Every site these days need traffic. Traffic from social bookmarking sites is a great alternative to organic search engine optimization, traffic. Every blogger has a list of their favorite social bookmarking site. You probably have your own list social bookmarking sites.

Using the best social bookmarking sites can save you money and time. Spending time and bookmarking your site on a bad social bookmarking sites is a waste of time and money.

Using the criteria like Google page rank, number of inbound links, Alexa rank, here are the top five social bookmarking sites.

Digg.

Google PR: 8, Alexa Rank: 284, Inbound links: 267,000,000

Digg is a very popular site. The power of this social bookmarking site is pretty amazing. The to bookmark onDigg are useful tech content, computer articles, mobile phones articles, corporate corruption, etc.

Technorati

Google PR: 8, Alexa Rank: 457, Inbound links: 43,000,000.

Technorati is my second best choice. It is superb social bookmarking solution where you can actually provide a link to your blog. Order post from your blog can be featured and receive a lot of traffic. What can you post some Technorati? You need a good authority so your posts which the highest degree and the highest traffic. You must build your authority up over time.

Del.icio.us

Google PR: 8, Alexa Rank: 2,648, Inbound links: 154,000

another great social bookmarking sites. It has grown substantially in the last few years. You can post articles about making money, business, tech, tutorials or lifestyle stores.

StumbleUpon

Google PR: 8, Alexa Rank: 939, Inbound links: 119,000,000

use StumbleUpon for some time and find out how addicting this site actually is. You can bookmark and review your own content to get more traffic and hits from StumbleUpon. However, only stumble. If you bookmark too much you might get banned.

Reddit

Google PR: 8, Alexa Rank: 4,815, Inbound links: 3,807,418

Reddit has millions of fans that love to post tech content. You can post politic content, news, science and programming articles.

I am fed up with this XAMPP. I have to research forum each time I start to using it again.

So here is my personal little guide, that will help you set it up in minutes.

First just download the files. You can choose 32 bit version even if you run 64 bit WIN 7.

Just install it, dont tick any of the services boxes.

Then double click on xampp tray icon and enable apache and mysql.

SKYPE

If apache does not want to start, shutdown your skype, because skype is using same port 80.

You can change the setting in skype, under connection, untick the box where it mentions port 80. This should work.

After install type localhost into browser url box

http://localhost/xampp/

Click on Status, all the fileds should be green.

If PHP is deactivated, you should put password of your database into this file

/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and changing the password to reflect your mysql config

That fixed it for me

Then go to

http://localhost/security/index.php

and you should setup password for root acess and also for phpmyadmin

after you do that you are done.

DATABASES

click on tray icon and mysql admin button.

Here you can create databases.

Then download the drupal install files for example and put them into folder

htdocs/drupal/......

put each site into separate folder, for example I have many folders inside htdocs folder like drupal6, drupal7, joomla, wordpress, magento folders.......

Then just run the site

http://localhost/drupal

WORDPRESS ISSUES

Almost none, but in the first step of installing WP you can get this error

COULD NOT CONNECT TO DATABASE, make sure you input the username, password and database name in the configuration WP file. Then it should work. You have set up the password on your mysql because of security reasons, so you have to use that password now. It should work.

MAGENTO ISSUES

THere is this error that you get

"Please enter a valid URL. Protocol is required (http://, https:// or ftp://)”.

YOu can use firebug to just delete the whole line in html code and it will work great

MYSQL IMPORT ISSUES

If you can't import mysql database into xampp, then you might suspect the size and timout limits in the settings of mysql. You should edit my.ini file, xampp/mysql/bin

And change these two lines

max_allowed_packet= 64M
wait_timeout= 6000

Now it should work

I just installed Dragon speech program 11... I am talking to the microphone and the program automatically recognizes my voice. The program is really good. It allows you to dictate text, dictate e-mails, open programs in Windows, do many other tasks.

It is perfect for fast writing. This is every content writer wet dream. I'm just talking to the microphone and the program automatically transforms my speech to text. I think my days of starting are over hopefully. This program is really really powerful. I used to have Dragon version 10 and it sucked. It did not recognize anything. But now the version 11 is really really good. I was often very lazy to type and now I can lie on my bed and just talk into the microphone.

I think I will always use this program for all the future content writing. This is a godsend. I'm just talking into the microphone and I cannot believe that at least 95% of words are recognized. Maybe 97%. If you make a mistake you just tell the program to repair it. You can delete the line you can undo the last word. You can even open the mouse, 70 pounds. I haven't tested this program properly but I know this is my new software.

Dragon speech recognition software 11 is the future and godsent for all the bloggers, writers, and other people.

Here is another example of the latest retouch I did today. Well, this one was not easy. We all know Pamela Anderson. I think she was the most beautiful woman of all time. Well now she gets a little older. She still looks good. So I tried retouching skills on her.

What I did is:

• Smoothen her skin
• I enhanced her eyes
• I enhanced highlights
• Remove yellowness from her teeth

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Here is a great old picture I found in my files. Apparently it was badly damaged so I had to restore it. Photo editing of this image took 1 hour. I would say it is not that easy to restore old images. Here you can see before and after animated image. I had to restore and edit every single pixel of this image. I did not want to over retouch, I wanted to keep the image old but not badly damaged.

I have bought this tool one year ago. I have properly tested it. It is just a great tool to have. A must have if you are a blogger and make typos all the time. I can say it is much better the built in Word grammar tool.

Basically, it teaches you how to write better. It repairs grammar mistakes and it works by pressing the F2 button, anytime, anywhere. You can use it in writing blogs, emails, comments, books.

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I am just astonished, how Twitter is advancing. Many celebs are using only tweeter. In fact, number of twitter users is growing rapidly every day. Now it is the  time to join. Sooner or later even our grandmas will twitter from their mobile phone.

I prefer twitter than Facebook. It is quick, people only write one line of text so usually there is less BS. And for now twitter is not restricting users from adding followers. In fact, you can add 500 new people per day. In Facebook, if you add more than 10 per day they will block your account for few days.

I think now it is crucial to start doing Twitter marketing. Now or never. Sooner or later Twitter will probably prevent us adding so many followers.

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