Adding Widgets, Add-Ons & tools to your blog is not just a lot of fun for your blog readers, but can also be very useful and help you to create a community for your blog or even a loyal reader base.

Here's a collection of best and most useful blog widgets or add-ons that can be easily integrated with any website/blog. All these below add-ons are 100% Free and they are very easy to install.

Outbrain Star Ratings Widget: Very eager to know what your readers think about your posts?
Here is a cool star rating widget by Outbrain. The insttallation is very simple,
just follow the step by step instructions on their site.

ShareThis or AddThis : Sharethis or Addthis social bookmarking buttons makes it easy for your visitors to share your content with others. It is a good way to increase your link popularity and publicity. Their nice css dropdown icons reduces the clutter on your pages and eliminates the need to add a different button for each social bookmarking service.

whos.amung.us : This is a real time visitor tracking widget and displays
the number of people currently on your site and what pages they are
reading. You don't need any sign-up's to grab this widget.

Web2PDF Online : With this widget installed, your visitors can easily download
your articles in PDF format with just a click. The downloaded PDF's are
free of any advertising and you can get full access to download stats,etc.

ZOHO Creator: With Zoho Creator, you can create professional online
contact forms/web forums in minutes. The good things about this is
there are no data limits and readers can also upload attachments while
submitting the form.

Google Talk Badge: Google Talk Badge will let your visitors to
chat with you.The badge will active whenever you sign in to
Googletalk. The nice thing is your visitors can chat with you even
if they don't have a google account.

Yahoo Media Player: With this very useful widget, you can easily add a simple media player to your blog which can auto detect mp3 links and create an embedded player. This tool is very useful for especially audio,music blogs.


Cbox: Cbox or Chatbox is a chat widget which can be easily embedded
in any web page. It is free and have many features including message
history, spam blocking,etc. It can be easily customizable to fit your
blog layout.

Google Translate: This widget lets your non-English speaking
visitors to quickly translate your webpage in their native
language with just a single click.

One way backlinks are very critical to any website success. The more one way backlinks pointing to your site, the more your Google Pagerank and the more amount of traffic you will get. This should also increase your sales,etc.
But the thing is.. getting the right and quality one way backlinks from high pagerank sites is not an easy task, and in this article, we'll find out some of the best ways to get free one way backlinks:

1. Try to write as much quality content as you can... that will encourage the readers to link to your site. The more useful, informative content you post, the more likely people are to link it. But, this method can take a while to really pay off because like all the new websites, you don't get much traffic.

2. Write quality articles and submit them to top article directories like ezinearticles and goarticles. The advantage in this is, you'll not only get a backlink from high pagerank directories, but also you'll find that your articles are used on other people's sites with a backlink to your site.

3. Participate in forums,discussion boards that are related to your website's niche and add a link to your site in the signature. Make sure that you write quality posts, don't spam. This will also help you get some decent traffic to your site.

4. There is absolutely nothing wrong to get a backlink from a related blog post you decide to comment on. This is one of the effective way of one way link building especially if you comment often on blogs. Comment on blogs related to your niche with a link back to your site as your signature.. and Again, make sure you never spam.

5. Submit your site link to major, well known web directories. Getting listed in directories related to your site not only bring you tons of targetted traffic, but will also improve your search engine rankings. Some of the popular directories to get listed in are DMOZ directory and Yahoo directory. You can submit your link to both paid and free directories and they worth your time.

Are you looking for Best Web Hosting providers on the net? There are tons of web hosting companies out there providing you great hosting services with a wide range of hosting plans depending on your budget. Depending on what type of business/website you have, you have to determine the web hosting type you need.


Before making any decisions in choosing web hosting services and plans, you have to act smartly. Otherwise, you let yourself suffer later on because if you choose a wrong service/plan, it can decrease your sales and customers.

Choosing the best web hosting available is not that easy, there are many web hosting providers on the net who claim that they have the best service for you. So, before making any decision, compare all the advantages and disadvantages of the top hosting providers and then make the decision accordingly. So, what do we need is a site which lists all the top web hosting services and rank/review them. Fortunately, my friend referred me a site called Webhostingsleuth.com. It is a website that is run by experienced guys who know best about hosting your site.

So, if you're about to purchase web hosting.. Don't forget to visit Webhostingsleuth.com to find out what's best to you.

Finding a web hosting company is very easy as there are tons of Web Hosting Providers out there on the net. But, before you purchase any hosting plan from any of the hosting providers, you need to know more about the company and their services.

So, all you need is a site that lists all the top web hosting companies based on their price,performance,etc. Fortunately, one of my friends recommended me a website that lists all the best web hosting companies based on their current performance,price,bandwidth,disk space,etc... That is Mybestratedwebhosting.com. Their site features the current top 10 web hosts, and they have the best Web Hosting Reviews. Ofcourse, there are many similar web hosting review sites on the net, but there are some points which make them different from others.


According to their chart, Lunarpages is the best web hosting company out there. I'm personally using Hostmonster and I don't have any problems with them sofar. Before migrating to Hostmonster, I used Powweb hosting. You can read their Hostmonster Reviews and Powweb Hosting review in their site.

Today, at Macworld, Apple announced that iTunes songs are now DRM (Digital Rights Management) free with songs costing $0.99 cents, $0.69 cents and $1.29. The pricing will also be offered in three tiers now, instead of just one.

Out of 10 million songs, 80 per cent are available on the music store from major music labels including Sony BMG, Virgin, Warner music, American Recording without DRM in the store, while the remaining two million songs would be made available by this spring.

DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology tries to prevent piracy by placing some restrictions on how the customers may use the music they purchase from their store. Apple's strong FairPlay DRM technology requires a customer to authorize his/her PC to play purchased tracks and they allow only a few computers to be authorized.

You can easily upgrade your existing DRMed tracks to DRM-free versions at $0.30 per song while the music videos can be upgraded at $0.60 each. The songs would be high in quality with Apple's DRM-free 256kbps AAC.

Not only that folks, Apple also announced that, from today, iTunes music store would also be available over the mobile phone networks via 3G, as well as over Wi-Fi. There would be no additional fee and all DRM-free at 256kbps AAC.

Just a few days after the phishing scam fooled thousands of Twitter users, it seems like another security hole has been found by....someone. Twitter reported on its official blog earlier today that around 33 twitter accounts of famous celebrities including US President elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Rick Sanchez of CNN have been hacked. This is not related to the phishing scam that happened last weekend.

According to Biz Stone, the founder of Twitter, these accounts were hacked by an individual who hacked into the tools used by Twitter support to edit the email address associated with their twitter account. Twitter presently removed these tools offline,but they might put them back after necessary security measures are taken.

Google Picasa is a Free photo management tool with good editing capabilities which lets you create slideshows, movies , collages,etc. You can easily manage,edit and share your photos online with Picasa. It works very well with Google's free Photo sharing site Picasa Web Albums.

Until now, Google's online photo application was only available to Mac users through a browser and iPhoto plugin.Now, the same features that have been on Windows and Linux for years are now ready for Mac users... finally Google released the Mac version.

Here is the Screenshot of the Picasa 3 Beta for Mac OS X:




There are some features missing in this Google Picasa 3 beta version for Mac including the feature to order prints, Picasa photo viewer,screen capture, webcam capture,etc.

System Requirements to install Picasa for Mac:
» You need a Picasa Web Albums account
» Mac OS X 10.4 or later versions required
» iPhoto 4.0 or later required to use the iPhoto plugin.

You can Download Picasa 4 for Mac here. I hope it performs as fast as the Windows version did.

Just wanted to tell you guys about a phishing scam going around twitter recently, so be careful on which links you click.

Potential victims of this scam receive a message like this:

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