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After The Deadline Plugin For Windows Live Writer Corrects Grammar Mistakes

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Windows Live Writer comes with a default spellchecker which is quite helpful for identifying typos. However, one thing that Windows Live Writer lacks is the ability to correct grammatical mistakes. Such mistakes are not always caused by lack of knowledge about the English grammar but can often be the result of typos which might not fall in the realm of spelling mistakes. For instance, you can easily swap the word “weather” with “whether” or “an” with “a” due to concentration lapses and common typing mistakes. While these words are not spelling mistakes, such errors however, can result in horrible grammatical mistakes. A solution to this problem is now available with an open source plugin called Grammar Checker Plugin.

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Backup WordPress Blog In Realtime With VaultPress – Apply For Beta

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Automattic, the folks behind WordPress are working hard on VaultPress. A service that allows webmasters to backup their blogs in real-time. It will be a paid service on launch that will cost $25 or less per month.

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Moderate WordPress Blog Comments From Desktop

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Webmasters who use WordPress on the backend to run their blog often have to face a daunting task: Moderating Comments. With millions of self-hosted WordPress blogs and billions of spam messages that are posted as comments, a need arises to make it easier to moderate the comments without having to refresh the dashboard every few minutes.

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Create, Edit, & Generate Robots.txt Sitemap

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Most of the time we want our website/blog content to be indexed by the search engines to gain more reputation over the Internet. But in some cases we don’t want our content to be indexed or want only a specific portion to be indexed. If you have been griping about your personal content (Personal images folder, admin folder, or folder like cgi-bin) getting indexed, here is the solution.

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Faster Google Analytics Code

After Google announced Public DNS to speed up URL resolve time, Google Analytics rolled out a new tracking technology called Asynchronous Tracking. There are reports from webmasters that Google Analytics tracking code can sometimes stop responding and slow down the overall load time of the website.

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Blogger Introduces Profile Picture With Comments

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Although its not something new and most of the blogger are familiar with it, but for Google Blogger this is a pretty much new. Blogger from today, will show profile picture with the embedded comments that a visitor writes.

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Create A Widget For Blogger’s Blog With WidgetBox

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Are you familiar with the widgetbox? It’s the world’s best place to find and create widgets. Flickr, Twitter, Hulu, Youtube and many others are among the most renowned widgets that are offered by widgetbox. This time in the honor of Blogger’s 10th birthday, widgetbox has announced partnership with Blogger that will allow anyone who has a blog on blogger to quickly create a widget of his blog.

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Image Editor In WordPress 2.9

The upcoming WordPress 2.9 will include many new features and functionalities, the most biggest being Image Editor. Yes, the latest version will now include a build-in Image Editor which means you can edit the images online on the go.

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Finally, Blogger Introduces “Read More” Feature

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Blogger has been busy announcing new features as part of Blogger 10th Birthday. This time Blogger has announced the most waited features of all, the “Read more”  link. “Read more” link on the index page was missing since its beginning and bloggers, for years, have been implementing jump break themselves by manually editing their HTML code which was complicated and error prone.

Today Blogger proudly announces the Jump Breaks.


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By Ali 4 Comments

Is Your WordPress Up-To-Date? No? Then Do It Now!

We usually don’t post much about WordPress but we have a whole category related to Blogging where we can sometime review interesting plugins and news. Today’s news comes as a warning to all self-hosted WordPress users. If your WordPress is not updated to the latest version 2.8.4 then you are under risk…..huge risk.

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Google Blogger: Share Blog With New Share Feature

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A good news for bloggers who use Google Blogger as their bloging platform. Google has announced a small but handy  functionality in Blogger to share your stuff. This feature is among many features introduced by Google on  Blogger’s 10th birthday.

The share feature is introduced as “Share” button on the Blogger Navbar.

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WordPress 2.8.3 Can’t Move Widget Bug (Don’t Upgrade Yet)

Update: It is fixed now. The problem arises when you don’t disable plugins while updating, some plugins can interfere during upgrade. Also don’t forget to remove wp-admin and wp-includes before updating to latest version.

This is a notice to all webmasters out there. If you are thinking of upgrading to WordPress 2.8.3, then you should wait until WordPress releases a fix. The biggest problem you are going to face is Widgets.

You won’t be able to move the Widgets around and most people are having such problems, including me. As you can see on the right sidebar, all widgets have vanished. I can’t move the new widgets, nor restore the one that were lost.

Note: If you are reading from feed or email, you will need to click the link in order to visit AddictiveTips and see my sidebar.

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By Nakodari 10 Comments