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FontSelf: Custom Fonts for your Blog and Social Networking Posts

FontSelf is a font service that allows you to express yourself online in a creative way through font customization. You’ll be able to send messages and write text using the font that suits your mood. The service does not require you to install anything. All the fonts and tools in FontSelf are online and can be available to your whenever and wherever you need them.

Using FontSelf is as easy as typing your message in their editor and choosing which font you’d like to use. You can embed the message or text content by grabbing the generated codes from FontSelf and place it on your blog or favorite social network (if they allow embeds).

All the fonts in FontSelf are free to use and everything is usable online. You can choose from an array of fonts designed by a community of international designers. You can also expect to see new fonts added regularly in FontSelf. If you want to become more creative, you can check out their creation tool. With it, you can create your own smileys and illustrated words. It allows you to import pictures, drawings and webcam captures to make it more personalized.

Fontself is an original platform for all the people who want to send unique messages and add some visual spice to their online communications. It’s easy to use and works anywhere online that allows html embedding. And the best thing about the service is that it’s all free.

Tags: Blogs, Embed Fonts, Font Creator, FontSelf, Smiley Creator

BlogBuzzer: Free Ping Service for Blogs

Pinging search engines and blog related websites is one way of getting your new article noticed. By sending a ping, you are telling search engines that you have e new entry and is requesting for them to index your new post/page.

BlogBuzzer is a free and easy to use service that will help you get that much needed ping in order to get your most recent posts noticed. What you need to do is head over to BlogBuzzer’s website and enter the name of your blog along with your blog URL. Upon clicking submit, your blog will automatically be buzzed to the most popular blog sites and directories.

When a ping is sent to your selected site(s) Blog Buzzer includes the name and location of your blog, once the destination site receives the ping your blog will be added to their queue for indexing and addition to the site.

BlogBuzzer’s free service will allow you to manually ping the search engines and blog directories. You need to go to the BlogBuzzer website in order to accomplish this and perform the ping everytime you release a new post. If you want to automatically ping them, you need to subscribe to their premium service for 9 bucks a year.

Tags: Blog Buzzer, Blogs, Ping, Ping Tool, Search Engines

The Social Ribbon Ad Generator

If you’re looking for something to boost your social networking reach through your website or blog, maybe a social ribbon ad is just the thing for you. If you are not ad blind and happen to notice those ribbon strips that you see on corners of weblogs that usually contains ad links, now you can generate a similar ribbon strip containing the link to your social networking profile with the help of the Social Ribbon Generator.

The site supports popular social networking sites that most blogger uses. You can generate Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube ribbons. Just choose which social networking site you want featured on your ribbon ad, add your network username, press the generate code and place it in your blog/website just before the </body> tag.

Tags: Blogs, Ribbon Generator, Social Networking

Picture Surf: Photo Gallery for Blogs and Social Networks

PictureSurf Gallery is a Photo Gallery service that you can use with social networks and integrates with different blog platforms (WordPress at the moment). It started off as a small side project for Alan (founder) and eventually took off when bloggers started asking him if they could use it on their blogs.

Using the tool can double the ad impressions for blogs. The images are displayed on separate pages which increases pageviews. It also features drag and drop editing which eliminates coding jobs and search engine optimization.

Special Considerations

1) It was built with SEO considerations in mind from day one (good permalink and meta-data structure)

2) It is compatible with all major RSS feed readers (all JavaScript and Flash galleries disappear); this allows you to monetize RSS subscribers (who would otherwise never visit your blog) because clicking on a thumbnail takes them to your blog.

Picture Surf is a great gallery tool for bloggers. The tool is currently available for WordPress hosted blogs. Blogspot and other platform users will have to wait a bit in order to fully integrate Picture Surf. For the meantime using the gallery embed codes should do the trick.

Tags: Blogs, Picture Surf Gallery, Pictures, social networks

Turn Your RSS Feeds into a Printable Magazine Style PDF

Tabbloid is a project of HP (Hewlett Packard) which offers a new way of delivering RSS feeds to readers. It will allow you to turn your favorite RSS feeds into a well designed printable PDF document. The produced document can be set to be delivered to you via email in a weekly, daily or hourly basis.

You can set up your own Tabbloid in just a few minutes. The service requires no signing up. All you need to do is add a few RSS feeds, place your email and set the frequency of the delivery. You can also select from their starting list of popular blogs/news sites.

This service is great for getting feeds emailed to you in the form of a single printable PDF. The feeds are delivered in full but you only get to have the text content. Videos and images are not included in the generated document. It won’t be of much use if you are going to use Tabbloid to subscribe to sites which heavily uses images (photo blogs) and videos for content.

Check out the sample PDF document below.

Favorite Blogs

Tags: Blogs, feeds, magazine, pdf, RSS, tabbloid

A Fun Way of Reading Blogs

This is not just for blog owners but for everybody. You may have probably read about a research on phenomenal power of the human mind. It has the ability to read and understand a word no matter what order are the letters are. The important thing is that the first and last letter of the word is in its proper order.

This is the sample of the text you might have read form a website or your email.

The paomnnehel pweor of the hmuan mnid

Aoccdrnig to rseearch, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Readingtest puts your mind to the test by making your blog or website be read in the same fashion. It’s very simple. Just type in the URL of your blog/favorite website in ReadingTest and you can start reading it in a ReadingTest manner. You will notice the letters are in different positions but you still have the ability to read and understand common words. When I tested it with Orangeinks I have a hard time reading unfamiliar words, especially the name of the companies that I have reviewed. Unless you are familiar with the words written, then you will have no trouble reading the content of a blog or site. Enjoy reading and testing your mind.

Tags: Blogs, fun reading, reading test, websites