Get Free Domain and 1GB Web Space for Blogging

e all know having a top level domain improves branding and helps you get better exposure. And it’s way better if you get free hosting with a self-hosted WordPress installation.

HyperWebEnable is known to be providing such services from quite some time now, and offer a free domain (www.yoursite.com) with a CMS installed (e.g WordPress, Joomla etc.).

Unlike Blogger, where you get limited templates, HyperWebEnable offers many themes for all CMS, and if your favourite one isn’t there, you can always request for it. I gave them a try few months back, and signed up for freewebhostoffers.com, which is now inactive because I never got time to work on it. The registration process went smooth, ignoring the part where they took 4 weeks to register and accept my domain.

You get full control over your blog and can also make money by monetizing it. HyperWebEnable has their own affiliate program which pays you a dollar for every new friend who registers with your reference.

In my view, they are doing an amazing job by providing these free services for bloggers with a free domain and 1GB web space. The site is still in beta, so you might experience some hiccups in the service, overall, they are good.

HyperWebEnable – Get Free Domain and Web Hosting

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Zoundry Raven – Portable Blogging Client

If you are searching for a portable blogging solution to let you update your blog on the move, so here is the most advanced app I have found for you.

Though you might have tried ScribeFire and w.blogger for the same purpose. I bet you won’t be disappointed with Zoundry Raven.

Zoundry Raven is a free open source app which let you blog in ease. It is a feature-rich client with the power of WYSIWYG editing.

You will also get benefit of FTP as well as Picasa/Image Shack integration and more. For advanced users it also supports custom fields.

Features

When I say feature-rich, I really meant it. ZR is designed for bloggers only specially for pro-bloggers.

• Tabbed true WYSIWYG Editing – fully XHTML editing, what you see is what you get type of post writing, with the power of drop images, text and video. Which can later be viewed in template of your own blog.
• Improved content management – built in indexer which let you view you see all your posts according to added blogs, tags, links. It also has tag cloud to let your feel the original dashboard browse environment.
• Manage multiple media storage services – Here you can setup many storage media services like custom FTP, Picasa, Image Shack etc
• Manage multiple blogs offline – simple click to publish same post for all blogs.
• Portable Application support – is also available to let you blog on the move for all the extended aand home like features.
• WordPress 2.2+ Page & Tag support – create pages with WYSIWYG power even tag support is available to let you add, modify and import tags.

Note: The only requirement you need to set is to enable Remote Blogging to start blogging with ZR.

Interestingly supported blogging platforms includes all of them like Blogger, Movable Type & TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, and more

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Old WordPress Vulnerable to Attacks: Upgrade Now

WordPress is the largest and the most popular blogging platform available which is available for free and is being used by millions of bloggers, including governments, huge corporations etc. around the world.

Recently, many WordPress websites have been getting hacked and now it has been confirmed by a WordPress developer himself that older versions of WordPress are under attack.

The number of sites being hit by this attack is growing every hour and the only and the best way to save your blog from this attack is to update it to the latest version. All versions prior to WordPress 2.8.4 have been found vulnerable to this attack.

What the attack actually does is that it adds strange keywords in your permalink structure and also creates a back door administrator account on your blog which is inaccessible by you.

For more information on this attack and how to protect new and already hacked blogs, can be found at Lorelle’s blog. A must check out for every WordPress using a version older than 2.8.4.

Upgrade now to the latest WordPress!

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WordPress 2 for iPhone now Available

WordPress 2 for iPhone is now available for download in the App Store. You can now grab it from the App Store and experience blogging in WordPress with lots of new features in WordPress 2.

This app is a completely new app and the previous WordPress for iPhone won’t upgrade to WordPress 2.

When you launch the new app, you’ll immediately see “Version 2.0? at the bottom of the screen. When you’re no longer using it, you can safely remove the previous version from your device.

WordPress 2 for iPhone New Features

• A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
• Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
• New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list
• Passwords are now stored in the keychain
• Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
• Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
• Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
• Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
• Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
• Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
• Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded

WordPress 2 for iPhone Screenshots

Download WordPress 2 for iPhone

You can download WordPress 2 for iPhone from here: Download WordPress 2 for iPhone

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WordPress for Android

WordPress for Android just released in the Android Market. We knew WordPress was working on an Android version of their mobile blogging app after the iPhone and BlackBerry version.

Android version of WordPress was finally released today and is now available in the Android Market.

WordPress for Android Features

Features include the ability to:

• Configure and manage multiple blogs
• Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit Pages
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

The current release v1.0 offers you enough features so you manage your blog and write posts while on the go. This release is pretty stable. I couldn’t get the screenshots up because of my Nexus One drivers are not working on Windows 7.

Download WordPress for Android

You can download this Android app by pointing your mobile browser here: Download WordPress for Android

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Wordpress 3.0 Beta 1 Released: Twenty Ten Theme Added

The last major version of Wordpress was released back in December 2009, which was WordPress 2.9, introducing many new features. And now they have done it again.

WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 has been released by WordPress which is available for early beta testing.

The new version features a new theme “Twenty Ten” and many new features and enhancements that are not present in the current version. However, the version is still incomplete and might differ from the final release. So, they are looking for beta testers who can test it especially the following features:

1. Play with the new default theme, Twenty Ten, including the custom background and header options.

2. Custom Post Type functionality has been beefed up. It’s really easy to add new types, so do that and see how it looks!

3. WordPress MU users should test the multiple sites functionality to make sure nothing broke during the merge.

And email them if they find any bugs so they can be fixed as soon as possible.

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Woopra: Live Web Tracking and Analytics Tool

Google Analytics is no doubt the best free analytics tool available for webmasters and bloggers. It is an essential service to track visitor and blog/website statistics.

Several complaints have been heard from people about Google Analytics saying that it updates only once in 24-48 hours and does not include any sort of live visitor tracking tool. There are many other tools that offer live tracking, but they don’t even come near to Google Analytics when website analytics is concerned.

Woopra is a new live web tracking and analytics tool that lets you analyze your websites/blogs in real time. It is targeted towards small and medium websites (particularly bloggers) with up to tens of thousands of daily page views.

It is still in private beta but if you signup, there are 90% chances that yuo will be accepted soon. Current restrictions also include the number of websites you can have tracked for the beta. It has a very intuitive interface and offers advance features that include many graphical visualizations such as, charts, maps and panels.

Some of the basic Woopra features are:

• Live Visitor Tracking
  Live tracking enables webmasters to analyze visitor statistics in real time and can track over 40 different statistical events and analytics.
• Rich User Interface
  Woopra’s rich graphical user interface has n delays in the response time as comes with web-based programs. And it is designed to be flexible, with plans for future development of various color schemes and themes.
• Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites
  You can track multiple blogs and websites at the same time and the quick site tabs at the top of the Woopra panel lets you acess them with one-click.
• Deep Analytic and Search Capabilities
  The huge data can be easily searched for more deep analysis as specific user names, IP addresses, geographic locations, user browsing data, visitor history, visitor paths, arrival and departure points.
• Chat With Visitors
  Woopra allows you to initiate chat sessions with visitors without any installation. This sounds quite creepy, and I myself scared a few of my friends by saying: Your PC has been hacked! Thanks for visiting Sizzled Core.
• Visitor and Member Tagging
  You can tag regular site visitors with names to monitor their activities easily.
• Easy Installation and Update Notification
  It is very easy to install and set up. WordPress and vBulletin users can use the official Woopra plugin instead of manually adding the code. The desktop application can be installed on any recent version of Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Currently, Woopra is offering tons of features for free to all the private beta users and will later also add premium services.

I would recommend all bloggers to signup for Woopra because of its ease of use and the depth of statistics it provides!

Woopra: Live Web Tracking and Analytics Tool

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