I just logged in to my gmail this morning and found this new notification about themes. I clicked on it and it took me to the Account Setting where i found the new 31 different themes that you can choose from. 

To choose these theme:

1. Click on Setting, located at the very top right hand corner near the sign out link.

2. You will be presented with normal account setting similar to the picture below

3. Click on themes link which the very last tab on the tab bar

4. Select the theme you like!

You can also try the unofficial way of changing Gmail’s Theme here. It seems like TechCrunch has already made a post on this :-) 

What do you think of these themes and which one do you like the best?

There are more than 1 billion keywords searched every month by users around the world. Finding the correct ones for your website is not an easy task. Hundreds of hours must be spent in searching for the right keywords for one ad campaign.

Your competitors know best, why not let them do all the hard work by spending time and money on keywords you in turn will use for your ad campaign. With just a few clicks you can create a large targeted keyword campaign. Only use keywords that are proven to generate sales and save money.

Companies with a much larger list of keywords drive more traffic to their sites compared to those who have less. KeywordSpy helps drive traffic from competing sites to your own instantly, resulting in optimum exposure at the least amount of time and costs. You can also use these keyword to optimize your site or your blog.

4 Simple Steps

• Type in a keyword or domain
• View your competitor’s keywords
• Import keywords for your own ad campaign
• Watch your revenue grow

Please share your experiences and opinions on this great service!

3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online for free. Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). You can use it anywhere you like, I think it would be useful for when you would like a 3d-box image for your web applications. You can also create CD-box and DVD-box easily as well. This is a very easy to use tool because all you need to do is create 3 images and it will join these things and make a beautiful little box. If you do it manually, trust me it would take much longer than this process.

Another advantage of it is that it is quite fast at the moment of this review and that it allows you to save it in most popular formats. It also has a flash preview so you can keep track of your box looks.

You can literally create anything from 3D Boxes to 3D DVD’s. We hope that you will try it and please do share your experiences using the comment field below.

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PicMarkr lets you add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online for free. It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos. It is easy to use with minimum settings, no need to download or install anything. You simply need to upload files from computer or grab them from your Flickr account. It also allows batch image processing, it can save you a lot of time when you are adding watermarks to many images. This can benefit you in building you brand online and create a unique identity of you images on your blog or website. This is quite useful if you allow image bots onto your website.

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Webappers | Why to add watermark? | Online Watermark - PicMarkr

Hope it helps you create more beautiful and better pictures for various purposes and please do share your opinion of what you think of this service?

While browsing around, i found this useful website which generates this email address image which it claims to be spam-proof. As spam is an increasing problem, it is important that you check before you give a website your email address.

How do the spam-bots work?

The spam bots search the websites and create mailing list to send the spam. They take the email addresses written on your website page in text format and send you spam emails.

How this service helps?

A spam bot is nothing but a program that crawl a website and takes the email address written there. The spam bots are not able to read the email addresses written on a image (picture format). So to fool them we have created a free service where you can just enter your email address, choose colors and font types and create a picture of your email address which spam bots will not be able to read.

Just use the quick form and create a spam proof email Address from this neat tool. Use the code or download the picture and use it on your website. It’s as simple as that.

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Soundsnap is a great platform where you can find and share free sound effects and loops. So you might ask where do these sounds effects and loops come from, well It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD’s. This is exactly what makes it legal.

It was originally started by a small group of so called “sound people” from all over the world. Their belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not!

Their users are a diverse mix of sound designers, sound artists, web game developers, filmmakers and music producers. Hobbyists and home video makers are welcome too. They encourage everyone to upload high quality sound FX and samples, helping them make every kind of sound available on Soundsnap. I like the domain name as it seems pretty relevant and interesting but very hard to find in near future.

Some of things that Soundsnap shouldn’t be used for are:

• An alternative to Myspace, Limewire or BitTorrent.
• A place to upload your band’s songs or your favourite mp3’s. Soundsnap is only for sound effects and loops.
• A place you can upload or find sounds from commercial libraries. All sounds here are original- made or recorded by its users.

I love to promote this company as it is free to use and as i am a lover of open-source. Hope to see this company grow huge on the net.

Please share your thoughts and opinions on this great music sharing website.

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BlogRush was only just released on the 15th of September and already its creating quite a stir amoung the blogging community. Basically BlogRush is a widget that you can add to your blog and have your posts automatically promoted on related blogs across the internet. A more detailed explanation is on the BlogRush website, there is also a video on it which helps make things easier to understand. For those who would prefer to read, here’s how BlogRush works:

How Does It Work?

1. Firstly, you sign up for a free BlogRush account then register your blog by submitting its blog feed and picking a category. Then you put the BlogRush widget on your blog then another 5 links to other topic related blogs will show up in the widget itself.
2. Earn 1 link, whenever a page loads on your blog: this means that that post will be shown once on other blogs with the widget that you referred to. For example if your blog generates 70 page views, the latest post in your blog will be shown 70 in the widgets of other blogs.
3. Then you should refer others to sign up and install the widget on their blogs. Which ever number of page views your referee gets will be added to the number of times your blog will be shown on other blog widgets on other blogs. For example, Elliot signs up under your widgets referral link and Elliot’s website has 700 page views. What this means is that your own blog will be shown 700 time across on any blog in your category that has the widget installed. In addition to the number of views you are already getting for having the widget displayed on your blog. And this goes on for 10 referral levels!

This all can literally add up to thousands of links back to your blog. I think this could be a very useful widget in getting a decent amount traffic to your website, then hopefully more subscribers! However you should not be too optimistic about the traffic. It’s still always worth playing around for a while just to test and monitor the results. It’s probably one widget that every blog owner should try out.

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I found this great site that gives away free books. As we are reviewing some books this week, i thought this might be useful for our readers.

FreeComputerBooks.com consists of a huge collection of Free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories. It has both pattern and keywords search engines for you to find the titles quickly. The keywors search engine is powered by Google.

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Please do share your thougts and opinion on this website!