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You Tube Fan Fest 2014 in Sydney for the first time in May

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youtube fan festival sydney promo

The  YouTube fan festival is arrived in sydney for the first time  thanks to Chugg Entertainment and Branded Ltd.

What is YouTube FanFest ?

The YouTube FanFest is an exclusive live show bringing together established and rising YouTube stars from Australia and around the world. YouTube FanFest Sydney is an exclusive live show presenting YouTube‘s biggest stars, local internet sensations and young talent. The event occurs on Saturday, 31 May 2014 at Sydney’s iconic Luna Park.This show features an exciting and hilarious mix of music, comedy, fashion, education, dancing, and beauty all together on one stage.

The YouTube FanFest with HP was held in  Singapore (May 2013) and in Mumbai (March 2014), YouTube FanFest now has a new show in Sydney (May 31) with other stops around the asia pacific region to be announced shortly.

The  line-up for the inaugural show 

13 superstar YouTubers including

  • Jenna Marbles (13.1 million subscribers),
  • Ryan Higa (12.1 million subscribers),
  • Tobuscus (5.7 million subscribers),
  • Bethany Mota (5.9 million subscribers),
  • Vsauce (7.1 million subscribers),
  • Tyler Oakley (4.2 million subscribers)

IISuperwomanII (2.5 million subscribers)

Plus regional YouTube sensation

and many more.

Ryan Higa added "I am always excited at the opportunity to visit Australia and the fans!"

Perth’s own Rob Nixon from Nicko’s Kitchen said "I was blown away by how amazing FanFest Singapore was in 2013, Sydney is going to be even better!"

Get ready for the absolute selfie experience, buy your ticket and be part of this not-to-be-missed show!

Do u use Wikipedia ! do a good deed – Donate

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Wikipedia needs your help !!

website of wikipedia

 

I  searched  for  a term in Wikipedia today and was surprised  to see a donation message pop up. Without a blink I transferred a small amount  to my favourite free website that I regularly use.

(Edit: Later on I found this)

donate to wikipedia button

One of the most used general information site that everybody uses for free needs help  to keep it alive  and why not , they serve billions off users for free , but they can’t do it forever.

I know i have used them  for information sourced for my blog  and article that i write, and so it was fair that i donate. I know most aussies  are fair dinkum and they will be a fair bit donating, so go to Wikipedia today  and when that pop up  comes up , do your bit and donate a couple of gold coins or  more if you can afford they are not asking for much

My donation  to wikipedia

how to donate to wikipedia or wikimedia website

You can go here  to this—>  official Wikimedia donation page  to donate

The message I recieved after donating

Thank you for your support. Read about why other donors around the world support Wikipedia and its sister projects, or find out if your company has a corporate matching gift program. Tell the world that you support Wikimedia: tweet it with hashtag #keepitfree!

 

Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Questions or comments?

Write to: donate(at)wikimedia.org   Learn more about local chapters and their projects

The Australian app developer competition

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“Applicants will be judged according to what the app offers, the market need for the product and its path to revenue. I am excited to be part of this Curtin University initiative and I look forward to seeing the unique and innovative entries in the competition,”

dates and details of oz app austrlia competition

The “2014 OzAPP Awards” is calling for mobile applications and is now calling for creative app developers in the Asia Pacific region including Australia and New Zealand to bring forward their best new app concepts for mobile, web and cloud.

The 2014 Oz App Roadshow program will feature

  • Interactive workshops
  • Keynotes speakers (Bill Tai, Partner at Silicon Valley based Charles River Ventures)
  • Mentoring sessions for applicants
  • Pitching opportunities

The road show program will be held in  major cities including Singapore, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.

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Final judging will be staged in Perth, Western Australia in February 2014. To register for free or to learn more about OzAPPs, visit www.ozapp.com.au.

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Review of traffic Travis SEO software not Affilorama

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You have done your reviews on SEO software, reading  different reviews and decided to go ahead and choose your software. Have you heard of traffic Travis , probably not –  but hey wait “what’s affilorama”.

Software to help  rank your blog – traffic travis 

It can get a bit confusing when you go thier purchase page to buy traffic Travis  with or without discount. (currently there is no “traffic travis discount” ) and you see  Affilorama page instead

Snapshot of the buy page on traffic Travis below. ( Explanation below on how to order traffic travis)

seo moz traffic travis simple seo software

Wording from above pic “Traffic Travis does not auto rebill, we will contact you in 12 months to see if you want to renew. Your one month free trial of Affilorama Premium rebills after 30 days at $67/month. You can easily cancel at any time.”

If you have not checked reviews of the software , check our quick review below

You gotta be careful while ordering  other wise you can get lumped with  a extra $67  a month in addition to  the traffic travis software valued at $97.

Affilorama Vs Traffic Travis

So just to make sure you know what you are doing , Traffic travis is the SEO software  to help you with  SEO for your blog or website  and if your purchase a AFFILORAMA subscription, it entitles  you to guides and help to set yourself up successfully as an affiliate marketer. Affilorama  gives you detailed strategies to become a successful online entrepreneur and make money online

Traffic Travis provides four distinct functions that allow you to collect data and do research on your selected Web site.

The first one searches for popular keywords and competition, and another shows your site’s ranking amongst the top four search engines.

Yet another tracks point-and-click advertisements, and the fourth grades your own site for its search engine optimization.

Make sure you uncheck or untick  the  Affilorama  check box  charging you $0 dollars ( the $0 dollars is only for the first month , then they charge you  from the second month onwards if you dont cancel the affilorama free trial) if you dont want both programs at the same time.

If you interested only in the traffic travis software  just untick the affilorama trial second box and you should be good  ( Click Here to buy! )

What is this affilorama trial ?

Affilorama Premium is an online monthly subscription product  that gives you access to highly detailed advanced affiliate marketing training and powerful pro-level marketing tools.

Affilorama aims provide a step-by-step, over the shoulder training courses for beginners and advanced affiliate marketers to build a successful affiliate business online.

SO only check this second box above if you want this affiliate marketing tools  and can afford the extra $67 a month.

They provide detailed VIDEO LESSONS for internet marketing fore beginners as well as more advanced marketers, If you want to know more about affilorama video lessons  go here 

About traffic travis v4.0 Pro ( Quick review)

Traffic travis is an awesome seo software  and i totally recommend it over market samurai  or SEO MOZ membership  as its a simple to use software  and gives most of the needed benefits that are also present in the other premuim SEO software providers.

FOR eg What you need is there in this software

  • * Tracking your page rank of your site and movement of it up and down the google rank
  • *Finding linking partners  via their software  ( blogs websites or directories) to get valid links from relevant  niche
  • * Finding Do follow and No follow links on your blog and other blogs to make your linking ratio perfect for google search
  • *comparison of your website with other websites in relating to backlinks , keywords etc
  • * top ten comparison and much more features  which all can  be adjusted with advanced settings for that extra bit more ( you also get free flash made  tutorials  for every section of the software, which i didn’t need to use as the software is so easy to use)

Snapshot of main dashboard

Traffic-Travis-Dashboard software

http://www.traffictravis.com/professional/order

[This above review video  showing the software is  bit outdated  as the current updated  interface  has become much more simpler and easy to use.]

Traffic Travis Free SEO And PPC Software

traffic travis free and paid seo software

From Free To Professional Edition ( Click Here to buy! )

Traffic Travis is freeware, but it requires a free online registration. It comes as a compressed file.

Around the web :

Scarcity Samurai 60% OFF “WSO Discount” 

If you haven’t already snapped up your
Scarcity Samurai 60% OFF “WSO Discount” –
your time is running out…

…because TOMORROW – this crazy Warrior
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 Scarcity Samurai customers…

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The best bot for creating mixtapes and personalised gifts

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MAKERBOT MIXTAPE   – The MakerBot Mixtape is obviously designed for, well, makers of mixtapes or music , but they’ve got an option for everyone, uou dont need to be a DJ.

makerbot mixtape review from cnet

Gifts and makerbot mixtape

 

First there were many other options for a mixtape but nothing dedicated like this, before Pandora or RDIO or even ancient technologies like iTunes, there was the mixtape — a carefully selected group of songs, organized into a playlist and recorded onto a cassette

Now mixtape gives you two options: If you own a MakerBot, the company will ship you a $25 kit so you can put your MakerBot into action and have it create a colorful cassette-shaped case that snaps together around the tiny included MP3 player.

Contrary to what you might think, the days of making a mix*tape* for your crush are
not over. MakerBot, a 3D printing company, snaps together this retro mlxtapa In Its
Brooklyn workshop and ships It to paramours everywhere. Simply hook It up to a
computer using tha included USB cable to drag and drop up to 2GB of heartfelt
songs.

No Walkman Is needed to llsten to the mlxtape as its a MP3 player as well.

summary:The MakerBot Mixtape is a Flash based MP3 player that costs $39, which is $12 lower than the average for all 2 GB MP3 Players. It supports MP3 audio files.

Those  with a MakarBot Replicator can buy a Mlxtap* Kit for $25 and print out their own
mlxtape at home. Gadget Review written by babyhifi for gadgetaustralia.com

Software to recover permanently deleted files

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You accidentally permanently deleted a big folder or file in your pc  and now want to get it back but cant find it  because your pc said its permanently deleted.

If you got a problem with any of these situations below

“permanently deleted mp3 folder”

“Permenantely deleted Video or movie”

‘”how to undelete deleted file”

“recover deleted files”

Recover accidentally-deleted files

Then read below for some solutions.

Before  you try expensive  data recovery services ,giving this software one shot is probably worth it specially if you are on a budget

Well guess  what – it isn’t  permanently deleted !!

When a file is deleted from your computer, its contents aren’t immediately destroyed. Windows simply marks the hard drive space as being available for use by changing one character in the file table. If you manage to start an undelete process before Windows overwrites that part of hard disk with new files. You can set that flag back to "on" and get your file.

I recently had this situation  and immediately did a Google search  and found this software listed on a website.

pandora recover permenantely deleted files

Its called Panda Recovery and it worked like magic . I managed to recover most files in click of a button. You can check out their software on their website Panda Recovery

Website and download : http://www.pandorarecovery.com/

Other File undelete software

There are two more software that you can try out if you want more options

Undelete plus

Website and download -  http://undelete-plus.com/

The plus in this software, It can also recover files that have been emptied from the Recycle Bin and permanently

eSupport UndeletePlus Scan

It also recovers files

  1. Deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete
  2. Files that have been deleted from within a Command Prompt.
  3. Works with win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems.
  4. The program supports FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.
  5. Program is only 583 KB in size and requires no installation and is  Portable

With so much features and so small size i would buy  a special usb drive just to have this loaded and kept ready for emergencies

Tokiwa Data Recovery software -  Japanese software untility

DataRecovery is a  freeware tool that does the job of undeleting permanently deleted files even from recycle bin.

recover permanently deleted files

It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS undeletion including NTFS compressed files and EFS encrypted files.

The Zip file is only 198 KB in size, no installation required and it’s portable.

Download: TOKIWA Data Recovery or Download CNet Link