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Top 3 Web Services For Compressing & Optimizing Images

Optimizing images becomes important especially for netizens who wants to quickly upload and share images on websites, blogs, social media sites & networks or anywhere on Internet.

There are many online service that allows you to easily reduce size of your images upto 80% (and sometimes more) without compromising with photo quality. In this way you can quickly share images anywhere on world wide web, you can make upload process fast and put more images online in a very less time. Also these compressed images becomes lightweight and takes up little disk or server space.

This post lists three cool websites which provides you tool you can use for optimizing your images without affecting their quality:

Balesio

Image Size Reducer 1

Get Paint

Image Size Reducer 2

Image Optimizer

Image Size Reducer 3

WordPress Users: We have already posted a tutorial on an awesome WordPress plugin that automatically optimizes your website images without affecting their quality. So if you are a WordPress user then refer to this tutorial.

Easily Compress Images & Improve Website Performance Without Affecting Photo Quality In WordPress

WP Smush.it is a WordPress plugin, good for reducing image file size and improving performance using.

How It Works ? Each image you add to your post automatically runs through Smush.it, you don’t have to anything.

Does It Works For Existing Images ? Yes you can also add this to existing images in your site by visiting Media Library and clicking the smush it now link.

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Quick Page Edit Toolbar For Managing Your WordPress Site Pages

Page Edit Toolbar is a simple WordPress plugin that adds a toolbar (in WP admin bar) showing list of recently updated pages, links present in the list directs you to edit section of particular page.

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Easily Add Random Animated Image (GIF) Widget In WordPress

WordPress Random Animated Gif is the new WordPress plugin you can use for displaying cool random GIFs in your WordPress site posts, pages, custom post type, widget areas etc. It randomly grabs GIF froms GIFs4u.com and displays it in your website.

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Easily Find & Organize Group Meetups Near Your Area

Meetup.com is Internet’s popular network of meetup groups & communities (with #335 Alexa Rank) that allows netizens to find, create and organize group locally in their area.

One can easily find their interest group near them and meet face-to-face. Everyday 9,000+ groups get together in local communities. Its main objective is to revitalize local community and help netizens to self-organize themselves into local groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.

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How To Add Native Fullscreen Button In WordPress ?

You can easily add a Fullscreen button anywhere in your WordPress site. Native Fullscreen is free WordPress plugin by Webmaestro.fr. The plugin allows you to show a native fullscreen button which when clicked shows true fullscreen mode of your website. Without flash. It provides you a widget and a shortcode for displaying fullscreen button. The plugin uses default CSS of your WordPress theme and hence its button matches to your website.

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How To Insert Links Which When Clicked Display PopUps In WordPress ?

Alligator Popup is allows you to insert simple links which displays simple popup windows when clicked. This is a common feature used in millions of website especially for displaying advertisements.

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Shardul Pandey Talks To Andrew Lee, Founder Of Envolve

Andrew Lee: Hi! Shardul, Are you a developer? We have some exciting news for you! Envolve has built a new platform, called Firebase, that lets you build real-time, collaborative applications in just a few lines of code. Have you ever wanted to completely customize the way chat works on your site? Now you can.

Firebase lets you build *any* real-time application — from chat apps, to shared whiteboards, to multiplayer games, to collaborative text editors. It’s an API, so you have complete control over how your app works, and you have full access to the data from any device.

For an explanation of what Firebase is and how it works, check out this short screencast. You can also try our quick 5 minute tutorial that will walk you through the API.

Thousands of apps are already using Firebase, including Klout, BitTorrent, TED, Codecademy, and Atlassian. We’d love to power your app as well.

As always, please reach out to me if you have any questions.

Shardul Pandey: Hi!, Thanks for sharing this information. I will certainly go through your new platform.

Klout, BitTorrent, TED, Codecademy, and Atlassian are popular services and I am glad that they are using Firebase.

Great with your success. I wish to congratulate you on this. Good luck to you.

(To be continued…….)

Make WordPress Content Management Easy With CodePress Admin Columns Plugin

Codepress Admin Columns is a free WordPress plugin which allows you to customize your admin section columns.

Website owners professionally running WordPress blog have large amount of content to manage like lot posts, pages, custom post types, media and more but default WordPress content list page (like Posts -> All Posts) provides you only few basic columns.

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How To Activate Responsive Iframe oEmbeds In WordPress ?

Iframely Responsive Embeds is the new WordPress plugin that extends WordPress oEmbed brings you the responsive embeds which means the embeds will automatically resize if you are using a responsive WP theme.

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Best Online Services For Free Music Lessons & Tutorials

Here are some cool websites that provides you with good music tutorials like you can use them for learning basics of music like reading music intervals, scales, chords etc. Some provides you tutorials on musical instruments like drums, brass instruments and guitars etc.

Not only this much there is much much more including free video tutorials, lessons for mandolin, banjo, violin, dulcimer and the guitar, free acoustic and electric guitar lessons, playing harmonica, using your computer for creating music. And a lot more, each website is different so in order to know more explore each and every website and see which one works best for you.

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How To Instantly Convert Between Any Units Of Measurement ?

ConvertCenter.com is an online free service that allows you to quickly convert between any kind of measurement units. It offers you a wide range of online conversions of units including time, data, speed, temperature, currency and many other conversions.

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Get Detailed Marketing & SEO Report OF Your Website In Just A Click

Marketing Grader is an online service that provides you a full report of your website on how it is doing with marketing online. All you need to do is visit its homepage, type your website domain & your email address then click ‘Grade Me’ button. No registration is required.

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WordPress Mobile Previewer & Responsive Test Plugin

Wallmander&Co created an awesome new WordPress plugin that allow you to instantly check your website and all its pages in different screen resolutions like 320×480, 768×1024, 1024×768. You can instantly perform responsive test of your WordPress site and see how your website looks like in small screen devices like smartphones and tablets etc.

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Shardul Pandey Talks To Justin Elswick On His Upcoming Album “MORTAL LONGING”

[note]Talk is ongoing live…[/note]

Sleepthief is an American electronic music recording project formed by producer and composer Justin Elswick. Elswick began writing music for the album ten years prior to its release. The album was mixed, mastered, co-produced, and co-arranged by Israel Curtis. Sleepthief’s first album, The Dawnseeker, was released in 2006.

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Easily Highlight Important Parts Of Any Web Page For Sharing Purposes

Marker.to is a simple and quick annotation tool which allows you to use a marker pen on web pages. Have you ever used highlighter over paper documents? It is as same as that but here it works online for web pages. Using this tool you can highlight important parts of any online news, post, article etc to share it with your friends so that they can easily find the lines you want to show them.

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Easily Create Diagrams, Flowcharts, Sitemaps And More On Cloud

Lovelycharts.com is free online service that allows you to easily create different kinds of diagrams, flowcharts, sitemaps etc online right from your web browser, means you can do it on cloud without having to download any app locally in your system. Its 100% free of cost.

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View, Share & Embed Very High-Resolution Images In More Beautiful & Easy Style

You can view very high resolution images without scrolling inside your web browser. Zoom.it is an online service which allows you to view very high resolution images more beautifully in your web browser without scrolling  them.

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Talk Typer: Automatically Convert Your Speech Into Text

Talk Typer is a free online service that works right from your web browser and allows you to convert your speech into text by dictating it. It simply means whatever you talk or say will get converted in to text. The service uses microphone of your system and type words said by you.

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