Blog publishing

Blog publishing tools can be further categorized into three sub-categories: Online blogging services, do-it-yourself blog publishing platforms, and accessory blog-publishing tools. Blogging services provide the blog engine that you need to get yourself started in blogging as well as the hosting. Though most of the services offer this for free, some of them require that you become paying members in order to fully enjoy all the benefits.

Blogger – Google’s Blogger is one of the earliest blogging services and it helped popularize blogging. It is one of the easiest ways to get started blogging because of the focus on usability and easy blog creation. The Blog this feature, which is integrated in many Google tools, makes posting to Blogger possible in many different situations. It is also integrated with Google’s Adsense advertising program that makes monetization of your blog quick and easy.

TypePad – Typepad is the largest paid-blogging service around. As mentioned, a paid subscription is required to create a blog using the service. It uses the Movable Type blogging technology but it caters more to the non-technical users.

Wordpress.com – one of the newcomers in the online blogging services, Wordpress gets its credibility from the success and popularity of the blogging engine that it uses -Wordpress.

Xanga – Xanga is one of the largest blog-networks, boasting a user base of 27 million users worldwide. It edges over its competitors by offering excellent community features such as blog rings, metros, and a social networking profile system.

MSN Spaces – Although it is relatively a newcomer in the blogging services space, MSN Spaces boasts of a huge user base, because of the ease at which existing MSN services users were able to start blogging. The integration with the rest of MSN’s services (hotmail, messenger) makes Spaces a very good blogging option for the existing users.

Do-it-yourself blogging platforms on the other hand, only provide the blogging engine. Although you have to find your own hosting service, DIY blogging platforms give you more control in configuring your blog. Below are some of the best DIY Blogging platforms.

Movable Type – Movable Type powers TypePad and it adds the usual advantages of a server-side blogging platform: flexibility, more advanced configuration, and total control over your blog.

Wordpress – Wordpress is an increasingly popular open-source blogging platform that is written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database.

Radio Userland – Radio Userland, one of the earliest content management systems used by the pioneering bloggers, is still a good blogging platform choice. It has solid RSS features that include a built-in aggregator. Configuration is done in a desktop web server then it is upstreamed or sync to the web server. This gives the blogger a cached copy of the whole blog.

Blog posting tools are third-party applications that are used to compose and publish blog posts. These tools usually support multiple blogging services and are ideal for those without a persistent Internet connection.

W. Bloggar and BlogJet – these are two of the best blog-posting tools in the market, and both are available for free. They support almost all of the blogging platforms. They do what most web-based posting apps does, including rich text editing, with the added feature of being able to save your drafts offline.

Performancing for Firefox – a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows you to immediately compose a blog post while using the Firefox browser. It is Ideal for active bloggers who use Firefox as their web browser. It automatically saves your unpublished posts.

Blog Reading

RSS/Atom aggregators and other RSS tools belong to this category.

My Yahoo – My Yahoo tried to bring the concept of RSS subscription to the Internet masses. Though it lacks the more advanced features, it serves well as a good aggregator.

Google Reader – Google’s web-based RSS aggregator that features an AJAX-driven user interface. It has a good support for tags or labels, and features a very nice reading interface. One of its best features is its labels-sharing feature that allows you to put aggregated content to your blog.

Bloglines – Bloglines is one of the most widely-used web-based RSS Reader. It uses the traditional two-frame reading interface, and subscriptions are grouped into folders. It has a good blog-suggest feature, that uses linking analysis to suggest which blogs might be of interest to you based on your existing subscription set. You can also share your subscriptions using Bloglines.

Blog Search

Tools used to search information and blogs, and to watch the blogosphere for topics or issues being actively discussed.

Technorati – Technorati is one of the best blog search engine, feature wise, and is indexing over 49.4 million web blogs. It serves as a one-stop shop for those who want to know the current happenings in the blogosphere, including features such as blog ranking based on linking, personal aggregator (for those who login) and many other nifty tools.

Sphere – one of the newcomers in blog search that came even after many other engines have folded down already. It promised to deliver more relevant blog search results, and it rightfully did so, as attested by its early beta testers. It features a “sphere it” feature that allows you automatically query http://sphere.com to see topics that might be related to what you’re currently reading.

Blogger’s Toolbox

A collection of other tools essential to the serious blogger

Mint / Measure Map /Google Analytics – these are three different tools used to analyze your blog statistics. Mint specializes in giving you a big-picture snapshot of your traffic, somewhat lacking in the providing specific details, something that Google Analytics is good at. Analytics can provide detailed information on what’s happening on your blog, which contents are popular, what keywords used in searches that bring you readers, and many others. It features a calendar to specify the time range of the analysis that you want to see. Measure Map, like Analytics is a fresh acquisition of Google, but still in early stages. It somewhat sits in the middle of Mint and Google Map in terms of what information is provided.

Akismet – Akismet is a highly-acclaimed anti-comment spam plugin for Wordpress blogs. It is free for personal use.

Feedburner – Feedburner is a tool that “burns” your RSS feeds in order to add tracking and analysis features. This way you can see statistics regarding your RSS subscribers.

The tools listed above are just a few of the many others that can help users; from those who are just starting to blog to those who want to become even better bloggers. It also includes some tools for searching and aggregating blogs, because a good blogger must learn to watch the blogosphere closely if it wants to be able to make more effective blog contents.

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Buy Yesterday’s Model Today

It may seem surprising to you to buy yesterday’s model today. In fact, you should buy your computers and other electronics a few months after they were released. Reason being is the newest technology usually has the most bugs. The manufacturers wouldn’t realize the types of bugs their products have until a month later when consumers tested and purchased their products. Then, the manufacturers will fix the bugs and release their products without bugs into the stores. This process usually takes a few months, which is why you should wait this time frame to purchase. Therefore, you can purchase computers and electronics devices without the bugs. Plus by buying a model that was released a few months ago, you may save money.

Buy the Popular Item

This may seem strange to choose a product because it’s popular instead of how technologically advanced it is. Usually, the popular products have better software, customer service, and easy upgrades. Remember the game consol war in the 1990’s with playstation one and sega saturn. Even though sega saturn had better graphics and gameplay, playstation one had better games. This is why playstation one won the consol war because the games were very popular, which made this consol popular as well. Before you buy, look at the popular product first. There may be a reason why it’s so well loved.

Buy Extra Storage

Some technology products have a certain number of bytes that allow you to store information. It’s important to overestimate the amount of storage that you will need since software takes up space and need left over space to run efficiently. Otherwise if you get too little storage space, your electronic or computer item will run slow.

Don’t Buy Based on Price Alone

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Whatever your gripes about Microsoft, you can’t fault its browser know-how. Each version has been packed with features designed to smooth your surfing experience, but there is one problem; these features are often tucked away in help files, or aren’t simply listed at all. There’s a strong likelihood that you’ve been surfing away in ignorant bliss, totally oblivious to Internet Explorer’s hidden gems, but we’re about to change all that forever.

Internet Explorer has the option to AutoComplete things such as forms, URLS, password boxes and more. To configure AutoComplete (or turn it off completely) go to Tools, Internet Options, Content, AutoComplete and check or uncheck the relevant boxes.

Internet Explorer may be your favorite browser but if Outlook Express isn’t your favorite mail client then it can become annoying when Internet Explorer automatically opens it. To set your mail client, HTML editor and other Net applications go to Tools, Internet Options, Programs tab.

If you have one web page you want to use as a base camp, but every time you click on a link from the page it takes you away from your camp, there is an easy solution. By holding down [shift] and left clicking on a link, the page will always open in a new window.

This is a simple tip but one many people don’t take advantage of. Rather than having to amend your toolbar or click on the specific icon, you can switch between your normal screen mode and full-screen if you press [F11].

This next tip is really helpful. Rather than spend time typing in the entire URL, simply type the name of the site (the bit in between the www. and .com) in the address bar and then press [Crtl]+[Enter], and the address will complete itself automatically. This only works for a .com domain.

Keeping track of where you’ve been can be invaluable when using the Net. That great site you found three days ago but never bookmarked can be found just by searching through your history.

If upon installing Internet Explorer you had any problems, then there is a way to fix the browser. First you must go to control panel and open Add/Remove Programs. Now select Microsoft Internet Explorer and Internet Tools and click the Add/Remove button. Check ‘Repair Internet Explorer’ and hit OK, and this should fix any problems.

Another smart option in Internet Explorer is that you can import cookies and favorites from other browsers. To do this open Internet Explorer and go to File then select ‘Import and Export’. This will open a wizard that will guide you through the process.

If you visit a site and want to add it to your favorites, there’s no need to go through the menu. Simply press [Ctrl]+[D] and it will be added automatically.

There is only a certain amount of hard disk space allocated to your temporary Internet files, but if you want to keep images of multimedia files it may be necessary to increase this. To do this open the Tools menu, then click Internet Options and then Settings.

If you go to a page and are interested in the links but none of the other content, you can just print the URLs out by going to File, Print and clicking the checkbox called ‘Print Table of Links’.

If your toolbar doesn’t feature text under the tabs at the top of your browser and you are still a little confused as to what each tab actually does, you can add text by clicking the View menu, scroll down to Toolbars, Customize and then Show Text.

To export your favorites to one HTML file go to File, Import and Export and select the ‘Export Favorites’ option.

If you have a wheel mouse, you can use the wheel mouse to alter text size. Just hold down the [Ctrl] key as you move the button up and down.

To send a web page to a friend in an email, rather than just the URL, go to File, Send, and click’ Send Page by Email’.

You can add and remove buttons in your toolbar by right clicking on the toolbar and scrolling down to Customize. You can then add and remove buttons and choose the size of the Icons as well as the text under the Icons (or whether you want it to appear at all).

If you want to view a page offline then go to File, Save As. You can then save the page in your chosen folder, to view later.

If you visit a site and decide only to return once it has been updated, you can request an email when the website changes. First make the website available for reading offline and then change its Download tab properties.

While most pages are a sensible length and don’t require you to scroll down too much, some seem to go on and on. To get back to the top of a page rather than scrolling down with your mouse you can simply hit the [Home] key.

Similarly, to get to the bottom of a page quickly, without the need to scroll with your mouse, hit the [End] key.

If you think you’ll be returning to a page repeatedly then why not place a shortcut to it on your desktop. You can do this by right clicking in the page and then selecting Create Shortcut.

In the olden days of the Internet if you wanted to make a desktop image you would have to save it, and if it wasn’t in .bmp format then you would also have to convert it. Now if you want to use an image you find on the Net as your background image, all you need do is right click on the image and select ‘Set as Wallpaper’.