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Colorblendy: Instantly Multiply A Couple Of Colors Offline In Chrome

Colorblendy is an offline Google Chrome extension which quickly installs in your Chrome browser and lets you mix two different colors and obtain the code of third color just like you do in Photoshop but here the app is made only for mixing up two different colors and nothing else.

To start simply add Colorblendy app in your Chrome. As soon it installs, the extension adds a new icon in Chrome’s App’s home. You just need to click that icon and Colorblendy opens up its page where you can very easily mix up colors both by codes or color picker.

Transform Your Google Chrome Home & New Tab Page With 3D Speed Dial Bookmarker

Speed Dial [FVD] – 3D New Tab Page is a speedial app for Chrome that also syncs between your Chrome and Firebox browsers. The extension transforms Chrome’s New Tab with new FVD Speed Dial which is a beautiful bookmarking manager, you can add the URLs and it will automatically retrieve the thumbnails and beautifully organizes your bookmarks, with Custom backgrounds, custom dials, organized groups, and most visited websites. It transforms the Apps page into a sidebar which you can manually show or hide on new tab’s speed dial page.

The app is easy to use and configure. Simply add it in your Chrome browser and as soon you add it, it itself transforms everything and your get a whole new ‘New Tab’ page with faster web browsing experience. Note: Your Chrome might restart several times after this app is installed. If you also use Mozilla Firefox the you can install FVD Speed Dial with Full Online Syn and do online synchronization between Google Chrome & Firefox. Other than this you can change background color, image, use Widgets for FVD Speed Dial, Themes for FVD Speed Dial and more.

Best Google Chrome Extensions For Faster Web Browsing

Session Manager: Sometimes bookmarks are not enough specially when you need a website or webpage exactly as you left like when you need back your half-written post/article with your account logged in. Here your can use Session Manager, a powerful Google Chrome extension. Add it in your Chrome browser and then for using it simply hit cardboard box icon next to chrome’s web address bar. Now Session Manager will ask you to Save the web page you’re running. All webpages you save are time stamped so that your can easily return to the version of your work in-progress at any time. All login screens and configuration menus are skipped and you get to your page exactly as you left it before.  It sounds trivial, but for those of us that bounce between multiple web apps and interfaces. It is a big time-saver.

SearchPreview: All what this Google Chrome extension does is, it simply adds a thumbnail screenshot at the left side of all Google search results showing. The screenshot shows the snapshot of the website listed in your search results. It becomes more useful if you are finding the website you accessed before but did not bookmarked, the thumbnail of that website will help you jog your memory.

Stop Autoplay for YouTube: Its name makes everything pretty much clear. Yes, the extension stops YouTube videos from playing automatically. There are various other extensions that allows you to do same but we have chosen this extension because it is a bit different and straight forward. This extension not only stops autoplay but it still pre-buffers the YouTube video. This thing makes the extension more useful for the users with slow internet connection.

Send from Gmail: By default Ubuntu uses Thunderbird, Windows uses Outlook, it depends what operating system you are using.The extension is for Gmail users. After you add this extension in your Google Chrome browser it will open all email links on internet in your Gmail not on Thunderbird or Outlook etc and hence there is no need of copy-pasting email addresses between webpages and your Gmail compose box. Other than this, the extension also adds a button for creating email message when clicked, it uses the page title as the subject and selected webpage text and link address as the message.

AdBlock – Yes it block ads on web pages. The extension strips out most of the advertisements from majority of website and provides you a clean, faster web browsing experience with less data usage.

If you also know about any good Google Chrome extension that offers a better browsing experience then feel free to mention it in the following comments.

HackerTray: Bring Hacker News To Your Ubuntu Linux Menu Bar

HackerTray, a free Linux app programmed with Python2 (inspired from Hacker Bar) simply brings Hacker News to your Linux menu bar. It is yet not compatible with all Linux systems but works really nice with Ubuntu. Following screenshot explains everything pretty well about how it works on your Ubuntu desktop. So now we are starting with its installation and upgrade process etc.

HackerTray

How to install HackerTray?

Open your Linux Terminal and use the following commands to install:

sudo pip install hackertray
OR
sudo easy_install hackertray
OR
#Download Source and cd to it
sudo python setup.py install

Now you can run hackertray from anywhere. Other than this you can now add it to your OS dependent session autostart method.

If you are a Ubuntu user then you can access it from:

  1. System > Preferences > Sessions
    (OR)
  2. System > Preferences > Startup Applications

Depending upon your Ubuntu Linux Version. Or simply put it in ~/.config/openbox/autostart if you are running OpenBox. Here you can see how the configuration should look like in Ubuntu and its derivatives.

How to upgrade HackerTray?

The latest stable version is always available on pip. You can check which version you have installed with pip freeze | grep hackertray.

To upgrade, run pip install -U hackertray.

In some cases (Ubuntu), you might need to clear the pip cache before upgrading:

sudo rm -rf /tmp/pip-build-root/hackertray

Automatically Display Targeted Amazon Products Related To Your WordPress Site Content

StickyZon Lite is an awesome WordPress plugin that lets you add Amazon products related to your blog posts content. With this new plugin you can add targeted products without touching or adding any code snippet. Its a quick set and forget plugin which automatically adds most popular Amazon products to your blog posts related to your post topic.

This way the similar products increases the chance for your visitors to go and take a look over your products and buy them from Amazon. You can make easy commissions without any work.

Features:

  • Easy 3 mintue setup
  • Automatically searches Amazon products based on post tags, categories or preset keywords
  • Automatically adds Amazon products at the end on of post contents
  • Completely blends with site layout and post content
  • No code modification or extra coding required

Getting Started: Install and activate StickyZon Lite plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> StickyZon Lite page and set Amazon Affiliate ID, API Key (Access Key ID), Secret Access Key and choose your Amazon Product Category using the drop down box.

Other than this you can Use Post Tags to search products, Use Post Categories to search products, Set Default search keywords, Add Widget Title, Edit Buy Now Link Text and Show sponsor link etc.

WP Curtain: Hiding Your WordPress Site From General Public & Search Engines

WP Curtain is the new highly customizable WordPress plugin that lets you hide your website from general visitors and search engines like Google, Yahoo and all others. The plugin allows you to enable access for logged in users having a specified access level like Editor, they can can view website but all other visitors will get directed to a friendly error page showing a message or a beautiful countdown timer (FlipClock) or a log in section, its up to you. You can easily customize its settings.

Simply install and activate WP Curtain plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Plugins -> WP Curtain Settings page and here you can:

  1. You can add Title, Heading and Description to show on the page where your visitors are directed.
  2. You can enable or disable countdown timer. It shows when will your website be online by asking you to enter expected site’s online date, hours, minutes and seconds.WP Curtain
  3. You can set enable or disable login box, You can add Redirect URL where your users will be sent here after login. Leave it empty to send them to the page that they tried to access. Finally the third sections lets you set minimum access level required to view your website.

Easily Create Facebook Ads Right From WordPress Admin

Facebook Ads Tool lets you create cool Facebook ads directly from your WordPress admin interface. It provides you an easy user-friendly interface and you can quickly start in seconds creating your own Facebook ads that drives new traffic and promote your web pages. You can know more about its awesome features on its download page at WordPress.org here.

To start simply install and activate Facebook Ads Tool and follow the given steps:

Step-1 Creating your Facebook Add

  • Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Facebook Ads Tool -> Create An Add page
  • Choose your Ad Destination, Type Headline and Ad Text, Upload image (It shows real time add preview) and click Next button

Step-3 Specify the people (audience) who will be shown your Ad. How old they are, what their interests are, etc.

  • Add countries you like targeting
  • Enter amount you like spending on this add
  • Set Start & End Date and then click Done button

Step-3 Time to enter your Billing Information

  • Enter your Full Name, Card Number, CSV Security Code, Expiry Date then click Submit button and follow the steps.

The plugin also activates Facebook Ads Dashboard (Dashboard ->Facebook Ads Tool -> Ads Dashboard) where you can keep track of your Facebook Ads, Clicks, Conversions and other useful information. Following screenshots will certainly make you better understand this useful tool that works from WordPress admin section:

facebook-ads screenshot 1Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 1)facebook-ads screenshot 2Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 2)facebook-ads screenshot 3Creating a Facebook Ad directly from a wordpress page

facebook-ads screenshot 4Your Ad on Facebook

facebook-ads screenshot 5Live Social Contests & Promotions

facebook-ads screenshot 6Creating a Sweepstakes in your WordPress Admin

facebook-ads screenshot 7Email Automation Campaigns

facebook-ads screenshot 8Contact Database

facebook-ads screenshot 9Campaign Analytics

 

New Sticky Metro Style HS Social Media Buttons For WordPress

HS Social Media Buttons provides you sticky metro style social media buttons with four different button effects. The buttons allows you to add Facebook URL, Linkedin URL, Twitter URL, Youtube URL, Google+ URL, Pintrest URL. You can set their position to left or right and set their top margin in pixels.

Simply install and activate HS Social Media Buttons plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> HS Social Media Buttons page and add your social profile/page URLs and save changes.

Features

  • Place it on left or right side of your site.
  • Select various ‘Effects’ for Social Buttons.
  • User can easily reach to your social media page
  • Provides you social Media buttons like facebook, google plus, twitter etc.

Little Alchemy: Start With Four Basic Elements Then Play With Many Surprising Combinations

Littlealchemy.com is an online free game where you start with four basic elements, then mix and match them to create more and more new awesome things. At the beginning of the game you get have only four basic elements in your library but then you can mix and create new ones. You can easily combine them simply by dragging and dropping on each other.

You can start by visiting Littlealchemy.com and start playing with so many surprising combination.

Rollip: Give New Interesting Effects To Your Photos For Free

Rollip.com is a free cloud service that allows you to give quick and easy photo effects. Simply visit its website rollip.com/start/ upload your photos and start giving effect in easy clicks. You can easily give any digital photo a complete new look and feel by using the high-quality filters ranging from 70’s vintage to other modern ones.

You can easily try it with one image and then you will probably be ending up processing your entire photo collection. The application works like your own private Instagram but with many more effects. You can easily start with it in just a minute and all your images look more interesting and cool.

New Admin Screen Shortcode Lister For WordPress

It is ofcourse not easy to remember all shortcodes you have active in your WordPress installation unless they provides you shortcode generator etc. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that simply displays a list of all the shortcodes available for use on the post and page edit screens.

Install and activate Edit Screen Shortcode Lister plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically starts displaying all active shortcodes your WordPress site has.It produces a clean, easily accessible list of all the custom/third party added, and WordPress default shortcodes that you are able to use inside your posts and pages. This way you can easily use your shotocodes by copying them right from the post edit screens. Now it is no more  difficult to remember them all.

WPMS Admin Reports: New Reporting Tool For WordPress Multisite Administrators

WPMS Admin Reports is the brand new WordPress plugin made for multisite networks. It provides you a reporting tool accessible by multisite administrators. It gives you three reports and a dashboard that gives you a quick snapshot view of the health of your WordPress Multisite installation. All of the tables are client-side sortable using jQuery and tablesorter. It includes graphical indicators (smiley faces) to help easily identify problem sites, users and plugins.

Install and activate WPMS Admin Reports. After activation you may access the reports from network admin dashboard.

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 1Dashboardwpms-admin-reports screenshot 2Site Reportwpms-admin-reports screenshot 3User Report

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 4Plugin Report

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 5Help Tab

Dashboard – provides charts displaying multiple factors from the other three reports in a graphical way using radar and pie charts.

Site Report – Detailed information about each site in your installation like Errors, ID, Status (Up/Down), Last Post, Last Update, When Created, Current Template, Number of Users and lists the Primary Administrator.

User Report – Gives you detailed information about each user in your installation.

Plugin Report – Lists all installed plugins and provides information about each one. Includes information such as Name, Upgradeability, Status, Activation Site-wide, Total Number of Blogs that use it and a list of those blogs.

New Restaurant Menu Manager Loaded With jQuery Accordion & Tabs For WordPress

Restaurant Menu Manager is the brand new WordPress plugin you can use for creating beautiful restaurant menu in your WordPress site, you can easily group different menu items like Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Desserts, etc. You can also group entries with entry tags or Vegetarian, Sandwiches, Salad, Soups, etc. and then finally display them using a list or jQuery based accordions or tabs.

The plugin uses default WordPress functionality of custom post types, taxonomies, and custom meta fields and lets you easily import and export all your data. The plugin provides you following main features:

  • Add images or even a full gallery for each of your menu entries.
  • Set a featured image or entry thumbnail.
  • Allow visitors to leave comments below each entry.
  • Use other WordPress plugins with your Restaurant Menu Entries.
  • Translation Ready.

Install and activate Restaurant Menu Manager. After activation the plugin adds a new post type in WordPress admin section. Using this new post type you can create your restaurant menu entries, types and add tags etc.

restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 1Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery accordion tabs.restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 2Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery tabs.restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 3Restaurant menu displayed in simple list.restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 4Add New Restaurant Menu Entry screen.

restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 5All Restaurant Menu Entries Screen.

How to display the menu on your site in simple list?

[rm-menu]

Displaying restaurant menu in a jQuery accordion with collapsible tabs for different menu types, use

[rm-menu display=’accordion’]

For displaying your menu in jQuery tabs, then add this shortcode:

[rm-menu display=’tabs’] Learn more about shortcode usage.

How To Create An RSSJS Feed For WordPress?

RSS, or “Really Simple Syndication” is a format for distributing and gathering dynamically generated content from sources across the Internet, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. RSSJS, or “RSS To Javascript“, allows you to display this content within your own web pages and to do so without having to possess any XML knowledge or skills. RSSJS will take ANY RSS feed and create a very simple Javascript that can be coded into ANY HTML document. The resulting Javascript output can be manipulated using CSS and even scrolled as we have done in the “News Headlines” example. – Source

Recently WordPress.org has launched a new plugin called RSSJS. The new lightweight WordPress plugin simply creates an RSSJS feed for your WordPress site. All you will be needing to do is install and activate it.

Box: Another Web Service Providing 10GB Of FREE Cloud Storage

Box provides you free 10 GB cloud storage and makes it easy for you to access and edit files, share content, and stay connected with your team from anywhere on any device. It works with your Google Account. You can install it its Chrome App from Web Store. First it asks you to provide required permissions and then you create your Box account passwords and you are redirected to your Box cloud accountwhere you can use your space, manage your files etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ZsF1xx2bc

Important Feature:

  1. Put any kind of file online, then share it with just a link
  2. Invite others to share an entire folder of files
  3. Collaborate via comments and task to get things done
  4. Get Box Sync to keep your computer files synced to the cloud
  5. Take your files on the go with Box for Mobile for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows
  6. Plus, Box OneCloud is our ecosystem of apps where you can annotate, e-sign and do more with your favorite productivity apps.
  7. With Box OneCloud apps, you can open and edit Box files with other apps installed on your device
  8. Save content directly to Box from more than 50+ compatible apps

Amplify: Icebreaker For WordPress User Engagement

Amplify is the brand new WordPress plugin that lets you presents your human face to your website users. The plugin is designed to encourage visitors to engage with you.

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People want to connect with real people and not brands. Brands are not people. But brands are made by people. So why not use a real person from your company to represent your brand.

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Install and activate Amplify plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Amplify admin page and enter your API key. You can easily obtain your free API key by registering your account at Getamplify.com

amplify screenshot 1

Amplify -Feedback widgets, contact us forms etc are seen by your users as one-way conversations. Users after filling up a form are not even sure if they will receive a reply. But with Amplify Connect these feedbacks are turned into conversations and stored in a personalised user-inbox for every user.

amplify screenshot 2

Pro-active User Engagement-Less than 0.5% users on any site submits a feedback or fill up a contact form. So instead of waiting for users to contact you, why not greet them with a custom message when then pay you a visit.

amplify screenshot 3

Easy and yet powerful customer support-Easily assign these conversations and support requests to team members. Use email forwarding to centralised your support queries via Amplify Connect.

amplify screenshot 4

additional marketing channel-An additional marketing channel

Optimizing Your Image Size Via TinyPNG API In WordPress

TinyPNG for WordPress lets you connect your WordPress site with Tinypng.com API so that you can easily optimize/reduce size of your PNG files on the go. TinyPNG uses a smart lossy compression techniques for reducing PNG file size by selectively decreasing the number of colours in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. Effect made by the service is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference optimizing your PNG files.

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PNG is useful because it’s the only widely supported format that can store partially transparent images. The format uses compression, but the files can still be large. Use TinyPNG to shrink images for your apps and sites. It will use less bandwidth and load faster.

How does it work? When you upload a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file, similar colours in your image are combined. This technique is called “quantisation”. Because the number of colours is reduced, 24-bit PNG files can be converted to much smaller 8-bit indexed colour images. All unnecessary metadata is stripped too. The result: tiny PNG files with 100% support for transparency. Have your cake and eat it too!

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 Installation & Usage:

Install and activate TinyPNG for WordPress plugin. Upon activation visit your Dashboard -> TinyPNG admin page and enter your email and API key to connect with TinyPNG.

Now you can upload the PNG file using its uploader. As soon as the uploading finishes, the plugin will connect to the TinyPNG API and get you the Optimized image. (The files uploaded and optimized are saved in the TInyPNG folder in the main WP media folder. For eg – /wp-content/TinyPNG )

How to obtain your API key?

If you haven’t made one yet, you can visit this link to make one – https://tinypng.com/developers

New jQuery Based Horizontal Timeline For WordPress

Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin provides you a simple and handy shortcode that displays jQuery powered horizontal timeline in your WordPress site. Timeline displays dates and time which when clicked shows the posts with excerpts (under the timeline) published on that particular date without page any refresh.

How To Use Horizontal Timeline Shortcode?

MLR-Timeline-screenshot

Install and activate Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin. After activation the plugin enables a shortcode you can use inside your posts, pages, text widgets and other shortocde supported areas of WordPress.

[ml_timeline] is the default shortcode that will display all posts.

category_name=”Your-category-slug” -> [ml-timeline category_name=”Your-category-slug”] will display posts from a specific category.

How To Set Featured Image From WordPress Admin All Posts View?

Now you can view and edit your post’s thumbnails directly from All Posts list (Dashboard -> Posts -> All Posts) present in WordPress admin area dashboard. Featured Image Admin Thumb lets you do this in a very handy way. Install and activate this new WordPress plugin and then follow few simple steps.

featured-image-admin-thumb-fiat screenshot 1Screenshot shows the Thumb column in the All Pages/Posts admin view and in this case a thumbnail is available and shown. There would be a blank space if no thumbnail was found for the post or page.

featured-image-admin-thumb-fiat screenshot 2If the column is not showing in your All Posts/Pages view this shows you where you can check to see that the “Thumb” column is selected to be displayed

Upon activation the plugin automatically adds a new column in admin section’s ‘All Posts’ & ‘All Pages’ view. This new column shows featured thumbnail image attached to the Post/Page. Other than this the posts which don’t have any thumbnail attached, the plugin displays ‘Set Thumbnail’ button you can use for adding thumbnail to your post in admin post list view.

Infinite Scroll For BuddyPress: Automatically Load Activities As Soon The User Reaches Bottom OF The Page

Similar to Facebook and Twitter you can activate automatic activity loader in your BuddyPress based network. BuddyPress Activity Autoloader is the brand new plugin that automatically activities when a user reaches at the bottom of the page. The plugin just simulates Facebook style infinite activity scroll with BuddyPress.

buddypress-auto-loader

All you need to do is install and activate BuddyPress Activity Autoloader plugin and it will start autoloading activities when a user reaches at the bottom of the page.

Evolution Social Sharing For WordPress: An Alternative To Popular Digg Digg Plugin

Digg Digg is among the most popular free social sharing plugins available for WordPress sites. The plugin adds a floating bar with sharing buttons to your WordPress blog, just like Mashable. Now this tutorial is on another new WordPress plugin called Evolution Social Share. It is advertised that theb plugin is an alternative to Digg Digg that uses less code and loads much faster. Provides you fixed social share toolbar that is SEO friendly and customizable.

The plugin is designed for the bloggers who don’t like to use the content heavy and slow Digg Digg bar. This new bar only has the code required to create the fixed bar having sharing to increase page speed and less code. It contains only the necessary JavaScript for the buttons which is added to the Footer, not inside the content and hence gives you high performance and loading.

Install and activate Evolution Social Share plugin. Upon activation you can control its options, features and make customization from your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Evolution Social Share page.