Backupify

Backupify backs up all your online accounts (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs, Zoho, Photobucket, Wordpress, Blogger and so on) to the cloud, normally for a nominal fee, but until January 31, 2010, all Backupify accounts will be free with unlimited storage.

After this period, the service will be paid again, but anyone signing up for an accout until January 31 will have an forever-unlimited free account.

top posts widget blogger

FoxRecord provides an easy to set up "Top Posts" widget for your blog. All you have to do is copy/paste the code in a html widget. If you use a Blogger (blogspot.com) blog, it's even easier to set up: just click the "Add to Blogger" button.

The widget displays the most popular posts on your blog, based on the number of pageviews.

wordpress

Installing Wordpress to your own machine can be quite tricky for newbies and requires you to install PHP, Mysql and so on. Sure, there are alternatives such as XAMPP or WAMPserver but for inexperienced users, Microsoft Web Platform Installer can be really handy. It is a free product designed to make it easy for you to develop and run websites on your Windows PC. It provides a simple wizard where you select the software that you wish to run on your computer, and the installer will automatically select the other programs that the necessary to run to software you just selected (in our case, WordPress). The installer is web-based and it will only download the stuff that you want.

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1. The HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet - was created by Wook and it's a great way to see the new HTML 5 elements in action:

This cheat sheet is essentially a simple visual grid with a list of all HTML tags and of their related attributes supported by HTML versions 4.01 and/or 5.

You can get it by heading over to Wook (download available as high quality JPEG or PDF, in 2 versions: white or black background).

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Smashing Multimedia

If you are thinking of building a blog mostly with videos, the new free theme designed by Sarah Neuber especially for Smashing Magazine called Smashing Multimedia has to be the best I've seen. The theme is just... impressive and comes with all associated PSD files which is great when it comes to adapting it to your needs.

The theme is also a great choice if you want to build a portfolio or a photo blog, and includes options in the Wordpress dashboard which makes it very easy to customize.

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This summer the folks at Automattic asked users what features they'd most like to see in the next version of the popular WordPress blogging client. One of the most popular suggestions was image editing, and now it looks lke the developers are beginning to add image editing capabilities to WordPress.

WPEngineer has posted few screenshots of the image editor which is under development:

wordpress 2.9 image editor

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blogger tytle styleI don't know if you were aware of this, but you can include special tags into a Blogger post title. For instance, you can include a <strong></strong>, <i></i> (italic) tags, etc. Using this info, we can style our blog posts (entries) titles to display a subtitle: text that appears right under the title.

You can achieve this in 2 ways: either by adding some permanent CSS to your blog template, or by adding the CSS directly into a post (this will only work by using Blogger in Draft).

<style>.post h1 small { display: block!important; font-size: 14px!important; font-weight: normal!important;}</style>

.post h1 small { display: block; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;}

This is My Title <small>And this text will be displayed right under it</small>

Wordpress 2.8 brings improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Also, 790 bugs were fixed. Overall, 2.8 feels a lot like 2.7 with some minor tweaks here and there. However once you’ll dig in you’ll begin to appreciate the changes.