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How to Use WordPress as CMS with Flutter Plugin
Dec 11th
There has been a long debate in web development community about the CMS capabilities of WordPress. Recently WordPress won Overall Best Open Source CMS Award of 2009 and got 2nd position in best Open Source PHP CMS category. WordPress beat Joomla in best Open Source PHP CMS category. All of this is ensuring that WordPress is not only blog publishing software but now it is also used as a CMS to strengthen the development of websites because of its ease of use and open source characteristics. Plugins and themes are the best way to extend the capacity of WordPress as a Content Management System than adding bloat to the core of WordPress. More >
Desktop Blogging Clients/Editors for Ubuntu Linux
Dec 7th
Ubuntu’s efforts have been pretty successful to develop and flourish a friendly Linux distribution for normal desktop users. Ubuntu has changed the every Joe’s perspective about Linux operating system. The perception of its compatibility with Geek’s suit is now pretty much gone. Still, there are many applications which lack to provide a perfect alternative for its counterparts in popular Windows operating system. I tried Ubuntu 6.06 and didn’t feel much difficulty in getting used to it for normal operations. On the way it has improved much and got friendlier. Recently, I was looking to write my first post on Ubuntu with a desktop blogging client/editor and searched for a Windows Live Writer alternative. The quest has been somewhat satisfying but not successful to find a perfect alternative.
I have found two Gnome desktop blogging clients to use in Ubuntu. They More >
Read RSS/Atom Feeds, HTML, and Text in Newspaper Format
Nov 23rd
Reading RSS or Atom feeds have become almost a routine task of daily web users to remain updated with their choice of topics. There are many desktop and online readers available to accomplish the reading task. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Desktop aggregators are also equipped with a browser. Nowadays, the popular web browsers like Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer also integrate feed reading through multiple techniques like Live Bookmarks, Favorites, or add-ons. It solely depends upon your needs which one of these aggregators suits best.
I personally have utilized many desktop feed aggregators like Feed Demon and News Crawler on Windows, akregator and liferea (Linux), and RSSOwl and BlogBridge (Platform Independent). Besides I have experienced built-in aggregators in Firefox and Opera. None of these aggregators was able to hold me intact. Currently, I use Brief add-on in Firefox and Google Reader to scan feeds. But I have just come across Readefine which brings More >
WinTumblr A Desktop Client for Tumblr
Oct 21st
Now a days Twitter is one of the popular micro blogging platform but you shouldn’t undermine Tumblr. Tumblr is a micro blogging platform that allows user to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their “Tumblelog”. Tumblr is more concerned about customizability and ease of use with a simple sign-up process. Recently, there are reports that the number of new Twitter users is becoming steady or even declining slightly. When you compare these two micro blogging service, Twitter and Tumblr, with respect to loyal users, Tumblr has a clear advantage. According to Reuters, Twitter has a
