There’s been very light blogging lately. I’ve been living offline. Here’s a bit of recommended reading and links to visit for your enjoyment:
- Internet Explorer Developer toolbar. “The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar offers handy tools for web publishers working on getting their web pages just right in IE.”
- MultiRSS. “Place the MultiRSS button on your site and when someone wants to subscribe to your feed, it will provide a list of aggregators.”
- Top 20 Ways to Prevent Spam. “Follow these handy steps to a spam-free inbox.”
- Collaborative Document Sharing Tools.
- Removing Windows Startup Items. “At times, I begin to install Windows software before deciding to cancel the installation. Usually this isn’t a problem. Sometimes though, the installer places itself into my startup items and each time I boot my computer it prompts me to finish the installation. What a pain! Fortunately, it’s not hard to fix.”
- Multimedia PCs become center of family attention. “As the PC becomes the center of 21st century digital life, it makes sense that an operating system designed around consuming electronic media would take off.”
- How to make an emergency getaway drive.
- Mashup of your RSS feeds: try Feeddigest. “Basically, it rolls up all your RSS feeds (mixes them), converts them to HTML (or PHP or whatever) and lets you re-syndicate them to your site or blog.”
- Email Newsletters for Bloggers. ” One of his tips is to consider collecting subscribers to your newsletter not only on your site but also from offline sources.”
- 10 ideas for your next blog post. “The Performancing blog has 10 great post ideas to help you get started on your next post.”
- Ad Sizes on Blogs. “Duncan has posted A short guide to ad sizes which really is a must read if you’re looking to use advertising on your blog.”
- Gain more advertisers right from your site. “Many of you have been asking for the ability to sign up advertisers directly from your pages. Starting now, you can do just that with Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up.”
- Making Money From Blogging Takes Time. “I’ve been blogging for almost 3 years (in fact November will see me hit this mark) and in that time I’ve added over 11,000 pages of content. This is 11,000 possible entry points to my blogs in search engines. This quantity of content does not just appear.”
- Open Microsoft Office files without Office. “The Quick Online Tips blog points us to three free Microsoft Viewer programs for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The point here is that if you’re at a computer that doesn’t have Office installed, you can still open, view, and print your files.”
- Discover font types with WhatTheFont. “Web service WhatTheFont analyzes uploaded images and returns the font style matching the font used in the image.”
- Recalibrate your laptop battery. “The Warning9 blog has posted a tutorial designed to step you through the process of recalibrating your laptop battery.”
- Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation today. “The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation defends your digital rights every day and needs your help to continue.”
- Think Before You Link from your Blog.
- Quotes for Bloggers. “The other day when I was looking for quotes to finish up my Making Money From Blogging Takes Time post I came across a heap of great sayings from famous people that seemed appropriate for bloggers.”
- Value Added Blogging. “Steve Rubel writes about the ’secret sauce‘ for getting corporate blogs noticed in the midst of the millions of other blogs and corporate sites out there.”
- Blogging as a Business – Business Structures are Key. “To keep a long and complicated story short – what we’re doing is transitioning from a hobby business with me as a sole trader we’re moving to a company structure.”
- ProBlogger Comments Policy. “I’m beginning to see that there is a real spectrum of ways in which blog readers view and use the comments sections of blogs.”
- How to recalibrate your laptop battery.
- Budget Help With Budginator.
- Check links with TalkDigger.
- Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web.
- How to permanently delete data from your hard drive.
- Ten ways to use Technorati.
- How to use RSS feeds.
- Ten blogging tricks.
- Google Referral Program. “It looks like Google are starting a referral program for AdWords.”
- Adsense Referral Program. “Looks like I was wrong with my last post – apologies – but even more exciting than that is that Adsense have just launched a referal program. Now you can refer new publishers to adsense and earn $100 when they get to their first $100 of earnings.”
- Are Adsense Getting into the Affiliate Marketing Game? “I’ve been pondering the Adsense decision to get into the referral business this morning since hearing the news. There are a number of questions and directions that my mind has taken with it.”
- Top Entrepreneurial Blogs. “About.com’s Entrepreneurial page has a list of the Top 10 Most Practical Blogs for Entrepreneurs. It’s a pretty decent list of blogs – most of which are on my daily reads list”
