When you think vector graphics you probably think of Adobe Illustrator or a similar desktop application – however Inker is here to prove that you don’t need a bulky and expensive application to handle simple vector graphics. Inker is a free Google Chrome and Android app – supporting quick vector design and PNG output. If […]
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Check Your Server Speed with Bitcatcha
Website performance is key these days, and server response times are crucial when working to optimize the performance of your website. To help you with this comes Bitcatcha – a free online tool which checks your server response times from 8 different locations around the world. The results are then compared against Alexa’s top 10,000 […]
Facebook Rolls Out A Major News Feed Change – Friends & Family Comes First
Facebook has rolled out a major announcement this past Wednesday, limiting the exposure that content from business pages, and public profiles for brands and celebrities get; instead focusing on showing more posts from friends and family. Frankly Facebook has been pushing towards this change for a while now because there is simply too much content […]
Twitter Launches Dashboard for Business Owners
Managing Twitter as a business owner isn’t exactly easy. Twitter is an extremely fast-paced environment and as a business owner you rarely have the time to properly monitor the Twitter timeline, and catch important tweets as they come in. At the same time Twitter is a great place to share news about your business, and […]
Turn Any Picture Into A LEGO Mosaic with Legoaizer
Legoaizer is an interesting program that lets you transform almost any photo into a LEGO brick mosaic. This mosaic can then be saved as a JPG, BMP, or PNG file – which you can then use as a cool piece of art or a wallpaper. However things get a bit more advanced since Legoaizer also […]
Does the Nielsen F-Pattern Apply to Search Results?
The Nielsen F-Pattern has been, for a long time, the standard belief of how the average person browses a website – and since it’s release in 2006 websites, search engines, and more have been built with the Nielsen F-Pattern in mind. However many things have changed since 2006 and the Internet has grown tremendously. Does […]
Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned LIKE & SHARE Buttons
Facebook has just launched the redesigned LIKE and SHARE buttons, getting rid of the iconic Facebook icon-logo, gaining an emoji-style thumbs up icon, and merging the count right into the button to create a flatter, more modern, and more noticeable button. The new design is actually part of a much larger redesign of the Facebook social plugins. As […]
Test Your Website With A New All-In-One Google Tool
Google has alot of different tools that webmasters should use when it comes to testing their website and ensuring an optimal user experience – such as PageSpeed Insights, and the Google Mobile-Friendly Test. To help simplify things, Google has rolled out a brand new website dedicated to merging together the various Google tests into one […]
429 Million Identities Have Been Exposed in 2015
Online security is an ever increasing concern, with new data-breaches occurring almost monthly – and more and more scams and hacks being thrust upon the public. Symantec has published the latest Website Security Threat Report and there are some rather alarming statistics within the report. Here are just some key statistics: 318 data breaches reported […]
Twitter Raises Video Limits to 140 Seconds
Twitter seems to really like the number 140 considering that is their tweet character limit, and now also their video length limit. That’s right – you can now upload videos that are up to 140 seconds in length! Now, everyone can post videos up to 140 seconds long! We can’t wait to see the amazing videos […]
Major Changes To The Facebook Ad Text Rule
Up till this point Facebook has always made use of the 20% text rule when it came to determining which images were allowed to be used for advertised posts. This meant that so long as your text did not cover more than 20% of your ad image – you were good to go! Well – […]
Analyze Your Twitter Activity with Engage for iOS
Want to really understand what your Twitter account is doing for your business? Want to get some cold hard data about your tweets activity? Check out Twitter Engage for iOS – a brand new app that lets anyone analyse their tweet activity. The app gives you a real-time view of your accounts Likes, Retweets, Mentions […]
Apple Pay Is Coming To The Web
For any of you who are Apple users, you’ve probably made use of Apple Pay before – whether it was via an in-app purchases or while shopping at various brick and mortar businesses. Chances are if you have used Apple Pay – you loved how quick and easy it made the checkout process. Apple knows […]
Apple Is Launching Search Ads – Letting Developers Pay For Appstore Ranking
The days of simply rolling something out the door and attracting attention from people is unfortunately long gone – and these days you need to find a way to get your new product or app to be seen by others. As such, when you launch a new mobile app you need a way to rank […]
Instagram Is Finally Rolling Out Business Profiles & Tools
Instagram is a great platform for business owners to take advantage of and market directly to their customers and followers – much like Facebook. However unlike Facebook Instagram never had business-centric options like business profiles and business-level analytics … until now. Instagram has announced, finally, the launch of Instagram business profiles, and business tools. First […]
Google Confirms: Keyword Rich TLD’s Won’t Help Your Google Ranking
With all of the new TLD domain names coming out, did you ever wonder if keyword based TLD’s such as .attorney or .seo will actually have any SEO benefit? Well, you’re not the only one – and I am sure that plenty of people originally got excited about the new TLD’s thinking they would be […]
Infographic: People Are Using Horrible Passwords on LinkedIN
Every now and then an infographic pops up that is a bold reminder how important a secure password is – and today we have such an infographic. Coming from Statista, the infographic lists 10 of the most popular LinkedIn passwords from a 2012 LinkedIn hack. I don’t even know where to start here. If by […]
Microsoft Bans Tech Support & Password Recovery Ads in Bing
You know whats annoying? Scams. I hate them. You hate them. Microsoft also hates them – and since 175,000 Microsoft customers complained about tech support and password recovery ads leading to scams – Microsoft has decided to ban these ads entirely from Bing. A new change in their advertising policy bans any ads that provide tech support […]
Top 100 Most Expensive Google PPC Keywords
Chris Lake, co-founder of Empirical Proof, recently data-mined a slew of data provided by SEMrush in an effort to find the most valuable terms in Google pay-per-click. He then compiled this data and formed a list of the top 100 most expensive Google Adwords keywords! Check it out below: Without much surprise, legal keywords dominated […]
Adobe Post Updated to Adobe Spark – Introduces Web Version
Adobe Spark (previously named Adobe Post) is, in my humble opinion, a God-send for social media managers all over. The ability to easily be able to generate creative images and video for use within your social media posts. If you haven’t checked out my review on the original Adobe Post – check it out here. […]