Increase file tranfer speeds with BurstCopy

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Copying files from one folder to another might be slow while tranfering large files like movies or other bulky folders. With BurstCopy you can significantly increase the file transfer speed. This is made possible by using dynamic buffers in order to reduce seek times. It has pause , resume options are available in order to temporarily suspend the transfer if needed and it allows to even transfer files when errors are encountered with retry and skip options.

The file to be copied and its destination have to be indicated in its control panel and when you click on start the file transfer is done faster than the conventional windows copy and paste. And, interestingly you don’t have to open the burstcopy every time you need to transfer a file, when you right click a file and click on copy just go to the desired destination folder in which you want to paste the file and when you right click to paste the file you will see an additional option ‘ burst copy ‘ in the menu which makes the file transfer much faster.

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Why is SEO important?

Let us consider an example to understand the concept of SEO better.

For instance if your website concept is to sell flowers on a global scale.

Then you would face immense competition from your peers as everyone wants to attract visitors and buyers.

The usual strategies you apply would be:

· Analyzing price levels of peer websites.

· Attracting visitors with offers and packages.

· Sending Emails , putting up Advertisements on websites and so on..

But remember, you can’t cover the whole web by the above means.

Just imagine a search query for “buy flowers” would lead to around 1,00,00,000 results so obviously most of the people opt for clicking the website which stands #1 on search engines because they believe that its authentic and more valuable than the other websites. Generally people don’t tend to go beyond the first two or three search result pages to find what they are looking for.

Now, if your website stands say in twenty-first page on the search results for the query “buy flowers” on search engines then the amount of traffic you get from search engines is literally zero. So as people don’t turn up to your site from search engine queries , your only choice to attract visitors would be applying the above mentioned strategies or you have to publicize your site using advertisements or emails etc.

So, without SEO your website is like “behind a wall” though its got fabulous features and functionality. Search Engine Optimization will serve as a tool to break that wall and improvise your site traffic and revenue.

Spice up your Gmail with Google Gadgets for sporting, news, fun and more!

You might be aware of the news hovering and buzzing on the web: about Google introducing themes on Gmail.

Themes?  Yeap, Some color,style and fodder.Not just that, now you can add Google Gadgets onto your Gmail.

Gadgets are individual modules which can embedded onto any webpage. Google Gadgets include tools, communication, news, technology, friends, games, fun and more. Let me share a few quick lines on how to add a Google Gadget to your Gmail before I speak about the Spice.

Adding Google Gadgets to Gmail

• Click on the Settings tab in your Gmail account and select Gadgets
• You will see “ Add a gadget by its URL”

• Now go the igoogle gadgets directory, to search your favorite gadget to be added onto your Gmail.

• Click on the Gadget link you wish to add and then click on share the gadget and copy the URL in the following manner onto your awaiting “ add a gadget by URL” in your Gmail.

For instance, if the URL is:

http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=http://ralph.feedback.googlepages.com/googlecalendarviewer.xml&source=imag

Select only the xml source link from the URL(the underlined piece) and paste it onto your Gmail as mentioned above.

Now lets talk about the spice!!

You can add multiple Gadgets onto your Gmail to read news feeds,  search web services and your docs and spreadsheets, play games, communicate and have fun. Gmail can be your one stop web interface with the advent of these Gadgets. These appear on the sidebar and can be minimized accordingly.

A simple trick will certainly help you to play games or deal with other gadgets on Gmail. Use Crtl + Mouse scroll to zoom into a gadget. Similar to these gadgets, you can embed your favorite Google Gadgets to Spice up and make Gmail the one ceasing interface to perform almost any deed you wish to on the web.

Youtube goes WideScreen

On visiting the Youtube site, by default we would be able to view video in widescreen format - designed to give the viewer, a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience.

This new player which carries a 16:9 aspect ratio. For all videos uploaded in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio, they’ll appear inset, but the increasingly more common 16:9 videos will fill the space giving the view a movie theater experience

Gom player - features

Overview: GOM Player is a free media player with popular video and audio codecs built-in. There is a lucid menu for audio , video settings. Its capable of playing incomplete or damaged AVI files by skipping the damaged frames. And it can also play locked or partially downloaded files. Its other features include drag-and-drop support, HTTP streaming, editable skins, subtitling, overlay mixer, key remapping, enhanced filter rendering, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files and unicode support among others. The videos can be viewed in as a full screen landscape view. If there is a new version of gom player available it will be updated automatically with user permission. The lucid menu and huge options , preferences give the user a whole lot to customize the player according to user requirement. There are other endless number of advanced features. Customize brightness, contrast and saturation. Sharpen and add noise to your video , time jump in a video.

Screen capture: With gom player the current frame in a movie or a video can be saved to a folder or can be set as the wallpaper on the desktop.

Advanced screen capture: With “ burst capture ” a user defined number of consecutive frames can be captured , the number of frames to be captured can be adjusted in preferences.

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quick launch of your favorite applications [ windows only]

Searching for an application in the usually crowded Start Menu is tedious . JetStart offers you a quick access to categorized Start Menu shortcuts, recently launched programs and system commands. JetStart will show matching applications as you type. Once the application is found it can be immediately launched, dragged to desktop or unistalled. It also has a toolbar which allows you to quckly access your favorite Windows applications. With this ypu can organize shortcuts with drag and drop, launch multiple programs at once.

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Risks of selling E-Products Online - Guest post by Dennisquek

Hi, let me first introduce myself. I am Eddie’s classmate and we study together. In my daytime, I work as a a Network Security Engineer, that specialises in security stuff. From your windows OS, Linux, networks, research, and a recently acquired skill - web application security.

My job goes through daily tasks of penetrating systems by hacking them, the smart and hard way, to harden a system and make sure nasty stuff doesn’t occur. In short, I am a pen tester. But my other side of life includes IM, short for internet marketing.

Problem
Recently I have been trying to market a new product, put them online, and sell them through Clickbank. I found it very insecure to sell E-Products online, with a sales page in general. Why are they insecure ?

1. You setup a sales page, with a thank you page / download page.
2. You put your E-product online, somewhere in a directory.
3. You use whatever method you could (Joomla Plugin / Clickbank), to automate the payment process
4. Buyer gets redirected to a download page / logged in to download your E-Product.
5. In actual fact, your E-product is sitting somewhere for everyone to download.

How it is done
No matter how random or wierd you rename your E-Product, it is still susceptible to web app scanning. In short, a scan of all files and subdirectories will reveal all files within your domain name.

There are ways to do this, but I don’t think IM guys are aware of this. Being said that, all Clickbank publishers actually have their products exposed, because upon payment, you are redirected to a download page. In fact, if you “guessed” the thankyou.html page properly, you can easily gain access to the E-product. Once again I am using a web app scanning tool instead of “guessing”.

I am still in the midst of testing a solution to solve this problem, so as to protect valuable assets. If you have a solution for this, I would love to have you share with me and diggitlive.com.
My personal blog is at www.dennisquek.com,hope to hear your views soon!

Free books giveaway contest - comment and win

Hello All, Diggitlive is back with a contest!. You might be aware of the fact that profits earned from DiggitLive sponsors will be used for giveaways and prizes for our loyal viewers. We sincerely appreciate our user community and respect our readers for reading Diggitlive and now we are here with a - free books giveaway contest.

In this post we are giving away 2 web development and design related books which cover extensive tutorials on PHP, MySQL and CSS web development. We believe that winners of these books would find them useful in their course of web development and in writing effective code.

Books You Can Win

1: PHP5 and MySQL Bible - By Tim Converse, Joyce Park, Clark Morgan

This book covers the  basics of PHP 5and MySQL 4.012, how to get started, how to add PHP to HTML, and how to connect HTML Web pages to MySQL Offers an extensive tutorial for developing applications with PHP and MySQL Includes coverage of how to install, administer, and design MySQL databases independently of PHP; exception and error handling; debugging techniques; PostgreSQL database system; and PEAR database functions. The authors also provide unique case studies of how and where to use PHP drawn from their own extensive Web experience

2: Beginning CSS Web Development - By Simon Collison

This book covers: Getting started with the Core concepts of CSS , CSS building blocks , Text , Color, backgrounds, and images — Lists, Links — Tables and definition lists — Forms , Layout basics — Classic layouts , Layout manipulation — The journey from layout to template — Usability and accessibility enhancements — Tips, tricks, and troubles and case studies.

To Participate

1. You have to choose one book of your interest from the above two.

2. Write an interesting comment to this post mentioning the book number you would like to win along with your name and email id.

Contest Rules

1. You can opt for only one of the two books mentioned above.

2. The winners for each book will be determined by a random generator.

3. participants can post comments until the 31th October 2008.

Good Luck to all the participants.

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The power of comments [part 2]

As  discussed in the previous post comments on a webpage make a lot of impact both to the end user and to the owner of the site. Here is an instance from Problogger illustrating how leaving comments on blogs can drive traffic to a site.

Its you [ visitors] who can fire-up the site and its you who would be responsible for a site to be lethargic and dumb.

– “ The web 2.0 is us and the web 2.0 is using us” –

Email Interview with eches[Owner & author of blog.eches.net]

I was skimming through the top pages in the blogs directory on technorati under the technology category and I found this vibrant and  interesting blog.

I went through the blog and I was truly impressed by the theme and the way content was organized.  I immediately put up a message for ‘eches’  requesting him for an email interview and I’m glad that he accepted the request.

We asked him some interesting questions and here is the rest!