Touch-typing is a method of typing which uses 8 fingers and one thumb. Touchtypists do not have to look at the keyboard to find the keys they want to type. Typing tutor is a program that lets you exercise and learn touch typing.

Recently i was searching for a good typing tutor to improve my typing speed and accuracy, most of the freeware typing tutors available online have unneeded bells and whistles, irritating colors, sounds and popups.

At last i found two simple and elegant typing tutors for Windows.
(more…)

Share This

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Holding a contest on your blog can help to build traffic and loyal readership. A well rewarding contest can bring in plenty of backlinks and new visitors.

If you want to start or participate in a blog contest, here are the Top 3+3 Sites that keep their readers informed about all the latest Blog Contests.
(more…)

Share This

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

If you are familiar with Lorelle on Wordpress which is one of the most valuable resources available on the web for bloggers, you must have noticed the most attractive part of lorelle’s blog design, the beautiful professional signature displayed at the end of her posts.

Recently i came to know about a professional signature creation service, MyLiveSignature. MyLiveSignature allows anyone to create fancy virtual signatures that they can add to email messages, blog posts, forums and other sites. These signatures look like real life handwritten signature.

To get your personalised signature. Just register there for free and use the web based interface to imitate your signature yourself through a step-by-step signature creation wizard. The signature creation wizard allow you to choose from over 120 fonts and let you set variety of parameters so that you get the best signature.

You can get html or BBcode to insert the created signature into your blog, email signature or forum signatures.

If you want to get an exact copy of your real signature. You can write your signature on a sheet of paper, scan it and send it to them. The service costs: $9.95 and you will get the exact copy of your signature that is completely ready to be used in e-mail messages, blogs and on websites.

After you get your desired signature, at nominal cost of $19.95 you can get an animated signature. When the receiver opens your message, the effect will be as if the author were signing a message in real time in front of the reader’s eyes.

The animated signature will be created by experienced animators at MyLiveSignature.com.

Animated Signature:

You can take thewelcome tour to know more about the features of the MyLiveSignature.

Please note that this is a sponsored review and i sincerely expressed what i felt about the service.

Technorati Tags: mylivesignature, live signature, animated signature, signature

Share This

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

WPDesigner Small Potatoes has accomplished his WordPress Self-Challenge to Develop WordPress Theme a day for 31 consecutive days.

They initiated the self challenge on January 17 keeping in mind following things.

• One theme per day
• Quality not quanity
• No recycling other designers’ WordPress themes
• No skinning of open source XHTML and CSS templates into themes

Although the challenge was accomplished successfully on January 16, they took it one day further and published the 32nd theme to really put someone else to the test.

Truly Amazing and inspirational.
Don’t forget to visit WPDesigner’s free themes page to get some cool new clothes for your blog.

[via Lorelle]

Technorati Tags: wordpress, design, wordpress theme

Share This

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Want to know if you have those entrepreneurial qualities ?

Ben Yoskovitz at Startup Spark compiled this fabulous list titled “Top 10 Ways You Know You’re An Entrepreneur“.

1. You’re passionate
2. You’re always looking for opportunities.
3. You always think to yourself, “I can do that better.”
4. You want to live your work.
5. You’re dreaming miles ahead while focused on what you’re doing right now.
6. You’re an ego-maniac.
7. You’re prepared to say, “I don’t know, but I’ll figure it out.”
8. You’re a strategist.
9. You’re a builder.
10. You want control.

I am in the wanna-be entrepreneur category.

[Read More]

Share This

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

You may be aware of torrent tracker Pirate Bay’s efforts to purchase the man-made island of Sealand for $200 million.

Pirate Bay planned to use the province of sealand to host its webservers. Later on Prince Michael of Sealand refused to sell the island to pirates.

The pirate bay’s efforts to buy sealand gave birth to the The FreeNation Foundation which is a non-profit project whose end goal is the acquisition or creation of land, ideally to become a sovereign, world-recognized country.

The foundation doesn’t currently have focus on a particular land mass and is intended on building a strong foundation and to turn the idea into a revolution by spreading the word. They have also launched the FNF forums which are open for debate and discussions.

The FNF FAQ states that the FNF foundation was born out of Pirate Bay’s efforts but is no longer affiliated with them.

[ FNF Website | FNF Wiki ]

Technorati Tags: free nation foundation, pirate bay, free nation

Share This

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!