Areeb’s Online Realm

My Blogging Toolkit includes >

Blogging Platform:
WordPress :
I’ve been blogging for over a year now, and I have found Wordpress, the best blogging platform. I started with Blogger, moved to microblog, before settling on Wordpress. I’m using version 2.09 of wordpress right now.

Desktop Blogging Client:
BlogJet :
There are a lot of good desktop clients out there, but I have become most comfortable with BlogJet. It was after a long search that I have found this software. ScribeFire is also a good blogging add-in for Firefox.

Statistics Software:
Google Analytics, Tracewatch
Google Analytics is a free service by Google while Tracewatch is a free PHP Script to monitor your website.

Blog Promotion and feed:
Technorati, Feedburner :
So far, I am also using the ping feature of BlogJet to notify a large list of services each time I post. There’s more work to be done in this area.

Browser:
Firefox – While a browser may not be a blogging tool, but, I find Firefox simplifies the blogging experience. The ability to keep a number of tabs open to links, or while researching and reading related information is helpful. I keep a number of regular bookmarks on the bookmark toolbar, which get a lot of use, along with the Google toolbar for Firefox.

Graphics:
ACDSee 8.0 – I don’t have a lot to do with graphics. Most of what I want to do with an image is crop or resize. ACDSee lets me do that easily as well as being able to play around with other graphics features.

I tag Sizlopedia, Hammad

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I have been posting using Wordpress’ built-in Editor, and most of you will agree with me that it is really pathetic …

A few days back, I came to know about Desktop Bloggers. These are softwares where you can compose your Post offline, and publish just by click of a button. I have been trying several Desktop Blogging softwares, but have not found any good one…

If you people know of any good Software than let me know ..

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Microsoft’s much-anticipated IE7 browser is finally available for download, the first major upgrade to its browser software since the release of IE6 in August 2001.

For more information, log on to www.ie7.com, where something special is waiting for you …

I dont think that the domain is owned by Mozilla itself, but HATS OFF to people who own it. I really appreciate the way, they are marketing Mozilla Firefox.

Moreover, I am also surprised that Microsoft is not doing anything to get its URL back

What do you people think ?

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Most of the people browse the web using Internet Explorer. But Internet Explorer doesnot show the webpages as they are intended to be. It is the only browser which deviates from the W3C Web Standards. So, for a safer, faster and effective surfing, I recommend that you use Firefox. It is free and open source.

Although many bloggers and other people have posted such stuff, and I have seen many converts but still, my Website statistics software shows that 60% of my visitors use IE while 24% use Firefox, 10% use Opera, while 6% use others.

This ratio shows that Opera & Firefox marketing campaign is still not that effective as it should be.

What do you people think ?

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