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Giveaway: Win Two 50 GB Syncplicity Pro Accounts
Update: The giveaway is closed. Winners have been announced.
Killer Tech Tips is offering two of you a chance to win a 50 GB account (each) for Syncplicity. If you don’t know what Syncplicity is, it’s a really functional program that will keep files and folder synchronized between computers. If you frequently work on multiple computers, you’ll find Syncplicity indispensable.
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Three Tools To Track and Defeat Content Theft
As more and more blogs come into existence, an increasing number of scraper sites are created to grab our content with an intention to make some quick money. It is important to deal with online plagiarism by tracking and shutting down such scraper sites immediately so as to prevent them from getting high SERP positions. Here are three tools that might help:
Three Windows Live Writer Plugins That Could Replace Stand Alone Programs
If you’ve been blogging for quite a while, you should of heard of Windows Live Writer, a desktop blogging client from Microsoft that lets you manage and post stuff to your blog easily. It’s a hell of an app for bloggers, and it is a big productivity booster. There are plenty of plugins available for Windows Live Writer as well. They can be used to add new functions to the already powerful Windows Live Writer.
Let’s take a look at some Windows Live Writer plugins that could replace some standalone programs. These plugins may not stand up to the features offered by their equivalent standalone counterparts, but they do the simple tasks pretty quickly and effectively.
The Only 5 Freeware You’ll Need To Make Your Windows Computer Faster
You bought that computer only last year. But, Windows runs too slow that anyone else using it mistakes it for being on an age-old machine. All because you loaded it with too much junk that didn’t get completely removed even when you uninstalled the associated software.
It’s time you set things right and make your Windows computer faster. Trust me: These five programs are all that you’ll need to make Windows run faster on your computer. Nothing else. Take my word for it: use the following programs and then come back and tell me how your Windows computer runs faster.
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FeedCompare – Compare FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers
Bloggers are probably going to love this tool. It’s a bit addictive, and does its job perfectly. FeedCompare.com lets you compare FeedBurner subscriber numbers of up to four blog feeds in a row.
Just go to the site, and key in your blog feed’s URL and those of your competitors, and it’ll show you a neat graph listing the growth in FeedBurner subscribers of your blog feed against others. You can compare the stats for a month till two years.
Please note that you should have the FeedBurner Awareness API enabled for your feed so that the tool can access the stats.
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Top 7 Useful Adobe AIR Applications for Bloggers
This is a guest post by technology blogger Rakshit Khare from Aarambh.
Killer Domains eBook
Daniel the blogging tips guru has released his first ebook ‘Killer Domains – Tools and Techniques To Find The Perfect Domain Name’.
Distraction-Free Writing Environment With Q10
This is a guest post by Sumesh (see end of this post for details about him)
Writing quickly and efficiently (without compromising on quality) is one of the challenges that every writer faces (blogger in this specific example). Computers can be notorious in causing distractions, what with all the hundreds of desktop applications, various websites/services and music.
Post to Your Blog from Microsoft Office Word 2007
While browsing around the menus in Office Word 2007, I stumbled upon the ‘Publish’ option, and I was thrilled! Well, it’s actually possible to publish to your WordPress blog from Microsoft Word 2007 itself. That is so cool! And it’s not just WordPress, supported platforms include Blogger, SharePoint, Windows Live Spaces, TypePad, etc.
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Optimize your Blog Post for Google – Tips that you might not have heard
Hey, what’s more exciting than getting huge organic traffic from Google and other search engines to your blog? Every other day, you write posts. Not every post gets noticed. Not every post is picked up by Google. Not every post gets the fame it deserves.
Here are some tips to optimize your blog post a bit for search engines if you’re looking for driving some traffic from Google and other crawlers. Try these, some day one of your posts will drive tens of hundreds of visitors via organic searches.
Though I’m not an expert in SEO, I can give you a few tips based on what I’ve learnt in the last year of blogging. Here we go!
