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4 Things Yoga Can Teach You About Blogging. What can Yoga teach you about Blogging? Stretching, breathing, and posing may not seem like the guidelines for getting out good quality posts week after week. Yoga is something for active people, not bloggers spending an average of 9.5 hours a day parked in front of their computer screens. Advertisements However, whether as full-on practitioners or single class drop-in types, bloggers will find that yoga has a great deal to teach them about the blogging process. 1. Shut Out The Outside World One of the first steps in yoga is to make a conscious barrier between yourself and the outside world. Shut down or disable anything that you don’t need for your current post. 2. Another key part of yoga practice is centering your thoughts. The dozen tasks that need done today, the piles of laundry, the empty fridge, and all the worries and cares of the world have a tendency to crowd in. 3.

Form matters in yoga, and is a central path to moving beyond basic beginner status to the big league. 4. Top 10 Free Desktop Blog Editors for Windows. Although many users have gotten used to updating their blogs directly on the web, desktop blog editors have certain advantages, and it would be a shame not to try them out. We've gathered 10 free desktop blog editors for Windows; some are plugins, while others are full-featured standalone applications. Windows Live Writer Windows Live Writer comes from Microsoft and you will have that familiar feeling of working with an Office application while using this desktop blog editor.

When it comes to features, Live Writer is the most complete desktop blog editor of the lot. It has everything that you would like to see in a blog editor - multiple blog accounts, compatibility with multiple blog platforms, rich text formatting, draft saving, post categorization, picture and tag insertion, spell checking, pinging search engines automatically, and synchronizing draft changes on the editor with the blog. What takes Windows Live Writer a step ahead are features such as inserting maps and videos. Qumana. Writer for Windows Mobile. How to publish your blog feed to Twitter and Facebook. 9 Open Source Microblogging Applications. Microblogging, with the wide usage of Twitter, is a hot subject in today’s web. Using few words & spending less effort compared to the standard blogging, it becomes possible to share knowledge, feelings, etc.

And, it keeps users connected to other users with the simple yet powerful community features. While there are very popular microblogging services like Twitter, Tumblr or Plurk, being a rival may not be (or may be) the best idea. However, in order to create something unique, a community for a closed group or a microblog for a single user, there are still huge opportunities. Here are 9 open source microblogging applications to create your own: StatusNet (PHP) StatusNet (previously Laconica) is the engine which runs the popular microblogging site Identi.ca. It is built with PHP/MySQL & offers a smooth usage as it is a widely used, mature application.

P.S. Yonkly (Asp.Net) Yonkly is an Asp.Net-powered Twitter-clone for creating your own microblogging community network. JaikuEngine (Python) StatusNet – Open Source microblogging service. Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche. In the early days of blogging you could go to the Technorati Blog Index, enter some identifying terms for a particular niche topic and discover what the top blogs were in the field.

Identifying top niche blogs is invaluable knowledge for anyone wanting to enter, study or market to people in a particular field. It's one of the fastest and most effective ways to learn the lay of the land and get involved in the community of successful artists, real estate agents or 4-H club leaders using social media. I've been seeing a lot of demand for this information lately so I thought I'd write up some quick pros and cons of the options I'm familiar with. Perhaps you'll add some of your own favorite methods in comments. Editor's note: Looking back over 2008, there were some posts on ReadWriteWeb that did not get the attention we felt they deserved - whether because of timing, competing news stories, etc. So in this end-of-year series, called Redux, we're resurrecting some of those hidden gems.

Pros: The 7 Best Blogs About Blogging. Every blogger has to start somewhere. Thankfully, there are no shortage of great Websites that are chock full of information that will help the amateur blogger mature into a seasoned online scribe. With so many fly-by-night operations, here are 7 of my favorite blogs about blogging that have had serious staying power. Problogger Australian blogger Darren Rowse has undoubtedly been responsible for the success of hundreds – if not thousands of bloggers. While the exact number might be difficult to quantify, you’d be hard pressed to find a blogger who at one time or another, did not visit Problogger to make sure they were not committing a blogging faux pas.

Copyblogger The success of blogs are based on several different variables, but at the end of the day, well-written and compelling content will be the main ingredient. BlogHerald BH is your source for news that pertains to blogging. JohnChow.com There might not be an Internet celebrity that can polarize people the way John Chow can. 15 Beautiful and Free Blogspot Templates. Marisdagis on July 17, 2009 6:48 AM For those bloggers who use Blogspot as they blog platform and want to spice up the design of the blog I can recommend to take a look at these amazing Blogger themes.

3 Tips for Blogging With Firefox. Top 10 Tools for Your Blog or Web Site - Domain Names. 7 Great Plugins For Windows Live Writer 2009 | MakeUseOf.com. I have been using Windows Live Writer 2009 for about a month now; for me, it was love at first use. If you haven’t used it before you should really take advantage of the new Windows Live Writer. For me, Windows Live Writer really makes blogging enjoyable and I especially love the ability to add plugins. There is an extensive list in the Windows Live Gallery but these are the 7 that, in my opinion, are a must have for Windows Live Writer users.

But before we begin, I strongly recommend you check out earlier MakeUseOf article Five Things To Do After Installing Windows Live Writer. . - Turn on Spell Check - Use Link Glossary - Configure FTP - Learn the Shortcuts - Set Blog Pings Now, back to plugins. Flickr4Writer If you use Flickr for uploading and sharing your photos then this is a great plugin for you. xPollinate Twitter Notify This is great for all you Twitter lovers. DiggThis This is a very simple plugin that allows you to manually add a Digg button or badge to your blog posts. Tag Generator. Blog Exclusively From Your Desktop (Windows) | MakeUseOf.com.

In recent times, most people that surf the web have or have had a blog. And as we’re living in the technologically advanced era, we’re prone to yearning for making anything that seems remotely inconvenient, well, simple. This is where this quick, easy, and simple desktop blogging tool comes into place. Why not simplify the way you manage your blog and post without having to open your WordPress, Drupal, or any such blogging platform dashboard? Lets Blog With BlogDesk BlogDesk allows you to quickly write and publish posts onto your blog with the click and stroke of a few keys. With the support of WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity, and others, it allows space for the diverse use of not only multiple blogs, but multiple blogs on several different blogging platforms. Here’s How: The first thing you’ll have to do once you’ve downloaded your desktop client is scroll to the menu bar up top, select ‘file’, and click on ‘manage blogs’.

Adding a Post Adding a post if fairly simple. Yonkly - Home. Squid Micro-Blogging Library - Home. Create your free blog. Kolablog.com. Beautiful Blog Widgets - Wowzio. WordPress.com » Get a Free Blog Here. Blogging Software, Business Blogs & Blog Services at TypePad.com. Blogware - Blog Builder Software for Blogs and Blogging. Create your free blog. Bleezer. Qumana blog editor and blogging tools.

Thingamablog. Simple Blog .NET - Home. Blog Tipz. Moderator desktop app for moderating WordPress blog comments - Download Squad. If you have a blog that gets a lot of comments, you might be finding that logging into your blog's administration panel to moderate comments has become a bit of a laborious process. If your blog runs on the WordPress platform and is self-managed, you might like to check out the Moderator plugin and associated Adobe Air desktop application.

The concept here is straightforward: install the plugin on your blog, then follow the instructions to install the Air application on your Windows or Mac machine. From there, you get a nice quick application from which to review comments and either approve, delete, or mark them as spam. As the site currently warns, you might find a performance problem if your site has hundreds of unmoderated comments when installing Moderator. The easy and obvious work-around is to ensure that you are up-to-date in your moderating before installing the plugin. Tags: adobe-air, comment-moderation, comments, freeware, moderating, Moderator, wordpress. 11 great free portable apps for blogging on the go! - Download Squad. I can't always get to my main laptop when I feel like putting together a blog post. If you've read some of my other lists, you probably noticed that I'm a big fan of portable applications for just this reason.

As long as I've got my trusty USB flash drive, I'm always equipped with the programs I need to get things done. Here are ten of my favorites (plus two alternatives). With these programs in my pocket, I'm always able to write when inspiration strikes - regardless of what computer I'm using. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. If you're a blogger or writer and I missed one of your favorites, share it with us in the comments! Tags: blog, blogging, freeware, portable, portable-apps, usb.

10 essential web apps for bloggers - Download Squad. Used to be desktop applications were essential to getting the job done, whatever the job may have been, large or small. Now, with all the nimble web apps to choose from, the idea of firing up a huge application for a small task seems almost, well, unproductive and wasteful. Yeah, sure, no one is suggesting you do away with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quickbooks and other heavy hitters. However, there are excellent tools on the web where less, in many ways, is actually more. Here are 10 of my favorites. 1. ScribeFire - essential Firefox add-on for bloggers. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. This top 10 is by no means exhaustive, they're just my tried and true.

Windows Live Writer Plugins - Home. W.bloggar. 15 Desktop Blogging Tools Reviewed | Developer's Toolbox. Desktop blogging tools can benefit designers-bloggers in a number of ways. They provide extra functionality that can significantly speed up the blogging process for both newbies and professionals. One of the main benefits of using a desktop client is the ability to comfortably write a post offline, and publish it later.

Many clients also have a scheduled post feature, so you can define what time you would like to publish your articles. Some editors provide a spell checker, drafts saver, remote publishing and WYSIWYG-editor with advanced formatting options such as inserting media or structuring the post — they may be hard to deal with using standard online blogging-engines. Let’s take a look at 15 desktop blogging editors which can speed up the blogging process. Windows Live Writer (Windows) Link Windows Live Writer2 is an impressive blog editor, and is probably the cleanest one. MarsEdit (Mac) Link The main advantage of MarsEdit7 lies in its ability to integrate with other text editors. Zoundry Raven: Think - Write - Publish.

Zoundry Raven: Portable blogging client for your flash drive - Download Squad. There are plenty of applications that let you write blog posts without using the default web interface for Blogger, Wordpress, LiveJournal, or other blog platforms. But most have one limitation - you have to download and install the application on each and every computer you plan to work on. While Zoundry Raven might not have as many features as Windows Live Writer or be as easy to use as ScribeFire, the free Windows tool has one major advantage: You can install it to a portable flash drive and use it on any Windows computer. Zoundry Raven supports about two dozen platforms including Wordpress, Blogger, Moveable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal. The program has a WYSIWYG editor and supports the ability to upload images and add tables to blog posts. Zoundry Raven also let you select from a small list of remote storage options in case you want to upload all of your blog images to Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, or another online storage site.

[via Smashing Magazine] Windows Live Writer Portable lets you blog on the go - Download Squad. Do you use Windows Live Writer to update your blog at home, but wish you had it on the go. Of course the simplest solution is to get a laptop and carry it around with you everywhere. But if you'd rather not lug a 6 pound machine and 23 pounds of accessories in a bag, you can install Windows Live Writer to a flash drive and run it from pretty much any PC. Microsoft doesn't officially release a portable version of Windows Live Writer, but developer Scott Kingery has stepped up to the task.

With the recent release of Windows Live Writer 3 Beta, Kingery has released an updated version of his portable launcher. Not only does thew new launcher work with the latest Microsoft beta, it also works with SanDisk's U3 launcher platform. Kingery has detailed sets of instructions for installing a portable version of Windows Live Writer on his blog, including steps for U3 users and steps for those using a non-U3 flash drive. [via ShanKri-la] Tumblr introduces feed importing - Download Squad.