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WP Plugs June 29, 2007

affilisoftware lets you sell software on your WordPress site.

FCKEditor has been upgraded to version 2.4.3. New features include the ability to enable/disable the Firefox spellchecker while typing, the ability to set default link target, being able to turn off the FCKEditor button in the Write menu, and a fix for file uploads.

Jtags is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to call php functions from your posts using ordinary XML-like tags. A jtag is a series of name=value pairs where the first one listed (by convention) is the function name to call and the rest are parameters.

OnlyWire Autosubmitter submits your site to your OnlyWire account and to 16 other social bookmarking sites from there.

SEO_WordPress reduces duplicate content on your blog. The plugin essentially ‘herds’ googlebot and other spiders to the content you want indexed. The result? A much more search engine friendly blog and better indexing.

Spell WordPress is for those who are fastidious about making sure the trademark name is always spelled correctly.

Target Blank In Posts And Comments opens links in blog posts and pages in a new tab or window, thus keeping visitors on your site.

Virtual Keyboarddisplays a virtual keyboard when writing a post (or a page if required); several keyboard are available for various languages and characters. The plugin handles the bi-directionality for the hebrew keyboard.

WordPress Video Plugin lets you easily add video to your WordPress installation from a wide variety of video sites. Support includes sites like YouTube, Google video, Clipfish, Liveleak, Sevenload, and many others.

Peter’s Date Countdown is a user-friendly management page that allows you to add, update, and delete dates to countdown. You can then display the countdown anywhere on your page. There’s also a real-time JavaScript countdown option and a widget version.

Spicypage shows your spicypage voters widget as a sidebar widget.

ZipLine allows you to hide posts from readers of your regular web feed and blog. Create personalized web feeds for friends, colleagues, and clients. Determine which individuals or groups get to see each post.

Category Access has released version 0.8.0. This plugin allows the blog maintainer to restrict access to posts belonging to particular categories on a user-by-user basis.

Category Order has released version 2.0.0. This plugin allows the blog administrator to set an explicit ordering, spacing, and indentation of categories in the category list that appears in the sidebar. The administrator specifies the ordering in the new “Category Order” management page. There is also an option for placing the category post count inside the link.

Feed Statistics that monitors and displays the number of people who read your blog via the RSS feed.

Information Bar adds the information bar of Internet Explorer to your website with a custom message in it.

Social Traffic Monitor checks your blog traffic for activity coming from social news or bookmarking sites.

WP Photo Album is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your WordPress site. This is one of the nicest WordPress photo gallery plugins I’ve seen in a while.

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  • 500 GB For $99.00!

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    Maxtor DiamondMax hard drives are ideal for entry and mainstream home and office PC applications and an excellent solution for integrators and system builders. If you’re building mainstream ATA storage solutions, there’s a DiamondMax drive that’s just right for you and your budget. The DiamondMax family of drives provides the right combination of capacity and performance with reliability and value for entry-level PCs, home desktop PCs, business desktop PCs, non-traditional ATA storage applications and external storage.

    This Drive Can Hold

    • 318 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
    • 10 hours of VHS-quality video or
    • 660 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
    • 276,5 vivid digital photos or
    • - 16 action-packed games!


    Specifications

    • Capacity (GB): 5
    • Interface: Ultra ATA-1
    • Spindle Speed (RPM): 72
    • Buffer Memory: 16M
    • Average Latency (msec): 4.16
    • Maximum External Transfer Rate (Mbits/sec): 1
    • Temperature, Operating (°C):
    • Temperature, Nonoperating (°C): -4
    • Type: OEM
    • Dimensions: ” x 5.87″

    Important Note: OEM hard drives do not include cables, software, or hardware (screws, brackets, etc.). Full manufacturer’s warranty applies.

    At this price they will not last for very long!

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  • CSS Forms Tutorials

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  • Photoshop Tutorials Galore!

    Article is from Dominickgatto. Posted on June 12, 2007.

    http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop.shtml
    http://ss.hostrocket.com/tutorials.html
    http://www.wastedyouth.org/tutorials/
    http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/
    http://www.phong.com/tutorials/
    http://www.spyroteknik.com/
    http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/tutorials/
    http://www.eyewire.com/tips/photoshop/
    http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/
    http://www.dubtastic.com/
    http://www.designsbymark.com/
    http://www.bluesfear.com/tutorials.htm
    http://www.eyesondesign.net/
    http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
    http://www.xanthic.net/tutorials.html
    http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
    http://www.eyeball-design.com/index3.htm
    http://www.dreaminfinity.com/tutorials.php
    http://www.jereme.com/
    http://www.effectlab.com/index2.html
    http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/
    http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/
    http://www.photoshopcafe.com/
    http://www.extremephotoshop.com/index.aspx
    http://www.stewartstudio.com/tips/phototip.htm
    http://www.aqa-d.se/autumn2002/index.htm
    http://www.magicpixel.com.au/magicp…ml/workwel.html
    http://www.rtideas.com/ticks/
    http://www.screaming-art.com/tutorials.php
    http://www.arraich.com/ps_intro.htm
    http://www.digitaltropic.com/tutorials.htm
    http://www.perfectpixels.com/index.cfm?method=photoshop
    http://www.webteknique.com/
    http://www.distortion.co.uk/freebies/tutorial.html
    http://www.eyeland.com/tutorials.php
    http://nebulus.org/index.html?pg=tutorials.asp
    http://www.somethingleet.com/forum/articles.php
    http://www.tutorialforums.com/
    http://www.shadowness.com/
    http://www.deviantart.com
    http://www.russellbrown.com/tips/photoshop.html
    http://www.onusart.org/Version10/
    http://www.retouchpro.com/tutorials/
    http://www.newtutorials.com/
    http://www.noxcel.com/root/tutorials.htm
    http://www.webdesignstudien.de/tutorials.html
    http://www.heathrowe.com/tutorials.asp
    http://www.prometheus-design.org/
    http://www.b-man.dk/tutorials.asp
    http://www.good-tutorials.com/
    http://www.thewebmachine.com/
    http://www.voidix.com/
    http://www.biorust.com/
    http://www.praank.co.uk/t00ts/
    http://www.yaxay.com/
    http://www.web-con.nl/site/tutorials.php?region=9
    http://www.joylee.net/
    http://www.strangefate.com/Tutorials/index.html
    http://www.vrumchev.com/
    http://www.arch-nemesis.net/
    http://www.shiver7.com/
    http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html
    http://www.esoul.org/tutorials/
    http://www.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/index.php
    http://www.drawthrough.com/tutorials/indoorbike.html
    http://www.gfx4ever.com/
    http://www.pensnpixels.com/tutorials.shtml
    http://www.philoader.net/s/tut.php
    http://www.xenefx.com/
    http://www.handson.nu/
    http://www.ozones.com/
    http://www.alteredconcept.com/photoshoptuts.php
    http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
    http://www.tutorialman.com/
    http://www.tutorialized.com/
    http://www.graphics-central.com/
    http://www.davrodigital.co.uk/tutorials/howtoo.htm
    http://psworkshop.net/psworkshop/
    http://www.graficalicus.com/
    www.worth1000.com
    www.designtutorials.info

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    WP Plugs June 15, 2007

    FeatureMe is an easy way to manage and show a featured entries list.

    DJ-Email-Publish will send the post to your other blogs (such as msn spaces) via email.

    babel allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag.

    MBLA is an acronym for gMyBlogLog Avatarsh and is a plugin for WordPress. It can add avatars from MyBlogLog to posts and comments.

    The Copyright Plugin automatically keeps your WordPress page copyright notices up to date.

    1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your blog.

    Add Script Hook finds all hooks in your themes and allows to add some javascript

    IMM Meta Tags allows you to edit and manage your meta tags.

    Comment Quictags Reloaded is a modified version of Comment Quicktags fixed for WordPress 2.2

    Post Updated NG is a WordPress plugin that displays the last modified date and time for a post

    WP Pingdom brings the power of Pingdom‘s automatic site monitoring to your WordPress blog, allowing you to include your uptime statistics on your blog in textual or graphical form.

    Clean Archives is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.

    WP CSS-Streamliner: Streamline and optimize and compress your CSS file with this WordPress plugin to improve your blog’s performance.

    Blogroll Page Plugin: Publish your blogroll on a page rather than your sidebar with this plugin.

    Do Follow Trackback: Use this plugin to show linky love to other bloggers that actually link to you when they send you a trackback. Much like the trackback validator.

    Excerpt Editor Update: Tweak and pamper your excerpts to your hearts’ content with this editor. This update includes bufixes, better security and classier code. Get it, classier …? never mind!

    WP-Simpleviewer: Incorporate SimpleViewer Flash galleries into WordPress. For those that are not aware of SimpleViewer, it is a free and ersatile Flash based image display application. It helps build beautiful and smooth galleries. This plugin is also an entrant into the WordPress Theme Competition 2.0.

    WP-Filemanager: Highly versatile file management plugin for WordPress that will allow you to change, delete, upload and organize files on your blog.

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  • StumbleUpon Exchange

    Stumbling along through the web I cam across a blog called tjantunen. He has started a traffic exchange project based on the Dosh Dosh Technorati favorites exchange. Instead of using Technorati for his exchange he has integrated StumbleUpon. As you know, getting your blog stumbled may drive major amounts of traffic to your pages. And this traffic is totally free publicity for your blog.

    Here is how it works. Visit my homepage and if you like the content Stumble “I like it!” Or you can stumble this post. Either way after you have stumbled my site, leave a comment with the web site address you want to get stumbled and your StumbleUpon username. I will then go to your page and return the favor. My StumbleUpon username is nycgraphix. As noted on tjantunen’s blog the Technorati favorites exchange was a huge success that is still going strong and there is no reason really why this exchange can not have the same success.

    If you start similar exchange project with your own blog, please include a link back to this blog and don’t forget to link back to the originator of the StumbleUpon Exchange.

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    radio SHARK 2

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    It’s never been safer to go back in the (air)waves – or more fun.

    To put it simply, radio SHARK 2 adds the enjoyment of AM/FM radio to your computer, both Mac and PC. But that’s only the beginning.

    radio SHARK 2 can record AM and FM radio broadcasts in real time.
    You can record while you listen, or you can set up recordings to occur later, or according to a repeating schedule. You never have to miss a favorite show again. Recordings are saved to your hard disk, and can be added (automatically!) to your iTunes library for listening on your iPod.

    radio SHARK 2 can “pause” live radio.
    Griffin’s radio SHARK software keeps track as you listen. Need to jump up and answer the door? …take a quick refreshment break? Go ahead; the show will go on… when you tell it to. You can pause the broadcast and come right back to where you left off, moments or even hours later.

    radio SHARK 2 adds Internet Radio to your old stand-by AM & FM.
    radio SHARk’s on-screen radio “tuner” looks, feels, and works just the way you expect a radio dial to work. Your dear Grandma & Grandpa would feel right at home with it. There’s nothing to learn, no dues to pay, no paradigm to shift. But, let’s face it – it’s the 21st Century. Along with the usual fare of AM/FM talk shows, call-ins, top-forty, and easy (and sometimes no-so-easy) listening, you get to browse the ever-expanding world of Internet Radio. You get to sample broadcasts that couldn’t squeeze their way between the curve of the earth and the ionosphere. You, or your listening, at any rate, get to go global, You get to try, before you buy, great music and sounds from all over the world, via Cyberspace. And how hard is it to master? It’s just like listening to Radio.

    radio SHARK 2 gives you computerized control over your radio listening.
    You love your radio. Now you can love your radio with digital control. Plug the radio SHARK “fin” into your computer’s USB port, load the software, and start tuning in. You can pick it up as you go – or you can help yourself to detailed step-by-step instructions, authored by our team of trained professionals. Before you know it, you will have the airwaves whipped into shape, performing at your beck and call. And when they ask you how you did it, you can just smile and say, enigmatically, “It was easy.”

    Along with the SHARK “Fin,” you get the optional antenna extension (in case you live or work or play in the shadow of poor reception), the full-featured and easy-to-use radio SHARK 2 software… and, if you are a PC user, running Windows XP or Vista, you can take advantage of a special free edition of Snaptune One, a very cool program created by our friends at Snaptune, Inc. Snaptune One turns radio SHARK 2 into a powerful Music Discovery Machine, with browsing, shopping, scheduling, exporting, and cataloging features you will love. Snaptune One automatically identifies the songs it records from radio, filling in artist and album information, and puts them into a playlist for you. Truly smart radio.

    What you won’t get is another wall-wart to tangle up that ever-narrowing path between you and the rest of the room. radio SHARK 2 gets its power from your computer’s USB port. It gets its music from the airwaves. And it gets its orders from nobody but you.

    Take back your radio. With radio SHARK 2.

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  • 1GB RAM for $39.99!!

    Ram

    Buffalo 1024 PC4200 DDR2 Memory
    You can depend on Buffalo Memory for the industry’s fastest, most efficient DDR2 memory. An adequate supply of outstanding DDR2 memory is especially important when running multiple applications, and helps you run the most complex programs quickly and reliably. All of Buffalo memory products feature simple installation and are built to exceed the most rigorous standards and specifications in the marketplace. For fast, agile and reliable performance, choose Buffalo memory – your PC’s performance depends on it.

    Specifications

    • Memory Size: 1024MB
    • Memory Speed: 533MHz PC4200
    • Memory CAS Latency: 4
    • Memory Type: DDR2
    • Pins: 240

    This is a great deal at $39.99 over at TigerDirect!!

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  • 19 inch LCD Monitor

    I-Inc TW-191D 19 Widescreen LCD Monitor

    Pick up this monitor from TigerDirect for only $139.99!

    Specifications

    • Display Type: TFT Active Matrix LCD
    • Viewable Screen Size: 19 inches
    • Pixel Pitch: 0.28 mm
    • Display Area: 16.1″ x 10″
    • Display Colors: 16.2 million
    • Vertical Refresh Rate: 56 ~ 75 Hz
    • Horizontal Frequency: 31 ~ 80KHz
    • Speakers: Integrated
    • Contrast Ratio: 700:1
    • Brightness: 300 cd/m²
    • Response Time: 5 ms
    • Horizontal Viewing Angle: 150 degrees
    • Vertical Viewing Angle: 135 degrees
    • Maximum Resolution: 1440 x 900
    • Cabinet Color: Black
    • VESA Mounting Compliant: VESA 100mm
    • Unit Dimensions (WxHxD): 17.5″ x 11.5″ x 2.5″
    • Dimensions With Stand: 17.5″ x 14.2″ x 8.4″
    • Unit Weight: 12.6 lbs.
    • Power Consumption: 55W

    A Closer Look

    Front View

    Side View

    Connections

    Back View

    Features

    • Color: Black
    • Audio: .5W x 2 Channel Built-In Stereo Speakers
    • Video: User Selectable Temperature Settings, 9300K, 6500K, User
    • Tilt: 0º ~ 20º Vertical Adjusting Stand
    • Mounting: VESA Standard Mounting Points
    • Safety: UL, C-UL, TUV, CB, BSMI, FCC, CE
    • Emissions: TCO’03
    • Power Savings: EPA Energy Star
    • DVI Cable Not Included

    I-Inc TW-191D 19-Inch Wide LCD Display [download#42#nohits]

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  • WP Plugs June 2, 2007

    Preview Frame adds the inline Preview window that was removed in WordPress 2.2

    Buy Me a Beer – PayPal Donations Plugin allows your blog readers to donate money to you via PayPal.

    wp-forecast shows the weather-data from accuweather.com (Page in German)

    Spider Trap converts email address in your page header, title, content and comments into HTML conform ASCII values.

    TinyMCE Advanced enables most of the advanced features of TinyMCE, the WordPress’ WYSIWYG editor and adds 12 plugins to TinyMCE.

    FireFox Popup displays a link to IE users asking them to download Firefox. You can use also use you adsense referral buttons.

    gWatchMyBack24h checks an incoming comment/trackback against the existing of a valid backlink (trackback) or against a very small list of keywords (Hooray-Jobs/BBCode). If it fails the comment/trackback will shown as spam to you in the admin management of your WordPress installation.

    WenderHost Subpages Widget is a widget for displaying a list of subpage links. The list remains consistent regardless of where you are in the hierarchy.

    PicasaWebSho will show some or random or all of your PicasaWeb album.

    WP CPanel Email Login lets you log in directly into your CPanel Email from WordPress.

    Skypi a widget to show a Skype-Button for direct dialing in your sidebar.

    Adsense Manager allows you to create, modify and position Adsense Ads from within the WordPress admin panel.

    TinyMCEComments turns the comment field from a primitive into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up.

    wpSEO rewrites your blog title, META description and META keywords so these are more user and search engine friendly. (Page in German)

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