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WordPress is an excellent platform for building blogs and web sites. There’s a huge number of themes and plugins available for this open source script and the user and developer community contribution and participation is nothing but outstanding.

We have come across several video tutorials/screencasts on doing literally everything with WordPress and thought it would be a good idea to have them all compiled in one place. This post will be constantly updated. So here you go:

• WordPress has recently launched a official site that houses categorized how-to videos. This should be the first stop if you are looking for video instructions on WordPress.

  Check out wordpress.tv.

• There’s a good number of videos at this site as well.

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If you are working on a local WordPress installation using XAMPP and have just changed the permalinks structure, you might come across “object not found” error.

The solution is to turn on mod_rewrite by editing apache/conf/httpd.conf. Just remove the comment in front of the line (around line #118) and restart Apache.

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

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Screen sharing works great when you want to get help from your friend or relative by letting them see and even remotely control your desktop screen/applications. Below are some free screen sharing/remote control(desktop)/web collaboration/web conference/online meetings web services. Most of these require that you (and in some cases, the other other wanting to remotely control your computer) to download a small client.

Mikogo is an easy to use screens sharing tool using which you can instantly show your computer screen to anyone online

• Screen Sharing
• Ability to Change Presenters
• Remote Control
• Pause Transmission
• Application Selection
• File Transfer
• Skype integration

I have used Mikogo in the past and it worked as advertised.

Yuuguu is the easiest way to share your screen, host online meetings and work in real time on the same documents over the web.

• Allows up to 30 participants
• Screen sharing possible not only between Yuuguu to Yuuguu users, but also between Yuuguu to non Yuuguu (those who don’t have Yuuguu installed)
• Remote control
• Instant messaging
• Integration with GMail and GTalk – Once you have entered your Gmail or Google Talk account details into Yuuguu, your Gmail and Google Talk contacts will automatically appear in your Yuuguu contacts list. You can share your screen with only one click each. Your contacts will be notified that you want to share your screen by way of a web address and, on clicking this, they will be automatically taken to a browser window containing your screen share.

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We are all familiar with the situation where you are typing the same word or sentence over and over in your windows programs. Wouldn’t it be easier if we could simply type the abbreviation of a word and it gets auto expanded to our desired phrase? A free software program called PhraseExpress is the perfect solution to this problem. Not only does it make expansion of text an absolute breeze, but also allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to your text snippets.

Creation of a new phrase is easy: Let’s say you are typing the word abbreviation over and over. It makes sense to create a text shortcut for that like abbr. To do so, with PhraseExpress installed simply select the text and press the in-built keyboard shortcut to create a new phrase and set abbr as your Autotext. From then on whenever you type abbr (in any program in which you can type text) and hit a space it gets automatically expanded to abbreviation.

Listed below are 10 reasons why you should use PhraseExpress:

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Google SMS Channels is a free service that enables channels/groups on SMS and to get premium content published by Google publishing partners, Google popular products (Google News, Blogger and Google Groups) and websites with RSS/Atom support. SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You can also create groups over SMS to communicate with your friends, family, and co-workers.

When you post a message to your channel, all the members of your channel get the message forwarded for free. The regular charges for sending out SMS apply as usual. You can also post a message to your channel from SMS Channels website.

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