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Facebook bought drop.io - File sharing will be the next Facebook feature

Facebook number one social networking website bought drop.io and closing down file sharing service by 15th of December. Facebook is really good at sharing picture but not the media files. This will make them strong in real time file sharing as well.
drop.io blog announced that most their service and assets including Sam Lessin were bought by Facebook. 

Mistakes in Web Designing

Mistake #1: Creating a Website with Flash -- Did you know in a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that having a website created with Flash, actually decreased the response from prospects and customers by as much as 370 percent? 

Here's why: Your prospects and customers are most likely visiting your website using all types of different computers, connection speeds and internet configuration settings... 

What may look great to one visitor may not even appear for another! You could very easily have shelled out hundreds or even thousands of dollars to have a website created using the Flash technology, only to find out that some of your visitors will never see it! (Not to mention the loading times can cause your visitor to close your site, never to return again.) 

How To Level Up Fast In Farm Ville

If you've ever wondered whether it's a good idea to use a Farm Ville Bot to level up fast, you're in a right place. My goal is to tell you what kind of Farm Ville Bots you can find on the internet and tell you if they are safe. The truth is that NO Farm Ville guide you'll ever get will be as good as a well made bot. Let my explain why step by step.

When Farm Ville showed up it was a blast. People from around the world struggled to monetize on the amount of people that were getting addicted to the game day after day. That's when people started to create guides. At the moment you can see huge number of guides that are advertised everywhere. They state they will make your farm the best of the best and they will reveal a strategy that was never known before. Actually all these guides lead to disappointment. What you'll find inside of them are well known tips you would have already figured out yourself after reaching level 10 in Farm Ville. I wonder how many of you haven't already known those silly tips without paying 30$ for a useless guide.

Best Programming Languages to Learn as a New Programmer

As a new programmer there might often be doubts as to which languages to learn and where to start, I remember I was like that too. I was very interested in learning how to program software but ended up in website development. I am still pursing it though, to be able to program software. Okay here is my recommendation as which languages to learn as a new programmer.

If I was a new programmer today I would learn JavaScript if I have some interests in website development as well. I think JavaScript provides a good introduction to programming; it’s quite a simple language to learn but gave me a lot of headache while I was learning it.

Bill Gates: 11 Rules Your Kids Did Not & Will Not Learn In School

This is floating around the Internet again... It didn't sound like Bill Gates - at least some of it. In fact it should be attributed to Charles J. Sykes... Here's an article that claims it was incorrectly attributed.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

How to use your Notepad as a personal diary !

1. Open a blank Notepad file.2. Write .LOG and not .log (case sensitive) as the first line of the file, followed by a enter. Save the file and close it.
3. Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends the current date and time to the end of the file and place the cursor on the line after.
4. Now type your notes, save and close the file.
5. Now place the cursor on the line after and type your notes. Each time you enter your notes, the time and date gets attached to the notes. Thus your Personal diary is ready to use now !

Seriously make your blog/site load faster in 15 minutes

I was having cool chat with my blogging friend roezer at Blog HQ. Suddenly he drop me a link and small comment "This looks bad". It showed me a colorful diagram and it wasn't look that bad for me. After looking into the details I figure it out that it is the loading time for the blog. It took over 5seconds to load fully. Seriously, it looked really bad. This is how I made my blog load faster and you can do the same.

Here is the steps I followed and seriously if you want your blog to load fast you can follow the same.

1. Check your blog loading time with Pingdom Tools.

Copy and paste your URL and click Test now.

Website Loading Time is not a Joke

This is the time to think about the website loading time. Seriously. Time to time I was going through this and came up with small hacks and tricks to make the blog load faster. However, did I do it seriously. I do not think so. Did you took it seriously and really thought about the loading time each time you do a change to your template or adding new gadget? It is time to take it seriously as Google is using site speed in web search ranking. 

Top 100 Most Dangerous Websites To Your PC : Enlisted

Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up with a list of Top 100 Dirtiest sites, which could infect your computer with Malware. Malware is a software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner's consent.

Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company, said that even visiting any of the named websites could expose a computer to infection and put the personal information into the hands of unwanted people.

"What people don't realize is when you type in a website, you're bringing down information on a page and with it could be malware," News.com.au quoted her as saying.

Access two Gmail accounts at once in the same browser

I have a couple different Gmail addresses that I use for different purposes. Historically, Google Accounts – including Gmail accounts — have only let people access one account at a time per browser, so using both accounts has been a bit inconvenient. I’ve either had to sign out and sign back in, use a second browser for my second account, or use a Chrome incognito window. And I'm not alone; lots of people have asked us for a better way to use multiple accounts at once in the same browser.