Users of Google’s blog hosting service Blogger may notice quite a significant change in the coming weeks. Instead of being able to access blogs hosted on Blogger directly, they may now be redirected to a country specific domain. A user visiting a blog from Australia for instance will be redirected to blogspot.com.au automatically whenever a [...]

Categories: Google

My full time blogging career began back in December of 2007. Back then I wrote Full Time Blogging and My first 15 days as a Problogger which offered advice for webmasters who were blogging part time and not sure whether they should make the big leap forward to become full time bloggers. More than three [...]

Categories: ghacks

The protests against President Mubarak in Egypt have escalated in the last few days now that the beleaguered president has said that while he will step down, he won’t do so until September.  To try and stop protests, or at least quell them, Egypt shut down almost its entire Internet service last week and much [...]

Categories: The Web

As a blogger you sometimes come upon an idea or website that you find interesting but do not want to write about right at that moment. Maybe you have already posted your daily quota on your blog or you want to wait until the time is right for that blog post. That leads to a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I sometimes get asked about my workday. Many people I have been talking to about the workday assume that it is an easy peasy job which basically centers around researching topics to write about and writing articles afterwards, preferably in a very nice environment such as a garden or beach condo. I usually manage to [...]

Categories: Web Development

Google fanatics who regularly work with multiple Google services such as Google Mail Gmail , Google Reader, Google Docs, Blogger, Orkut and a few dozens more might find the Gbutts add-on for the Firefox web browser helpful. That is, if they have not created keyboard shortcuts for the Google services that they use or installed [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google

Recently I worked on some articles about blogging from various means (from within Firefox and on the desktop). One of those applications I left out of that study was BloGTK. The reason I left it out was because it wasn’t able to use the entire feature set of the new Blogger API and it is [...]

Categories: Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

There are three types of bloggers. Those that do it for fun, those that want to become rich and those that do it because they want to market themselves. The first group can do whatever they want and will still be happy with it. The other two groups need knowledge about blogging if they want [...]

Categories: Knowledge

I was never that fond of blog editors that allowed you to write your posts on the desktop and send them to your blog after you have finished them. Never quite saw a reason to install yet another software just to be able to do that. I have to admit though that some clients come [...]

Categories: Software, Windows