Top 10 Must Have Google Chrome Extensions For Every Blogger Google Chrome – since its launch become no.1 choice in browsers among every community. Everyone likes Google Chrome because of the speed it offers and minimal design. Be it a normal internet user or web developers, designers, bloggers love to work in Google Chrome browser as it offers some very useful extensions which makes everyones life easy and productive. Google Chrome official released their extensions in year 2009 before that this browser haven’t gain much of the market. In this article, I am particularly emphasizing on Chrome extension that bloggers used to make their web experience more productive. So, have a look on our compilation of Top 10 must have Google Chrome extensions for bloggers. [re] [rss] [ad1] 1) Add This 2) Chromed Bird 3) Digg For Chrome 4) Twitter Bar 5) SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar 6) Image Cropper 7) Shareaholic for Google Chrome 8 ) Google Images Large Images 9) Google Reader Notifier 10) WordPress Comments Notifier
Basic Shell Commands For Bloggers The system of shell commands is one of the oldest languages for systems communications. Computers have been able to access command line prompts since the very early days of electronic computing, even before Operating Systems were fully developed. Now in mid 2011 it’s clear to see how fast we have evolved. For tech enthusiasts and bloggers understanding some basic shell commands can save you a lot of time. Understanding how to interact with the terminal and write command line statements to perform tasks is such a huge topic. By no means should you expect to fully understand the discussions here on your first try. (Image source: n3wjack) I’ll be sharing some great tips below for bloggers across the world. Linux Shell Command – In a Nutshell There are so many terms being used here it may help to clarify some. Importantly take note that this system has been around for a very long time. Windows stands as the odd-guy out having been written over classic DOS (Disk Operating System). 1. 2. 3. 4.
Why You Need to Switch to Aweber By: Ramsay | 164 intelligent opinions, add yours For close to ten years now I have been using Feedburner to capture email subscribers. Last Thursday I changed to Aweber. In this article I am going to show you why I moved my blog’s email list and why you should too. Your blog’s email subscribers are the base from which you can grow your brand and develop a lasting income. It is vital that you set yourself up with the best software so that you can capture email subscribers effectively, email them new content and develop a lasting relationship. NOTE: If you sign up for AWeber through one of my links I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Goodbye to Feedburner? In some respects it is goodbye to Feedburner and in others it is business as usual. But times are changing and there are bigger fish to fry. I am still using Feedburner to send out RSS feeds to anyone who subscribed like that but all of my email capturing and occasional send outs will be done with Aweber. 1. 2. 3. How? 4. 5.
How to Blog: A Guide on How to Quickly Start Blogging By: Ramsay | 45 intelligent opinions, add yours So you want to know how to blog? You want someone to run you through all the steps necessary to quickly start blogging and then grow it to become something successful and profitable? Well you’re in the right place! I’ve written nearly 8,000 words for you on how to blog including getting a domain name, finding a blogging host, choosing a template, installing WordPress on your server and much much more. May I suggest bookmarking this post now? Hopefully you will want to refer back to this one and PART TWO in the future. Breaking it down This is a pretty massive undertaking so I want to break it down in to some clear sections which allow you to skip through and read areas that you are interested in. As always I want to see lots of comments with things I’ve missed. Starting a blog: Setting it all up photo credit: seanmcmenemy Let’s jump right in. 1. 2. Your blog is your asset and as such you should grow it as such. 3. 4. 5. Now for a bit of toughness.
Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory Lucius Annaeus Seneca60 AD Among the numerous faults of those who pass their lives recklessly and without due reflexion, my good friend Liberalis, I should say that there is hardly any one so hurtful to society as this, that we neither know how to bestow or how to receive a benefit. It follows from this that benefits are badly invested, and become bad debts: in these cases it is too late to complain of their not being returned, for they were thrown away when we bestowed them. Nor need we wonder that while the greatest vices are common, none is more common than ingratitude: for this I see is brought about by various causes. The first of these is, that we do not choose worthy persons upon whom to bestow our bounty, but although when we are about to lend money we first make a careful enquiry into the means and habits of life of our debtor, and avoid sowing seed in a worn-out or unfruitful soil, yet without any discrimination we scatter our benefits at random rather than bestow them.
WordPress News, Hacks, Tips, Tutorials, Plugins and Themes - WP Engineer Weblog Tools Collection 44 Websites to Help You Improve Your Knowledge of WordPress We recently did a round-up of some of the leading design blogs that you need to follow in order to stay up to date with the latest trends in the design world. In this article we take a look at some blogs and websites that cover WordPress. Most, if not all, design blogs have WordPress-related articles. However, these blogs deal specifically (and, in most cases, ONLY) with WordPress. Also, not all of the websites below are ‘blogs’ – some of them are feed aggregators, some are design showcases and wpMail.me is an email newsletter. However, they are all related to WordPress. Honorary Mention: LabZip LabZip provides everything you need to create and monetize WordPress websites. 1. WordPress Arena offers articles related to WP themes, plugins, tutorials and offers some freebies. 2. WordPress Planet is not really a blog – it is an aggregator collecting posts related to WordPress. 3. As the name suggests, WordPress.tv provides videos related to WordPress. 4. 5. Some Other Noteworthy Options: 6. 7.
Recruiting programmers to your startup Here are some things I’ve learned over the years about recruiting programmers* to startups. This is a big topic: many of the points I make briefly here could warrant their own blog posts, and I’m sure I’ve omitted a lot. - The most important thing to understand is what motivates programmers. This is where having been a programmer yourself can be very helpful. In my experience programmers care about 1) working on interesting technical problems, 2) working with other talented people, 3) working in a friendly, creative environment, 4) working on software that ends up getting used by lots of people. Like everyone, compensation matters, but for programmers it is often a “threshold variable”. - Software development is a creative activity and needs to be treated as such. It is sometimes helpful to think of recruiting as 3 phases: finding candidates, screening candidates, and convincing candidates to join you. - Finding means making contact with good candidates. - Screening.