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IT Links and Resources

This comprises of a list of links to resources found to be really informative, authoritative, useful, and/or fun. It also includes any link exchanges we have made, but all of them are vetted for quality and compatibility.

Index

Add-Ons and Gadgets

For Firefox

Provided by the Squidoo Team and works with Firefox: 1.0 – 3.5.*
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2229
haven't used it yet but am about to try Squidoo so I might have some comments later

Drupal

Drupal Modules - Search, Rate, and Review Drupal Modules<
http://drupalmodules.com/
Have just done a quick browse only. It looks a Drupal user/lover's haven. Must Must have a good look (note t0 self)

Forums

Fun Forums, Useful Forums, or just Forums I use and like.

Currently Reviewing ...

Squidoo Forum
http://www.squidu.com/forum

General

Favicons

"first web tool for creating still and animated favicons from regular images"
http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/
favourite Free and comes with animated favicon as well!

Fonts

dafont.com
http://www.dafont.com
favourite

Language Translators

Free translator provided by Yahoo.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Tree translator from Google. Part of their language tools.
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

URL Shorteners

A simple url shortener.
http://bit.ly/
favourite This is better than TinyURL. It takes visitor straight from link to the intended destination page (TinyUrl brings visitor to their site and then they have to click again to get to intended destination). There is also a bookmarklet you can simply drag to your browser's link toolbar.

Making long URLs usable!
http://tinyurl.com/
Even has gadget to put on your links toolbar so you can do this with one click.

Google Related

Page displaying all different ad formats that Google offers for AdSense.
https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_GB/AdFormats.html

Google's AdSense Help on creating alternate ads
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/static.py?page=alternateads.html

A deeper look at how to use channels effectively. Includes videos.
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2009/11/deeper-look-at-channels-custom-channels.html
Very good.

Google's Help page on Adsense
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en-uk&topic=13488

Google details it's AdSense Programme policies as well as specifying how many and what types of ads you can employ per page.
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182

A free online tool to verify that your Google Analytics (GA) Tracking Code is properly installed.
http://sitescanga.com/

Google's Help page on Channels
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=152&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-ww-et-asui&medium=link

Informational Sites

Mixed

Internet Marketing and Making Money Online. Topics cover Twitter, SEO, Marketing Principles
http://www.doshdosh.com/
favourite Haven't read it fully but looks a very worthwhile site to visit for nuggets of good, sensible information.

Creator of Squidoo, Seth Godin's blogs are quick and easy to read (and FUN), informative and a Must-See source. Tips on Squidoo, Marketing, SEO, and tactics.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
favourite I seldom say this but this is a Must-See Must-Read site.

OS Commerce

General page of all available osCommerce Community Contribution Addons
http://addons.oscommerce.com/

Official osCommerce Forum and support group where you can search for solutions from community members.
http://forums.oscommerce.com/

Social Media Links

General Social Media Links

List of toolbars and gadgets for Firefox web browswer.
http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/social-networking-firefox/

Social Bookmarking

Use the Social Bookmark Script to automatically add link icons from the best social bookmark services to your web page in order to enable your visitors to set a public bookmark for your site by mouse-click.
http://www.social-bookmark-script.com/generator.htm
This site has a social bookmark script generator which looks very useful. On their German page, they have a table on "Social Bookmark Traffic & Social Network Linkpower" which looks very very interesting.

a big list of social bookmarking and networking sites. A Squidoo lens. Can vote on this list as well as add to it.
www.squidoo.com

Twitter Links

Social Media news blog covering cool new websites and social networks: Facebook, Google, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. The latest web technology news, via RSS daily.
http://mashable.com/
Have only been reading his Twitter blogs and articles so far and it has already proved very useful.

A useful compilation of links on Twitter. Compilation by Mashable.
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/

Free Twitter Bakcgrounds, Help Yourself!
http://www.twitterbacks.com/
Tip: Download the available templates and make your own.

Personal Must-Do Links

These are links I must find time to look into.

Seems quite amazing. Turns uploaded media into videos with music. And Free. Can be added into a Squidoo lens.
http://animoto.com/

one of the most popular sites on the net. Allows submission of links, web sites, stories and users can vote on them so that the most popular ones go to the top.
http://www.digg.com/

Business

Have you experienced Identity Theft, or are you afraid you will? Let us help you monitor your identity and the identities of you family through our proven system of informing and reminding you on all the items to check for.
http://www.safeguardid.com/

Search Placement Pros has given 90% of their customers top 3 listings on Google for the search terms of their choice. Let them help you too.
http://www.searchplacementpros.com

 

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