ReviewSaurus – Technology Rocks!

I would like to thank the whole WordPress community for creating such a wonderful CMS which is not only simple to use but highly flexible too. For this post, I’ll include the WordPress plug-ins/software without which my blogging journey would have been difficult. So here are the plug-ins, which all the way deserve more popularity :

1. Windows Live Writer : This software has to be the best product from Microsoft, not only it makes life simpler by letting us posts directly from the desktop but the way it handles the images by allowing simple effects like shadow effect to them. WLWplugins is a great blog which show cases some cool WLW’s plug-ins and tricks.

Tip : Including tags for WordPress directly from WLW.

2. All-in-one SEO pack : This plug-in helps you in doing lot of good SEO to your WordPress blogs and this deserves lot of thanks. Every WordPress user must install this plug-in for sure.

3. Better comments manager : My friend Keith, did a pretty fine job in creating this plugin. It helps me in making quick replies to all the comments which I get on my posts. So, thank you Keith, thank you BCM and thank you all the commenters for taking time to leave the comment on my blog.

4. Defensio : This great plugin allows me to filter all the spam comments and it does a pretty fine job in catching all the spam comments. It has great interface, because of which I can easily ensure that a false positive isn’t missed by me and that I can easily restore it.

Our coverage of Defensio :
1. Fight against blog spam.
2. I recommend Defensio.

5. Full Text Feeds : CaveMonkey has provided some very useful plugins for wordpress and this one is one of my favorite. This plugin ensures that all the posts can be seen completely in the feed readers. So, all the readers don’t have to visit my blog and they can easily read the posts on their feed readers.

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On this holiday season, I’ve decided that I’ll write a series (as I thank you note) of all those services, software without which my life would have been difficult. Apart, from that I’ll ensure that I’ll mention various resources of those services/softwares too.

I wish everyone a Happy Holiday season and have a great time ahead

Remember The Milk is an amazing service, when it comes to making you more organized. And, yes we all need that, you know that, you need it. So, don’t have the expression that nah! I don’t need a tool to organize my work!

Anyway, Remember the milk has recently launched a FireFox plugin which plugs a sidebar to GMail and allows you to easily to assign TO DOs and reminders. It integrates itself well with your GMail contacts and with Google Calendar and thus gives you a feeling that it’s a new feature of GMail itself.

Credit : remember the milk service

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Audacity is an open source software for multi track recording and editing sound from Audacity Developer Team. Winner of the SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2007 — Multimedia Category, this software allows multi track recording, editing, add effects, analyze and produce music.

Recording offers a wide variety of options like mono, stereo and panning which can be done live while recording. Also level meters are available that monitor volume levels while and after recording. Files can be imported and exported as wav, aiff, ogg and ogg and can be imported mp3, mp2 (this requires a third party software libmad). However finished music can be easily exported as mp3. Raw files can also be imported.

Editing is very easy by simple clicks on the mouse – cut, copy and paste. Also the drawing tool can be used with ease.

Effects are abundant in Audacity. Normal effects like reverb, chorus and echo are there to name a few and complex effects like Nyquist Prompt, Wahwah adder and FFT filter too are available making the Audacity a good bet.

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I’m sure the wound of getting hit by Google PageRank is still fresh in most of the bloggers. The blogger’s who used text-links-ads, pay-per-post, LinkWorth and other link related services. How can we forget that Google hit the PageRank slap to the link directories too!

Well, today I spotted a perfect example of Google’s hypocrisy and I.e. their own Google Directory. Google’s Directory stands tall at PageRank 8 and all the links posted in that directory have Do Follow links.

So, the question is that why didn’t Google punish their own directory, when will Google stop bullying other companies and publishers who are trying to earn money from other sources ?