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It’s a bit boring task for getting detailed information on particular product on Wikipedia as you may only get text data which may not be sufficient as you will have to search google for getting images, videos related for that particular product. A very helpful service popularly know as Navify ( beta version ) has been launched recently to over come such problem.  It’s a great utility which has enrich Wikipedia experience by adding pictures, videos and user comments for each articles you are browsing. Using Navify when you search for “Sony Rolly” you will not only get original Wikipedia text but also many related pictures, even videos which are usually pulled from Flickr and YouTube.
If you use Look up “Pulp Fiction”  you can retrieve the Wikipedia article along with screenshots, covers, posters  and trailers  from the movie. This site is based upon Wikipedia’s platform having a special complementary media & discussion layer. Aslike Wikipedia, you can edits anonymously that mean anyone can edit the data, images and videos associated with any article without registering an account.

According to Navify CEO Alan Rutledge “If people around the world can help each other by building a free collaborative encyclopedia, couldn’t we make it more useful for everyone by illustrating it together?”
Navify has a threaded comment system  that will allows visitors to discuss on around 3 million articles in the English database.
Thus just like Wikipedia, Navify appeals to a very broad target audience, it looks like just the right online source for people who are bloggers, journalists, scientists, students etc. who always search for information and data related to a certain topic under a single roof.

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You all must be aware of what is Google Earth, Well Google Earth is Google’s free mapping program which was originally developed by Keyhole Inc and was called as Earth Viewer. Google Earth is very useful tool using which you can comb the whole earth. You can explore the whole world just at mouse clicks. A great news for all business owners that Google Earth have added more advance feature which will help all business owners to get more detailed business related information. Its available even on iPhone apps. Thus getting all your business related information at figure tips. Google Earth have added a new protocol named ‘ Businesses’ using which you will be able to have more detailed information you are looking for.  When you start Google Earth application, it will list all businesses like restaurants, bars, banks, gas stations, and grocery stores etc… As you zoom in further to the map, you’ll see more businesses. Once you click on the required business icon you’ll get more information like its address. telephone number, reviews, and operating hours. Thus it’s the best service for all business owners who are always on tours and are looking for more information.

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Few days ago Google introduce its webbrowser Chrome which wasn’t a impressive product hence they are trying their level best to make it popular as they are…. Chrome 1.0 was lacking few important features like form auto-fill, a full-screen mode, and extensions etc.. thus to close this gap they have worked hard and came up with its latest version Chrome 2.0 adding few new features like full-screen mode, form auto-fill, and the ability to remove thumbnails from the “New Tab” page, along with a whole host of bug fixes and overall performance improvements trying to make it a better product.

Chrome 2.0 looks and acts exactly like the previous version; all newly added features are subtle that without Google’s announcement, it’s likely they would have gone unnoticed by many of us. Though it have added new features they are not much impressive as when you opt for Full-screen mode by pressing F11 all of the browser controls disappear: no tabs, no toolbar, nothing also you can’t enter new addresses to visit. You can’t access your bookmarks, except from the Chrome start page, hence its not a useful change they have tried.

Google claims that such Full-screen mode is designed for viewing videos and presentations in full-screen, but today most video or presentation player already provides such full-screen feature hence its not that unique and wonderful feature for webmasters.

The other new features like Autofill is not a new invention many other browsers have had provided it many years ago.
Chrome 2.0 provide you ability to delete thumbnails from the “New Tab” page but its seems that its having a bug as when you delete one it will remove all of your thumbnails, also, you can’t rearrange them.
Only positive side of  Chrome 2.0 is in its performance. It zips through the most complex Web applications with ease, and never seems to get bogged down. This new browser runs at lightning speed, to be honest, I am not sure about it as personally I haven’t noticed speed difference though.

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Before placing order for dedicated server or any hosting package with any webhosting service provider , you should look what network speed you would be getting for your server. There are many ways to test network speed of your webhost. one of popular and widely used method is by pinging your server in MSDOS. You can also tracert it in MSDOS to see how many hops it takes to get from your computer to required server. You may ask your webhost to provide you download speed test.

Following instructions would help you to test network speed of your webhost.

Testing network speed is a measure on how fast can the data be delivered between the visitor and the host’s server. you can use Ping command on your Dos prompt so as to test network speed. You can easily test network speed by pinging the server. you just need to open MS-DOS prompt and fire a simple command: ping serverID, where server ID is either a domain name (e.g. C:\>ping yahoo.com), either an IP (e.g. C:\> ping 128.65.134.89) once you fire ping command you would be getting results similar to these:

Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=432ms TTL=45
Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=45
Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=377ms TTL=46
Reply from 64.190.235.64: bytes=32 time=216ms TTL=45

Ping statistics for 64.190.235.64:
Packets: Sent=4 Received=4 Lost=0 (0% loss)
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 180ms, Maximum = 432ms, Average = 301 ms

A ping time of under 200ms is very good, 200 to 400ms is average and 400ms and above are poor ping times. Make sure a poor ping times do not always indicate a problem or slow network. If you are pinging servers that are very far away (pinging a server located in USA from a computer located in Australia), then you may get poor ping times then normal even you have a good connection.

The Loss % represents the percentage of packets (sent messages) that were “lost” (did not return within 1 second). High Lost packets are not good but few web hosts disable the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), so pings are not responded. Usually webhost do this is to increase security for the server.

Another method for checking network speed you can use is Traceroute : This traces the route between the computer and the server. All information goes from your computer to the server, is passed through a few routers to get its destination. A traceroute will tell you how many routers are involved in between your computer and server and all information about the routers. You can fire this command at MS-DOS prompt as tracert serverID or domain name. C:\WINDOWS>tracert www.mysitespace.com

Download speed test : You can ask your webhosting service provider to provide you with test download file using which you can download at your local end can thus can test network speed of network. You should go with a host who has the capability of sending at least a few hundred kBytes/second but if you are on dial-up connection you’ll not be able to test this yourself. There are chances that webhost may try to fool you by providing you a test file located on a fast, empty server so that you can get best speed so its always suggested to contact some one who is using their services [ current user ] and ask him to post a test file on his account which you can download and can check speed. This download test file should be big enough so that you can see the speed and stability over time, you can think of getting 10-15MB file, also try to test this download file at pick hours when server might be busy. Most important point to be noted is that all results depend on location, ISP etc. you can request few forum members to check what speed they get for your download test file and if you get good response from them, you can surely go with your preferred host.

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Every online business owner always looks for greater lead generation/traffic to their websites so as to get better sales conversion, usually we opt for pay-per-click (PPC) advertising or search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing tactics etc… all these are  online promotion methods but these are not the only available solutions rather you can also try other lead generating tactics which are also cheap and effective source for getting targeted traffic.

Following are few other ways ( Offline methods )which can bring good traffic to your hosted website.
•    Post Card Marketing
•    Yellow Pages Advertising
•    Direct Mail Advertising
•    Newspaper Advertising
•    Cold Calling
•    Offline Press Releases
•    Magazine Articles
All above mentioned methods are Offline methods for attracting traffic to your webbusiness which can surely improve the number of leads for your site.

Usually if you want to generate huge targeted traffic through some Offline campaign then you can consider above methods which can be cheap sources for lead generation. Its always better to keep open all your options when you are looking for lead generation campaign. You should also test different methods and accordingly decide which one has worked best for your business.

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Upgrading Wordpress version for Better Security

Wordpress most popular blogging software comes with regular updates you should always check and upgrade your wordpress version with the latest release!!! Using latest wordpress version will ensure you more security, advance features with easy to use tools. Wordpress tools are very helpful and have many unique features which will help for your blog’s success. You can install Wordpress auto upgrade plugin which will save lot of time and will take care of upgrading wordpress plugin, you need to install this plugin and will have to active it,  if there’s any new release you just need to click on upgrade link within this plugin and that’s all…. Your wordpress blog would have latest version installed.
Since security concerns associated with Wordpress is of much importance and hence should be taken care at highest priority hence you should always update your blog with the latest version and should always try to search new plugins which are available and should install them to see the difference they make for your blog !!!

Your webhosting service provider may not help you to upgrade wordpress version for your blog, you can take their help if you want rather they will upgrade all other scripts which are needed to be  upgraded serverwide so that you can use them but when it comes for wordpress you need to upgrade it yourself. Try to search a reliable webhost who is available round the clock to assist you with all your webhosting issues.

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Google is the most popular and widely used search engine to get answers to our queries, though sometime we may fail to get exact answer for what we are searching and are being diverted to reams of irrelevant facts.
Everyone wants to be as big as Google and many have even tried to compete with Google but unfortunately all failed ;0
Again in an attempt to fight with Google a new search engine ” Wolframalpha.com ” is trying to get into search market which will try to answer users’ questions. They claim to have very good network with more then 10,000 computer processors !!!! Conrad Wolfram the founder of  ” Wolframalpha.com ” said that “We want to give users an exact answer. It will change how people search online.”
Experts say the site answers specific, not general, questions like “a good restaurant” rather you will also have to mention area in which you are looking for a good restaurant…
Just have fun with ” Wolframalpha.com ” and wish them Best Luck !!!!

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Most of webmaster uses WordPress as their blogging platform and host their blog using it. As a security measure you may need to take backups of your MySQL database of your blog. We will consider wpdatabase as name of database for our Wordpress blog. Just follow the steps and you can take backup and can restore your MySQL database easily.

Backup Procedure :
mysqldump –opt wpdatabase | gzip -9 > wpdatabase.sql.gz

Restore procedure :
gunzip wpdatabase.sql.gz
mysql -u rootusername -p **** wpdatabase < wpdatabase.sql
That’s all you have secure your wordpress databases by having its backup copy which you can restore it later using above restore command.
You can use a ready made plugin from wordpress if you want to go with easy way

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Databases management is most important aspect for every online business. If you are using Windows Hosting packages for hosting your website then you would get Plesk as control panel for managing your website. Firstly you will have to create databases using Plesk control panel also you have to create users aswell. if you already have created database on your local machine then you can connect this databases using MSSQL server Management.  You can create tables, add/Insert records in tables or can also modify existing tables etc…Webhosting UK can help you with databases restoration procedure and will get it uploaded on your windows servers. You will have to backup your database which is created on your local machine and will have to provide this .bak format copy of database so that your webhost can restore it on your server. SQL Management studio comes as a free tool with MSSQL 2005 / 2008 express editions.

You can download Management Studio from following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c243a5ae-4bd1-4e3d-94b8-5a0f62bf7796&DisplayLang=en and can install it on your local machine so that you can use it to connect and can manage all databases.

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Google is trying hard to promote its newly launched webbrowser ‘ Google Chrome ‘ recently they have started using every form of advertisement from billboards to radio ads etc… to get in public. Now you can see their product advertisements even on television thus you can see how aggressively they are trying to reach general public. You can see fantastic advertisement of Google Chrome on television in US. It’s a first for Google. Google have never directly advertised their products on television till date, it seems that they are want to make Google Chrome as first choice of all webmaster when it comes to internet browser trying to compete with most popular Firefox and Internet explorer. Though Chrome have many issues and is not a stable web browser still Google is trying hard to promote it.

Google have announced about its involvement in TV advertisements for promoting its product at its official blog. They havn’t share the exact expenditure for such advertisement campaign. Google, which makes virtually all of its money off advertising still hardly seems to spend at all on traditional ads. A television buy might be taken as a sign by some that the Big G is looking to put back into the advertising ecosystem out of its own pocket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZFsJKlsuA&feature=player_embedded have a look at their new Chrome commercial video ad. It’s a bit difficult to understand if you don’t know anything about Google Chrome

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