First of all if you don’t know ClearType then it is a font technology developed by Microsoft that can display clear fonts which increases the readability of the text on LCD and Flat desktop monitors.You can enable this option (ClearType is disabled by default) and the font on the screen will look much clear compared to normal standard type.Here is a screenshot showing difference with respect to Cleartype.
As I said clearType is disabled by deafult,so to enable ClearType option follow these steps :
1. Right click on the desktop and open Display Properties (Appearance) 2. Now click on "Effects" 3. Check the box next to "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" 4. From a drop menu, select "ClearType" 5. Click "OK" on the dialog box 6. Visit ClearType tuner on Microsoft’s site to fine tune ClearType settings (only IE)
Enabling ClearType with PowerToy Tuner :
You can also download ClearType PowerToy Tuner from Microsoft and install it! This will help in further fine tuning the system.
By now you can see the text to be much better,If you want to enable ClearType on the Welcome login screen of windows XP then go to Start –> Run :
Google are working on various new projects and are bringing the Internet to a newer heights.Google has become a source of knowledge for Internet savvy people.Consider in making money with adsense or affiliate program,keyword research tools or search engine,they have experimented and brought in some beneficial service to people.Yet again,here is another creation of Google called as Knol.
Google Knol can be considered as a Wikipedia,It is in public beta now and is has hundreds of articles written already.The content and articles are submitted by users,just like wikipedia.Google defines Knol as user generated content and consider it as a unit of knowledge.Google is hoping that the most popular Knol pages will rise naturally through the search results and hopefully their will be no Google manipulating results made especially for Knol.
Google have a tactics to promote knol by encouraging users to submit content and paying them money for writing the articles by using Google adsense placement alongside their contributed content.Knol also focuses on preserving ownership of articles and we have to wait and see how this promotion emerges out.
There are lots of tools and methods to test your website compatibility on different browser and there are even online tools to check your website loading speed ! Website loading speed mainly depends on the number of posts on he homepage,type of script used and on he type of theme used.I was browsing/searching for a tool to compare loading time and found out a web 2.0 tool called as Webslug.
Comparing website loading speed helps in identifying potential problems with your website’s performance.For now blogote loading time is 13.57 seconds which is relatively good when compared to other website’s!
Growth in latest technology with new industry and markets are endless,from time-to-time there are some amazing people who come up with cool creative ideas and share them with people.We have seen how to play with object inside videos and Tineye Image search engine,here is another one called as AutoViewer which is a customizable Flash image viewer and it is really cool! Their are various paid softwares and scripts to create smooth functioning flash gallery,but Autoviewer beats all of them as It is Free!
It display a linear sequence of images and captions. AutoViewer is easily customizable to display your images on your site.You can automatically create an AutoViewer gallery using Picasa or gallery using a php script that runs on your web server.
Features of Flash gallery script :
Auto-Play allows you to view a gallery hands free.
Displays image captions and gallery title as a text overlay.
Intuitive image navigation via mouse and keyboard.
Interface rescales to fit any aspect ratio images and monitors.
Lightweight (11k).
Image pre-loading to prevent waiting for each image to load.
Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh (requires Flash 8 or higher).
Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are redirected to an upgrade page.
Free!
So if you have a gallery in your website/blog then you can replace it with Autoviewer which enhances the image viewing capabilities with excellent features!
We had written about generating random password tools in our last post,these random passwords are very secure and strong but remembering these random passwords if you have registered to many sites is almost impossible.But majority people use the same password repeatedly and for this their is a web service which helps to login anywhere on the web with your OPEN ID password.Clickpass deals with all of the generation and submission of user’s OpenIDs.It is created in order to save the need to remember passwords. This means that a normal user never has to know anything to do with the URL’s that are flying to and fro within his browser.
You can log into your Clickpass using your Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft Live accounts.All you need to do is choose which account you want to use and then connect it to your existing Clickpass.Creating an account, including name, email, address and even a profile photo takes only a second.All their servers are in secure data centers and protected behind both software and hardware firewalls.Here is how Clickpass works
Your page loads
Clickpass button loads pre-filled form containing user’s OpenID
User clicks button
OpenID is submitted from Clickpass directly to your website
OpenID authentication process continues as normal
For now Clickpass supports login to some sites but in the coming weeks they will build the login list.They even have a wordpress plugin which lets you log into your wordpress admin pages using Clickpass. Once the plugin is installed you will be able to log in to your admin panel from your Clickpass account page or from your wordpress login page without typing the password or username.
Wordpress blog post publishing have a lot of feature for easy publishing but when it comes to adding videos, inserting new layer or table then you look for a different blog editor which has all advanced option.You can go with window’s live writer but you need to install it on your computer which definitely eats your system resources.So here is a web based online blog article publishing/editing tool called asWriteToMyBlog.
WrtieToMyBlog is a online service which acts as a interface gateway between you and your Blog service.Blog services by default use UTF-8 encoding and so does WriteToMyBlog.You can switch to Full screen mode and manage posts,preview it very easily.Apart from Wordpress they also support Blogger.com, TypePad, Movable Type, and DotClear.Here are some of the features of WriteToMyBlog :
Create Post entries with our advanced word processor and have them published directly to your Blog.
Advanced text styling.
Spell checker
Easily insert your Flickr photos.
Easily insert YouTube videos.
Customize the word processor toolbar.
Add tables to your Posts.
Easy tagging.
Multilingual AJAX spellchecker.
This web based blog editor is completely free, their is no membership or signup required to publish your blog post.So try WriteToMyBlog editor now!
Most of the password generator is built with PHP and uses smart and random routines to provide good and safe secure passwords.The reason most of the people go with random password is that it provides strong and secure generation of password which is enough for your daily Internet accounts on forums, e-mails, blogs etc.Their are various hundreds of random password strong generating software and programs but downloading them and installing it to make a single password generation is useless.So if you are creating some random passwords then you have to go with online tools.No passwords are transferred over the Internet.Here is a compiles list of some of the most used tools to generate secure strong random passwords :
Secure password generator – A tool by Pctools,this tool gives user to select the password length and increase it upto 50 characters/symbols.Their is also a option for user to include punctuation,mixed case or phonetics.The Phonetic Pronunciation helps to remember password easily.
Strong password generator – Very easy and good password generator,supports upto 21 letters/symbols strong password generation.
Good passwords – You can generate 4 passwords simultaneously which can include digits,double quote,lower case or upper case alphabets.
Free password builder – Random passwords generated by this online software are available on your local computer only. Apart from including/excluding punctuations,digits,Password builder also has Specific Options of Additions to and removal from selection set.
Pass generator – A very simple and effective online pass generator which uses several sources of entropy (random data), such as your browser, window position, timer, mouse, and keyboard.Can generate any amount of random passwords and shows the password strength in bits.
Javascript Master password – This is a Javascript generator program that will concatenate two fields (Master password and site name) and MD5 them. You choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site, server, router. bookmarklet version
Generate Passwords – A fast random password online service which supports pronunciation of random password in 11 different languages.
Secure Password generation – Another Javascript code which generates password and has a option for choosing false,bare minimum or maximum security for secure passwords.
Make Password – You can choose to create 2500 passwords simultaneously,choose character,digits,provide hash value.You can also see random password in webpage,plain text or csv file.
Random pass generator – Just visit the site and you will be provided with strong high security already generated online passwords.Every time you refresh the page you will be having 40+ different security random passwords to choose from.
Safe password – A web 2.0 type service which provides different password which a Green bar representing if the password is strong enough to avoid hackers from letting them crack the password.
Wordpress being state-of-the-art article publishing platform has huge benefits when it comes to plugins.Their are various developers who create wordpress themes and different plugins for various purposes.For search engine exposure their have been quite a few plugins which are really very helpful.We have written about other plugins like instant Watermark, bookmarking and smilies plugin but here is a compiled resources of best SEO wordpress plugin for blogging :
1. All in one SEO plugin – All in one seo plugin is the most used SEO plugin due to fact that it optimizes titles,Meta tags and fine tune the keywords for search engine.It is compatible with other plugins and also avoids duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs automatically.
2. Platinum SEO Plugin – This plugin works is new and works exactly as All in one SEO plugin but it has a option to add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, noydir meta tags to any post/page quickly.Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect which many new bloggers are not aware of.
3. SEO Title tag – Apart from overriding a blog page or a post title tag with a custom one,SEO title tag also defines a custom title tag for your home page.It helps in optimizing every title tag on your site like homepage,categories,archives and posts.It has also a useful Mass editing option to ease the task.
4. Add Meta tags – This is a automatic wordpress SEO meta tag plugin which adds Meta tags to the frontpage of the blog and also to the single post.You can provide full XHTML code of META tags you would like to be included in all of your blog pages for better blog optimization.Though it is a old plugin but it works with the new version of Wordpress.
5. SEO friendly Images – So far the only SEO plugin for Images,SEO friendly Images plugin helps in Wordpress images optimization which automatically updates all the images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes.And moreover this wp plugin makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.A must have plugin if you use photos/images in your blog frequently.
6. SEO slug Plugin – SEO Slugs Wordpress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.Very useful to make your slugs shorter and easy to remember,You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.Their is another plugin which works similar to SEO slug called as SEO post link.
7. SEO smart link – As the name suggests SEO Smart Links automatically searches for keywords and phrases in the text of your posts and comments then add links to the corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog,it build the Internal linking of a blog.This plugin helps a lot in building your internal blog post links without much effort!
