Grumblr: Tumblr Client for Ubuntu

9:03 PM

Grumblr is a GTK based Tumblr micro-blogging platform client. With Grumblr you can post text messages, links, quotes, chat logs, upload photos, audio and video files on Tumblr right from your desktop.

Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog, named a "tumblelog." Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.


Installation

In order to install and run grumblr you should have the following packages installed on your system:
You can install required dependencies with the following command
  • $ sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems ruby-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev libgtk2.0-dev
To Install grumbler issue the following commands
  • $ sudo gem install grumblr  
  • $ cd /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/grumblr-2.4.2  
  • $ sudo ruby ./setup.rb
Grumblr can now be launched from the default menu in Unity or Gnome.

Enjoy!


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Most Powerfull Ping Tools (Blogging)

10:12 PM

Blog pinger, i thing all blogger know it. Blog pinger or Pinger tool is such application made to help poeple notify search enggine that her/his blog has been updated. ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated, i dont know how it's work exactly but some issues that I believe using ping tools can help you to make your blog have a good visibility in search engine. Here is 2 of most powerfull ping tools (in my opinion) which referenced by my friend that i usually use to ping some of my blog

Ping device have a simple view, but trust me it's give you advantages more than it's looks. ping device can perform mass ping and give simple report how far the system has worked, just fill the url in the text area then click start.
pingdevice.com screenshoot

Same as tool above, using ping farm you can not only perform mass ping as usual but also perform blog pinging through RSS URL.
pingfarm.com screenshoot
there are many website that offer blog ping service with farious function and advantages, do not get confused which is best don't lose focus cause your content is everything.

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Green, Simple and Elegant Premium Wordpress Theme for Free

7:59 PM

Hi there, today we (ubuntubuzz) wanna share an excellent premium theme for your wordpress blog. This theme is specifically made by ubuntubuzz team which modified from default wordpress theme 'jenny'. This Green, Simple and Elegant Theme is suitable for your blog which usually using a clean and simple themes view, This themes named 'Green theme ' which is taken from our favorite color Green, here's the screenshot from the demo page.


Green wordpress themes
The Green Theme has a lot of option provided, you can customize and add some social information there, thus template properties provided :
  1. Customable Widget in the left and bottom of page.
  2. Dynamic featured image slider.
  3. Featured video dan popular post (*controlable by theme option on the admin page).
  4. Google adsense ready, you can embed adsense advertisment on the top and bottom of the post.
  5. Easy to Insert google analytics code.
  6. Social network and bookmarking sharing botton in the bottom of the post.
  7. etc
The picture above illustrated 'the Green Theme' theme option on the admin page, you can find easily this page at the time you finish the installation.
Green wordpress themes admin
Finally you can test by your self, give us feedback so that we can provide a better wordpress template another day.
Demo Page : Wordpress Green Theme
Download   : http://www.mediafire.com/?iuhc9rp9jg2qycs
Enjoy a free Premium Wordpress Theme by ubuntubuzz.

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See blogger in draft : Find out what blogger new feature !

2:02 PM

FBlogger in draft special version of Blogger where the Blogger development team try out the new features before they release them to everyone, to access google in draft you can go to http://draft.blogger.com/, if you already have blogspot account or blog you can make this (draft.blogger.com) to your default dashboard. Blogger already have beautifful change based on google in draft and it's review, see what different from it's old version of Blogger.

Blogger Stat, Built-in blog statistics made blog monitoring as easy as Google Analytics
Blogger stat is one of the the new feature of Blogger, Blogger Stat is built-in blogger tools for monitoring blog statistics and track your blog traffic, if you wanna start using this feature Just go to Blogger in Draft, and you'll notice a new "Stats" tab. You don't have to install or configure anything to start benefitting from Stats.
Blogger Stat of traffic inbound
Blogger Stat show mount of visitor 



Better Way to Posting Article
  • As we see in blogger in draft, blogger has made a little change in how to compose a blog posting, blogger add some fancy tools which made way of blog posting easier, as we can see in blogger post editor toolbar there is one tools added namely 'translate'. I used to use google translate to help me to translating from english to indonesian or opposite, now i can little bit faster to search a strange vocabulary :p
New view of blogger in draft post editor toolbar

  • Provide new way and view of insert picture utillity, google in draft serve new way of inserting picture in a posting. We can picture directly from Harddrive, Url, and Picasa (using account) complate with picture preview, with this utillity we can also inserting old picture we have been upload in the same blog before.
New way of inserting picture
  • Google in draft has complate it's change by add geographic location in a bottom of blogger posting editor, just click and type the location you want google will include the map in your posting.
Blogger in draft add geographic location
Better Post Preview
Blogger in draft provide a better Post preview than the old ones, On the New Post page, click on the Preview button (this is a new button that we’ve just added), and you will see a new window open with the WYSIWYG preview of the post. This is how your blog post will appear to your readers when you hit publish, with the same format and style of your current Blogger theme.

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How to tell google application when your domain has changed

6:14 AM


Domain is important part of website or blog, domain could become a powerfull brand if we made seriously. There are lot of service whom provide free domain and hosting for us to make a new website and blog such wordpress and blogger, but in a same time they don't serve a niche domain for us to made a powerfull brand for our website or blog. As i read in blogoscoped.com there’s a few things you might need to adjust in the different Google apps when changing/moving to a new domain from wordpress/blogger to comercial domain (for eexample  we would change blogger domain from old.blogspot.com to new.com):
  • Add the new domain in your AdSense channels
    Choose AdSense -> AdSense Setup -> Channels -> URL Channels -> Add new URL channels
  • Change your reply-to address in Gmail, if you used a redirect
    Choose Gmail -> Settings -> Accounts -> Edit info
  • Change your signature in Gmail, if you used the old domain name in it Choose Gmail -> Settings
  • Add your domain into the Google Webmaster Tools
    Choose Google Webmaster Tools -> Add Site (you then need to verify your site by e.g. uploading an HTML file)
  • Tell Google Webmaster Tools your preferred domain, and allow advanced image functionality
    Choose Google Webmaster Tools -> [your domain] -> Preferred domain/ Enhanced image search
  • If you’re using the AJAX Search API, generate a new key to work with your domain
    Choose Google AJAX Search API -> Generate API Key




  • If you provide a “site:yourdomain.com” search somewhere, adjust it accordingly
  • If you have a blogger profile, change your homepage settings
    Choose Blogger -> Edit Profile -> Homepage URL
  • Update your Google Groups profile with the new domain
    Choose Google Groups Profile -> edit -> Website or Blog
  • If the iGoogle gadgets you hosted stop working...
    Resubmit each of your gadgets to the directory. Then submit an alias request with Google for each of them. (... I’m still checking how this will work out)
  • If you have an Orkut profile, change your homepage Choose Orkut -> profile -> edit [the second from the top] -> webpage
  • Tell YouTube your new homepage
    Choose YouTube -> My Account -> Personal Info -> Website URL
  • If your site is indexed in Google News, alert Google support of the change
    Try emailing source-suggestions@google.com (still testing this)
  • Check if you have any Google Alerts where you do URL searches
    Choose Google Alerts -> manage your alerts [you may not always see all alerts this way, unfortunately]
  • Tell Google Analytics your new domain
    Choose Google Analytics -> Edit [in the site’s row] -> Edit -> Website URL
  • If you have any AdWords campaigns running, change the domain you’re advertising
    Choose AdWords and check your campaigns
i hope little tips above can solve your problem, same tips has use to move this 'blog' from lifespartan.blogspot.com to www.ubuntubuzz.com :.

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