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Download Google Chrome

AzAkers — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:15 +0000

It’s available! You can Download Google Chrome right now! I announced late last night that Google had prematurely leaked their announcement of the new Google Chrome open source web browser, and now it’s available again for download. Download it, install it, and get started exploring one of the hottest products Google has ever developed. Featuring [...]

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Download Google Chrome

498 Photoshop Background Patterns, and so much more

AzAkers — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:10:59 +0000

Patterns, patterns everywhere. Useful in all kinds of design projects from web page development, to logo design, repeating patterns offer tremendous coverage for large areas, flavor to smaller elements and character to any design medium. I’ve collected 500 of my favorite & most frequently used background patterns in this post, along with a scores of [...]

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498 Photoshop Background Patterns, and so much more

Introducing Pixlr: The Best Online Image Editor Yet

AzAkers — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:55:48 +0000

Pixlr “has it going on”! I’ve checked out a lot of online image editors, and I’ve not found one I like better than Pixlr. Simply put – Pixlr is the most visually stunning & practically effective online image editor available today. Pixlr is the most visually stunning & practically effective online image editor available -AzAkers [...]

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Introducing Pixlr: The Best Online Image Editor Yet

15+ Dummy Text Generators & Filler Text Resources

AzAkers — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:55:38 +0000

Based on the amount of interest I’ve had in my Lorem Ipsum Generator post & Dummy Text Generator Firefox add-on review, I’ve discovered that there is a lot more interest in filler text or dummy text generators than I originally understood. That being the case I set about to research, review and share some alternatives [...]

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15+ Dummy Text Generators & Filler Text Resources

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a Much Needed Makeover

AzAkers — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:33:46 +0000

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a Makeover Way back in September of 2005 Yahoo introduced Site Explorer to us happy little webmasters. Over the years Yahoo has made little improvements including Dynamic URL Rewriting back in 2007. Today Yahoo introduced a new look & feel for Site Explorer. They mention that it is much more than [...]

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Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a Much Needed Makeover

X-Ray Firefox Extension Updated for Firefox 3

AzAkers — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:23:54 +0000

X-Ray Firefox Plugin Did you ever wish you had X-Ray vision? I remember seeing the ads in comic books when I was a kid. Those evil advertisers – Cashing in on keyed up adolescent boys by suggesting that for a mere $1 they could sneak a peak at a shapely silhouette. Oddly enough, I was [...]

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X-Ray Firefox Extension Updated for Firefox 3

TinEye, The Search Engine With An Eye For Images

AzAkers — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:41:11 +0000

First introduced in May, Idée announced yesterday that TinEye, the revolutionary new image recognition & visual search engine is now in open beta. If you haven’t had a chance to mess around with TinEye yet, you owe it to yourself to head on over there and check it out. First impressions of the TinEye visual [...]

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TinEye, The Search Engine With An Eye For Images

Choosing An Affordable Web Hosting Company In 2008

AzAkers — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:55:42 +0000

So what does it mean to be an affordable web hosting company in 2008? For most, it means you’re offering up to 10 times the bandwidth and server space hosts were offering 2 years ago. It also means that you’re probably offering a ton of value-added features like one click installs, free domains & advertising [...]

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Choosing An Affordable Web Hosting Company In 2008

Search Spotlight on 2008 Olympic Games

AzAkers — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:19:25 +0000

The 2008 Olympic Games are well under way now and the blogosphere and news channels are abuzz with Olympic-mania. News of a violent murder tops today’s news, but there’s plenty of regular Olympic drama unfolding as well. What’s in the pipeline today? A Greek runner test positive and is excluded, some swimmer (Phelps) beats his [...]

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Search Spotlight on 2008 Olympic Games

Lorem Ipsum Generator Firefox Addon

AzAkers — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:15:20 +0000

The Lorem Ipsum Generator I posted about a couple of months back has been a pretty popular attraction. It’s especially interesting considering the generator I reference in the post is over 6 years old. The fact is, I don’t think I even realized how long the site had been around at the time I posted. [...]

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Lorem Ipsum Generator Firefox Addon

27 Great Color Scheme Tools, Generators & Resources

AzAkers — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:21:11 +0000

An effective color scheme is key to the success of any design project. When selected properly & used appropriately, colors can convey a message, invoke a feeling, or bring attention to areas of interest even before imagery or text is introduced to a design. The trick is understanding what to use and when to use [...]

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27 Great Color Scheme Tools, Generators & Resources

10 Essential FireFox Add-ons No SEO Superhero Should Be With-out

AzAkers — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:59:40 +0000

From smoke pellets to grappling hooks, from night vision goggles to batarangs – is there anything the caped crusader can’t pull out of that utility belt? But what sort of a superhero would Batman be with-out the contents of his trusty gadget girdle? Every trade has it’s essential tools and Search Engine Optimization/ Search Engine [...]

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10 Essential FireFox Add-ons No SEO Superhero Should Be With-out

Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?

AzAkers — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:06:42 +0000

As SEOers we’re constantly weighing the value of one phrase against another to determine which phrases to write & optimize around. There have been a number of tools out there which have helped us in our quest to find the best phrases – in fact we’ve probably all used the now defunct Overture Tool, or Word [...]

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Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?

10 Free Online Image Editors

AzAkers — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:47:17 +0000

While I love my PhotoShop CS3, there are times when I need to edit images when I’m away from my house where I have it installed. Often I want to edit an image for a PowerPoint presentation at work, or a forum/blog posting – so I got to looking around and found 10 online image [...]

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10 Free Online Image Editors

10 Free Font & Typography Resources

AzAkers — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:14:20 +0000

Lovers of typography rejoice! Here are 5 great free font resources, with enough free fonts to inspire & equip even the most addicted typophile - at least for a while!

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10 Free Font & Typography Resources

Tossing Keyword Remix Into The Mix

AzAkers — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:13:45 +0000

I just love finding new, intelligent SEO tools and getting to share them with other SEOers who are passionate about their efforts. Of course not every tool that we discover can find it’s way into our ‘favorite tools’ list. Some lack the versatility to be applicable across multiple client sites, others are way too slow to [...]

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Tossing Keyword Remix Into The Mix

SEO Digger – Still Diggin it

AzAkers — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:48:56 +0000

I just wanted to follow-up on the SEO Digger tool I posted about a few weeks ago. As I shared previously, SEO Digger Dug It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to use the tool in a few real world situations. I’ve found it to be extremely helpful in [...]

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SEO Digger – Still Diggin it

Yahoo Pipes Redux

AzAkers — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:37:51 +0000

It’s hard to believe, Yahoo Pipes launched nearly a year ago and sadly I still haven’t put much time into playing with it. [singlepic=132,,,,]I stand firmly behind the excuse that this has been a very active year at work, and the fact that there have been so many new Web 2.0 technologies & sites emerging that it’s hard to [...]

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Yahoo Pipes Redux

The SEO Shortcut Widget Rocks (even in beta)

AzAkers — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:20:50 +0000

I love finding new SEO tools. Sometimes the tools introduce a completely new concept such as the SEODigger.com tool which finds the keywords a URL ranks for - other times it’s a new tool that simplifies and expedites common SEO tasks, or combines commonly used tools into a single more effecient tool. [singlepic=128,150,,,] [singlepic=129,,,,] [singlepic=127,70,,,]The SEO Shortcut widget from [...]

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The SEO Shortcut Widget Rocks (even in beta)

SEO Digger Digs It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List

AzAkers — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:27:34 +0000

A friend, (private SEO consultant Matt Lerche), recently turned me on to a website - SEODigger.com - it’s a new SEO tool from the Russian crew that brought us the SEOQuake FireFox add-on/extention (which is now available for IE). The SEODigger.com mole has quickly dug it’s way onto my list of favorite SEO tools. [singlepic=117,,,,] Find which keywords a URL [...]

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SEO Digger Digs It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List