The system or the website chat apps must not be complicated so that it won’t take up the bulk of your time. Remember, time is also one of your significant resources. Chatwing chatbox is one of the top ranking chat apps online. It’s known for its simple interface and dynamic features that make it easy to use and benefit from.

Once installed, which will only take you a minute or less by the way, you can immediately experience global connectivity. Chatwing chat app is socially integrated, making it effortless for other users to access your chat room. You can control Chatwing’s log-in method easily.

You can choose to allow users to only use their Facebook or Twitter in logging in, or to boost traffic, why not allow Yahoo and Gmail users to interact with you too? After all what you want is an improved online presence and social visibility that will benefit you in the long run.

Sharing of information is straight forward with Chatwing. Users can use avatars and cute emoticons for a more entertaining exchange. You can also upload images and music links at any time. Chatwing chatbox is highly customizable, which you can use for marketing or branding purposes.

Chatwing works like MSN and at the same time, it doesn’t – and that all depends on the user. That’s because Chatwing has a lot of log-in methods to choose from, and the user can choose to restrict the chatters into logging in through a specific method or give them access to all of it. You can use a Chatwing account or sign in anonymously as a guest. And through its social media networking feature, you can also log-in using your Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and Google accounts.

Its customization features is one of Chatwing’s strong points. Through it, the user can turn a bland chatbox into something that will make site readers notice it at first glance – Chatwing is capable of changing its appearance according to the user’s preferences, down to the very last detail.

The security features are very easy to use and implement over the chat room – with a click of the mouse button, you can ban those offenders and prevent them from disrupting the flow of conversation with your fellow chatters. The fact that users have so much freedom in what they can do about their own chatroom is what makes Chatwing so great and fun to use.

As a user, Chatwing website chat app provides you with a wide range of options in modifying your chat tool and how you want to interact with your blog and website visitors. You can chat with a thousand users at once through the pop-up window style or the regular shoutbox. You can also choose to communicate with chosen online surfers through Chatwing’s vanity URL form.

Information and communication are tools in measuring and directing your online success. To maximize these factors, use widgets that are tested in providing quality services. Chatwing will soon introduce more features that aim to assist online entrepreneurs and marketers.

Author and Developer Bio:

Aaron Kong is a web developer who has worked to develop the Chatwing chat tool. Chatwing was developed and founded on the principles of open communication with the goal of bringing an interactive element to websites. Aaron continues to work in developing better ways to bridge the gap between technology, communication, and internet freedom. Check out Chatwing today.

Let me introduce Coursera.org, a social entrepreneurship company that has managed to do what previous similar efforts stopped short of – bring together a consortium of universities willing to participate in providing courses for free over the internet, with most of these also issuing certificates as well (the certs need a modest payment now).

In the past, there have been attempts to put out material via the internet, organized by certain institutions of higher learning, but these never really took off. Now however, Coursera has brought the concept of a “Massive Open Online Course” (MOOC) attended by tens or even hundreds of thousands all over the world, into practical reality, and appears to be succeeding.

The value of these courses lies not so much in whether the certificates have value (this is up to an employer to appraise), but rather in the opportunity for learning (ala long distance, as the lecturers present their lessons via video recording), and enhancing yourself.

As someone who did participate in two of the courses last year, I can with certainty say that the exams and quality of the courses offered are of high standard, and not something to be sneezed at. In fact, most of the weekly assignments are pretty challenging, as long as one genuinely attempts them after sitting through the video lectures.

Right now, there are hundreds of courses being offered from scores of (mainly) US universities, and close to 3.2 million students enrolled from all over the globe (up from 1.5 million only last year).

If you have little spare time and don’t fancy reading, the video format of the Coursera courses should be more appealing, as you can always pause the videos if you need to take a break, and therefore – learn at your own pace. There are also usually no books to buy, although most lecturers will recommend certain titles for serious students to further explore. Each course has its own mini forum as well, where students can discuss questions and answers and get help.

In summary, I can’t think of a more fantastic concept for an online learning experience as the one provided by Coursera, and I only hope it will continue to maintain its “free education” concept. So what are you waiting for? Just go ahead and pick a course of your liking, enroll, and start learning something today!

NB: Another invaluable site for online education is Khan Academy.

Let’s take a look, but do recall a previous post of mine about replicating a site on any computer.

1. For most of the cases when dealing with modern scripts, localhost is implicitly mentioned as the default site in the database so a user can directly connect to it accordingly. But in many cases it is not so, as the default is tagged as mysql.yourwebsite.com or mysql.yourdatabasehostname.com and they cannot let the localhost connect to such a database, resulting in an error. So while performing replication one should replace such a made-up demo site name and put in “localhost” as the default site for connecting to the database. This can be done easily from the host’s control panel.

2. There are several other possible reasons, one of which is that the database server is not properly installed or is not currently running. In order to check the status of the database server, type “$telnet database host name 3306” in the command line and see if the server responds or not. In normal scenarios, there should be a cryptic response which would signify that the server is up and running properly.

3. The database user name and password is also another potential area for generating the database errors. An incorrect user name or password is a frequent cause of this. If your production database requires a password while your test database requires no password by default, you would either have to do away with your password in the local site, or change the configuration to make the database password protected.

4. In many cases, the MySQL version and the extension version of your scripting language (such as PHP) don’t match together, which results in a different hashing algorithm for the two with the default user name or password and this fails the connection.

5. Lastly, for Fedora users make sure you have SELinux installed and activated in your system for database connection and for Mac users try changing the “localhost” to 127.0.0.1 from $CFG->dbhost if you are using MySQL.

The default stock battery provided by Samsung is actually quite good; at 3100 mAh, it does provide enough of a boost for my Note 2 to make it through at least one and a half days of rather heavy usage (most of the time, anyway). But for those of us who find that we are using our mobile phones more now than before, this battery life may not be enough.

Enter the extended batteries sold by third party manufacturers. Extended batteries are those batteries that offer more battery life than the default OEM one provided by the manufacturer. There are a number of companies that manufacture such batteries, but one of the prominent ones is Mugen Power Batteries.

First off, I have to inform anyone contemplating ordering third party batteries that any damage occurring to their device as a result of using these batteries will void whatever prior warranties they may have. Therefore, use them at your own risk (and use a good brand where possible).

I ordered the 6400 mAh Mugen battery for my Galaxy Note 2 around 29 Dec, and it arrived about a little over two 2 weeks later. The battery appears to be a thicker version of the original, thus requiring a new back cover (which Mugen also supplies). At first, I did not think that I would be impressed with the battery, but I was pleasantly surprised.

The battery came with instructions to recharge it for 8-12 hours and then drain the battery to almost zero before recharging it, and to then repeat this process for another 4 more times.  This is so that the battery becomes “initialized”. On the first charge alone, the battery lasted nearly 3.5 days on fairly moderate use, which would include hours of gaming and some web surfing. This alone is incredible, and it was quite difficult to drain it down into the single digits before I could plug it in for the next charge.

On the next charge, the battery just went down 9% for the entire day on light use. It subsequently went down 1% only on standby mode during the night lasting some 7 hours. The stock OEM battery would have gone down some 3-4% on standby mode for the same time period. Subsequently, the battery lasted another two more days on fairly heavy use before needing a recharge. Presently, I am still on the first few initial charges.

I am convinced that on standby mode, the battery can easily last well over a couple of weeks at least, perhaps even more. This seems to be the Note 2’s strongpoint – The battery hardly goes down on standby mode, be it on the stock battery or on any extended battery, for that matter. The one activity that does seem to deplete the battery relatively fast is browsing. Even so, this extended battery will enable one to browse continuously (without any breaks) for 12 hours at least.

Aside from the improved battery life, Mugen’s support is good as well (with free worldwide shipping), and they even shipped a free leather case to go along with it, although I find the leather case to be too cumbersome for daily use. There is also no suitable protective (strap on) case for the Note 2 to accommodate the bigger dimensions, although I hope Mugen manufactures some suitable cases in the future. All in all, I am happy with my new extended battery, notwithstanding the heavier weight and bigger size of my phone.  If you can live with that, the increased battery power you get is more than worth it. Details on the Mugen website.

Recently, I acquired a new Galaxy Note 2 and I will probably post my review of it next, but today, I just wanted to highlight 5 apps that can be helpful for any small business person.

The five most popular ones are:-

1. ASTRO File Manager: The best file manager for the Android on the basis of performance, ASTRO is a multi-tasking piece of genius. To date, Astro has been 35,000,000 times and is one of the top apps on Android. It can sort all your files all over your memory and can stack them up according to categories while generating thumb nails for any image that it encounters. It works a lot like Windows Explorer for your phone.

Apart from managing files, it can be attached to any network directly for taking or dropping files. Although many of the app’s tasks have been taken over by the latest Android versions, the app itself has been reinventing itself and now has added functionality, like backup and process manager.

2. Dropbox: Dropbox is a file managing account where you can keep images and notes of any event that you were a part of or that is supposed to happen in the future. It can help you browse through any server, directly select and keep them on your phone so that you can access them when the necessity arrives. This cool application costs nothing if you keep your monthly tab within 2GB.

3. Skype Mobile: Skype Mobile is the most popular call management service that one can use through Android and it has a long history by now, having first started on the Web. Moreover, you can now access your phone contacts through it and merge any contact you have there to your Skype account. Calls, missed calls, video and voice calls all are available in the mobile version. For business purposes you can even route it your mobile account! It is free to download while other costs are nominal and as per usage.

4. AK Notepad: This is undoubtedly the best text application found in the Android marketplace and can be used to create notes about meetings or events and has a host of other utilities as well related to text saving. Moreover, it comes for free and has all the coolest themes and fonts around!

5. WordPress: Although the application is a bit tricky to install (for self hosted WordPress blogs), one cannot do without this free-to-use utility application due to its superior performance! You can connect and manage all your online accounts sited at WordPress.com or on your own sites through the app, and blog on the go.

Moreover, it is updated very often. There is a snag though, for self hosted blogs; you need to enable XML-RPC services at your blog first, under wp-admin/options-writing.php (code 405). But once that linkage is enabled, you can literally, blog on the go!

Here are some interesting facts that explain how to use Twitter to boost your business among Internet users.

Twitter Social Media Facts

If you want to attract a large customer database or you want to make new friends, then you should start with Twitter. With the help of Twitter, you can Tweet your business messages to its followers. The most important strategy to focus on is to use powerful messages that can generate quality leads for your business.

You just have to login to your Twitter account and make an announcement regarding the latest offers available with your company. These offers attract the attention of customers within a few seconds. You can also update the followers regarding the latest company events. Your small business can earn more profit if you are flexible at using powerful Twitter tools like TweetDeck and HootSuite.

If you are already using Facebook, then you can ask your friends in Facebook to follow you on Twitter. You can also add followers directly to your website. Many people are using more than one social media network for advertising their product simply because this is a witty solution to get more followers for your company’s products. You can instantly connect with your customers at Twitter, and get a feel for the pulse of the customers immediately.

Tools to get more Twitter Followers

If you want to Tweet any news at your Twitter account, then search the related keywords for getting quality links. Integrate the keywords intelligently with the Tweet and send it to the followers.

You can use TwitterFeed that allows you to send your Tweet to other Twitters. In this way, the people not following you will also get your Tweet, and now they can decide to follow you or make a business deal with you. You can also use SocialOomph Twitter tool to keep engaging the users with your Tweets. With the help of this amazing tool, you can send welcome message to endless Twitters and request them to follow you back.

Besides SocialOomph, there are many other tools that you can use with Twitter to popularize your small scale business.

Author Bio:

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