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Top 5 Most Essential Blogging Tools

Filed in: Downloads, Tips n Tricks, Weblog — January 27th, 2008

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Blogging is hard work. As bloggers, we would have to show our appreciation towards open source world and other fellow bloggers who create and distribute very useful tools to ease our job. Here are top five most essential blogging tools that had saved me a lot of time. My blogging world would be miserable without these applications:

Filezilla – The Open Source Free FTP solution

FileZilla is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. You can use it to upload and download files from your hosting server.

When you need to upload a bunch of files or images to be used in your blog content, FileZilla can handle the job easily. You don’t have to manually select certain files and upload via your blogging platform. You can also change the folder and file access permission easily.

Google Analytics – The Free Web Traffic Analyzer from Google

Google Analytics give you free analysis of your blog’s traffic. You will be able to know the visitors’ origin, length of stay, bounce rate, browsers used and other details such as the size of screen resolution and referral sites. It even let you track your conversion rate if you are using pay per click service to drive traffic. All you need to do is to copy and paste some codes onto your blog pages.

Google Reader – Web-based Reader Feed Aggregator

Google Reader is capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds, released by Google on October 7 2005 through Google Labs.

I use it a lot to keep track of other blogs. I also access Google Reader via my PDA phone. Now I can read update blog posts anywhere, anytime, even I am traveling overseas.

There is a search function in Google Reader in case you can’t find certain blog post that remembered that you read somewhere.

The new Google Reader also allows you to “share” the post feed you like. Moreover, you can see what your friends (other people in your Gmail contact list who are also using Google Reader) had “shared” as well.

Fast Stone Capture v5.3 – Free Screen Capture and Image Editing Software

FastStone Capture v5.3 is a freeware. But the later versions are shareware which you need to pay a small fee to use. However, I am still using the free version because it is already powerful enough to carry out simple image editing tasks.

Faststone Capture

It lets you capture what you see on your monitor, resize the image, add watermark and do some other simple editing.

ScribeFire – Free Firefox Addon Blogging Text Editor

ScribeFire is a Firefox Addon. You will need to use Firefox browser to be able to use this convenient tool. Before I use ScribeFire, I need to open my text editor and browser separately. It is troublesome to always switch between different windows when I need to refer to something on the Internet. With this tool installed, you can pull up Scribefire within Firefox.

Right-clicking on the page and select “Blog this page” from the ScribeFire submenu, it will create a link using the page title. Your highlighted text will be quoted too. This is the function I like the most.

When you had completed a blog post content, you can post it straight to your blog by setting up API access.

What are your favourite and most essential blogging tools? Please share with us in the comment.

This post is written by KCLau, who blogs about personal finance topics especially useful for Malaysians. He had published the Top Money Tips for Malaysians ebook which is free for download.

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20 Responses to “Top 5 Most Essential Blogging Tools”

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  1. #1
    goalcentre.com Says:

    Hey people, although my statement might be off topic, but i would love some advice from you all.
    I view my blog with Mozilla the blog is running perfectly. But when i open it with IE, the blog looks awful. Anybody out there could help me with my problem? Thanks
    The blog: http://www.goalcentre.com

    Thanks a MILLION! :)

  2. #2
    Ibnu Asad Says:

    goalcentre.com,
    Have you tried contacting the theme creator…Bob?

  3. #3
    alzack Says:

    On all the list, I only used 2. The last 3 I have not use yet. I prefer iGoogle instea of google reader… :)

  4. #4
    Shankar Ganesh Says:

    Hey, that’s a good post.

    I have FileZilla installed here, I have no complaints about that one.
    But I tend to use the FireFTP extension a lot since I spend more time on Firefox.

    I don’t like ScribeFire personally, instead I use Windows Live Writer.

    FastStone Capture is a great tool, and it comes free of cost. That’s a plus. SnagIt is the best, but you have to pay for it. Thank God I grabbed a copy of SnagIt when they offered it for no cost a few weeks ago. :)

  5. #5
    Edward Khoo Says:

    103bees, if a site gets a lot of SE traffic

  6. #6
    Syahid A. Says:

    I use :
    Blogdesk for blogging.
    FileZilla for http://ftp.
    funnily i don’t use a screen capture software. i just print screen, cut, paste and resize with Irfanview.
    Reader and Analytics - essential!

  7. #7
    mahesh Says:

    I am using only one feature in the list above, i.e., Google Reader.
    I will use all those other tools!
    Thanks for the post!

  8. #8
    ChampDog Says:

    I only use 2 of them, Google Analytics and Google Readers. :)

  9. #9
    buylelong.com Says:

    Hi Liew,
    I read your blog and check your site result in goole about 12,000 .I just wander why my result will drop tremendeously and your always increase ???
    Any hit beside the about tools i use 3 of them .

  10. #10
    didi Says:

    I’m using only the filezilla FTP client…

  11. #11
    KittyCat Says:

    Thanks for sharing - I thought I was going to see Uncle Ho for a copy of PhotoShop but Fastone covers my needs already :-)

  12. #12
    Planet Lowyat Says:

    Again, this is the advantage of Firefox.

  13. #13
    Rice blogger Says:

    i tried scribefire..it leaves a link on ever single post to promote their software…is there any out there which doesn’t?

  14. #14
    mazuhan Says:

    i use windows live write to write my posting
    http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

  15. #15
    KCLau Says:

    I use Scribefire to write post. But I don’t post it directly.
    I copy the html code and paste it in WordPress.

    @ Rice Blogger - in Scribefire Settings (on the left, it is hidden), uncheck “automatically insert ‘Powered by Scribefire’

  16. #16
    azhad Says:

    The latest version for FastStone Screen Capture is 5.9 and can be download at http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

  17. #17
    Nicholas Says:

    Love your tips, I actually installed ScribeFire now. Before that, I was only using Google Reader and Analytics and as for screenshot, I copy and paste. LOL

  18. #18
    Suresh Says:

    you have suggested a creative idea with nice tools to work on blogs

  19. #19
    KCLau Says:

    The Faststone Capture 5.9 is a shareware. It will expire in 30 days.

  20. #20
    Jacky Says:

    Useful tools,thanks for your recommend

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