Unhandled Perception

Just upload a video and we’ll take care of the rest! VideoPress converts your original video into multiple high-quality formats suitable for viewing on the web, downloaded to your desktop, direct from your television, or loaded onto your portable electronics. Capture videos, upload, embed, and publish. VideoPress is fully integrated with WordPress, providing the simplicity you have come to expect from your favorite blogging software.

Link: http://videopress.com/

If you want to see your own avatar next to blog comments (instead of the default blue one) on this and many blogs, its as simple as signing up with Gravatar.  Basically, register your email address and have it attached to an avatar.  This is how Veign’s icon appear next to my comments on this and many blogs and forums.

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

When you do leave a comment on this post.  Lets see your avatar.

Gravatar: http://en.gravatar.com/

Watch the video to see what’s new and exciting about WordPress 3.0

Link: http://wordpress.org/development/2010…

Not the best name but it is a handy little application if you’re looking for the simplest Twitter client available.

Leave comment on what you think.  Would you use this over TweetDeck?

Link: http://renegademinds.com/Products/…

Seems that in the conversion from Blogger to WordPress about 14 posts were left as drafts. These posts will be pushed out tonight.

Many of the people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too.

And if you don’t read ProBlogger, then check out his site too.

Link:
http://…/online_marketing/how_to_make_money_from_your_blog_5_tips

Next time someone asks “How can I print my blog?” send them to Blog2Print. With a couple of clicks, you choose a cover, the posts you’d like to include, and you’re on your way to creating your own Blog Book!

Works with a Blogger blog only.

Link:
http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/…

Here is a step-by-step guide to adding Twitter to your blog without it hanging your web site. Below is a working example of loading twitters after the page has completed, thus preventing the whole page from locking up (notice that the spinner will continue until the twitters are loaded)

Link:
http://remysharp.com/…

The administration area of a Web application is a favorite target of hackers and thus particularly well protected. The same goes for WordPress: when creating a blog, the system creates an administrative user with a perfectly secure password and blocks public access to the settings area with a log-in page. This is the cornerstone of its protection. Let’s dig deeper!

This article focuses on defending the administration area of WordPress, meaning all those pages in the wp-admin folder (or http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/) that are displayed after a user a verified. We bolded the phrase “after a user is verified” deliberately: it should be explicitly understood that only a simple query stands in the way of an evil hacker and the powerful admin area of your whole blog. The latter is only as strong as the passwords that are generated.

Link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation.

Link:
http://themetation.com/2008/07/14/…

Girlfriend says it pretty funny and well worth the read. I’m waiting for his review of Windows Vista before I start reading.

Link:
http://sheafferdonkey.blogspot.com/

Secure your /wp-admin/ directory
Make an empty wp-content/plugins/index.html file
Subscribe to the WordPress Development blog

I just did two of these on a WordPress blog I admin. Very easy to do and gives you a bit more piece of mind.

Read about how at:
http://…/three-tips-to-protect-your-wordpress-installation/

Trying an offline blogging application called Windows Live Writer to see how well it works. Reason is I want to do some bigger and better blog posts that will take time to generate and an offline blogging application will help.

Link:
http://get.live.com/betas/writer_betas

Some new and different blogger templates to give your blog a more unique look.

Link:
http://www.geckoandfly.com/blogspot-templates/

WebbAlert, with Morgan Webb, appears a lot like Rocketboom. The difference is that the information is much more main stream and cutting edge (as far as what’s hot in the blog world). Interesting enough that I may follow the video blog for a bit and see where it goes. Will it keep my interest over time? Not sure yet.

Link:
http://www.webbalert.com/