Blogging Tools I can’t live without

Posted on October 4, 2007 
Filed Under Wordpress Tools

I am currently working on 1, 2, 3…ok, about 10 blogs. That is A LOT of writing and editing. I am all about efficiency (see http://greenfindit.com) anyhow…here are some Blogging tools to increase my productivity:

(BTW the idea for this post is originally from: http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/top-10-tools-i-cant-live-without/)

1) Firefox - I can’t imagine my life without it, it is as simple as that.

2) Scribefire - Cool! When you are working on a lot of blog, this is your tool. You can add all your blogs and make posts from within Firefox. You can save notes, edit pages…everything.

3) SnagIT - a screen capture program from Techsmith. It also has a very easy-to-use image editor. I have been using this for years. They just released some new extensions that allow me to publish from SnagIt to a blog. That’s cool.

4) Photoshop - the gold standard in image editing. Sometimes it is overkill but if you have to do it right…do it with Photoshop. There are a lot of CSS themes I have edited that would have been a real pain in the backside without this program

5) Wordpress - I can’t say I have used every Blogging platform out there but of the ones I have used, Wordpress is by far my favorite. Why? One word…plugins.

6) EditPad Lite - This is a notepad replacement. I have used the Pro version and the lite version (free). I can say that the lite version has everything I need. I have also used Notepad++ (open source) for some reason I keep going back to Editpad.

7) Globalscape CuteFTP 7 home - This is my FTP program. I must have found this years ago and bought a copy. I haven’t upgraded either, I am just very happy with it and it works great. It has everything I need.

8) Microsoft Expression Web - I found this program recently and really like it. I really like the CSS editor. It is very intuitive.

9) AI Roboform - I have hundreds of passwords and there is no humanly way to keep them straight (or secure) I use Roboform to do it for me. I even have Portable Roboform installed on my iPod so I can plug it in to my laptop and have my passwords handy on the road.

 

Comments

5 Responses to “Blogging Tools I can’t live without”

  1. bgg on October 23rd, 2007 11:59 am

    It\’s a very good site!t

  2. lora on October 24th, 2007 1:37 pm

    Nice resource, very interesting reading…

  3. meri on October 24th, 2007 10:53 pm

    Thanks a bunch!i

  4. ssre on October 25th, 2007 7:05 pm

    that\’s neat!5

  5. zack on October 26th, 2007 6:13 am

    Very nice work, admin :) Good luck!h

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