We have completed yet another contest, and its time to announce the winner for 200 retweet.it credits giveaway.
For this contest we received 61 Tweets, 42 Facebook likes and shares. And the winner is going to get 200 retweet points on his reTweet.it account.
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Hope you all know, we are already running a giveaway “200 retweet credits on retweet.it” and before the winner is announced, its time for yet another Giveaway, and this I’m very excited as we are giving away 6 months Unlimited Hosting With Hostagator for the winner.
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Most bloggers, especially those who create tutorials or tips posts, have to post screenshots with their instructions. It’s a must. Why would readers take their time skimming through a paragraph of text that can be explained in one image?
Fortunately, there are a plethora of options to choose from that work on a variety of operating systems. Some are simple and free. Others are feature-rich and come with a price tag. Many allow you to publish an image to your blog, either directly or imbedded through a cloud host like Flickr or Screencast.
While this program comes with a price, countless bloggers say it’s worth it. Snagit allows you to capture your entire desktop, a region, a window or even an entire scrolling window (captures all the contents of the window, not just what’s visible). What’s even better, it can do all these different captures all with a single hotkey or click. Snagit makes cropping a screenshot a thing of the past; its multiple selection features along with a cursor magnifying glass allows users to capture exactly what they intend, down to a single pixel. Snagit also allows you to record video with audio (up to 2 GB per recording), making it a great tool for screencasting a tutorial. The software also allows you to upload straight to Screencast so you can link it to friends of embed it in your blog. Lastly, Snagit allows you to create multiple profiles for all manner of capture techniques and publishing/saving options.
Jing is made by the same software company that created Snagit except it is a more stripped down capturing tool. Although it doesn’t have as many features as Snagit, Jing’s strength lies in how quickly it can publish or share your screenshots. Once Jing is installed and you set up an account at Screencast, you can also get Jing to upload to your Flickr, Twitter, or Facebook almost instantly. In addition to screen shots, Jing also records video with audio but leaves a watermark in its free version. Jing also has basic annotation tools and allows you to select rectangular portions of the screen to capture, but its main emphasis is fast sharing and publishing which is good news for bloggers.
As the name may suggest, FastStone Capture is a fast, lightweight application. With a plentiful yet sizable interface, FastStone can capture multiple windows, regions, and multi-level menus. FastStone can upload screenshots to an FTP server, send them by email, or embed them in Word or PowerPoint. FastStone also features a simple but effective screencasting tool that supports audio input. FastStone also has automatic configurations, making batch-producing screenshots extremely quick. While their current version has a price, you can download a prior freeware version here.
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If you are setting up a small business, chances are that there are many aspects you have yet to master. Each successful business is made up of a stream of processes that keep things running quickly and efficiently. It can be quite challenging to juggle these processes by yourself, especially if you are setting up your business on your own. However, there are a number of productivity tools that you can use to speed up your transactional and administrative procedures, helping your business to run smoothly.
Once your business starts to grow, one of the most challenging things can be simply keeping track of your daily tasks and objectives. Certain online tools can help you structure your day and keep track of what you’re doing.
If you often have conference calls or meetings with clients or personnel in remote areas, you need to use some sort of cloud computing note service that allows each member of the team to access data from their location. There are a number of digital services that provide this requirement for you.
Concrete data and accurate, reliable news is key to any business that is looking to grow. Many companies provide a range of services based around these two key points, and can help your business grow exponentially.
Having access to your computer and programs necessary to work, from anywhere, can really push the productivity in your small business.
These seven productivity suites can help your business grow in no time. Which one will you use first?
Technology changes around the user expectations. Mobile phone technology like other technologies is fast evolving. What started out as a first generation mobile is fast pacing towards fourth generation technology. It is needless to say we are living in a technology era. So in some or the other way we are all the recipients of technology directly or indirectly. Just look at the way the smartphones have penetrated the business stream. It’s hard to find a businessman to move without these days. Even small businesses are finding it easy to manage business with a smartphone. Small businesses are having a high time using them. Whether it is document collaboration or online project management businesses are relying heavily on smartphones. Smartphone now finds its place in bare essentials of most businessmen, nothing surprising.
Statistics reveals that a majority of businessmen use smartphones to view and compose emails. A majority of smartphone users also use them to stay updated about current events of business world.
Even when business scene was ruled by hybrid computers and the most up-to-date technologies, a vacuum was always felt by business community. And without a trace of doubt the gap is filled by the smartphones. When smartphones hit the market businesses quickly realized this was the gadget they were all dreaming about.
According to an online market research smartphones have fast replaced the conventional phones within short period of their release. This was nothing less sort of record. Mobile phone technology researchers have long been predicting about the release of such a product.
If the trends are any indication, the number of smartphone users will increase phenomenally. The coming years will see smartphones replacing the conventional mobile handsets. According to a recent report the number of people enquiring about smartphone increased dramatically. All of which means the future for smartphones seem to be bright.
However, environment activists are not happy with the current trends. There is growing concern among activists that the mobile switching pattern is fast increasing. This new trend is only going to increase the numbers. They feel this will further inundate the landfills with unused mobiles. However, there is a reason to cheer thanks to the efforts of mobile phone recycling companies. Now both environment activists and mobile phone users can heave a sigh of relief. Now outdated mobiles need not be dumped in store rooms and landfills. They can sell mobile phone to recycling companies. So it is indeed a win-win situation.
There is an overabundance of tools available on the Internet today that help web designers and developers alike. Numerous times however, we consider that they descend short as “we can handle it ourselves” without the additional cost of such tools. All web designers has a requirement to create invoices and to keep a record of payments that have been received or that have not yet been paid. A number of these tools will simply assist you to create eye-catching invoices and other will widen further into the area of accounting software.
On the contrary, we are spending some time trying to perform tasks which the respective tools can reduce the time spent by a fraction. Keeping this thought in mind, lets take a look on the reasons why web designers and developers must make use of online billing and invoicing tools.
An important aspect to remember when discussing whether you should use a billing tool is that they tend to distance us from any manual labor; you may have to spend putting invoices together.
Remember when there were almost no billing tools available a few years ago, and the web designers and developers needed to manually create an invoice in Microsoft Excel? Billing tools have completely revolutionized the way we charge our customers at all times, then why not web designers should take advantage of such billing tools?
Moreover, with the use of these services, you can easily remove the fatal errors that almost impossible to solve. In today’s era, being capable of saving time is definitely a “fortune” in itself.
Automation of some of your tasks is undeniably saves your time, especially when it comes to billing, because it enables you to get rid of handwritten notes which you have to send every month (for example) recurring bills for specific customers or not. You can also automatically track who owes you money, projects that need to be charged, and if an invoice has been paid by your client without having to strain yourself.
Many online billing & invoicing apps include a lot of features such as automatic billing, tacking on late payments, multiple payment gateways, time tracking and many more! These invoicing apps allow you to be sanctioned by true automation.
The heading over to Google to make a currency conversion is required each time when there is a need to carry out transaction which can be scary, and is not very effective
That is why many of the great online billing and invoicing tools provide an option of currency conversion and supports multiple currencies in one app, so if customers are from Europe, America or elsewhere, you can quickly support their specific currency and get an immediate payment without the headaches.
It’s hard enough and long and laborious procedure to run after the client again and again to get the charges against an invoice. This is why you need a mechanism to encourage customers to pay on due date and the best way to ensure that customers should make their payments on time is to apply a late fee on invoice payment.
If your client is struggling to pay the bill, how do you think that what they will do when they are supposed to make your payment?
Late fees must be one of the best features of the customer billing, the reason being, when we contact our clients via email to get our dues, we sometimes have to fight for some time with customers to receive what we ask for, and it can sometimes go a month without additional collection bending to spend time fighting for our end of the bargain.
After some kind of late fees option automatically built-in within online billing app, customer reference, the longer they take to pay the bill, higher the bill amount will be. This can help if a client is afraid of late fees pilling up and chooses to make the payment when required.
In conclusion, the online invoicing and billing tools are advantageous to us as a whole. They allow you to safely manage the part of you billing and invoicing and certainly help to reduce problems associated with the customers and billing “catastrophe.”
Author Bio: This post is shared by Invoicera, an online invoicing and time tracking software which is specifically designed keeping simplicity and online invoicing convenience in mind, while at the same time offering many striking invoicing features.
If you have thought of creating your own website then you probably as well be aware of all the technicalities involved in making a website. For that you need to be highly proficient in the programming languages, if you really want to make a good and up-to-date website and if you really are an expert, only then do you know the importance and need to design wordpress themes. If you are still wondering how are WordPress themes helpful in this regard then let me tell you that any website master who has a sound background knowledge, but does not know how to use WordPress can easily use his already present knowledge as a starting point to using and developing themes from WordPress and as they go along, they will find it out that there have to be particular factors which need to be taken in to into account such as proper prior knowledge of some really important and necessary programming languages such as Cascading Style Sheets (also known as CSS) and Hypertext Markup Language (also known as HTML). These programming languages are crucial ad act as an essential ingredient since they help in the making and developing of your themes.
In an attempt to develop those themes, you will definitely feel the need to incorporate contents such as pictures, use of various colors or various objects and a lot more. Along with all that, you may also feel the need to find out how good you are in the graphic designing part so if you are thinking to add a background which has a graphical design, chances are that your themes will develop into a much attractive and interesting one and people who have similar tastes in themes will find yours to be extremely desirable and likeable. However this doesn’t mean that nothing can be achieved if you do not have graphic designing skills. And if you can’t do it yourself since it involves technicality and experience, but still want to go for it then you can always give this job to a person who is related to graphic designing and let them know what you have in mind.
Who does not want to be an extremely successful WordPress theme designer and if you, too are an aspiring and willing person who wants to good and mark grounds in this field then the first and the foremost step is to carefully search and do all your homework before actually getting started. Of course each one of us has something or the other mind on which, they wish to work but it is always a better idea to first make a thorough research and see what other famous and most desirable themes are all about. Usually what you get to see through your research will be themes on various popular categories include those of business and marketing, personal blogs or themes related to web industry or e-commerce. These are considered to be the most popular and all time in-need kind of themes and this is the reason why your themes will get high customer response and also because the need for good themes for all the above-mentioned types is ever-increasing and never fulfilling.
For your new theme to be SEO Friendly, you will have to know the basics of SEO, but this can be done easily because you can find lot of articles of optimization.
If you are looking for some high quality themes then checkout some themes from elegant themes gallery, they make the awesome themes for WordPress.
