Easy Webbers

Have you ever wanted to create your very own Digg site? Of course you have! And with Pligg you can.

Pligg is free and requires PHP (4.3.0 or higher) and MySQL. It’s easy to install and pretty easy to maintain as well.

You can see a live version here and over at Green Seed.

The popular and free forum software phpBB will soon get a major upgrade with phpBB3. But if you don’t want to wait for the finished version you can now safely install and convert your current phpBB2 forum to the latest release candidate of phpBB3. This release candidate is called “Olympus”.

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A hard drive crash or a computer virus can easily and without warning delete all the files on your computer. You can get a hard drive crash on your brand new PC or Mac. And now computer is safe against those awful viruses. But how can you easily and safely do backups of your most important files? One way is to burn everything down to CD’s or DVD’s. But you can easily scratch a CD or DVD making it useless. Saving your backups online is a great way to be sure that you always will have access to your files if something happens.

IDrive.com offers just this thing. They offer two backup versions, one where you can store unlimited backups and a free 2 GB version. The unlimited backup version only costs $49.50, per year.

IDrive-E offers some of the best features among Online Backup sites. For example they have no limit on the upload and download size. They will notify you on the status of scheduled backups. IDrive-E even has a Windows Explorer like interface for easy restore.

But how is the security then? Well, IDrive-E use encryption on your stored files and even on the transfer.

Sounds good so far, but what about their support? IDrive-E is one of the few Online Backup companies who offer free telephone support.

My advice to you is to test their free 2 GB backup plan first and see if you like it. Then go with the unlimited backup plan.

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Foget Photoshop:15 Online Graphics Generators Lot of this Mash going on around here!

These are some pretty cool tools!

Have you graded you website lately? If not and I feel like the answer was probably the same as mine, NO!, then 31 Online Tools should tell you whether you are okay or not so okay. I think that means passed or failed in so many words.:)

These are some very good tools and it appears that a good bit of time was put forth in this little project.

31 Online Tools to Grade your site.

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This is one of those funny but pretty pointless tools out there. (Another one was the “Create a Web 2.0 Logo” tool (too bad that site is down now).) With this tool you can create stripes textures to use on your websites or as a pattern in Photoshop.

Check it out! http://www.stripegenerator.com

DeskShare.com is a site I found this week. They offer a Digital Media Converter that makes it very easy for you to convert your video and audio files from file format to another.

Being able to change file formats is great when you need to upload audio or video files to your website, blog, YouTube or any other media site. By changing file formats you can easily reduce the file size of your video or audio so it eats less bandwidth when your visitors want to see your video or hear your audio podcast. If you want to learn more about how to reduce your video files sizes DeskShare.com has a nice tutorial on just how to do that.

You can easily convert the following file formats: VCD, DVD, AVI (DivX, MS MPEG4, uncompressed), MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PAL, NTSC), MP3, MOV, WMV, WMA, DVR-MS, and WAV. The Digital Media Converter can also auto detect and fix many types of file format problems during conversion. It can adjust video brightness and contrast and many other things.

The Digital Media Converter costs $ 39.95 USD but for that cost you will get a lifetime technical support which is pretty neat. You can of course download a free trial version of the software from DeskShare.com. The Digital Media Converter only works on a PC that runs a Microsoft Windows operating system but you can still transfer your media files to your Apple iPod, for example.

We all need a secure and trusted place to store our backups if something terrible should happen to your computer. You know what I am talking about. You just don’t want to think about hard drive crashes, computer viruses etc. Sometimes we just need a place to store important files temporary or in a longer time span. This is where IBackup.com – Online Storage comes in. They offer stable and secured online backup and storage, especially for small businesses.

If you take a look at IBackup.com’s prices you can see that they are a bit higher than other online storage and backup services. But those services haven’t got the features that IBackup.com has. They also haven’t won several awards including PCWorld and PCMagazine editor’s choices.

So if you are looking for a place to store your important files or backups you might want to take a look at IBackup.com.

You might think the Internet is open for everyone. That everyone can surf whichever site they feel for. Or you might have experienced how annoying it is when your favourite sites or blogs are blocked from your school or work. But really, that is nothing compared to what millions of Chinese people experience every single day, at home and at work.

The Chinese state has successfully blocked sites and blogs that they think damages the state of China and it’s leaders. They use a firewall called the “Great Firewall of China” (in reference both to its role as a network firewall and to the ancient Great Wall of China). Google, Yahoo! and other search engine companies have also helped blocking content from their Chinese visitors.

Over at GreatFireWallOfChina.org you can check if your site is blocked in China, in real-time. Easy Webber is not blocked, yet. What about your site? Are you blocked?

If interested you can read more about the great wall of China over at Wikipedia.

As we hopefully all knows your Microsoft Windows operating system becomes dirty faster than a 4×4 offroad veichle. Here are three very useful programs that can help you clean your windows.

Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition
I believe everyone knows about this free software. I will still list it here for those that don’t. You can read more about Ad-Aware and download it over at Download.com.

Webroot Spy Sweeper with AntiVirus
If you want to spend some cash you can always buy Webroot Spy Sweeper. It detects things that Ad-Aware doesn’t. I’ve used it several times before. It’s a good software - but it costs. Read more about it and download it over at Download.com.

Spybot - Search & Destroy
This software might be new to you. It was for me until very recently. It can find stuff that both Ad-Aware and Webroot Spy Sweeper can’t find. Frak, it even found stuff my antivirus program didn’t find. It’s a VERY useful tool. And it’s free. Read more about it and download it over at safer-networking.org.

The best thing would be to use all these three programs plus a fully working and up-to-date antivirus+firewall program on your Windows computer.