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Opera 10 Turbo: A Browser for Bad Connections
Software & Programs If you travel a great deal, you’ve probably experienced the frustrations that come with surfing or even trying to post blog entries on a bad connection. Whether you’re on an overloaded wifi, a cell phone connection or even your in-law’s dial-up, as I am right now, you know how frustrating it can be to be away from your home or office’s broadband Web. However, Opera’s latest testing browser, Opera Turbo, hopes to ...
Continue readingImgur: Dead Simple Image Hosting
Domain Names & Hosting Many bloggers prefer to host their images elsewhere. Whether it is that their hosts provide limited space, they have bandwidth concerns or just prefer the convenience, image hosts like Flickr, Imageshack and PhotoBucket have served bloggers and Webmasters over the years. However, a new service hopes to make image hosting even easier for bloggers. Imgur (pronounced imager), does this by reducing image hosting to nothing but the upload. There are ...
Continue readingWho Do the Blogging Stars Host With?
Domain Names & Hosting In August of 2008 Who is Hosting This.com, a site that automatically determines the host of a Web site, looked at the then top 100 blogs and answered the question “Who Do Rock Stars Host With?” Predictably, there was a wide range of answers and many different hosts mentioned. There were some free hosts, including BlogSpot, others were self-hosted but most were on a wide variety of dedicated Web hosts that target higher-traffic sites. ...
Continue reading5 Gmail Labs Features for Bloggers
Blogging Like it or not, email is still an important part of life for most bloggers. Even though many prefer IM, Twitter, Facebook and other means of contact, email still plays a big role in the lives of most Webmasters. Not only is it still one of the key methods of communication on the Web, but it is also the primary way we get a lot of our alerts and notifications. With that in mind, Gmail has become the de facto leader in terms of email providers. ...
Continue readingWP Greet Box: Say ‘Hi’ to Your Readers
WordPress, WordPress Plugins One of the most difficult problems bloggers face is turning visitors into long-time subscribers. With “bounce rates” for most blogs being traditionally much higher than other kinds of sites (by some estimates well over 70%) and visitor retention is a very tough challenge, especially for for new bloggers that have yet to really build their audience. To make matters more complicated, with social media, there is an almost unlimited ...
Continue readingHow to Find Good Blog Themes
Blogging No matter what blogging platform you use, you are probably going to want to get away from the default theme or template. Most of the time, the default template is meant to be nothing more than something to let you set up and test your installation, not something intended for actual use. Though some platforms, such as Blogger, come with a set of extra themes, even those can seem stock considering they are used already on thousands of other blogs. ...
Continue readingPost Templates: Speeding Up Common Posts
Blogging Many bloggers do a series of posts that have a similar format or have common elements to all of their posts. Whether its podcast episodes that take a similar structure in their show notes, posts in a topic with a common header or even just a common signature line among all entries, there’s often a lot of repeated content from post to post. However, with default WordPress, there is no easy way of replicating that content. You can save a ...
Continue reading3 Firefox Screen Capture Tools
Blogging If you’ve ever needed to take a picture of a Web page, grab a logo or otherwise turn page into an image, you know well that it can be a difficult task. Though Windows, Mac and most Linux distros offer some means of capturing screen images built in, they are often not adequate for precision or annoted screenshots of Web pages. As such, several Firefox extensions have been written to help surfers and bloggers alike grab images from the Web ...
Continue reading5 Twitter Web Apps to Try
Social Media Most Twitter users, if they aren’t die-hard users of the Web interface, have their own favorite desktop client. Whether it is Tweetdeck, Twhirl, Twitterfox or something else, most people have a preferred program for getting, organizing and posting tweets. But sometimes you can’t get at your desktop client. Perhaps you’re at a friend’s house or checking Twitter at the office. You need a way to access Twitter without ...
Continue readingEvernote: Remember Everything, Write Better
Blogging For as long as there has been writers and deadlines, the “idea notebook” has been a fixture of almost every writer at some point. However, much as with everything else to do with writing, the idea notebook/scratchpad is moving online. A slew of services have come up to make it easy to quickly jot down and organize your thoughts, including bookmarking services such as Diigo and Del.icio.us, as well as more-targeted note-taking ...
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