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Ever wanted your own web site for your personal blog or a web site that shows your potential customers the products and services you provide? There are many companies out there offering web hosting services, how do you know which one is reliable? Afterall a site that is always down either due to maintainence or faulty errors will never attract anyone to that site. Fortunately Web Hosting Rating, an online service that has a list of top 10 website hosting providers. The list consists of the names of the provider, the cost, the amount of space you have, amount of traffic and most importantly the actual review of the web hosting provider.

The review is very detailed with contact information right from the start, so if you want to contact them right away you don’t have to scroll through the whole review to find them, of course I suggest you read the whole review before you make a decision. The review consists of a general information section explaning what plan is this, either Windows or Linux based, monthly traffic (bandwidth), hosting space etc. The pricing section shows pricing for 3 months, 6 months, 1 year and 2 years. Then there are section that explains what CMS you can install such as Drupal and WordPress, bonus with signup, domain features, email features, site management, databases it supports, scripting like php and Python, ECommerce like PayPal Cart and Google Checkout, security and last but not least, site building tools that it provides.

As you can see the review is very detailed. And finally the last section is the user review where you can see what others say about this particular web hosting provider.

Aside from web hosting, Web Hosting Rating also has top 10 CMS (content management system like Drupal and phpBB) for those looking for CMS.

You should also take a look at its Articles section where it contains many useful resources regarding, for example, what is Linux Hosting, advantages/disadvantages of Linux hosting, the benefits of dedicated server hosting to what is FrontPage. These articles might not guide you to which provider you choose in the end but they are extremely useful articles to read, if you are into techy topics that is.

Not everyone knows how to do or wants to turn those pretty PSD files into functioning html pages by him or herself. html Markup (yes that’s the company name) will solve this problem by converting given PSD files into XHTML. turn around time is within 48 hours for the homepage and 6 hours for any sub pages. The cost is $79 and $40 respectively.

There are many benefits of using htmlmarkup to do the conversion such as clean W3C valid XHTML+CSS coding, cross browser compatibility (IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera and Safari), easy integration into any CMS (content management system), optimized for fast loading. The XHTML files are done by professional slicing team at highly competitive prices.

With a trust worthy third party helping with your PSD files, you can concentrate more on designing and building your PSDs without worrying about the time that needs to be allocated on the actual XHTML building. The time that is needed to bring your business up and running will be reduced and we all know time IS money.

The web site itself is also nicely done, though simple. It has a section on samples of its designs and positive testimonials from past/present users. And you can get quotes for the work that you want to be done by submitting the form on the page.

By the way I really like the blue + glow background.

As a site owner, I am constantly trying to improve my site to attract more visitors and to create a more enjoyable experience for them. One way is to get your site reviewed by others so that you can get feedbacks from them, both good and bad. Website reviews site like TalkReviews allows users to add web sites as well as review them. This is one great way of improving as well as getting more exposure for your web site. Its search function works pretty well as it lists out detail information such as site rank, description, categories (keywords basically), Google Page Rank, Alexa rank, link stats and also a unique visitor graph for a year period etc. You can also check out the top ranked web sites by going into their Top Websites section which is also categorized.

TalkReviews supports a total of 28 countries worldwide so you are not limited to just web sites in English but in other languages as well. Overall TalkReviews looks very nice and organized but I think it needs more graphics added. But since its only beta, I’m sure it will be changed later.

I recommend using TalkReviews for your site reviewing needs.

If you are looking for afforable car spoilers, Stewart Design has spoilers from 27 different car brands ranging anything from Acura to Ford. OEM paint job is also available for a resonable price. Aside from spoilers, Stewart Design also provides eye catching and professionally designed car and truck side graphics as well as rear window graphics.

When it comes to high performance race engines, you don’t want to randomly pick just any engine building specialist. With Ora’s Engines you can purchase from them with confidence with its 30-plus years of experience in providing the best possible quality high performance engines and auto parts to customers. It provides a wide range of auto parts such as engine head/block, crankshafts, pistons, timing sets, intakes and the list goes on. Aside from building high performance engine, Ora’s Engines offers non racing engines such as street, agricultural, light industrial and marine engines as well.

That’s not all! Ora’s Engines also offers special services such as cryogenics (a process widely used by NASCAR), thermal coatings, and powder coating that will help improve the durability and performance of your engines.

Now since my blog is all about technology and games, it only makes sense for me to review the site overall. While this site is not the fanciest looking one, it does have a rather clean layout with simple to use navigation. One thing I like the most is the Shop Tour section where its basically a slideshow of Ora’s Engines’ shop. The pictures really shows that the company’s facility is very organized and clean with extensive equipments and this should convince potential customers that it is serious business.

I recently found this site that sells all kinds of cables from HDMI cables for your HD TV, COAX cables, digital camera cables, computer monitors’ cables and the list goes on. Aside from cables, the site also sells cable racks, cabinets, surge protectors and shelves as well as tools and equipments to deal with the cables like cable cutters, electrical tape & tie wraps. I can surely say that this site is all you need to go to with all the cable related needs. The list of products that you can purchase is extensive.

As a full HD TV owner, first thing I looked at was the HDMI product page that range from HDMI female/female coupler which connects the two male ends of two HDMI cables to make a longer cable and HDMI female/HDMI male right-angle adapter which I have never seen. It would complete the HDMI product page if it had the HDMI selector, a device with similar similar concept as a multi-port USB hub which you can connect multiple HDMI sources like PlayStation 3, Blu-ray player and satellite systems to one single HD display device (HD TV for example), was available for purchase as well.

In terms of the site design, showmecables isn’t the flashiest site out there. But it is very easy to navigate through different categories/pages. I recommend this site to anyone who are looking for cables, and I mean any types of cables, I’m pretty sure showmecables has them!

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I apologize if some of you had problem viewing my blog this afternoon because I’ve been playing with this new layout Nano Theme designed by NET-TEC Hosting. I think the orange font color really stands out from the dark grey background. I thought the black/grey/white style is getting a little bit boring so I thought the orange would spice it up a bit. The layout overall is also cleaner and more organized, the old one was a little too crowded.

Hope you guys like this new layout!

Have you ever experienced a scenario where one of your frequently used programs stopped working because one of your hardware’s drivers was out of date? And what are drivers?

Drivers are software that all the PCs need in order to communicate with hardware such as printers, fax machines and scanners. One example of such scenario would be for example, in PC gaming, say you had a video card and assume you never updated your driver except the time during the initial installation when you started using your current PC for the first time. You wanted to play a fairly new game, chances are you would need to update the driver of your video card. Without updating your driver, you would not be able to either start the game or play the game in a stable way.

Now you know that your hardware are constantly in need of the most up to date drivers, you might ask, is this going to be tedious work to check for new drivers for all your hardware? Uniblue’s driver update tool called Uniblue DriverScanner will help you do all the scanning. You can get the free trail version from their site as well which scans your entire computer’s hardware/devices and displays to you which drivers are out of date, up to date and the total number of drivers you have installed. Full version will allow you to download required/recommended drivers by clicking the “Download Driver” button. If you are worried that the new driver will cause problems to your computer, the scanner also gives you the option to backup all your drivers as well as ones you have selected to perform a backup. When something goes wrong, you know have the backup to restore to previous stable state.

With this software, you will not have to worry about which driver for which hardware is out of date. With a touch of a button, it will scan your entire computer and inform you which drivers need to be updated. Instead of letting your frequently used programs to tell you they need driver updates and stop you from using them, let this scanner tell you what you need to update before you use those programs.