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» No Post Day - Test Studies!

 Alright today is a no post day because I just don’t have time. I’ve got a big maths test tomorrow and I’ve been studying hard all evening and I’m just posting this off before I’m off for a good nights sleep. Howerver tomorrow there’ll be some stuff coming, some which includes presets. *hint*

» My Favourite WordPress Plugins

 It is probably no surprise to you that I’m running this site of the WordPress blogging platform and I run my other sites of it as well becuse it is a nice foundation. However I use quite a few plugins to help make the site what I want it to be, apart from a custom theme that is. So here is a list with my top favourite WordPress plugins that I actually use myself, and best is that they are all free!

Akismet

Included with the WordPress distribution is a spam protector that is called Akismet. It does its job wonderfully and protects me from the masses or comment, trackback and pingback spam I would be cleaning up every day! All you need is to get a free WordPress API key from the wordpress.com site and you’re good to go! It is a real life saver!

All in One SEO Pack!

The All in One SEO Pack is a great little plugin that is used to get better SEO control. It allows you to insert keywords and a description that is unique for each of your posts that helps search engines crawl your site better. It works great and really helps the SEO of your site.

cforms II

If you need any type of form on your site for email purposes, you really need to check out the cforms plugin! It is just the most powerful form creator available for WordPress! I use it for my contact form and I love it and couldn’t live without it! Check it out!!

StatPress

StatPress is a visitor logging script which logs your hits and unique visitors as well as the usual info such as browser, country and stuff. You can also see the latest referrers and also the latest keywords that people used to get to your site from search engines.

WP-Cache

The WP-Cache plugin is a plugin that caches your site for you to help the loading time. You can set it to include or exclude certain files and rules so it only caches what you would like it to!

Dean’s FCK Editor for WordPress

If you want a little more powerful WYSIWYG editor then this is for you. I just started using it and I find it awesome already! It has a lot more features than the Tiny MCE editor and suits the more advanced post writer.

 

 

» Tuesday Tidbits

 

Nikon is doing the release today, rolling out the brand new Nikon D60 with a 10.2 Megapixel sensor, still no live-view unfortunately (2.5" LCD screen) and an even smaller body than the D40 had. Also releasing are three brand new and exciting lenses, the 16-85 DX VR, the 60 f/2.8 AF-S Micro as well as the most exciting 24 f/3.5 PC-E lens with perspective control on it! Some cool releases by Nikon there today and I guess time will reveal how they operate and I hope I can get to try them out once they are released, at least the body.

Amazing underwater photography!

Today I invite you to check out the amazing underwater photographer, Cos Brosnan. His underwater photos will just blow you away, trust me! I’m still in awe over them! You can also read an interview with Cos over at Photography Corner.

Waiting for your MacBook Air? They might be shipping very soon!

According to Engadget, the shipments of the new MacBook Air’s will begin very soon and the first of them are rumored to be arriving on Februrary 1st! However though, this is if you ordered one right away since you might need to wait a bit longer if you didn’t. Read more »

Read on further in todays second post for the scoop on what WordPress plugins I love and use!

» The key to getting good sunset photos!

When you are browsing through some of the photography communities online you see quite a lot of photographs of sunsets with their photographers wondering why their photographs are not getting the same amount of reaction as others. Most of the time, it has not got anything to do with big trade secrets but actually quite a few simple things you can do to make your sunsets better.

» Wednesday News Talk

Yet half of another week has gone by and it is yet again Wednesday evening! I want to take a moment in these first lines of today to send out a Happy Birthday to one of my best friends in the whole world, Tove! I hope you are having an awesome birthday today!

Pixelmator updates to version 1.1.2

Pixelmator has released a new version of the software and it is now at version 1.1.2. The improvements are minor additions and edits such at shortcuts etc. but it is quite an extensive list, check the changelog here.

Adobe is listening to Lightroom suggestions; new version in progress!

Adobe is listening to all the suggestions that has been made recently on what we want to see in the new Lightroom version (2.0). Today Scott Kelby could say on his blog that they are working on a new version that apparently incorporates a lot of our wished for items but unfortnately he couldn’t say anymore because he’s under a NDA (non disclosure agreement) with Adobe. However I do most often think alike Scott when it comes to software and I will go ahead and assume that it is indeed going to be a killer version! Stay tuned!

Apple posts earnings report for the quarter; stock drops!

Apple has announced their earnings for the christmas quarter and even though they went with an over 1,58 billion dollar profit their stock dropped a full 11% on NASDAQ which means it has gone from a $180 value, down to $138 in this month alone. Apple Insider have been speculating and investigating why the stock could have made this quick drop.

WordPress announces that they will increase the free space!

For all of you that are hosting your blog at Wordpress.com this should be very happy news (or if you are planning on starting your blog there). They have decided to increase the space allowed on the server by more than 60 times, from 50mb to 3gb as according to Automattic’s (the creator of WordPress) founder, Matthrew Mullenweg!

And some inspiration!

Today, go and take a look at Belgium photographer “Zardo“’s (nickname) gallery over at deviantART. He does very awesome HDR photos of city life that is just plan amazing!