Image Optimization and page load times are important to any SEO. Optimizing your images is not hard if you have Photoshop and other image editing softwares but when you want things done in a jiffy, and simple, using a free online tool will be a better idea. There are exclusive image resizing/ optimizing tools available online and for download that makes things easy for webmasters. Here are ten such awesome image optimization tool that take their work seriously.

1. Web Resizer

A free online tool that lets you upload images and resize/crop/optimize them for use on your website. Does quite a bit of basic functions like in Photoshop. Comes in handy when you’re on the move and need a web based image optimization tool.

2. GIF Bot

Upload/submit the image URL (may be after publishing a post) and GIF bot optimizes the image/changes the image type and emails it to you.

3. Smush It (from Yahoo)

One of Yahoo Developer tools, this guy will optimize up to 5 images at once for you. Just give the URL or upload the images from your computer.

4. Dynamic Drive Image Optimizer

Simple and easy image optimizer. Allows you to select image from computer or from URL and convert it to other file types, and optimize it.

5. JPEG Cleaner

JPG Cleaner is simple but powerful utility for cleaning JPG files from anything that is not picture data. Commonly used programs such as Adobe Photoshop are writing additional information into JPG file that isn’t needed for correctly displaying the picture.

6. Web Graphics Optimizer

A stand alone Windows based image optimization tool that does image optimization perfectly well. It was meant to be the best image optimization tool out there.

7. Image Optimizer

With this tool you can resize, compress and optimize your image files. Using the service is as easy as clicking of button!

8. Wordpress Automatic Image compression plugin (Smush.it)

Every image you add to a page or post will be automatically run through Smush.it behind the scenes. You don’t have to do anything different.

9. Stanley Shilov’s Image compression Tool

An easy to use tool, this one helps you compress the images to whatever compression you like. You can select from 10-90%.

10. Image Reducer Optimization Tool

This is yet another easy to use tool, to which you can either upload / give in the URL of the image you want to compress and it gives you the optimized image. The quality is not awesome, as it does not give you any options to compress but its a neat tool.

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Page Load Time is a significant factor in determining your sites quality. Forget the bots, they are well developed these days to crawl the most difficult pages, but if you’d like to keep your visitors happy, then keeping the page load time to a minimal time would be a great idea.

So what are the factors that will determine your page load time Or what are the factors that will slow down your page ?

1. Large number of images

Use of large number of images will slow down the page in slower internet connections, either optimize the images or use less number of images.

2. Long HTML content

Google and other search engine bots can pretty much deal with bigger chunks of code now, compared to the early times when they would truncate the code. But still, using large chunks of code will make the page “bloat” and cause slowness in browsers.

3. Too many http requests

Increased number of http requests by scripts and otherwise will only slow down the page, its recommended that you keep it to a minimum level.
4. Invalid codes and loops
Obviously having a broken code that does not fit the W3 org specifications might lead to page bloating and slower load times. While its easy to say this, its extremely difficult to get the code completely valid.

5. Heavy or improper use of scripts

As you might already know, heavy use of javascripts particularly in the early portions of the code might lead to longer page load times.

So here are five cool tools that will help you check your page load time and probably help you fix a few loose ends in your site’s code.

1. Pingdom Page Load Test tool

One of the most popular tools out there, this one will simulate you a page load test for your site and tell you what factors cause the longer page load time. Pretty informative tool.

2. Website Optimization Speed Test Tool

A nifty tool that will give you a much better and deeper analysis of your page and show you the factors gone wrong. It does not give you a visual graph but shows things more in file sizes.

3. Uptrends Page Load Test Tool

Another great tool that will help you check your page load times from different physical locations worldwide. you can check page load time from places like New York, Singapore, Shanghai, Toronto, Berlin etc. A great way to see what your visitors would experience while visiting your website.

4. Submit Plus Page Load Test

This is another great tool that will give you clear idea on what’s going wrong on your website. No unnecessary data here, but very clear pointers on what’s taking long to load.

5. Link Vendor Page Load Test tool

This tool will show you categorically how many elements load up, like how many images, how many scripts, how many stylesheets etc. Also gives you the page load time on different connections, from 1 TB connection to Dial Up modems.

So, there you go, five excellent tools that will give you precise idea on why your page load time is slow and where you can improve to speed it up.

P.S – There is no need to panic if your page load time is slow, it may not affect the search engines as seriously you may think. Remember they got clever recently ? But you need to consider your visitors, so this is totally your call.

Mozilla Firefox 3.7 will coming in 2010 with many new features. In fact, Mozilla took the time to explain these three changes from the 3.5 browser, corresponding to the first screenshot below. Here’s their new feature list on the wiki:

1. Embracing Glass: Toolbar and Tabs using Glass. Buttons translucent and slightly glossy to meld with the toolbar. Raised 3D lookachieve tactile “feel”.
2. Page Button: Connect the Page button to the left side of the tab area. Directly connected to the Page.
3. Tools/Bookmark Bar: Connecting the Tools button to the side of the window to emphasize the fact that it is used for customizing and changing the UI. Adding a button next to that to toggle the Bookmarks bar which is turned off by default.

If you do not want to wait to 2010 to used Firefox 3.7, the following tips will help you apply the Firefox 3.7 theme to Firefox 3.5 .This add-on can be using with windows Vista, Windows 7.

Step by step:

Step 1.

Download Mozilla Firefox 3.7 Mockup theme

Click to Download

Extract file, to install this theme drag the downloaded .JAR onto an open Add-ons window (Tools –> Add-ons).

It will appear confirm button, click Install to install this add-on

Restart Firefox to apply new add-on

Step 2.

Click to Download

Install same Step 1, hold and drag file to Add-ons windows

Step 3.

Then to drag the Tool near the search box, you need download the add-on “Personal Menu”

Click to Download

Right click in another blank place near the search box and choose Customize, Drag Tool button to every where you like

After, Choose Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions and choose Personal Menu -> Options -> Choose Advanced tab, next check to “Hide Drop-Marker“. Check to “Hide Menus Toolbar” and “Show temporarily by pressing ALT key” to hide Menu bar.

Step 4.

Download Firefox add-on Stylish and install

Click to Download

Click to S in right-bottom of statusbar. Choose Write new style -> Blank style.

Enter Name and copy code in Stylish_Fixes.txt paste in content -> Save

And Result

Wish you success!

There are motives for your reduced speed and any one of them could result in a crash and an up close and personal viewing of the BSOD, (Blue Screen of Death). A slowdown occurs over a period of time. Essentially, if you are on dial-up that is slow to begin with and if you have less than 512MB of RAM, that too can be a major cause. Here are 10 others:

1. Start up overload.

As you add additional programs, they claim start-up status quickly and quietly. The more programs you have that are loading at start-up, the slower the start-up. Go to start, all programs, scroll to Startup and see how many programs are lurking there. The decision is yours. Remove the programs you do not want, or are not necessary, to be starting at boot-up.

Back up, or set a system restore point before you begin – don’t forget, “I told you so!” No need to panic! Just follow along! Click Start, move to All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and click System Restore, set your criteria. Next click on: Start, Run, type “msconfig” no quotes, OK this window. At the top of the page, click on Startup. Don’t be surprised at what you see if you have never been here before. Use your logical reasoning to select those that you do not need at start-up. Uncheck to disable them. This will not remove this program from your machine; it will just stop it from starting at boot-up. This can take some time, especially if you are not sure of what you do, or do not, need. DO NOT REMOVE: The Firewall, Anti-virus or anti-spyware programs. Remember, if you do make a mistake, you have your backup or restore available. Be safe, remove them one at a time; you can always put it back. OK the window, and restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

2. Spyware.

Malicious programs that stealthily embed themselves into your software. They are installed in your software, without your knowledge, in many ways. Through e-mail especially, the ones that are multi-forwarded. You know who sent it to you, but what about all of those other names? Who are they? Through free scans or free downloads. Through Web sites that you visit that specialize in this practice, and music downloads.

These must be removed from your computer before they cause damage to your operating system and applications and bring your system to a halt. Using your browser, go to www.freeware.com. There you will find many anti-spyware programs. Ad-Aware SE, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Spyware Terminator are three good ones. Run them frequently and keep them updated.

3. The Registry.

If your registry is corrupted or bloated, there could be a BSOD in your future. The Windows registry is the master control center for your operating system and the applications it runs. Corruption or overload can cause: performance problems, including applications at start-up, slow windows start-up, extremely slow shut-downs and a general disruption of system processing. Unless you are absolutely sure of what you are doing, DON’T manually attempt any changes to the registry. I go there frequently but not without first backing up and/or setting a restore point.

Once again, www.freeware.com. No quotes can lead you to several good registry cleaners and optimizers. I have a couple of “freebies,” but in this case, I recommend Registry Mechanic and use it after each session. One of the free ones is Ccleaner. It is safe since it has a back-up feature as does Eusing Registry Cleaner.

4. Badly Fragmented Hard Drive.

Over time, your computer’s files can be scattered over your hard drive; this is called fragmentation and a cause for file searches to be slower than usual. Use the built-in tool of Windows to solve this condition and be patient as it runs.
Single click “My Computer” right click “C” drive, click properties, click tools. Highlight your system drive,(usually C ) then click defragment. While you are there, on the General tab, you have the option to Clean the Hard Drive. Click disk cleanup select all the items in the window. Follow the instructions and OK your way out. This, along with the defrag, will put your hard drive back in proper working order. While you are there, uncheck the box for “indexing the files” this is another source of slow-up.

5. Poor Security Software.

A large number of security programs, and suites, are bloated with software and demand a great deal of system resource and memory. The constant surveillance of your system for malicious ITD’s can cause your system to get sluggish. Yes, system security is essential, but some of the programs have gone overboard with coding and, some of the lesser known, can be a source of system infestation.

These programs we have previously recommended do not fit in this category. Sunbelt-Software’s CounterSpy has been my favorite standby. It is not free, but it is user-favorable with an easily understood interface and more features than others I have tested.

6. Remnants of Uninstalled Programs.

There is a program that I recommend, and use, for complete un-installation: Innovative Uninstaller Pro. The writer of this software is consumer-oriented and offers a free test period. In checking in the registry, I have found it does remove the coding and software of an uninstalled program you merely drop the icon of the one you want uninstalled on the uninstaller icon. Cool what? A good start on your way to a clean-up is through RegCure that cleans up previously left behind debris.

7. The Page File.

The Windows Page File is a temporary source of memory used by the system in processing functions. It is actually a buffer that is used for “wiggling room.” If your page file is too small, your operating system will not have enough room to move and the result will be poor performance and error messages.

If this is your experience, you can increase the size of the page file. Right click on My Computer and go to “Properties,” click “Advanced Tab,” click “Settings” in the “Performance” section, click the “Advanced” button, click “Change” under “Virtual Memory” Microsoft recommends that the paging file be 1 ½ times greater than the amount of installed RAM. However, Windows can automatically adjust this for you. Select “System Managed Size” then click the Set button. OK your way out.

8. Too Many Windows and Temporary Files.

Your hard drive could be crammed with many useless files left over from re-installs, and just general use. To clear these up, you can first refer back to item #4 and clean your hard drive or click on “Start” then “Run” then enter “cleanmgr.exe” without quotes. Select the “C” drive and click ok. The hard drive clean utility will pop-up and do its thing.

9. Viruses or any ITD.

Is this the “tail-wagging-the-dog?” Could be! But by this time, you should be fully protected with a bi-directional Firewall, (the Windows Firewall is only One Way), a good reliable and up-to-date anti-virus program. Because no individual spyware program can get all of the ITD’s, two is better, three recommended. AVG is a dependable anti-virus with a free capability, but then, go to www.download.com with no quotes, and do a little shopping.

10. Hardware Problems.

There are assortments of things that can happen to your hardware: wear and tear, over heating and dust. If you do not know how to clean the inside of your machine, put “Dust Removal” in the subject line of your e-mail to me. If you do experience a failure, crash or a shut down it can be traced to a hardware problem.

Rather than pay someone a lot of money, you, yes you, can purchase the parts and install them yourself with the explicit instructions you will receive with the parts. I have replaced fans, hard drives and CD drives. I know … for me, it is easy, for you, it is difficult, but that is how I felt before I had at it.

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HostGator has become one of the better known web hosts in the industry by being themselves. Though nothing they do is completely spectacular or unbelievable, they do what they should do. That is, HostGator actually answers their phones, replies to their emails, responds to live chat requests, doesnt rip you off, and provides quality hosting. Its actually quite sad that most hosts cant seem to get these things right, but its great for HostGator as theyve banked on it and its translated into success.

At first glance, HostGator is not too impressive. They have a fairly generic web site, a logo with a fairly lame slogan we eat up the competition (the alligator in the logo is eating the H) (sorry HostGator), ordinary copy on their text, an apparent lack of updates on their site, a pretty standard ModernBill setup, cPanel, and basically everything an average web host has.

However, thats the beauty of HostGator. They dont have too many bells and whistles, marketing ploys, or anything of the sort. What you see is what you get and its that simple. HostGators terms of service is pretty standard, as is their order process. Marketing isnt shoved down your throat at every page and billing is simple. The order process takes about 5 minutes and HostGator accepts both credit cards and PayPal (which is always nice), as well as debit cards.

If you love Google Chrome , then you will love SRWare Iron even better, for the following reasons:

• Unlike Google Chrome, SRWare Iron does not create/use any unique ID for each user
• SRWare Iron does not make any suggestions like the “Google suggest” integrated with google Chrome. It is well known that Google chrome makes the suggestions by sending data to their servers.
• SRWare Iron does not send any details about crashes and errors unlike Google chrome, which, based on configuration, sends them to google servers

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Frequently asked questions.

• I don’t know what it’s about here. What is Iron?
  Iron ist an Internet-Browser like “Internet Explorer”, “Firefox” oder “Opera”. It is based on the  “Chromium” Sourcecode.

• I read about tools, which try to anonymize Chrome. Why not use these?
  Right, there are tools, which try to do the same than
  Iron. But these don’t work with the sourcecode and so they only provide a limited control. E.g. they can’t disbale functions like th URL-Tracker.
• Can i really check that Iron doesn’t submit any private data, how you say?
  Yes, you can. There are tools like Wireshark, which scan the whole network-traffic. SRWare
  Iron could not recognize any obvious activity. But you can proof this by yourself.
  
• Can’t i just use an precompiled unchanged Chromium-Build from the  Google Server?
  This is not useful because the original Chromium-Builds have nearly the same functions inside than the original Chrome.

Whats the difference beetwen Iron and Chrome?

• Actuality:
  The current version of Google Chrome uses Version 530.5 of the Rendering-Engine WebKit, how the Browserstring tells. In
  Iron we obviously use the most actual WebKit-Version (530.9).
• Privacy:
  Comparism of Iron and Chrome at privacy:

Hope you success!

Efficient WMA MP3 Converter is ideal for these aims. All you need is to download the program, install it, launch, add files to batch, choose the output format and press Start. With the help of this program you can convert files into the format supported by your player and listen to them. Efficient WMA MP3 Converter distributes as freeware.

Efficient WMA MP3 Converter supports the most popular audio and video files formats as MP3, MP2, MP4, MPEG, WMA, WMV, OGG, APE, FLV, AVI, VOB, 3GP, FLAC, WAV, RealAudio, RealVideo, AAC, MOV, SWF, AC3, M4A, M4B,MPC, NUT and converts them into MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis, MonkeysAudio (APE) or WAV format. The most modern and fast audio codecs are used in this converter, so you may compress your files with maximum quality. The program supports ID3 Tag v2. It gives you ability to transfer all of the most useful tag fields from source file. Program supports batch conversion mode. It makes (the process of conversion) the conversion of great amount of files all at once much easier. Just add files for conversion, choose an appropriate audio format and press Start. You can also add the whole folder of/with audio files (including all its subfolders). At the same time, you have an opportunity to choose which formats to add and which not. After adding, all the files in batch will be classified according to the format. Thus, you can convert all the files into one format at once or to convert each source type of files separately. All the necessary settings can be easily changed, as they are located in the main window. It makes the process of parameter setting easier, as you don’t need to start lots of dialogs for setting. All the recent settings are memorized, so that in most cases you are only to choose the output format and start conversion. The program supports Drag&drop, so you can just add files from Windows Explorer. So, this program is an ideal way out for those who want to convert audio files in order to listen to them in mobiles and players and don’t want to go through the hassle of settings.

Features:

• Program is freeware,
• It supports the wide range of popular input formats (like MP3, MP2, MP4, MPEG, WMA, WMV, AVI, FLV, SWF, VOB, OGG, APE, FLAC, WAV, RealAudio, RealVideo, AAC, AC3, M4A, M4B,VQF, NUT),
• With help of it you may extract and convert audio from video files
• Batch Processing is supported, it can process an unlimited number of files at one time. Simply add file(s) to convert and press “Start conversion” button,
• Simple to use interface without bunch of graphics,
• Easily accessible settings. All settings can be changed in the main window of program,
• ID3 Tag can be derived from the input files automatically,
• It uses up-to-date and high quality audio encoders,
• It’s stable and fast,
• It’s clean and free, without any adware or spyware,
• The installing and uninstalling process is very easy.

The newest version is 0.99.5, you can free download in here:

http://www.wmamp3-converter.com/downloads.html

How to use:

• Download Efficient WMA MP3 Converter and install it.
• Run installed Efficient WMA MP3 Converter and you will see the main window of the program.
  

  

• Now you are to add files you need to convert to the batch. You can do it in different ways:
  • you may drag file(s) from Windows Explorer and drop it on the program’s window
  • select file(s) in Windows Explorer, copy it, right click on batch and select the “paste” item in appeared context menu
  • press the add file(s) button on toolbar and select file(s)
  • press the add folder” button on toolbar and select the folder with audio files. You may also select the type of input audio file(s) to be added
• Select the format in which you need the file(s) to be converted and specify its settings.
• Choose the folder in which the converted files will be placed. There are two variants:
  • you may specify the output folder chosing Place converted file(s) to and entering the folder you want
    
  • or you may specify that the program is to place converted file(s) where the source file is located. To do it you need to choose
    
• if you don’t need the source file, check . In this case, after the successful conversion process the source file will be deleted.
• And now the preparing to the conversion is completed. You are to press the Start button on toolbar to start the conversion.

Wish you success!

1. Search all images in a single website.

If you want to find all images on a single website, you just enter the keyword in the Search box with syntax

site:website_link

Example:

2. Search images by specific size, format.

a. Using Following Syntax:

imagesize:size filetype:format(jpg,gif,png,…)

Example:

avatar imagesize:80×80 filetype:gif

b. Using Advanced Image Search:

Note:

You can using this tip to searching wallpaper for you computer. For example, your screen size 1024×768 you can find the background by selecting the same image size as the size of your screen.

And my result:

3. Search by Content.

Now, we can search for a variety of content – faces, photos, line drawings, clip art, news pictures,…etc by edit setting in Advanced Image Search

Not only that, but the results can be further filtered by color and size from the drop-down menu in the results page.

4. Search for similar images.

This is an advanced Google Search feature for images that’s still being tinkered with in Google Labs. Google Similar Images, as the name suggests lets you drill further by bringing more results which resemble the main image. This experimental service works like a mirror site to Google Image Search. Only, it has a similar images link below each picture. Click that and you get more ‘lookalike’ images

5. Search random images by camera type.

A wannabe photographer like me like me often wants to see photos taken by different camera makes. Of course, I can type the make of my camera and do a normal image search. Else, I can visit a site like Junknstuff to use its Google-based interface. I can select the type of camera to find images from a drop-down menu and click to get a random sampling. The results reveal interesting life tidbits and the camerawork behind it.

6. For the artist in you.

If you are interested in paintings and genius of brushwork, simply type in the name of your favorite painter. Preferably, set the size to extra large or large from the dropdown. The Google images are a lesson in themselves. Try it with ‘Monet’.

7. Words in pictures.

Words and their dictionary meaning are fine. But to really form our own mental lexicon, imagery really helps. Something like – dead man’s float. Use the image search to type it in and see associated images for the word. It really imprints the meaning in the mind.

8. Build your own Google Image gallery.

Google Image Ripper – Clicking on the thumbnails and then downloading individual photos is a recipe for sore wrists. Using a web service like Google Image Ripper, I can bypass the thumbnails and get the full-sized images on a single page. Although bounded by server limits, the image results are still a handful. The tool is also available as a client side Greasemonkey script which gives even more results.

9. WebImageGrab Light.

With software named WebImageGrab Light (the 30-day trial, at http://www.sas21.de/apps/webimagegrab), you’ll easily search images on Google and download to your computer quickly. Type in a keyword and the tool downloads the images in a folder.

The stand alone software is compatible with Windows and Mac OS.

10. Use only Creative Commons images

• Public Domain Images: Add &as_rights=cc_publicdomain to the URL
• Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Images: Add &as_rights=cc_sharealike to the URL
• Creative Commons Attribution Images: Add &as_rights=cc_attribute to the URL
• Google Operating System – an unofficial Google blog
• Search by Creative Commons – provides Creative Commons search services for Google, Yahoo and Flickr etc.
• Bad Neighborhood – a SEO website with a useful Google Image Search box.

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Steps by steps:

1. Right click into Firefox icon and choose Properties. In Target field, insert “-p” in the end. Click OK button to confirm.

2. Right click into My Computer and choose Properties. In Advanced tab click to Environment Variables.

3. Choose New to create new Variable, set value Moz_no_remote to Variables name and set value 1 to Variables value. Click OK to create new variable

3. Restart Firefox and re-open. It will show this panel:

You can create new Profile to another work by click Create Profile… or choose Start Firefox to start Firefox browser with default profile.

After create new another profile, when starting Firefox you must choose profile to work, they work completely independent of each other.

Ok. We a done, wish you sucess!