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Screen Capture By Google For Capturing Visible Tab Content, Page Content Or Simply Full Page In PNG Format

Screen Capture (by Google) is a powerful content capturing extension for Google Chrome users. Old Keyboard shortcuts for screen capturing are annoying and requires unnecessary steps, even they require more editing incase you want to capture only a selected region of page or tab.

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Extend Default WordPress Functionality Of Disabling Comments To Media, Pages And Other Post Types

Default WordPress functionality allows you to disable comments globally, or limit them to logged in users etc but it does’t allows you to select post types where you want to disable comments. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that allows you to disable comments on selected post types including default post types like media, pages and other custom post types created by you.

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TechCrunch Style Lazy Load Social Media Sharing Buttons For Your WordPress Site

TechCrunch uses Socialite.js script can for displaying social media sharing buttons with lazy loading feature. Lazy load simply means that the real js sharing buttons comes visible only when you hover over to them, this way you increase your page loading speed up to some extent. This tutorial is on a free WordPress plugin that enables TechCrunch like social sharing buttons in your self-hosted WordPress blog.

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WordPress Acronym Manager: Define Acronyms In Site-Wide Pages, Posts And Comments

Acronym Manager is the new plugin in WordPress Plugin Repository that lets you define your own acronyms and your can display them inside your blog posts, pages and even in comments by using a simple markup tag.

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Backup Scheduler For WordPress Single & MultiSite Installations: Backup Your Entire Website Folders, Files And Database

Using Backup Scheduler plugin you can easily schedule backups of your entire website or select folders, files and database to backup. The plugin is compatible with both single and multisite installations. If you are running a multisite network then you can take backup of entire network and allow your subsite owners to take backup of their site.

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How To Exclude Selected Categories From Home Page In WordPress ?

You can easily exclude posts form some selected categories to appear on your home page. This way you can create and exclude those categories which doesn’t belongs to your blog’s topic but you still want to blog about them occasionally or for using their URLs to share with other people etc.

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Get Moderated Editing Possible For Published WordPress Content And Enable Approval By Editor

Sometimes when you make changes to any of your blog post and think of reviewing them before making them live, using default WordPress features what you can get is post revisions from the author and then upload them manually. But with Revisionary plugin you get option to save revisions to your published post and then they can get reviewed, then published later.

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Display A Fancy PopUp Globally, Per Site Or On Specific URLs In WordPress

WordPress PopuUp is a fee fancy PopUp plugin which is compaticle with both WP Single and WP Multi Site installations. It is one of the most effective way of advertising your mailing list, special offer or for displaying Ads via javascript ‘pop over’ in your WordPress based website.

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Powerful Google.Com Search Tool That Provides You Past Time Filters And More

Google.Com search provides you a tons of search filter options, other than this Google Search also provides you a powerful search tool you can use for different kinds of search result filtering. This tutorial explains you how you can use Google Search Tool for filtering results to know what netizens said on the topic you are searching in the past hour, 24 hours, week, month etc.

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Instantly Clean Up Your Google Chrome Browser Via Click&Clean App

Click&Clean is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to instantly clean your web-browser is just one click. It deletes all typed URLs, Cache, Cookies, your Downloads Data and Web Browsing History and all instantly.

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Typography And Content Focused Blogging Theme For WordPress Users

San Fran is a free, minimalist WordPress blogging theme which focused mainly on typography and content. It provides you clean and simple interface with several different color schemes you can choose from.

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Find Your Most Popular Posts On The Basis Of Social Media Sharing Statistics In WordPress

There is a total number sharing count for each shared URL of your website, likewise you can see Facebook Likes, Twitter Tweets, +1s and other counts displayed on social sharing buttons on different websites. Social Statistics By Plugins Talk is new WordPress plugin that tracks all social media sharings done by you and your visitors of your blog posts and then it shows you the statistics of your most popular posts.

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Google Blocked Sites Feature Is Discontinued, Its Time To Select An Alternative

Today Google has shut down the ‘Blocked Sites’ feature that allows you to block domains and hosts to appear on search results page. But its not a big problem because you can simply switch to Personal Blocklist (by Google), an official Google Chrome Extension that allows to block particular sites from Google search results. You can download your existing Blocked Sites list as a text file from Google and make use of it in this extension.

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How To Enable Unpublished Post Warnings On Post Preview Page In WordPress ?

Unpublished Warnings is a free WordPress plugin that warns you and your blog authors when looking to an unpublished blog post that just happen to be able to see.

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Shardul Pandey Talks To Richard Matthew Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman works on his own domain i.e. Stallman.org without using any so called social media sites like facebook or whatever.

Working on own domain not only keeps your works intact but creates some independent value upon world-wide-web which is not posible in case of working for any so-called social media site without even getting paid for it. Every other user is almost an unpaid worker upon social networks who frequently uncovers a part of his private self so that social media giants get gigantic value for free. That is certainly not freedom since all your information shared through user-friendly inteface of so-called social networks is more often than not shared with governments, who may not be that friendly with you.

RMS talks about other side of Internet which seems still dark and reminds us fully well that the dangers of 1984 by George Orwell were not averted by an Apple advertisement which proved lucrative enough to Steve Jobs but big brother may still be watching you when you live online.

Shardul Pandey: Whenever governments thought about doing any further evil to humanity by unnecessarily legislating Internet, what force actually forestalled that?

RMS: Political organization by citizens, with the support of some companies that would be hurt by these restrictions.

Shardul Pandey: Whether Internet monopolies proved good enough in SOPA and PIPA ?

RMS: Sorry, I don’t understand the question. Which monopolies is it about?

All monopolies in principle, or specific monopolies? If the latter, which ones?

Also, “good enough” in what way?

I am simply lost.

Shardul Pandey: If anything on Internet does a lot better than others it gets monopolized within no time as happened in the cases of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia also so what do you think where it is going likewise if they monopolize more and more strength of a particular kind day by day and how it will be affecting the freedom of netizens when recent World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT-12) held in Dubai has fully exposed upcoming conflict?

RMS: If the ITU gets control of the Internet, it is likely to encourage censorship and surveillance by governments. However, governments are imposing censorship and surveillance on the Internet even without the ITU. This danger is all around us. It is especially bad in India, where web sites can be shut down without a trial because they might offend someone.

Shardul Pandey: Internet is converting itself into largest ever marketplace without monopolizing any violence and free currency concepts such as bitcoin have also come up so what role at last would be left for states? Do you see a new world order emerging out of Internet Protocol that needs no artificial constitution?

RMS: I am not entirely certain what that question means. But I see that the Internet is turning into a scheme that gives people convenience in exchange for their freedom. Disservices such as Facebook invite people to share lots of personal information with a company that can make use of it, and hand it to the state as well.

Shardul Pandey: So what is your ultimate message to netizens ?

RMS: If you value freedom, you must fight for freedom. Sometimes that requires a sacrifice; those who are unwilling to sacrifice convenience for freedom will lose their freedom. This is how life is, so don’t be surprised that the Internet is this way too.

Shardul Pandey: That is the point as you made it explicit here that Internet has another side also that can get misused for enhancing all sorts of atrocities against individual freedom of human-being and if the fight for freedom is not taken personally without becoming an individual victim, humanity might further face a grave loss of freedom.

RMS: Do you want to ask follow-up questions? I expected you would, for the questions I could not understand.

Shardul Pandey: Obviously, I would like to ask.

On one side people have this tendency of easily giving away their freedom to have some convenience while on other side during SOPA and PIPA a conflict with government brought users and webmasters together to resist for freedom from government interference and thereafter death of Aaron Swartz made them more aware of this battle that has yet to be fought fully well.

Internet has become an overwhelming public rally where more than two billion people are arrived and more than five billion people are about to come so what strategy you suggest for thrusting all relevant contradictions ahead in to a full-fledged freedom struggle of this massive Internet?

RMS: The Internet is developing into a system for surveillance and censorship: a total betrayal of what we hoped it would be.

What most people do on the Internet nowadays is so disrespectful to freedom that I refuse to do it at all. Facebook. Advertising surveillance. Digital Restrictions Management. End-User License Agreements. From that side of the Internet, count me out!

Shardul Pandey: That is quite clear but many people worked on peer-to-peer technologies hoping that this could ultimately replace client-server architecture of Internet that is continuously invading domain of individual freedom demolishing social privacy of humankind.

Whether developing p2p structures is somehow worthwhile? Or anything else should become our focus for furthering technology from here? Technologically what next we should be doing for strengthening individual freedom and social privacy of humankind?

RMS: This is an important thing to do. If you want to help, I encourage your efforts. We hope that all Internet activities will be implemented in a peer-to-peer manner.

Shardul Pandey: Thank you very much Richard for making this point so explicitly clear. In a very systematic manner we shall be exploring entire probability for doing so. Your this interview is live and inspiring brightest upcoming programmers to take up this challenge of emancipating individual freedom and social privacy of humankind.

Those will sure be building a far secure future, who may lead humanity beyond Internet Protocol by developing an Inter-Personal Protocol facilitating peer-to-peer functioning of all devices without centrally registering anything at all. This can more easily be done by configuring a freedom course for kids-online to make them understand the value created by GPL along with learning peer-to-peer engineering. This will continuously bring in many more freedom fighters in technology.

Thank you very much for being around as our great teacher in the freedom struggle of humanity through and beyond this age of Internet.

RMS: Thank you for helping to spread the word.

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Protect Your Privacy And Know Who Is Tracking Your Web Browsing

Ghostery is for all those users who care about their online privacy and it has been engineered keeping privacy as its primary goal. Ghostery use is completely anonymous without any registrations, sign-ups etc. Even it never places session cookies in your web-browser and neither its application nor evidon receives any kind of data from its users unless its users opts-in to participate in GhostRank whose data is anonymous and it is never used for advertising or targeting purposes, and is only shared in an aggregated, non-personal, statistical form.

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How To Pass Tags In WordPress Media Library Images ?

Just like you pass tags in your WordPress blog posts; you can also tag images using a free WordPress plugin called WP Media Tagger. The plugin is extensively configurable and comes packed with a bunch of features enabling WordPress media tagging and search & media taxonomy etc.

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Shardul Pandey Talks To Kenn Kelly Who Co-founded NeverSettle.It

Shardul Pandey Talks To Kenn Kelly

I welcome you, Kenn, please tell our netizens about yourself.

I am dedicated to following Yahushua (Jesus Christ) who is the provider of every success and good thing that I have. He has given me amazing opportunities and experiences as a technology entrepreneur in both Fortune 100 and Silicon Valley startup environments, but I am even more passionate about promoting practical, positive change and impacting the cultures around me. Although I am a US citizen, my wife and I spend as much time as we can traveling to other countries, meeting locals, creating long-term relationships, and serving the local communities. Our goal is to establish self­sustaining solutions to some of their biggest challenges: hunger, poverty, and spiritual hopelessness. My first deep dive into technology came in the form of a C++ programming course that I took through my high school advanced placement classes. From then on, technology became part of my daily life and studies in a profound way. I was the first person in my family to attend a University, and during my time there my passion for education and further learning sparked a fire I have not been able to quench. My journey has been full of amazing people, especially my wife and two business partners Shaul and Andrew, who have mentored me and contributed significantly to where I am today, if I were to stand in a mirror you would see a reflection of them and Him.

Tell us brief history of NeverSettle.It. How exactly your idea sparked?

Never Settle was launched in September 2012, driven and inspired by our relentless conviction to leverage technology to significantly disrupt the world in a positive way. Specifically, Never Settle develops custom web applications and software tools for companies and nonprofits that are tackling the world’s largest problems. Our core founding team has a diverse technology background; combined our experience spans over 30 years of implementing technology solutions in corporate, federal, and startup environments from industry giants like Accenture and Hewlett­Packard, to the US White House, to brand new companies that were a little more than an idea turned into hyper-growth tech start­ups.

The concept of Never Settle came from our previous business experiences where we saw partners and colleagues settling for less than we were willing to compromise on in areas that were critical to our core values. We decided to build a company on the philosophies of doing things the right way and not cutting corners regardless of what it cost us in time or money as an intentional choice to pursue the Never Settle paradigm. Since our founding, this approach has served us quite well and led to some really amazing opportunities for us more quickly than we imagined.

­How many people got associated with working together?

Our team currently consists of three founding partners: Andrew Lundquist, Shaul Hagen, and myself, but we are actively looking for like­minded developers and technology experts who can help us keep up with the exciting growth we’re experiencing. The harder we try to live up to our name the more difficult that quest is especially considering the existing bar we’ve set. Andrew and Shaul are two of the most talented and creative technologists I’ve ever met, and if they ever slow down in building things for our clients they might invent a new internet or something equally impactful. Andrew is an all­or­nothing technology architect who served in the US Air Force and worked for HP at the White House for nearly a decade building custom enterprise collaboration tools for the president’s staff. Eventually, he decided to take his family on the road and become a full­time nomad and explore the continent. Needless to say, he works with us remotely. Shaul is a rare and amazing blend of artistic and graphic design talent mixed with programming skills that makes him a perfect UI / UX engineer. He loves to push the limits of existing tools and translate what people see in their heads into visual reality. Oh, did I mention he’s a rockstar too? Literally, Shaul traveled around the country for 6 years as the lead drummer for a national US band.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, but anywhere on the planet with an internet connection is a potential office for us. As you can tell, we’re all quite avid travelers who seem to find ourselves working all over the world from wherever our journeys take us.

What is your business philosophy?

To live up to our name: in our lives, with our business, and for our clients. To leverage technology to significantly disrupt the world in a positive way tackling the world’s largest problems.

What makes NeverSettle.It different from all the other frameworks out there?

We don’t accept convention and consider “best practices” with healthy skepticism. Convention can be good when it leads to efficiency, but more often it stifles innovation. What really drives us is the discovery of what awaits along the paths less traveled. We’d rather bushwhack through a swamp looking for a shortcut than take the easy paved trail. So, we purposefully break things in order to step outside of them and gain unique vantage points. If we can truly understand something ­ own it from the inside out ­ then we can re­invent it in a revolutionary way whether it’s a process or a piece of software or a mindset. We’re passionate about making things smarter and easier ­ doing more of the work behind the scenes with pre­emptive code so that the user has fewer clicks, and fewer things to figure out. A big differentiator for us is what we call the Golden Rule Approach. We have a deep understanding of business processes, software, marketing, and web applications, but if we can’t meet your needs we will be the first to tell you.

All that aside, our priority and focus is to positively impact the world rather than to make money. We certainly want to be successful, and revenue is a desirable byproduct of that, but we founded Never Settle to make our world a better place. This core purpose keeps our identity focused first and foremost on stewardship. We are stewards first and business owners second, and we just want to be responsible and faithful with whatever opportunities and measures of success that we have. This means that every decision we make must be weighed against that core purpose from the clients we choose to work with to the projects we undertake to the future team members we bring on, and we are already blessed to work with some of the brightest minds and companies out there whose missions are tackling the world’s largest problems.

What are your plans for the future of NeverSettle.It ? What other projects you are working on?

We’re going to continue developing tools and technologies like the NS Cloner Pro that enhance and accelerate the tools upon which so many other developers and businesses rely. In addition to the solutions we’re constantly building for our clients, we are also working on several new WordPress­based ideas, a strategy card game, a web and mobile app that will provide an excitingly novel way to study the Bible and an ebook about working remotely. Some of our current humanitarian projects include working with iempathize.org to eliminate child trafficking and sex slavery, 25inchange.org to end world hunger and obesity, connexionmosaico.org to transform urban slums across the world, osanabar.com an anti­mosquito soap to prevent malaria and sanitation related deaths, jellytelly.com in developing children’s media that parents can be proud of, and creativetrust.com in building literary, music, and media business that impact the world in a positive way.

I am open for interviewing all those individuals, who own their domain to somehow create virtual wealth in webspace since sustaining freedom is mostly built around domains running wonderful utilities in webspace that human­beings enjoy. What is your opinion on continuing this?

We completely agree and think that more people should operate under that paradigm! When people have the rights, the freedoms, and the tools to express their talents they end up adding the most creative and beautiful contributions to our planet that enrich the lives of others. Giving a voice to those ideas, people, and things is a powerful way of influencing future innovation and the freedom of future generations. We appreciate your vision to help inspire others to adopt that same paradigm and strive to do the same.

What is your ultimate message for netizens?

Never settle ­ not even for thinking outside the box ­ Exist Outside the Box!

Thank you very much Kenn for opting Internet as your place of doing business. I wish you success in upgrading humanity!

WordPress Save and Close Button: Return To Post Listing Page After Making Edits In Your Content

Using Save and Close button you can quickly move back to all posts page after publishing or updating your blog post. The button works with all WP posts, pages and other custom post types.

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