Desktop blogging client, if you are wondering what the F is that- it’s not replacement of your blog but a tool that helps you to blog from your desktop without logging into your blog/ blog admin. Desktop blogging clients allows you to manage multiple blogs regardless of platforms, write posts on the fly, as well as perform some limited administrative tasks. Why Desktop Client Desktop blogging clients keeps the published posts on the local hard drive and thus one has got the backup of each and every post which is posted through, blogging client and thus in worse situations like data loss, you’ll not be worried about losing all the posts. Blogging clients easily integrate images and easily …
WordPress Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, pages, archives and other kinds of postings. Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual postings, which are supposed not to change. If permalink change, you will end up having missing links, page rank drop etc. Now like its predecessor WordPress 2.7 got all the cool permalink features to make posting URI the way you like (well almost all logical variant). Example:-
Ugly/Default: http://bloggism.net/?p=123
Day and name: http://bloggism.net/2009/04/09/sample-post/
Month and name: http://bloggism.net/2009/04/sample-post/
Talkr allows users to listen to our blog posts (in Mp3 format) instead of reading it. This is functionality that can increases the accessibility of your blog, not just to disabled users, but to everyone who may wish to download your posts and listen to them on a train. Talkr is very well known, yet you will notice very few bloggers using it. Moreover, only a handful of bloggers utilized it properly. So what’s the catch! The catch is very simple, you just have to follow a few simple steps to get it to working properly. …
We all well aware of the two biggest names in JavaScript framework family is Prototype and jQuery (Unordered, if by any chance anyone might think why I mentioned prototype first :p ). When it comes to Web application development these two JS framework simply just blessings, depend on situation and methodology. I have used both Prototype and jQuery in numerous applications, just not at the same time until recently.
I always liked the syntax simplicity of jQuery yet felt the needs of Prototype library in addition to jQuery goodness. Unfortunately had to always keep them apart due to syntax conflict, the use $ in two different manner. Imagine …
Many people consider Open Source can’t be suitable for corporate usage, especially when it comes to blogging. Some blogging platform even put out slogans like “Corporate/professional blog publishing platform”, well if you poke around a bit, soon you will find out that is nothing but just a sales speech. Reason for this post is in fact talking about a particular blog publishing platform, WordPress. In the past I came across quite a large number of people who blindly believe (never did try by themselves)- WordPress might be good, but not good enough to showcase their corporate/professional/enterprise blogging. In no way I …
In case you are wondering what is pagination? It’s mechanism to break large quantity of data/text into pages for better usability and accessibility. For instance think you are searching for “Free blog tools” on Google, which will return around 35,500,000 results and if Goggle show you all the results in one single page-just guess how you will react? But they don’t, instead they break the results into several pages and you notice a numbered navigation link (ref: Fig. 1a) bellow each page for better navigation. Not only Google or other search engines but as well many top class web sites like New York Times, BBC so many others. Pagination is all about increasing usability where certain article turns …
These are very easy to do stuffs, nothing complex yet in time you will find it useful. Most no-tech blogger intend to do everything through plug-ins, but why install dozens of plug-in while you can get away with just adding few tweaks? So here are five simple tweaks that will make your WP life a lot comfortable.
Denying access to non-referrer request/Spam-bot request via .htaccess
This is simple and straight forward way to deal your referrer spam. Well off course considering your server is Apache with mod_rewrite module installed. Since all the games played in the wp-comments-post.php file and spam-bots usually does not …
You better be ready! Since “Dexter”, as in WordPress 2.3 is already launched just a few hours ago (At the time of this posting). I was expecting the release sometime this morning, didn’t expected it almost half day earlier 
. So why is this WP 2.3 so special? Cause WordPress 2.3 comes with tons of features that we the users were craving for a long time. Apart from feature richness “Dexter” also took care of over 351 bugs/trouble tickets that were due in Trac. The kick ass features that will rock your blogging- 1. Automated …
Talking about the facts, not all the organization and people run their server under Unix/Linux. In fact a large number of organization/entity prefers windows based server for their hosting solution. Anyway our discussion is not about argument whether to choose Linux/Unix or Windows based server. So what are the blog publishing software/applications for those who seeks windows server based self hosted solution? That’s what we are going to discuss. We all know there are huge arrays of open-source blog publishing application out there, as well as enterprise class self-hosted solutions, but unfortunately very few of them can be hosted on a windows server. So today’s picks for blogging software/application based on Microsoft windows server- …
Last year I wrote two articles (Blogger’s Gear 1 & 2) featuring some of the most outstanding blog platforms/apps. But a lot of changes came to blogosphere since then, some of those tools grew bolder and some of those lost in thin air. Not only that, we were presented with a lot more new tools /apps for blogging. So I decided to give a blogging tools roundup which are available now not used to be available last year. You can say revision with amendment and affix. As you can feel it’s not possible to cover all those outstanding apps/platforms in a single blog post. That’s why we will cover all those in different series (Two in each series). …