In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve moved my hosting to InMotion Hosting. I’m using one of their dedicated servers for all my projects and it has been very stable. They also offer a lot of affordable packages from shared hosting to VPS hosting. In term of tech support, they are the best I’ve experienced by far. Don’t you hate it when your server is down and there is noboby available to help you? If you are looking for web hosting with reasonable pricing and good services, I recommend them.

Now, if you would like to win 1-year free hosting from InMotion, enter a comment in this hosting giveaways contest before Feb 12, 2010.

Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs:

• Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around.
• More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. Shorten URL (e.g. bit.ly/buSzh) is meaningless because readers don’t know where the link is directing to.
• Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link).

How to Find Post ID?

• Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID.
• When you are editing or previewing a post, the number in the URL (on the adddress bar) is the post ID.

Layers is a Mac software that allows you to capture everything on your screen (such as cursor, application windows, palettes, menus, dock, desktop icons, etc.) as a layered Photoshop file. This tool is extemely useful for creating tutorial screen captures. I have 5 licenses to giveaway. Enter a comment in this post before Jan 3^rd, 2010 for your chance to win one free license. For more details about the app, visit LayersApp.com. Follow @layersapp on Twitter for updates.

Update: The winner are: 22, 51, and 86.

Everything (menus, windows, icons, etc.) is organized in layers & groups.

About Layers App

The app is very easy to use. Just press the shortcut key Control + Shift + S (default shortcut) and a PSD file will generate in the Desktop > Layers folder (default location). Of course you can change the shortcuts and capture folder in the application’s Preferences. In the PSD file, everything is organized nicely in separate layers and groups: menus, windows, palettes, dock, desktop, and file icons.

License Giveaways (5 copies)

• Write a comment related to the Layers in this post.
• One entry per person. Duplicate comments will be voided.
• Winners will be contacted by email.

Comment entries will be accepted until Jan 3, 2010. Then five winning number will be generated randomly from the comment list. Each winner will get one license of Layers app.