One of the best ways to interact with your blog’s readers is to add a poll or survey on your site for their participation. Through this effort not only you can gather and understand the general thoughts of your readers on a particular topic but also create a positive impact on your site bringing up the interactivity value.

In today’s post we’ve compiled a list of popular poll and survey widgets which can be installed on your blog. With these online tools, bloggers can easily set up online poll, marketers can conduct web survey, and users of social network can create personality quiz for their fans and followers. Read more…

Customer engagement is at the core of any marketing strategy. The ability to engage your customers effectively can provide a wealth of information on the best ways to attract them, but even more importantly retain them, turning them into brand ambassadors.

With the technological advances that have taken place over the last five to seven years has completely revolutionized the marketing industry. With the emergence of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and more, the internet has become a marketing gold mine. In addition, there is a new and powerful player on the block: mobile and web applications. Read more…

All Hail Lord Google

Google Drive is a standard document creating platform for many individuals, startups, small and medium companies – it’s free, pretty easy to use and reliable. I use it every day – even with all the limitations of the various document processing and editing tools that come with it.

It’s time to move document creation and editing to the cloud once and for all. With online and offline options for most cloud solution companies, the only area you will need to worry about is the organization of your files. Read more…

Plagiarism is a real plague of the today’s content marketing. Simply put, to plagiarize means to take someone else’s content and publish it as your own. Plagiarism not only cheats the original author of the credits for their work they deserve, it also presents direct financial damage for them.

If someone plagiarizes your work you posted online, they face several disadvantages that work against them rather than for them. These include: Read more…

Axure is without a doubt one of the most popular tools today for wireframing and prototyping both websites and desktop software. When using Axure, users will make use of reusable elements called “widgets” – and the application itself comes with a basic set of these widget libraries pre-installed.

Not all users realize this at first, but there several quality resources at your disposal to help improve your wireframing efficiency and help improve the quality of your wireframes from the initial concept. These resources provide community and user submitted widget libraries (most available for free) which can extend your wireframing skills and really impress your clients. Read more…

You probably already know that there are quite a number of apps can be used to track lost smartphone. Through these apps, you can also retrieve important data and information stored in the phone even it has never been found again. While finding a lost smartphone sounds easy, what about digital camera? What would you do if your camera was stolen or if you’ve lost it somewhere?

Unlike smartphones, there are neither tracking apps designed for digital camera nor GPS receiver built in it. In the event that your camera goes missing, is there a hope you can get it back? The answer is yes. Just like your digital camera’s unique serial numbers, every photo taken with it has an EXIF data. So imagine if the thief posts photos taken with the camera on the web, this allows you to search such photos and track your camera down. Here are 3 awesome websites you can try to get your lost camera back. Good luck! Read more…

Are you unsatisfied with PayPal and looking for some alternatives? Look no further, you’ve come to the right place. Online transaction isn’t something new, you can see e-commerce sites, online shopping sites and Internet banking sites are everywhere on the web. All these websites involve online transaction, thus it’s one of the most important Internet activities.

Talking about transferring money through the Internet, many people are concerned about their credit card information being stolen, financial accounts being hacked, or not being able to get back refund if the item purchased is broken. Additionally, some people encountered problems like not being able to use local credit card on a website, or being unsuccessful in completing a transaction due to unknown reasons. Read more…

Yesterday we’ve recommended you 4 tools for searching hashtags across multiple social networking sites. During our research for this particular topic, we’ve stumbled upon quite a number of online services developed for exploring and analyzing hashtags from Twitter only. Apart from hashtags, contents like Mentions, Tweets and user profiles can also be managed by using these free and user-friendly tools.

In today’s post, we’ve rounded up 12 Twitter hashtags tools, adding to our existing 14 hashtag tools collection. That means you’ll have total 26 hashtag online resources to help you make the most out of this popular microblogging service. Read more…

Hashtag is one of the easiest ways to share and follow a specific topic on the Web. It was firstly used within IRC networks for labelling groups, and rapidly gained popularity through Twitter. These days hashtags have been widely used on many social networking services such as Instagram, Google+, Orkut, Pinterest, Tout, etc. And the good news is that Facebook will soon be supporting this form of metadata tag too.

Previously, we’ve published a post introducing 14 Twitter hashtag tools to keep track of trending topics. Today, we would like to recommend another 2 online services that not only can search hashtags from within Twitter but also other major social networking sites. So if you want to search hashtags on multiple social media sites to explore the latest trending topics, or promote your products, services and campaigns, then these free tools can be very helpful to you. Read more…

IFTTT (If This Then That) is an awesome web app that helps you automate and manage your daily Internet activities. It connects all your favorite social media sites and online tools to create a seamless integration between services like Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Evernote, Instagram, Instapaper, Foursquare, and many more.

So what kind of tasks can be automated by IFTTT? Well, by setting up connection between 2 web services, IFTTT can help you perform tasks like auto-save all your Instagram photos to Dropbox, send you email alerting there will be rain tomorrow, share your favorite YouTube videos to Facebook, tweet your latest uploaded Flickr photos and even save your starred Gmail messages to Evernote. Literally, there are endless possibilities of what you can create with IFTTT. Read more…

Password plays a very important security role to prevent any unauthorized access to your computer and online accounts such as Facebook, Gmail and Internet banking accounts.Many people tend to use their own names, date of births, or even a string of easy-to-guess numbers such as 123456 as their passwords. If you use this kind of password, chances are your online accounts are highly vulnerable to hacking. To prevent this happening, we strongly recommend you to check out our previous post titled “40 most hacked passwords you shouldn’t use” to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of cyber criminals.

So, how to create a highly secure but easy to remember password? Below we’ve rounded up a list of online password generators. These free tools enable you to easily create strong and memorable password with just a single mouse click. Most of them allow you to specify password criteria depending on the level of complexity you want. Read more…

Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage services. Not only does it help us to back up personal files/important documents up to the cloud, but it provides easier way to share files with friends or sync files between computers. However, nothing is perfect in this world, so as Dropbox. That’s the reason why there are many apps being developed to fill up the holes Dropbox left unfilled.

To help you better use the cloud service, below we’ve rounded up 16 Dropbox apps you’ll absolutely find them helpful. With these apps integrating with Dropbox, you’ll be able to sync Dropbox with other cloud storage services, upload Gmail attachments directly to Dropbox, and even play music/video from Dropbox on your web browser. The good news is that most of these apps can also be used for other cloud services such as Google Drive, Box, SkyDrive, etc. Read more…

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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Web designing is not for the meek hearted, or for those who don’t wish to be bothered with new developments. At no time in the history of internet and its evolution web development has stood constant even for a moment. The only constant in web is change. Early during the development of internet, every utility had to be bought individually. Things are vastly different today as more and more software come under open source development.

Typical examples of successful open source software include the likes of Linux, Joomla, XAMP, Apache, and WordPress, and so on endlessly. The advantages of open source are, they are modifiable, free to use and there is a vast community of developers to guide and support you in implementing the software. Another advantage, and most important of all is that thousands of users worldwide work improving the applications, and that means newer releases at more frequent intervals. Read more…

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…