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Check Your Broadband Speed
The FCC now has a new website that you can use to test your Internet Connection speed. One reason is so that you can make sure you are getting what your provider is selling you. So if you want to see your upload and download speed capabilities visit www.broadband.gov . You can also read about their plan to make sure that eventually everyone has access to high speed internet.
What is a Gravatar anyway?
We’ve told you about Gavatars before!
A gravatar is a “Globally Recognized Avatar” or little square picture that is associated with your email address. In many blogs, forums and websites your gravatar shows up when you post a comment to an article or post. It can be a picture of you, a logo, or anything else you want to represent yourself. They are not used on all blogs or sites but they are growing in popularity and you will see them more and more. Getting your own is very easy. Just go to www.gravatar.com and register for a free account. You can even assign gravatars to multiple email addresses. You just upload a picture and crop out the image you want to use and your done. You can even upload a picture taken with your webcam. Sites with support for gravatar will now show the image you have chosen when you post your comments.
Free Twitter Apps
Twitter has become the latest big thing on the Internet. Real Time Social Networking is what it’s all about. Read on to learn about some Free Applications that make Twitter even better. The following article tells us all about what is out there.
What makes a Killer Headline
How to create great headlines and titles to turn your prospects into buying customers using hypnotic words that will empower them to purchase your product or service, or even join your ezine.
First of all, you must learn how to get your prospects to trust you. This is true on every field. We trust those that are more like ourselves or one that we have been conditioned to believe.
“How many of you do not trust a car salesman? This is because you have been repeatedly told over and over again, how they can not be trusted. Not every car salesman is going to give you a bad deal, just as every young man with long hair and holes in their jeans are not criminals.”
All of us resist people we do not trust, even though it starts in our subconscious mind. So, you must learn how to get your prospects to trust you with an unconscious connection.
What is a Gravatar?
A Gravatar, or Globally Recognized Avatar, is an image or picture of yourself or something that represents you. Avatar images have been around for a long time used on bulletin boards and blogs to show users who you are.
Avatars were usually local to the system you were logged into. Now we have Globally Recognized Avatars available through gravatar.com . It is a free service that lets you create an account and assign Avatar Images to your email addresses. Then when you are on a system or blog that recognizes you it will show your Gravatar next to your name in comments and sometimes posts. The use of gravatars has become more and more popular and more systems are adding support for them.
At gravatar.com you can upload a picture you already have, that you can then crop and save, or you can take a live snapshot using your web-cam and use that as your gravatar. They do not supply any images. Generic avatar images are available many other places on the net. Just do a search for “avatar images’ and you’ll find all kinds.
Go ahead! Get yourself an Avatar today and post a comment somewhere. You’ll see your avatar show up.
Battle of the Browsers
The Battle of the Browsers – The History and the Future of Internet Browsers
by: Nicholas C Smith
With Internet Explorer 8 now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla’s Firefox or the feature packed Opera web browser. Can history give us a clue to what the future of web browsers/browsing might hold? How did Netscape Navigator go from having a dominant 89.36% market share of all web browsers in 1996 and yet only 3.76% by mid 1999?
Let us take a journey that will begin long before even the intellectual conception of Internet Explorer, that will glance at its long defeated rivals, examine the current browsers available and will end with a prediction of what the future of browsing will offer us – and which browser(s) will still be around to offer it.
People often think that Internet Explorer has been the dominant web browser since the golden age of the internet began. Well for a very long time now it has indeed been the most popular browser and at times been almost totally unrivalled. This was mainly a result of it being packaged free with Microsoft Windows, in what some would later call a brutal monopolisation attempt by Microsoft. The last few years however have heralded the arrival of new, possibly superior browsers. Mozilla’s Firefox has been particularly successful at chipping away at Explorers market dominance. So where did it all begin, and why were Microsoft ever allowed to have a hundred percent market dominance?
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