A load of Social Networking sites

200+ social bookmarking services plus places like Digg etc..

Top 100 Web 2.0 properties - choose the more popular ones

Are We In Control Of Our Decisions?

Watch this video:

If you are not familiar with Dan Ariely's work, you ought to get a kick out of it. Excellent implications for devious marketers everywhere.

LiveZilla freeware Live Chat ROCKS!

Wow, is all I can say:

Livezilla

Installed about one hour ago and highlights are as follows:

Freeware!
Customer Live Chat (free of course)
Multi-Server support (MS & Linux, only needs PHP...SQL not required)
Allows for complete tracking of each website visitor (i.e. you can coBrowse and watch each page that is browsed to LIVE!)
Push a chat request window to the user LIVE!
URL Redirect Push (push a URL to the user live to redirect them to a different page)
File Push - Send the user a file to their desktop
Allows for full branding...insert you colors and logo
multi user and multi domain
did I say it was FREE!

Damn after spending all day researching about 20-25 different pay per month hosted options...this one is free and ROCKS!

Firefox Speed Up Tip

The speed of loading up firefox was bugging me today. So I went and had a look at some methods to speed it up.

Came across the following tip on this page

'secret', I thought I would post it here

A tip how to make Firefox run faster. in the address bar type about:config.
Navigate to the following keys

set network.http.pipeling to true
set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
set network.http.pipeling.maxrequests to at least 30
AND add an integer called nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0

This will significantly speed up firefox on a broadband connection

I have installed the tweaks and then spent the next four hours scientifically analyzing the performance increase. See the specifications of the test bed used and the performance numbers below:

Test Bed

I used an Intel Core i7-920 CPU for testing purposes, boosting its clock speed to 3.8 GHz in order to circumvent any potential CPU bottlenecks.

CPU Intel Core i7-920 Overclocked to 3.8GHz
Motherboard ASUS Rampage II Extreme X58
Video Card ATI Radeon HD 4770
Video Drivers 9.4, 9.4 Beta for 4770
Hard Drive Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
RAM 6 x 1GB DDR3-1066 7-7-7-20
Operating System Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1
PSU PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W

After performing extensive testing with browser, FTP, multi-tabbed, multi-access, multi-threading, multi-everything. I have come to the conclusion that there is a significant performance increase that averages as follows:

Performance:

www.cnn.com - .0051 second DLT (Decrease in Load Time)
www.tomshardware.com - .0066 second DLT

Yes, these tweaks are DEFINITELY WORTH LOADING...so get to it.