1.   WordPress.com Stats :  Something like Google Analytics. Very efficient and its right there in your Admin panel, so not more tedious work to log into Google Analytics and look for your blog stats.  This plugin provides an incredible depth of information and the best part, its FREE. To install this puglin, visit here to download the zip file. Unzip it and place the folder in your WordPress Plugin folder using a FTP tool  ( I use FileZilla, if you don’t have it then download it here ). One installed, it will ask for an API key. That’s it !

Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.0.1

2.  All in One SEO Pack :  If you don’t know about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or want to try your hands on it then install this plugin in your WordPres blogs. All in Once SEO Pack automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo..blah blah).  You have the option to upgrade it to Pro, but then its PAID and the free version works pretty fine.  Installing is it easy and does not apply much brains. Use the above steps to install and activate in your WordPress blog.  One installed, it offers variety of features.

Features listed on the installation page are  :

• Support for Custom Post Types
• Advanced Canonical URLs
• Fine tune Page Navigational Links
• Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
• ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
• Nonce Security
• Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
• For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
• For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.0.1

3. Simple Social – Sharing Widgets & Icons : One of the best social networking plugin for your blog. Offers you 14 Social Sharing features,  like Facebook Like, Twitter…blah blah. Installation is simple – download plugin, unzip, upload, activate. This plugin adds a set of cool icons and widgets at the end of your post for your readers to share. Widgets are Twitter and Facebook. It supports large icons and small icons.

Requires WordPress Version: 1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.0.1

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Features :

Productivity tools: Ubuntu supports all of your favourite web-based mail programs like Yahoo(TM) or Gmail (TM). For the office, Evolution provides all the calendering, contacts and office email you need. Pidgin IM also puts you in instant touch with colleagues and integrates with your personal IM services simply and easily.

Browsing: Includes Mozilla’s Firefox 3 as the default browser. Faster, safer and themed browsing for users.

Photos: Upload from your camera or phone to F-Spot and manage, tag, share and sort your photos and upload easily to your favourite social networking sites.

Music and video: Plug in your PSP, iPod, MP3 player; share playlists with your friends; buy in online music stores; visit your favourite sites like Last.fm, stream more live radio and content from the BBC and plug in more devices with uPnP (universal Plug and Play)

Office applications: Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be delivered through OpenOffice.org 3.0 featuring in this release of Ubuntu for the first time. And, they completely integrate with the proprietary office applications out there. The big difference is that they are free.

Accessibility: At the core of the Ubuntu philosophy is the belief that computing is for everyone and access should be free and complete whatever your economic or physical circumstances. Ubuntu is one of the most accessible desktop operating systems around.

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Nikhil

digital producer, blogger, obsessed with music and web technologies, loves basket ball, tennis n traveling.

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