The more we cover some of the new entrants in Online Mobile Recycling Industry, the more we explore more such services and here’s another one you can consider while making decision of recycling your phone and end up with best deal possible.

CashForMobiles.info brings you the same mobile recycling option and helps you get cash for mobile phones but it also offers a unique option that you might not get from other mobile recycling websites. That unique option is that you can recycle your old mobile phone even if your phone is not operational at all.

As this web service lets you earn cash for mobile even if your phone is non-operational, it can be lot more beneficial for a lot of those phone owners who have no choice but to throw their phones into dustbin as their phones go beyond warranty period and repair takes more money than buying a new one. Their offer price for working and non-working units are obviously different but it’s way better to get less money than getting zero money.

Hence, whenever you plan out buying a new phone for yourself, you now have another web service at your disposal, Cash for mobiles , which might work out exceptionally well, in case your old phone isn’t working at all.

As we’ve quoted several times before, Mobile Phone recycling is currently the hottest way to get your old phone dumped, without hurting your pocket as well as environment.

It’s possibly the easiest way of doing your bit to keep environment green and also get compensated for a phone you no more require.

SellMyMobile is already a known UK brand in this newly evolved business niche and now, there’s another web service providing the same Mobile Phone recycling service using comparison engine powered by SellMyMobile itself. The website we’re talking about is SellYourMobile.info that lets you sell mobile phones for cash.

When you pay a visit to the website, it’s pretty much intuitive to figure out how you would sell mobile for cash and indirectly help the environment from becoming a victim of harmful by-products of mobile phone hardware, in case you throw it away in your dustbin.

So, whenever you fall into a position where you’re about to replace your current phone with a newer one, now you have one more site[SellYourMobile.info] to look into and see if you’re getting the best deal around.

With websites like SellYourMobile, ways to sell phones for cash are now more than you ever had and the chances are that more competition is going to enter this niche sector in coming future.

The next accountable expense that fluctuates over a wide range is Web hosting expenses. There are businesses that prefer procuring and maintaining their own servers. Timely upgrades, software licensing, dedicated manpower etc are among add-on liabilities that come with self-managed servers.

Web/Database hosting costs can go pretty high if you really want to own your servers and maintain them in your own premises. But that’s not the requirement for any startup that has just taken off. Most web startups(99.9%) are far from attracting traffic levels which are unbearable for standalone hosting service providers.

Hosting providers serve all kinds of hosting needs, whether ‘shared hosting’ for low traffic websites or ‘dedicated hosting’ for high traffic startups. As web hosting market is turning pretty competitive, some of the best web hosting companies are now amongst the cheapest web hosting providers as well. For finding cheapest hosting providers on web, stumble over some hosting reviews of various service providers (such as this one for Web hosting hub) and choose the one that suits your budget and needs. Remember that shared hosting is not ideal for high traffic websites and one should immediately upgrade to dedicated hosting plans once the website starts attracting big traffic spikes more often.

Apart from regular hosting service providers, yet another way to accommodate web hosting needs for cloud hosted web apps is services like Amazon EC2. EC2 allows scalable deployment of web apps and users are billed according to variation in traffic levels. In other words, the users will only pay for the bandwidth consumed by the traffic their web app attracts, rather than paying some fixed rental which may not be as cost-effective to the users.

There are other hosting options such as App Engine, more suited to hosting enterprise applications. Looking at current trends, Cloud computing based options are picking up fast. And as you explore more, you will realize more such options catering to different needs. That’s all for now about hosting for small & medium sized web startups.

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If that’s been bothering you then you just need to stop bidding and start sniping on eBay with goSnipe. goSnipe is a simple web tool that places bids on your behalf on any chosen eBay listing at the very last moment of bid closing.

When you join goSnipe with your eBay account credentials(don’t worry, your information remains encrypted and safely stored), this eBay Sniper provides you a seamless search UI for searching eBay items and sniping your chosen items with whatever maximum bid price you are willing to pay.

Once the price is set, you just relax and let goSnipe place the bid on your behalf at the last few seconds of bid closing. As your bid gets placed in the last moments, chances of a bidding war among bidders, which eventually increases the bid price, decreases. This way, your probability of winning any eBay auction multiplies, without any added effort.

For further convenience, goSnipe provides a quicker way of sniping your eBay auctions. Simply add this auction sniper in your bookmarklet toolbar and whenever you’re on any eBay auction page, just click the goSnipe bookmark, set the max price you’re willing to pay for the item and goSnipe. For any frequent eBay user, this web service brings a lot of relief and is therefore a Must-have tool.

Another feature that’s worth mentioning is creating ‘Bid groups’. Bid grouping lets you snipe multiple auctions of similar items and once any of the bids from the bid group is won by you, the rest of your snipes are auto-canceled. This maximizes your chances of winning the item at the desired price.

So, from now on, don’t bid, start sniping !

Meet LangOver, a free software that gets installed on your desktop and sets you free from language switching hassles. Whether the issue arises because your keyboard layout is probably in wrong language or you have a tendency to forget using ALT+SHIFT key combinations, LangOver makes it pretty easier for you to convert your multi-lingual text into any desired language, all with a mere push of a function key, which is F10.

After installing this freeware, LangOver will sit silently in your Taskbar, ready to help you with quick language conversions, anytime.

There is no constraint over the number of languages supported by LangOver as the freeware uses ‘Google Translate’ as its translation backbone, something that’s already a world-class translation service by Google.

‘Google Translate’ as LangOver’s main way of translating between multiple languages also leaves least chances of poor translation performance.

For trying LangOver without downloading its desktop freeware, you can use LangOver Online. In case you want to integrate LangOver within your own website, you can certainly do so by downloading LangOver SDK.

Actually, LangOver freeware will rather behave like a desktop app for Google Translate service, providing you with different ways of dealing with language translation issues in quickest possible manner(using customized Shortcut keys).

Using simple shortcuts like Ctrl+T, Ctrl+G etc, LangOver also provides a quick way to execute a variety of activities like performing a Google search, right from your word document.

Along with Google Translate, next version of LangOver can also bring more functionalities to its current set of functions by utilizing other core services from Google such as keyboard shortcut for Google Images, etc.

But one space, where things are appearing to drift away slowly but steadily from Microsoft’s grip is the Academic space. Schools and colleges are one of the fastest adopters of Google Apps, thanks to Google for keeping it feature-rich and Ads-free for student fraternity.

We’re talking about ‘Google Apps for Education’. Google Apps is a popular application suite for individuals/enterprises for web based collaboration, data sharing and document sharing. It offers an MS Office alternative to end users and lets them do all the work right there on the web. ‘Google Apps for Education’ is a free suite of collaborative and communication applications, exclusively designed for Schools and Universities.

Here are some of the most prominent reasons for switching to Google Apps for Education. Take a look

1. Save money by outsourcing your infrastructure overheads to Google : Google Apps for Education takes all your IT overheads off your shoulders by providing you cloud based hosting on reliable Google servers.

2. Domain centric approach for Schools/Universities : As schools and universities are generally domain centric and prefer maintaining an email system, exclusive for that college or university, ‘Google Apps for education’ provides that facility and lets schools create domains such as abc@xyz.com where ‘abc’ can be any student/teacher/anyone and ‘xyz’ is the name of the school/university. This way, content, calendar, documents, presentations and other academic stuff can be limited to that domain, that is, within that college or university.

3. More web and email space : Generally, users within a self hosted domain(in case of schools and universities) get much lesser space(tens of MBs), both web and email space and therefore, feel congested as they are used to virtually unlimited sized mail accounts offered by popular mail services such as GMail, Yahoo! and Hotmail. Google Apps for Education lets schools/universities provide ample web and email space(no need to delete any mail) to every student/teacher, no matter how many.

4. Everything remains under control : Schools/Universities generally prefer spending hefty sum of money in maintaining IT infrastructure, mainly for the sake of keeping things under control. With Google Apps for Education, you can administer allowance of all ‘Google Apps for Education’ services such as Email, Calendar, Docs, Talk, Sites, Video, and Web Pages to authorized users of the school/university.

Here are some of the videos of students, teachers and authorities talking about Google Apps for Education and why does it matter to them. Take a look !

And competition between these URL shorteners is getting so fierce that short(actually very short) URLs have started cutting the business of the popular URL shortening service.

Z.pe (visit ZPE Website here), is a similar service that’s possibly the shortest URL shortener ever, beating other popular URL shorteners in terms of length simply hands down. It’s just a three letter URL (a Peru domain) and lets you shrink your URL to the maximum extent(such as http://z.pe/4ax). Here are some of the features that make z.pe a decent option amongst the crowd of URL shorteners.

• z.pe is possibly the shortest URL shortening service(so more space for text)
• z.pe URL never expires (your link never breaks up)
• z.pe uses 301 redirect (So that PR and link juices are transfered to the real URL)
• z.pe is reliable (z.pe is based on Google AppEngine, that means we utilise Google’s infrastructure to serve you links )

z.pe also provides API support for developers to integrate z.pe within their application. So next time, if you run out of text in Twitter then z.pe might work out best for you.

At first,you get to see a wizard based approach to help you choose the appropriate options(ex. selecting regions or states within a country).Then,you just need to fill in require data as per your report requirements and get your thematic map ready to publish with all the colours & numbers in it.

For instance,if you want to create a geographical map that intuitively depicts established 3G networks in entire europe and further want to share the created map on your blog and even download it so as to embed it into a powerpoint presentation then this service will solve your purpose quite efficiently.For live examples,have a look at this and this.

Up2maps majorly targets students,researchers and Non-profit organisations.It uses ‘Google Maps’ to bring you the geographical data and blends with it,its core idea of creating customizable and embeddable  maps through it.

The maps are not only created by the community but also shared to the community(when users publish maps,it gets automatically public to Up2maps community) and therefore there has been decent efforts to engage and involve the users(both creators and readers) by public voting(similar to Digg’s),comments etc

You can browse over 50 countries on Up2maps.Map images can be exported to image(.png format) to insert within presentations.Data can by uploaded by excel files or typed directly within the application.Electoral maps can be created by painting selected territories.Data can also be uploaded by zip/postal codes,administrative codes or territory names.

Based out of Barcelona(spain) and co-founded by Marc Mauri,Eduard Santamaria & Carlos Mauri,this service is serving FREE at the moment but Up2maps might start serving premium accounts(paid,of course) with more enterprise features for hardcore & more sophisticated map creation.

As ‘Google Maps’ is neatly integrated with the core service and the UI is nicely done as well,the service seems quite a decent one and some more features will make it a better deal for online users.

Also,the effective domain of Up2maps is quite limited(customized map based reports for students,researchers etc) and therefore they might have to be be patient enough for really encouraging response and keep pumping more features into the site for quite sometime.