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Blogging Tools That will Help Make A better Blogging Experience

February 23, 2009 T3CK Leave a comment Go to comments


Blogging Tools That will Help Make A better Blogging Experience

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So I thought I would share with you some Tools I use that will Help you write faster articles. And also help make the reading experience relevant & enjoyable for your readers!!! Because blogging shouldn’t have to feel like a task. First of the best tools for blogging starts with the browser & Firefox is the number one choice in my book because of the extensions you can use to make your browsing & blogging tasks easier!

Firefox extensions that help with faster & easier blogging tasks

Scribe Fire, is a Firefox extension that turns your Firefox browser into a blog editor

Zemanta is a Firefox extension that turns your Firefox browser into a blog editing tool that searches for relevant articles images hyperlinks & tags for your posts allowing to make a more richer post with easier SEO optimization. Zemanta also integrated with G mail!!!! and yahoo mail. ( I added  a screen cast of Zemanta at the bottom the post) Update: Zemanta, also helps your blog get notice by helping you create back tracks/ pings by linking to relevant articles provide by Zemanta,

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Online image editors

With today’s economic issues every buddy’s pockets are tight so for a average home user it would be senseless to go out a pay $70 on a image editor when you can get  close to the  same features if not the exact same features from a free online image editor site! That a costly image editor provides.

Picnik, is a FREE online image editor that offers easy image editing and navigation

Fotoflexer, is a FREE online image that offers easy image editing and navigation plus has features that Picnik does not offer.

Splashup, is a FREE  advance user base online image editor that has a Photoshop interface

Free Screen Capture Software.

Screen capturing can can help bring visualization to your content to help en rich your content & help draw in readers that are visual oriented.

Jing Is a free screen capture & video screen capture that is for windows & Mac users.
Related Article > The Value Of Screen Capturing Software « Teck~Line

Cam studio Is a open source screen recording software

How to install Cam Studio 2.5,

Capture Fox,  “You can capture your screen and record your voice to make screencasts (tutorials, e-lessons, etc.).” (Firefox extension,

FireShot “is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations.” (Firefox Extension)

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  1. sensico
    February 23, 2009 at 4:02 pm | #1
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    I tried ScribeFire and for some reason it took up more time when writing blog post using the wordpress editor, but I could see its advantages when promoting the blog post itself.
    I really like the wordpress.com sidebar, I have found it to be rather helpful and fast. Never heard of Splashup, its wont work on my linux so I’ll have to try that when I get home, it looks nice though. Thanks, I really like the FireShot, I was definitely needing something like this.
    Zemanta looks enticing, Teck you just gave me a good reason to waste time testing out all these addon :D

    • Teck
      February 24, 2009 at 12:40 am | #2
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      Hello Sensico Glad you like the post & found Zemanta enticing!!! I also would like to thank you for bringing
      the WordPress.com Sidebar to my radar in the forums a couple of weeks ago. I tried Deepest Sender (Firefox Extension)my self & found it to be a little like the blogger editor so I deleted it & started using Scribefire

    • sensico
      February 25, 2009 at 10:33 am | #3
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      So, I posted using Zemanta and I love it. sorry if this was already posted on one of your links but do you know how to post more then one photo that Zemanta provides under the edit post section. Everytime I click on another photo to add, it replaces the first photo I added. I was just curious if you knew.

      • Teck
        February 25, 2009 at 3:14 pm | #4
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        Hello, Sensico:

        To answer your question I set the preference
        setting to clean xHTML by choosing
        this option the editor will allow you to drag and
        drop the photos as well as use the WordPress
        image editor to further edit the image.

        you can find the preference link at the
        bottom right of the Zemanta widget
        while in your WordPress editor.

      • sensico
        February 25, 2009 at 9:06 pm | #5
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        Thanks Teck, I got it :)

      • Teck
        February 25, 2009 at 9:32 pm | #6
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        You’re welcome sensico, :)

  2. maggiewilliams
    February 23, 2009 at 9:17 pm | #7
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    Hi Tech,

    I stumbled upon your site and picked up some valuable tips. I just linked my name to my blog and downloaded an installed Zemanta; I like it. I’m new to blogging so thanks for all the goodies here.

    Question for you, if you have time. I have a tag cloud on my right hand sidebar and viewed with Firefox, it looks fine, some tags are way bigger than others which is good, some are a little tough to read, but nothing drastic. But, viewed with IE7, there are big gaps of white space and many tags are on top of other tags making them unreadable. Any ideas.

    Thanks again for the great info.
    Cheers,
    Maggie

    • Teck
      February 24, 2009 at 12:52 am | #8
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      Hello Maggie,

      Hi Tech,

      I stumbled upon your site and picked up some valuable tips.

      Thats great news to hear that you stumbled across my site & found valuable tips and information!!! :)

      Question for you, if you have time. I have a tag cloud on my right hand sidebar and viewed with Firefox, it looks fine, some tags are way bigger than others which is good, some are a little tough to read, but nothing drastic. But, viewed with IE7, there are big gaps of white space and many tags are on top of other tags making them unreadable. Any ideas.

      I heard recently that IE7 has just been getting worse with the
      issues that have come up in the last six months with WordPress your best bet is to use Firefox.

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