If you are looking for a free software to find high quality blogs with high page rank posts in your niche to increase your group of friends, as blogroll partners or to just make comments, you can give a look at Fast Blog Finder.

It is a pretty simple and easy to use software, just download it and install it. It does ask for you to fill email address of yours to which it sends activation key. You can use some disposal email address if you think they will spam you, though I haven’t seen G Lock spamming emails.

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I have just reviewed Simple Captcha and Is Human wordpresss plugins which stops automated bot spamming, auto comments and spam comments. Now wordpress has few other plugins too created by various people which do the same thing, with different approach.

One such plugin is WP Hashcash which blocks spam comments, automated spam comments and pingbacks, bots posting random and spam content.

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You must have seen many blogs having embedded flash based audio player, where you click on a button and the mp3 audio starts playing and when you click on pause, it stops. If you are looking to have similar functionality in your wordpress blog of supporting embedded mp3 audio then you can install Audio Player wordpress plugin.

Audio Player plugin for WordPress enables you to insert modern flash MP3 player on your blog’s posts and pages. This plugin is very easy to use. Once you install this on your wordpress blog, you can enter this on your post with a single line syntax: [audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3]. This simple on liner code will insert a flash player and will load the file named “name_of_mp3_file.mp3”. Also you can upload and store your audio files anywhere in the server or even other location as well; just you need to update the path in the plugin’s options panel. Absolute paths to link to files on other servers can be used with full direct link like: [audio:http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/name_of_mp3_file.mp3]

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Few posts back, I had talked about Simple Captcha and how you can use it show captcha image verification code to avoid spammers and bots. Now Simple Captcha is not the only plugin which you can use on your wordpress blog to stop bad bots and spammers.

is_human() plugin for wordpress is one of the most customizable and extensive spam protection plugin available now a days. This plugin has three validation methods to identify users are a human being or a spam bot. You can choose from these verification methods, (1) Standard Captcha Image, (2) Simple Math Equation and (3) Simple Custom Questions. About the 3rd method, you can also create your own questions/ans and advanced users can hard-code them as per need. Also, if you like you can choose all three above mentioned methods to be displayed randomly on each page load.

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I am a google mail power user and knows people who stores way too much content on it, including all emails and chats etc. Since I also uses gmail account as backup of my other email accounts (I forward them to my gmail account), it becomes very important for me to not lose all this information.

Now I know the chances of me changing gmail password and not able to remember the new one are very rare but this can happen as I know this happens with almost everyone. So if you are not able to remember your gmail password and can’t retrieve it using recover password settings, you can lose all your gmail data, emails, chats etc.

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If you owns a wordpresss blog and worried that people are stealing your RSS feeds or blackhatters and spammers are using your blog feed to build spam blogs, then you can show custom copyright message or any similar message at the bottom of your blog feed so when people use your feed, your message and url also gets shown.

To show custom messages at the bottom of RSS feeds, you can use RSS Footer Plugin. It is a very simple plugin where you just have to install it and activate it and in settings, you can set up a message to be shown like below

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When it comes to search, MSN Live Search do not come even close to Google and yahoo search but one thing which can make it popular among bloggers is its very fast updated search index and high weightage towards new blog posts. Infact I have seen almost all newly posted blog posts getting onto first page and even getting top ranking in matter of minutes to few hours. This is even faster then Google which takes few hours atleast to rank blog posts.

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If you like to spend lot of time watching videos from online video sites like youtube, dailymotion, veoh, Metacafe etc, you may also like to save the videos on your computer for later watching. But Sometimes you don’t have the time to browse the best videos or you don’t have the appropriate software to download what you want.

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I often like to search specific content rather then generic content on Google search, say content on specific websites or to search in google books or google base. I also like to look into blogs alone to get the common man’s voice, views and opinions.

For example, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and the front page was filled with authority news websites but I wanted to know what bloggers are talking about the deal, so for this, I used Google Blog Search.

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WordPess PayPal Donation is a small useful plugin for your blog through which you can allow your visitors to donate if they wish. It’s a fully customizable plugin and you can edit it according to your need. You can set a fixed donation amount or can let your visitors to enter amount of their choice. For example you have placed two buttons of 5 and 10 dollars, your users can donate either 5 or 10 dollars. But, you can also allow them to type and pay their desired amount.

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