The newest version of Windows Live Writer has been released as a technical preview, primarily to showcase changes to the SDK. That isn’t to say this build is simply internal changes, you’ll find a number of new features and even some UI modifications. In fact I think once you have a bit of a poke [...]

Categories: Software, Tools

Blogtastique is a new service by Daniel, one of the resident writers here at Ghacks, which can probably be best described as a service to help beginning and advanced bloggers. The basic concept of Blogtastique is to manage different aspects of being a blog owner for the user. The interesting part is that one of [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

A new version of WordPress was released today that includes over 70 fixes including several important security fixes. The security fixes affect the files wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php which can be downloaded separately if the full WordPress update is not desired yet. Webmasters who ran into problems with the new way of uploading media files [...]

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Making money online, that’s everyones dream I guess. Working from home, letting the websites collect the money for you and all you need to do at the end of the month is to cash in the five-figure check. Since I started Ghacks I have visited them all, all those websites that claim to help you [...]

Categories: Online Services, Revenue Sources, The Web

I thought I would be having a quite evening but since WordPress released the new WordPress 2.5 just a few hours ago I will be updating my blogs to this new version hoping that everything will update flawlessly. The new version is considered to be a major step forward, lots of elements have changed in [...]

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This is an interesting experiment. I’m writing about the Firefox extension Zemanta while testing it at the same time. Zemanta is a tool for bloggers, it currently supports the blogging platforms Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress blogs. It adds suggestions and recommendations while you are writing an article by analyzing the content of the article.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, The Web

The popular blog platform Wordpress has been updated to version 2.3.2 today. This release is a security release that fixes a bug that allowed users to view drafted posts which is horrible for websites that make a living from blogging.

Categories: Software, The Web

You might remember that I wrote about quitting my day job to become a professional blogger and Internet consultant and I would like to take the opportunity to write about the first 15 days of December which have been my first two weeks without a “backup” job.

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After working in a normal job and blogging for the last two years I decided to make the big step and quit my day job and become a full time blogger. This is actually a huge step for me but I think I know all the positive and negative aspects of the decision I made two months ago.

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