A while back I wrote a post with a list of the top 10 open source programs, however I got a lot of negative comments and emails regarding the list and its accuracy, although some were positive. I know many people’s Top 10 list will look totally different than this, however, I’ve talked to many people and this is as accurate I can get it to be. And even with this list many people stilll will not agree, but please no more negativity, just say the way you would have listed it. (more…)

1. AVOID USING MANY GRAPHICS

One of the main reasons for a website’s slow download speed is the excessive use of graphics. Therefore, you must try to reduce the number of images and pictures used on each page. Consider repeating the same graphic, wherever possible. This is because once a graphic has been downloaded, it is stored in a computer’s cache and doesn’t have to be downloaded again. (more…)

Google Adsense - This is defiantly the most popular program out there, easy to use and almost everyone is accepted, all you need to do is just implement the code they give you straight to your site, and you get paid a percentage of everytime someone clicks a certain advertisement, if you are not farmiliar with these type of ads, they are usually the ads on the side with 4 or 5 text advertisements.

Chitika eMiniMalls - Another popular advertisement program out there, many bloggers praise this porgrams for its great payout rate compared to google’s adsense, I for one think the difference is that big, however you do get slightly bigger payout, these ads are more graphical and display usually electronic products. (more…)

Googles just recently launched Picasa web albums, I guess they are trying to take on Flickr which is very similar to this.  Although this is still in preview, so you need to apply for an invititation it took for me about one week.  Its an oinline photo storage, with a web 2.0 look allowing you to add tags to your photos for better searching capabalities.  Something that Picasa has better than Flickr is that you can download the standalone Picasa 2 programs to organize in your desktop then upload to the web or just do it all online.  (more…)

Many people know about google maps, along with google earth, but some of us don’t really know that their are other alternatives for maps, for instance there is map quest, yahoo maps, but the biggest competition for google is most likely going to be from Microsoft. They recently made a map service called local.live.com The location I chose to compare is the Empire State Building in NYC, on 5 ave. and 34st. Detail Both Google and Local Live provide aerial satellite images, however only Local Live provides a birds eye view of the images, which is taken at an angle as opposed to Google that is just taken from above. (more…)

The Blog Joint.com list of the Top 10 open source programs. I guarantee that most of you used some of these programs in the past, and if you haven’t you probably will use it in the future and if you know any programming you can make it even better. Thanks to all those people working hard in the open source community. (more…)