IT Links
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
Business
"The Financial Ombudsman Service provides accessible, fair and independant dispute resolution for consumers and financial service providers"
www.fos.org.au
Australian. This is where to go if you have problems with PayPal for e.g.
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/
"The Internet's #1 Anti-PayPal Consumer Advocate Website!"
www.screw-paypal.com
Bit of a scam site as well coz they want you to buy their book or whatever. But it does have PayPal CONTACT INFO - which is a help because sooner or later, PayPal will give you the PayPal nightmares!!!
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
Domains
"Easier Way to find Website Information"
www.quarkbase.com
Good for checking up a company and/or site. Includes independent social/blog comments (e.g. whether it is a scam, etc.)
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
"..a list of slang terms, acronyms and abbreviations as used in websites, ICQ chat rooms, blogs, SMS, and Internet forums - a complete dictionary of slang"
www.internetslang.com/
Do time zone conversions between two cities. This time zone calculator takes into account daylight saving time (DST), local time zone and accepts dates in past or future.
www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Useful especially for converting like (US) EST (Eastern Standard Time) to Australian time.Favicons
"first web tool for creating still and animated favicons from regular images"
http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/
Free and comes with animated favicon as well!Fonts
dafont.com
http://www.dafont.com
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/
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.
Other
A detailed review of the camera
www.dpreview.com
OK. I know this link does not technically belong here but I find it immensely useful. So there.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
"Monitoring the legal climate for Internet Activity"
chillingeffects.org
Useful FAQs on Copyright, DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), plagarism, creative licences, etc.
Internet Marketing and Making Money Online. Topics cover Twitter, SEO, Marketing Principles
http://www.doshdosh.com/
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/
I seldom say this but this is a Must-See Must-Read site.Specifics
(product photography)
tabletopstudio.com/
Lots and lots of articles and help about Product Photography. Fantastic!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
developers.facebook.com/plugins
Social Plugins developed by Facebook
List of toolbars and gadgets for Firefox web browswer.
smartypantssocialmedia.blogspot.com/
Not sure if it covers all social media avenues. Currently am interested in notes on FB.
General Social Media Links
List of toolbars and gadgets for Firefox web browswer.
http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/social-networking-firefox/
Among other functions, update your status on multiple social networking profiles simultaneously including Facebook.
www.hootsuite.com/
It's free. I just got signed up. And it is GREAT!!! Esp if you have multiple Twitter accounts & FB.www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Looks pretty good to me.
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.
The source for Free Twitter buttons!
www.twitterbuttons.org/
Some very cool buttons here. And Free. All you have to do is enter your Twitter ID and get code.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/
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