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Megan Fox explores her hidden passion with an Acer Aspire S7

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November 6, 2012

Megan Fox explores her hidden passion with an Acer Aspire S7

Acer has been on a roll lately with some great ads coming our way which are all seems to be the part of the double marketing budget the Taiwanese company has been using to revitalise its image as the premium products maker and as part of its new brand positioning ‘explore beyond limits’. We saw the great ad featuring Kiefer Sutherland exploring his passion and the Acer Aspire S5 comes to his rescue and now we have another great campaign which shows the gorgeous Megan Fox, the popular actress exploring her hidden passion and guess who comes to rescue, its the sleek and powerful Windows 8 running Aspire S7 ultrabook.

Acer”s campaign again encourages users to “explore beyond limits,” with the “Transformer” start seen exploring her hidden passion to become a marine biologist.

The ad starts with the Megan meeting her agent in a restaurant but is distracted by the lobster tank, and since her “hidden passion” for marine life is so strong she storms to the tank, reaches in, takes the two lobsters out and returns them back to the ocean.

Using her Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook™, Fox leads a group of scientists in a quest to develop software that will allow her to speak to dolphins.

She then lands in a lab where using her Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook™ leads a group of scientists in a quest to develop software that will allow her to speak to dolphins as the voiceover says “We all have our hidden talents and for Megan Fox it’s marine life.”

She is then seen showing a dolphin various objects like an egg and a fish to try and get it to communicate with her. She is even seen reading it the raunchy book ’50 Shades of Gray’. After some scientific tweaking on her Aspire S7 ultrabook, Fox’s new technology is a success and the dolphin says “Hello Megan. Do I get a hug?”

It ends with the strapline, ‘See the Ultrabook that helped transform Megan Fox’.

Well we’ll not like to make you wait more, check out the video:

Check out Acer’s YouTube channel for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the video and more.

It is surely a fun ad and with Megan Fox featuring in it, it is surely going to grab eyeballs but i wish we could see more of the impressive ultrabook but with the eye pleasing Megan Fox, i am surely not complaining.

“I decided to work with Acer because I really like computers, the more high-tech, the better,” says Fox. “The campaign was fun and it gave me an opportunity to show a different side of myself.”

The campaign is created out of ad agency Mother London and directed by Stink’s Ivan Zacharias and we get a feeling of a short movie.

Well although the Acer Aspire S7 may not bring a software that lets you talk to dolphins but its surely an impressive ultrabook. It is the thinnest touch ultrabook on the market right now. It is gorgeous would be an understatement. The Aspire S7 is the typical high-end Ultrabook where you get a choice of Core i5 or i7 processors, 4GB of RAM, Intel’s HD 4000 graphics and 128GB or 256GB for storage. All in all its specs make it a pretty powerful Ultrabook to have.

It sports a glorious Full HD touch-enabled IPS screen display, a very sleek super-slim profile, a original and striking design, and even optional battery slices make it a Ultrabook to be truly worthy of its flagship status.

Now with all those goods, what it needs is some punchy marketing and that is what this campaign brings.

This post is brought to you by Acer. All opinions are mine.

Common duplicate content problems and how to deal with them

SEO

SabineTimm

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November 1, 2012

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Duplicate content is one of the most worrying problems facing a huge number of websites like those designed for E-commerce. Larger sized websites have less unique content largely because of their complex content structure. E-commerce sites need to be designed both for search engines and for the users. The most common problem that e-commerce sites face is having duplicate Meta titles and descriptions. This article has some of the most popular problems that affect e-commerce sites from a duplicate content point of view.

Having little or no difference in what you sell

Assume that your ecommerce site sells a product; say a beverage whose difference is the size and price alone. If the details for this beverage are placed on unique pages of the website, chances are that the content will hardly change throughout the website. Most of the content will be the same and largely duplicated.

Fix-when faced with such a challenge, you should consider making a rel canonical to one of the pages with all the information about the product. This way, you tell the search engines not to regard the other page as important and hence save you time and ranking. Alternatively, you can alter the Meta tags uniquely and the content information say the description of the product, where to find it and other relevant information that will protect you from having similar content on all pages.

Printer friendly versions of web pages

Apparently, when you create printer versions of your website for the users, SEO suffers a lot. Since the printer version page is on a different URL, it competes with the normal page for ranking on Google. Only one of these pages can make it to the top of the search engine results. If this happens, your page cannot realize its full potential because of the duplicates there in.

Fix-Creating a printer friendly CSS style sheet can help you fix the problem. Creating a no-index tag on the printer version pages and a relative canonical tag on printer version to the real page are just some of the ways to fix these problems.

Pagination

Pagination is one of the most common duplicate content issues that come with having categories and sections of the content accessible through multiple locations. The other instance is all your pages having the same Meta data on different URLs. In the end you have different pages, with different products but same titles and Meta descriptions which are misleading to the search engines.

Fix-The best way to fix pagination is using the rel=canonical tags in the content. This tag can be used to reference the first page in the search results. The other tags Google recommends to its users is the rel=next and rel=previous tag on pages to protect the issue.

Overall, detecting plagiarism is one of the most effective ways to find out if your ecommerce website has worrying duplicate content. PlagSpotter is one of the most reliable tools you can use to spot and deal with plagiarized o duplicate content on your ecommerce website.

Google introduces new compact composer for Gmail

Internet

Rupesh Sinha

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November 1, 2012

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Google introduces new compact composer for Gmail

Gmail by Google is arguably the most used email client of all and it has seen numerous changes come its way since its inception. One thing which was never revamped much was the compose mail. Well that is about to change too as Google has introduced a new style Compose mail in gmail which should make the users who love to multitask a lot.

The new compose brings a new pop up style window which is shrinkable, so if you want to look at the mails in your Inbox and you want to compose a mail at the same time, the Gmail will not open a separate compose mail page instead, you will get a pop up style Compose mail box which will let you see the contents of your inbox and another great feature is you can even insert images inline now.

If you hover your pointer over the attachment logo, you’ll options of Insert Photos, Insert Emoticon, Insert Invitation and Insert Links. There are also Insert Emoticon and Insert Invitation options but they are currently disabled.

The new compose mail makes multitasking super easy as it can be minimized just like a chat window while you can refer your other mails and search older mails. It was a quite a hectic task with the older compose mail since you would have to save the current mail as a Draft and then go back to Inbox again and then re-open the Draft to compose the mail which is very tedious.

Google is also trying to make the integration between gmail and Google+ better as now you can now even see your contact’s photo as you are typing out the address of them while sending a mail. You can also drag and drop the new address chips between to:, cc: and bcc:.

Other features are like a pared-back composition interface, in-line photos and a reply box that dynamically adapts to the space it needs.

The new compose is basically still in development and not open to all, only those in the preview will see the Gmail update for now.

Google has detailed the new compose features in a blogpost here.

GeoSurf: Premium proxy service with ease of use

Rupesh Sinha

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November 1, 2012

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GeoSurf: Premium proxy service with ease of use

The internet world is growing fast and with it lots of new exciting services are growing which keeps us in pace with the truly fast life on the internet. If you are a website owner and your revenue comes from the ads you put on your website, you’d be better put if you knew which part of the world gets you maximum revenue so you could focus your ads better and this is where GeoSurf is a truly great service. The service lets you see any website as it is seen from in different parts of the world letting you put relevant ads according to the location.

GeoSurf is a service which enables users mostly the advertisers and marketers to get the local view of their ads and websites from more than 100+ global locations. It is of great use for people like online media professionals (buyers, campaign managers, sales, affiliates, and compliance teams) to view their ads which are geo-targeted and also see how their web content looks in different parts of the world. Validating and monitoring campaigns is very easy now as you can see who is bidding on localized ad placements and generate
new sources of business according to the target you would like and even enhance your current marketing activities. The ease of use is truly great and it is straight-forward but its features and service truly speak for GeoSurf. All of the servers on GeoProxy’s network are owned by them, thereby making them undoubtedly fast, secure, and reliable.

Overview

GeoSurf is basically a toolbar for your browser which not only gives you proxy server networks but also brings you stats and analysis of the website. Using these you can find amazing information about a particular page and its advertisers. The toolbar works super fast, making it easy (and fun!) to switch between countries or states and view the various results.

There is also a mobile emulator which allows you to see what your sites or pages look like on various mobile devices.

This proxy toolbar also allows you to use the VPN connection. You can use this to change the IP address of your entire machine for monitoring advertisements on IM clients, applications, Forex software, and other desktop (non-browser) applications.

There are a bunch of other advanced features such as localized user experience within smartphones(iOS, Android etc), GeoSurf for PlayStation, among others so you’re likely to get more than you might practically make use of.

Their servers bring a fast browsing experience along with security, and reliability. All the servers that power ‘localized proxy surfing’ for GeoSurf users are well-equipped with best of server technology so as to keep all its users have an uninterrupted service experience.

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Just about any business which depends on the internet will really be benefitted by this service. And if you want a more specific point of view rather than the diplomatic one then go ahead. With GeoSurf:

Any business/website can benefit from GeoSurf that plans to target any local market as targeting your ads was never so easy.
Niche site builders – now you can geo-target for specific markets which will make sure you make more money with more ads that are targeted towards a specific matket and affiliate your programs as well.
Link builders – building links gets a whole lot easier with the GeoSurf across the globe for your clients.
Ad sellers/buyers – The advertisers who are on a limited budget are surely going to love this feature from GeoSurf as it allows narrowing down your target market and thus make sure you make the most of your advertising budget.
Affiliate marketers – you can keep a check on your competition across the globe by affliating marketers with GeoSurf.
Product owners – Keeping track of your affiliate marketers in different markets to make a check on their performance is very easy and you can make sure they comply with your TOS which should surely result in great success.

GeoSurf Toolbar works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Firefox for Mac. If you wish to use this on Chrome or other browsers, you can try GeoSurf VPN.

GeoSurf Plus

There’s also another great feature that GeoSurf offers i.e. GeoSurf Plus which is also accessible from the toolbar. This feature will really make you go wow because it gives much more detailed info although the GeoSurf’s normal service is basically enough for most users. This product is for online media pros and companies which want way more detail. With GeoPlus, you can easily manage any website from advertising and revenue point of view and figure out the various critical details which are a great factor for any website’s success. It immediately displays associated details of any website you wish to know such as number of ad campaigns and also the advertisers, currently active on that site. Well if you belong to the breed of people who love to explore the details then you can also find out info such as the mediators (networks, exchanges, etc) involved in running the campaigns for various involved advertisers.

GeoSurf Plans and Pricing

Thus anyone looking for a great proxy service then surely this is it and with their great pricing, they surely kill the competition. Buy proxy Check out www.geosurf.com for more details.

Somoto: Monetize and distribute your software with ease

Rupesh Sinha

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October 30, 2012

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Somoto: Monetize and distribute your software with ease

If you are a software developer and wanting to monetize your software, you are truly on the right article, keep reading and for folks who are not aware of what Software monetization is then here you go, software monetization is the adoption of any variety of measures an organization takes in order to increase the profitability of their software. These tactics can range from anti-piracy and IP protection techniques to creative pricing and packaging strategies.

Somoto is a company providing monetization solutions to the software developers community, it develops and markets multiple monetization solutions for software developers that can be integrated with no effort and increase developers revenues substantially. Somoto offers a unique value proposition to software developers in the digital age, anyone looking forward to increasing their customer base further, the folks at Somoto do a great job. Their technology and zero integration policy make it very easy for publishers/developers to implement new revenue channels, improve their users’ experiences, build their brand equity and successfully distribute their software.

Well you must be thinking how these all works, Somoto facilitates partnerships between software developers and Tier 1 advertisers which help in generating revenue through ads. They also distribute your softwares. They guarantee your security and secure your software, no adware, spamware, malware or any other kind of ware.

Actually, Somoto uses a rev-share platform. When software is downloaded, the end-users will be shown an offer screen. If they choose to accept the offer, Somoto will pay a percentage of the revenue generated from our advertisers, to our partners. Somoto has written an algorithm that determines which advertiser to offer with the software based on the highest user interest and available payouts. Access to daily reports that will help you better understand your users. These features surely make them the best at software monetization since they truly understand your need and even offer some share of the revenue to the end users.

Coming to an important part of software monetization that is distribution of software which truly decides how successful a software becomes. Somoto works with tier 1 advertisers as a software distribution channel and distributes software to millions of targeted and qualified users each month. Somoto’s algorithm checks to make sure that the added software isn’t already installed on the users computers. They also use Geo and browser based targeting to ensure that the advertisers software is reaching its intended target location.

They offer a Somoto toolbar which works with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, support for Chrome is not revealed yet. The toolbar is very popular. You can customize a toolbar specific for your software, integrate your technology into the toolbar. It helps in increasing brand awareness too and increases profits and revenue. You got to use it to believe how awesome the toolbar truly is.

Somoto’s customer support is second to none and their account managers are friendly, informed, and reliable. They realize that the only way in which they will succeed is if their partners succeed.

As Somoto state on their website, “We have made it our mission to provide freeware and shareware developers with a straightforward and simple method to monetize, enhance and distribute their offerings.”

Why Windows RT OS Failed to Impress, Drawbacks highlights

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Shrinivas

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October 30, 2012

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Why Windows RT OS Failed to Impress, Drawbacks highlights

Windows RT is a version of the Windows 8 operating system for ARM devices including tablets and Microsoft Surface device. Microsoft sells this Windows RT operating system directly to device manufacturers. Visually both operating systems are similar in look and style but Windows RT operating system has lots of limitations that disappoint the users. If you are about to buy a tablet or Microsoft Surface device then you must know the drawbacks of Windows RT.

Some Drawbacks of Windows RT Operating System

Limitations

Microsoft has made several limitations to Windows RT operating system similar to Apple’s iOS. You can only install and run the software that is tested and certified by Microsoft and kept in windows store. You are not allowed to install any third party apps to your devices and this is the greatest drawback of Windows RT OS. You even won’t get the wide range of apps Windows App Store is consists of less number of apps compared to Apple iTunes or Google Play store, as per now you hardly get 4000 apps in Windows Store.

Incompatibility

Tablets loaded with Windows RT faces incompatibility with several apps. It even won’t support Microsoft Outlook and Windows Media Player which are the products of Microsoft itself. For now there are no desktop based apps in Windows App Store other than Microsoft office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that comes pre-installed when you buy business license for your device.

Lack of Flash Video Support

This version of operating system lacks flash video support that means you can’t browse all flash based websites but only some which are approved by Microsoft. You even not able to see flash videos in many websites and this is the worst thing ever as you can’t enjoy your favorite video track or movie online on the website you desire.

Choice is Less

For now you won’t get the chance to choose the wide range of devices having WindowsRT operating system as only four companies are launching the tablets of Windows RT operating system.

This operating system has got many adverse reviews from critics that will help Microsoft to fix in future versions. We also like Windows RT operating system and not blaming it but we have listed out the drawbacks to make user aware of it.

PinAlerts- Get Notified When an Image Gets Pinned from your Website or Blog

Shrinivas

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October 30, 2012

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Pinterest is a bookmarking website that allows you to organize and share interesting things, you can pin the image on your board that catches your eyes and you can also repin others images which are already pinned in pinterest, other than pinning you can like and comment on others images.

In Pinterest you can create pin boards of various categories so that you can organize your images properly in particular categories. Pinterest also allows you to create boards which can be managed by a group. Along with this you can follow other people to get the updates from them.

How to know if an image gets pinned from your website?

Visitors of your website and blogs pins the interesting images on their Pinterest board which helps you bring more traffic to your website without any effort, but how to know who pinned your images on their Pinterest board? Don’t worry here is an online service that notifies you when someone pins the images of your blog. PinAlerts a free online service we are talking about that handles this job, you will be notified with the email when people pins the images of your blog on their Pinterest board.

Possibilities of PinAlerts

PinAlerts comes up with easy to use user interface with minimal but useful options, unlike Adsense you need not add any kind of scripts on your blog or website to track the pins, just create an account, add your domains and start tracking the pins. PinAlerts allows you to track multiple domains which makes track the pinned images of all your websites and blogs under one account. You can add your competitor domains in domain list and compare the sharing of pins with their blogs or websites.

How to add Domains in Pinalerts to Get Notifications?

Adding domains in pinalerts is easy, login to your pinalerts account, click on “Add+” button and then enter each domain separated by comma or space. You are only allowed add a domain or subdomain but not the subfolder of a domain.

You can select alert intervals in “how often” drop down menu. You can choose hourly, daily and weekly alerts or go for as it happens option to get notified as soon someone pins the images of your blog.

What You Get in Email Notification?

You will be notified with lots of things in email such as pinned person, pin URL, board name they pin on, pinned time along with the date and description of the pin.

Website: www.pinalerts.com