SnatchCode Helps You Backup Your Website and Databases with One Click
SnatchCode is a one-click solution for backing up your website and monitoring it for changes. Not only that, but it will scan your website daily for viruses, malware, and unwanted/unauthorized changes.
With each new authorized changed, SnatchCode creates a new snapshot of your website. Depending on which plan you choose this will be done on a daily or hourly basis. You’ll be able to download these snapshots if needed, in order to restore your website to a previous version. For all unauthorized changes, you’ll be notified immediately via email.
SnatchCode also uses a 256-bit encryption for all communications and “all data processing is performed on servers isolated from direct access to the Internet”. With each new scan, SnatchCode is said to get smarter and better at protecting your website.
Getting Started
First you’ll need to register with an email address, password, name and phone number. Your email address will also be your username.
Adding a Website
Next you’ll be able to add your website. As long as you have FTP access, your website platform is supported; so yes, it will also work with self-hosted blogs.
You’ll need to enter your username, password, hostname (ftp.yoursite.com or IP address), and port (usually 21 for FTP). Since this is sensitive data that you’re entering, the page where you enter this information is encrypted for your security.
Backing Up Your Website
Once your website has been added, all you have to do is click on the “Backup Now” button and you’re all done. SnatchCode will begin with the monitoring and automatic backups. Backups typically take around 48-72 hours, but this also depends on the size your website; larger websites could take days to complete. You’ll be notified via email when the backup is done and/or if any issues are found.
Backing Up Your MySQL Database
SnatchCode also has a database backup feature, which is currently in beta.
It works the same way as backing up your website except you need to enter your MYSQL username, password, database URL or IP, and database/schema name.
Other Features
If you ever wish to undo changes to your website, you’ll first need to upgrade to a Plus, Pro, or Enterprise account. The option will then be enabled on your dashboard. This is a nice feature because if you happen to change something on your website and totally mess it up, you can simply go back to a previous version before you made that change.
As mentioned above, you can also download your backups to your computer for further safe keeping.
Pricing
- Free: Comes with a storage limit of 250MB for 1 site; backup is done automatically on a daily basis.
- Plus: Comes with a 750MB storage limit for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
- Pro: Comes with 30GB of storage for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
- Enterprise: Comes with an unlimited amount of storage for an unlimited number of sites; backup is done automatically on an hourly basis.
Benefits
If you’re a WordPress user, using a backup plugin doesn’t always make sense. There are some plugins that will save your backups to Dropbox or another secure server, but most will only backup to your own server. So if your server happens to crash, you’re still in trouble because your backup was on that same server and it will be lost as well.
With SnatchCode, your backup is saved on their server so there’s no worries about losing your backups.
Will you use SnatchCode?
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Adding Twitter Feed on Website & Blog
Twitter is a one of the place were people look for information other than three search giant Google, Yahoo and Bing (MSN).
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4 Website Traffic Generation Myths You Should Ignore
Generating traffic to a blog has become so important in the blogosphere today that writing almost any article on the subject of traffic generation is bound to go viral; and that is due to one major reason, people have been made to believe that traffic is the major factor that determines the success of a blog (which is true to some extent), and as a result are always on the lookout for the best ways to generate traffic.
The reality is that you’ve probably read a lot of articles on traffic generation that have been misleading you. Most of these articles were written with good intention, but some of the advice aren’t that accurate and can put a dent on your career as a blogger.
Getting traffic to your blog is all about having a clear understanding of how traffic works, and as a result, I’ll be listing 4 common website traffic myths you should ignore below.
1. “X” Tactic is the Best Way to Generate Traffic to a Blog
You’ve probably heard that several times before, and if you read articles about traffic generation a lot there is every probability you come about that in every article.
There is always that new traffic generation tactic everybody believe is the best. If it is guest blogging today, it will be article marketing tomorrow.
Just think about it, if a particular tactic is truly the best way to generate traffic then it would never expire. If you really want to build a sustainable blog or online business you need to think beyond just one tactic, you need to plan your blog effectively and create a lasting foundation for it; and you can’t do that by relying on a tactic that can expire anytime soon.
I’m not against using tactics altogether. Instead, I think a smart marketer should have a solid approach towards marketing his blog, and one or more tactics should be used to effect that approach.
2. Traffic is the Single Most Important Thing Any Blogger Needs
You probably hear this a lot too, but if you’re not careful, it will be the worst traffic generation advice you’ve ever heard.
Traffic is important, obviously, and there is nothing you can do with your blog if you don’t have enough of it, but there are a lot of other factors that make traffic work. In other words, there is no point in getting a million visitors a day if they can’t stick, or if you can’t get them to do what you want. As a blogger, you need just more than traffic. You need a combination of great content, the right design, a system to help you get the best from your traffic and a lot more.
No single factor is the single most important thing any blogger needs, and traffic isn’t an exception either.
3. It’s All in The Numbers
I’ve probably heard this more than once, and it usually comes from the “traffic gurus” who start calculating how much you can make if you get X number of traffic.
The reality is that it is difficult to calculate the effect of traffic you’re yet to get, because a lot of factors have to come into place. Traffic is not all about the numbers, and thinking that traffic is all about the numbers can be really misleading. The only time you can get results from your blog is when you start to think about traffic as real people, and that means not everybody is equal – in other words, if your main aim is to sell high-end products, you wouldn’t want to sell to teenagers.
My point: traffic is not all about the numbers. Instead, it is about getting yourself in front of the right set of people, no matter how small they are.
4. The Best Way to Get Traffic is by Constantly Marketing Your Blog and Brand
Not true.
While constantly marketing yourself and putting yourself out there is important, you can only do so much of that for so long. Smart bloggers know that they can’t borrow other people’s audience for so long, and as a result it is an integral part of their approach to build theirs.
Ultimately, it’s all about looking for a way to retain your visitors in such a way that you will be able to get in touch with them over and over again. You can do this by building a subscriber list, by building your social media following, and by doing a lot more things.
Just so you have an idea, an active subscriber is worth so much more than ten ordinary visitors.
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Generating Website Content Writing Ideas
Have you ever been stuck with what to write about? Think your brain is just tapped out? When you think about website content, writing can start to elude you, especially if you’ve done this for awhile. However, there are fresh ideas to be discovered in a lot of places.
Where can you get content ideas?
Use ebooks for content ideas – If you’re like most people, you’ve collected a ton of ebooks in your niche. Go through them and pull out snippets and ideas to write your own content.
Use magazines – Magazines are a great way to generate content ideas. It doesn’t even have to be in your niche. Look at the headlines.
Most headlines have something eye catching about them; Five Ways to Burn Fat Fast, Simple Ways to Get a Good Night’s Rest, Top Five Business Ventures, etc.
You can take those headlines, relate them to your niche and write about it. Let’s say your blog is about list building and email marketing.
You can use the headline; Five Ways to Grow Your List Fast, Simple Ways to Improve Email Marketing, Top Five List Building Strategies.
If you read magazines or books that are in your niche, that will work even better. You can read the articles and write about them. What did you pull from the article? What did you dislike? Turn your thoughts into great content.
Write reviews – Have you read a good book lately? Learned something new? You can write a review and let others know if the book is worth their money.
Check out news headlines – There is always something going on somewhere. Learn how to use recent news to your advantage. How can it relate to your niche?
Look at advertisements – They are everywhere; in magazines, on websites, in the newspaper. What grabs you? What do you not like? Is there something there you can relate to your niche?
Use the holidays, seasons and other noteworthy days – You can always relate these to new content. For our list building example mentioned above, you can write a headline like; Santa Has a List. Why Don’t You? or How Santa Builds His List.
Recap – Pull out bits of your best advice and share them in one post. You have snippets of great content ideas already in your blog posts.
Use them, combine them, condense them, expand them.
Blog hop – Go read your favorite blogs, or find new blogs. What are they writing about? Can you expand on something the writer has mentioned?
Use a feed reader – Most people use them to keep up with other blogs. You can use it to generate content ideas. It goes along with the blog hopping tip above, except all the content is in one place.
Do something physical – Getting some fresh air or going for a short walk is a great way to generate ideas, especially if you forget to take pen and paper with you. However, since most cell phones have some type of notepad built in, you can still jot down ideas you get.
Wash the dishes or take a shower – “The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” ~Agatha Christie
It’s absolutely true. I bet you get a lot of ideas as soon as you get in the shower, don’t you? Be ready to write them down as soon as you get out or you’ll forget them again.
Content ideas are everywhere. Sometimes, just doing something different will help you generate an idea. Get up from the computer, do something completely unrelated to writing–and an idea will surface. It’s almost guaranteed to work every time.
Still need help? Visit my author page for more website content writing posts.
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6 Lessons I Learned Selling a $50,000 Website
This guest post is by Chris The Traffic Blogger.
My hands were shaking like crazy and I had to focus very hard on entering my bank account information correctly. Just minutes prior a buyer had been approved for my website on Flippa (see the actual auction page here), and I had to somehow manage to calm down to fill out my escrow payment options.
The bid was an astonishing ,000!
Yeah, that amount was almost enough money for the down payment and closing costs of my first home combined. Even now, when I think about it, I still get chills up my spine at the sheer amount of money that my website sold for. If I had been a little more patient, I may have been able to sell it for closer to ,000, especially with the steady ,000 it was earning per month on autopilot.
Today I’d like to touch on six major lessons I’ve learned from selling my first website for so much money. It’s my way of saying thank you to Darren, Georgina, and all the contributors of this fine community for your support and advice over the years. Also to you, the reader, for your comments, emails, and patronage.
Lesson 1: Escrow and Flippa were great
I felt that escrow was essential for providing a safe environment for selling my website. The way it works is like this: if the buyer cheats the seller, then escrow holds the money until the seller’s goods are returned. If the seller cheats the buyer, then escrow charges the seller for the transfer fee and cancels the transaction entirely.
I also liked all the options I had for presenting my information on Flippa, such as attachments, a chart of the last year’s earnings, and even Google analytics. All this information was readily available on the auction page, along with countless other little details.
Lesson 2: You need to know the process
The only major snag in selling the site occurred when the buyer couldn’t figure out how to use my EPP codes and login information to transfer domains from my hosting provider to his.
This was one of the reasons why I went through so much stress and agony trying to sell my website—I didn’t totally understand the process either, nor did I have the experience of knowing how to transfer the domains to the buyer.
I lost about three nights’ sleep before I calmed down enough to come up with a solution to the transfer issue. Instead of trying to get the transfers done between the two of us, I had the buyer change my personal information on the domains to his and also my passwords so that he essentially controlled my domains.
Now the transfer process was on the buyer, not between the buyer and seller, since he owned the domains. This decision allowed us to move forward with the escrow payment process, instead of getting bogged down in figuring out the technical issues of transferring between hosting providers. I think I actually had a few hours of sleep that night!
Lesson 3: Submit your oldest domain
I had a blogspot.com domain changed to .org about two years into the site’s existence. When I went to enter my .org site’s age I put down three years. However, Flippa detected that the .org extension was only available for the past year and said that I was basically contradicting the evidence Flippa had discovered.
There was no way to go back without completely cancelling the auction, so I probably lost a few potential buyers to this mistake.
Lesson 4: Know why you’re selling months beforehand
I knew why I was selling my site six months prior, when I decided that I wanted to focus on other projects. I intended on using the influx of quick cash and free time to build up other projects.
To achieve the selling of my site which was so dependent upon me to survive, I then had to go about the process of replacing myself with a team of writers that could blog in my stead. The new owner was pleased to see a writing staff, as that meant he could take over without needing to create his own content. This was the only reason I was able to sell the site in the first place—otherwise it would be like Darren selling problogger.net years ago when he was the sole contributor. It just wouldn’t have worked.
Lesson 5: Use Google Docs like a champion
Google Docs were amazing for listing all the account logins, instructions, and writer information that was needed to run the site without me.
Given the time difference between the buyer and myself (I was on the US East coast; he was in Malaysia), Google docs provided us with a convenient method for storing information and communicating, and it worked out far better than hundreds of small emails would have.
Lesson 6: Sales funnels are essential
I understand that you most likely do not have a website worth ,000, but that you would love to get it to that point. If you are serious about blogging and want to turn your hobby into a business, then you need to create a sales funnel.
A sales funnel is simply a system for obtaining leads, building trust, and finally converting leads into buyers. Even if this is simply a post series that you link to, it’s better than nothing. Whether you use email marketing or advertise products on your sidebar, you need to have some method for determining how much money you can make per new subscriber to your site. This will enable you to make calculations regarding what services you could afford to outsource to and still make a profit while growing your site.
Even though building backlinks is crucial for growing your website, you still have to focus a large portion of your effort on your sales funnel, or else you’ll be gambling instead of taking calculated risks.
Other lessons
I’ve learned a lot from this process, and unfortunately I couldn’t possibly fit it all into a single post. I have compiled everything I learned from this experience into a downloadable report which can also be viewed online if you don’t wish to download it. There’s no opt-in: this is my way of saying thanks to you!
Have you ever sold a website? I’d love to hear what you learned from the process, too.
Chris is a self proclaimed expert at showing bloggers how they can get traffic, build communities, make money online and be successful. You can find out more at The Traffic Blogger.
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
6 Lessons I Learned Selling a ,000 Website
How to Increase Conversions With Google Website Optimizer
This guest post is by Joe Burnett of Who’s Your Blogger?
“I have a pretty (un)healthy obsession with email lists. I’m constantly telling my readers to focus on growing a list of active, engaged, and interested email subscribers.”—Blog Tyrant
You can capture emails with only one ethical plan: the visitor will have to give you his or her email by typing it in.
How do you get your readers to type in their email addresses? Will you use a pop-up lightbox, a sidebar subscribe form, or a subscribe form below your posts? Maybe you’ll give your readers a small, ethical
“bribe.”
What do I use? All of them! Each and every one of my past and present blogs went through a quick elimination process to find which tactic captured the most emails.
Never ask someone which email capturing tactic works best for them. The answer depends on the style of your readers, and the niche your blog is in. Is the readers’ attention span short, do they get annoyed, and do they take time to look at their surroundings?
But on your own blog, there is a reliable way to find out which tactic works best.
Testing your email capturing tactics
Google Website Optimizer is a great tool you can use to increase email opt in conversions. It’s surprisingly easy to use and produces great feedback, graphs, charts, and results.
How do you get started? First, you obviously need to login, or create a Google account. Click the Get Started button, agree to their terms and get ready to capture so many emails other bloggers think you’re stealing them.
Getting started
Currently you should be at your dashboard looking something like this…
Google Website Optimizer dashboard
Once you’re at the dashboard, click Create a new experiment.
You have two option here, and one is a lot easier to use than the other. The first option is called the A/B Experiment. You shouldn’t choose that, because it will involve completely changing the page you test, and for this exercise, we only want to change the opt-in form on our page.
The Multivariate Experiment gives you the ability to change specific section(s) on the page in isolation. In this case, we want to change our subscribe form.
Google Website Optimizer multivariate experiment
Next, you need to enter in the URL of page that you’re trying to test. This could be your blog’s home page or a specific post or page you’ve created. If you’re really daring go straight into your themes files to edit them, allowing the testing to be done on your entire WordPress blog!
The Conversion page is the location where new subscribers land after the subscribe to your blog. Both Mail Chimp and Aweber give you the option to redirect visitors back to your website after subscribing.
Setting up the experiment
Now Google Website Optimizer knows the pages that are used in the conversion process. We need to give the service access to those pages by using a little bit of JavaScript. Google will give you some code snippets, and all you need to do is paste it inside the pages you specified above.
Google Website Optimizer provides the code
Once, you’ve added all of your JavaScript tags, click, Continue to verify the tags. A small lightbox should pop up to let you know that Google found the tags on your blog.
Click Continue to verify the tags
Making changes to test
Now it’s time to make changes to the areas of the page that you specified. You can change your opt-in form to produce a higher conversion in many ways.
- Change the headline.
- Add a picture.
- Reduce the amount of textboxes. (Instead of Name and Email fields, try just an Email textbox.)
- Change the background color.
- Edit the text.
- Change the Submit button to something less standard.
Once you’ve made the changes you want to test, you can sit back and wait to see which opt-in form converts the most visitors into subscribers.
The results
Below are the results for testing the opt-in form on my website. When I ran the test, I decided that whichever combination of visuals achieved the best results would be the combination I’d use on my blog.
Google Website Optimizer test results
As you can see, I created five different versions of my opt-in form. During this test, the original actually performed better than all of my other combinations, with an almost unreal 41.7% conversion rate. That’s almost one out of every two visitors signing up.
The combinations were different because of the headlines and descriptions I used. I used three different headlines along with two different descriptions:
- Headline #1: How Does It Work?
- Headline #2: Guest Blogging Rocks!
- Headline #3: Guest Blogging Never Fails.
- Description #1: Who’s Your Blogger is an online guest post exchanging platform. We make it easy to accept guest posts, and find blogs to guest post on. Best of all, it’s fast, easy, and free!
- Description #2: Who’s Your Blogger has helped me land my guest posts on ProBlogger, Copy Blogger, and even John Chow. Trust me, Who’s Your Blogger has tripled my guest post production rate!
The results were:
- Original: Headline #1 & Description #1 – Conversion Rate: 41.7%
- Combination #1: Headline #2 & Description #1 – Conversion Rate: 20%
- Combination #2: Headline #3 & Description #1 – Conversion Rate: 30.4%
- Combination #3: Headline #1 & Description #2 – Conversion Rate: 25%
- Combination #4: Headline #2 & Description #2 – Conversion Rate: 31%
- Combination #5: Headline #3 & Description #2 – Conversion Rate: 21.4%
As the results show, my original message outperformed all of my other combinations, so it would make no sense to change the headline and description.
What can I do now? Of course there are many different tests I can run on my site. I might want to do the same test over again, but spend some more time coming up with headlines and descriptions that really rock!
Have you used Google Website Optimizer before? How do you like it? Leave your opinion below…
Joe Burnett is an amazing guest blogger. He created Who’s Your Blogger? to help increase your chances of landing guest posts on popular blogs by over 534%, and to find free unique content to publish on your blog. He teaches you exactly how to guest post and build a popular blog at the Who’s Your Blogger? Guest Blogging Blog!
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
How to Increase Conversions With Google Website Optimizer
Tips To Use Blogger To Increase You Website Traffic
Traffic, what does it mean to you? If you are a blogger then traffic is your livelihood, without it your blog will not last. What you need to understand is traffic is what makes or breaks a blog and that is why doing everything you can to get traffic is essential to making sure your blog gets the following that it needs.
When it comes to getting traffic you need to go where the traffic already is, Google. Everybody uses Google, so why not use one of their own websites to help you get traffic? The two best websites that Google has in order to get traffic are Youtube.com and Blogger.com, for the sake of this article I am going to focus on Blogger to help you get traffic. The reason why Blogger is such a great way to get traffic is because they have a high page rank, lots of viewers each month, it will pass some link juice, and it is very easy to set and forget.
The first thing you need to understand is how to setup a Blogger blog to work the way that you want it to. What I always do is I build a 10 post blog about whatever the topic is that my website is on and then I interlink all the pages together. The trick here is to target 10 different keywords, my advice would be to target keywords with at least 1000 local monthly searches each. The reason why you want this much traffic is because not everyone will go to your site if it is found on the search engines and an even smaller amount of people will click on your link. Just remember that this strategy along with the following 4 tips will get you more free traffic in a short amount of time than you have ever thought possible.
Tips To Increase Traffic From A Blogger Blog
Promote The Blog
Everybody knows that you need to promote your own site to get traffic but for some odd reason they think they don’t have to promote other blogs or Web 2.0 properties. Trust me, when it comes to getting traffic even Blogger blogs need to be promoted. What I do is I will write articles for article directories and other blogs and I will use 1 link for my Blogger blog and the other link for my actual website. Another thing you can do to promote the blog is to use social bookmarking, it is easy and if done right will actually get you a decent amount of traffic.
Add Pictures And Videos
Have you ever gone to a website that didn’t have any pictures, videos, or anything other than text? Don’t you get tired of just reading? It has been proven that pictures and videos will keep a reader on your site roughly 37% longer and that is why you need them on your blog. Not only will pictures and videos keep your readers on the site longer but they will also make the site feel more lived in so that it doesn’t just look like it is there acting as a portal to your main site.
Keep Adding Content
If you want to get the most traffic as possible then you need to keep adding content to your Blogger blog. I am not saying you need to write 1 new blog post every day but you at least need to add 1 new post each month. All you need to do is make it look like the site was not forgotten about because search engines dislike sites that never offer any new information.
Build More Blogs
Do you have more than 1 website that you want to promote? If you have a few websites then you don’t want to use the same Blogger blog for all your sites, build more blogs. People are always looking for a shortcut but when it comes to getting quality traffic there really aren’t any shortcuts.
Do yourself a favor, get out there and see for yourself how powerful this technique is while you are thinking about it. I am not saying that I am the best blogger out there and I know for a fact that I don’t get as much traffic as many other sites out there but I know what works and this is one of those methods.
If you have had experience with Blogger and it is sending you a decent amount of traffic then let us know about your experiences in the comments below.
About the author:
Adam Snyder has been able to earn cash online through his service business and through online marketing for many years now, if you want to see how he makes over 00 a month online then check him out at DormRoomCash.com
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How to rank website inner pages in Search Engines?
Inner page optimization is as important as home page optimization. Here are the points that can help you for to rank site inner pages in search engines,
- Inner pages rank better if you have unique quality content with keywords around. Do not stuff keywords in content.
- Make sure you write for users and then for search engines. This works best for conversion.
- Have unique meaningful page title, Meta tags & body titles with H tags.
- Improve your internal linking strategy by having breadcrumb, anchor text & sitemap.
- Also get quality backlinks through natural links, directory links & social sites links.
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Wanna Sell Your Blog or Website? I Wanna Buy It
The strategy I use to manage my portfolio of websites is the following: I alternate between “buy mode”, where I look around for interesting websites and domain names to purchase, and “consolidate mode”, where I work on the websites I currently own, tweaking and promoting them, and possibly selling the ones I don’t see potential anymore.
Most of the time I am on “consolidate mode”, to make sure I won’t spread myself too thin. In fact I haven’t purchased a new domain or website in 16 months or so.
But now all my current websites are on the right direction, so I have some time available to work on new ones. In other words, I am going on “buy mode” again.
This means that if you have a website or blog and are interested in selling it, I would like you to get in touch with me. Before you send me an email, though, there are some guidelines on the type of websites I am looking for. They are:
- The website receives at least 10,000 monthly unique visitors, as tracked by Google Analytics.
- At least 70% of your visitors come from search engines.
- The website has unique content and is at least one year old.
- The website has its own .com, .net or .org domain.
If you meet those guidelines please drop me an email on daniel@dailyblogtips.com and we’ll discuss to see if your website is a good match.
Original Post: Wanna Sell Your Blog or Website? I Wanna Buy It
View Updates for Any Website Right on Your Desktop with Snippage
Snippage is a tool that, up until recently, I’ve never really had a use for. I recently decided to give it a try because I was frustrated and had no other options. Unfortunately, I’ll have to let you in on the whole story to understand (just skip the next paragraph if you’d rather not…).
I am an online student at Full Sail University and our email system does not allow POP or IMAP access. So, that means that I cannot access my school email from any other client, just Full Sail’s website. It also means that I have no way of receiving alerts or notifications for new messages in my inbox. A few days last week I was expecting some important emails and I really needed an easier way of knowing when a new message had arrived (rather than having to check my inbox every 10-15 minutes). It wasn’t until this whole issue evolved that I remembered coming across Snippage last year.
What Is It?
Snippage is an Adobe AIR application that lets you “make desktop widgets out of any site.” In other words, it’s a browser that lets you snip a piece of a website and refresh it every so often as if receiving automatic updates.
How Does It Work?
You must first navigate to the website you want to snip (within the Snippage browser). You can then move around and resize the snip box so that it only contains the section of the website that you want to monitor. Click on the “scissors” icon and Snippage with cut down the site to the size of your snip box.
Options
Once you have your “widget” you can now customize it (there are only 2 options located in the top right corner of the snip).
Links: You can choose to open links in a new window or new snip. Click on the circle (pictured to the right) once or twice depending on your preference.
Refresh Time: You can choose to have your snip automatically refresh every 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours or never. Click on the refresh symbol (pictured to the right) until you get the option you want.
The Issue
I use Snippage on both my PC and Mac and have only really had one issue (which I was able to fix on my PC, but not Mac). It’s not a huge issue, but still an issue. The problem is that the snip/widget will not stay on top of all other windows.
I’ve found that “Always on Top” for Windows works great for keeping my snip on top of all the other windows I may have open. For my Mac I’ve tried using Afloat, but it just doesn’t seem to work with Snippage. Maybe there is another windows management app for Mac that will, but I haven’t tried any others yet.
Besides that small issue, as you can see problem solved with having to check my Full Sail email about 50 times a day. I can simply take a quick look at my snip to see if any new messages have arrived in my inbox. Snippage may not be much (it’s actually still in early development), but it does help to boost my productivity and helps to keep me sane! What more can you ask for?
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