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10 Best Free Interior Design Online Tools and Software

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What would you do when you plan to design your dream house and rooms? May be some of you will surf websites that talk about architecture, buy some interior design books or visit IKEA store to get some ideas and inspirations? Well they are all good planning before you start your renovation works or buying furniture. However, if you really serious about designing your home that suits your needs, wouldn’t it be great if you can plan virtually though home design tools?

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Today we would like to introduce you some helpful free tools to plan and design your home, rooms, kitchen, bathroom as well as office space, without requiring any prior knowledge. All these online apps and software allow you to drag and drop furniture, floorings, decors and finishes into your virtual room, in the style and color you like. Sounds interesting? Just give them a try and you’ll love them! Read more…

9 Online Tools to Create Custom Maps and Get Directions

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Thanks Google Maps for being one of the pioneers in the development of web-based mapping. It makes us realize the importance of online maps in our daily lives such as getting right direction to the destination, jogging, bike riding and travelling. With the advancement of the smartphone and tablet computers, finding location of destination becomes easier through GPS navigation and mapping apps.

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In today’s post, instead of teaching you tricks to effectively use Google Maps, we chose to introduce you 9 free tools that’ll help you to become an expert map-maker! With these web apps, you can easily plan a map for travelling, generate company location map or explain a route to someone. I hope you’ll find them helpful. Read more…

Best 20 Websites to Publish and Sell Your eBooks

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Want to be the next J. K. Rowling or Dan Brown? Then pay attention to this article. First, let’s admit that it’s not easy to find a well known publisher who is willing to publish your books. Without publishers, it doesn’t mean that you should put an end to your writing career. In fact there are other ways you can try to get your own books out there yourself, and one of the easiest ways is to publish your books in the form of electronic, as an ebooks.

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The reason being is that there are many online platforms on the Web helping you to publish, distribute and sell your ebooks. Most of the sites have zero sign up fees and majority of sale will go to you. So if you’re ready to be an ebook author or seller, here’s a list of popular sites for selling self published ebooks and other digital content. Read more…

Top 22 Business, Stock Market, Currency Exchange Simulation Games

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Business simulation games are very useful educational tools for enhancing personal financial management skills. These games come in various forms, some allow you acting as a CEO to run a virtual company, some train your trading skills by playing a pretend stock market based on actual and real time stock exchange data.

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Below we’ve listed some of the most popular business simulation games where you can create your own business, trade online and invest in the stock market without risking your hard-earned money. Enjoy! Read more…

11 Best Google Maps Tips and Tricks You Should Learn

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Google Maps is the most powerful online mapping tool you can find on the Web. It allows you to easily find the location of destination and get the right driving direction, you can even discover places in the other part of the world. The online map service has been around for years and Google continues to improve the maps by rolling out many cool features such as 3D street views, turn-by-turn navigation, map makers, real-time traffic condition and more. In today’s post, we would like to show you 11 really useful tips and tricks helping you to get the most out of Google Maps!

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33 Best Typography Tools for Web Designer and Developer

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Typography plays an important role in web design, graphic design or any other designs that use text. On the web, there are many free tools out there helping you work with typography without leaving your browser. In today’s post, we’ve compiled a huge list of online tools to help you beautify typography in your designs. These tools are especially useful for web developers and designers, helping them to save both time and effort. Just give them a try and share your experience with us in the comments section below.

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15 Free, Open Source Web Hosting Control Panels to Manage Servers

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If you happen to be a web developer running multiple websites on a dedicated or VPS servers, then you should consider using a dedicated control panel for better web server management. This also applies to bloggers that run several blogs and online portfolios simultaneously. A customizable, flexible and dedicated control panel helps to fulfil bloggers’ various needs, allowing them to manage multiple servers from one control panel, easily and effectively.

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Here we’ve gathered 15 powerful and reliable web hosting control panels that are specifically designed for Internet service providers and IT professionals. Do let us know in the comments box below if we’ve missed any worth-sharing hosting control panels. Read more…

26 Free Infographics Tools and Data Visualization Softwares

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Which is the best free online tool to create your own infographics? Instead of reading a 1500-word long article, many readers will prefer visually appealing infographic. Why? Well there’s a saying goes like “a picture is worth a thousand words”, an infographic with images, graphs and charts is able to convey complex data and information that is much easier to understand. That’s the reason why the graphic visual representations are getting popular on the web and are regularly showcased on websites and blogs that talk about design, technology and social media.

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While we know that it’s not easy to create infographics from scratch, many people don’t even know how and where to get it started. If you are interested to create your first infographics, here are 26 really useful online tools you can try out! Read more…

10 Best Online Tools to Improve Your Typing Speed

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How fast can you type? Can you type at the “speed of thought”? Well most of us spend a large amount of time using computer for works, chat, games and other purposes. Besides having mouse as a pointing device, keyboard is the most common data entry device for both computers and laptops. So there’s a need to improve our typing speed for higher efficiency.

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Many of us have learned typing in computer classes at school, but how many of us really master the typing skill? Can you type properly without looking at the keyboard? Well if you are still not familiar with this touch-type keyboarding skill, here’s your chance. Below we’ve gathered 10 online apps and games that can help you boost up your typing speed. Read more…

How to Save and View Websites for Offline Reading (7 Apps)

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Nowadays, Internet is playing an important part in our daily life. Without Internet connection, it seems like there’s nothing much you can do. You can’t post updates on Facebook, search information on Google, play social games, or watch videos on YouTube. To avoid from having such a boring day, you can pre-install or download some stuff on your mobile phone or tablet. This helps you to consume your time easily when you are on the move and there’s no WiFi connection around.

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Here we would like to introduce you 7 awesome apps that are useful to save web pages and articles to your laptop, smart phone and tablet device for later reading. Read more…

20 Extremely Easy to Use Online File Sharing Tools and Websites

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While many still using email to send files to others, online file sharing tools could be a better option with less hassle like attachment limits. Today, instead of introducing you big names like Dropbox and Google Drive, we focus on extremely easy to use file sharing tools that certainly worth your attention. Below we’ve listed 20 simple file sharing services providing you the easiest way to upload file to the cloud so that you can easily share it with your friends and colleagues by providing them a download link. Did I tell you they are all free and allow large files to be sent securely?

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18 Free Online Rich Text Editors You Should Use

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Online rich text editors are convenient tools which allow Internet users to enter and edit text within a web browser without having to install any desktop programs. The rich-text editors are mostly WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) based, allowing users to enhance the output by formatting the contents. They are similar to Microsoft Word, OpenOffice and other desktop editing software, but with an advantage of allowing users to do text editing tasks wherever there’s an Internet access.

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Now the question is which is the best online rich text editor? Since there are many rich-text editors available out there for free and it could be difficult to choose a right one. In today’s roundup, we’ve gathered 18 easy-to-use and free rich text editors that are absolutely worth your attention. Read more…

Best 13 Free Online QR Code Generators or Makers

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QR Codes (short for Quick Response Codes) are 2-dimensional barcodes that can be easily scanned through smartphones or cell phones with integrated camera. This code can then be converted into a simple piece of information or a link. QR Codes are now widely used in marketing, advertising, and sales. If you stumble upon any interesting advertising poster with a tiny QR code printed in the corner. All you have to do is take out your cell phone and scan the code for immediate information, contact details or accessing its website on the spot without having to type a single word. How cool is that?

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Today we would like to introduce top 13 QR code generators which you can use to convert URLs, text, phone number, map and many other information types into QR codes for free. Try them out now! Read more…

Top 3 Best Unlimited Online Backup Services

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If you don’t already have a computer backup plan in place, now is the time to consider it. Data loss is an expensive issue to fix, if it can be fixed at all. Hard drives fail, offices are burglarized and cans of red bull tip over. There are a thousand things that can cause data loss, but a good backup plan can help you neutralize those risks.

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A recent study found that the majority of computer users have no backup plan in place. That same study also found that people are becoming increasingly open to the idea of online backup. The vast majority of us have important files on our computers. These files include everything from digital photos to business proposals. Read more…

20 Web Apps to Enhance Your Instagram Experience

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Instagram is a very popular photo sharing app that was recently acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. The free photo sharing app supported on both iPhone and Android based smartphones. It allows users to apply digital filter to photos and share with others through Instagram itself and other social networks. One of the key features of Instagram is being able to confine image to square shape which is similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images.

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Due to the rapid rise in popularity of Instagram, there are a variety of web applications and software being built to help you get the most out of this photography app. Here’s a list of top 20 Instagram web apps that are absolutely worth your attention. You are welcome to share your Instagram experience in the comment section below. Read more…