Dec | 21 | 2009

Resizing Images: Tips and Tools

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Tips When adding images to your blog posts make sure that you have resized them to a size that is not only aesthetically appealing but also SEO friendly. Resizing images is not a hard task, however, when resizing images simply recalculating the ratio may not be a good idea especially if the new image size is a lot larger than the original one. The reason for this is that the image gets pixelized and you end up with a grainy image that just isn't nice to look at. If you want to resize images beyond changing the dimensions here are some ...
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Sep | 29 | 2009

Microblogging or Good Old Traditional Blogs

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Syndication The rise of Twitter, the most popular microblogging site nowadays, has of course helped microblogging itself come a long way - from mere short posts to get in touch businesses and organizations has found ways and is continuing to find ways to make use of and benefit from microblogging. But what is microblogging and how does it differ from good old traditional blogging? Wikipedia defines microblogging as “a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send BRIEF text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a ...
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Aug | 18 | 2009

Get Ready to Ride the (Google) Wave

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Software and Widgets Google Wave has not hit the market yet but, from what I’ve seen in the developer preview, once it does you’d better be ready for one huge ride. Dubbed as the “email as it would be had it been invented today instead of forty years ago”, Google Wave is out to revolutionize the way we communicate/collaborate online. A “wave” is both a conversation and a document in one. It’s your email, chat box, online document, developer API, and more all at the same time. Google Wave is so powerful that until it is out (right now it’s still in beta ...
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Oct | 02 | 2008

How To Find Top Blogs In Your Niche

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Monetization, Monetization Features, Tips We talked about the importance of identifying the best blogs in the niche you are targeting in the previous post. To recap, it is important to do so because you can learn a lot from the best blogs. You can check out what they are doing right – and wrong – and learn from those things. You can also do a little bit of promotion on the side by leaving comments in these blogs. In this way, you can make your presence felt in the niche that you are targeting. So how do you actually ...
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May | 17 | 2008

Post-dated Entries in Blogger

Posted by Guru as Blogging Tools, Tips Post dating blog posts is nothing new to Wordpress users but bloggers who use Blogger will be happy to know that they can now post date their blog entries. The ability to post date entries (or rather lack of ability) has been one of my frustrations about Blogger. I have always used Blogger for my personal blog and one of my pet peeves has always been this and also the fact that I can not put a password to some posts (which means I end up just deleting the draft or simply not publishing it). Anyway here's how you can ...
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Apr | 20 | 2008

Are You A Blogging Addict? (Part 2)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorials News, Blogging Tools, Opinion, Software and Widgets, Tips In the last post, we took a look at something that a blogging “addict” may obsess about – the number of subscribers. Well, here’s another thing that someone with an intense desire for blogging can obsess about – statistics. To be honest, I have gone through this phase a couple of times in my blogging life. Even if I would like to think that I have overcome this obsession, I still find myself checking my blog stats a little more than I should. Ask yourself this question – how many times do you spend checking your ...
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