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		<title>GIMP Portable 2.6.6</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/gimp-portable-266</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GIMP Portable is the full-featured GIMP image and photo editor bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can edit your photos and images on the go. This new release updates the included GIMP to the latest release. GIMP Portable Help, GIMP Portable Background Window and GIMP Portable Photoshop Layout are also [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GIMP Portable is the full-featured GIMP image and photo editor bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can edit your photos and images on the go. This new release updates the included GIMP to the latest release. GIMP Portable Help, GIMP Portable Background Window and GIMP Portable Photoshop Layout are also available. It&#8217;s packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. Best of all, it&#8217;s open source and completely free.</p>
<p>Click Here For Your Free Download:  <a href="http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable" target="_blank">http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable</a></p>
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		<title>VisiPics</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/visipics</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you get too many pictures on your harddrive, downloaded or uploaded from several different sources, it may happen that you have many duplicates. In that case you need a quick and easy to use program that finds and deletes all your duplicates.
VisiPics does more than just look for identical files, it goes beyond checksums [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you get too many pictures on your harddrive, downloaded or uploaded from several different sources, it may happen that you have many duplicates. In that case you need a quick and easy to use program that finds and deletes all your duplicates.</p>
<p>VisiPics does more than just look for identical files, it goes beyond checksums to look for similar pictures and does it all with a simple user interface.</p>
<p>First, you select the root folder or folders to find and catalogue all of your pictures.</p>
<p>It then applies five image comparison filters in order to measure how close pairs of images on the hard drive are.</p>
<p>Visipic is a program that is considerably faster than any other commercial product and has an interface that lets you do other things while Visipics automatically finds your duplicated images. It will detect two different resolution files of the same picture as a duplicate, or the same picture saved in different formats, or duplicates where only minor cosmetic changes have taken place.</p>
<p>All detected duplicates are shown side by side with pertinent information such as file name, type and size being displayed. Its auto-select mode let you choose if you want to keep the higher resolution picture, space-saving filetype, smaller filesize or all of the above. If you are insecure over what you really want to delete you can manually select the images you don&#8217;t want to keep and delete them yourself.</p>
<p>The neat functions:<br />
•    VisiPics is Free! If you like and want to support it, donations are welcome.<br />
•    Faster than most commercial software<br />
•    Uses dualcore processors<br />
•    Highly efficient results with adjustable similarity levels<br />
•    Easy to use Interface, preview your duplicates easily and pick the ones to delete with a simple click<br />
•    Starts to display the results while scanning, you don&#8217;t have to wait to delete your duplicates<br />
•    Smart Auto-Select mode, to save time while deleting pictures<br />
•    Tested on a 100.000 pictures 15Gb archive, full results in just 3 hours</p>
<p>Click Here For Your Free Download:  <a href="http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page " target="_blank">http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page </a></p>
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		<title>iRejectTrash v.1.03</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/irejecttrash-v103</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/irejecttrash-v103#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free tools]]></category>

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FREE, Internet advertisement blocking software program that protects your privacy and decreases the traffic of junk information to your computer.
Main Features:

Share a single Internet      connection to many computers in your home or office.
Block banner ads.
Block dynamic HTML ads.
Block media-rich ads.
Remove cookies.
Remove referrers.
Block pop-up and pop-under      [...]]]></description>
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<p><!--[endif]-->FREE, Internet advertisement blocking software program that protects your privacy and decreases the traffic of junk information to your computer.</p>
<p>Main Features:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Share a single Internet      connection to many computers in your home or office.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Block banner ads.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Block dynamic HTML ads.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Block media-rich ads.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Remove cookies.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Remove referrers.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Block pop-up and pop-under      windows.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Share a single Internet      connection to many computers in your home or office.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Get detailed information      about Internet resources used by your computer.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Very small program size and      low system requirements.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Very small installation file,      only 198 KB.</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Click Here For Your Free Download: <a title="softforyou.com" href="http://www.softforyou.com/irt.php" target="_blank">http://www.softforyou.com/irt.php</a> </span></p>
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		<title>Important changes coming Monday for Sqipcom</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/important-changes-coming-monday-for-sqipcom</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/important-changes-coming-monday-for-sqipcom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sqip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sqipcom]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://www.sqipcom.com><img src="http://make-free-web-site.info/free/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/banner2.jpg" alt="" title="Sqipcom - get sqip" width="468" height="60" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23" /></a></p>
<p>The members of prelaunch at <a href="http://piemoney.com/recommends/sqip">Sqipcom</a> are excited as they wait for Monday&#8217;s changes which will rename all Associates with title of &#8220;Investor&#8221;.  Also the PEP system will change to shares and all previously purchased or earned PEPs will be doubled on Monday.  With a goal of paying $.10 to $.50 per share per month, it promises to be a nice opportunity for those who can afford to invest.</p>
<p>Sqipcom is the web community&#8217;s newest social network.  The Sqip portal will lead to many different sections for general collaboration as well as video and music sharing, gaming and adult social networking and general communication.  </p>
<p>Free accounts are always available for everyone online who wants to participate.</p>
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		<title>Using the social networks to find keywords</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/using-the-social-networks-to-find-keywords</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/using-the-social-networks-to-find-keywords#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affiliate marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One way we can use the social networks to advantage in researching good selling keywords is to search on Google for pages selling the affiliate products we want to sell.
Here&#8217;s an example&#8230; I am getting out the news about the prelaunch of Sqip.
I have searched Squidoo by using Google and the term:
site:squidoo.com + &#8220;web 2.0&#8243;
The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One way we can use the social networks to advantage in researching good selling keywords is to search on Google for pages selling the affiliate products we want to sell.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example&#8230; I am getting out the news about the prelaunch of <a title="get a free account at sqip now." href="http://www.sqipcom.com/" target="_blank">Sqip</a>.</p>
<p>I have searched Squidoo by using Google and the term:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #339966;">site:squidoo.com + &#8220;web 2.0&#8243;</span></strong></p>
<p>The part &#8220;web 2.0&#8243; can be changed out for any affiliate product name or other keyword I&#8217;m interested in.</p>
<p>Once I have the search results, I view the pages including viewing the page source to see the actual keywords being used on each page.  If someone has a nice Squid Lens and is selling my chosen affiliate product, I can see the keywords being used to bring search traffic to that page.  Then I can compile these keywords into my own lens or web site to bring the same traffic to my sales button.</p>
<p>The product I am selling, Sqip, is a new Web 2.0 site; so I want my promotional page to rank highly for Web 2.0 search terms in Google.  <a href="http://make-free-web-site.info/free/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/web20.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-21" title="web20" src="http://make-free-web-site.info/free/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/web20-300x268.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="268" /></a>None of the first four results are selling an affiliate product, but here I have the top ranking lenses for Web 2.0 on Squid and there are over 7,500 results for that keyword.  I can gather the best keywords from these pages for my promotional pages.  I can also work these keywords into my pages.</p>
<p>The same thing can be done using Hub Pages.  Search Google using: <strong><span style="color: #339966;">site:hubpages.com + &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243;</span></strong> This search gives me <strong>11,800</strong> results and I can reap the best performing keywords from the top results.  There is a difference with Hubpages compared to Squidlenses.  On Hubpages, there are no keywords in the metatags.  The keywords are called &#8220;tags&#8221; and are listed in the right hand margin of the page.</p>
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		<title>Free Backlinks for your site</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/free-backlinks-for-your-site</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/free-backlinks-for-your-site#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an offer to get free backlinks to one of your domains.
I have installed it on this domain and it&#8217;s working well.  After one week there are 22 links pointing to my site with 2 of them PR2 and one is a PR1.  We will all probably grow in PR after getting some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s an offer to get free backlinks to one of your domains.</p>
<p>I have installed it on this domain and it&#8217;s working well.  After one week there are 22 links pointing to my site with 2 of them PR2 and one is a PR1.  We will all probably grow in PR after getting some more links.</p>
<p>These are &#8220;3 way links&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;reciprocal links&#8221;.  This construction is supposed to be better for SEO.</p>
<p>Click this banner and check it out for yourself.  The set up is a bit complicated, but the instructions help a lot and they have a great support system.<br />
<a href="http://linkserp.com/red.php/r=cans20772" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.linkserp.com/images/lsbanner.jpg"></a></p>
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		<title>How to Make a Unique Paypal Download Page</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/free-video-tutorial/how-to-make-a-unique-paypal-download-page</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/free-video-tutorial/how-to-make-a-unique-paypal-download-page#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cPanel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[image editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paint.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paypal download page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In addition to making a unique Paypal download page, this video can help you understand how to use cPanel on your web hosting account to upload files.  It also introduces a new free image editing software.

Click the banner to find the download page for this software.  I have installed it with no problem [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="349" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/55k9ppZH7Ck&amp;hl=en&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/55k9ppZH7Ck&amp;hl=en&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1"></embed></object></p>
<p>In addition to making a unique Paypal download page, this video can help you understand how to use cPanel on your web hosting account to upload files.  It also introduces a new free image editing software.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="download page for paint.net software" href="http://www.getpaint.net/download.html" target="_blank"><img class="size-medium wp-image-14" title="paint_net_icon_and_logo_by_skizatchpng" src="http://make-free-web-site.info/free/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/paint_net_icon_and_logo_by_skizatchpng.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="75" /></a></p>
<p>Click the banner to find the download page for this software.  I have installed it with no problem and made the blank-logo.jpg mentioned in the video.  You can download the blank header image file by clicking <a href="http://make-free-web-site/free/wp-content/uploads/2008/blank-logo.zip">here</a>.  Just unzip and put on your desktop or in the working folder for your project.</p>
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		<title>A really good free web hosting site</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/free-web-site/a-really-good-free-web-hosting-site</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/free-web-site/a-really-good-free-web-hosting-site#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to Make a Free Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free web hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am truly impressed with the quality and quantity of free service provided by Free Hostia
Their free accounts include:
Data storage: 250 MB
Monthly bandwidth:        5 GB
hosting for 2 domains and 10 subdomains
1 MySQL database
and much, much more
For someone starting out, this is a very thrifty solution for web hosting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am truly impressed with the quality and quantity of free service provided by <a title="Free Hostia free web hosting" href="http://freehostia.com/free_hosting.html" target="_blank">Free Hostia</a></p>
<p>Their free accounts include:</p>
<p>Data storage: 250 MB<br />
Monthly bandwidth:        5 GB<br />
hosting for 2 domains and 10 subdomains<br />
1 MySQL database<br />
and much, much more</p>
<p>For someone starting out, this is a very thrifty solution for web hosting and their paid hosting begins at $1.95 per month.  I have some pages hosted there and have had no problems at all.  They are top quality.</p>
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		<title>Free Images for your website</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/free-images-for-your-website</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/free-images-for-your-website#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[image files]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are a bit unusual:
Administration on Aging
USA.gov photos
Ambient Design
Additionally, you can do a Google search for &#8220;free public domain images&#8221; and find many different sources.
Don&#8217;t forget to use your digital camera to get just the right image for your pages.  Sometimes your own will be the perfect picture, while nothing else comes close.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are a bit unusual:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aoa.gov/press/multimed/photos/photos.aspx" target="_blank">Administration on Aging</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml" target="_blank">USA.gov photos</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html" target="_blank">Ambient Design</a></p>
<p>Additionally, you can do a Google search for &#8220;free public domain images&#8221; and find many different sources.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to use your digital camera to get just the right image for your pages.  Sometimes your own will be the perfect picture, while nothing else comes close.</p>
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		<title>Why Have a Sitemap?</title>
		<link>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/why-have-a-sitemap</link>
		<comments>http://make-free-web-site.info/free/helpful-online-tools/why-have-a-sitemap#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many webmasters overlook the importance of a sitemap.  If a website has adequate navigation links connecting all the pages, a sitemap may, indeed, seem redundant.  Search engine optimization theorists now say the sitemap is essential to good SEO.  This is because it feeds the searchbots one page linking to every important page [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many webmasters overlook the importance of a sitemap.  If a website has adequate navigation links connecting all the pages, a sitemap may, indeed, seem redundant.  Search engine optimization theorists now say the sitemap is essential to good SEO.  This is because it feeds the searchbots one page linking to every important page on your site.  The link to this sitemap page needs to be right on the front page of your website.</p>
<p>Another consideration is that the sitemap gives a visitor an overview of the scope of your website.  On one page they can see how you have covered your site&#8217;s themes.  If they are lost, they often can find exactly the page they want by using the sitemap.</p>
<p>Forcing yourself to include the sitemap also forces you to keep organized and on theme for your site.  When planning an addition, the sitemap can show you relevant connections to consider.</p>
<p>There is a different kind of site map in addition to the one viewed by your website visitors.  This one doesn&#8217;t get a link on your front page and it just a file that sits in your domain public_html folder.  This would be in a format specified by a particular search engine to facilitate their bots.<br />
Google has one and you can find their webmaster tools here: <a title="Google Webmasters" href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/ " target="_blank">http://www.google.com/webmasters/ </a> Take the link to webmaster tools and see how to fix up your site to be Google optimized.  There are other links on that page that may be of interest to you as well.</p>
<p>Yahoo used to request a .txt file site map, but this has changed.  They now have &#8220;Site Explorer&#8221; beta where you can submit your site to their search engine here: <a title="Yahoo Site Submitter" href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit" target="_blank">https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit</a> They accept the URL of your .xml sitemap as well as urllist.txt  From this, I deduce that you no longer need separate sitemaps for both Google and Yahoo, but can actually use one for both.</p>
<p>Building the search engine sitemap can be a huge opportunity to see any broken links in your website and provides you and opportunity to decide which (if any) pages you might want to exclude from the search engines.</p>
<p>Always remember to update the sitemaps for the search engines when you add pages to your website!</p>
<p>Personally I think you are crazy not to have a site map.  It&#8217;s another way you can directly submit your site to Google.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy as pie to have a sitemap using Wordpress and XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.1.0.1  It&#8217;s totally automatic and the plugin even notifies Google with a ping when the site gets a new post.</p>
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