpload: Allows you to host 10 files upto 400MB/file.

MediaFire: Host unlimited files on MediaFire of Max file of 200MB.

FileFront: An amazing file hosting site allowing you to host unlimited files of file size upto 600Mb/file.

MegaUpload: You can upload files upto 1024Mb/file for free account holders and you get a space of 200GB.

UploadBox: Host unlimited files of Max file size upto 2GB/file.

ShareBase: Store unlimited files and share it with your friends, a file size upload limit of 300MB.

Uploaded.to: Upload files with a maximum file size 250MB.

Free Open-Source Software For Windows

2010-02-25T12:45:00.000-08:00

List of some best and free open source software for windows. These software are licensed under Free Software Licenses and Open Source Licenses. Some really great software which are absolutely free and best alternate to paid software. Feel free to download them all and also don't be afraid to share it with your friends.

Follow the link provided and downloaded the software from the page.

Browser

Mozilla Firefox: It is considered to be the best browser available and is most widely used browser after Microsoft's Internet explorer.

Google Chrome: It has been recognized as the fastest browser and it is the third most widely used browser.

Audio and Video

VLC Player: A highly portable open source multimedia player capable of playing most of the audio and video file formats.

Miro Video Player: It is a free and open source HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6000 internet shows and video podcast.

Media Player Classic: A very light weight and simple video player for windows.

Audacity: It's a free audio editor for recording, Slicing and mixing audio files.

Office Suites

Abiword: An open source word processing program.

Openoffice.org: A completely free and open-source office program, you can use this program to do all your MS Office work.

PDFforge: A free software to help you create PDF projects.

Scribus: It's a professional layout and publishing software.

File Sharing

Cabos: A great software for firewall to firewall file transfer.

DC++: An open source Peer-to-peer file sharing client.

Shareaza: A peer-to-peer file sharing program for windows.

Ares: It's a P2P file sharing program which allows you to share Music, Software, reviews and much more.

Frostwire: It's a totally free limewire alternative and you can use it for free P2P file sharing for Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols.

CD/DVD Tools

Handbrake: Free and open source DVD ripper/Converter.

InfraRecorder: A free CD/DVD burning software.

Image/Graphics Tools

GIMP: An open source Image manipulation program for windows.

Inkscape: A Vector graphics editor, similar to adobe illustrator.

Blender: An open source cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.

Paint.net:(not open source) A free image editing software for windows.

Dia: It is a drawing software that helps you draw structured diagrams.

FTP/SFTP

FileZilla: An open source FTP client for Windows.

WinScp: A free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for windows.

Instant Messaging / IM

Pidgin: A very popular chat client, which helps you connect MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and other chat networks at once.

Miranda IM: A portable and multiprotocol instant messaging application for windows.

Email Clients

Mozilla Thunderbird: A popular and a great alternate to Microsoft outlook. It has intelligent spam filter which filters all the trash emails and has an inbuilt RSS reader to read all you feeds at one place.

Claws Mail: An open source GTK+ based email client.

RSS Reader Software

RSSowl: A powerful application to organize, search and read all your feed at one place with a ease.

RSSbandit: Helps you read news feeds and download podcasts from your desktop only.

Security Tools

Passwordsafe: A free software to help you manage you passwords safely.

TrueCrypt: An open source disk encryption software for windows.

Eraser: A secure data removal tool for windows.

ClamWin: A very popular open-source antivirus to scan your PC for virus and also get free virus updates.

Utilities

7-Zip: A file achiver which supports ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and Tar format.

CobianBackup: A very useful backup software for windows.

DR Freeware: A great software which helps you in recovering your lost data, mail recovery, drive backup, data undelete, password reset for windows.

UltraVNC: A powerful software that helps you connect to another desktop through remote desktop connection.

PeaZip: It's a free and open-source file archive manager which helps you extract, compress, encrypt and secure deletion.

Web Related / Developers

Notepad++: A free text editor and source code editor for windows.

DotNetNuke: It's an open source platform for building website based on Microsoft .Net framework.

Xampp: A simple Apace distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.

Firebird: A free database management system for windows.

PHPMyadmin: An application to handle the administration of MySQL.

BookmarkSync: It's a bookmarking service which allows you to access your favorite bookmarks from any computer and any browser.

WebDevloper Suite: A windows based platform for development, testing and deployment of PHP and MySQL websites and application.

Curl-loader: A simple software performance testing tool written in C language.

NVU: An alternate to Dreamweaver software.

30 Beautifully Captured Photos Of Fields

2010-02-16T04:57:00.000-08:00

Beautifully photographed some grass fields, floral fields, wheat, tulip and more, also captured mesmerizing sunset at fields. Fields are always beautiful to look at but people living in cities often get to see any field and it's natural beauty, it makes you feel closer to the nature and rejuvenates your soul.

This showcase is to give you a slight taste of natures eternal beauty which have been stunningly captured by the respective photographers.

Tips For Writing Compelling Content

2010-02-14T17:16:00.001-08:00

This article was written by Nimit kashyap of CoreBloggers. CoreBloggers is your one stop blog to know about how to start a blog and make money blogging.

Blogs would be the ideal place to go over suggestions, individual opinions as well as any type of information and facts, just due to the way they are developed. There are numerous points that you could raise to all your blog readers with the content of your blog. Content is the most powerful thing and, it creates a big difference in the success of a blog. You will discover that content of your blog will turn out to be completely unique and really intriguing simply if it is composed with a different approach.

Tone Of The Content

One thing you'll want to decide is definitely the tone of your content. Do you think you're composing in a manner which matches the actual tone for the subject you're writing about? Your tone creates a big difference in order to catch the readers interest and also it is the most essential writing techniques for compelling blog content .

For instance, for anyone who is dealing with similar to insurance coverage, his tone needs to be official plus his suggestions need to display a useful method. Then again, if you're dealing with style or jewelery, a more casual tone having a feeling of funniness would certainly help to make the content more appealing in order to look over.

The conversational tone provides an individual feel and that way allows you to create a compelling content.

Presentation Of The Content

Another factor is to decide the presentation of the content. When you provide content in proper structured manner, visitors should be able to grasp content in a much better way. And also this will make your blog more intriguing for the audience simply because they are able to easily discover the info according to the way they want.

Make It Brief And Easy To Understand

No matter what you compose or write just place it within brief sentences. Brief sentences tend to be less complicated as well as easier to understand. Visitors often skim via full articles 1st, prior to reading it completely. so when the important points will be placed into brief paragraphs, they're simpler to understand. Additionally , it allows you to keep the readers interest, instead of lengthy sentences, that may, bombard people since it appear really lengthy and can take time to read and understand.

Reviews

Whenever writing about the services or products, review it in a manner that allows readers to understands about the product or services very easily.You also need to write about all the benefits of the product or services. It can make consumers aware about the reason why they need to select the service or product.

End up being truthful. That is a significant method for delivering persuasive content. Really? The visitors do not want marketing facts they wish to know the benefits and also the downsides of the products. Therefore this is what you need to be truly providing to help your readers.

If you provide them with the information that is more like coming from personal experience when writing the review of any product or service then it is more likely that your visitors will buy the product or service.

30 Jquery Slider/Slideshow Image Gallery Plugins And Tutorials

2010-02-11T04:15:00.000-08:00

If you have been looking for Jquery slider plugins for your website then you can choose your favorite image gallery tutorials you can use on your website. Jquery slideshow is a very useful way of showing images in gallery. These scripts are easy to apply on a website and also these script add beauty to website.

Follow the links to view the script and tutorial.

JQZoom Evolution

EOGallery

DynamicDrive Image Gallery, Slideshow viewers

Jquery Cycle Plugin

Jcarousel

SmoothDivScroll

FlickrGallery

Simple Controls Gallery

Inline Lightbox Alternative

PickaChoose

Slider Jquery Image Gallery Plugin

Sliding Gallery

Jquery Plugin For Sliding

TwoSpy

Jquery Lightbox

Supersized

Galleria

GalleryView

Slider Effect

Fancy Image Gallery

Beautiful Jquery Slider

Slider Gallery

Jquery Image Scroll

Sliding Boxes And Caption With Jquery

Image Slideshow With Semi Transparent Caption

Fancy Thumbnail With Hover Effect

Slick Accessible Slideshow

Image Rotators CSS Jquery

Gallery News Slider With Caption

Fullscreen Image Gallery

40 Gorgeous Bokeh Photography Shots

2010-01-18T10:48:00.000-08:00

The term Bokeh comes from the Japanese word "Boke" which means blur. Bokeh photography is a technique of using aesthetic quality of blur in out-of-focus areas of an image. This is an inspirational post of 40 beautiful photos in which Bokeh technique has been used very well by the photographers and the subject in the image is pleasing to the eye.

The specialty of bokeh is that it gives lovely texture to the images and brings out the beauty of the subject. It is relatively new photography term as it appeared officially in the year 1998.

30 Examples Of Stunningly Creative Healthcare Advertising

2010-01-12T02:19:00.000-08:00

When it comes to advertising you need to be very creative to catch the attention of the audience and make an impact with your advertisement and also convince the audience about the quality of the product. Health care products advertising should be able to make an impact to their audience because products like weight loss, Hair treatment, Skin care, Personal hygiene etc. are related to once health and fitness. People are also very careful about choosing the right health products, so it's very important to give the right message about the product through the advertising.

Below mentioned are some of the really creative health care advertisements which are easily understandable and make a good impact about the product.

Purell: Glove

Listermint Mouthwash: Round 1 - Bad breath affects those closest to you.

Head&Shoulders: Mona Lisa - The head&shoulders point of view

Veet: Soap - No hair is better

Venus Razors: Seriously smooth legs, Wedding

Carre' Fresh: Toilet brush - Wipe whatever you've touched

Del Mar: Pig - Del Mar medical spa, expert weight loss programs.

Pantene: Slippery

Axe: Finally - Finally! My fingers are burning.

Colgate Plax: Fish - Don't mask it. Eliminate it.

Fenistil: Itch - Calming the itch a smoother way.

Airports are testing the bodyscanner. Are you in shape?

Your age won’t bother you anymore.

O.K. Condoms: Truck: Don't say, "It won't happen to me"

Lifebuoy: Dog: "You eat what you touch".

Parissa Wax Strips: Backvertising

Durex "O": The Power of pleasure: Stimulating gel for female orgasm.

Even Mouthwash: Rollercoaster: Against bad breath.

Clearex: Pacman: Don't hide it, clear it.

Even Mouthwash: Birthday

Happydent: Necklace

Sensodyne: Feathers

Samantha Cracked Heel Lotion: Sexy Heels

Kleenex: Soap dispenser: Got Flu?

Gold's Gym Costa Rica: Belt

Safeguard: Battleship:Everything is a toy to kids. Safeguard

Johnny Andrean: Handles

Gold's Gym Costa Rica: Tie

Minus 10 anti-ageing cream: Fight ageing

Oral B Dental Floss: "Keep dentists out of your mouth."

Blogger Now Supports "Read More" or "Expandable post Summaries" Feature

2010-01-07T10:49:00.000-08:00

Now you can create expandable post summaries in your Blogspot blog Blogger has introduced it's own feature to add a "read more" link to your post summaries which will help help your blog load faster.
This feature is available by default in Draft version of Blogger.

A very simple hack even if you use in default version of Blogger. All you need to do is just:

Go to Layout >> HTML editor (expand widget template) and search for the code below:

<data:post.body/>

and replace the code with the code below:

<b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>
<div class='jump-link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url + "#more"'><data:post.jumpText/></a>
</div>
</b:if >

and now just save your template and you are done.

Now all you have to do is just add:



Add the above code in post where ever you want to make your post expandable.

To read about this feature in detail, see this post.

35 Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers

2009-12-29T13:51:00.000-08:00

Bunch of some really beautiful High Quality and High Definition wallpapers for your wide screen desktop. Make your desktop more attractive with these astounding HD wallpapers.

The wallpapers are very high resolution wallpapers and when you set them as your background on your desktop they will much more colorful then your ordinary desktop backgrounds. These HD wallpapers vary in resolutions but they are all more than 1024px in resolutions.

To download the full size wallpaper, Click on the image and follow the link. Enjoy the collection and feel free to download them, they are absolutely free.

Alps

Morning Dew

Green Eye

Desert and Lake

Autmn Trees

Desktop

White Sand Beach

Hot Air Balloon

Leaf

Moon

Fantasy Angel

Dong Water Fall

Tuscany

Bee

Splash

City of lights

Green Field and sky

Design Studio

Lovely Evening

Audi

Love Night

Comet Blast

Rainbow Butterfly

Pelican wallpaper

Forgotten Boat

Fantasy Green Art

Black Positive

Old boat

Racing Cars

Colors

Play Kiss

Waterlife

Saw 5

Dark Knight - Joker

Yellow grass and Blue sky

If you liked these wallpapers then don't forget to check out "30 Beautiful HD(High Difinition) Wallpapers".

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HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript And More Cheat Sheets

2009-12-22T02:34:00.000-08:00

Cheat sheets are really helpful in revising the codes as there are so many codes which we cannot remember always but cheat sheets are of great help in keeping yourself updated with the codes.

Cheat sheets are also helpful for beginner developers and designers in learning and remembering codes better. A truly great resource for upcoming developers.

The purpose of this post is to provide all the cheat sheets useful for designers and developers at one place. A mega collection of cheat sheets which contains HTML, CSS, JAVA, PHP, Database SQL, Wordpress, Aspx, SEO and many more other useful cheat sheets which you will find in this post. Most of the cheat sheets are available in printable format for a handy use of these resources.

HTML/XHTML/XML

CSS

PHP

ASP

Database/SQL

JavaScript

Wordpress

SEO

REWRITE And .HTACCESS

Photoshop

Windows

Mac

Browser Shortcut Cheats

40 Examples Of Beautiful Beach Photography Shots

2009-12-15T03:19:00.000-08:00

Beaches are one of the most beautiful natural spots. Red sand, white sand beaches are just too beautiful to look at and sunrise and sunset at the beach is just an extraordinary sight. When it's hot in summer and the Sun is shining just over our head, it's probably a great time to visit beaches, carrying those colorful beach umbrellas and swimsuits. It's truly a lovely experience to be spending time at the beaches at when you can't visit beaches, you can certainly look at some beautiful beach photographs and reminiscence those moments and appreciate the natures beauty.

Showcasing in this post are some of the most beautiful beaches around the world captured in the Photographs. It was really hard to choose 40 best and beautiful photos from thousands of beach photographs but somehow these photographs were the extraordinarily beautiful one's to be included in the post.

You can also follow the tips to beach photography by Darren Rowse.

Grace Bay Beach - Turks and Caicos

Tunnels Beach Kauai Hawaii

Mudjin Harbor lookout, Middle Caicos

St. Maarten

Togetherness

Rainbow @ Lignano Sabbiadoro

Lei Your Love on the Line

A wonderful day as bright as a day has ever been

Thinking of color blue

Pfeiffer Beach Arch - Big Sur, California

Misdroy Beach, Poland

Baker Beach Sunset

The Beach at Tossa de Mar

Putty Beach - Central Coast, NSW, Australia

Solitude at the Beach

santa cruz, california

Wananavu Beach Resort, Fiji, Melanesia

Miramar beach in Goa

Just another time...another beach

Beach

Beautiful Second Beach

Jurassic Coast at Chesil Beach, Portland, Dorset, UK

Cannon beach sunset

Trigg Beach Wave

Beached Outrigger Canoe

Hawaiian Beach Therapy

A day at the beach

La Digue Island

Koh Kood Beach

we went to the beach

Roatan Beach

Pristine Beaches: Maldives

Rodeo Beach Sunset - Marin Headlands

The forsaken red sand beach

CHIMNEY BEACH

Horses at Rhossili Beach, Gower

Sunset at Panther Beach - Davenport, California

Navagio (shipwreck) beach

Beach sunset

Coconut tree on a white sand beach

10 Beach Photography Tips

If you live near coast line and you visit beaches daily or you visit beaches rarely and want to capture that natural beauty but the pictures you take aren't that pretty as compared to the spot. It really spoils the moment if you cant capture a moment properly in you camera. You can follow there tips to beautiful beach photography by Darren Rowse.

(Link to article)

15 Google Chrome Extensions To Make Your Lives Easier

2009-12-12T11:28:00.000-08:00

Everyone have been eagerly waiting for Google chromes extensions to arrive and in no time the number of chrome extensions have grown over 500. No wonder we love chrome because of it's performance but webmasters, bloggers and designers prefer Firefox because of wide range of add-on available in Firefox, which make tasks easier and saves lot of time.

The chrome extension which are listed will really help save lot of time for you and they wont let you miss Firefox for any reason.

Stumbleupon

Discover and share your favorite web pages via Stumbleupon with the help of this new extension for Chrome. It's fast and you can choose your favorite topic to browse. There are still many features in the pipeline which will soon be launched including a downloadable toolbar similar to Firefox and IE.

Docs PDF/Powerpoint Viewer

Automatically opens the PDF, Word, Powerpoint presentations and other documents in Google Docs viewer.

Google Preview

Shows preview image of the web page into the Google search results.

Last Pass

A free online password manager and auto fill form tool to save time. Last pass supports Chrome, Firefox and IE as plugins and you can also import your data from password managers like roboform, keeppass, passwordsafe and more.

iMacros for Chrome

Helps you automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work. It helps you with web forms, remember passwords, create webmail notifier and more.

Firebug lite

A very useful extension for developers as it allows you to edit, debug, monitor CSS, HTML and JavaScript live in any web page.

Session Manager

Save your session of open tabs and windows and quickly reopen them whenever you like.

Zoho Notebook

You can take screenshot, clip important text or URL and save them in your Zoho online notebook.

Shareaholic for Chrome

Now easily share, save or email you favorite web page using social bookmarking services like Digg, Twitter, Facebook or save in Google reader and much more.

Chromed Bird

A Twitter extension that allows you to follow your timelines and interact with your Twitter account. Compose reply and RT tweets easily and also create short URL's.

uTorrent for Google Chrome

Manage your torrents right from your browser only. Start/stop/pause/delete/force start and all the other details you can check from your browser only.

ChromeMuse - Multi-URL shortener/expander

Shorten and expand URLs with shortening service providers. Supports more than 6 major service providers in URL shortening.

Vitzo WHOIS

WHOIS look up tool for those who want to track the information of the domain or web hosting on a regular basis.

Lorem Ipsum Generator

A random dummy text generator with less amount of codes to help developers save time.

Cooliris

A fast and stunning way to scroll photos and videos through an infinite 3D wall. Cooliris also comes with Cooliris Channels, which puts 1.5+ million TV episodes, movies, and titles from over 70 leading content providers at your fingertips. Enjoy premium content from Hulu, CBS, Showtime, ESPN, FOX, and many more.

35 Websites For Free Ebooks Download

2009-12-10T10:15:00.000-08:00

People are more internet and tech savvy these days. Well it's quite easy to Google any information you are looking for. We read to learn, to update our information database and some people read because they love reading books.

E-Books are easy way to read and you don't have keep them in specially designed shelves and moreover e-books are easier to find on internet and you wont have to worry about rats biting them off. There are some great websites online which offer you free and legal e-books downloading. Use the free e-book downloading websites list to find your favorite book.

Diesel ebooks

They offer free ebooks formatted for both Microsoft readers and Mobipocket.

EBooksread

A free online library, where you can read and download e-books.

Freebookcentre

Download free technical ebooks, which include computer science, programming, mobile technologies, physics, Medical ebooks and more.

Acrobatplanet

A completely free collection of PDF ebooks on all kind of topics.

EBooksLab

A collection of medical and technical ebooks mainly.

EBook3000

A huge collection of free ebooks to download. Ebooks are available in business, technology, programming, design and many more categories.

Downloadfreepdf

Download free PDF ebooks and also download ebooks for PDA. Access ebooks on your pocket PC and palm devices.

PDFgeni

A free PDF search engine. Enter the book name or keyword of the topic that you are looking a book for.

Ebookshare

Get ebook torrents and free ebooks to download.

SearchPDFebooks

A very useful search engine for searching ebooks related to specific topic. It's easy to search and equally easy to download as well.

Ebooksdownloadfree

Download medical, SEO, fiction and computer ebooks for free. There is also a popular ebooks section, where you can see what people have been mostly dowloading from the website.

PlanetPDF

A PDF users community, where you can find tools like PDF converter, PDF to word, PDF to excel and also PDF editor to edit your PDF files online. Also download popular ebooks on PDFplanet.

E-booksdirectory

A free ebook directory with around 2800 ebooks and almost covering 400 categories.

Free-ebooks

Download free fiction, health, romance, computer and internet and many more ebooks completely free.

Freebookspot

A collection of free ebooks link from the internet are compiled in once place for you to download your favorite ebook.

Getfreeebooks

A website with free and quality ebooks to download and also you can share your ebooks by submitting your book to Getfreeebooks.

Manybooks

Download free ebooks for you PDA, iphone or ebook reader.

Freecomputerbooks

Free Computer, Programming, Engineering, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials.

Freetechbooks

Free Online Computer Science and Programming Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes.

Globusz

Read ebooks online for free and also you can download ebooks you like.

Scribd

A very popular online document sharing community where you can read ebooks and download them in PDF, text or doc format.

Ebookpdf

A monster collection of ebooks of over 100, 000 ebooks to be downloaded for free.

Onlinefreeebooks

A simple ebooks website that offers the service for free.

Ebookdirectory

20, 000+ ebooks available for free download on ebookdirectory. A website with really useful ebooks on computer and internet.

Zillr

Free ebooks portal.

Memoware

Ebooks and PDA compatible documents.

Onlinecomputerbooks

Legal and free computer ebooks to download and read online. You can find books on topics related to science and computer and internet, design and programming and more.

Snipfiles

Offers free ebooks, screensavers and software's.

Bookyards

An online library which offers free downloading.

Asksam

Download free e-books and free searchable databases.

Upenn.edu

A listing of over 35, 000 free ebooks on the web.

Ebooklobby

Free ebooks divided into different categories ranging from Art, business, computers, cooking, law, sports, travel and more. There is also list of top 10 most viewed ebooks to let you know about the most popular content on the website.

Fictionwise

Free ebooks for Palm, pocket PC, desktop and Mac.

Ebooks-space

Free download site PDF-CHM.

Ufindbook

Free rapidshare download for ebooks.

More Sites To Download Free EBooks

Readeasily: An online library to read book online.
University of Virginia library: one of the best online ebooks libraries. Designed for web, palm and Microsoft readers.
Gotenberg: A quality ebooks website and all the ebooks can be downloaded in epub, Mobipocket, HTML and simple text format.
PDf-search-engine: A search engine to find PDF ebook files online from the web.
Franklin: Thousands of ebooks in text and HTML format which you can download or view on your Franklin viewer application on ebookman.
Witguides: An instant ebook download library.
BesteBooksWorld: A wide collection of ebooks covering a large number of topics.
Bookspedia: Over 14, 000 ebooks available on bookspedia to download for free.

Free Ways To Download Internet Videos

2009-12-06T22:08:00.000-08:00

Sharing videos online has evolved as a very popular trend in recent times but how often does it happen that you really like a video and want to download it to keep it with you and show it to your buddies or to insert that video in a PowerPoint presentation or even wanted to download that video to your smart phone but you didn't know "how to download videos from internet". Not anymore because now you can download your favorite videos from sites like Youtube, MetaCafe , DailyMotion, Break, Google Videos or any website.

If you are an occasional downloader of videos then you can use web applications to download videos off the internet and if you are into regular downloading then you can download desktop application to download videos for free directly to your hard drive.

Web Services To Download Videos For Free

YouTube Catcher

Download videos from video sharing websites with ease and also download Myspace videos with this web application video downloader. Works with hundreds of video websites.

Zamzar

It is a free online file conversion web based tool. You can convert your videos to your desired format AVI, mp4, MPEG, iphone, ipod, flv, wmv, ogg etc. Enter the url and select the file type you want to convert to and enter your email ID to receive the converted video file.

Vixy

A free video downloading and converting application. Enter the URL of the video you want to convert and you can convert that video to MP4, AVI, MOV, 3GP and also MP3(audio format only).

VideoDownloadX

Easily download your favorite videos with Videodownloadx, copy and paste the video URL and click download and save the video in your hard drive.

JaviMoya video downloader

Download videos directly from any video website, works with large number of websites online. It also provides you a Firefox extension, which you can install to your Firefox browser and easily access this video downloading feature right from your toolbar.

SaveVid

An amazing video downloading website where you can also see latest downloaded websites, Top downloads of the day, all time top downloaded videos, filter videos by categories and also find videos by tags. Not just a video downloading tool, it's more than that.

Uzeik

Download videos from top video sharing websites like Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, BlipTV and more. Also convert your videos to flv, 3GP, Mp4 medium quality or high quality video.

MediaConverter

A free audio and video converter. It requires you to signup to access the features like downloading videos from Youtube and other websites. It only supports top 5 video sharing websites you can download videos from.

LeechVideo

It's a simple video downloading website like Vixy and Youtube catcher. Insert the video link and get the direct download link for the video.

Keep-Tube

Download high quality videos from Vimeo, HD Youtube videos and other top social media and video websites.

KeepVid

It supports any video website on internet and also it has top video section to let you know about the most viewed videos around the web.

FlashVideoDownloader

Simple downloader for videos which also integrates with your Firefox, IE and Opera browser to give you the accessibility directly from your browser toolbar to download video just with one click.

DownThisVideo

Simple and easy video downloading interface and this website also provides information on latest videos and top videos with a little description about the video.

ClipNabber

A large number of video websites supported by Clipnabber. It shows list of recently downloaded videos and also you can browse videos by categories.

Desktop Application For Video Downloading

Free flv converter - Koyote Soft

Search, download and convert videos from Youtube and other video websites directly from your desktop. Allows you to download multiple videos at once.

OrbitDownloader

One of the very best and popular download manager which allows you to download music and videos from popular sites like Myspace, Rapidshare, Youtube and many more. You can pause and resume your downloads anytime you want.

Youtube Grabber

A simple Youtube downloader for your desktop, just copy and paste the URL to download the desired video.

Thousands Of Page Impressions And Low Adsense Earning?

2009-12-04T23:35:00.000-08:00

If you are victim of this situation then let me tell you this post will be helpful to you. When I started blogging and put Google adsense to earn some money online I was not much happy with the output that I got from the adsense and to increase my earnings I tried almost every money making publishers program online but the result was same, poor earnings even with good page views everyday. After some experiments and everything I came to realize that Google's adsense program is the best publishers program online.

I've been running Smashapps now for just over 3 months now. It's still a part time blogging job for me but in lately I've been getting amazing adsense response like never before and it's been consistent for over 50 days now and I'm really happy with the part time income from Smashapps. Well fellows the kind of response I've been getting lately has made me to think of taking blogging really seriously and not just a part time earning source.

It was not from the first day that I started getting money from adsense from my blog. It takes time to show good results and you need to have patience. I tried many experiments with adsense color and positioning and finally got something which was really working for me. Let me tell you it was not easy at all. Sometimes I really felt if it is ever going to work for me but believe me it really works. Now, I'm more focused on my blog and I'm also considering to shift my blog from Blogger to self hosted Wordpress blog.

There are no hidden secrets to boost your adsense earnings, it's all about personal experience and knowledge which you gain by learning. Still there are a few important factors which I would like to share with you.

If you have not read my earlier post on "Tips to increase adsense earnings"

Some more really important factors that effect adsense earnings:

Write quality content on your blog, rather going for quantity. If your blog has quality articles, it will force the visitor to spend more time on your blog and also improving the CTR of your blog.
Do not write for advertisements only. Write on something significant, which people would be really interested to read.
Lots of advertisements or advertisements from various advertising programs on a single page wont help boost your income rather it will lower your ROI(return over investment) because it will divide the click ratio and you wont get best results with anyone of them.

5 Tutorials To Design Stunning Website From Scratch

2009-11-25T17:38:00.000-08:00

These are some the best online tutorials for web designing from scratch. If you wanted to design your own web site from scratch but didn't know how? Then this is the time to grab these best tutorials and get started with learning on how to design a website from scratch.

If you have got basic knowledge of tools like Photoshop and Dreamweaver then you can start designing your own websites from scratch. After going through these tutorials you will know that it's probably not that tough to create web designs but important thing is to create beautiful and professional web designs which you can do too by simply practicing and sharpening your skills.

There are lots of other tutorials on designing a website from scratch but if you follow these 5 tutorials mentioned, you can probably start creating designs yourself. All you need to do is practice and sharpen your skills.

Design A Beautiful Website From Scratch : This is a tutorial which will teach you to design a website template on photoshop. You will learn all those things which you need to do as a designer to make a website look beautiful.

Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch : Learn how to create this sleek design with photoshop and also they will guide you to convert your design to HTML.

Coding a Clean & Illustrative Web Design from Scratch : Learn how to design this template in photoshop and also a complete step by step guide to convert this design to HTML/CSS template.

Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch : HTML5 and CSS3 have arrived recently and this is a great tutorial guide to creating a tutorial from scratch for HTML5. It's the beginning and probably a good time to try your hand at this new technology.

Create a Dark Themed Web Design from Scratch : This is a great tutorial on designing a website that looks like a blog and also you will learn how to create colorful design using a dark background.

7 Mistakes That Can Kill A Wordpress Blog

2009-11-19T11:54:00.000-08:00

There is a lot of information on what you can do to enhance your wordpress blog. Also at the same time there are a few things which you should be aware of what not do with your wordpress blog if you into blogging to make money.

As a matter of fact no one would like to see their blog been hacked or taken down by any miscellaneous problem or anything which will have negative impact on your blog. Below are some of the deadly mistakes which can really kill your blog if you are one of the victim of any of these. Things may have been fine till now but if you login to any popular forum you can easily find lots of people who have faced issues just because of knowingly or unknowingly they didn't bother about the outcome in the long run.

Using Pirated Wordpress Theme

It's not difficult to find a pirated wordpress theme on torrents and download it for use but the thing to ask is are those themes really worth using. Mostly these files contain some Malware or virus in it or link to some bad network which may be hidden from you. These malwares are designed to harm your website and leech unnecessary bandwidth or cause some other kind of malfunctioning to your website. If your web hosting company notices any malware in your hosting account they terminate your account instantly and in many cases without any notice. Trying to save a few bucks can really cause a big damage to your blog. I hope you are not making this mistake.

Running Your Blog On Old Wordpress Version

It's never safe to run a blog on outdated wordpress versions as it's a delight for hackers because they know the loopholes in the old wordpress versions and can use them to harm your blog. It's always smart thing to keep your wordpress blog updated to latest version.

Ignoring Basic Wordpress Security Measures

If you are much aware on how to secure your wordpress blog then read here: Wordpress Security Tips And Hacks .

Here you will find all the information on what you need to do to secure your wordpress blog. It's important that you prevent your wordpress blog from any future mishap.

Using Unnecessary Wordpress Plugins

Don't fill up your plugins section with lots and lots of plugins which may not be useful to you. Using a plugin just because someone else is using is not really a thing to follow this applies for plugins apart from security plugins but also don't be too obsessed with collecting security plugins and installing each and every plugin blindly.

Revise your blog needs and choose your plugins according to that. More the plugins run on your blog more number of process will run which will put extra load on the server.

Making Maintenance Changes To Your Live Blog

If you making changes to your blog while it's live and you have a decent blog traffic then it really irritate your readers due to any interruption or frequent changes to page which can effect a user's navigation. There is a maintenance wordpress plugin which you can use while your blog is undergoing maintenance. Your readers will read a message that will tell them that the site is down for maintenance, please check back in few minutes, which is think is far better than a user seeing different things every time the page is refreshed.

Being Scared Of Experimenting On Your Wordpress Blog

Wordpress is one the simplest CMS platforms available. Technology is changing everyday and you cannot be stagnant with your blog. If you are new to wordpress then I would suggest you to learn more about wordpress and start applying those things which you read, this will help you in understanding wordpress better. When you will try new things with your blog it will help you only make your blog better.

Using The Default Wordpress Theme

Too lazy to use a custom theme for your blog. Well people won't be too exited either in visiting a blog where a blogger can't even use a custom theme for his blog. There are hundreds of free wordpress themes out there and it only takes few minutes to upload and apply the theme.

"A stitch in time saves nine", if you have heard of this proverb then you will very well know what this post is all about. Things may work fine initially but they will never workout in long run and considering that only this post have been compiled.

40 Splendid Mist Photographs

2009-11-17T07:27:00.000-08:00

Mist is a mass of fine droplets of water suspended in air. This phenomena is commonly seen during winters and early morning. Capturing mist in photos is mist photography. Due to water droplets suspended in thin air a beam of light is visible from the side due to refraction of light from the water particles. This creates a beautiful light ray scene in nature and you can see that in some photographs below.

This post showcases photographs of morning mist, evening mist, forest, sea, landscape, snow and other mist during the day. Mesmerizing nature covered in mist and captured so beautifully by the photographers is a real inspiration.

How to Brand Your Blog and Establish Yourself as a Blogger?

2009-11-16T13:24:00.000-08:00

This article was written by Nimit kashyap of CoreBloggers. CoreBloggers is your one stop site to know how to start a blog and make money blogging.

Starting a blog and making money online seems very exciting and to make money online most of the people choose starting a blog and it is a good way to make money online undoubtedly but starting a blog on any topic won’t make you any money. To start a blog that will make you money you need to do a proper market research and write according to your target audinece.Once you get the niche research done now its time to market your blog and make some money. But most of the newbie overlooked the most important element of blogging that is branding your blog an and establishing yourself as blogger in blogosphere.

Following are the ways that will surely help you in creating the brand of your blog:

Guest Post

Writing for already established blog will increase the visibility of your blog and will help you in connecting with establish bloggers, if you constantly write for other popular blogs into your niche you will definitely increase the quality readership of your blog, also it will increase your network in blogosphere. The idea behind constantly writing for other popular blog is that when your provide any valuable information on any established blog which is getting huge traffic there is good chances of getting high number of comments and that will increase your communication level with your target audience nonetheless you will also get the link to your blog and those user that like your writing style will surely visit your blog.

Blog commenting

It is the second best way to increase your and your blog visibility in blogosphere .Commenting on the popular blog will not only help you in networking but also get you backlinks ;-) that will surely increase the visibility of your blog in search engines but you need to make sure that you wont become a comment spammer, whenever you write a comment on a blog you need to make sure that you are adding the value into their blog, always try to abstain your self writing “hey dude you gotta nice blog” such comments, while commenting on the blogosphere you need to remember that your trying to establish yourself as a blogger into that niche so you should always write the comment that will add the value to the content.

Tip: Subscribe to the some of the popular blogs into your niche and make sure to comment on those blog on regular basis that will not increase your presence but also provide you good quality traffic ;-)

Article marketing

Article marketing is the best sort of free marketing available. When you submit a article to article directories, your article will remain there for years, that increase the visibility of your site and create a brand out of it also for certain keywords your site might not rank but your article that you have submit to high PR article directory would rank and this way you will dominate the search engine rankings for a very competitive keyword and you could also able to drive that traffic to your site ;-)

Video marketing

This is the new way of creating the awareness about your blog and building a regular readership of your blog. As you might have heard of that “a picture is worth of 1000 words”, so in my opinion when you create a short informative video about your niche and submit to all the popular video sites that would definitely worth of 1 lakh words, also video marketing is a very good way to do viral marketing and if you make a viral video it would automatically get distributed in social media and increase the visibility of your blog.

Networking using social network and social media

Networking is very important for brand building, you need to be friend with people who are into your niche or willing to get into your niche, this will open up many hidden opportunities for you that you might could not seen otherwise. When you increase your network and get connected with more and more people you will probably learn many hidden things and surely increase the visibility of your blog among the people who are into your niche.

Content

It is the most important part of blogging, if you don’t provide the quality content to your readers than it would be impossible for you to create the brand out of your blog and you should also forget the idea of becoming a blogger, you have to provide the informative articles to your readers that solve their problem or that helps them in learning new things, if you don’t do this correctly than it doesn’t matter how perfectly you would do all the above things that I have mentioned.

If you think I have missed any point than do let me know via your comment.

Wishing success to all the SmashApps readers Happy Blogging!

10 Best Online Web Design Tools

2009-11-16T03:21:00.000-08:00

If you are new to designing concept and don't have the resources and software's for web designing purpose then there are some very useful online web designing tools which can help you do all your web designing work easily and efficiently. You don't need to be an expert to work on these tools, just a basic idea the working of tools and you can get started with it.

DoTemplates: Pick a favorite template from the website and customize it to your requirement and then download it for free to use it on your website.
You can customize the header image, change the color of the navigation bar and the color of body text and links in your template. It's simple and easy and you will love it for sure.

Wordpress Theme Generator: If you are unable to find your favorite theme online then this is a great tool to create your own wordpress theme. In the left section of the website there is a panel which helps you to customize each and every part of the theme as per your likings and requirements. You can create a two or three column theme and change the background of theme easily and customize the text color and navigation colors and much more. You can do so much with this amazing theme generator.

CSSTypeset: If you don't know anything about creating style sheet or you want a quick style sheet editor then this tool will save lot of time for you. All you have to do is just enter your text in the left section of the box and edit the styles as you would like it to appear and the CSS code will be generated automatically, copy paste the CSS code in your style sheet and you are done.

Web 2.0 Button Generator: Easily create stylish looking web 2.0 buttons to give your website a web 2.0 feel. You can customize the color, text, shape of your buttons and save it by just one click.

Form Style Generator: Customize the look and feel of your comment or any other forms by generating the style sheet with the help of this online form styling tool. You can customize the text, text fields and buttons with ease with this tool and then save and apply the styles to your form.

SplashUp: It's a great real time image editing tool and a good alternative to photoshop. It is capable of doing most of the things which you can do in your photoshop software. Splashup is easy to use and also you can edit multiple images at once.

Favicon Generator: Create a favicon for your website in just few secs, upload the image which you want as your favicon and it will turn that image into favicon for your website.

Color Wizard: It's an amazing tool and probably one of the very rare and useful tools online. If you are having trouble finding a right color match for a portion of your website then just insert the base color of your website and it will give you the best matching colors which you can use.

Email me Form: Get a contact query form for your website for free, no programming skills needed. Just customize your form and copy the code and past it on your contact page of your website.

LogoEase: A free online tool to create stunning professional looking logos for your website or company. It's easier then you can imagine. Select your category of website and choose an icon if you want, write your company name and select your colors and save it.

Best Of National Geographic Photography 2009

2009-11-12T11:14:00.000-08:00

This post is a showcase of the best of "best of the day photos" from National Geographic 2009 collection. As the year 2009 is coming to its end now, this was the best time to publish this post and review the past one year of amazing experience brought to us by NatGeo with help of some great photographers.

This post is a farewell to these photographs which brought joy to us by experiencing those moments through these pictures where we have never been and many of us will never ever be there ever in our lives, so its a great way to experience the life and joy with these marvelous photographs.

A great thanks to all those photographers who worked so hard to capture the beauty of nature and bring to us. So feel free to share your thoughts with us about these photographs.

Fox, Norway

State Fair Ride, Kansas

Puffin, Skomer Island

Golden Gate Bridge at Night

Santa Monica Shore

Terraced Earth, India

Snoqualmie Falls, Washington

Atlantic Walrus Resting, Canada

Coastline, The Snares

Havasu Creek Waterfall, Arizona

Owachomo Bridge at Night, Utah

Rock Fort, India

Dock and Palm Trees

Oil Refinery, Ras Tanurah, Saudi Arabia

Icebreaker

Atom Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll

Candle Spruces at Night, Finland

Diving Tiger, California

Iron Hoop Cave, Alabama

King Penguins in Moonlight

Freshwater Dolphin, Amazon

King Spider Orchid

25 Astonishing Photographs Of Rainbow

2009-11-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

Rainbow is an optical phenomena which we see in nature mostly. We all know how a rainbow is formed but still watching a rainbow is a beautiful sight and no doubt it's one of the most beautiful natural phenomena.

Sighting a rainbow is not an everyday thing for us. If we sometimes get luck we may see a rainbow in years but here is a collection of some of the beautiful rainbow captured in photographs. Some photographers travel to distinct places where they can capture a rainbow in their camera. It's obviously not easy to capture this rare natural phenomena.

I hope these photographs can give you the essence of what it would feel like to be there sighting a rainbow and light up your mood as it did mine while making this post.

How to Photograph a Rainbow?
Darren Rowse in this post of his blog Digital Photography School gives us some great photography tips on how you can photograph a rainbow with your camera.

Now the next you see a rainbow you will know how you can best photograph it with your camera. Don't forget to share the beauty when you do capture it.

23 Beautiful Examples Of Fall Color Photography

2009-11-02T12:13:00.000-08:00

Fall color photography is the photography of the nature that represent fall of a season. When a season ends its starts to show in nature and we can see leaves changing color, change of color of sunset in the horizon, flowers change and the ambiance of morning change which show immense change in the season fall.

These are the collection of some stunning fall color photography collected from different locations. It's not easy for a photographer to capture the ambiance of the nature in photo as it is but some photographers have managed to do some great work and I've compiled some of the best of them.

I hope you will like compilation and if you do then fell free to share the beauty with other friends as well.

11 Add-ons To Turn Your Firefox Into Powerful Download Manager

2009-10-27T11:33:00.000-07:00

This is a collection of Firefox add-ons which will help you in all kinds of downloads and manage your downloads in your Firefox browser. There are no less add-ons which you can download to make your download task easier but these are some of the most trusted add-ons which people have been using for quite some time now.

If you love downloading stuff from internet like music, pics, videos and torrents then this post will be really useful for you and you will love these plugins if you have not used them before. Install the add-ons you like and share you reviews with others about the add-on.

FireTorrent

This add-on allows you to download your torrent files right from your Firefox browser only. No need to install any torrent software. Easily find the torrent and download it from your browser only.

Torrent Finder ToolBar

Torrent file search toolbar for Firefox browser. Search top torrent sites for your torrent file easily in just a matter on minutes.

RapidShare File Finder

This Firefox add-on allows you to search for any file on Rapidshare(rapidshare.com).

RapidFire

If you have lot of downloading to do by coping and pasting the link then this extension can make your work easier. All you need to do is just select the link and right click and select rapidfire and this extension will do the rest to download the file to your drive. You can select multiple links at one time.
DownThemAll

It's a very popular download manager/accelerator extension for Firefox. It accelerates your download to some extent and you can pause and resume your downloads as well.
Video Download Helper

Download Videos, audios and picture galleries easily with this extension. If you are video lover then you will love this add-on, as it makes video downloading from Youtube like sites a piece of cake. Just click and get the video downloaded in your system.

Automatic Save Folder

If you like keep your downloads sorted by file types or any other ways then this extension should save lot of time for you because in Mozilla you can save all files to one location only.
This add-on allows you to sort your download location by files types or domains. Downloading .exe, zip, .mp3 and more to their respective locations.

Image Grabber

This add-on allows you to download images which have been protected by any foreground image. Don't misuse this add-on.

Download Manager Tweak

Modify the Firefox download manager that allows it to open in new window, new tab or sidebar.

FlashGot

It allows you to download all the links video and audio clips on a page with just one click.

MegaUpload Time Attack

If you have lot of downloading to do from Megaupload then this extension will save heck lot of time for you as it auto fills the captcha and auto-starts download.