Anyone who has tried to get to the Digg front page knows how hard it is to do that. You need a lot of friends, influence, and need to be a top member apart from writing quality content before you can dream of meeting success on Digg. On Digg-clones, on the other hand, it’s relatively easy to get the attention you deserve. Many niche specific Digg-style sites have emerged over the past few months where you can submit stories to be reviewed and voted by those who are interested in your content. Though, you may not get as much traffic from niche social media sites as you would from Digg, it’s worth having your content read by the like-minded people who are more likely to become your regular readers. Below is a list of 11 most popular Digg-like sites where bloggers, designers, and web developers can submit stories (their bog posts or whatever) to promote their content. Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It’s designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others. ================================== PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page. =================================== Blogg-Buzz is a blogger driven site, exclusively for bloggers like you, to share, discover and promote blog posts that you find interesting! ================================ Design Float is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. Design Float aims to collect and organize design-related content from across the web while letting the community float the best articles to the top pages of their categories and sink the most irrelevant one’s to the bottom. The ultimate goal of Design Float is to, hopefully, categorize the huge amount of design-related content available on the web into neat and easy to navigate pages of articles in order of importance/relevance as decided by the community. Basically, it’s just a niche version of the highly popular Digg.com. ======================================== Pixel Groovy is a user controlled tutorial directory. We provide the members with the control, not editors, to decide which tutorials are worthy of being published and which tutorials aren’t. This helps filter out and set a level of quality in the tutorials seen on the frontpage. ==================================== CSSG is a web standards oriented site where, basically, anyone with the right will can post updates. ======================================= TagNe.ws, is a web 2.0 application that allows you to submit an article that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the home page. When a user submits a news article it will be placed in the “upcoming” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the home page. The original source for TagNe.ws was authored by Ricardo Galli. He was influenced by the extremely popular English technology site digg.com. ===================================== DigaList is a global personal lists website. We all love lists, we all have kinds of lists, about life, work, dreams etc. Have you ever wished to dig out all these treasure and share them with others? In DigaList, you can create your lists, co-create a list with others, or dig out a list you like. ==================================== SEOyak.com is a news site for the Search Engine Optimization community. SEOyak.com allows users to submit stories that affect the SEO world and then vote on those stories to decide which submissions get the most exposure. The SEO industry has come to appreciate the power of social media recently, and SEOyak.com provides a great opportunity to get SEO news heard. ====================================== Qoolsqool is a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Qoolsqool’s mission is to take advantage of 21st century technologies to advance knowledge and education around the world and reach to people with a need or a desire to learn or teach.Top 11 Digg-like Sites For Bloggers, Designers, And Web Developers












Top 11 Digg-like Sites For Bloggers, Designers, And Web Developers
0 commentsPosted by Tamil at Saturday, August 01, 2009
20 Promising Open Source PHP Content Management Systems(CMS) Content Management System, or CMS is an application used to manage news easily so that users can publish, edit and delete articles from the back-end admin system. HTML and other scripting language are not necessary to operate a CMS, though having them will add more advantages. Since we had looked into 22 open source PHP frameworks, i decided to do a roundup of 20 Open Source PHP Content Management Systems so that readers who don’t have strong PHP knowledge can easily create their website using free and open source CMS. Wordpress is a powerful yet easy to use content management system. Initially it was designed as a blogging platform. However, it slowly become popular and can be customized into a powerful CMS with some tricks and plugins. I had wrote an article about Wordpress SEO plugins and also talked about things that you should know about Wordpress 2.8. Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management. SilverStripe is a PHP CMS built with Sapphire framework, and it uses MVC design pattern. you can view example sites that built with SilverStripe from the official webpage. Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Although some Mambo sites had already migrated to Joomla, but i think i should include Mambo as it is still a great CMS. TYPOlight is a PHP 5 CMS and it has a lot of features such as live update, cross-browser CSS framework generator(IE7 compatible), templated based front end output, use Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies. You should check out the main page for more info. Concrete5 is an open source content management system with simple administaror interface. You can edit a web page live by using the editing toolbar provided after you log in as administrator. Textpattern is yet another very popular content management system. It requires PHP 4 to run and has a lot of plugins that you can use for various customizations. Symphony is a CMS that uses XML/XSLT as its templating language. Symphony lets you customize anything you like, from the website’s URL structure to your publishing environment. For a non programmer, this CMS might be complicated to learn. MODx is both a PHP application framework and content management system. MODx is the first free PHP CMS to offer an API that fully supports Web 2.0 Ajax technology. It is SEO friendly CMS, and allows you to configure the meta content for each page. Habari is a highly recommended open source blogging platform. It is being written specifically for modern web hosting environment, and uses modern object oriented programming techniques. CMS Made Simple is highly customizable and there are a lot of Modules for you to download. The Documentation is pretty complete and easy to follow. ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System. It is highly scalable and is extremely useful for managing online communities. Exponent uses an intuitive and flexible content editing system that allows website pages to be edited on the page as it is displayed. You can download modules and themes from the official website too! MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. It has a powerful and extensible third party entension system, and also a flexible site theming capabilities. MiaCMS supports OpenID and can consider to be a stable and mature CMS. Jojo is a search engine friendly CMS. You will have SEO friendly URL to your article, and Jojo will handle www/non-www domains for you. Beside SEO friendly, Jojo also lets you extend the functionality by adding product databases, blogs, image galleries or whatever takes your fancy. TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. Elxis CMS comes with a lot of features such as Search Engine Friendly URL, strong security, adjustable member list and complete user profiles. Its automated tasks, modern design, AJAX technology and multi-lingual interface helps you be more productive. Chyrp is a lightweight blogging platform and it uses Twig as the templating engine. The documentation is quite complete and you can download a lot of useful modules from the main site.1. Wordpress

2. Drupal

3. Joomla

4. Frog CMS

5. SilverStripe

6. Mambo

7. TYPOlight

8. Concrete5

9. Textpattern

10. Symphony

11. MODx

12. Habari Project

13. CMS Made Simple

14. ImpressCMS

15. Exponent CMS

16. MiaCMS

17. Jojo CMS

18. TYPO3

19. Elxis CMS

20. Chyrp

Posted by Tamil at Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Labels: Web Design/Development
Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts.
0 commentsGoogle Chrome has generated lot of buzz and loyal users. If you are addicted to web surfing using Google Chrome, then Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts should be real handy.
Checkout Google Chrome Keyboard shortcuts and be Chrome quick while you surf favorite websites. Here goes:
WINDOW AND TAB SHORTCUTS
- Ctrl+N Open a new window
- Ctrl+Shift+N Open a new window in incognito (private) mode
- Ctrl+T Open a new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+T Reopen the last tab you’ve closed.
- Press Ctrl, and click a link Open link in a new tab
- Press Shift, and click a link Open link in a new window
- Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown Switch to the next
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp Switch to the previous tab
- Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 Close current tab or pop-up
- Alt+Home Open your homepage
SHORTCUTS TO OPEN CHROME FEATURES
- Ctrl+B Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
- Ctrl+H View the History page
- Ctrl+J View the Downloads page
- Shift+Escape View the Task manager
WEBPAGE SHORTCUTS
- Ctrl+P Print your current page
- Esc Stop page loading
- Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 Reload current page, ignoring cached content
- Ctrl+U View source
- Ctrl+D Bookmark your current webpage
- Ctrl++ Make text larger
- Ctrl+- Make text smaller
- Ctrl+0 Return to normal text size
Besides above, you can use usual shortcuts for basic text operations like: Ctrl + C to Copy, Ctrl + V to Paste, Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting , Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete to delete the content and copy it to the clipboard.
For address bar, use Ctrl+Enter to add www.and .com to your input in the address bar. Use F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+D Highlight content in the web address area. Type a web address and then press Alt+Enter to open your web address in a new tab. More here
Posted by Tamil at Tuesday, September 16, 2008
SMS Interface for Your Web Application
0 commentsFromSMS V1.01{Turn Your S60 Device into SMS Interface for Your Web Application}
FromSMS v1.01{Turn your S60 device into SMS interface for your web application}
When your web application needs to send and/or receive SMS messages cost-efficiently, FromSMS is the solution for you. FromSMS offers a simple HTTPS POST interface for sending of SMS messages - all you need is an S60 mobile device with free FromSMS Client installed.
Using FromSMS you avoid issues related to SMS roaming - you select SIM card and operator you want to use for sending and receiving SMS messages.
To keep you in control of costs, you can restrict number of sent SMS messages in FromSMS Client. It also allows you to set blacklist and whitelist for recipient numbers. To decrease data costs, FromSMS Client can use WLAN connection to FromSMS Server.

1) Download and install FromSMS Client
2) Send HTTPS POST request with the following syntax:
* https://ssl.fromsms.net/send.php
number = [phone number of the recipient], for example "+3461234567"
message = [SMS message content], for example "Hello world!"
Click Here Get That Application
Posted by Tamil at Tuesday, September 09, 2008
How to get a two-letter e-mail address at in.com ?
2 commentsHow to get a two-letter e-mail address at in.com ?
Did you always want to have a real short and sweet e-mail id on a website. But Ah! yahoo, google and others always put those restrictions that your userid should be at least these many characters.
So, the desire to get a real good id was always a dream. A dream only till recently.
Somebody launched a website in.com and wanting to project it India's next yahoo or google mail service (?) .
As the service is relatively new, chances are that you would get your first name as e-mail id. And who knows you could get really lucky if it goes to become next yahoo!
So, what's so wonderful about all this? Well, the intersting part is:You could get a two-letter e-mail id at in.com using a small hack
Welcome to the Internet in.com!
Just a small trick gets you a two letter id, just like I got tn@in.com and sms@in.com for me.
While signing up on the website, put two consecutive periods (dots) between the two letters that you want your e-mail Id to be and thee you go!
For example, two select my id "tn" , I selected a user-id "t..n" and got tn@in.com
three select my id "sms", i selected a user -id "s..ms" and got sms@in.comIt's as simple as that but hurry up before they fix it.
By ThaMiLkinG.MCA.,
http://thamil.page.tl
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/ITinfo
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/IT_F1
http://www.smsgupshup.com/groups/iT_4u
Posted by Tamil at Saturday, August 30, 2008
Labels: Tricks


