Keeping tracks of long URLs can be a big pain in the ass. This is especially true when you need to share the long URL and find the lengthy string clutters your email. A new online service is up to solve this problem with a toolbar that lets you mark and manage your bookmarks in a convenient way. It also provides you a feature to create short links that point to pages of your own with many links.

This is reported in TechNewsWorld.

However, the HyperTransfer Engine the Allens created goes beyond simple bookmark shortcuts. For instance, it allows users to create Web pages that showcase home videos, literature, music, resumes, job listings, coupons, news, images, sales listings, trailers, music videos, business contacts and even script novels.

This idea is not radically new and faces the issue of finding many users at a time when there are a plethora of tools out there that provide niche functionalities. QuestKeys does however provide a great way to keep track of URLs and share them. I usually memorize keywords in the title of an article that I would want to follow up later and then Google it up. But there are limitations to this and QuestKeys does fill that gap well.

QuestKeys are free, so there is no reason you will not want to give this service a try.

If you have been blogging long enough or have accessed the Internet for a few hours and know a little bit about SEO, then you should have came across the term “backlink” at least once. However if are still clueless what a backlink is, and why they are important, especially “one way backlinks” then for your benefits I will explain it very briefly.

Backlinks are links that are pointing towards your website. They are also knows as inbound links or incoming links. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of the website. Logically, the more backlinks you have to your website, the better is your website, and search engines will tend to give you better rankings.

Now, in order to encourage comments, I have decided to give you backlinks in my Top Commentators list. Very easy, just read my blog posts and put down your comments or whatever thoughts you might have. Not only these backlinks are one way and do-follow, but they are placed strategically where most readers will notice and thus you will get more visitors too.

Thank you for reading this post and do keep the comments coming in. I appreciate each and every comments/feedbacks. See you in the Top Commentators list.

I believe you have watched The Incredibles in ASCII format and wants more. Now, instead of watching other movies, why not watch yourself on your webcam in ASCII? That would be so COOL!

Haha… I look like a zoombie. Trust me, in person I look much better.

Anyway, to stream your webcam live in ASCII format, first make sure your webcam is hooked up on your computer and jump over to Krazydad ASCII Cam. The flash video will detect the presence of your webcam and request for your permission to access it. Click on “Allow”.

Within a few seconds you will see your webcam live… in ASCII format. Click on the “Snap” button to generate a text snapshot which you can then paste in your instant messaging, email and etc and amaze your friends. Cool, isn’t it?

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Check out Jenn Thomas, a Pittsburgh architecture student and model, and of course, Mac-loving chick who is as well designed as the Apple products she love. She was elected to be Macenstein’s Mac Chick of the Month for May 2008.

Let’s see what she has to say about Apple and Mac products.

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Picture this.

You are using the PC at the computer lab in your college or university and someone sent you a picture that you really like, well, except that there is this idiot in the picture that you would like to cut out before you post it up in Facebook. Let’s face it, it’s a PC in the computer lab, what are the odds that this particular PC will have some simple image editing software? 50% chance? 10%? Or none at all?

Well, it’s not an uncommon situation to be in. To be honest, it happened to me a few times before, but it was my own laptop that has no image editing software. To be fair, I just format the machine and had no patience to download anything via a 56k modem.

But fret no more! Don’t bother with looking and downloading a software off the Internet just to edit a few photos. You can just edit them online.

There are a few image editing websites on the Internet now, and most of them are free of charge too! One of them is Phixr.

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