AppLoop is an upcoming tool that will allow you to convert your blog (technically RSS feeds) in an iPhone application and will allow users to download and install the application on their iPhones. The interesting points are that you just have to setup your blog with certain settings and they take care of everything, even submitting it to the Apple Store!

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What the heck is Feedburner ? (Were you living under the rock ?)

Feedburner is a metrics service which lets you find out that how many people have subscribed the RSS feeds of your blog and in may 2007 it got acquired by Google Inc. The service is excellent and is being used by millions of bloggers around the world as this is one of the neat ways of finding out that how your blog is performing.

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We’ve already discussed that photos can be really helpful in making your post look presentable. However, they can do a lot better if the photos or images itself look better and in order to achieve that one should make use of various image effects and in this post we’ll discuss that how you can give various effects to the photos.

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Around three – four days back, we realized that we weren’t getting any e-mail notification or any e-mail from our blogs (very unlikely) and found out that there was some issue with the server. I got disheartened and I almost lost my temper because of the issue raised because of the server!

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Similar posts is a wonderful plugin which helps you display related/similar posts after or before your blog posts, however it works only for you blog posts. Although, you may also want to display related content from various other websites and help reach your readers to the right places.

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Technorati is one of the most wonderful service which once happened to be the best blog search engine, however lately it lost it’s charm in the hands of Google Blog Search. The idea behind Technorati of letting bloggers decide that where they want their posts to be displayed once people search on Technorati, worked however Spam issues caused lot of trouble.

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bbPress and WordPress are both from Automattic Inc., so it’s doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that they can be integrated quite easily with each other. It’s one of the advantage of choosing bbPress over various other free and commercial forum softwares. In this guide we’ll tell you that how you can easily integrate bbPress with WordPress.

After you’ve setup bbPress on your web host, the next major step is to integrate WordPress with it. Although, it may not be necessary depending on the way you run your blog. If you are the sole writer at your blog then you may be simply leave the integration part. You can treat both sections as two different websites.

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