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Sucuri – An Alarm and Recovery System for Your Website
Reviews, Software & Programs Has your WordPress blog ever been hacked? Did the culprit somehow add a whole bunch of malicious content to your blog that you had no clue how to get rid of? It has happened to me and I’m sure it has happened to some of you as well. Next time you’re in a stressful situation like this, let Sucuri come to the rescue! If you’ve been a victim of blog hacking and malware or are just looking for some ongoing protection and monitoring ...
Continue readingOrganize your Tasks into Simple, Workable Lists with WorkFlowy
Productivity, Reviews Lately, my days consist of getting up and realizing the tasks I need to do, but then goofing off half the day and only getting half of my tasks done. It seems like I can’t focus and no matter how much I try to get organized, I seem to fail. That’s why I was happy to come across WorkFlowy, a tool that is used to “organize your brain.” You can create lists that are then broken up into tasks; this lets you really focus on ...
Continue readingDiscover and Share Your Favorite Internet Tools with Curated.by
Reviews, Social Media Curated.by has quickly become a new addiction for me (as if I needed another). In just the short amount of time that I’ve been a member of the site, I have discovered many useful Internet and social media tools and apps. The idea behind Curated.by is to make it easier to find “the good stuff” on Twitter. The goal of the site is “to help where a Twitter list or hashtag search is just not good enough.” As a member and ...
Continue reading5 Chrome Extensions That Work Beautifully in RockMelt
Social Media If you’re not familiar with RockMelt, it’s a a web browser that focuses on social sharing, Facebook chat and RSS feeds. It’s built on Chromium, so it has the speed of Google Chrome along with most of the design. While some of Chrome’s extensions do not quite work properly on RockMelt, there are others that work beautifully. I know some people who decided not to use RockMelt because it’s lack of compatibility ...
Continue readingFootfeed – One Site for All Your Check-ins
Reviews, Social Media If you’re like me, you probably have at least 2-3 geolocation service apps, like Brightkite, Foursquare or Gowalla, on your smartphone. It can be quite time consuming when it comes to using all of them when out and about. My husband always laughs at me because I have to take 5-6 minutes just to check-in at each one. Like Checkin Mania, a site I covered earlier this year, Footfeed is another site that aims to make your life easier when it ...
Continue readingGet to Know Your Neighbors and Stay Connected with OneTwib
Reviews, Social Media OneTwib struck me as interesting because I’m always looking for new ways to connect with people in my local area. With that being said, “OneTwib is a location-based social network that lets you connect with people around you, in your neighborhood, at work or anywhere.” Right from the homepage, you can enter your zip code to set your location and see who’s around you at-a-glance. Creating an account is easy and they also ...
Continue readingSort Tweets by Relevance and Importance with Cadmus
Reviews, Social Media How many times have you looked at your Twitter timeline and wished that there was an easier way to get caught up on just the important tweets that you may have missed? Well Cadmus aims to fix that problem for you. You may be familiar with Cadmus as a plugin for Seesmic or as an addition to the TweetAgora iPhone app, but it’s also an awesome standalone Web tool. What Cadmus does is “manages your stream in real-time by displaying the ...
Continue readingiBigBang – Your Bookmark Organizer and Desktop on the Web
Reviews, Social Media I know many of you probably don’t use homepages anymore — I know I don’t, but iBigBang might give you a reason to use them again. It’s a free tool that gives you your own desktop on the Web. With that desktop, you can create bookmarks and projects that will make it easier for you to access your favorite and most used websites. Your desktop can be customized to your liking and you can even share bookmarks and projects with ...
Continue readingSnap Bird: The Best Way to Search Beyond Twitter’s History
Reviews, Social Media I had an issue a few days ago where I was looking for a Twitter conversation that I’d had with a friend about 2-3 months ago. The only problem was that I had no way to find it because Twitter Search only goes back 10 days, and I wasn’t about to go through pages and pages of @mentions/@replies. That’s where Snap Bird came to the rescue. It’s a service that lets you search beyond the 10-day limit plus lets you search within ...
Continue reading48ers – A Simple yet Effective Social Media Monitoring Tool
Reviews, Social Media Company owners and website owners are always looking for new ways to monitor their brand online. Well, not only is 48ers a real-time social search that can help you monitor your brand more effectively, but it can also help you monitor your name, username and even links on various social media sites. Best of all, you can monitor all of those items with a simple query in the search bar. As you can see from the image above, 48ers homepage is ...
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