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5 Tips for Taking Your Company Website Mobile and Creating Apps

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These days, simply having a website isn’t enough. With the growing popularity of mobile web browsing, your site has to work on a wide range of devices. But doing mobile the wrong way can actually frustrate visitors even more than a regular site and drive traffic (and sales) away.

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Many companies enjoy the success of mobile apps and sites when they allow customers to make purchases directly from their phone or mobile device. If you also want to enjoy this success, you must ensure that you avoid the common mistakes that companies often make when first going mobile. Read on for a few tips that will help make your site mobile-friendly, and bring your business to a broader audience. Read more…

7 Things Marketers Should be Learning from, According to the Internet

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The world of internet marketing and search engine optimization is constantly evolving, as are the habits of online consumers. Trying to navigate through the latest developments and advances in technology can be quite difficult. There are several things you should know when it comes to marketing your website or business online.

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Staying relevant and positioning yourself correctly is the main purpose of internet marketing, which will get you more sales and growth for your business. Search engine optimization is the best way to get traffic organically, but is just one aspect of internet marketing. Here we will point out the top 7 internet marketing trends that you should know about and learn from. Read more…

Recover Lost Photo, Audio and Video Files from Mac OS X Yosemite

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Apple Inc. recently launched another successor in its series of Macintosh operating systems, named Yosemite – Mac OS X 10.10. The newest version brings updates for hundreds of applications and features that its predecessors have already been providing. Additionally, many new features have also been added to the operating system suite, which are intended to make consumers even more comfortable in its usage.

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As you know that Mac OS X is termed the excellent computer operating system, I consider that you must know the reason behind it. If not, then let me remind you of its unmatched graphics, excellent hardware, and most importantly – its performance. How can I forget Disk Utility – the Mac OS X inbuilt disk management tool, which lets you fix many of the problems encountered while doing your work. Mac computers are even more secure as compared to other computers in the marketplace, which by the way cannot compete with Mac, no matter whichever feature is on the line. Read more…

11 Tips that will Help Your Videos Go Viral on Social Media

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Who wouldn’t want their videos to go viral on social media? This is one of the surest ways to achieve the boost that you are looking for your business. In fact, viral videos have emerged as one of the most coveted ways to rustle up feathers and reach out to the target audience. Although it sounds all rosy but it is quite an arduous task to create a video that will win the hearts of the social media folks. It is like playing lottery – you either win or lose. Even if you have succeeded once, there is no guarantee that you will be able to repeat your previous performance. So what is the big secret to create viral videos? Honestly, there is no magic trick to ensure that your videos will click in the social media.

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However, a bunch of tips and tricks might guide you to create a video which can work across the social media platforms. There are simple ploys like building an emotional roller coaster or including heaps of humor that can work wonders for your online video. Let’s take a look at these tricks in details: Read more…

4 Marketing Tools that Let Small Businesses Compete with the Big Guns

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It’s a dog eat dog world when it comes to digital marketing. With the internet being the great leveler, marketing your brand online is now less a function of your budgets and depends more on how smart you are in using all the various tools and resources available at your disposal. With the right tools and tricks, your startup can take on Goliaths without batting an eyelid.

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Let’s take a tour of 4 fantastic tools that offer your brand that edge over your deep-pocketed competition, once and for all. Read more…

Adding a Cash Drawer to a Point of Sale Terminal

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Cash drawers are part of the point of sale system. Modular systems usually come with multiple methods of attaching the cash drawer to the system. Some of these are far more effective than others. Companies such as Shopify offer cash drawer solutions for many retail businesses, with a wide variety of choices.

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Cash drawer additions can be made by almost anyone once they know what they are doing. Having a specialized IT person is recommended for a company, especially in the case of a point of sale terminal upgrade or fresh installation, but pretty much anyone can make the call for a new unit once they become familiar with the technology. Read more…

How Can Your Company Benefit From Moving Files Into The Cloud

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The cloud is here and it looks like it is here to stay. As a relatively new technology, it has been embraced by some and ridiculed by others. The fact of the matter is, for businesses the cloud can be a business saver when a disaster strikes. It can also allow coworkers to work even closer, making the team more unified, even when its members are spread across the globe. There are many good reasons your company should utilize the cloud.

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15 Popular Selfie Apps to Take Perfect self-Portrait Photographs

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Do you know that ‘Selfie’ is named as Oxford Dictionaries word of the year in 2013? Selfie means a photo that one has taken of oneself with smartphone and share to social media.

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With the rise of smartphone and social media in the recent years, the ‘selfie’ trend has quickly spread to every corner of the world. When you check out your friends’ status updates on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, it’s not difficult to find many of them like taking their self-portrait pictures with a new outfit, a cool hairstyle or while enjoying a delightful dinner. Moreover many celebrities regularly post their selfies on social profiles and successfully attracted a huge community of fans and followers. Read more…

7 Ad Blocking Apps & Browser Extensions to Remove Ads

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It’s not only your headache, everyone wants to remove those annoying ads from Facebook, YouTube, websites as well as apps on mobile devices.

Most of the free web services and mobile apps generate revenue through online ads. While some of them display moderate amount of ads, the others avidly show excessive ads that fill up the entire screen while using the online service or app.

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One of the best ways to get rid of these distracting ads is to install an ad blocker service to stop the ads from showing up on the screen of your computer or mobile devices. Read more…

10 Popular Web Design Trends You Should Follow in 2015

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Trends in web design change with time. With heavy growth of mobile and tablet usage, web design is transforming to serve these interfaces in a better way. We have seen the changes taking over in 2013 and 2014. Here are 10 trends that you can anticipate to rule 2015 and the years coming ahead.

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16 Online Services to Send / Receive Anonymous Emails

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So you want to send anonymous emails while keeping your identity secret? Well you should then read through this article and learn how to do it.

Despite there are plenty of free and feature-rich email services such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Outlook offered by some well-known Internet companies, many users still feel unsafe when it comes to online privacy. Just like most of the websites and free online applications, these email services are ‘free’ simply because they generate revenue through online advertising.

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These days, most of the online ads are tailored made for each and every service user. To do that, web service providers would need to get as much as private information from you so that they can show you ads based on your interests, or in other words, ads that you are most likely click through. Read more…

Content Management Systems Vs. Website Builders

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For anyone new to building and running websites, one of the most challenging aspects will be getting used to all of the new terminology and deciphering what each word or phrase means with regards to what you are trying to do. Two such phrases that you’ll likely hear thrown around a lot are “content management systems” and “site builders”. While there aren’t too many “definition” tutorials out there about the differences between content management systems and site builders, advice articles about building your own website will still use the words and expect you to know what they mean.

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To help you with this, we’ve put together everything that you need to know about site builders vs. content management systems, all here in one place. Let’s get started! Read more…

The Birth of Black Hat Social Media and Why We Should Discard Them

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After black hat SEO, now comes black hat SMO (social media optimization). Black hat strategy is quickly gaining grounds, spawning new ways to spam the web. The effects are three-fold: users, businesses and sites themselves. While black hat SMO and SMM is happening for about three years or so, discussions regarding such are limited. Search Engine Land started the topic, and we will continue it here.

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7 Things To Ask Before You Choose a Newbie Web Designer For Your Project

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As we write, the web is teeming with new businesses. The potential the Internet has for businesses of all sizes is evident. It’s a reality. It’s something that almost all-new business embrace by default.

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At the heart of the exciting media that the Internet is, there lies the humble web designer. If you are in this business, you are likely to be looking for talent from a global talent pool. But who says talent and skill is all that you have to look at? The recruiting process a designer isn’t that different recruiting anyone else, but there are at least 7 specific things you’d need to look into: Read more…

Top Mac Myths You Need to Know Before Buying A Mac

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The elegance, stability and the ease of use of the Mac OS X evokes a passionate response from the Mac users, whether using them for a longer period of time or those who have migrated from the Windows environment, quite recently. The Mac users and the Windows loyalists are into a rivalry and there are certain myths, around which such a competition is based on. Let us now discuss some of these Mac Myths.

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