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 It seems listening to something stores a lot of information in brain, than from reading the entire thing from a book. Most of us doesn't like reading, including me. We also have a practice of reading so many blog posts, articles, pdf's, word documents etc on computers. Now, this is more frustrating as many of us don't like reading on a computer, especially for those who have eye problems. What if the computer itself reads the document for you? Fantastic, isn't it?
Here is a software that can help you convert the text into an mp3 file. And you can download the file on to your hard disk too.

CarryoutText is an easy to use service that converts your text to a MP3 file for you take with you! It converts English text to a downloadable MP3 file that you can listen at the computer or with your MP3 player.

 

You can use your commute time or your time at the gym more productively by converting your blogs, news articles and any other text to an audio file that can be played on your IPod or your favorite MP3 player. 

Go to CarryoutText here and download.

Yahoo Answers is one of the best ways of finding answers to a question. A Yahoo user can login to his account using his Yahoo ID and start asking and answering. This is so simple. Yahoo provides a fantastic platform for its users to share their knowledge and also to clarify their doubts.

There are 3 parts as the tag line of Yahoo Answers suggest. Ask, Answer and Discover.

Ask- You can ask any question to the experts.

Answer- You can answer to any of the open questions that was asked by others.

Discover- You can find out answers for resolved questions.

A Yahoo user can ask any question of his choice. Other Yahoo users and experts in that particular field try to give best answers. Of course, you can expect low quality answers from some users. But experts provide with exact answers and others might share their experiences. All you have to do is ask a question and describe the question if necessary. In the next step, you may want to categorize the question into pre-defined set of categories. Then your question will be up for answering. This question's validity will be upto some pre-defined number of days. You can always extend the validity if you are not satisfied with the answers and want to wait for some more. In the real time, if any user knows the answer, he can answer. He can also provide links to find more information in the 'Source' field. You can get multiple answers from different experts.

When a user first login to Yahoo Answers with his Yahoo ID, he will be provided initially with 100 points. Depending on the number of points you gain, Yahoo categorizes you in different levels of expertise. More detailed points distribution is as follows:

*All limitations are per day

You will have voting and other powers when you reach higher and higher levels. This point system makes the users more competitive and drag more attention towards quality answering.

You can start off answering here.

Recently i’m walking through the a demo video by Dan Morrill who builds a simple application on the Android platform.He is a member of google developer program and explain the following thing in the first cut of making applications for android

Note: The main benefit of developing application on android is the ease of coding and size of codes

From the last few days we have been hearing rumours that Facebook is going to launch its new email service. That rumours are proved to be true as Facebook has now launched the next evolution of messages. This service can be used to talk to your friends via SMS, chat, email or messages. It means they will receive your message through whatever medium or device is convenient for them.

Now every user of Facebook can get his own @facebook.com email address while the employees of Facebook will get @fb.com email address.

According to a blog post on official Facebook blog “To be clear, Messages is not email. There are no subject lines, no cc, no bcc, and you can send a message by hitting the Enter key. We modeled it more closely to chat and reduced the number of things you need to do to send a message. We wanted to make this more like a conversation.”

You have to wait for a while to use this new service from Facebook as the new Facebook messages service is still invite only process.

You can apply for an invitation to new Facebook messages here. I’ve already applied for the invitation and I’m waiting for it. I’m so excited to try this new service from Facebook and I’m sure you are also excited. Aren't you ?

Meanwhile request for an invite to Facebook messages here – http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/

Rivalry: 

But there is a very fine line between going open and losing privacy. Facebook has faced much flak in the past few days due to privacy violations. In short it is facing the ultimate dilemma of every social network which is that though it has a huge reserve of authentic data, every time it tries to capitalize on this data, it receives great opposition from the generators of that data.

Google is also aware of this critical advantage that Facebook has. In 2007 Google had attempted to acquire Facebook but eventually lost out to Microsoft( Facebook encourages users to use bing while searching the web via their accounts). Also in 2008, Google released Friend Connect the same day Facebook launched Connect which allows web sites to link to accounts on any of the major social networks—including MySpace, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, and Bebo. Even then success has eluded Google. Some rumors surfaced last year that Google was reconsidering initiating a deal with Facebook.

Google Analytics is one of the best tool Google has ever produced. Google Analytics provides an overview of visitors to a website and also helps in increasing the traffic to the same. It is amazing to know how Analytics really keep track of visitors and their information in a systematic way.

All you need to do is create an profile in Google Analytics with the help of your Google account.You need to specify the URL of your website. Google Analytics generates a script which you will place on your website or blog and you are done. Rest is done by Analytics!

Analytics actually records information about the users who visited a website. It provides a clean and crystal clear view about the visitors, their region, browser they used, from which website they crawled in, how long they stayed, how many pages did they visit, what keyword they used to find your website on a search engine, which page was visited the most, new visits and so on. The list is huge!

At first, Analytics dashboard gives you a summary of all the basic details you need. A graphical representation of visits, number of visits, number of pageviews, average time on site, number of pages visited per visit, bounce rate, percentage of new visitors, visitors overview(graphical), map overlay, traffic sources overview and content overview. Bounce rate indicates the number of visitors who bounced out of the website by just visiting the page they landed in, usually reprted in percentage value. Map overlay displays which part of the world has visited the most, which moderate and so on.

Next is the Intelligence report. Although it is a Beta version, this feature can be used to analyze how your website can proceed further in terms of visitors. You can use daily, weekly and monthly alerts to alert you with a mail on this report. It shows your progress as well.

Next is the visitors overview. Technical stuff can be analyzed here. Browser through which the user came in, type of connection used, which operating system was he using etc. New visitors versus the returning visitors report can be used to know how popular your site is getting day by day. Visitor trends, his loyalty, his network properties, mobile device information(if it was used to browse your site) etc can be found here.

Traffic sources will be listed according to the number of referrers. Suppose your website was visited from Google more number of times, Google will top the list and other referring sites will follow. Direct traffic indicates how many users visited by typing the URL of the site directly. Referring sites may be Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon etc. Another fantastic facility that Analytics provides is Keywords report. It indicates which words the users are using to search your site on the search engine. Using this report you can use these words more frequently on any document to draw more visitors. Keywords are most important when it comes to Search Engine Optimization of the website. Adwords is another feature that can be used here to analyze what is the trend in which the search for a particular keyword is happening across the globe. Suppose you enter a word as 'Technology', the related keywords that are mostly being used by Googlers will be displayed. For the word 'Technology', the keywords listed may be like this. 'Latest technology', 'technology news', 'new technology', information technology' etc. Depending on the popularity of the words at any instant of time, we can choose the keywords suitably. Like I have chosen 'Latest Technology News, Updates, Trends........'.

Content management helps you to know how to optimize the landing pages of the website. Landing pages are the pages which can be found with permanent links from search engines. Landing page optimization means optimizing the page with more keywords and appropriate navigation rules. Navigation Analysis depicts in which pattern the visitors are navigating through the website. This path can be used to attract more visitors to the page by adding some exciting stuff and other advertisements.

Analytics is best when it comes to online business sites. More visitors, more customers and hence more trade. They can use this to know what the customers are looking for. They can adjust their trading suitably. Apart from business, others can also use this to increase their popularity on the net. On the whole, Google Analytics is a wonderful tool to analyze and think what has to be done. If you have a website or a blog, you wouldn't want to miss analyzing your site. And this is a place you should look for!

Once the analysis part is over, the owner of the website will be very clear as to what changes he needs to make for his website. When he knows what the customer needs, his job becomes simple. He just needs to execute. The result would be increase in pageviews and hence popularity of the website. The increase in pageviews results in increasing the pagerank of the website, which makes the website to be found on search engines in the first few pages. Pagerank of the website can be verified here.