Tag: LINKS

dnScoop is an online tool that bunches many popular domain lookup tools into one. It's a location where users can check out the traffic of a particular domain, see the domains history, popularity, PageRank, count inbound links, and perhaps the coolest feature, get a site's dollar value report. Start off by entering your chosen URL, and then choose a category from the 10 supplied. dnScoop will ...

Linkification converts text URLS written on a page into clickable links. But there is much much more packed into this tiny Firefox add-on. This is a great add-on and to help reduce your frustration on forums and comment threads alike. Thanks goes to DLS reader kobewan, who pointed this out to us a while back. With Linkification, you get a new icon on your lower Firefox status bar (a circle with a ...

We all want to know how our websites are doing in this crazy World Wide Web of ours. Google just made this process a little bit easier with a great update to their Webmaster Tools. With the additions of the "Links" tab to the tool set, finding out who is linking to your site could never be easier. With just a quick verification of your site's ownership you can quickly and easily find all internal ...

NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a universal sign that something is objectionable or inappropriate or offensive online, is now going to become a part of many web developer's standard coding techniques. The idea is to put the rel="nsfw" attribute in link (a href) tags, much like the currently widely used rel="nofollow" attribute. This NSFW attribute will denote objectionable content that might get you in ...

When favicons first started to become popular, I have to admit that I didn't really "get" them. I couldn't see what the value was to having a dinky little icon in the address bar. Maybe I'm slow, but it also took me awhile to figure out that my browser could remember the favicon for my bookmarks or favorites that I'd visited, making it easier to pick them out from a long listing of links. Of ...

Those Facebook social bookmarking features we told you about the other day? Well, the wait wasn't long and it seems that they're available to everybody now, even little ol' me. Facebook, of course, isn't calling it social bookmarking, they're calling it "Sharing." There's now a "My Shares" link in the left-hand sidebar, and there's little "Share" buttons all over the site--next to photos, ...

TechCrunch's Marshall Kirkpatrick is reporting that Facebook is dipping its toes into del.icio.us territory with a new social bookmarking feature. Given the recent controversies over the News Feed feature and Facebook's opening for all users, the company is currently only letting Stanford and Berkeley users in on a private beta. The new sharing feature lets Facebook users bookmark both outside ...

You know how you sometimes end up with many undead links in your del.icio.us after while, and it frustrates the heck out of you? Well Mac users now have a solution to the problem. dead.licious is a downloadable app for Macs (using OS X 10.4 and up) that will verify your links in del.icio.us and give you the option of removing the dead ones. The program is odd in that it is not an online app, nor a ...

Here's a cool development I wasn't aware of until just now: Metalinks. Metalinks makes complex download pages obsolete by replacing long lists of download mirrors and BitTorrent trackers with a single .metalink file. As you might have already guessed, a .metalink file is a file that tells a download manager all the different ways it can download a file. The file itself takes the form of an open ...

It's a categorized, very complete and researched, magnificent list of hacks, links, and tools for del.icio.us. So, naturally there's a little something for everyone in there. How about mashups, skins, and even more lists? Out of the bunch I've picked through so far, my favorite has to be DiggLicious. With the perfect blend of digg's latest, a handy pause button, and the ability to add to my ...

Though Victor mentioned Listible in passing a few weeks back, I've been meaning for awhile to shine the spotlight on it a bit more. What is Listible? Well, it's kind of like Digg (if I had a nickel for every time I wrote that...) but for lists of stuff instead of tech news. Looking for a free game to play? Listible lists 26 of them. Looking for Lost fan sites? Listible has 22 links. Web 2.0 links? ...

Just when you thought the Google Calendar rumors were dead, here's a brand new one: Calendar is alive (though not live) and it's called Google CL2. This according to blogger Paul Stone, who says he went poking around in Gmail's scripts and found a mysterious something called Google Links. What's that, you ask? It looks like something Google has in the works that will give you quick access to all ...