You can share your favorite music on your blog or web site with these little mp3 widgets with cute emotional icons.

Muzicons.com allows you to upload song in mp3 format and create a widget for your blog. You can choose emotional icon, widget type and color before you upload. You can upload up to 20 MB for each file without registering (registeration is optional).

via: Killer Tech Tips

Kwippy is another micro blogging service and it look likes Twitter but with comment features. I have been playing around with Kwippy in these days and found that it is a good way to share gTalk, Yahoo and Facebook status with your friends in one place.

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It is really important that you should change your password immediately when you logged in your wordpress panel for this first time after fresh installation of your Wordpress. To change your password, click admin link next to “Howdy” text message in upper right corner of your Wordpress panel Or type yourblogaddress.com/wp-admin/profile.php in browser address bar.

You can change Color scheme of your admin panel, First name, Last name, Nickname, Display name which is used for author name is blog post, contact information, etc in Profile section. This is a Wordpress newbie series. I will keep posting like this tutorial in future.

There have been another PageRank update from Google. I found many of my friends’ sites having dropped PR. Some still remains. I also found some changes in my site. I changed the link structure of my site in last month with the help of permalink migration plugin. All of my old posts rank was temporary dropped at that time. After this Pagerank update, each has its own pagerank back. Do you see any changes of site rank?

Time goes faster than I think. Today turns 23 years old now. I am missing home and the days I spent my birthdays with my family. Thank friends for your pre birthday wishes.

Videos from Common Craft show make us easier to understand the complex technology by explaining with screenshots and simple English. Some of the videos such as Rss in Plain English, Blogs in Plain English and Twitter in Plain English are really noticeable. Now they released the new video Web Search Strategies in Plain English that explains about searching in web. It is worth the watch.

Twitter Grader tool is seemed to be fun for Twitter user. It mesaures the relative power of a Twitter user. Calcualation is based on combination of the number of followers, power of followers, pace of your updates, completeness of your profile and few others. Twitter Grader tool is also a part of Web site Grader, a useful tool to measure your site. Found via Htoo Tay Zar

Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.

Instructions

Create 100 px width and 58 px height image for thumbnail and create a new key under Custom field titled thumbnail. And paste the url of your thumbnail photo.

Wp Foto Theme displays only one post in front page. If you want to show more than one post, you can customize it. To change, find the following code define(MAX_PHOTOS,1) in index.php and change the number 1 to any you want.

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Technorati just released the state of Blogosphere 2008 report today. Statistics show that

• 133 millions blog records indexed by Technorati since 2002
• 7.4 million blogs posted in last 120 days
• 1.5 million blogs posted in last 7 days
• 900,000 blog posts in 24 hours
• 76, 000 blogs with Technorati Authority of 50+
• Top 100 blogs by Technorati Authority

My question is how many spam blogs and dead blogs in 133 millions blog?

See more about State of the Blogosphere at Technorati.

Don’t want to have fun with your photos? Photofunia is an online image editing tool that gives users a fun filled experience. Users can upload any photos and just wait to see the wonder it does. The most amazing thing is how it identifies the face automatically in the photo.

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I like system tray because I don’t want clutter windows taskbar when I am running several applications. Some applications like Gtalk, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger have that  system tray feature to show in System tray as icon instead of showing in Windows Taskbar. Power Menu is a small utility that can sent application to the system tray. It will automatically add Minimize to Tray menu to the Windows control menu of any running applications after installed. It also has Priority, Transparency and Always on Top features as well. For those system tray fan like me, this is another must have utility for Windows to install.

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Saw this “Mingalaba Myo Kyaw Htun” greeting message while browsing my account in Flickr. Flickr always shows greeting message in different language randomly whenever you browse home page while you’re logged in. It is cool thing that we can learn how to greet people in different language. “Hoi” in Dutch , “Konnichiwa” in Japanese , “Namaste” in Hidi, “Salaam” in Arabic, “Mingalaba” in Burmese, etc. Now you know how to greet people in Burmese. Mingalaba

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Many of us are using either wordpress’s default permalink structure http://yourblog.com/?p=343 or http://yourblog.com/2008/09/03/your-post-title. We might probably lose visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to our posts or even Google ranking after we changed the permalink structure from default. If you are going to change the permanent link structure of your wordpress blog, you should consider to use this plugin called Permalinks Migration Plugin. This plugin will automatically generate 301 redirect when your visitors or crawler when they visit your old permalinks and redirect them to new permanent address. This is a way to tell the search engine that your posts has moved and old address should be replaced by the new one. This doesn’t affect you search engine rankings like Google PR.

• Installation is pretty easy. Download the plugin from author’s site and upload under wp-contents/plugins/ folder. And activate it.
• Go to settings->PermalinksMigration and you will see the old permalink structure.
• Go to settings->Permalinks. And change the permalink structure you want. Done!

The whole web is talking about Google Chrome (google.com/chrome), an open source browser based on it owns webkit and uses its Google Gears. An official comic book with 38 pages explained why they build Chrome. Sitepoint listed the features of Chrome based on comic. Is it another step to dominate the web?

• Images of Google Chrome (Techcrunch)
• Google Chrome Screenshots (Blogoscoped)
• Google Chrome (Blogoscoped)
• Google Working on Browser (Site Point)

What to know the information of the site you are looking for? Quarkbase might be useful for you. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources from internet including Delicious, Digg and Technorati and categorized into topics like traffic, social popularity, technical, etc. It is worth to check out!