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when the visual bee comes to help with PowerPoint

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I’m sure everyone of you  who needs to del with documents  at some part of time  when you came across PowerPoint wished there was a wizard or a easier way to create  Nice looking PowerPoint documents  without all the hassle of going through all the hoops.

Powerpoint Presentation Maker – Visual bee

Well worry not any more!! visual bee is just the answer to your this problems.

VisualBee enhances your plain presentation in PowerPoint automatically and easily , creating an exciting and powerful showcase. It’s the graphic design PowerPoint plugin you need and once used will never be without. Learn how VisualBee can help you right now.

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It even pulls graphics from the servers so that you dont have to go looking for appropriate graphics to add to your presentation. Right now visual bee is available for free as a plugin  for PowerPoint  which will enable you to make you professional or elegant PowerPoint presentations, but you will need to  shell out a small fee to save the presentation to your pc.

Review Powerpoint plugin – Visualbee

VisualBee is easy to use. Just insert your desired content to a blank PowerPoint presentation and press “enhance presentation”. The VisualBee PowerPoint plugin (add-in) will index the content of your PowerPoint presentation and will create a professional and effective showcase.

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October 8, 2010 –VisualBee.com was chosen StartUp of the day by Microsoft BizSpark, the leading startup network.

So for all the slackers out there  in the corporate world ( or the keen people who want real good presentations without the hard work) this might be a good way to save some time working  and more time  spent shopping  or at the coffee shop while visual bee is working for ya. Enjoy

You can get more details from their website at  http://visualbee.com/

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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

Finally a good review theme by Solostream

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Ages ago i did a search  for a product review theme  and i was so disappointed  by the review themes available on the market  that  at the end i settled on this theme for $89 which is removed and stopped using within 1 month because it was so useless( slow and too complicated for doing anything)

Solostream   templates , i am familiar with as you can see my blog already uses it, and their simplicity and fluidness of their themes  are really great. Their themes are always light on your server  and super fast with good advertising options  and pretty much that is all a  blogger needs.

New “Product Review theme” By solostream

The theme has got the professional  Solostream look that is somewhere between a professional blog and blog look.

Its got all the latest sharing icons  even  pinterest and Linked in buttons if you wish to use them

Premium Responsive WordPress Theme for Product Review Sites

The theme  loads twice as fast, looks ten times better, and now you can actually look like you mean business

These themes have innovative design, lots of customizable functions and even perfect html validation. Solostream even provided me with fast support. With all this you dont even need to worry about SEO as the theme is already build to support SEO.

$10 Summer Savings Coupon For this theme Now

Use Coupon Code  for a $10 Discount

Some good features in WP critique theme

  • Responsive Design Framework (Mobile Ready) – Adjusts to Browser Size
  • Built-In Product Rating Function
  • All Authors Page Template
  • Multiple Home Page Post Layouts
  • Subscription Form Widget
  • Automatic Post Thumbnails and Featured Post Images
  • Footer Widgets
  • Multiple Banner Ad Locations ,And many more standard solostream  functions

This theme is compatible with the latest version of WordPress (version 3.4+) and All Solostream themes are licensed under the General Public Licence (GPL) which means there are no restictions and you can modify them and use them for both personal or commercial projects on as many websites . You can check out the WP-Critique Demo Site or buy the theme here

Review website–This is now

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As you know once in a way  we also do  website reviews on our blog, here is  nice new breakthrough website  just launched recently in Australia. its innovative , fresh and very interesting  concept.

instagram insspired this is now by marcio puga mauricio massaia and Per Thoresson

New Australian website launch “ This is now”

This is Now project is a visual composition which uses real-time updates from the ever popular Instagram application based on users geo-tag locations. The tool streams photos instantly as soon as they are uploaded on Instagram and captures a city’s movement, in a fluid story. – ( http://now.jit.su/)

Instagram inspired website launched by aussies

This new Australian website uses Instagram photos to create a real-time fly-on-the-wall look at nine major cities across the globe , with more cities to come soon.

this is now website from instagram

The website when loaded keeps updating new photos to the page  to give you a live view on what’s going on in sydney or any other city ( Special request – can you please put perth on it 😉

More than 450,000 users have already logged on to This is Now, launched two weeks ago, to view more than 1 million photos posted by tech savvy happy snappers around the world.

Go check it out yo9urself here http://now.jit.su/ . Sydney is also on the  this is now list for now with more Australia cities to possibly  feature later

Article by JJ – Don’t ask me  “what does jj mean on instagram” but i will let you know,  is a blogger and likes to blog about Technology, SEO, E -marketing and write articles on Stockmarkets and you can catch me on

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Australian Coat of Arms (adopted 1912) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Tops SEO blogs For Guest posting

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I initially created  this SEO TOP List  as  a list  to do guest posting for my blog , but then soon realised  that the list is worth much more that it looks and so also permanently  out it in a special SEO folder in my chrome browser.

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Enjoy !! The top seo blogs on the internet

This ranking has been created taking into account a list of tops SEO lists ranking as available from top SEO blogs like

http://www.invesp.com/blog-rank/SEO , blogging pro

The seomoz SEO TOP LIST

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/top-25-seo-blogs/ .

Top 10 SEO Blogs


The top 100 SEO blogs ranked based on 20+ different factors including RSS membership, monthly visitors, and social media factors as per the different list rankings

The list below also can be used to do guest posting on these websites which receive a lot of traffic to their popularity

1. SEOmoz Blog

2. Search Engine Land

3. Search Engine Watch

4. HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog

5. Yoast

6. Search Engine Journal

7. Graywolf’s SEO Blog

8. Seobook.com/blog

9. dailyblogtips.com

10. seobythesea.com

If you want to see the updates from most of these on the list in one place then http://seo.alltop.com/ is a good website to check this out

Free software– Ispy webcam and camera software

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iSpy uses your cameras, webcams, IP cams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound.

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Free ispy camera / webcam software

I was trawling the internet to get some software to use with my new webcam i purchased from Woolworths for a measly $10 when ic ame across this “FREE software ISPY” on the internet .I can tell you the camera works pretty well ( let me know if you want to know the brand)

I spy’s captured media is compressed to flash video or mp4 and streamed securely over the web and local network. iSpy can run on multiple computers simultaneously and has full Email, SMS and MMS alerting functions and remote viewing.

The ispy software has  nice blurb on how he came about to making this software for webcam and cameras for everybody  for free. go read it here – www.ispyconnect.com . An donate to the website  if you like the software

Here are some specification requirements for ispy camera

OS: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8 (32 bit & 64)
Microsoft .Net framework (v4 client) – will be installed if required
License: Free (Open Source)

Download the ispy Camera software here

iSpy is available in :
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Deutsch, ελληνικά, Español, Française, Hrvatski, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Português, 中文 (繁體), 한국어 and 中文

Random link of the day: http://tazeryouintheface.tumblr.com/

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English: Grayscale image of a Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 webcam attached to a display. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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