It has been nearly a year since Facebook vanity URLs got introduced. For the still unaware, here is a brief introduction. Normally when you create a Facebook account, your profile URL contains a numeric id, which does not look so good especially when you want to invite family and friends to view it. So by setting a username to your Facebook account, you can get a profile URL of the form www.facebook.com/MyProfile. (more…)

Meebo is a popular instant messenger, which lets you connect and chat with most of the IMs such as Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, and so on. Meebo Bar is a cool widget  that adds sharing and chatting buttons to any website. (more…)

Any serious webmaster knows how important it is to test his website regularly for SEO (search engine optimization), website speed and load times, HTML and CSS validation, and other such factors. If you have already done many such tests on your blog, you might already have a ton of bookmarks in your browser, for each of the tools. (more…)

When you compose an article in WordPress Editor and try to give a line break <br> for making another paragraph, you might have seen that WordPress removes all the line breaks including <br> and <p> codes. No matter what ever you do, you are entangled in a scenario impossible to give breaks. So entire article publishes in a single paragraph which many readers hate to read. (more…)

If you are a very busy blogger, then you may find moderating comments on your blog a time consuming task. Well, if you are on WordPress, the most popular platform for blogging, here is a free Windows program that lets you moderate your blog comments right from your desktop. (more…)

Many new comers to the WordPress platform might find themselves asking questions like “How do I remove that Blogroll Links sidebar widget from my theme?”. Some themes add this widget by default to your website, and you can easily remove this widget if you don’t want it. (more…)

DreamHost is a very popular web hosting service among bloggers and web masters. If you are a DreamHost user, who regularly visits the DreamHost panel, then here is DreamHost Controller, a free Adobe AIR based application that lets you do all your web site maintenance stuff right from your desktop. (more…)

It’s preferred to have Gmail as the mail client so that you get the familiar user interface and also in case of moving your hosting to another service, there is no need to move, configure mails once again. In this article we give you the step by step guide to setup a standard account (free) with Google Apps, and then configure Gmail as your mail client, for a Dream host full hosted domain. But the process is pretty much similar for any other hosting provider such as GoDaddy. (more…)

Providing an easy way to translate your blog for international readers is a good practice. By just giving a sidebar widget, you can rid your readers the inconvenience of doing a manual translation. There are several WordPress plugins that let you add translation service to your blog. Here is another new translation plugin for WordPress, called the ‘TranslateThis Button’. (more…)

WordPress is a great platform for blogging and has some very good features which make it easy even for beginners to start an online life. If you are some one who posts very regularly, two or more times a day, you may feel that WordPress built in editor is really not so comfortable to work with. This is why most bloggers like to have a desktop blogging client such as Windows Live Writer. (more…)