Market Statistics and Site Rankings

Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics; a site specific trust assessment; and a list of all available promotions. Compete Tools make it easier for users to bring the power of Compete Site Analytics to their desktops. Designed for both Internet Explorer and Firefox, the tools provide users real-time access to the same information found on Compete Site Analytics.

Alexa provides the statistics for all of the Internet. It lets you compare your blog to another one. Alexa provides thumbnail images of sites and site information balloons, both of which help you to make quick decisions about which results are useful to you and which are not.

Hitwise online competitive intelligence service provides daily insights on how 25 million people interact with over 1 million web sites in 160+ industries. Its unique, global network of Internet usage data is integrated into the user friendly service, helping you better plan, implement and report on your online branding, search marketing, content strategies and online partnerships.

Nielsen//NetRatings offers web analytics package for you to be able to compare your site with others in your industry. Produces widely followed research reports in dozens of different Web verticals.

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RSS Readers for Windows

Omea is a free and easy to use RSS reader, NNTP news reader, and web bookmark manager. It’s fast, it aggregates, and it keeps you organized. Check out the additional features: lightning-fast desktop search, flexible information organizer, contextual access, and quick extensibility for developers who want more.

Particls helps you track your favourite sites, topics and apps by displaying desktop alerts for important changes. general information can be displayed on a great looking desktop sidebar, important stuff might appear on a popup alert and urgent information coul d be SMS’d to your phone. It’s absolutely free.

Snarfer is fast reliable and free. It provides a new approach to RSS feed aggregation focusing on speed, efficiency and ease of use. Using Snarfer people can become functional RSS users within seconds of installing it. Snarfer has a strong community of loyal users providing feedback, features requests and enhancements which allows the Snarfware team to bring out an enhanced version about every 45 days.

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Image editing

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. It has many capabilities and can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

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The following online file storage services allow to save, browse and share files, photos, and documents from any computer or mobile device.

Send Files by Email

Driveway enables to upload multiple files, upto a maximum limit of 500 MB per file. free account provides 2 GB storage. Users can manage and share file folders with ease, track file downloads.

FileFactory lets you host files up to 300MB for free. You don’t have to register and there is nothing to download. Your files can be downloaded an unlimited number of times.

MailBigFile requires no registration. You can send up to a 100MB file to one recipient.

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Photo Enhancement

Red Paw Media:

BleachBypass is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in designed to digitally simulate the traditional “bleach bypass” technique, producing pleasing film-like results. The bleach bypass, or “bleach skip” technique involves the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching stage during the processing of a colour film. This prevents the silver from being removed from the negative, and the result is a contrasty image with muted colours. The technique is often used extensively in motion pictures, such as “Saving Private Ryan” and “Three Kings”.

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