OPML browser: Grazr Online, AJAX and free OPML browser for your blog or webpage. Interesting concept with an extensive writeup on TechCrunch. The interface is still quite fast and it seems to respond and load quickly even after being TechCrunched. I still have a problem with the actual use of such a tool on any blog. The general public will not find it very useful and without significant indentity management and it is quite useless as an actual feed reader. Marshall from TechCrunch suggests the New York Times RSS page as an example of a page that could benefit from Grazr but I have to disagree. I personally would visit that RSS collection to pick and choose feeds for my feedreader and rather like the granularity it provides. Notwithstanding the usability of the NYTimes RSS page, Grazr would just be confusing. In addition, I still have to figure out how […]

WP Plugin: SMTP Give your WordPress blog some GMAIL TLS SMPT goodness with this plugin. If your server/host does not allow SMTP for some reason or you are limited by count or size, use this plugin to get around all such limitations from your WordPress blog. Very useful when emailing yourself those 20 GB backup files.

FF Extension: Tails Find out what microformats are embedded in the page you are viewing and then perform customizeable actions via the Tails scripts. Supports at least six microformats. Thanks Stephanie

WP Plugin: Whisper Registered users can leave private comments on your blog with this plugin. This could prove to be useful for certain blogs and would probably be very popular among the LJ converts. Thanks BlogHelper

WP Podcast #6 I follow the WordPress podcast as and when I get a chance and more often than not, I stumble upon it as various different blogs talk about how cool this episode is. This time I am quite surprised at the total number of items that Charles has packed into this episode. How many of you listen to this regularly? While I am on the subject, I was really impressed with a video class that I have been taking recently. Beside the alacrity of Steven Tomlinson, I find that the videos are very well put together. With the increasing poplarity of video blogging and the increase in the number of people willing to watch online video blogs, I wish someone would produce a video blog with Steven’s format. Well, I talk about how good the format is, but never tell you what it is like. These videos are […]

Are you a big fish? Figure out where your blog stands in the big ocean with this backlink counter. Interesting classifications.

Issue in Democracy Plugin If you are using the Democacy Plugin from Jalenack.com, you might want to take a look at these series of posts at the Blog Herald and at Blog Republic. Apparently, this plugin appends a string to every URI on your blog and CAN cause your pagerank to drop. Not a problem for most bloggers, but worthy of investigation.

WP Plugin: Plain Text Paste One of the greatest things about the WordPress community is the fact that if you can think of a need, it probably has already been fulfilled, you just have to look around. This plugin enables a WordPress blog to add on the Tiny MCE paste plugin so pastes from rich media does not destroy your blog’s format. I was just discussing this with my das last night.