Enter to Win an HP Chromebook

I am pleased to be able to offer my readers a new giveaway and this is actually our first Chromebook giveaway here on DragonBlogger.com.  This giveaway is sponsored by BugScore which is an online scoring platform for people, businesses and Bugscore allows you to score, compare and rank this information. Bugscore allows you to score, compare and rank this information and even provides ways for users to earn by sharing their reviews and adding businesses … Read more

Free Video Background Music from YouTube

I am always looking for ways to find royalty free music for my YouTube videos and I know this is not a new feature but something I ran across the other day while exploring my YouTube channel.  YouTube has an Audio Library under the Creation Tools which can be found under your YouTube Account or directly by going here: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary In this creation library you will find a series of tracks in various categories that … Read more

Finished the School of #MAKEOURMARK Stop Motion Videos Class

So I finally was able to finish the Skill Share Stop Motion Videos class that I signed up for and that started on October 9th.  This was part of the Levi School of #MAKEOURMARK which had some great creative programs for people to learn and pay a low $10 amount and the money would go to charity. 100% of class proceeds fund arts+music education for kids through 826 National. The classes are presented in a … Read more

Amazon Launches Appstore Developer Select

Developers investing in the best possible Amazon Appstore experience earn premium placement for their apps, 500k mobile ad impressions, AWS credits, and the ability for customers to earn Amazon Coins for purchasing their qualifying apps and in-app items SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 8, 2013– (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon today launched Appstore Developer Select, a program for developers who optimize their apps and games for Amazon’s Appstore and Fire OS. Developers in the Appstore Developer Select program will receive a broad … Read more

Have Your Own Wi-Fi Hotspot with Internet on The Go

Have you ever gone someplace, and discovered you left your phone at home? Do you even own a cell phone? I don’t, but I do have several tablets and devices that rely on Wi-Fi in order to communicate with the outside world. Sadly when I need one the most, I usually have to hunt down a local hot spot, and there are times when they are not close by. It is at those times when … Read more

Review of VPN4All: a Secure Anonymous Proxy Solution

With more people being afraid of online snooping and privacy invasions especially after the NSA leaks and the amount of Internet information being scanned and invaded, a secured VPN may be a good way to add a little bit of privacy and protection from being snooped on.  It also has many other benefits as well such as ducking around ISP restrictions or country region locks on content as well as allows you to access sites … Read more

Skillshare School of #MakeOurMark: Learn Some Creative Skills Quickly

I love learning and there is not a day that goes buy that I don’t spend some part of it learning and mostly it is by reading blogs, things I find on the web or watching video tutorials on how to do things.  I also have no limit to how much I want to learn, artistic stuff, technical stuff, entertaining things I just have a craving to learn as much as possible and diversify my … Read more

How to Leverage Interact Quizzes for Email Lead Generation

I will be the first to admit that I really haven’t tested out quizzes at all for email lead generation or audience engagement over the past several years of blogging other than an occasional poll to see what product a user wants to see me giveaway next. So when Interact contacted me to test out and showcase their quiz builder and interaction tool for sites to help engage readers and add entertainment as well as … Read more

Showcasing Keep and Share for User Collaboration

Keep & Share is a very versatile collaboration service with social, professional and personal tools for team and event management, file and photo sharing, database management and daily To-Do lists. Let’s review the main features in detail. · A Calendar app with email and text alerts lets you set reminders for future events as well as share those alerts with your friends and colleagues! Premium accounts offer up to 30 different calendars per user, while … Read more

The Simple Way of Embedding Chatwing Into Your Site

Most people nowadays love to chat with their friends or families and even with people they don’t know. And with the vast number of chatting tools one can use over the internet, it’s really not that hard to do so. But what about creating a chatroom for a site so it can have the user can have the capability to chat with his viewers? That can be pretty easy too with Chatwing chat app. Chatwing … Read more

Managing Domain Names with Off Site DNS

Very few hosting providers offer off-site DNS, GoDaddy is the only major one that I know of, so when I switched DragonBlogger.com from a Bluehost shared hosting plan to WebSynthesis back in February I wasn’t thinking about the fact that I need an Offsite DNS management because WebSynthesis only hosts your WordPress they don’t do any domain management at all. Most hosting providers that use CPanel like Bluehost, Hostgator, Hostmonster…etc require that you have a … Read more

Add Two Factor Authentication to WordPress Login with Incapsula

This post is directly aimed at fellow CMS system users, which are those who use WordPress, Joomla or other CMS systems that have a specific administrative or login interface.  Incapsula has always offered some of the best cloud security features for your site and is completely free if you have less than 50GB of bandwidth usage per month, but now they also added their Login Protection package which offers two factor protection and you get … Read more

How to Randomize Your Spotify Playlist Tracks

One of my favorite features of the older mp3 player that I loved back in the day was WinAmp, this tool had the ability for you to just randomize your playlist order so that the tracks themselves re-arranged in a random order.  This meant you can play your tracks consecutively without it being a shuffle which is where the track # being played is random and you can’t play your tracks in order, specifically keep … Read more

modern.IE: The Best Cross Browser Testing Tool For Web Developers

As a web designer, one of the most annoying parts of designing a website is cross-browser testing to make sure the site functions and/or looks proper on all browsers. The reason this causes so many headaches is that many designers like myself choose to use either a Mac or Linux computer, so we don’t have easy access to Internet Explorer – Microsoft’s web browser made specifically for Windows computers. Up until March 13, 2013, I … Read more

VPN Steganos Online Shield 365 Review

With today’s rampant issues about breaches in security, identity theft, hackers, and viruses while connected to the internet it is becoming ever more important to make sure you are secure online. This is where the Steganos Online Shield 365 comes to play. It is a VPN service which will change your physical IP and encrypt all of your data being transmitted online. Read more to take a look at my review of the Steganos Online … Read more

Download YouTube Movies and Convert Them Free

My kids are obsessed with watching Minecraft videos on YouTube and when we had to go on a trip recently they wanted me to find a way to download YouTube movies and put their YouTube videos on their Kindle Fires so they can watch them in the car without any Wi-Fi access on the long drive.  Well a quick turn and scouring everything from Google Chrome Extensions to software, I found something that works very … Read more

Top 7 Google Chrome Extensions to Enhance Usability

Google Chrome is by far the most popular web browser across the globe. According to recent statistics from W3 Schools, the Google chrome web browser is being used by 52.7% of users.  There are multiple reasons to why it became so much popular. Just to outline few, the Chrome web browser starts up within few seconds and is being supported by a massive number of developers who are constantly updating their apps and extensions. There … Read more

Top 5 Google Chrome Note Taking Extensions

Technology has evolved so extensively and you can see the difference by checking out different activities that you were used to doing about 3-4 years ago compared to how you do them today. Do you even remember when was the last time you’ve used a pen and sheet of paper to take down notes from the Internet or to write down your ideas? Do you ever write down web page URL’s on a sheet of … Read more

5 Top Google Chrome Fitness Extensions

Fitness-savvy guys and girls, I’m sure that you would have been using plenty of fitness applications on your smartphones. After-all they have been providing real value for the fitness activities you do by keeping track of your daily tasks and some track your food intake as well. But what if you don’t have a smartphone or you don’t want to use your smartphone for recording these activities? There is an alternative for those of us … Read more

5 Best Photo Editing Google Chrome Extensions

As you all know, Google Chrome is a very popular Internet browser which is used by millions. One of the main reasons Google rose to the top of the browser market is due to the powerful developer support and simplicity that comes from Chrome Extensions. There are thousands of Google Chrome extensions and many of which are very useful and when it comes to photo editing.  The Google Chrome web store is crowded with a … Read more