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UK-base Fasthosts recently started to provide Microsoft Office software as a SAAS service.

What is SaaS?

SaaS represents ‘Software as a Service’. Unlike a usual software which we purchase and installed onto our pc/laptops, SaaS provides the usage of software via the internet. No real installation is needed to be executed on the pc/laptops. We just need to access the SaaS when needed to use Microsoft Office over the internet.

So by subscribing to SaaS for Microsoft Office, we will practically pay a monthly fee from £4.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Before going to talk about Feedburner, lets have a short chat on RSS.

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a way to distribute your latest blog post as a short feed similar to a short heading of your post. Instead of visiting your favorite sites to find out the latest news, we can subscribe to your favorite blog post RSS feeds using a RSS reader. So from the RSS reader, you are able to glance first view of the latest news on your favorite sites.

So why Feedburner? Read the rest of this entry »

Now you can try a mobile phone online before you even head out of your house to test the phone in the shop!

TryPhone gives you the ability to try before you buy a mobile phone. Using TryPhone online service, we can access and experience the mobile software features. We are also able to view the specifications of the mobile phone.

That is not all, we are also able to insert our reviews about the mobile phone, adding a social element to the online services. And the best part is Read the rest of this entry »

Further to my post on why you should have a blogroll, here is nice web application which i recently sign up on, MyBlogLog. I call it a ’self updating blogroll’

For blog owners, how it works is first we have to insert a Javascript code to your blog pages. With this code, we will be able to track which MyBlogLog members visit your blog!

Next up, to display this ‘blogroll’ of who visited your site, insert the MyBlogLog widget to your sidebar. Read the rest of this entry »

As we installed wordpress using our web host’s Fantastico, we also updated the wordpress via it. Along the way, we learn a few things and want to share it with you before you update your own wordpress blog

1. Backup your Wordpress files and database
   You should do this consistantly even if you don’t update your wordpress version. You never know one fine day, you may lose your wordpress site
2. Take note of files that you made changes to
   After the updates, we notice that our changes to our headers and some files are over-written by the original files. Read the rest of this entry »

As total cost of ownership of a car increases, car owners are feeling the pain in their pockets to drive. While car owners wannabes have to weight the factors of buying a car, here come carpooling sites.

For car owners, sign up on the site, advertise and offer the service of driving from your home to your office. Easy as abc.

Advantages of carpooling are:

1. Make some money from your service, enough to pay for your petrol. You be amaze how much money you save by carpooling.
2. Make more friends from passengers taking your car. Who knows, they might provide the next opportunity for your next sales or job.

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Amidst all the boohoohoo on who will acquire Yahoo, lets focus on Yahoo’s search marketing webinars. Yahoo is teaching us via webinars on how to make use of their search marketing tools.

The particular one I like is about Holiday Trends and Best Practices. It showcase the trends during holiday seasons and it does demonstrate the important of analyzing the results for future marketing purpose.

Enjoy the free search marketing sessions by Yahoo today.

Yahoo search marketing webinars schedule
Yahoo search marketing webinars archive

Now, another way to stay connected to Facebook via your blackberry.

For people on the go, the usual way to stay connected to Facebook is by accessing the Facebook mobile page. But even so the functions are so limited. Now, you can use Facebook for blackberry to stay connect to Facebook 24/7 with more features.

• View the full text of messages and wall posts
• See who’s poking you or tagging you in photos
• Accept friend requests
• Send messages, wall posts, pokes and friend requests
• Get full access to your Facebook contacts

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Ever dream of being the next creator of a comic series. Not sure where to start? Now you can start by using a online comic creation services.

Comiqs is more than a tool for comic strip creation. It adds a social networking element. Create a comic, showcase it, viewers can interact about the comic and give ’stars’.
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Apple launch a new tutorial site to educate customers with how-to videos. The aim to to attract more Windows users to Mac by showing how easy it is to use Mac computer. The site also aims to further educate the less savvy customers who are currently Mac owners by teaching them how to utilize the powerful features of Mac OS.

Tutorials includes on

• Mac OS X tips
• How make use of iphoto
• How to edit movies

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