You Can Play a Game Inside a New York Times Article
If you haven’t seen this New York Times article, well, you should! It’s titled Just One More Game… Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’, and the cool thing is that it actually...
View ArticleHow Is Your Touch Typing Going?
As you might remember back in 2009 I decided to learn how to touch type. Before that I used mostly two fingers to type, although I was not bad at it, with a speed of around 60 words per minute. Here’s...
View ArticleDid You Try the Revamped Google Trends?
Google Trends was already one of my favorite tools for making research about the popularity of search terms and websites. Now it got even better, as Google announced it merged Google Trends with...
View ArticleWhy LeadPlayer is The Best Video Player for Bloggers – And How to Win A Copy
A few months ago I started hearing about a new video player for bloggers and website owners looking to grow their audiences. It’s called LeadPlayer. First I saw Pat Flynn (from Smart Passive Income)...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Storage, App Engine and Cloud SQL
As you probably noticed over the past couple of years there was a lot of change and innovation on the web/cloud hosting space. Amazon is one of the most popular examples, with its S3 plataform, but...
View ArticleThe Most Useless Websites on the Internet
A couple of days I was browsing (read procrastinating) when I came across a a website called TheUselessWeb.com. It’s basically a directory of (other) useless websites. At a first sight those websites...
View ArticleAlternatives to Google Reader?
The first RSS reader I used was Bloglines, back in 2005. I kept using it for 2 years, but people kept saying I was missing out by not using Google Reader, so in 2007 I made the switch, and I have used...
View ArticleTool to Measure the Speed of Your Website
A couple of weeks ago I came across an interesting tool to measure the loading speed of your website. The tool was created by Pingdom, and it basically loads your website, tracking the time at each...
View ArticleGiveaway: 3 Blogger Bundles for You
The Envato guys are currently running a promotion, called “Blogger Bundle.” Basically you have blog themes, plugins, scripts, icons and digital assets bundled together in a single package. Individually...
View ArticleAwesome Tool to Improve Your Website Speed
Recently I started trying to optimize the loading speed of my websites, after the number of people using mobile devices and 3G or similar connections is exploding, and those connections are not the...
View ArticleHow to Remove Broken Links From Your Website
Broken links are links on your website that point to pages that no longer exist. For instance, suppose you write a post linking to an article you found very interesting on another website. A couple of...
View ArticleHow Often Do Your Check Your Stats?
One of the phases that virtually any new webmaster goes through is the stats-fever. It’s that period when you first discover Webalizer of (hopefully) Google Analytics, and you are so excited with your...
View ArticleHow to View Source Code on Mobile Devices
As you probably know, the source code of a web page is the raw HTML code that gets interpreted by the browser so that you can view things in a user-friendly way (e.g., with images, formatting, spacing...
View ArticleGoogle Trends Now Has Email Notifications
First of all if you are not using Google Trends, you should. It’s a terrific tool for researching keywords, niches and so on, with the benefit of having a very reliable data source (i.e., Google...
View ArticleHow to Find the Traffic of Any Website on the Internet
Have you ever wondered how many people visit TechCrunch every month? How about the New York Times? How about how many people are visiting the site of your competitors? Recently I discovered a tool that...
View ArticleBig List of Sites with Royalty Free Images
Whenever you need an image to go along a blog post you simply go to Google.com, search for some keyword, select and download an image you like, and upload it to your site. Right? Wrong! Just because an...
View ArticleHow to Get Started with a Business Dashboard
Once your websites or online businesses start growing you’ll certainly find that managing all the information becomes quite a challenge on its own. Web analytics, email subscribers and delivery rates,...
View Article3 Free Tools to Build A Website With No Technical Skills
A couple of years ago I run a survey to know more about my readers, and I was surprised to find that around 15% of them didn’t have a blog or website yet. They said they wanted to build one, but didn’t...
View ArticleAre You Optimizing Your Conversion Rate?
While increasing your traffic is a guaranteed way to boost your sales and earnings, it’s not the only way to do it, and frequently it’s not the easiest way either. In fact if you keep your traffic...
View Article4 Ways to Host Your Website for Free
If you are just getting started online, or if you are testing a new project, you might not want to spend money with web hosting right away. Fortunately there are some ways you can host a website free...
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