Easy Webbers

I would hate to try and guess how many new bookmarking sites and techniques have jumped up in the last 18 months or so but there are still some of the old faithful ones that are still around and no doubt, hard to beat.Â

I just visited myHq, a bookmarking site that came online in 1998, and yes it’s still free and some of the users bookmarking pages look great!

The first one I clicked was http://www.myhq.com/public/f/c/fcweb/, so that means his or her user name was fcweb and they allowed their bookmarks page to be public. After viewing the page I think the fcweb stands for first class website with super quality material. What do you think of that page webmasters?Â

The point I am trying to get across is how most bookmarking sites today don’t reveal the talent of the user and the only real exception I can think of is Stumble Upon which I think is great. Users take their time and show their talent and don’t rush to see who can digg the most the quickest which to me cuts down on quality all the way around.

It must be the fast paced world in which we live:)

Enjoy

Microsoft Surface I really don’t know how to explain this new venture from Microsoft except to let you view it for yourself. Can you image positioning your images with your hands and that’s just a start.

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Since we are on the subject of new and high tech goodies, view this demo of Google’s new Street Views.

http://maps.google.com/

What’s a poor old webmaster to do?
I think I’ll go invent somethingJ

I was doing one of my favorite things yesterday, and yes, it was surfing on the web trying to find something else I could bring into discussion.

I had run up on an unusual piece of software and as usual scrolled to the bottom of the page to check out the small print when a particular word caught my eye; screwturn and I couldn’t wait to give that one a left click. To make a long story short screwturn was the name of the program the site had been created with and believe me, it looked great!

 You can do about anything with screwturn , try it out, discuss it, download it, use it, what ever, it’s free, open source and available in several different packages to fit your needs.  Give it a spin!         Â

Foget Photoshop:15 Online Graphics Generators Lot of this Mash going on around here!

These are some pretty cool tools!

Hypergurl offers, tools for webmasters, templates, online generators, javascripts, CSS and tutorials, tutorials on how to create and promote a website, the list doesn’ stop.

Take my word, give Hypergurl a visit!

Have you graded you website lately? If not and I feel like the answer was probably the same as mine, NO!, then 31 Online Tools should tell you whether you are okay or not so okay. I think that means passed or failed in so many words.:)

These are some very good tools and it appears that a good bit of time was put forth in this little project.

31 Online Tools to Grade your site.

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It seems like more and more people are getting into Word Press than ever before and I think it will only grow in popularity as time goes by.

20 WordPress Themes that Don’t Disappoint

http://share.clarklab.net/articles/wordpress/20-wordpress-themes-that-dont-disappoint/

A new week is here and you probably know by now what that means. It’s time for a new weekly poll!

Here are the answers on our previous poll where we asked if you currently run a forum. A big majority of our readers is running a forum, about 75%. Around 25% do not run a forum or have had a forum in the past.

The new poll question for this week is: Do you need a new web host? Vote vote!!

Have you ever wondered how you install mods to your phpBB forum? Well this is your lucky day! “Morpheus2matrix” has written a complete guide over at the official phpBB forum on how to install a mod.

Like i’ve seen a lot of post asking “how to install a MOD”, i’ve decided to make this little tutorial, which is not perfect but which will, i hope, help you to install your MOD. I’ve used the Attachment MOD install file and the topic description MOD install file to do this tutorial, but it’s the same thing for all the MOD’s.

Check it out but don’t forget to backup your files!

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=61611

If you use the Windows Instant Messenger this is something for you. A few of my contacts in MSN Messenger have had a small “Im” icon next to their name but it wasn’t until very recently I started to wonder what that icon was all about. It seems that it is not, what I thought from the beginning, a little silly username-custom-thingy. In fact it was something much better.

Evidently MSN is doing this to help organizations that are “dedicated to social causes”, such as the American Red Cross, StopGlobalWarming.org, Sierra Club and many more. Confused? Let me try to explain how this work.

If you have Windows Live Messenger 8.1 (or higher) you go to im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join where you can find a few small codes to instert next to your display name. The codes can for example be *9mil, *sierra, *help etc depending on which organization you want to support. After you have added this code next to your display name you will see this small icon (image: ). Now for every time you start a conversation with anyone a small portion of the advertising revenue Microsoft gets will be shared to the organisation you have chosen. Pretty cool!

http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home