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.

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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…

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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In the previous post, we talked about getting links from high Page Rank websites and blogs can help you improve your site’s SEO and increase your PageRank score. But before that, you need to make sure the backlinks you obtain do not contain “nofollow” attribute as this kind of links won’t give you any SEO benefits. To make your life easier, below we’ve gathered some search engines for you to dig out websites and blogs that allow you making comments and generating backlinks without “nofollow” tag. It’s important to make constructive and useful comments, contributing value to the post’s discussion. Bear in mind that any spam comments you make will be easily filtered by the system like Akismet or manually deleted by the site owner. So please, don’t spam!

In addition, we’ve also included useful Firefox addons and Chrome extensions assisting you to highlight “dofollow” and “nofollow” links on any webpage you surf. Read more…

When it comes to running a successful website or blog, the first thing you should do is to publish quality and unique web contents to build a strong base of royalty audience. The next thing you need to do is to have an effective strategy for increasing your site’s traffic. On the web, you’ll find many blogs and forums sharing a variety of tricks that claim to be useful for enhancing web traffic. If you decide to give those tricks a try, make sure they comply with Google’s website quality guidelines to avoid your site from being penalized or even banned by Google.

Today we’ll be focusing on how you can get more traffic from Google search engine through obtaining quality backlinks. Read more…

How to turn a WordPress blog into a classified ads website? We all know that WordPress is a widely used blogging platform on the web. What you might not know is that there are some “magical” themes out there you can use to turn your WordPress blog into a classified adverts website. Yes, instead of publishing blog posts, now you can easily create a listing site for cellphone and accessories, clothing and shoes, handbags, jobs, auto sales, real estate ads, almost anything you can think of.

Below we’ll recommended 14 popular WordPress themes, plugins and software for you to create a professional looking classified ads website within minutes. If you want your site to be the next CraigList, get it started now! Read more…

Nowadays websites are getting more complex, it has never been easy for webmasters and bloggers to ensure their site 100% safe from security threats. Fortunately there are some free web-based tools out there, helping you to scan your site for defects and vulnerabilities.

There is a saying that goes: “prevention is better than cure”, we, as a serious webmaster should regularly monitor the health level of our site and identify any possible security loophole. In today’s post, we’ve gathered 23 really useful web application security tools for website owner like you. Just give them a try and share your experience with us in the comments below. Read more…

Link building plays an important role to determine the success of your website’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Every webmaster wants to get higher search result ranking for website or blog. If you managed to get your targeted keywords ranked on the first page of Google search results, you’ll receive tremendous traffic to your site. On the contrary, if your site is not SEO optimized with targeted keywords appeared on page 5, 6 or 7, people are unlikely to reach your page. In short, the better your website is SEO optimized, the more traffic you’ll receive. And, the most effective way to boost your site’s SEO is through link building.

There are many ways can be used to reach out webmasters and drive backlinks from their sites for free, but most of them are time consuming. In today’s post, we would like to recommend you some reputable and reliable tools that can make the process much faster and easier, bringing your link building and SEO campaigns to the next level! Read more…

When it comes to word processing, data analysis, and other documentation tasks, Microsoft Office is not the only solution. There are many free and open-source office productivity suites available on the web, both web-based applications and desktop software you can use without paying a penny.

Instead of purchasing costly Microsoft Office suite, you may download open-source Apache’s OpenOffice to your computer fulfilling your daily documentation needs. Web-based office suite like Google Docs can be used directly on your web browser, no installation required. The beauty part of it is that you can easily store saved document files to Google Drive, which is good for online collaboration works. Read more…

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…

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…

Nowadays, Internet is playing an important part in our daily life. Without Internet connection, it seems like there’s nothing much you can do. You can’t post updates on Facebook, search information on Google, play social games, or watch videos on YouTube. To avoid from having such a boring day, you can pre-install or download some stuff on your mobile phone or tablet. This helps you to consume your time easily when you are on the move and there’s no WiFi connection around.

Here we would like to introduce you 7 awesome apps that are useful to save web pages and articles to your laptop, smart phone and tablet device for later reading. Read more…

No matter you are running a blog or business, Twitter and Facebook are both must-use social networking sites to promote your works. These social media sites are excellent platforms for you to build good relationship with your visitors, turning them into your royalty fans. Today we’ll be focusing on Twitter. As you know that there are tons of third party online tools out there specifically built for Twitter making it even more complete. Here we’ve gathered 17 excellent Twitter tools to promote your businesses. Each of these tools has great capabilities to help you get more customers and fans, taking your business to a new level.

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