6 WAYS TO SPEED YOUR WEBSITE

The load time of websites is one of the most important factors affecting its usability; most Internet users will just skip a site altogether if it fails to load within a couple of seconds. Below you will find the summary of the “Speed Up Your Site” series. Those are simple yet effective ways to make sure that your website is running fast. You can click on each point to read the article with comments from the readers.

1. Optimize Images: always use the “Save for the web” feature included on image editing software. Images represent the heavier load on virtually any website so make sure you are optimizing them. Alternatively you can also turn to an online image optimizer.
2. Image Formats: apart from optimizing images it is important that you choose the right format. JPEG format is suitable for photographs or true-color images. The GIF format should be used with flat-color images like logos or buttons. PNG works very similar to GIF but it supports more colors.
3. Optimize Your CSS: most websites are designed with CSS nowadays. Make sure to aggregate and clean your CSS. CleanCSS is an online tool that will merge similar selectors, remove useless properties and remove the whitespace from your code.
4. Use a Slash on Your Links: when a user opens a link on the form “http://www.domain.com/about” the server will need to figure what kind of file or page is contained on that address. If you include a slash (/) at the end of the link the server will already know that this is a directory page, reducing the load time of the site.
5. Use the Height and Width Tags: many people forget to add the Height and Width tags on image codes. Those tags will make sure that the browser knows the size of the image before loading it. The result is that it will reserve a spot for the images while loading the rest of the page, speeding up the whole process.
6. Reduce the HTTP Requests: when opening a web page every object (images, scripts and the line) will require a round trip to the server. This latency can add several seconds to the load time of your site. Make sure to reduce the number of objects and to combine CSS files and scripts together.

4 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC

One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.

If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.

Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).

First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).

Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work.

If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:

• create a giant list of resources,
• write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
• find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
• write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially

When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”

Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)

Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:

• commenting on other blogs in your niche,
• linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
• interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.

Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t approach people just because you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.

Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)

The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. Examples include:

• letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),
• letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
• getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,
• getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
• posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.

If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.

Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)

Just like a man does not live by bread alone, a blog does not live by killer articles alone. Normal posts are the ones that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:

• a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
• a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
• a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
• a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers

While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged.

10 WEBSITE TO DOWNLOAD VIDEOS

Youtube is largest website for uploading, viewing and watching Videos online. Users Can easily search and watch Videos on Youtube. Several Times we want to download Youtube videos but we cant do it easily as Youtube has not given any feature to download video clips. But here are 10 most useful tools to download Youtube Videos Easily. These tools are really useful and free to download videos from Youtube at no cost. 

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1. Kiss YouTube
2. YouTubeLoader Firefox Plugin
3. Videodownloadx.com
4. KeepVid
5. YouTube Catcher
6. Vixy
7. VideoDownloader
8. YouTubia
9. VidGrab
10. Zamzar

All above websites provides free way to download videos and clips from Youtube.com without any use of software. Zamzar also provides you facility to Convert Youtube Videos Online in other formats. Mostly videos are downloaded in .FLV format but you can convert FLV videos in to any other format.

10 WEBSITES TO CONVERT YOU-TUBE VIDEOS

Youtube.com is video sharing community where you can watch almost all kind of videos (non adult) online. Many of Users want to download videos from Youtube. They try and download the video in .Flv format which do not have good quality. So, Here I am going to share a list of websites which will help you to convert Youtube videos online in High Qulity and in Different formats. Using these useful links, you can even download only Mp3 audio file of a Youtube video. These Websites Convert Youtube videos online. You only have to Copy-Paste Youtube Video URL.

Vixy.Net

Vixy.Net is a website which provides you facility to convert YouTube Videos to AVI, Mov, Mp4, 3GP, and Mp3 Audio Files. That is really cool and Free service.

ListenToYouTube.Com

Listentoyoutube.com makes you able to download Youtube Videos files as Mp3 Audio. That is also good for downloading only audio files from Youtube.

 Vidtomp3.com

Vidtomp3.com also works like listentoyoutube.com. You Just paste the URL of youtube video and this website converts that video file into a Mp3 Audio file. You just download that file and enjoy.

VConversion.com

Vconversion.com is a online video converter website which convert Youtube Videos to .mpg , .wmv , .3gp , .mov , .mp4 , .wav and .mp3 . That is also good website to download youtube video in different formats.

Zamzar.com/url

This is a good website which makes you able to download Youtube Videos in almost ALL Formats. This website also converts those files which you have in your computer.

ConvertDirect.com

Convertdirect.com also have facility to convert Youtube Videos online. You can convert Youtube Video to DivX, Xvid, Mp3 Audio, Mov, Mp4, 3gp, AAC, Mp1, Mp2, WMA, WMV.

CathVideo.com

This Website also have facility to convert Youtube Videos online. You can convert Youtube Video to DivX, Xvid, Mp3 Audio, Mov, Mp4, 3gp, AAC, Mp1, Mp2, WMA, WMV. The Main thing is that, You can download HQ Videos also from Youtube.

MovAvi.com

MovAvi.com Not only converts Videos from Youtube but also provides you facility to convert videos from you computer. You can convert Youtube Video to DivX, Xvid, Mp3 Audio, Mov, Mp4, 3gp, Mpeg, WMA, WMV

ConvertMyTube.com

Just another website to convert youtube videos into .mpg , .wmv , .3gp , .mov , .mp4 , .wav and .mp3

CatchYouTube.com

This website helps you to convert and download Youtube Videos online into different formats like .mpg , .mov , .dvd , .mp4 , .3gp , mp3 .wav and .flv

I hope this post helped you to find better sources of converting youtube videos online. If you know any of website which helps to convert videos online.

TOP TEN WEBSITES TO DOWNLOAD NEW BOLLYWOODS WALLPAPERS

Bollywood is one of the finest film industries of the world which produces hundreds of movies in Hindi/Urdu language per year on almost every topic such as horror, drama,comedy, thriller, horror, romantic etc. Bollywood has several beautiful girls and hot babes in it. Bollywood Movies are most popular in India and Pakistan so there are billions of fans in both countries. Several fans are so crazy they even want to have bollywood taste while using computers so they download bollywood wallpapers of hot actresses and use them as desktop wallpaper. Following are websites from where you can download latest wallpapers of bollywood actresses and actors.

BollywoodGo.com

BollywoodGo.com is a website dedicated to bollywood bringing bollywood hot picturesand bollywood wallpapers almost daily. You can download beautiful, cute and HOT bollywood wallpapers from bollywoodgo.com They collect best wallpapers from all websites plus they turn hot pictures to wallpapers too. So BollywoodGo.com is number one source for whom who are looking for bollywood hot pictures and new wallpapers. visit http://www.bollywoodgo.com

SantaBanta.Com

SantaBanta.com is most famous website for bollywood celebrities wallpapers and photo shoots. Everyday millions of people visit santabanta.com for bollywood news, jokes and wallpapers. They are one of the finest Unique bollywood wallpapers designers. They are not only best for Bollywood Wallpapers but also international hot celebrities wallpapers can be downloaded from santabanta.com. visit http://www.santabanta.com

BollywoodHungama.com

BollywoodHungama (also known as IndiaFM.com) is considered the official website of bollywood. They bring latest bollywood news, movie posters, movie stills, parties and event pictures. exclusive interviews and Wallpapers. They has been media partner of several bollywood movies and now is top bollywood website. visithttp://www.bollywoodhungama.com

MovieGupShup.Net

Moviegupshup.net is a bollywood pictures website from where you can download bollywood HQ Pictures and wallpapers without watermarks and logos. They have thousands of pictures without watermarks and several wallpapers designers use this website as source website. They bring High Quality wallpapers and pictures. visithttp://www.moviegupshup.net

HACK A BSNL BROADBAND FOR YOUR SPEED

If you are a BSNL broadband user, chances are that you are facing frequent DNS issues. Their DNS servers are just unresponsive. The look up takes a long duration and many times just time out. The solution? There is small hack on BSNL for this. Use third party DNS servers instead of BSNL DNS servers or run your own one like djbdns. The easiest options is to use OpenDNS. Just reconfigure your network to use the following DNS servers:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Detailed instructions specific to operating system or your BSNL modem are available in the OpenDNS website itself. After I reconfigured my BSNL modem to use the above 2 IP addresses, my DNS problems just vanished! Other ‘freebies’ that come with OpenDNS are phishing filters and automatic URL correction. Even if your service provider’s DNS servers are working fine, you can still use OpenDNS just for these two special features. After you hack BSNL DNS servers, you will see a noticeable improvement in your broadband speed.

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HOW TO HACK AN ADSL ROUTER

Almost half of the Internet users across the globe use ADSL routers/modems to connect to the Internet however, most of them are unaware of the fact that it has a serious vulnerability which can easily be exploited even by a noob hacker just like you. In this post I will show you how to exploit a common vulnerability that lies in most ADSL routers so as to gain complete access to the router settings and ISP login details.

Every router comes with a username and password using which it is possible to gain access to the router settings and configure the device. The vulnerability actually lies in the Default username and password that comes with the factory settings. Usually the routers come preconfigured from the Internet Service provider and hence the users do not bother to change the password later. This makes it possible for the attackers to gain unauthorized access and modify the router settings using a common set of default usernames and passwords. Here is how you can do it.

Before you proceed, you need the following tool in the process

Angry IP Scanner

Here is a detailed information on how to exploit the vulnerability of an ADSL router.

Step-1: Go to www.whatismyipaddress.com. Once the page is loaded you will find your IP address. Note it down.

Step-2: Open Angry IP Scanner, here you will see an option called IP Range: where you need to enter the range of IP address to scan for.

Suppose your IP is 117.192.195.101, you can set the range something as 117.192.194.0 to 117.192.200.255 so that there exists atleast 200-300 IP addresses in the range.

Step-3: Go to Tools->Preferences and select the Ports tab. Under Port selection enter 80(we need to scan for port 80). Now switch to the Display tab, select the option “Hosts with open ports only” and click on OK.

I have used Angry IP Scanner v3.0 beta-4. If you are using a different version, you need to Go to OptionsTools instead of

Step-4: Now click on Start. After a few minutes, the IP scanner will show a list of IPs with Port 80 open as shown in the below image.

Step-5: Now copy any of the IP from the list, paste it in your browser’s address bar and hit enter. A window will popup asking for username and password. Since most users do not change the passwords, it should most likely work with the default username and password. For most routers the default username-password pair will be admin-admin oradmin-password.

Just enter the username-password as specified above and hit enter. If you are lucky you should gain access to the router settings page where you can modify any of the router settings. The settings page can vary from router to router. A sample router settings page is shown below

If you do not succeed to gain access, select another IP from the list and repeat the step-5. Atleast 1 out of 5 IPs will have a default password and hence you will surely be able to gain access.

What can an Attacker do by Gaining Access to the Router Settings?

By gaining access to the router settings, it is possible for an attacker to modify any of the router settings which results in the malfunction of the router. As a result the target user’s computer will be disconnected from the Internet. In the worst case the attacker can copy the ISP login details from the router to steal the Internet connection or play any kind of prank with the router settings. So the victim has to reconfigure the router in order to bring it back to action.

The Verdict:

If you are using an ADSL router to connect to the Internet, it is highly recommended that you immediately change your password to prevent any such attacks in the future. Who knows, you may be the next victim of such an attack. 

Since the configuration varies from router to router, you need to contact your ISP for details on how to change the password for your model.

Warning!

All the information provided in this post are for educational purposes only. Please do not use this information for illegal purposes.