Rather than check your site connectivity with your hosting provider or IM your friend to test it for you, why don’t you give it a simple and quick test it at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com by simply entering your website name and it will tell you if its just you almost instantly.

This simple, sweet and quick tool is created by Alex Payne. Here’s how it works.

1. You enter your domain name or site name in the given field.

2. The tool will do a HEAD request against “/” for the domain name that you had entered.

3. If the site responds in 4 secs, it will report that “It’s just you. bubblesugar.com is up.”

4. Otherwise, it shows you “Huh? doesn’t look like a site on the interwho.” or “Looks down from here”.

If your site cannot be accessed without “www”, you may need to enter your domain name with “www” else the result may not be accurate.

There is another web tool has the similar function like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com named checksite.us. If you somehow cannot access DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com or the domain name is just too long, you can try checksite.us.

I’m new to SEO, how do I improve my site?

What are some simple ways that I can improve my website’s performance in Google?

How do I improve for higher Google ranking?

How do I get my Web pages to rank high on search results?

I noticed that the above questions always appears at forums, portals, or blogs from those new webmaster. There are countless of answers for above questions. Other than that, there are also tons of services, tools and experts out there to serve the one who need help. It could be costly.

To get started by using those tons of information is not a easy task. Good new is Google had released their first Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing.

The guide can be found at their Official Google Blog or you can directly download from here.

Happy Blogging.

It sounds fun and interesting, right?

With FACEinHOLE you can easily and in a matter of seconds create a totally “new look” for you and your friends.

You just have to select a scenario, upload and adjust a photo (or use your webcam) and there you have it; a great FACEinHOLE that you can send to your friends, make it as the displayed picture in your MSN windows, post in your blog or make available to the world.

Take a glance at the some of the senario provided by FACEinHOLE at below.

To have fun, go to http://www.faceinhole.com/.

Mona Lisa

Marilyn Monroe

Rambo - Sylvester Stallone

Osama Bin Laden

Nemo

It is one of my favourite tools — 1-Click Answers from Answers.com. Instantly provides definitions, explaination, facts including tech terms when I am in the middle of a web page or article and I am not sure what a word means. The cool thing about it is that from within any program, I just need to hit “Alt+Click” on any word it will get its definitions and pronounciation promptly.

It won’t interrupt the flow and improves my reading interest. Thanks to Answers.com for developing such a wonderful free tool.

It can be found on http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp. You will see the software named “1-Click Answers” , click the URL to find more about it or to download it. It’s free and fumble free. Isn’t that great?

As published on February, I would like to introduce another free online converter — Media Convert.

This online converter are 100% free and support many type of the file format. No registration needed and hasle free. Just a simple few click on the screen, the file will be convert to the format that you want (of course needed support by the website).

Sure, the free tool come with some limitation, the website added a lot of advertisement, but not affect the loading of the site. The system also support the capacity of the file up to 150 MB only.

Once the file had been converted, you just need a click to downlaod the file, simple and easy.

What software you used to play the real audio? As we know that, there are a very famous or can be said that the first software to play real format media(.rm, .rmvb) which is – Real Player. However, I am not going to share my experience about Real Player.

Anyhow, Real Player is a good player to play real format multimedia file, but this software is not freeware for the full features that bundled with. We, as a smart consumer, we need to think a way to save our money in all possible way.

Actually if you just need a basic code to play the real multimedia file (.rm, .rmvb, .ra and etc), you can have the alternative solution by install the Real Alternative. From the name, you can know that it is the other choice for you to play the real media file.

The program comes with a optional media player classic. If you think that you don’t need any other player, you can choose to not install the player but just codec, then how it can play without the player.

Well, after you install the codec, you can play with your Windows Media Player.

Feature for the program:
- Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.1-72]
- RealMedia Codecs [version 6.0.14.806]
- RealMedia plugin for Internet Explorer
- RealMedia plugin for Opera/Mozilla/Netscape
- RealMedia DirectShow splitter [version 1.0.1.2]

Requirement:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/XP64/Vista with DirectX 7 or higher installed.

1. Keybr.com — I have shared it in my previous post, for those want to read about it, click here. Else, I’m gonna to show you here once again. I’m glad that I found this typing practice tool as it is simple and easy to play. Keybr.com says that if you could spend 30-60 minutes at kerbr.com to practice your typing skill, you could reach 50 words per minutes in one week. Isn’t cool? Check it out here.

2. Play.typeracer.com — If you think that playing alone is not fun enough, you could challenge others at play.typeracer.com. However, typeracer.com also provided a practice room for you to be familiar with typeracer.com before competing against others.

When you are in the game, you are represented as a car, and race against others by typing a quote from a book or movie. Find out more at here.

3. Speedtyping.net — If you want a simple tool to let you improve your touch typing skill, why don’t you try out Speedtyping.net? Speedtyping.net gives you 60 seconds to complete typing the random phases as much as you can and rank you if you get the high score. You gonna try it at here.

Check it out @ http://www.keybr.com

Before you install Window Vista Service Pack 1, as a steady end user, please read through the release note to check the details of installation. Not only apply to installation of the Window Vista Service Pack 1, it is also apply to other software or driver, users should practice to go through the installation guide before install the software or driver.

On top of that, you also need to know your computer is running on 32-bit processor or 64-bit processor. Different processor need to download different version of Window Vista Service Pack 1.

To see if your computer is running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, do the following:

Step 1: Open System by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking System.
Step2: Under System, you can view the system type.

For 32-bit version, download from here.
Download size: 434.5 MB

For 64-bit version, download from here.
Download size: 726.5 MB

After download, just double click on the file it will run immediately. The installation takes quite long time, thus you may consider to install it during lunch hour or during you are in the meeting. Once the installation is completed, restart the computer.

More download for Window Vista, please click here.

For Window Vista Help and How-To, please click here.

Is it interesting? Using online music-streaming service do have plenty of advantages such as save your hard disk space, save money to buy, listen to your customized songs at any place as long as there is the Internet connection and the songs are legal.

As we know, many cases happened because of illegal downloading music onto their computers and have been sued. Thus, not to involve in copyright infringement issues, try out legal alternative - online music-streaming. I find no reason not to try because they are completely FREE.

Songza.com
Its elegant web interface, user friendly, clean and fast make me like addicted to it. With a single click, you can play, watch video, share or add the songs to play-list. It is not only allow you to search for the song you want to hear, it is also provide the codes for you to embed the song in your web site. I prefer Songza is because it is really easy to use, feels comfortable with its web design. With its perfect navigation tool, I can easily find the songs that I want to hear fast.

On top of that, Songza have created a handy-dandy search bar (Firefox and Internet Explorer 7) to find music on Songza. You may get the extension from here!

Jango.com
Enter any artist and your favorite song starts playing right away. The sign up procedure is completely simple, within few second your account is setup. Within a minute, you’ll get the music you want and group them into ’station’, just type in your favorite artist.

Besides, with Jango’s powerful tool you could click on the smilies in the player to rate which songs you wish to hear more or less. Isn’t that interesting?

Imeem.com
Imeem gives you 3 things - Discover, Interact and Share.

Discover latest music, videos, blogs, photos
Interact with other imeem usersand starts discussions all our your favorite bands, artists
Share your beloved musics by embed them to your wordpress, blogger, del.icio.us and more

Imeem gives you more than you want. Although Imeem contains plenty of functions, but it still easy to be used. With its neat and well organized interface, imeem users can create their play-lists by category easily.

FineTune.com
Cool interface with its simple UI. FineTune has a comprehensive music library which contains more than 2 millions songs, no doubt you could ever find your beloved songs on FineTune. FineTune allows you to create your own customized play-lists or let FineTune ‘auto-complete’ your play-list with FineTune’s recommendation technology.

Just enter the artist name, you’ll not only get the songs of that artist, it’ll shows you the little profile of the artist, Discography and related artists as well. FineTune is an intimate and revolutionary online music service.

Besides, FineTune is honored to be a finalist for CNets 2008 Webware 100 in the Audio category.