Free online tools for testing Speed of your Website

Hi Friends,

Is your website slow? Use these free website speed testing tools to get information about your website’s loading speed and performance, as well as an understanding of issues that slow your site down.

1) Google's online speed test:

Google’s Page Speed Online — which is a web-based adaptation of the popular Google Chrome web development browser extension, Page Speed — analyzes your website’s performance under Google’s Web Performance Best Practices You can gain lots of information from this handy web tool – it even includes a report for mobile device best practices for optimal performance.

2) Pingdom Tool:

This free online website speed-testing tool by Pingdom (a server, network and website monitoring service) provides you with several reports such as a breakdown of how long each web page object (e.g. images, style sheets and JavaScript libraries) takes to download and performance grades for things like browser caching. Another useful report is a page analysis that provides information on load time, page size and requests.

3) WebPage Analyzer:

This simple web page speed test analyzer — probably one of the oldest tools out there with its first version released in 2003 — gives you data on your web page’s size, assets and load time. It also supplies you with recommendations on things you can make better.


4) Show slow:

This is the web-based version of the open source server application by the same name (Show Slow). Show Slow allows you to add a URL to be monitored (publicly) and regularly captures results from three popular testing tools: YSlow, Page Speed and dynaTrace. This tool requires registration.

5) Load Impact:

Load Impact’s free online load testing and performance tool gives you plenty of data on your website’s ability to handle website traffic. This online web performance evaluation tool has the ability to show graphed data such as user load time (simulated by an automated virtual machine) and requests per second (helpful for seeing how durable your web server is and how fast it can handle web page requests).


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List of Free mobile device emulators for testing your website online

Hi Friends,

A mobile phone emulator lets you check the responsiveness and functionality of the website across different mobile platforms, such as iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry, without actually having the devices in hand. Mobile emulators can help you pinpoint problems and issues with the website and allow you to take corrective measures to make the website visually appealing and functional on mobile devices.

1) iPad Peek:

To ensure your website is compatible with the most acclaimed tablet on the market, you can try it out on
iPad Peek

2) iPhone Tester

As the name suggests, iPhone Tester is one of the most popular mobile emulators for iPhones. All you need to do is enter the URL of your website into the search box and you’ll see a real-time preview of how it appears on an iPhone 3G/4/4S.

3) Mobile Phone Emulator:

Mobile Phone Emulator is one of the most popular mobile phone emulators. The greatest advantage with this tool is that it includes a large number of mobile platforms, including Samsung, iPhone, BlackBerry etc.

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10 Free Applications for Cross Browser Test

Hi All,


Running a cross browser test for website is important as web developers can check their website’s design and make sure it’s looking good across every browser.

If you’re a web developer and would like to run a cross browser test, building your own lab of test machines is not necessary. In fact, we’re going to show you 10 free applications that providing web developers a convenient way to test their website’s browser compatibility in one place. Let’s check it out!


1) Browser Shots (Web Tool)

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different operating systems and browsers. It is a free open-source online web application providing developers a convenient way to test their website’s browser compatibility in one place.



2) IETester

IETester is a free (both for personal and professional usage) WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE10 preview, IE9, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.



3) MultipleIEs

MultipleIEs runs Internet Explorer in standalone mode without having to over-write previous versions.



4) SuperPreview

SuperPreview simplifies the process of testing and debugging layout issues across different web browsers and platforms. You can view your pages in multiple browsers simultaneously or view how a page renders in a browser and compare it to a comp or mock-up image of a page.



5) Spoon Browser

The Spoon Browser Sandbox lets you run all popular web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, directly from the web, with no installation required.



6) ViewLike.Us

ViewLike.Us allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything!



7) NetRenderer

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 9, 8, 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter



8) AnyBrowser

AnyBrowser’s SiteViewer gives you the chance to actually view your site as others may see it. Seeing your site through your viewer’s eyes you can make your site more viewable and usable.



9) Adobe BrowserLab

Adobe® BrowserLab is an online service that helps ensure your web content displays as intended. Accurately preview web pages across multiple browsers and operating systems, navigate links, and use diagnostic tools to optimize websites efficiently



10) LUNASCAPE

LUNASCAPE is the world’s first and only triple engine browser. You can view a web page in 3 rendering engines side-by-side to easily check the browser compatibility.



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Laaptu free mobile recharge site

Hi Friends,


I visited this crazy site called 'Laaptu'.This site gives Free Talktime to all its users.
Play quiz on the site and get recharge in return. I also got bonus Talktime for joining.
You can join from this link 

Laaptu

Another site similar to Laaptu is "kuizr" you can register using the below  link

Laaptu

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Video hosting web sites alternative to youtube

Hi Friends,

We know youtube is definitely still the king of online video hosting. If you want to amplify your brand’s reach, then establishing a presence on YouTube remains a smart move.
YouTube has its downfalls, however. For example, YouTube displays ads next to video content, which may very well be for a product/service in competition with yours. Customization is somewhat limited, plus there’s the fact that many companies block staff from browsing YouTube at work. Finally, YouTube has the right to shut down your account at will.
If you find yourself up against YouTube’s limitations, the good news is there are many other options for business video hosting. Here are eight YouTube alternatives for video hosting, which all offer a free trial period.


1) Vimeo

While Vimeo has less traffic and a lower profile than YouTube, reducing your potential audience, it has built a reputation for high quality content and established itself as the video hosting platform of choice for creative professionals.
Note that if you’re looking for business video hosting, you need to pay for a Vimeo Pro account ($199/year). Paying for a premium membership entitles you to unlimited bandwidth/time limits, HD video, the ability to customize and brand your own video player, impressive analytics, and more. As a Pro user, you’ll also be able to monetize your own content by enabling viewers to ‘tip’ your video between $1-500 using PayPal or a credit card.




2) Daily motion

Dailymotion is a French video-sharing website that allows users to view, browse and upload videos by searching tags, channels, or user-created groups. If you want to upload your video to Dailymotion, you should remember that length of the video files is limited to 2 GB and 60 minutes. Also the upload quality to regular users is limited to 1280*720p. However, these restrictions don’t seem to be a real trouble, and Dailymotion can be a good competitor to YouTube.


3) Metacafe:


Metacafe is a video-sharing website with more than 40 million unique viewers every month. Here you can find short videos in the categories of video games, sports, music, movies and TV. The website features a special ranking algorithm that ensures that the uploaded videos are of high quality. Besides, unlike YouTube, Metacafe doesn’t host duplicate videos. Each video can be uploaded only once. One more advantage of Metacafe is that it pays people for posting videos. If your content is popular among users and your video hit 20.000 views, Metacafe will pay you $5 for every 1,000 views. Good motivation for making cool videos, isn’t it?


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Compare files the easy way

Hi Friends,

There  many be many occasions where you may terribly look for a utility to compare two files like ..

* When a single file is updated by several users, and you are trying to find the recent one

* When a new version of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, HTML or XML template/theme file is available and you need to find what has changed

* When you suspect a malware attack on a template, and trying to figure out the location of the injected code



WinMerge is a open source free utility that lets you compare various files to visually find the differences.

Just drag the two files into the WinMerge window and click OK to start comparing



The differences are highlighted in colors and you can edit the file and also merge them. Apart from comparing files you can also compare folders. With Syntax highlighting it is absolutely easy to spot differences.

Files Supported

WinMerge can compare several filetypes, and some of them are PHP, TXT, XML, HTML, JS and CSS

You can install  xdocdiff plugin in WinMerge to start Comparing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and Openoffice documents.

Track Real Time train position in India

Hi Friends,

Now you can track the train details in India using the "Railradar" search site launched by Indian railways..

RailRadar is a live tracker of Indian Railways passenger trains traffic in real time. This live tracker is shown on an interactive map and allows users to watch the movements of trains which are currently running in entire India.


According to Rail Radar the data is updated in every 5 minutes or more. You can use Rail Radar in the during scenarios such as -

1) Need to know order of trains which are arriving at a station or have departed from a station.
2) In cases of unplanned travel or short distance travel – determining which train option is best for you.
3) Any trends of on-time/delays on trains running on a particular route or in and around a location/geography.
4) In cases of calamities/accidents – need for obtaining a generic view of the ground train running realities.