TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere

clipped from www.staska.net TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere The first place among Wordpress plugins goes to Akismet. 34 out of 48 bloggers are using this plugin. Obviously the spam is a very serious issue and Akismet is doing a great job combating it. Google Sitemap Generator came in second with 27 votes. Looks like a lot of bloggers are starting to care about SEO and this plugin is the best tool to tell Google how it should crawl your blog and where to find everything you want found. Related posts by Wasabi takes the third place. As the name suggests, this plugin generates a list of related posts based on the text of blog entry. It is a great tool to increase the stickiness of your blog by showing your readers similar posts that you’ve written on the subject. Although since I started using Chitika RPU’s on my tech blogs, I don’t use this plugin there. 19 out 48 bloggers have used this plugin on their blogs.

Clipmarks included in PC Mag's Top 10 Future Classic Web Sites

Clipmarks makes the list of PC Magazine's Top 10 Future Classic Web sites!

clipped from www.pcmag.com Top 10 Future Classic Web Sites Start Slide Show Clipmarks Computer History Museum del.icio.us digg Facebook The Huffington Post LiveJournal MySpace Pandora Internet Radio YouTube clipped from www.pcmag.com Clipmarks combines elements of del.icio.us and digg, letting users clip their favorite portions of Web pages, share them with the community, and vote on the best. Even if you’re not submitting, though, browsing through the most popular clips is a good way to stay informed about the most recent happenings on the Internet.

250 Free Office Templates and Documents

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250 Free Office Templates and Documents

Is it me or do we just not spend enough time rummaging through the Microsoft website? I personally thought this was a good find because I absolutely hate creating documents from scratch if I don't have to.

Courtesy of Microsoft, these category headings basically contain a total of 250 free MS Office Templates that you can use at will. Have fun.

• Address books
  
• Analysis worksheets
  
• Advertisements
  
• Announcements
  
• Applications
  
• Banners
  
• Balance sheets
  
• Bills of sale
  
• Binder inserts
  
• Bookmarks
  
• Books
  
• Bylaws, policies, and rules
  
• Calculators
  
• Case inserts
  
• Catalogs
  
• Charts
  
• Coupons
  
• Dividers
  
• E-mails
  
• Estimates
  
• Evaluations
  
• Forecasts
  
• Games
  
• Identification cards
  
• Instructions
  
• Itineraries
  
• Job descriptions
  
• Journals
  
• Ledgers
  
• Logs
  
• Menus
  
• Maps
  
• Name and place cards
  
• Note cards
  
• Notes
  
• OneNote notebooks
  
• OneNote pages
  
• OneNote sections
  
• Outlines
  
• Paper folding projects
  
• Papers
  
• Petitions
  
• Posters
  
• Press releases
  
• Programs
  
• Proposals
  
• Quizzes and tests
  
• Quotes
  
• Recipes
  
• Records
  
• Reply cards
  
• Scorecards
  
• Sign-in and sign-up sheets
  
• Signs
  
• Stickers
• Surveys
  
• Tags
  
• Tickets
  
• Tournament brackets
  
• Trackers
  
• Wills
  
• With compliments cards
  
• Other templates

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Gmail Craze: 30 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail

All for Gmail: handy Firefox extensions, best Greasemonkey scripts, some desktop tools and lots of useful tips. Take this Gmail thingie to another level. Enjoy

FIREFOX EXTENSIONS

Gspace - multi-platform firefox addon that turns your gmail account into powerful online storage tool

Gmail Search Extension - search your gmail account directly from the firefox search bar

GcalQuickTab - toggle between gmail and google calendar with keyboard shortcuts

GTDInbox - turns your account into flexible and feature-loaded ToDo-management service (GTD = Getting Things Done)

GMail Manager - manage multiple GMail accounts right from your browser

DragDropUpload - this handy extension lets you quickly attach one or more files to your emails by dragging them over the “Attach a file” link

[update] CustomizeGoogle - removes ads, switches you from http to https, hides the spam counter, quick contacts box, invite box and forces fixed font

[update] GmailSkinz - powerful firefox addon with lots of cool features:

• change the colour of your inbox(from green to dark green),
• view weather, google calendar and news headlines along side your emails,
• integrate any Google IG module to sidebar menu(Awesome),
• insert images from your Picasa web album in to emails,
• insert smileys,
• change the attachment paperclip to an icon indicating the type of attachment,
• make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal,
• hide various page elements (invite panel, page footer and your email address from the top right of inbox).
• complete integration with Gmail: addon settings can be changed directly from the Gmail settings page.

Google Toolbar with Gmail search - Official Google toolbar featuring one-click Gmail search

E-Mail Notifier Toolbar | Gmail Notifier - as titles say ‘…notifier‘

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GREASEMONKEY SCRIPTS (What is Greaseamonkey?)

Gmail Super Clean - clean and distraction-free gmail. Looks great, check it out here

Gmail Spam-count Hide - hides spam count link

GMail Attachment Icons - adds attachment icons to emails, letting you see what kind of attachment an email has (HTML,JPG, PDF….) [update: ‘Attachment icons’ isn’t a standard greasemonkey script, it’s an addon for a similar Firefox extension known as Stylish. However, installing it on greasemonkey should be fine as well]
Google Reader Integration - integrates Google Reader into Gmail. Highly Recommended (demo)

GmailTo - forces all ‘mailto’ links to open in GMail

Saved Searches - lets you create ’saved searches’(aka smart folders) and display them in the separate box in the navigation menu. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. Demo

Conversation Preview - handy addon that lets you quickly preview message contents right from the main inbox window. See demo below

Google Calendar Integration - integrates Google Calendar agenda into Gmail. Demo

Label Colors - lets you color menu labels to make them stand out better. Demo

Gmail Macros - adds extra keyboard shortcuts to Gmail (i.e. “t” for move to trash, “r” for mark as read, “p'’ for mark as read and add to archive…etc). Read more

[update] SSLGoogle - force google mail, docs and cal pages and their intra-links to a secure connection(HTTPS)

Following image displays all above mentioned scripts in action(click to enlarge and open it in a new windows)

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Desktop APPS and Web TOOLS:

GmailDrive - adds a new virtual drive(’Gmail Drive’) to ‘My Computer‘ folder and uses gmail as its storage medium. Drag’n drop files Gmail Drive and it will store them on your gmail account as if on additional hard drive. More on GmailDrive

Gmail ToDo - handy desktop application that stores entered todo’s in a todo label on gmail

Desktop Notifiers: GMail Notifier(official release from Google), GTray (Win XP), GCount (Mac), Gmail+Growl 2.0 (GmailNotifier addon that lets you further customize ‘new mail’ alerts)

GMail for Mobile - access gmail from your mobile

GmailFS - mountable Linux filesystem which uses Gmail as its storage medium

Google Talk - Google’s IM service which is fully integrable with GMail

You’ve Got Gmail - Gmail plugin for Trillian IM client

Update: more notifiers: KCheckGmail(Linux), Notifier2(Win)
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TIPS and HACKS

Unbl0ck - use this tool to access gmail from places where it’s blocked (work, school…)

Gmail icon generator - creates an image of your email address to minimize spam exposure

Gmail To Thunderbird - how to access your Gmail using Mozilla Thunderbird

Shortcut List - handy, printable list of keyboard shortcuts for the Gmail

Hotmail Contacts Import - explains how to import contacts from Hotmail to Gmail

Gmail trick that explains how to find that ’someone’ who gives away your email address to spammers

Attach any file type - bunch of tricks showing you how to attach and send blocked file types, i.e. ‘*.exe’

JimsTips - huge collection of basic gmail tips

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