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Access 55 of the best WordPress plugins that every blogger should consider adding to their blogs to boost traffic and comments, add functionality, and make your life easier.
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15 items bloggers put in their blog sidebars to increase traffic, reader loyalty, page views and earning potential.
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Hyperwords. Metaphysically it does what it says on the tin. It’s a Firefox addon that adds a whole range of contextual right click menu items to anything you select in your browser window, allowing near instant, search, reference look up, “go” to a selected URL that hasn’t been properly linked, near instant translation between a dozen or more languages, and a whole lot more. Apparently, Stephen Fry just tweeted about it and so it’s trending on twitter.

I’ve been using Hyperwords for well over a year in Firefox and it’s the main reason that I haven’t switched to using the much faster and more straightforward Google Chrome as my default web browser (that and the lack of NoScript for Chrome).

Just select any text and choose a command. It’s really that simple. But, more than that for the Facebook and Twitter generation, Hyperwords has just added support for those two apps, which makes it a near perfect tool.

Post from: David Bradley’s Sciencetext Tips and Tricks

Hyperwords Hacks for Firefox

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Matt Mullenweg recently published a great little article over on the official Akismet blog where he shares three reasons why eliminating spam is good SEO for your site. There are three things you definitely don’t want to encounter when running a blog and that is:

1. Undermineing Your Sites SEO
2. Attracting More Spammers
3. Damaging Your Reputation

I wanted to also bring to light a new technique that these comment spammers are using which I discovered through Growmap.com. Apparently, spammers are taking bits and pieces of already published comments and re purposing them into their own comment. This means their content is generally on topic and makes it harder to distinguish than a random, off the wall comment. According to Growmap, Akismet flagged a few of these comments for them so it’s good to see the spam catcher on the ball but I’m willing to bet a few novice bloggers will be publishing these as legit comments. How well has Akismet worked on your blog?

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Here is a fun gadget, that is bound to provide hours of endless fun, the Violet RFID USB Mirror.

The Violet RFID USB Mirror connects to your PC via USB, it can then recognize objects and perform tasks which have been assigned to specific objects, that you have added RFID Ztamps to.

“This mirror is the first consumer RFID reader with a rich set of applications and services. It is designed to be so simple that a two-year old can use it. With this empowering, intuitive and revolutionary device, Violet is once more expanding the Internet of Things, bringing the magic and the power of content, personalization and interactivity to the thousands of inanimate objects that populate our lives and homes.”

Here are the specifications.

• Can be used with blank user programmable RFID Ztamps
• Detects up to four objects at the same time
• Movement detector to activate standby mode
• Loudspeaker (buzzer)
• 3 color LEDS to dynamically express feedback and information
• USB 2.0 connection
• Dimensions: 4″ dia x .55″ height (10 x 1.4 cm)
• Weight: 3.2 oz (90 g)
• Comes with: Mirror, 3 Ztamps RFID tags (random colors), 2 programmable Nano:ztag Micro-Rabbits, Quick start guide

The Violet RFID Mirror is available for $59.99 from Think Geek.

via Geeky Gadgets

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Violet RFID Mirror

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If you use your iPhone on a plane of train you will know how hard it can be to watch a film on it without an additional stand.

The Crabble Folding iPhone Stand looks like the ideal solution, it can easily be folded away and stored in your wallet, and it will let you watch or use your iPhone in portrait and landscape modes.

If you want one, the Crabble Folding iPhone Stand is available for $4.99 from Think Geek.

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Crabble Folding iPhone Stand

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