Resource Links for December 9th through December 24th

Monday, 27th December 2010

Resource Links for December 9th:

Quick Check – Pingability.com – Pingability.com will check a DNS zone. It will perform a set of checks on your name servers and email servers. And give recommendations to improve your setup.
Cross Browser Testing. Pick an OS – Pick a Browser – Test website – The Browser Test Center to check your website’s cross browser compatibility. Test your website live via your browser and remote VNC sessions. Now you can interactively test your ajax, javascript, and flash on all operating systems and browsers from anywhere. Basic=1 user, 150 minutes/mnth $20/mnth; Pro=5 users, 600 minutes/mnth $50/mnth; Business=25 users, 3000 minutes/mnth $200/mnth
Boinx Software – Mouseposé – One of the most important aspects of presenting is for an audience to be able to follow what the presenter is doing. Clicking the mouse is usually easily missed, so Mouseposé 3 now lets you visualize the mouse clicks by drawing a red circle (or two or three depending on the number of mouse clicks) around the mouse. In Mouseposé 3, you can turn on a sound to be played when the Mouse is clicked and the right and left clicks have a different color. $17
ImageWell, the Fast & Lean Image Editor – mageWell is a small, but powerful, image editing application that lets you quickly resize, crop, watermark, edit your images, take screenshots and then instantly upload them to the web, save to your computer or email them to a friend. ImageWell also lets you annotate your images with text, shapes, arrows and lines, quickly and easily. And it doesn’t stop there – add a drop shadow, a shaped border, flip or rotate your image, adjust the sharpness and brightness. ImageWell also offers batch image resize, batch watermarking, batch upload, the ability to drag and drop multiple images onto the canvas, plus a Template feature for applying saved edit attributes to other images. free or $20
In the Woods – “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” Video Series
How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic – The Ultimate Guide | Copyblogger – lots of links to great resources for SEO tips
Jefferson County Business Resource Center – Home Page – “Whether you are planning a start-up enterprise or you are the proprietor of an established business; we are the centralized source for the myriad of resources available for business development and growth. All services and information are free or are offered at a significantly reduced rate for any resident of or business within Jefferson County.”
Simple Tools for Small Business Websites « RockTheWorld with LinkedIn – Online Radio – WebmasterRadio.FM – Jeff Kemp, Founder/Key Exec of SiteSubscribe was interviewed this week on Webmaster Radio by Mike O’Neil & Lori Ruff, the LinkedIn Rockstars. “Simple Tools for Small Business Websites with Jeff Kemp, creator of SiteSubscribe.com, which helps build small business websites up quickly, while giving simple tools to easily manage your own web pages.”
The Man Behind Site Subscribe – Thumbtack Spotlight – article about me on Thumbtack’s blog highlighting SiteSubscribe
Keyword Analysis Tool – Market Samurai – Market Samurai: free trial or $149 lifetime upgrades (10 pages of hype on their website so hard to know what it really does…doesn’t even say if it is Windows only software)
Online File Storage, File Sharing, Document Hosting, FTP, Cloud Storage | FilesAnywhere – filesanywhere: Dropbox killer? access & share your files anywhere/anytime; secure online storage, collaborate online, edit files directly (Zoho/Picnik), backup/sync folders, file versioning, folder sharing; the feature set is daunting…including many features Dropbox doesn’t have (i.e. Email Notification for File Activity in Selected Folders); Single User=free 1GB, Basic plan $2.95/mnth+storage (1GB included), Advanced $7.95/mnth+storage; Multi-User=Basic $5.95/mnth+storage, Advanced $11.35/mnth+storage; Corporate=Private from $99/mnth
» Remove Dates From Permalink – WordPress: remove dates from your permalink structure using htaccess redirect
8 WordPress Plugins that Enable Posting and Editing From the Front-End – WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org
Go Computer – powered by firstSTREET – computer for Seniors: seems a little expensive @ $950 + $20/month, but maybe worth it; seems like they are using their own citrix type of os where things are served over the web from their servers, doesn’t look like you can use any Windows applications, but maybe that’s a good thing; can it open/view Word/PDF files? includes a computer (proprietary); here is at least 1 alternative (there are probably others): http://www.pointerware.com/c/pages/intro $149 one time (1year support, Additional support and upgrades after the 1 year period can be purchased for $49.00 / year), or $8/month for ongoing service/support (no upfront costs); can open/view Word/PDF files; requires your own Windows (XP/Vista/7) computer; 30 day free trial available; seems to me like the GoComputer has better interface
Mavenlink: A better way to manage your projects from start to finish – Mavenlink is a comprehensive business management platform that addresses the entire scope of business for independent service providers. • Google Apps integration (embed Google Docs, sync with your Google Calendar, and access Google Contacts) (but this is not a CRM!) • Project collaboration (no Gantt chart) • Expenses • Time tracking • Online billing and payments (no opportunity management!) (preferred PayPal rate of 1.9%, offline payments, assign dollar amounts to projects, create Change Orders) • email integration (reply directly to messages from the workspace using your email client); no social networking integration; more of a collaboration workspace and less of a project manager/CRM; Free=3 projects, unlimited participants, 1 admin, 500MB; $39/mnth=unlimited projects & participants, 1 admin, 5GB, branding; $79/mnth=3 admins, 20GB