Once you decide to get into main stream blogging or even running a site, a good and reliable host becomes necessary. I’ve come across many people who’ve been let down by bad hosting. A good host can make the difference between customers and visitors. The fact is that people are easily put off by sites that are slow or go down frequently. So, a web host needs to be selected with great care and detailed study.

Web Hosting Geeks

Web Hosting Geeks is a site that offers comprehensive web hosting reviews and details about all the major web hosts on the Internet. There are also numerous other features that help you compare hosts and select the best host as per your requirements. On the main page you find a list of the Top 10 web hosting sites based on overall ranking and customer reviews.

Detailed Reviews

What I liked about Web Hosting Geeks is the fact that all the reviews were quite detailed and contained a lot of useful information regarding the web host such as

• Host Rating
• Pricing
• General Features
• Customer Reviews
• Uptime Graphs
• Reliability Details
• Awards Won and so on

Based on the various web hosting reviews by customers and their calculations, each web host is rated by Web Hosting Geeks and are ranked accordingly.

Web Hosting Awards

Web Hosting Geeks also gives away to the best hosts in different categories each year. So, if you are looking for say, the best email hosting, then you can narrow your search and find the best hosting provider in that category. Also, the site provides Top 10 lists in different categories like

• Free Domain Names
• Multiple Domain Hosting
• Google and Yahoo! Ad Vouchers

Web Hosting Articles

Web Hosting Geeks also has a bunch of articles on how to select the best web host and the things you should look for before selecting a host. These web hosting articles tell you what you should be doing in order to select a host that suits your requirements perfectly.

A sister site, Web Hosting Ratings offers extensive articles dealing with selection of web hosts and common problems faced while dealing with cheap web hosts.

On the whole, this site is a good resource in finding web hosts for your site. The inclusion of customer reviews and ratings is important as that may help you make the final decision more than the feature list. The site is well designed and accessible, so that you can the information you want easily. You are able to write your own review about a host as well. Do check out the site and tell me if you liked it!

Many a time, you might receive calls from a number that you do not recognise. While some of these numbers may be valid ones, the other numbers may simply be used for purposes such as telemarketing or simply for making crank calls. Or you might have received a call while you were away and may want to know where the call came from.

The best thing to do in this case would be do a reverse phone lookup. A reverse lookup is one where you use the phone number to find out more details about the person or company to which the number belongs to. Free Cell Phone Lookups provides you with the details of the numbers you wish to search for. Basically, it directs you to locations where you will get the details you need.

It is a fact that getting a name or an address by means of a reverse cell phone lookup is almost impossible. This is because the numbers are not listed in public directories. However, if you search for a cell phone number using this site, you are provided with links to get this data as well. When you search for a number, the information that is provided includes

• If it’s a cell phone or a landline
• Its location
• If it’s a valid number
• Name and Address details if available

The other links that are provided include ways to lookup details on cell phone numbers at sites, where you may need to pay a small fee to access the information. The search also provides further information on how you can search for phone numbers and details more efficiently using the web and a list of sites offering such services for free.

There are a number of articles on the site that explain how the reverse phone lookups work and also provides details about the laws governing privacy and call records too. There are links that you can use in order to make a complaint about a particular number to the FCC as well, if there are unsolicited calls arising from there. Thus, Free Cell Phone Lookups is a site that helps you find details regarding phone numbers and also provides comprehensive details regarding the procedure as well.

Having a good and strong password will make it difficult for hackers to access your accounts easily. However, a strong password should also be something that you can remember as well. In case you keep forgetting your “strong” password, then there is no point in having one. Using symbols in a password would certainly ensure that your password is secure against brute forcing attacks. However, there are easier ways to make a password secure and easy to remember.

Password Bird is a online service that generates easy to remember but difficult to guess passwords. Basically, you need to enter a word and a name that is special to you, along with any memorable date. Password Bird combines this information and generates a secure password for you which is a combination of the data you entered earlier.

The service produces passwords of length of around 7 to 8 characters which is past the minimum requirement for most of the sites or forums. Since the password is a combination of some memorable words and numbers, you are able to remember it easily as well. You can generate a number of different passwords using the same information you’ve provided and use the one which you feel is easiest for you to remember. Do let me know what you think of this service. Thanks for reading!

More than once you would have noticed that a wave or a ripple like effect in pictures. The effect is pretty similar to the picture shown below, where it would seem like the picture is reflected on a bed of water which moves about in a wave like fashion. Most of the time it is enabled only by the use of Java in it, which means that you need the JRE to view such a picture on your PC.

However, a web based service called Wave My Pic is providing a service using which you can convert any picture from your PC to a picture with a wave or ripple effect for free. The service does not have any advanced features like cropping your images and such, but it simply adds the ripple effect and provides an animated GIF image for you to download, instead of a Java based one.

Keep in mind that the taller your image, the bigger the reflection will be and it won’t look too nice. Also, a number of options are provided to help you post the image to different social sites as well. The images have the logo of the site at the bottom, so that may be a disadvantage to some. Do check out the site for a sample image as the one I got was around 400 KB in size and I couldn’t post here. Please do leave your comments on this service. Thanks for reading!

Converting documents and other files on your computer to PDF is a job difficult in itself. However, with a variety of tools available, it has become considerably easier. But converting a web page to PDF is something that is not straight forward to do. You may need a software to do so most of the time.

Here is a service called Htm2PDF that converts any given web page to a PDF file in a matter of seconds. It is a free web based service that you can use to convert any web page into the Portable Document Format or PDF.

To use this service, all you need to do is enter the URL of the web page you need to convert into PDF and the service auto converts the entire web page and then provides you with a link to download the PDF file. You can download the file the usual way or open it via your browser and save a copy of it for later use.

An option is available to you to make any existing links “active”. By selecting this, you can make sure that the links on the web page are available on the PDF as links as well and not simply text.

The other option available to you is to include any flash movies that are present in the page in the PDF file as well. However I tried this with a video page from YouTube page and I got an error in displaying the video. This may however work with other flash videos.

Htm2Pdf also provides a bookmarklet to directly convert any page by simply selecting the link on the bookmarks part of your browser. This is an easier way to convert instead of visiting the site.

There are no mentions about how long the converted PDF file will be saved on their servers for you to download, however I am sure you’d have downloaded it by then. Do let me know if you know other similar services and if you found this one useful. Thanks for reading!