technology

  • technology

    E-mail marketing

    Need email marketing software that works for you? Great! I can introduce one for you; ActiveCampaign, a web-based email marketing software for creating, managing, and extending your email marketing & auto responder campaigns.

    activecampaign sample template
    activecampaign sample template

    With this e-mail marketing solution, everything is made simple for you! They have ready templates which are professionally designed to be eye-catching in any modern e-mail reader to begin with. Templates can be easily modified to fit the content of your message, and can be used with any e-mail client or list manager that allows you to import HTML. Other features include powerful auto responders, unlimited lists & subscribers, list segmenting, private label & rebrand, subscriber action and many more! What’s best is that there are options for you to view extensive report and campaign analysis. The  full suite of reporting options allow you to analyze individual campaigns, perform split testing, and more. Find what gives you the best read/open rate, click rate, etc.

    For as low as $349 (for a big organisation and for long term usage, this one time fee is consider very cheap!). There will be no monthly fees ever after that and the e-mail marketing software installs on your own web server. Free technical support & upgrades will be available with every purchase and that includes 3 months of upgrades and support for free.

    You can download and try your hands at the 30-day free trial first before buying and the trial is limited to 250 subscribers, 2 admin users, and up to 4 mailing lists. You can later upgrade from your trial to the paid without losing your settings.

  • technology

    Personalised Thumb Drive

    I was looking for flash drives when I came across this website called FlashDealer.com offering personalized jump drive; in many shapes! They are all very appealing and I would love to get my hands on them all!

    So what is jump drive? Jump drive is actually a premium high-performance USB flash drive that offers lightning-fast data transfer rates, housed in a stylish stainless steel case manufactured by Lexar. The drive also features Secure II software for advanced data protection.

    flash drives

    I would love to get a few with Emila’s Illustrated Blog’s name etched on them and gave them away for free, maybe as year end giveaway. You can do too if you like; better still, if you have a company and in need to promote your products, Lexar personalized jump drive or other personalised flash drive is a great item to begin with! If you need customization, FlashDealer has the drive to best fit your needs and there are over 80 styles and style combinations available. You can get it for as low as $3.95 and offer includes no set-up costs, free imprint, lifetime warranty, low price guarantee, rush service and optional data pre-load.

    Customizing Options are as below:
    Available Capacities     64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB
    Packaging Options     Retail Box, Gift Box, Neck Strap, Key Ring
    Services Available     AutoRun, Pre-Load Data

    FlashDealer ships worldwide and accepts major credit cards as well as Paypal.

  • computer/internet,  technology

    Google PageRank

    emila pr3The past years have saw Emila’s Illustrated Blog having rated 5, 4, 3, 0 and 2 by Google PR. From the trend, you can see it was a downward trend. Recent updates saw EIB being blessed with PR3 again. Frankly, I don’t really care. I used to be so upset when my PR was down because I was doing paid reviews with Pay Per Post (PPP) and to be able to get more opportunities (opps), I need to have a good PR. With PR2 previously, opps were really hard to get. But over time, I managed to get over it and even stopped doing paid reviews for PPP.

    So What is Google PageRank (PR)?

    Google PR  is a system for ranking web pages developed by Google  founders; Larry Page and Sergey Brin. PR is assigned by Google which represents to relative importance of a web page. The PR for a web page can vary between 0 and 10. A higher PR number will help you to score better in your SERPS, which will bring more visitors to your web page.

    PageRank reflects the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that they believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.

    PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. Google have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and their technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.

    Here’s a tool to check your Google PR as well as Alexa ranking:

    1st commenter
    Spiffy

  • computer/internet,  technology

    Alexa

    I dunno, when I view my Alexa details; it has information of other company, for which i have developed a website, a year ago. Previously, I put upload the website into my domain for the company to preview their website. My blog  has default setting for permalink (just numbers like this (https://emilayusof.com/?p=123), and since the company has the about page, I’m very sure that the Alexa bots crawled to look for about page on my blog.

    Anyway, I’ve deleted the website preview soon as I handed it over to the company but I guess by then, Alexa bots have taken into account the about page. I tried to update and change the information but to no avail, if you have any idea on how to change this info, please do let me know.

    eib alexa

    Anyway, since I’m at this, let me talk about Alexa.

    What is Alexa?
    Alexa is a search engine currently owned by Amazon.com. It is a popularity based ranking which is achieved by loading Alexa toolbar on your browser.  The toolbar  installed provides you with certain additional information about the sites you are visiting. For example, Alexa automatically conducts a search when you type in the URL of any website. When you submit the URL, you will get generated information about the site.You can find info about its Traffic Stats, Contact Info, Demographics, Traffic Rank, Reach, Pageviews, Where People go on the URL, Where People COme From by Countries, Traffic Rank by Countries, Etc.

    If you need to look at how your website or blog is doing; just go to Alexa.com. You will find  ‘Site Info’ tab just below the header. Click on it and you’ll be brought to a page where you can look up for Keyword search and Site Lookup. Type in your URL in the Site lookup box and hit Go button. You should be able to view your website/blog’s information.

    1st commenter
    Munira

  • computer/internet,  technology

    Technorati

    I have been using Technorati for quite sometimes already and before WordPress has made the incoming link available via the dashboard, I use Technorati to keep track of who’s linking to me. I’m still using it.

    If you need to check out who’s linking to you directly via their posts, this is a great tool to begin with. Asides from that, It also helps increase the visibility of our blog. So if you’re a newbie blogger, this is a way to get your blog know across the blogosphere.

    So what exactly is Technorati?
    Technorati is the leading monitor of the world of weblogs and is a search engine for blogs.

    Why do you need an account with Technorati?
    Technorati is a real-time search engine that is the largest source of fresh information about the global and local conversations going on all across the Web. Technorati.com has indexed millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds and it has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports such as that which mentions a compound bow, politics and business. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular.

    Add to Technorati FavoritesSo basically, people who search Technorati are looking for good information, and if they can find you and you can provide that information they are looking for, you will be one giant step closer to getting a customer, client or subscriber.

    Join now

    Interested? Joining is free! Just register yourself first and go on to Frequently Asked Questions to read more on how to claim your blogs, etc. JOIN NOW!

    And if you already have Technorati account, do favourite me if you like my blog (just click on my dolly on the right) or click here: FAVE EMILA. Thanks heap!

    1st commenter
    Munira

  • technology

    Light bulbs

    incandescent vds fluorescent

    I dunno, this topic triggered me yesterday when I sat down at my work-space working on a drawing. Usually, to find ideas I would stare emptily at things around me but the fluorescent bulb of my study lamp somehow got me thinking: Incandescents, do they still exist? When I was a kid, my family used a lot of incandescents but over times, we switched to fluorescents. A fluorescent uses 75 percent less energy and a 23-Watt fluorescent light bulb can produce the same amount of light as a 100-Watt incandescent bulb. It lasts about 10 times longer than an incandescent bulb. I use Osram Duluxstar Compact 14W Daylight but besides Duluxstar you can also check out their Sylvania light bulbs.

    Well, incandescents are still around but EU has come up with a new ruling  to be implemented from 1 September 2009, according to which the incandescent lamps and other particularly energy-intensive light products are to be phased out in stages. Hope the same steps will be implemented here in this region.

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    Jia

  • technology

    Hybrid car

    When it comes to car, I have zero knowledge about it. I know this much; the price of petrol has went up! To me, car is just a car but today I learned that there is different kind of car; a hybrid one. Came across about honda civic hybrid from thecarconnection.com. Thought I share the information with all of you.

    If you planning to buy a hybrid car especially if you have Honda in mind, just check the website. There’s a list of green Honda cars ranging from civic hybrid, civic sedan and accord hybrid. Each one of them has great reviews and the most important thing is they help save the environment. Hybrid cars can reduce your carbon footprint and provide you with an economically and environmentally safer drive wherever you go.

    Most of the honda hybrid cars in the website have been rated 8 and 9 by reviewers; with the latest model 2008 honda civic hybrid being rated 10 out of 10. There are full reviews, trim and specs, photo galleries and free price quotes to begin with. You can also search by year or model, by popularity and also look for cars under $25k or above. In addition there are also expert opinions and consumer opinions for you to read.