31 Dec
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Top 5 plugins actually useful for your Wordpress blog

Written by- Eva Vesper of Web Hosting Search. Eva is an editor at WHS, a web hosting review site. According to her it is a boring industry (I agree), so she spends her time blogging, twittering, and guest posting for other websites to make life more spicey.

The plugin directory on WordPress.org contains 3,356 plugins that have been downloaded over 15,000,000 times. For anybody remotely familiar with the WordPress CMS and the fact that it is widely editable, this merely means that way too many developers worldwide simply have not been able to help themselves – resulting in an ocean of plugins lacking both purpose and use. Lucky for you, we have gathered the five most essential plugins to add on your site.

 

1. All in One SEO Pack

Though Wordpress is optimized for the search engines, there is no easy way to add meta data to posts and pages in the cms. All in one SEO pack adds a field where Title, description and keywords can be placed. This should be the absolute first plugin you download and install, since search engine optimization is one of few things the Wordpress team overlooked when creating the software.

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28 Dec
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Featuring Kuttu and Chinnu: 30+ Free Awesome Wallpapers, Screen savers and cursors by Anoop P.C.

Featuring a design superhero - Anoop P.C., a 2D artist based on Bangalore. His own characters Kuttu and Chinnu are already popular among deviant art users. Here we have 30+ wallpapers and 2 screen savers filled with Kuttu’s and Chinnu’s pranks, innocence, friendship, love, games that they share. By looking at them you’ll definitely remember your childhood friend or teenage love. The sweet little characters already been featured in many websites and even worked close with Samsung for an ad campaign recently!

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18 Dec
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Top 5 Mac Hacks You Never Knew About

This is a guest article written by Emma Best from laptopical.com, laptopical is a great resource for those looking for reviews on new laptop computers and laptop related news.

Macs are branded as simple, out of the box convenient machines, and they are, but it only takes a little knowhow to make them even more convenient. If you use a Mac every day chances are you may have a few favorite hacks already, but you probably don’t know every one. The following are all relatively simple ways that, with just a few clicks or a little tweaking, can help you to get the most out of your Mac experience.

5. Keep That Tiger Look In Leopard

If you miss the way things used to be, worry not, there are people out there who have developed hacks so that you can do things like turn that menubar opaque again (OpaqueMenuBar download) , revert the Dock to 2d (DockDoctor download), and more. Wired has a manual way to alter the dock to 2d if you like to play with the terminal, along with a few other tips.

4. Move Time Machine

If you’ve ever been annoyed by accidentally clicking Time Machine in your dock, but like the functionality too much to remove it entirely, then just move it to the finder! It’s really simple, just drag and drop from the Applications folder. See here for a screenshot. Read more…