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Another useful tool for finding keywords from questions is at Wordtracker. Wordtracker upped the research data they include from three months to a year, which makes this tool useful for discovering trends as well. You get data of what questions people type into search engines related to a specific topic. To get the most results, only type a single word related to your niche. You can also use the results you get as a starting point for blog post ideas. Since each keyword research tool provides different data depending on what sources they use to track data, using different tools is essential to finding as many keywords as possible within a niche. More keyword tools.

If you’re continuously looking for ways to find keywords or topics for your posts, take a look at what kind of questions people are asking on the web. A tool that may be very useful in discovering new keywords is Yahoo Answers.

Click on the ‘categories’ tab and then select your niche. In the live stream you can see questions as they’re coming in. Click over to ‘in voting’ or ‘resolved’ within your niche and you might actually discover a trend within your niche. Clicking on ‘fewest/most answers’ gives you plenty of opportunity to answer questions and possibly place your link here and there. At the very least you’ll get plenty of ideas for keywords and topics for your content.

One of the quickest way to come up with the right colors is to use ColorPicker. Simple, but with all the necessary features, it has hex input, a color slider and the ability to save colors to a palette. You can also choose from generated palettes with complementary, triade, tetrade and analogic colors. The only thing that may make this tool even better would be to add the ability to change the background color of the page itself.

Another free tool by the creator of Colorzilla is the Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator, an online tool that easily lets you create and customize your own designs, or the given presets and will output cross-browser HTML5 / CSS3 gradients (an HTML5 feature) without you having to create images as repeating backgrounds. With the gradient editor control you can add and remove stops, change color and position etc. You can edit the size (great for nav bars and backgrounds) and preview the results and copy and paste the generated CSS into your stylesheet.

Useful for all kinds of color tasks that may otherwise require several programs, Colorzilla puts a lot of tools useful for web designers into a simple to use extension for Firefox. Get color readings that you can then adjust and paste into other programs, measure distance between two points on a page, choose from pre-defined color sets and save the most used colors in custom palettes. You can also get info about DOM elements with the DOM spying feature. All in all, it’s a useful eyedropper tool, color picker and palette viewer that’s always ready to go right from your browser.

Facebook is making you believe that controlling your privacy settings is simple, but it can be quite complicated. MakeUseOf has put together a very useful guide on how to button up your page, so the settings are actually working in a way that you had intended them to work.

The guide has 52 pages, and it makes clear, that even if you do everything in your power to control your information on Facebook, it’s simply not possible: for example, someone else can post and tag images with you in them and in the process tell others about your whereabouts.

Excerpt from the guide: If you want to upload contacts, “Facebook doesn’t make you enter your password. It will find contacts from whichever account you’re logged into, regardless of which email address you enter in to Facebook. Sneaky, huh?”

>> We thought we’d found a way to stop the sound in Firefox…

We’d love to post a free resource here that helps you find out which tab a sound is coming from, but unfortunately we don’t have a resource for this dilemma yet! Do you? Let’s say you got a few dozen tabs open in your browser and you notice that there is some music playing. You close all the other programs, but you need your browser open to work with it, including all the tabs.

You’re trying to listen to a web seminar and you just can’t find the source of the other sound – what do you do? You’ve already checked the tabs and there are no YouTube, MySpace or other video and music sites open.

If you have a free solution (or very inexpensive one) for Mac and PC, please post in the comments!

For issues about computer hardware or computer software visit SuperUser.com to ask questions, post answers, or simply browse.

For specific programming problems, software algorithm, software tools commonly used by programmers and matters that are unique to the programming profession, visit StackOverflow.com.

If you have questions about servers, networks, ‘many’ desktop PCs (other than your own), visit ServerFault.com.

If you’re a web designer and you have questions about anything related to web and e-mail design, visit Doctype.com.

With all of these sites, if you have a specific question, it may save you a lot of time if you search first to see if your question has already been answered. Logging in is not required with any of these sites, but with registration you get to offer points to have your questions answered more quickly. These websites are collaboratively edited (like wikipedia), but all edits are tracked.

For lots of games to play on your desktop and to download visit FreeWorldGroup.com. You’ll get survivor games, Zombie games, war and assault games, puzzles, ship, car and bike races, golfing logic games and more. You get a choice of either downloading the games (.swf and .gif files), or embedding them. You’ll get ads, but there is a ‘skip this ad’ button. Below is “TANK:”

Search YouTube with instant search results. Results change with each letter you add to the search box on YTInstant.com and a video pops right up based on Google’s search suggestions. YouTube Instant was created by Feross Aboukhadijeh as a response to the new Google Instant in a bet with his roommate. YouTube Instant was built using a combination of the YouTube API and YouTube search suggestions. Feross is promising on his blog to make it even faster and add more features. Sounds great!