Choose and compare your VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is becoming one of the cheapest and prominent mode of communication. The VoIP calls are so economical because there are VoIP providers who provide service at call rates as cheap as even 0.10$ per minute. To call a VoIP number from your machine, you have to first choose a VoIP provider and utilize their services on cost basis.

The VoIP providers in US who top the charts are:

• Future nine
• Call Centric
• Phone power
• Via Talk
• Xvoice
• Voipyourlife

 

Till now the question was as where can i find a VoIP provider. Now when you have a list of providers, the next step is to compare and choose the best VoIP. The call charges and plans varies with each provider, also depending upon the destination numbers. Puzzled up.

www.comparevoipproviderrates.com has done quite remarkable analysis on all VoIP providers and helps you to choose the best VoIP that suits your needs in easy steps:

• Connect to www.comparevoipproviderrates.com
• Enter the VoIP that you would like to connect to.
• List of VoIP providers who provide services to the destination number are listed.
• The call charges of each VoIP provider in the list is also displayed. This helps to easily choose as for which is the most economical option.
• For more details, use the USVOIP tab to view the list of best VoIP providers and their call plans and tariffs.The list is well designed such that even a new VoIP user can choose the best plan at first shot.

How many hits and visits

The success of a website to a great extent depends upon the number of visitors who consistently hit the page and follow it. But how is it possible to know who are visiting your website,how many hits they make, how frequently they visit and other such details? The following websites will help you to get this job done in ease.

 

Countmyvisitors.com:

• Easy to become a member by just submitting email id. Your blog page details to be provided during registration.
• Once registered,login anytime using email id and password.
• The number of hits to your page till date will be displayed.
• The “Statistics” shows the distinct count of ‘number of hits’ and ‘number of unique visitors’ who have hit your page.
• The graph display of the statistics makes it easy to compare hit ratio of a particular week. This option sounds unique and is of great use.
• Holds historical statistics of your web page, with the chronological order from last week up to last year.This option is not available in other sites.

Mypagerank.net:

• The best website to fetch hit and visitor statistics for any webpage.
• Registration or sign ups NOT required.
• Provides two options to view the hit and visitor statistics:
  • First option is to view the statistics on the mypagerank page itself, by entering the website address and the robotic check code.
  • Next option is to place the tool (free of cost) in your web page which will display the statistics every time the page is loaded.
• Provides 14 categories of data such as Google indexed pages, Yahoo indexed pages, Today’s unique visitors,Total unique visitor and so on.

The practice of keeping track of the number of visitors hitting your blog , will help you to identify the topics which are receiving higher response and thus focus more on them in future posts.

Blog template, which one to choose?

Think of a blog that appears in black and white with the text in the usual Arial and times new roman fonts. The reader will scroll the mouse straight to the right top corner to close the page and look for another one. The appearance of the page plays a major role in attracting web traffic. The simple way to make your blog attractive is by using templates which gives a standard appearance to all the pages of the blog. The basic and simple blog templates are available across various websites, through which one can preview the template and download it for free of cost. Few other websites provide yet more attractive blog templates from 3$ to 85$ which contains more number of flash features, images and other kind of striking features.

Checklist for selecting blog templates:

1. XML – the ready availability of XML source code along with template being downloaded eases the operation of applying the template to one’s blog.

2. Widgets – Templates which contain necessary or atleast two to three widgets can be preferred. Basic widgets like shout box, blog archive, share tool should be looked for in the template.

3. Columns – Choose the template which contains the number of columns as required for your blog. Two column and three column (Side-Main-Side) blogs are easily available.

4. Appearance – Choose the template which contains colours and fonts that well matches the blog content. Templates with less pictures and flash makes the page easy to load.

5. Compatibility – Compatibility of the template to the blogger site in which the blog posts are to be uploaded.

Best sites to choose blog templates:

1. http://freeskins.blogspot.com – Good range of 3 column templates

2. http://colorschemedesigner.com - online tool to choose appropriate colours for the template

3. http://www.ourblogtemplates.com - Best site to learn about XML structure of templates & editing templates

4. http://www.finalsense.com

5. http://www.blogsgonewild.net

6. http://www.bloggertemplatesfree.com

7. http://www.hobbitskull.com

Secured online file transfer

If you need to transfer files online, the most simple and secured option is to use a web based tool, which uploads the data from your computer to its centralized secured servers linked to the internet. As and when the data is required, you will have to connect to the web based portal of the application through the internet, and then download the data. Box.net is a collaboration tool which has been excelling in fulfilling this requirement for quite a few years.

How to transfer files?

As Box.net is a web based solution, there is no need for a software or hardware installation to share the data online. The whole process can be done in four simple steps:

1. Connect to Box.net

2. Generate login credentials.

3. Create/manage users and folders to store/share data.

4. Upload/download data using box.net file server.

Is it secured?

Box.net uses 256 bit secured socket layer (SSL) encryption techniques to secure the data stored in the servers. It uses proven password and privilege techniques to validate access to all application data. An interesting feature in it is the option of generating 100 users at a single shot by uploading the user info from excel, and provide distinct access level and password for each user. An Intrusion detection system continuously monitors network traffic to scan for latest threats. The box team automatically creates back up of the data in geographically separated site to ensure multiple level of protection.

More,more,more:

You can access and view files on the go as this tool is compatible with blackberry and iphone. It provides the option of sending updates to your email about the details of the users who have accessed or modified your files. Box.net is compatible with Windows, Mac OS and Linux and allows you to share data up to 1GB. Next time you are in the process of sending files across mails or the internet, just upload the data on to box.net, and paste the link on the email.

Time please

The earth is divided into various time zones based on the face of the earth that is projected towards the sun at a given time. The GMT (Greenwich meantime) is considered to be as the Co-ordinated universal time, which is basically the time at Greenwich (UK). The time at various time zones across the globe are measured based upon the GMT.

For officials who deal with clients from different countries, it would be an advantage to have an application that displays multiple time zones in the task bar. ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock 5.3.1 is such an effective application which allows the user to display time of multiple countries in the task bar. The option of selecting the skins helps to customize the application and thus make the task bar attractive.

The time settings for each time zone are customizable and a prefix can be added to each time zone that is being displayed. A better idea to utilize this option will be to prefix the client’s name before the time of the client’s time zone that is being displayed in Zone Tick. An added advantage of this application is the inbuilt alarm functions in it, which allows to set any number of alarms for different time zones. When connected to the internet, Zone tick can coordinate with online time synchronization, which indeed reduces the effort of manually adjusting the time during daylight saving periods.

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As Anuko international Ltd claims, theZone tick is in fact easy to use, manageable and will be of great use for stock and currency traders. Zone tick allows the user to operate the application in wide range of languages, say English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Italian and so on. With a file size of only 3MB, zone tick is easy to download and functions effectively on Windows platform. Tick Tick Tock , its time to have more time on your task bar.

Weather today

“Whether today, i can make it to the office”, depends upon the “Weather today”. Weather updates are instantly available on the internet, but how can i be sure that the weather updates i find on my screen are from trustworthy sources. When you search on the internet for today’s weather, you can find a series of sites ready to provide you the information, but each with different figures. So i decided to find the information from the real sources that monitor the weather and climatic conditions on a 24x7 scale.

The US Dept of commerce governs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), who perform the operations from daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce. National Weather Service – a prime service of the NOAA focuses on providing accurate and precise information about the weather and climatic changes/warnings across USA. NOAA also holds online weather services, which provide current warnings and forecasts, Graphical forecasts, Current temperature in each state, Satellite pictures and more on a single page. The tabs and options in the pages are customizable and user friendly, which helps one to analyse the predictions and make decisions on one step. More over the information on the page are from the government services and hence makes it trustworthy and precise. If you are planning to hit the road and in case looking for continuous updates, then you have the option of tuning into the frequencies - 162.400,164.425,162.525 and 162.550, that provide round the clock weather updates. Have a pleasant day.