Nov 17 2008

Are You Tired of Email Spam?

[Post credit: FriedBeef.com] Even if you never publish your email address online, you can still receive spam because you use this email address to sign up for various newsletters or membership-only services. One of the methods to avoid that I’ve been using so far was to keep a separate free email account for all sign-ups. But this way you can miss some important alerts from the service you have registered with. › Continue reading


Nov 15 2008

The Beauty of HTML Code

For all of you wondering what clean, SEO-friendly HTML code looks like I recommend studying this pretty diagram that explains the whole thing perfectly:

Beautiful HTML code

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Nov 5 2008

Create A Magazine Out Of Your Blog RSS

That’s what I call a fresh idea! We have seen plenty of PDF converters (that can create PDF files and eBooks from MS Word, RSS feed, etc) but this is the first time I’ve seen a tool that positions itself as a magazine creator.

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Oct 19 2008

Make Sure You Know These Acronyms

Modern Acronyms
Mobile texting, micro-blogging and overall daily active typing - all that caused the boom of acronym culture. I stopped keeping track of them long ago but some of them are so funny that I just can’t help taking notice. › Continue reading


Oct 9 2008

Automatic Alternative to Eye-Tracking

While at SEOsmarty I posted the results of my experiment with 5 second usability test, here I am looking at another usability tool: Feng-Gui that is claimed to show you the heat map of any image you submit.

Here is how the heatmap of SEOsmarty.com looks:

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Sep 25 2008

Give Your Twitter Account a Funny Look

There are such a plenty of Twitter apps recently that at some point I stopped paying attention to them. Still this app made me spend a few minutes figuring it out (and trust me I am a busy girl right now). › Continue reading


Sep 22 2008

URL Shrinker + Google Search

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Aug 25 2008

Reversed Image Search: No Keywords Any More!

Tineye.com is a new online service allowing for reversed image search: unlike all existing image search engines it searches based not on keywords you submit but on images you upload.

Reversed Image Search

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Aug 25 2008

Reading Test - How Easily Is Your Page Read?

Reading test

They say your mind work the way that you can easily read and understand words where all letters except the first and the last ones are mixed.

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Aug 25 2008

Ann Smarty’s New Blog

idea

Ok, I made up my mind for now - thank you for your comments, please keep them coming!

So this new tiny blog of mine will consist of very short posts: daily finds, short ramblings and personal news. I browse the Internet a lot and constantly spot something worth sharing - anything from awesome images to cool tools and collections. Normally I would post these things to my friends via IM or Facebook and now I will also share these finds here.
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