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Tricks Machine Monthly Roundup & Traffic Report, August 2010

Admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:57 +0000

One more good month come to an end, and like every month, I am publishing blog traffic report and roundup of the some best posts I have found useful. Though traffic ways August was nice for Tricks Machine as traffic was very smooth. This is the monthly summary of the best posts and traffic report for August 2010. Traffic report is generated using the Google Analytics. Check out the following graph to see report in detail.

Traffic Report :

Site Traffic :

Visits : 23,522 (July : 23,773 )
Pageviews :73,233 ( July :76,367 )
Bounce Rate : 0.90% (July: 0.92% )

Traffic Sources Overview :

Our main source of traffic is search engine and that is so far the best traffic source any one can have. Followed by Feeds, Stumbleupon, DIGG, Yahoo , Reddit and Facebook.

Now have a look to the some best posts of the month which brings lot traffice to Tricks Machine.

Social Networking :

8 Facebook Privacy Tips
Get Movie Tickets at Just Rs. 1 on BookMyShow in India
Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts with Splitweet
10 Best Sites To Get Stunning Twitter Backgrounds for Your Profile

Technology & Gadgets :

Browser : Firefox :

The Top 10 Mozilla Firefox Add-ons, August 2010.

WenHosting :

QuickTips :

You can check the monthly traffic report of the last month, July 2010

Monthly Roundup & Traffic Report, July 2010

That’s it. This is the final report of the August 2010, and round up of the popular posts. I hope you enjoyed last month’s posts and that you have some kind of feedback for me so Don’t forget to pass your comments, Suggestions are most welcome.

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Get Hot Deals On Motorcycle Apparel with Motorcycle Center

Admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:20:33 +0000

The glamor of motorcycle riding and motorcycle apparel has remained unchanged over the years. Most of us wants to wear good looking, trendy but somehow protective motorcycle apparel to keep cool during our rides. Recently I came across one such great online store for motorcycle apparel and I thought to share it with you. Motorcycle Center is well known for it’s trendy products that are excellent in style, best in quality and cost effective.

Motorcycle apparel includes apparel like jackets, pants, chaps, boots, vests and helmets. Helmets are an integral part of safe motorcycle riding and there are several types that you can choose from, like the Shoei helmets or Bell helmets, use of which makes riding safer and more secure.

You can find all the deals for sale at unbelievable prices as you are buying directly from the manufacturer. Motorcycle Center is the best place if you are truly looking for motorcycle apparels and accessories manufactured by the leading brands.

Note : Motorcycle Center provides you 30-day money back guarantee on all products that they come with, it means that in case a product does not suit your needs, you can send it back to them and get another one.

10 Essential Android Productivity Apps

Admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:47:50 +0000

Google’s android operating system for smartphones made a splash when it was first released. Not only is it an open format other companies integrate into their own UIs, but Android is one of the fastest and most useful operating systems available today. Adding Android applications to any Android based smartphone is a great way to give it added functionality. The following 10 applications are some of the best for the job.

1. DropBox -

a free application that allows users to add files to the DropBox on the Android phone and then access it from a desktop using the DropBox application and vice-versa. The DropBox folders synchronize easily, allowing the user to add and move any type of file including photos, documents and others from the phone to the desktop and back.

2. GDocs - an application for Android made for Google Docs users. This application is free and allows users to synchronize their online Google docs with their Android device. Users can also create, edit, import, export, send, and delete documents from the device as well.

3. Opera Mini 5 -

the mini version of the Opera web browser for desktop computers. This is a free application for Android from which the users can surf the Internet extraordinarily fast by compressing data before it reaches the phone.

4. EBuddy Messenger -

a free application for Android that allows users to use most of their chat applications from a single interface. Chat with friends from Windows Live, Yahoo, ICQ, Facebook, AIM, GTalk, MySpace, and Hyves easily. Because messages are sent as data, it is a great application for those with “all you can eat” data accounts.

5. Jorte -

a free organization application allowing users to manage everything they do from a single interface. With the ability to synchronize with Google Calendar, users can schedule tasks, appointments, and to-do lists from their phones and access them from home.

6. The Personal Assistant - another organizational app, but this one has even more functions than Jorte does. Not only can users schedule tasks and appointments with the calendar view, but they can also perform other tasks as well. Some of tasks include checking bank statements, tracking unused minutes, frequent flyer miles, bill due dates and much more.

7. Documents to Go - a premium application for Android that allows users to view, create, edit, and delete Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and Adobe PDF files. While other applications lack integration for Microsoft features, this one includes all of them. A free Word and Excel viewer is available for Android users, but the full version of this application costs $14.99.

8. Astro File Manager - a free application allowing users much more functionality with their files and folders; something Android usually does not offer natively. Using this app, users can move file back and forth from the SIM card and other areas of the phone.

9. CallTrack - a free application allowing users to log all incoming and outgoing calls within their Google calendar. This is a great application for those who make many phone calls but do not have time to log them before new calls come in thus deleting the old call logs. The user can choose which sent, incoming and missed calls to log of which duration, call time, and number are recorded.

10. Sherpa - a free application for Android that intuitively shows the user places he might want o go based on search history. This is a great learning application for those who travel for work and are constantly on the road. For example, a person searches for restaurants to review, the application intuitively shows the user restaurants the next time he uses the app.

About the Author: This article was written by Kip who is currently writing at an Australian broadband comparison website where you can compare and review cheap broadband plans and also research what plan is best for you using their comprehensive buying guides.

10 Useful Personal Finance Management iPad Apps

Admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:01:56 +0000

Since the iPad’s release in April, the number of apps for the iPad have grown to over 10,000. This is nothing compared to the 200,000 apps available for the iPhone, but it is still quite impressive and provides plenty of choices for iPad users. There are new apps hitting the market every day and the list will continue to grow. There are apps for everything; games, travel, business, education, weather, and personal finance. The following are ten useful personal finance management iPad apps that will help everyone simply their personal budgeting and investing.

1. Budgets for iPad [$1.99] -

This app is designed to handle all your budgeting needs. It allows for highly detailed entries and will track various budget categories and create different charts and graphs. It has a very futuristic design and is suitable for personal, family, and business finances. Plenty of features for the price tag.

2. Mint.com [Free] – Mint manages all your accounts including bank accounts, home loans, car loans, credit card bills, and investments. Mint covers all your accounts and helps you maintain a budget from day to day and month to month.

3. Money for iPad [$19.99] -

Another great app that manages all your accounts. You can make and maintain a budget utilizing this easy to use app. It is one of the most comprehensive personal finance apps on the market. This one will cost you $19.99 but it’s loaded with features and is a good value for the money.

4. Expense Tablet for iPad [$0.99]

This is quite similar to Money for iPad, but is much less expensive. It is cheaper because you will have to update your accounts manually, but if that doesn’t bother you, this is a great app for less money.

5. GroceryIQ [Free] – This great app allows you to create grocery lists, share them with others, scan barcodes and send coupons to your grocery store loyalty card. Having a grocery list is a time-tested way to keep grocery costs as low as possible. It also helps that the app is free.

6. Bloomberg [Free] – This free app offers stock quotes, customized financial news, company descriptions, price charts, market trend analysis, and much more. Great for someone who wants to keep up-to-the-minute with the financial markets.

7. Stock watch – iPad edition [$5.99] – If you trade stock on a regular basis, this would be the app for you. You can keep track of over 50 exchanges covering stocks, bonds, mutual funds, options, futures, and much more. This has everything you need to monitor how your portfolio is doing. The $5.99 price is a bargain for all you get.

8. Etrade Mobile Pro for iPad [Free] – If you trade with E-Trade, this is the perfect mobile app for you. It’s free and the best way to keep current with the state of your portfolio.

9. ThompsonReuters Marketboard [Free] :

Another free app that will help you stay current with the ups and downs of the market. The visuals are great on this app. You can also obtain stock quotes and look up company descriptions.

10. Billminder [$0.99] – Billminder simplifies your financial life by keeping track of your bills. You can easily see the amount of your bills, receive late warnings, and look up account history. This is the perfect app to keep you bills paid on time and to avoid all those nasty late charges.

The iPad can make life easier for everyone. If you find it time consuming and complicated to track your personal budget or follow your investments, the iPad and its arsenal of apps will surely make these tasks easier. It may also help you make and save more money. That benefit allows makes it one of the best inventions of the century.

About the Author: Mark Brown is a personal finance writer for an Australian credit card comparison website where consumers can find a range of balance transfer credit card offers that help reduce costs and get you debt free faster.

Make Mobile Conference Calls with Powwownow iPhone App

Admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:49:23 +0000

As we all know that now a days phone and web conferencing have become major and most used business services each day, and that’s why number of business users have moved to free conferencing in order to save money, but often this is at the expense of professionalism and quality service. Powwownow is one of the best web conferencing service which provides free phone conferencing where you and your guests only pay the price of the call.

Powwownow has recently rolled-out their iPhone conference call application. The Powwownow iPhone app brings you free mobile conference calling at the touch of a button. So you can easily Schedule conferences, set automatic call alerts plus store and manage your personal details so joining calls is only ever one touch away.

This is completely free to download and use, with no hidden charges or contracts, the only charge to the customer is the price of the phone call. Powwownow provides millions of powwownow conference call worldwide with no booking, no billing, no fuss.

Demo :

You can easily set up new conference calls and invite participants from your saved contact lists with automatic email invitations. Powwownow is a useful service and the fact that they provide web conferencing features free of charge is very useful. So share Powwownow conference calls iPhone app with fellow conference callers too.

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[How To] Add USB boot support to old motherboard

pranavalwar — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:59:35 +0000

You are just hovering around the internet and suddenly found an awing article which needs that you boot your PC using USB Drive. Stucked!!!!! Your PC is old and it does not have USB boot support. What will you do? Drop the idea?

Now you don’t need to do drop your idea all you need to have a revolutionary software known as PLOP BOOT MANAGER

Working of the software:-

We make a bootable disc and we insert it in our PC at start-up and it will automatically give you an option to boot from USB drive.

Guidelines:-

Download the software (Link given at last)

Write the image file provided into a CD using Nero Burning Tools or some other CD writing stuff.

Then re-start the PC (make sure the bootable disc you just created is inside the CD Drive)

Select your first boot device as your CD-ROM drive.

The disk will automatically start a user screen where you can select the boot device.

Select USB from the list.

Now you can boot your PC using USB Stick. So now show-off your friends how you can add USB support to their old PC’s and become Hot Tech.. among your friends.

Do try out this software and don’t forget to post your reviews in the comments section. Happy Booting

Download Plop Boot Manager

Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts with Splitweet

Admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:46:34 +0000

As we all know that Twitter is one of the hottest social site to be seen on. Twitter is one of the most popular social networking site on the Internet. You can stay update to your favorite blogs , peoples using this website. Number of people created more than one twitter account for promotion of their products, sites and so on. And its not easy task to manage all this twitter accounts,but the solution to this problem is here, Splitweet.

Splitweet is the best Twitter applications using which users can manage their multiple accounts. You can view your all twitter account into one place and can see tweets and direct message of other twitter user.

If you want to send a tweet to specific account then you need to just type your message, check the box next to the account you want to tweet and simply click “Tweet it!”

You can also follow your contacts tweets from all of your combined multiple Twitter managed accounts in Splitweet. If you know any alternate tool for managing multiple Twitter accounts then do share with us.

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Get Movie Tickets at Just Rs. 1 on BookMyShow in India

Admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:04:27 +0000

Now you can use your Visa Debit Card to buy Movie Tickets on Bookmyshow.com for just Rs. 1. Bookmyshow and Visa has come up with the great offer where they are giving away tickets at Re 1. Just use your Visa Debit Card on BookMyShow to get your tickets or a cool 20% off on your entire transaction. That’s not all. Each week, one lucky winner gets a year’s supply of movie tickets for FREE.

Offers Details ::

As per bookmyshow official website : On any given day, the first 200 to use their VISA Debit Card to book get the second one for just Re. 1. The next 2000 slow coaches get an assured 20% discount on their second ticket.

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How to Avail this Offer:

You have to just visit the bookmyshow and select the movie you want to watch and then select the option at the payment page which says Visa Debit Card Offer. Then enter your debit card details to finish the purchase. You will need to book early for the day to make sure that you are the first 200 to get this offer.

Note : This offer is valid till 31st December 2010. A Visa Debit Card Customer can avail this offer only once a day.You can register with BookMyShow here.

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Quickly Manage The Size of Files with WhatSize

Admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:40:38 +0000

WhatSize is a one of the best utility available for Mac OS X which allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. This tool is useful for you when you are tight on hard disk space and you want to check those files that are taking up the most room and decide what to do with them. While the app is measuring a folder the user can browse the files within that folder and immediately see the size in bytes. Hidden files, cache files, directories will all show up with their corresponding size.

Once the measuring of a folder has ended the user can also view the information by filtering for particular file sizes or types.

WhatSize is a FileSystem utility that lets you view and clean up files, folders based on size. The application is optimized to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder or entire FileSystem. Once a measurement has taken place the user can view, filter, sort, find, remove files and folders that are taking too much space.

Screenshot ::

Features ::

DeLocalizer : Remove those unwanted locales for languages you never knew existed.
Nib’o Suction : Clean up all unnecessary, forgotten nib files. Most likely these files were left over from the development process. Considering there are hundreds of these, they add up.
Lipo Suction : Trim up binary files by removing the unused architecture bytes.
File Duplicates : Quickly and easily find duplicate files and more.

The user can also move unwanted files and folder in the corresponding Trash bin similar to the Finders Delete button.

Download WhatSize (Mac OS X)

8 Facebook Privacy Tips

Admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:03:29 +0000

Privacy in Facebook is important to users all over the world. You do not want to be among those who were victimized by having a weak password or who was not aware of the available privacy controls. Here are eight considerations to keep in mind when it comes to the privacy of your Facebook page.

1. Don’t use your full birth-date

Using your full birthdate makes you the perfect target for identity thieves. You are providing one more piece of information which makes you a prime target. With your exact birthdate and the other information which is scattered on the web, more information can be discovered. Leave the month and day and leave off the year if you are determined to get presents.

2. Privacy controls

At the bottom of every post there is a picture of a lock. You can choose who you wish to view particular posts. If you are striving for a position and you know that your potential employer might not be happy with escapades, you can go back to retroactively alter your settings. You can also selectively choose who gets to see your post and create lists.

3. Lists

You might have people that are friends from one aspect of your life who do not need to know about the party that you attended on Saturday night. With lists, you can better control who knows what. Lists are an automated way of changing your privacy controls. To create lists, go to account, click on privacy settings, click on customize settings and then customize.

4. Don’t use an easy password

Weak passwords are ones that use recognizable words or numbers. If your password is in the dictionary, then it is weak. Protect your Facebook account from identity thieves by using a combination of numbers and letters within your password. Use numbers for some of the letters, like 3 for E and one for l.

5. Control your likes

Employers will often search through Facebook to find their applicants. Many people can see whether you like a page. If you are concerned about liking something that others may shun, you can remove some of your likes on Facebook. Go to your profile page and edit your likes and dislikes. You can also customize your privacy settings to determine who is able to see this information.

6. Don’t talk about being away from home

You do not want your place to become a target for thieves. Go on vacation, but only talk about it when you return. Be vague about the details of your trip. If your address has been provided in your profile, you are asking for someone to steal everything in your home. Remember that potential thieves have become technologically savvy.

7. Disable instant personalization

Facebook will automatically put your likes and posts onto your wall. It will also automatically send out information to Yelp, Pandora and other partners. If you are concerned about your information going to advertisers, you want to disable instant personalization. Go to account, then privacy settings, then applications and websites then instant personalization. You want to edit the settings and uncheck ‘allow select partners’ to remove yourself from the instant personalization program.

8. Know what you are presenting

Remember that everything in your profile and on your wall is potentially available to anyone. Are there any embarrassing photos of you which potential employers can find? You can untag photos to make sure that others are not drawing the wrong conclusions. You are in control of the image that you portray.

You want to control your Facebook privacy to prevent people from stealing your identity, advertising their products to you and disallowing you from your perfect job. Take the time to go through the privacy settings (under Account) so that you know exactly what impression you are making on others.

This post was contributed by James Adams, a writer who works at a leading UK based print cartridge store where he is a technology analyst and reviewer of products like HP 300XL ink. He also posts about art and technology on their design blog.

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