Live Banner Maker Web service is very easy-to-use and create banners in 5 easy simple steps.

Steps involved are :

• Select banner size or create custom size banner
• Select background color, style or upload you own image
• Add text and style
• Add banner effect upload logo
• Save or Download your custom banner

Before you can create a banner, a free signup is required. After registration, login using the your email and emailed password.

Below is the Step by Step Screenshot tutorial on how to create a cool logo using Live Banner Maker.

1) Select the Banner size from the list or set a custom size.

2) Add Text to banner.

3) Select the background and border colour of the image OR Add background to the banner. You can also upload a backgound.

4) Add special effect to the text of the banner.

4) Once finished, You can Save or Download the banner.

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WP Easy Uploader is a simple WordPress plugin that lets you to upload files to your WordPress directory right from your WordPress Dashboard.

WP Easy Uploader was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress.

Features of  WP Easy Uploader

• Upload any type of file to either the standard Uploads directory (just as images do when you are creating posts and pages) or to a path of your choosing.
• Manual paths are automatically created if they don't exist.
• Easily upload plugins directly to the plugins directory and theme files directly to the themes directory.
• You can select to have archives automatically extracted to their destination. This means that plugins and themes will be taken care of for you, but it also means that you can zip up a large set of files and upload them quickly into a folder on your site. Currently zip, tar, gz, tar.gz, tgz, and tar.bz2 archives are supported.
• Options for overwriting existing files, renaming the file if a file with that name already exists (or if overwriting fails), removal of the archive after file extraction, and forcing extracted files to be contained in a folder.
• Now supports WordPress Mu.
• Now supports internationalization. The PO file is available in the lang directory. Currently, Turkish (tr), mainland Chinese (zhCN), Brazilian Portuguese (ptBR), German (deDE), Indonesian (idID), and Spanish (esES) translations are available.

ScreenShot of WP Easy Uploader

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The program is highly customizable. You can dock the ticker to the top or bottom of the screen, rss feeds, fonts, sizes, colours, speed, position and more! It optionally stays above other windows or can resize the desktop, so no other application is overlapped.

Features of EasyDeskTicker

• RSS feeds
• Flicker free
• Easily operated, all features explained where they are
• Any fonts and sizes
• RSS feeds can easily be added
• Line can be moved anywhere with the mouse, or placed on top or bottom of the desktop
• Line can be placed ON the desktop, so that it is shown when all windows are minimized
• Line can be hidden
• Check for updated news, can be displayed in another color, line can automatically unhide
• Message divider editable
• Any number of news feeds
• Multiple lines
• Integrated search for RSS feeds
• Colors for changed quotes free setable
• Quick-set buttons for fast configuration
• Feed lists can be im- and exported
• Border Full screen mode

It is very easiter to use with intuitive UI.You can configure Zoundry Ravan for more than one blog.

ScreenShot  of Zoundry Ravan

Features of Zoundry Ravan

Tabbed WYSIWYG Editing
Powerful XHTML editing is hidden behind the intuitive UI so you can be sure that what you create is what others will see online.

Multiple Blogs Made Easy
It eases you to write and publish to separate blogs all with one editor in multiple blogs

Improved Content Management
The powerful indexer, allow you to browse all of your previous posts across all of your blogs by tags, links, or images.

Portable Application
Zoundry Raven supports about two dozen platforms including Wordpress, Blogger, Moveable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal

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In this Post I will guide you step-by-step with screenshots How to configure Windows Live Writer for your Self Hosted WordPress Blog/WordPress.com Blog.

How to configure Windows Live Writer For your WordPress Blog

First Goto WordPress Dashboard and Under Settings>Writing Enable XML-RPC publishing option.

Download Windows Live Writer from here and install it

Open Windows Live Writer.

A wizard will open to guide you through the configuration.

As we are configuring Windows Live Writer for WordPress Blog so Select Another weblog service and click Next

Now in this step enter your blog URL, username and password and click Next

Now Windows Live Writer will start analyzing your blog homepage and contents

Now select your blog service provider from the list.If you are hosting your blog at WordPress.com then select WordPress.com from the list and if you have Self-Hosted WordPress blog than select  WordPress (if your wordpress version is below 2.2) or WordPress 2.2+ (if your wordpress version is above 2.2).

Now enter Remote posting URL for your blog.Just add /xmlrpc.php to your blog URL.

Now Windows Live Writer will start Detecting your weblog editing style, Blog categories etc.

Now Windows Live Writer will ask you to make a temporary post on your blog in order to detect your blog theme.Click Yes for the accurate preview of your post in Windows Live Writer.The temporary post will be removed automatically after a while.

Now Enter your blog nick name and Click Finish.

You’re Done…:)

Now you can write posts offline and can publish them directly from your desktop whenever you are online.

Yahoo Search Marketing is the 2nd largest PPC Ads Network where advertisers can promote their Website/Blog and Products.It is good alternative to Adwords.

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WordPress Theme Generator lets you to generate Elegant and Modern WordPress Themes without any Knowledge of CSS,PHP,HTML or JavaScript.Its interference is very simple.

Features of  Wordpress Theme Generator

• No Coding Knowledge Required
• XHTML/CSS output
• Lean,non-bloated code base

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Note:- To Run this software you need to have microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 installed.

Windows Live Writer can automatically save articles iat reguler intervals intervals when you are writing them like MS Word however this feature is deactivated by default.

To activate it follow the simple steps:

1. Start Windows Live Writer
2. Navigate to Tools -> Options
3. Click “Editing” in the left hand navigation
4. Activate the "Automatically save drafts every" and then change the interval period to the desired value (in Minutes).

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Changes made in this version (0.9.0.140) are:

* Improving response time of the user interface.
* Removingthe photo multimedia option in the app because photo settings are managed in the main BlackBerry camera app
* Fixing a bug with local drafts.
* Adding prompts to save post when clicking “Back” button.
* Fixing a bug involving categories.
* Fixing how private posts were not publishing correctly.

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You  can earn money on every click made by your visitors on each Banner Ad. You can leave at least one Banner Ad Slot to let potential advertisers know that you are accepting Ads on your site.

The Viral Blog Ads short javascript code does all the tricks of displaying the Banner Ads on your site. You don’t have to create your own codes just to display the ads. Just select how many Ad Slots you wish to create (say, 6 slots) and paste the code to where you want the Banner Ads to appear - its that simple.

Just select how many Ad Slots you wish to create (say, 6 slots) and paste the code to where you want the Banner Ads to appear - its that simple.

Currently, two banner ads are supported: 125×125 and 468×60, in GIF, JPEG and PNG format. Payout are paid via PayPal. You can request a payout when your earnings reach USD25.00.

So start monetizing now with Banner Ads that’s so simple to setup. Its a great way to earn money while eliminating that ugly look of all empty Banner Ads slots. VBA is also great in generating traffic, so you might as well try its Advertising package.

Another cool feature is the Banner Ad exchange - you can put up to 3 Banners of your sites or blogs to be displayed on another VBA Publisher sites just in case there are no available advertisers on certain slots. Also, VBA is sponsoring a Pre-Launch Contest starting September 1, 2008. All you have to do is to signup as Publisher, and achieve a click through rate of 0.2% or better, and you stand to win USD100.00 or more.