Written on November 19th, 2008 at 10:11 am by Darren Rowse
What You Need to Know about WordPress 2.7
WordPress 2.7 is already released in beta and will go live shortly for all. I was lucky enough to get a demo of it at BlogWorldExpo a couple of months back and I have to say that I’m quite excited by what I saw. It is very different to look at and will take some […]
Written on November 15th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers
This article was written by Ruchir Chawdhry.
PS: Mac users can check out 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers that Darren wrote a while ago.
1. Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is the king of all browsers. Limitlessly extendable, fast, and lightweight. If you’re still using any other browser (even Google Chrome), then switch to Firefox immediately, […]
Written on October 28th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
How To Build a Successful Email Newsletter
Over the last week I’ve been talking about Newsletters a little. We’ve covered reasons start a newsletter and how I’ve increased my newsletter subscriber numbers 10 fold.
Today I want to finish this informal mini-series on newsletters off with some tips for actually writing a newsletter.
How to Write an Email Newsletter
Let me say up front […]
Written on October 23rd, 2008 at 05:10 am by Darren Rowse
Gmail Adds ‘Canned Responses’ and Saves Us all Time with FAQs
If you’re a blogger with even a smallish readership you probably get asked the same questions over and over again by readers.
Oe great way to save yourself a lot of time when it comes to these frequently asked questions is to have pre-prepared answers that you can email back to those asking the questions. Up […]
Written on October 21st, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse
AppLoop - Make Your Blog into an iPhone App
AppLoop is a great little tool that is currently in beta that will take any RSS feed and turn it into an iPhone Application.
iPhone Application Generator Demo from AppLoop on Vimeo.
All you need to do to set it up is to add your feed, a logo and name of your blog, provide a valid email […]
Written on October 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse
Aweber to Add Twitter Updates Feature
I just found out that later this week Aweber (the newsletter delivery service that I use) is adding a new feature that will allow their publishers to automatically send an update to their Twitter account when they send a new broadcast/newsletter. The tweet will link to an online version of the newsletter so that your […]
Written on September 26th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Shoemoney Tools - Get 80% Off Your First Month
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around in ShoeMoney Tools. I was lucky enough to receive a free account from Jeremy when he first launched but at the time didn’t have a chance to do much more than take a quick look over the tools that he includes.
Just before I left for Blog […]
Written on September 12th, 2008 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Google AdSense Reports to Appear in Google Analytics - [Screenshots]
Have you ever wished that you could get more details of how your AdSense performance is going and wondered why Google AdSense and Google Analytics don’t have some way of talking to one another to give you more effective metrics?
Well it seems that the time is coming soon where you’ll be able to read AdSense […]
Written on March 9th, 2008 at 07:03 am by Darren Rowse
Staying on the cutting edge: OpenID for bloggers
The following post on OpenID was submitted by Yung Chin from YC’s Ramblings.
Undoubtedly you’ve seen the icon shown here appear in the comments section of many Blogger, Wordpress, LiveJournal, and MovableType blogs recently. What it means: “this site is OpenID enabled”. In case you’ve missed all the news buzz on it, OpenID is the up-and-coming […]


