Sometimes we come across some web pages that we wanted to add note, highlight texts or draw diagrams, that’s where web annotation tools come in allowing you to perform these jobs with ease. This is pretty much like what we normally do with pen or pencil on a real book and newspapers. With annotation tools, you can discuss, exchange ideas and brainstorm with your friends and colleagues effectively. They allow you to mark up websites you visit with notes, and add comments to any web content that interest you. This makes web annotation tools especially useful for groups to communicate in a direct and easy to reference way.

In today’s roundup, you can find 26 most popular web annotation and markup tools, bringing you a new level of convenience to communicate and collaborate with a friend or group. We hope you’ll find them useful! Read more…

With the introduction of CSS3, it has brought many cool new features. And one of the most fun and amazing features is CSS animation, demonstrating the possibilities of the CSS3 transform and transition property. Here’s a compilation of 40 CSS animated demos that let you discover the possibility and usability of the CSS3. They all look cool and some of them can be used as Javascript alternatives and applied into web design to make it more interesting. To view these animations, you are required to have WebKit browsers like Safari and Chrome.

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Project management and collaboration are important to every business. In many cases, the results of a project are highly affected by initial planning and monitoring. If you are running a modern business like web design agency and employing people all around the world working from their home, having an effective communication and collaboration are keys to the successful outcome of any projects. There are a variety of project management and collaboration software available in the market for small and medium-sized enterprises. They help you keep track of your projects, schedule daily tasks, manage your workers and more importantly maximize your productivity. Some necessary features like real-time update, files sharing and mobile synchronization can also be found in these tools.

If you are looking for an easy-to-use but powerful online project management tool to suit your business’s needs, here’ a compilation of some of the best project management and collaboration software for you to choose. While there are a number of general features that these tools have in common; they also have different and unique services to offer. I hope this article will help you make the right choice. Read more…

If you are planning to move to a new email account, the first thing you should do is backup and export all your existing contacts. Regardless you are using Gmail, Yahoo! Mail or Windows Live Hotmail, all these email services do allow you to export contacts and save it in various formats. In today article, we’ll show you how to make a contacts backup of your Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail.

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TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation. The annual event is formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.” It showcases top-notch and innovative thinkers in the disciplines of technology, science, performance and art. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can.

Some of you might not be familiar with this global conference, but do you know that many technological devices such as Xbox Kinect are inspired by one of the TED talks? In today’s post, we’ve compiled 25 most thrilling, amazing and visually appealing TED presentations including unbelievable SixthSense technology, breakthrough touch screen, advanced exoskeletons and many more. We promise these incredible videos from TED will absolutely make you WOW! Read more…

Facebook is the most popular social utility to re-connect with your relatives, friends, classmates and co-workers. The largest social networking site also provides users a great platform to make new friends. However with more than 845 million active users (As of February 2012) on Facebook, it’s no easy task to find people you want especially if you have no idea what are their names and email addresses.

Fortunately Facebook has many built-in search functions and features you can use to dig out any people you want. And here are 7 most commonly used methods to effectively find people on Facebook! Read more…

Are you a nature lover, nature photographer, or nature wallpaper collector? If you are, you will definitely love today’s collection. In our Earth, there are plethora scenes and places you must see at least once in your lifetime. Although many of us cannot physically visit all the beautiful places in the world, the good news is we can enjoy nature photography on the web that brings the beauty of nature.

Here’s a showcase of 40 breathtaking nature photographs taken around the world. In this amazing collection, you can find many photographs of mountains, waterfalls, forest, fields, etc. All of them are carefully collected from the web after having viewed more than thousand of nature images. We promise today’s showcase is one of the most stunning shots of nature photography collections you can find online. So, are you ready to be amazed? Check them out now! Read more…

One of the great ways to expand your blog is to get co-authors and guest authors producing fresh contents to attract different types of audiences. This trend has been growing rapidly in the blogging industry. Many one-man blogs have turned into multi-author blogs as it’s getting hard for a single author to keep up with the fresh content especially when the audience grows. In many cases, bloggers need to deliver more than one quality blog post everyday to satisfy their increasingly demanding audience. And that’s where co-authors and guest bloggers come in to reduce the workload.

Assuming the part of writers recruitment is being taken care of, the next big challenge will be multi-author management. Apparently it’s no easy task, you have to spend lots of time making sure the authors write quality content and post on time, giving them appropriate permission, and so much more. Fortunately there are lots of WordPress plugins out there helping you to manage your co-authors and guest authors. Read more…

Whether you are running a website, a blog or web application, making sure your site is accessible all the time is the least you should do. Visitors who regularly encounter problems of accessing your site will get frustrated and will not likely come back. If your website has poor uptimes, it will not only give a bad impression to visitors, but also cause significant losses in your advertising revenue. Fortunately there are many web tools and services out there helping you to check your site from time to time. In the event of your site goes down, these tools will notify you immediately via instant email or SMS alert, so that you can take prompt action to fix things up.

In today’s post, you can find 34 free and useful monitoring tools to report the uptime, downtime and performance of your site. So just forget about monitoring site yourself, and let these web services to do their jobs! Read more…

In our previous post, we’ve showcased 45 most popular iPhone games. Have you played them all? If they can’t really satisfy your needs, following are another 45 very addictive iPhone games you should try. Again, they are all available on the iTunes App Store for free. Enjoy!

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iPhone is one of the greatest revolutionary devices that has changed the way we communicate with people, surf the web, listen to music, watch videos and play games. With the cool features like Multi-Touch interface, accelerometer, stunning graphics and quality audio, the Apple smartphone revolutionized the gaming world making it more enjoyable and entertaining.

In the iTunes App Store, there are myriad of games available for free. If you have no ideas on which games to download, here are 85 most popular and addictive free iPhone or iPod Touch games you must play. We hope you have fun with these games, but don’t get too addicted to them. Read more…

Just like Facebook Timeline covers, Google+ users are also allowed to tell their life story through the scrapbook images at the top of profile page. Many of them will tweak their scrapbook photo album for a more creative photographic display. However there’s a new way to play around with your Google+ profile – using animated images. Animated images also known as cinemagraphs, they are like a movie inside a photograph which can be eye-catching and memorable if you apply them on your Google+ profile page to impress your visitors.

Here’s a showcase of 10 awesome animated Google Plus profiles that are definitely worth your attention! Leave us a comment if you’ve seen any other good ones on Google+. Read more…

When it comes to website or blog promotion, there are many practices can be used to create your site awareness and get more traffic. Some of the common ways include blog commenting, guest posting, social media activities, RSS submissions, link exchange and many more. Today we will be focusing on guest blogging which can be seen on many popular blogs. Whether you agree or not, guest blogging is widely recognized as one of the most effective ways of getting yourself noticed and driving traffic towards your blog site. Being a guest blogger, you’ll enjoy many benefits if your guest post is accepted and published on high traffic blog. Every visitor reading your post will find out about you as a personal and your knowledge of the subject.

In most of the cases, guest blogs will include a small bio paragraph about you, the guest blogger and a link to your own site at the bottom of the page. This will not only drive traffic to your website but also give you a tremendous boost in your SEO strategy. Read more…

Logos are commonly used for websites, commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals with the intention of promoting public recognition. Generally, logos can be divided into 3 categories which are symbolic, wordmark and combined mark. Regardless which one you choose, there’s no easy answer to the question of what type of logo design is the most effective and impressionable.

To design a memorable logo, you need creativity to make it stands out of the crowd. However that doesn’t mean the logo has to be complex and colorful. Sometimes a simple logo is good enough to impress people and speak a thousand words. Nike’s logo is the best example for this statement. Read more…

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia. It’s maintained by hundred thousand of volunteers around the world and everyone with an Internet connection can create and edit articles on the site. With more than 16 million articles in over 260 languages, every month the free encyclopedia receives more than 388 millions unique visitors and the best thing about Wikipedia is that it’s free of advertisements.

If you are Wikipedia regular user, we think you can explore the site in a better way with below useful tools and resources. Just check out these 14 free tools to enhance your Wikipedia experience! Read more…