If you don’t work alone, sooner or later you’ll face the problem: How can I convey my ideas clearly and efficiently? If you are a freelancer and cannot talk to your clients face to face, what can you do to present your design, instead of sending lots of files with an email? Be careful, because a confused or just unattractive presentation may cause many further hours to placate a disgruntled client. However, not everyone has the expertise of making stunning presentations, and that’ why the following tools are existed.

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Being a successful real estate agent is not as difficult as you thought if you know how to fully utilize some powerful websites and tools available on the net. These real property online resources are very useful in helping you to reach prospects in your region, negotiate the best price for sellers and get the latest market info, trends and pricing data.

Previously we’ve posted an article introducing some useful real estate sites and tools to assist home buyers finding the best bargains. Today, we would like to share a huge list of popular sites and powerful services for realtors instead. If you are looking to sell or rent your house, you can be your own agent by using below 27 tools to get the best deal! Read more…

No matter you want to buy a new home, sell your old apartment or rent a room, can you do it without the help of the Internet? Sounds pretty tough right? Fortunately there are tons of resources on the web to help you dealing with anything related to real-estate, from home searching to renovation tips. Here we’ve gathered our favorite real-property online services where you can look for your dream home, determine the most strategic location, compare whether buying or renting, check your affordability, choose reliable agent or broker, find high ROI deals and many more.

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These days Internet is not limited to adults, it’s also widely used by children for schoolwork, online games, and to search for information. Unfortunately, many kids easily get addicted to online games and video causing insufficient time to study. As parents, we should closely monitor our kids on how their time being spent on the web. We must not only keep them focused on learning but also avoid them from accessing inappropriate websites.

Here we’ve rounded up some of the best educational websites for kids. They are very useful for developing children’s reading and writing skills, gain basic knowledge in any subject, play math, science related games and other learning. We hope these sites help to build a strong foundation for your kids’ future academic achievement. Read more…

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?

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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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Which are the best free classified ads posting sites on the web? Undeniably this is one of the most frequently asked questions among advertisers, bloggers and online marketers who want to post free classifieds ads for their blogs, websites, products, services, jobs, and houses, just to name a few. Here we’ve compiled a list of 70 most popular free classified ads websites where people can browse, view, post ads, buy or sell any items they want.

All the sites listed below are high in both Alexa ranking and Google PageRank. If you post ads on one of these classified sites, you’ll get a high chance of somebody viewing your ad and make positive response. In short these sites are all well maintained and have high daily traffic which absolutely worth your visit. Read more…

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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Interested in running your own online forum, but having a difficult time to decide which forum platform suits your needs? Well, look no further, let us introduce you top 22 most widely used web forum platforms available on the web, both free and premium. You can simply pick one of these forum software solutions to set up your own online discussion board right away. Before that, ask yourself what kind of forum you exactly want. If all you need is a lightweight and easy-to-use online forum, then you can consider free and open source platform like phpBB. If you are Internet entrepreneur and thinking of some big forum sites like Digital Forum or 4Chan, you’ll need a feature-rich and powerful solution like vBulletin.

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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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…