Domain Registration

Are you considering getting your own website? Have you thought of a name for your site? Do the technical aspects involved with the process overwhelm you? The first thing that must be done is getting your domain name. Owning your own domain name can be an exciting experience. A domain is Internet real estate and is an investment that can eventually go up in value. Make sure you select your name carefully as there are a lot of criteria that go into making a good quality name. Some things to consider when purchasing a domain name include the length of the name, how pronounceable it is, how memorable it is and how brand able the domain name is. As you can see there is a lot to consider here – so choose wisely.

The next step involves the registration of the name. Registering a domain name doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, with the increased popularity of the Internet and the influx of new domain registrations increasing everyday, most Registrars have developed their sites to accommodate new users. If you are a complete newbie to the domain registration process then this will come as welcome news to you. The key is finding a Registrar that provides an easy process and guides the user every step of the way by way of a well-crafted site. Of course if you need additional assistance then a 24/7 support system would be another criteria I would use in my selection of a Registrar.

Good luck in your domain registration efforts and have fun selecting all those cool names. Hopefully you build up a good portfolio and get some nice matching websites going in the process.

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March 4, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 1 Comment 

The Internet Information Highway

Agreed that we all are fond of games, books, softwares and other miscellaneous, but we fail to choose the right ones and end up buying that which is not worth. In today;s post I want to share some of the best sites online where we can have these things.

Books

1) Amazon: Amazon.com has made a revolution in the internet world for a long time. Started as the first major online bookstore in 1995 has later spread its wings to all the areas thereby becoming the world’s leading shopping site covering customers from over 220 countries worldwide. The site offers safe shopping guarantee so that customers won’t have worries thinking about their credit cards.

Amazon has been a first point of reference for many people for book shopping and a leader in the online book market.

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February 12, 2008 | Filed Under Internet, Tips n Tricks | 1 Comment 

You’ve got Gmail? We’ve got the skins


Well I am not a fan of Gmail nor do I use Gmail that frequently. But last time I found some impressive skins on the net and thought I should write a post to share some of the best skins with you. Hope this will give the users a shot. Here goes.

Mac Skin: A skin in Mac style. This skin adds a Mac style menu to your Gmail account. Check it here.

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February 7, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 1 Comment 

How to clean your email inbox?

Tens and hundreds of emails hit our inbox everyday. We try to control the fusillade that flings at us daily. But the task looks more
intimidating. I personally get lazy when coming to cleaning my inbox and just end up saying “Oh, that’s a load of shit..I rather clean it later”. In today’s post, I want to share some useful tips that i found when i searched through net on how to clean the email inbox.

Let’s analyze how we can get it done.

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January 24, 2008 | Filed Under Internet, Tips n Tricks | 2 Comments 

Speed up your Torrent downloads

File sharing is what people have been crazy about for a long time. Downloading songs, movies, games and more have become a hobby for some these days. You may have come across popular P2P networks. These platforms are great for downloading files. Nowadays even illegal file sharing is getting popular.

People always look for better possibilities. Better download speeds, better networks etc. Some may not be satisfied with the speeds these networks offer. How to speed up these downloads? That’s the big question in today’s post. I will give you a few tips that could possibly increase your download speeds.

You probably know of different bittorrent clients that you can choose. In my case, I prefer choosing uTorrent or BitComet.

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December 28, 2007 | Filed Under Downloads, Internet, Tips n Tricks | 6 Comments 

Best Downloads of 2007


The year 2007 is coming to a close. For some, the year 2007 may have been well and good as they may have taken goals to accomplish and would have achieved, while others would have remained same and done no better. In my case, year 2007 was a good year as I faired pretty well. Set my goals and then did a couple more things to achieve.

In this post, I am listing a couple of downloads which I believe are the “Best downloads of 2007”, and I guess I am right. . These are from my personal collection, and so I thought I should share it with you.

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December 27, 2007 | Filed Under Downloads, Internet, Software | 3 Comments 

How to make money from Videos and Images?

Money

Sharing videos online is a prominent way of making money. You may have come across many video sharing sites on the web. Ok, I know a popular video sharing site known as Flixya. It works by sharing adsense revenue with you 50/50. First off, you need to have a adsense publisher account. The work is simple. All you got to do is submit videos from popular sharing sites like Youtube, Video Google etc and provide them your adsense publisher id. Once done, your videos will be displayed on the pages along with adsense ads and split the ad impressions 50/50. This actually works real well. Why not give it a try today?

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December 15, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tips n Tricks | Leave a Comment 

Facebook restores the new advertising tool

Facebook

Facebook Inc has renovated a new advertising system that can flicker private complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other corporations.

The 55 million people who use Facebook will be given control whether they want to join in for the three week program that movement’s responsive information about online purchases and other activities.

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

World to see a Cyber War?

Cyber war

Based on a report published on Thursday, one of the biggest threats to the security in the next decade would be waged through computers resulting in a “Cyber Cold War”.

According to McAfee, an internet security company, about 120 countries are coming up with ways to use internet to target financial markets, government systems etc. McAfee said that intelligence agencies were testing other states networks to make out their weakness and their methods were growing as time goes.

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Security, Tech News | 4 Comments 

Cyber Monday kicks off well

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According to an internet research firm, American consumers stuck shopping sites on Monday, giving a robust start to the shopping season, resulting in good sales.

ComScore Inc reported that about $733 million were spent by consumers for shopping on Monday, resulting in a 21 percent high when compared to the same day a year ago. It was expected that the sales figure would surpass the $700 million mark.

According to ComScore, the first Monday after Thanksgiving was not the busiest day for retailers however. Wednesday, Dec 13 was the busiest day last year bringing in $667 million in sales. Monday after Thanksgiving was actually the 12th busiest day for the 2006 holiday period.

However Monday, known as Cyber Monday, represented the big sales, as consumers got back to office and started clicking to shop. Monday’s sales resulted in 84 percent jump from average daily online spending, according to ComScore.

The number of buyers online saw a rise to around 38 percent compared to last year, according to ComScore. Average dollars spent per head was 12 percent down. ComScore chairman said that he believed deeper price discount depressed sales. ComScore said that about $10.7 billion has been spent online from Nov 1 through Nov 26, thereby gaining 17 percent compared to last year.

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

UK TV rivals to launch online TV on-demand service

UK’s TV networks such as BBC, Channel 4, ITV are planning to launch a joint online TV on-demand service that will provide content from all channels. The unnamed new service is likely to be launched in 2008.

The new service will include free downloading, purchases through internet, streaming and more. Shows will be locally produced content and perhaps US and non-British content. According to reports so far, the new service is believed to be available to the residents of UK only.

BBC has described the importance of the new service as remarkable, To take the deal to a more viewpoint it ought to be like NBC,CBS and Fox holding together for a joint gateway where their shows would be available on demand, for download, purchase etc. But the biggest winner will be the British viewer who will have access to TV content on the net. Recently BBC had problems with its iPlayer service which had delays, then was attacked for being available to Windows users only.
The channels launching the service said that the new service will be first launched online and then it will be made available on other platforms as well. Viewers will be able to watch the content free. The venture will be owned similarly and will work as independent.

Broadcasters hope by aggregating their content into one service they will cover competition from the prior services provided by other Internet upstarts like Joost and others.

For more on the topic check Media Guardian

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November 27, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

Are you a part of the shopping season yet?

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Retailers hope last week’s start to the holiday shopping season translates into a busy buying season online, which is officially to kick off on Monday. Retailers are busy hosting special offers. ComScore, research firm online has projected sales online may exceed $700 million on Monday.

ShopperTrak RCT Corp, which tracks total sales at almost 50,000 retail outlets, reported on Sunday that sales on Friday and Saturday saw a rise of 7.2 percent compared to the same 2 day period a year ago.

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November 26, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

Chinese become Web “addicts”

Web users

According to a study release on Friday, Chinese Internet users seem to depend on their web experiences, and see web as a key to socializing and sharing opinions compared to their U.S counterparts.

The study was conducted by InterActiveCorp (IACI.O) and advertising agency JWT, part of the WPP group. The survey was conducted in the age group of 16-25 years old both in U.S and China which showed that about 42 percent of Chinese users said they felt addicted to Web use compared to 18 percent of users in U.S.

The survey was conducted online in November, in English and Chinese. The study distinguished that about 10 percent of Chinese population used internet, with a higher proportion of them living in major cities.

Almost 25 percent of Chinese population held a view saying it was unable for them to spend more than a day without internet compared to 12 percent in U.S. About 76 percent of Chinese users said Web helped them in making new friends where as less than third of Americans said internet contributed to their social life.

The study also revealed that about three quarters of Chinese users were free to do and say things through internet which could not be possible in the real world, compared to 32 percent of users in U.S.

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November 23, 2007 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment 

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