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3 unique social bookmarking plugins for WordPress
This is the beauty of WordPress, which is missing in most other blogging platforms – you keep stumbling upon new plugins or themes for your blog, almost everyday. I don’t need to explain the need for a social bookmarking plugin, given the craze for Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, and so on. Having said that, there [...]
Top ten tweeter-types you must NOT follow on twitter
It’s purely based on preference, but at the end of the day one tries to see some sense in following someone on Twitter. It’s not a perfect world, nor am I gonna propose that the ones you follow must satisfy certain criteria. Frankly, who’s gonna care if you follow or unfollow someone? However, ‘m just [...]
Wanna read tweets as in a newspaper?
Have you created lists on your Twitter account? Well, how do you keep tab of the key tweets from the tweeters in your list? There are two ways to do this: Keep your eyes glued to the Twitter/Twitter-client page, and keep refreshing Try Paper.li Paper.li helps you create really good-looking newspaper like page that could [...]
10 beautiful examples of motion blur photography
Motion blur photography is a technique that adds a certain focus on a subject, while the objects around shy away into an artistic blur. You might have created some motion blur photos, accidentally; check your photo albums. But, how to get this blur and focus? I follow one of the below mentioned techniques: a. Camera [...]
10 cool selective color photographs
Selective coloring is yet another flashy post-processing technique like fake-tilt-shift that virtually increases the depth, and focus on the image. Following are some cool selective color photographs. So, how to create selective colored pictures? Step 1: Download and install GIMP for Windows (comes preloaded in Linux) Step 2: Follow this step-by-step tutorial on creating stunning [...]
Creating a 301 redirect for WordPress blog
There are zillions of how-to articles on creating 301 redirects. However, this brief article will focus on creating a redirect for non-WWW queries of your domain name to WWW, by editing the .htaccess on a WordPress blog. You may ask, why should I do this? Because, all search engines treat www.yoursite.com and http://yoursite.com as two [...]
Dealing with hidden, unwanted links inside your WordPress blog
How do you know if your blog has been hijacked by a bunch of unwanted links? These unwanted links may relate to the content we receive everyday in our spam folder on Gmail. I’m not going to list out those keywords that make up these unwanted links, instead see the screen-shot below (click to enlarge). [...]
WeFollow: Add yourself and network with Twitter-users by city or interests..
If you’re looking for a way to find and befriend Twitter users in and around your locale, interest area, etc., you can try WeFollow. WeFollow is a Twitter directory, and you need to log in with your Twitter username and password to access this directory service. So, you may want to enter some relevant tags, [...]
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