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Instant Screencasts for Twitter and Beyond

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Twitter makes for a pretty nice way for a web host to get it’s message out to their customers quickly.  You can send a message to everybody that is following you, or you could answer just one person, if needed.  Screenr is the way to get that job done.  You can instantly record a screencast, …

Create Your Own Video Tutorials

Create Your Own Video Tutorials

For any web host out there, having video tutorials showing off your services is a nice thing to promote to your customers.  It is always better to show somebody how to do something, rather than just have them read text.  If you are looking for a low-cost way to create your own simple tutorial collection, …

Easier US Time Zone Conversions

US Time Zone Map

For remote web hosting technicians, trying to remember what time it is where your business is located can be a pain.  Thankfully, I have an easy to remember bookmark that should save you both trouble and time when it comes to remembering when that next big meeting is for you and for your boss who …

Find CSS Element Stats with XRAY Bookmarklet

Get CSS Statistics

This bookmarklet is perfect for anybody who spends any time working  on web site layouts.  XRAY is used to see the box model for any element on a web page.  It will dim the area not selected, and give you statistics such as the CSS id or class assigned to it, the interface hierarchy, and …

How to Find a Job in Web Hosting

Find a Web Hosting Job

So, if I was going to start looking for a web hosting job, where would I turn to?  Well, there are three resources you should keep in mind.  You have the web host themselves, the web hosting forums out there, and special job hunting resources that will list for you spots available with a number …

Grade Your Domain with BuildStats.com

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Looking for a new site to measure the effectiveness of your web site in a number of different ways? BuildStats.com will give you all kinds of details about your domain, or any domain name out there from around the Web.

Some of the statistics included are:

Indexed pages in Bing, Yahoo, and Google
Onsite Information
Rank on Traffic Scoring …

Alternatives to Geocities

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With the word that Geocities would be closing, “sometime in 2009” many of the Geocities users are looking for other places to host their content.  Even though Geocities is closing the door on it’s free hosting, there are still many free hosting alternatives to Geocities.

Free Hosting – Two free web site elders that might …

Compare Linux Dedicated Servers and Deals

Dedicated Hosting Comparisons by HostMonk

Looking for an easy way to compare Linux-based dedicated servers and deals?  Look no further than your friendly HostMonk.  This relatively new service gives you a number of different options to search from to find the perfect dedicated hosting environment for your needs.

You can sort the dedicated hosting offers by:

Management
CPU Type
Bandwidth
Memory
Disk Space
Platform
Price

The HostMonk web site …

Find Out Who is Copying Your Content

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Do you know who CopyGator is?  He’s catching duplicate content and plagiarism in and around the blogosphere.  Always keeping an eye on your content, the CopyGator service is an interesting one to use if you feel like others are stealing your works.

How Does CopyGator Work?

The service aggregates data from other two million blog feeds, …

Google Offers Services to Hosting Clients

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Google is working with hosting companies to offer quicker and easier access to their special tools and more via the Google Services for Web Sites service.  This is great news for any web host looking to provide a little ‘bit more to their hosting customers. This is a win-win for everybody.

This is a great …

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