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2007 April : Articler.com Weblog

Microsoft Word maybe is the most popular text editing software. But, as you know, you must buy it.

Here is a list of great alternatives to replace MS Word.

The first option is Open Office, similar to Microsoft Office but free. There are many governmental institutions and organizations adopting it, saving thousands of dollars in licenses every years.

Google docs it’s a good web-based alternative. You can share easily your documents with other people.
Another good open source word processor is AbiWord. This software includes most of the functionalities that you find in MS Word. It is a light software and it is supported by many platforms.

If you are an MAC OS X user, you can use NeoOffice.

From The Washington Post this excellent graphic that show us the perfect posture in front of the computer.

Click on the image to enlarge.

From Engadget.com the notice of Google Phone launching at the end of 2007.

WordReference.com is one of the best free online translation dictionaries with more than 120,000 words in his Spanish dictionary, 250,000+ French words and nearly 200,000 Italian translations.

Also this site offers a toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox users.

A simple way to optimize your website speed is using the slash in your links. How does the slash in your server work?. It’s easy. When the server opens the link for example: http://www.mywebsite.com/resources, he need “to see” what kind of file is inside of this url, producing a waste of time in the load process.

But, by including the slash ” / ” on the end of the url, example http://www.mywebsite.com/resources/, the server will know exactly the path into the directory, optimizing the time to load page.

Microsoft launched a new on-line multimedia platform to compete vs. Adobe’s Flash. Silverlight, is compatible with the most popular web browsers, like Mozilla Firefox or Safari for Mac, allowing to the content providers the distribution of videos, games and animations. Microsoft Silverlight, like Flash, provides tools for developers and designers. One of advantages: the size of the plugin is only 2MB to download.

The principal element to get traffic in your web site is the optimization  in the search engines, call SERP - Search Engine Ranking Position -  for a particular keyword or phrase. For example “social and sharing extension for firefox”. By this phrase, this article has been indexed by Google on the top #1 of the results, above of very important websites. Then, if your site has high rank you can receive a lot of natural traffic and this, can help you to get more money on line.

But, search engines work differently and you must learn special features or criteria of them. Yahoo works more on page optimization techniques. Google wants periodical actualization of content, and link building with other websites using Anchor Text. So, for to help you to improve the maximum out of search engines, you can read this article.

Happy optimization!!.

A good news for webmaster. Now you can put the the URL to your sitemaps xml URL listing in your robots.txt file, *all*  search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.. can automatically list it. Is much more convenient than manually pinging each engine.

More info http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/04/whats-new-with-sitemapsorg.html 

The versatility of Firefox allows to add some different tools to improve the navigation and marketing for businesses surfers. Here is a list of 32 social and sharing add-ons for Firefox.

ClipmarksCapture just the pieces you want

iMacros for Firefox relieves the repetition of checking on the same sites every day

AllPeers Beta Share your files privately and securely

WOT Helps you stay safe and make better decisions while browsing

Email This! Bookmarklet Extension will send your recipient the link

DejaClick Record and bookmark your browser activities

LinkWad Manage tabbed browsing sessions

Orkut Helper For orkut user

From Hyperlinks to Hyperwords Select any text and get useful commands.

Dai.sy Instant peer2peer Meeting.

CamZ Bar Browse the Largest Live and Archived Live Chat Site on the planet.

Grocery List Generator Store your recipe-ingredients and other groceries you need regularly.

Amazing Webpage Emailer Emailing a hyperlink (URL) may have sufficed when the web was young and static.

Kaboodle The best way to collect, compare, share and discover things you find anywhere on the web.

Extension List Dumper This extension adds a button (”Dump list”) to the Add-ons window.

From Hyperlinks to Hyperwords Select words and choose commands: References, Conversions, Translations, Email, Search & more.

FoxFon With FoxFon you can call your friends in a way similar to the SkypeOut service.

Send Page By Email Designed to support send page by email function.

RatePoint Rate and connect with like-minded people.

LinkWad Extension that enables users to more easily manage tabbed browsing sessions by saving groups of tabs.

xmpp4moz xmpp4moz integrates the XMPP protocol (also known as Jabber) into Mozilla applications.

Chipmark This extension mimics much of Firefox Bookmarks menu..

SamePlace Extensible instant messaging client based on the XMPP (Jabber) protocol.

Full Screen Homestar Runner Notice how small the cartoon is? Fix it with this extension!.

SeekSpeak Connect with other searchers!.

Gabbly Chat Sidebar Chat using the AJAX application.

BlueBox bar Navigate where it matters and see what’s hot now on the Web.

Yaplet Sidebar Chat on websites.

GroovyNotes Send instant messages and share pages.

Trailfire This tool provides a unique new method for commentary, web navigation, and social discovery.

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