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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Effective internal link strategy is useful for spreading link juice and building healthy site architecture. To achieve that, you should make sure that all the internal links on your site are working well. In other words, avoid broken links. If your site has too many broken links causing 404 error pages, not only it will have a negative impact on your site’s SEO rankings but also prompt visitors to leave your site.

Fortunately there are a number of free online tools available on the web helping you to check the link status on your site and report if any broken links are detected. In today’s post, we’ve listed some of the best internal link checkers and broken link detectors helping you to build a user-friendly and SEO friendly website. 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…

Nowadays QR codes are being widely used every where. You can easily find them printed on newspapers, websites, billboard ads, packages and many more. The matrix barcode can be scanned through your smart phone app to gain access to website or display virtually any type of information such as URLs, address, contact details, and product description.

When it comes to design, QR codes normally presented in such a way that black square dots arranged in a square pattern with white color as a background. I know, it sounds pretty boring. Fortunately, there are many talented designers out there, with their creativity turning the black and white box into a colourful and amazing artwork. Just like the ones you may have seen on our previous post: 35 Really Cool QR Code Artworks.

If you feel like having one customized and impressive QR code for your website, blog, company or product, simply follow our easy tutorials below to get it done within minutes! Read more…

YouTube, being the most popular video-sharing site for years, has not only made singer like Psy with his “Gangnam Style” become famous overnight, but also enabled us to watch the first ever free and live London 2012 Olympic games through its Olympic channel.

The king of video-sharing site has over 800 million unique user visits with over 4 billion hours of video being watched every month. These astronomical figures drive a variety of third-party tools and browser extensions available on the web helping you enhance your video experience. So if you watch online videos regularly, here are 10 really cool YouTube third party tools you must try. From video downloader to top video chart, we hope you’ll find them incredibly useful! Read more…

Everyday, most of the Facebook users receive a variety of news feeds from their friends, family, colleagues and pages they’ve subscribed. If the posts received are too many, it’s not easy to go through all of them. And it’s even harder if most of the posts are unimportant junk. Although Facebook does provide us some features where we can filter our posts by photos and links, unfortunately that’s not enough to customize the news feed based on what we want to see.

So for those of you who want more controls over your news feed, here we would like to introduce 2 web apps that will help you get updates from people you care about as well as the information and news you’re interested in, in a more organized way. Read more…

Wondering how many fake twitter followers you have? In today’s post, we’ll introduce one really cool online tool enabling you to find out the answer in seconds. Owing to the fact that Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites on the Web, tons of fake accounts being created for spamming purposes. If you have a successful Twitter account attracting over thousand of followers, there’s a need to check whether they are real people or just bots.

To check how many spam Twitter accounts are following you, you can go to Read more…

Nowadays, smart phones and tablet computers are everywhere. These Internet-connected mobile devices are too good for connecting people, web browsing, playing games, watching videos and listening to music. Apart from communication and entertainment purposes, mobile devices can also be used for work and that includes web development. If you happen to be a web developer who is always on the move, instead of bringing your heavy laptop everywhere why don’t you develop websites using tablet or smartphone while having a coffee at Starbucks? Isn’t it cool?

Online IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are the common web development platforms embraced by many web developers who code using their mobile devices. Read more…

If you have a great blog post that you want to share with the world, why just publish it as an article when you have a chance to showcase it through video? Well if you believe that a picture speaks thousand of words, then a great video can definitely reach hundred of millions of people like the viral music video: Psy’s Gangnam style.

Today we would like to recommend you a cool online tool called 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…

Undeniably Twitter is the most popular microblogging service on the Web. Almost every website owner and blogger has integrated the social networking tool to their sites. This enables their visitors to easily “tweet” about information and updates found from the site which helps in attracting more visitors.

Twitter has its own set of tools which you can use to display your Twitter button and status on the site. In case they can’t fulfil your needs, here we’ve compiled a list of third-party online tools and WordPress plugins specifically designed for integrating Twitter to your blog. We hope these tools can help you promote your site better, tweet to your followers easier, and attract more visitors. Read more…

Music production and recording has come a long way since the days when group of singers huddled in a room around one microphone, trying take after take until they got it just right. The advent of 8-track recorder changed the music landscape of the 60’s, the proliferation of at-home recording software changed the world of music again in the 2000s and now, in the 2010s, Dropbox and other cloud storage technology has ushered us into a new era of long-distance collaboration and a speedier process.

ProTools, Logic, Reason, Garage Band, Reaper…these digital music platforms Read more…

Website validation and testing are both important processes we must conduct before putting any website online. By validation, we can check our website against standards and requirements published by Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) or WapForum. This necessary process is to verify the correctness and quality of webpage code to ensure that the page is working properly with nice appearance.

Additionally, we should also conduct a series of fundamental tests such as browser compatibility, page load speed and simulating as a first time visitor or repeated visitor to determine the user friendliness of the site. In today’s post, we’ve compiled a list of highly useful online tools for validating and testing your website in an easy way. Enjoy! Read more…