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How to Create and Delete a Facebook Fan Page?

Admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:59:51 +0000

According to Alexa, Facebook is now the second most visited site in the world wide web after Google. For many internet users, checking their facebook account has become synonymous with browsing the internet. And many don’t even check their email because you can keep in touch with all your friends from your Facebook account.

Facebook fan pages are a great way to use this popularity of facebook to promote your own websites. Creating a facebook page is really easy and will take less than five minutes.

Details of creating a Facebook Fan Page:

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/create.php?ref=ts

2. Under the Community or Official Page, choose a name for your page

3. Click on create a page

4. Copy the url : Example http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ragdoll-Games/161012197249720 (leave out the “?created” part)

5. Go to create a like box under “Promote this Page on your website”

6. Paste the copied url under “Facebook Page URL”

7. Choose a width for your like box and choose whether you want to choose stream and a header.

8. Click on get code and copy the code anywhere you want in your website.

You are done. Now just wait for users to click on the like button and see your website go viral! (Of course, your website should provide quality content for it to become popular)

How to delete a Facebook Fan Page:

1. Go to the Facebook Fan Page

2. Click on “Edit Page” in the left sidebar of the fan page.

3. Click on “Delete Page” at the top – Just below the name of your page.

Happy Facebooking!

Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox 3.6 – Which is Popular?

Admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:41:02 +0000

The internet has revolutionized the way we are living. With just a click of your mouse you can find anything you want to know on the internet, for instance about your work, about your studies, hotels, etc., just about anything under the sun. With the use of the internet, you can do online shopping, chat with your friends, and much more. That’s the power of the internet.

I’m not going to discuss about the internet in this article. However, I would like to talk about the finer points of the web browsers, the Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6, to let you decide which one you would like to use. It is a known fact the Internet Explorer 8 is more popular than Firefox 3.6 as of now.

The Firefox 3.6 web browser is just a few years old, but has already picked up rapid strides and recent research has also shown that Internet Explorer 8 is being used lesser by many people as compared to a few years back. The reason for the decline is that many people are downloading other web browsers which are more user-friendly and help them to perform their tasks easily through better navigation facilities.

This is also one of the reasons why FireFox has become popular, as you can download additional add-on packs. It is very user friendly also, as you can change the color of the tabs to suit your personality. Firefox also has good security when compared to other web browsers and it can protect you from viruses and spyware.

The Firefox browser has a pleasant look which makes navigation very easy and you can find what you want. You can do your work more efficiently by using Firefox. Even if you are new to the internet, you can check out the help files which can explain everything to you.

But in spite of all this, it is not surprising for people to still go back to internet explorer, as it has a great interface and influence on them. Being on the system by default, gives it the added advantage over others.

Many people like to use different browsers to get the best, as different browsers interpret the coding in different ways. Sometimes when you open the same website on the internet explorer, it could look different on FireFox. However, both the browsers have their own pros and cons.

The Internet Explorer 8 ranks quite low for those of you who like to chat. Similarly, the Firefox 3.6 crashes more often than other browsers, which makes it difficult to recover tabs after the crash and loads slowly.

Just for your information, according to NSS Labs tests, out of the five browsers Google Chrome 2, Microsoft IE 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Apple Safari 4, and Opera 10, Internet Explorer 8 outperformed its competition and tied with Firefox in another test.

Should You Consider Advertising in Facebook?

Admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:20:15 +0000

Facebook is the hottest thing in social networking with over 400 million active users around the world. If Facebook was a country, it would be the third most populated country in the world. In a sense, Facebook has indeed created its own cyber country, with over 400 million Facebook citizens sharing images, information, links, videos and games. Everyone seems to be connected to everybody in some ways regardless of age, location and nationality.
For an enterprising businessman, Facebook is an opportunity to expand a venture. However, like anything else in business, it involves a few risks. Is advertising in Facebook worth the risk? The main risk is having a low return in investment. Not all 400 million people are interested in your product or service. They may have been informed regarding the business, but it does not mean that they would avail. Facebook users are generally interested on the content and services of the site itself. They are more engaged on keeping in touch with their social network and regularly updating their profiles and pages. Most users may not have time to click and view ads.
However, advertising in Facebook has its advantages. First, you have over 400 million potential clients. Your business is immediately exposed to a large number of people. Facebook has easy to use tools which allow users to create, monitor and improve their ads. Users have the option to choose who sees their ads by a number of variables such as gender, geography and age. There is also tool where you can monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of your ads.
There may be equal risk and opportunities involved for Facebook ads. In the end, it is up to the users to decide whether or not the risk was worth it.

Public DNS Servers to speed up your internet browsing experience

Admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:34:32 +0000

Domain Name System (DNS) helps in resolving a website address or URL to it’s IP address. Every URL has a unique IP. Since IP addresses (for example 192.168.0.1) are difficult to remember, we type a name such as google.com in the address bar of our internet explorer. The DNS system was developed to translate domain names which are more understandable by humans to IP addresses understandable by computers, as computers understand only numbers.

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) normally provides it’s own nameservers to translate URL’s to IP addresses. However there are other nameservers which are publicly available and can be safely used. These nameservers may even be better than the nameservers provided by your ISP. Find out below.

Open DNS helps in faster resolution of web pages and has some advanced features such as misspelling and phishing protection, correction and filtering. Open DNS can help in a faster browsing experience especially in opening pages which are not stored in the local cache of your computer. In addition, it also protects against phishing and corrects typos in web addresses. Access to malicious sites may also blocked by open DNS servers. DNS nameservers can also help in bypassing censorship by your ISP.

To use these nameservers, first go to “Start -> Run -> and type ‘ipconfig /flushdns’ ”
Then open your network settings and click on “TCP/IP” properties.
Enter the DNS Server address under “Use the following DNS server addresses”.

Here are the Public DNS nameservers that are available for public use.

Open DNS nameservers : (these may block malware and porn sites)
* 208.67.222.222 – resolver1.opendns.com
* 208.67.220.220 – resolver2.opendns.com
* 208.67.222.220
* 208.67.220.222

Google Public DNS nameserver : (no filter)
* 8.8.8.8
* 8.8.4.4

DNS Advantage : (these may block malware sites)
* 156.154.70.1 – rdns1.ultradns.net
* 156.154.71.1 – rdns2.ultradns.net

DNS Resolvers : (no filter)
* 205.210.42.205 – cache1.dnsresolvers.com)
* 64.68.200.200 – cache2.dnsresolvers.com)

Level 3 Communications :
* 4.2.2.6 – 4.2.2.5 – 4.2.2.4
* 4.2.2.3 – 4.2.2.2 – 4.2.2.1

Cabe & Wireless DNS-Server :
* 141.1.1.1 – cns1.cw.net

Bored with the real world: Come the virtual real estate world has it all

Admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:11:04 +0000

The concept of Virtual Real Estate appears to be clichéd and unoriginal. But the reality is that you can make a lot of money if you work on the concept and its components seriously. You can do a lot of business buying and selling property virtually. Many have done it and have achieved success in it by earning money. The article will help you out in finding where and how to begin making real money out of it. 2

There are many virtual real estate websites which will help you out in the sales and purchase of property and earn money in virtual real estate world. A few among them are:

1. Weblo.com – This virtual real estate website is engaged in selling real world assets such as cities, states and celebrities, etc… So if you succeed in owning any one of these things you can rule and command the price according to your wish. You can put any of them for an auction and make the desired profit by selling it.

2. Secondlife.com –The virtual real estate world is different from the normal real estate world in many aspects. The rules and systems here are a little complicated. So if you are a beginner it is better that you understand things and get used to the virtual world functions before you actually start trading in it. Once you take help in the initial phase it will gradually become easy and quick after that.

Buy 20sqm land parcels just next to virtual roads and then sell them in return for advertising signs. It might happen that you purchase a plot for about $1 and you succeed in selling it for about $15-$20. But you can do that only if you keep patience and wait for sometime before you offer them for sale. Keep doing this until you decide to cash in your profits.

3. Entropiauniverse.com – this website is similar to Secondlife.com, but has the ability to play video games as well. Here, you can do the buying and selling of world items and earn profit for yourself.

Although buying and selling in virtual real estate will take some time for you to get used to, but once you understand the concept and the way you need to work, then you can a lot of serious money in no time. Keep practicing and reinvesting your earnings from this market and you will succeed in having cash both in the virtual and the real world.

Apart from the above-mentioned virtual real estate websites, the following real estate websites are rated as the top 10 real estate websites by the website called marketingcharts.com.

Realtor.com
Yahoo real estate
Zillow
ZipRealty
Rent.com
Homegain
RE/Max real estate
ServiceMagic
US department of Housing and Urban development and
Trulia.com

These websites are given one to ten positions on the basis of the traffic generated by these websites.

Hope, you might have decided to use real estate websites for purchasing your dream home!!!