If you own a Web server or a VPS and would like to see how quick it is at delivering your website pages and how efficient is it’s response time then you can try the following cUrl command from any other Linux Box and test your results, while this test will give you response time of your own website , you can still compare it with response time of popular websites like nytimes.com and lifehacker.com to get an idea of how much you lag behind them ( You can be quicker in response time too , if you have a mighty server !! )

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No longer head scratching for your favorite username, you can check the availability of a particular username at a long list of popular sites on the web , right from one place namechk It’s a wonderful concept as it allows you to see your brand popularity and uniqueness as, now days brands are using social media sites for promotion and for that they must have the username corresponding to their brand name available and namechk happily does that, a utility worth being bookmarked.

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