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Top Apps & Online Tools for Simplifying Your Next Move

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There’s nothing easy about moving, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be made easier. In 2014, we use technology to ease almost every challenging aspect of our lives, and why should relocation be any different? While modern science hasn’t advanced to the point where robots can come and do the whole move for you, there are plenty of apps and online tools out there to simplify the process. Here are 13 great tools to make your next move a breeze.

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15 WordPress Facebook Plugins to Increase Your Website Engagement

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Facebook have more than 1 billion active users and it is one of the most important social sites to build your online presence. How can you take advantage of this to increase your website traffic and have more engagement with your readership?

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Some of these plug-in allow you to display text, images, videos, events and more from your Facebook in your WordPress website! Impressive isn’t it? And another one will auto publish your posts on Facebook as soon as they are published on your website. Read more…

Download 20 Free eBooks to Learn Blogging

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If you are a beginner in blogging then this blog is specially written for you. Here, we have compiled a list of top 20 ebooks to learn blogging. So, without wasting further time, let’s have a look at them.

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How Facebook ‘Steals & Sells’ Your Private Information

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If you think that setting your Facebook account into private hides your personal information, then you better think again. Yes, they’ve been keeping our information whether you go online or offline. And that’s what frustrates us the most, Facebook has been storing our information the moment we agreed with their policies. You may not notice it, but the more you agreed to their terms and conditions, the more you store your personal data in their database.

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Sad to say, there are some users who just don’t pay too much attention to every agreement that they signed. As a result, they’ve been wondering why and how Facebook got their information where in fact, they didn’t give any. Again, Facebook keeps your personal information whether you like it or not. Well, there might be some advantages it gives to us. Perhaps, you don’t need to agree with their policies now and then. But if you are a keen observer, thinking about how Facebook uses your personal data with or without the user’s knowledge can sometimes be daunting and frustrating. Read more…

10 Ways How Facebook Uses Your Personal Data

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Facebook has turned 11 years old this year. With the massive growth in users over the decade it has also generated massive revenue. Being the most used social media platform, Facebook has frustrated its users massively on a large scale with its devious privacy policies and unwelcomed surprises present in its terms of services.

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The company tries to walk in a difficult situation, between offering the users proper private space in communicating with their friends and this way feed the user data to businesses for using them to serve effective ads. Many times this balance has tipped in the favor of the business. The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) also charged the company with frequent privacy audits for 20 years as it deceived the consumers with its privacy promises. Read more…

10 Social Media Hacks to Improve User Engagement

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Around 94% of the SMBs strengthen the social media in the United States for marketing to their customers. And, it’s been found that many of those are very good at it. 60% of SMBs declared that social media marketing has received new audiences and opportunities to improve their branding.

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When your business becomes more successful, then it might become better at social media marketing. It has also been discovered that 91% improved brand awareness through social media and 82% gathered leads through users, brand awareness and leads. Read more…

10 Ways Freelancers Successfully Launch Their Start-ups

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In this technology-driven world that is powered with high speed Internet, email, online video and audio conferencing, and cloud-based services, more jobs are moving from the commercial office to the home office, and more people than ever are choosing to work for themselves, right from the comfort of their own homes.

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As more companies turn to remote workers, the number of freelancers has risen, with writers creating stellar copy from a home computer to website designers working from home and collaborating with clients through online conferencing and email, freelancing has become a popular career choice for men and women of all ages. Those who have dipped their toes in the freelancing pool may have the desire to run their own business and be their own boss. Read more…

Top 28 Online Tools to Create Polls, Surveys and Quizzes

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Here is a range of free and paid tools you can use to create polls, surveys and quizzes. There are powerful tools to create mobile-ready quizzes, desktop quizzes, a range of surveys, and polls that apply to any online medium, which includes social media.

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15 Questions to Ask Before Signing Up an Online Course

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Whether you want to learn something completely new or need to expand your knowledge and skills, you can always sign up for an online course. Enrolling yourself in an online course is always a bright idea. An online course offers an opportunity to learn anywhere, at anytime. Watching TV in the middle of the night, enjoying coffee in the lounge in beautiful sunny day or merely sitting ideal, online learning is most attractive because of the flexibility and convenience it comes with. Moreover, a majority of online courses are very helpful as well as inexpensive. However not all online learning institutes are treated equal and same.

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Therefore, you need to be extremely careful when signing up for a particular online course. We have piled up few questions for you that you should ask before signing up an online course. Read more…

Your App is a Brand: Start Brand Management

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With the number of smartphone users increasing immensely day by day, it’s estimated that the figure will surpass 2 billion in 2016. Considering the whopping number of people using their smartphones for everyday tasks, marketers have taken a giant leap towards smartphone business.

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The app stores — be it the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store — are getting a lot of new apps each day and it has become quite a competition to reach out people in a flood of apps that is present in the app stores. This, by any means, doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t step in this lucrative business. With the right strategy, you will be able to get a great deal of attention and revenue. Read more…

10 Easy Ways to Access Blocked Websites

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Access to a wide variety of websites is blocked by many authorities across the world. Extreme cases, such as China, use their own firewall systems to block out the majority of the internet; in other places you may find your college or workplace blocks all access to social media sites.

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Sometimes, this is a necessary tool; it may be a matter of government security or simply policy. There is usually a way round the blocks but you should ensure what you are doing is legal. We’re totally aware that as technology keeps advancing, the internet becomes more and more dangerous. Many countries have restrictions; however, they’re constantly breached by hackers with bad intentions. Read more…

20 WordPress Plugins to Enhance the Search Function

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If you run a WordPress website, you’d probably know the limitation of the basic search functionality it comes with. Visitors not always find it easy to locate a particular thing on a website that has hundreds and thousands of articles. Therefore, it is always a bright idea to provide them a powerful search feature that allows them to find what they are looking for. Fortunately, WordPress has millions of plugins available to help you integrate advanced search functionality.

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Here is the list of 20 WordPress plugins to enhance the search function of your WP site: Read more…

20 Coolest Emoticon Apps for Smartphone

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The age of face-to-face communication is long gone and we all know that. The immense technological growth spur has rendered it moot, as it’s a lot easier to talk via Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp and other sorts of online communication channels. If it’s a good thing or not, that’s for future generations to decide. And building on that premise, the age of written communication is dying as well.

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Texting has become a commodity that we can’t live without (though we’d rarely admit it). Everything started with word shortening (due to character constraints). Before you knew it, acronyms were being used on a daily basis. Texting has become such a part of our daily lives that businesses even decided to employ them as an effective means of communications. So alongside acronyms, SMS messages began showcasing buzzwords in hopes of landing clients (they didn’t). Read more…

Top 15 Smart Wireless Headphones You Have Never Heard of

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When it comes to using different gadgets and technological devices, there are many options available to the users of that technology. The world that we live in is depending on the innovation and different kinds of technological breakthroughs that can provide users with multiple choices and convenience. Be it any department of our lives, technology is playing an amazing role when it comes to providing users with the various choices to make.

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In our entertainment department, technology is truly exceptional. The kind of gadgets we have available for our entertainment is something which is brilliant and outstanding. From different kinds of television sets including the smart television and 3D television sets to electronic cinema screens, we have everything available to choose from. Read more…

Top 15 Smart Home Devices You Might Not Know

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The concept of “smart homes” has been in the market for quite some time now. But the actual meaning of what it means is still unclear to many people.

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Although we are still in the early stages of smart home devices, but you will be amazed to know that some of them have already hit the market. Having said that, not all these smart home devices are a winner, but among them are a few of them that have stood apart from the rest. Read more…