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If you're a blogger or webmaster, this Firefox add-on is a handy SEO tool for you. Known as KGen , this useful and powerful extension enables you to analyze strong and important keywords on any Webpages especially those written by your competitors. How does KGen works is relatively simple. KGen scans through the entire webpage and finds which repetitive keywords appears the highest number of times and rank them accordingly. By using this tool, you're able to find out why and how your competitors perform so well and from there, you can devise a plan of how to improve your blog content and try to surpass them in terms of traffic. Print Page

No deep pockets to hire a website designer or no HTML, CSS skills to design a unique Wordpress theme on your own? Don't worry. Using the Wordpress Theme Generator , you can customize a Wordpress theme by choosing your background colors, text scheme, sidebar location, menu layout, fonts, and many more by using the toolbar located at the YvoSchapp website . Your personalized Wordpress theme will be previewed instantly after each changes and after you're satisfied with everything you've done, simply click on 'Save'. It'll automatically generate a .zip file, download, extract and upload and you're done! Print Page

The Google homepage is just too plain and simple and sometimes you might get bored with it when you used it regularly. It would be better if there are some background colors in it but I'm sure Google won't be doing that because it may affects the page load time. McSearcher has came up with a brilliant tool whereby you can search Google using your own background pictures. Isn't that interesting? To start personalizing your own and unique Google homepage, simply either upload an image from your computer or enter the image URL. Try to upload pictures that have a higher resolution because the image will fit automatically to your browser. McSearcher will then redirects you to your customized Google homepage and you can start searching from there. By making it your hompage, simply click on the IE or Firefox icon located at the top right hand corner. Have fun! Print Page

Few days ago, I've talked about the Gujam video search engine which uses Google Custom search to search for video-related links. Today, let me share with you another powerful video search engine which has excellent user-interface and gives you a lively Web video experience. Known as VideoSurf , it focuses more on graphic rather than text. Still in Beta version, VideoSurf lets you find, discover and watch videos on famous social video platforms such as Fox News, Yahoo News, Metacafe, YouTube and many more. VideoSurf is unique in the way that it doesn't link you directly to the various social video platforms - it only plays the videos on the site itself. The coolest feature which VideoSurf has is the easy visual navigation to find specfic scenes, rather than spending more time searching for the best scenes. Print Page

If you're a torrent fan, don't waste your time using Google to search for torrents files. Try using PizzaTorrent instead. Having a unique domain name, this powerful torrent search engine enables you to search for torrent files on popular torrent sites easily and fast. They include Mininova, The Pirate Bay, Iso Hunt, FullDLS, Torrent Reactor, myBittorrent, NewTorrents, Monova, LegitTorrents, SeedPeer, BTjunkie, SumoTorrent, SuprNova, BitTorrent and ExtraTorrent. By entering your query into the search bar, the results will be shown according to rank, date, torrent name, size, number of seeds and peers and engine. To minimize your search, simply click on the tabs above the search results which has been categorized into Anime, Books, Movies, Music, Other, Software and TV Shows. To download a particular torrent, click on the most suitable results and it will link you to the original torrent site where the torrent is host in. From there, you can download it using you...

I know many web tools that support this 'Who's Online' feature but today I would like to highlight to you guys one particular web tool which it is worth trying it out. Called whos.amung.us , it is a free and easy-to-use web tool which allows bloggers to track real-time traffic stats for their blogs. With this service, you can view instantly where your visitors are from and find out when you've the most visitors online.   If you think that the widget doesn't suits your blog's design, there's an option whereby you can customize the colors of the widgets. Within less than a minute, you would already have installed this widget in your blog as all you need to do is to copy and paste the HTML code in your blog. Print Page

Have you ever wondered how search engine giant - Google actually works? Paul Smalera with John Grimwade and Jacky Myint has created an interesting 5-steps flash tutorial about how Google works? Check it out @ http://www.portfolio.com/images/site/editorial/Flash/google/google.swf Print Page

Sometimes 140 characters aren’t enough for some of us. Developed by a German developer Wahid Rahim, RichTweets is a newly-launched Twitter app which helps users enhance their tweet by making them look more attractive. What’s more is that with this site, you can tweet without enforcing the 140 character limit. This simple but impressive site enables users to create full HTML updates, with colors, images, videos and even widgets. Sounds really cool right? To start, simply log in via Twitter Oauth, without the need to punch in your Twitter credentials. Next, you can starting create a tweet by providing a title. What I like about RichTweets is that it offers a WYSIWYG(compose) editor which is filled by many useful features such as different styles and fonts of text, ability to add colors and highlighting tweets. Besides these, users can include tags related to the topic or category of the update. Want your followers on Twitter to view your tweet accompanied with a video? No worries. Simp...

Today as i was reading the blogger buzz , i found something really cool and I am so happy to announce that we finally get to have a, label cloud widget ,the blogger buzz it self said.: "In April, we announced that we wanted to hear from you about your wish list for features in Blogger. Many of you said that the label gadget should be more flexible. Today we are rolling out two enhancements to the label gadget. Label Cloud Previously, the label gadget showed a list of labels—and by far the most requested enhancement was to present the labels as a "cloud" instead of as a bulleted list. That's now supported in the gadget directly: Once enabled, the more popular labels appear in a bigger font than the less popular labels: Selected Labels If you've been on Blogger for a while, you might have more labels than you know what to do with. Don't want to show all of your labels in the widget? No problem: go to the label gadget settings and choose "S...

Want to create RSS feed subscription buttons just like what you see on my sidebar? Using these tiny buttons can significantly boost your feed readers count as whenever a visitor reads your articles and see those icons, they will tend to click on them. Also, you won't want your potential RSS readers to go through your feed page to subscribe to your RSS feed. The iFeedReaders chicklet creator enables you to create RSS feed subscription buttons in just a few simple steps. First, choose your buttons and the popular ones includes Google reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines, newsgator My MSN and many more! Next pick which code type you want. The default version is mainly for basic users. The dropdown menu creates a cool dropdown menu which helps you save some space on your blog. If you want to install this widget directly into your blog, you can try the blog specific option. Continue the remaining steps and click on 'Create buttons'. Follow the instructions and you're do...

Having a social bookmarking button for your blog can help you gain more exposure to your site if reeaders finds your article interesting and shares it with his or her friends on social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, etc. Powered by BuildingSocialEquity , Let'sGetSocial is a social bookmarking tool which provides 3 different types of button widgets. Two of them have similar features, the only difference is the design of the button. The other one is a "Connect with Me" widget which you can add over 40 personal social profiles such as Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. to your website. This lets your loyal readers socialize and interact with you on popular social platforms. Installing the buttons and widget in your site is simple as all you need is to select your option and copy and paste the generated code into your blog. Why I am not using this widget ? Ans.I simply don't need it. Print Page

Want a fast and easy way to create a text logo for your blog title? Well, Logogenerador is a Web 2.0 tool that helps you to create a text logo in less than 10 seconds! Although this site is in Spanish, but I don't think there will be any problem for English native speakers as it's quite easy for me to follow the steps even I don't know any Spanish word. Comes in a simple interface, Logogenerador automatically generates a text logo when you enter some words into the textfield, choose your logo style and click on "Generate". Save the image into your computer, upload it into your blog or anywhere you want and you're good to go. However, it would be better if Logogenerador provides more options such as text font and size. I have problem downloading the image into my desktop but I managed to copy the image to my picture editor and save it from there. Do you encounter this problem too? Print Page

Powered by Flash, Pixlr is a free Web-based image editor that allows you to edit multiple images at once using a set of useful and powerful tools such as layers support and filters. Pixlr lets you upload photos either from your computer or the Web and edit them in a cool user interface. It looks as if I'm using a desktop application and not browser-based. Key features which Pixlr provides includes multiple layers for masking and effects, free transform tool, custom brushes, adjustments of brightness and contrast, filters such as blur, sharpen, old photo, etc. When you'ved finished editing your images, Pixlr lets you download them back to your hard drive in either JPEG or PNG format. If you select JPEG, you can choose the quality of the image. I feel that Pixlr is a pretty neat and slick online image editor and it's a great alternative to the expensive Photoshop. If you're wondering which desktop-based image editor I'm using, it got to be the impress...

ADrive provides 50GB of free storage space (that's pretty big!). But have you ever thought of storing and backing up over 100GB or even 1TB of documents in an online server for absolutely free? I think there's only a few of them out there. And Hordit is one of them. Currently in beta, Hordit dubbed itself as "a place to store virtually anything" which simply means it allows users to store, share and backup anything they want - docs, photos, spreadsheets, pdfs, notes, contacts, YouTube links, scanned images, etc. in Hordit's online server with an unlimited storage at no cost. First of all, you'd to sign up for an account . Once you're in the desktop, you can start uploading anything you want by moving your mouse over "store something". Select what you want to store and upload it from your computer whereas for web links, type in the URL instead. By default, Hordit provides you folders to let you store and organize your items quickly. If...

Want to annoy your friends by typing your text upside down so that they have a difficult time finding out what you're typing unless they turn the whole computer upside down? Well, I'm stumbled across a site called FlipTitle which lets you do so. Saturday, December 13, 2008 | Xavier Lur Want to annoy your friends by typing your text upside down so that they have a difficult time finding out what you're typing unless they turn the whole computer upside down? Well, I'm stumbled across a site called FlipTitle which lets you do so. Using a program that converts text to unicode characters and symbols that look inverted, FlipTitle generates flipped text by inputing some words and symbols in the textfield. This tool is useful as it adds some security if you use flipped text in your passwords. However, some services or platforms can't read upside-down text. Besides that, you can use it as IM names, putting it in social networking profiles, encrpyt yo...