WordPress or Blogger - Which one is the best?

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Are you confused with which blogging platform to choose to start your blogging career? The major blogging hosting platforms are no doubt Blogger and WordPress. Now to judge which one is better I have written a detailed comparison chart below that will be of great help in making a smart decision.

Note:- I am not an employee of either Blogger or WordPress. The below chart is solely my personal research.

WordPress VS Blogger Comparison Chart 2010.

FEATURES	BLOGGER	WORDPRESS	WHO WON?
Template Customization	Offers Free Layout/Style Sheet Customization	No style sheet customization. Payment required	Blogger
Tutorials/Help	Innumerable Tutorials on Blogger Tricks	Hardly some	Blogger
Number of un-official Themes	Innumerable Designers Creating Free Templates each day	Few Designers Involved in offering free templates	Blogger
Coding Used	Uses user friendly scripting and coding i.e HTML, XML, CSS	Uses advance scripting like php that few can understand	Blogger
Dashboard Interface	Highly user friendly. Easy to navigate.	Complicated Interface with hectic navigation	Blogger
Default Template Collection	Limited Collection Of Default templates mostly un-professional	Over 70+ high quality Templates	WordPress
Template/Theme Replacement	Default Template can be replaced by a more free professional template	No template change allowed	Blogger
Widgets	Innumerable Official and Un official Widgets available	Limited Official widgets available. Rarely few un- official gadgets available.	Blogger
Comments	No commenting editing. Moderation allowed. No Spam protection. No user friendly comment form	Comments can be edited and moderated. Spam protection available. User friendly comment form	WordPress
SEO, Optimization	Though Owned by Google, no favoritism. Manual optimization is required	Owned by a private party. Meta Tags Plugins used. Easy To optimize	Both
Blog Privacy	You can limit access to your blog to 100 Authors and 100 readers. All must be Google account holders.	You can limit access to your blog to 35 Wordpress account holders. Posts can be password protected or Private.	Blogger
Comment restriction	You can restrict comments to Google account holders, Open ID users or Any one (includes Anonymous)	Comments can not be restricted. Anyone can comment	Blogger
Blog Import	Only from one BlogSpot blog to another	A Blog can be imported from another WordPress blog or from Blogger, Yahoo! 360, LiveJournal and Movable Type and TypePad	WordPress
Posts and Comment Notification	Authors and subscribers can be notified of latest posts and comments via Email	Same here	Both
Comment Verification	Asks users to verify if they are humans using a 4-6 digit code	Does not asks for any verification. More spam effected	Blogger
Video Storage Limit	Unlimited with Google Video and an upload limit of 16GB	Just 3GB. More space on upgrade.	Blogger
Image storage limit	1 Gigabyte With Picasa Web Albums	3 Gigabytes. More space can be gained through upgrade. You can also upload .ppt, .doc, .odt and .pdf files	WordPress
File type Storage	Only allows image uploading	Allows upload of files like .ppt, pdf .doc and .odt files. More file types can be uploaded on upgrading.	WordPress
Blog Stats	Does not have any default stats system. But allows third party tracking scripts.	Has a default visitor stats system that shows statistics for two days only and does not provide detailed stats reports. Does not allow third party tracking scripts.	Blogger
Blog co-partners	100 Google account holders can be added as Administrators or Authors	35 WordPress account holders can be added as Administrators, Editors, Authors or Contributors.	Blogger
Advertisements	Displays no advertisement of its own on your blog.	Displays discreet AdSense advertisements on your blog for small percentage of the page views	Blogger
Posts By Email	Has a Mail-to-Blogger feature which turns any email account into a blog-posting application	Posts can be published using emails	Both
Post Feed On Mobile Phones	Supported	Not Supported	Blogger

Conclusion

When choosing a blogging service three things are most important than anything else which are,

1. Template Editing
2. Huge Image Storage Capacity
3. Huge Video Storage Capacity

Believe it or not Blogger has all these three features and is undoubtedly a blessing to millions of teenagers and people from other classes who can’t afford to pay online. The Template editing feature of Blogger is one of its best feature. Within a year of blogging a guy like me who didn’t even know what CSS, HTML, XML meant, is now playing with codes day and night. Blogger made my life meaningful and interesting and will surely be a blessing to you too. Blogger is surely the best free Blogging Service available in Blogosphere.

Which one do you think is the Best?

Blogger Wordpress

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What Is A Blog and How To Create A Blog?

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There are many people who still do not understand what a blog is or why is blogging so much expanding in the cyberspace. I feel all these people deserve the right to know what a Blog is and how can a Blog be created along with some other similar questions. So for those who just heard of a Blog from their friends, media or any other source, here is a short and precise illustrative tutorial to help you find answers to four important questions in most people’s mind. Which are :

1. What is a Blog?
2. How do I create a Blog?
3. What is the advantage of blogging?
4. What is Blogger or Wordpress?

Now here comes some useful answers for each demanded question 

What Is a Blog ?

A blog is nothing but an Online Notebook Diary. What do we write in a notebook diary? Of course stuff that we like and things that we feel important to be recorded and shared with our friends and family. A notebook diary can be based on any topic that you like for example you can write on your  hobbies, activities, poems, songs, tutorials, pets, home and family, your personal thoughts etc. People will read your Online Notebook Diary on daily basis and will leave you a comment, suggestion or feedback.

If you write about your personal experiences in a notebook made up of papers, then your writings will reach only limited people around you but with an online diary like a Blog you speak to the world!

So in short a blog is your Personal website where you write and share things you like with millions of people out there who are eager to read what is cooking in your mind!

The video below will give you a more illustrative view of a Web Blog.

How do I Create a Blog ?

Creating a blog is absolutely free. There are many quality Blogging hosting services that you can choose to create a blog but the best among them is Blogger. I have created this blog with Blogger without even paying a penny! Want to know how? Watch this video to know how to create a blog in less than Five minutes!

What is the Advantage of Blogging ?

You pay nothing Instead you Earn in $$ !! You earn by displaying advertisements on your Blog. People are earning from $100 to $100,000 monthly! I am not kidding an example is shoemoney and problogger

Plus you will make new friends in the Blogosphere and you earn respect in the eyes of thousands of people. You can become a celebrity! But all this with a little hard work and great patience.

And the best advantage which I have experienced is that you learn every second online! Your internet and computer skills will improve to an extreme edge and this is what the coming era demands from you. Every second on blogging is undoubtedly a new experience! I have learnt HMTL, CSS, XML and a bit of JavaScript without taking any classes. I learnt them all within a year of my blogging career and today I am able to design a quality blogger template in less than three hours MashAllah!

What is the Blogger and Wordpress ?

These are the major blogging platforms which help you create a free Blog.  But if you are confused which one to start with then go for Blogger. It has many features which wordpress doesn’t have and the best part is that Blogger allows you to customize your template in any way you like by editing the CSS style sheet! So what are you looking? Start blogging now and build up a new cyber life. Best of luck!

To know in detail whether Blogger is better or WordPress then read this post Comparison Chart 2010 for WordPress Vs Blogger .

Feel free to ask any question that is still troubling your mind. Take care

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Chinese Magical Hard-Drive

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A Russian friend of mine has posted this absolutely amazing story.
(here's the original but it's in Russian).

He works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town, located near the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a customer has brought a broken 500Gb USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insanely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film.

The whole service center was rolling on the floor laughing. This was not the first time someone has brought a disk like that. And the previous drives were also bought in China... They opened up the drive right before the astonished customer's eyes. This is what they saw:

It's a 128-MB flash-drive. Working in a "looped" mode - when it runs out of space, it starts overwriting from the beginning. My friend said they're still trying to figure out how did the Chinese do that. Because the drive reports "correct" file sizes and disk-capacity. And the "looped-overwriting" does not touch the other files present on the drive.

The device looks pretty convincing - lots of tech labels and stuff... The Chinese salesman even saved something to the drive to demonstrate that it "works" in the store.

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Like And Share Tweets On Facebook With TweetBook [Chrome]

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TweetBook is a Google Chrome extension that brings the Facebook sharing and Like features to Twitter. Install the extension and wait 4 Seconds after loading a complete page. A share and like link appears in each tweet box within this time frame that can be used to like and share the tweet on Facebook.

TweetBook checks for new tweets every 30 seconds, therefore, if any new tweets come up, you will be able to share or like them. Although many websites contain plugins to allow sharing webpages across a number of websites, this extension provides the utility to easily share tweets to Facebook.

TweetBook Extension for Chrome

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How To Login, Access, And Manage Multiple Gmail User Accounts With A Firefox Addon

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Do you have more than one Gmail account and would like to manage them in a same place. Logging in to different Gmail accounts over and over again just won’t work since it consumes too much of time. If you are using two different browsers such as IE and Firefox then you can open two separate Gmail accounts respectively, but this doesn’t make any sense. If you are using Firefox, then there is an add-on called Gmail Manager that lets you manage more than one Gmail account easily.

Apart from it’s default multiple Gmail account management, it also shows notifications in case you receive an email in any of your account. Once you have installed the add-on, you won’t find much change in your browser except that you will find a little grayed out Gmail icon on the right side of your status bar.



Click this icon to begin adding a Gmail account, once you click this icon, a Gmail Manager Preferences screen will pop-up as shown in the screenshot below.



If you don’t want it to remember your Gmail password, you can check the Never Save Passwords For Mail Accounts checkbox under Security. Click the Add button, enter your Gmail account details and click OK.


Once you have added an account, you can add more accounts that you would like to manage. You can then select various options by going to Toolbar and Notification  tabs, once done, click OK.



Now look again on the bottom-right side of your browser and you will find your account signed in, move your mouse over it to see full details.



Right-click this icon and select the account that you would like to access.



This powerful Firefox add-on is one of my favorite and I highly recommend it to those looking forward to manage multiple Gmail accounts. One of the best feature that I like in this add-on is the ability to show a small preview of an email without going over to the website. Enjoy!

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Record Your Skype Calls With CallGraph Skype Recorder

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CallGraph Skype Recorder is a free application for recording Skype calls. No matter how long the conversation, this program will record as long as you are connected. With this application, you just have to focus on communicating with the other party and the application will take care of everything else.

It offers a small interface that’s easily managed. You will first be prompted to connect the application with Skype. It takes five simple steps to get connected, and users are guided throughout the way. The application icon in the System Tray will display a green tick when it is properly configured with Skype. If you still don’t see the green tick, you should try restarting Skype. Once the application is connected with Skype, you can start making calls. The application will start recording as soon as the conversation starts. You will be prompted when the recording starts and finishes.



For advanced configurations, right-click on the application and select Configuration. Under these settings, you can specify the location of the recorded files. You can choose to record the files as MP3 or WAV. Other audio options, such as Channels, Sampling Rate and Bit Rate can also be specified. You can also decide if you want to record calls automatically or manually.


It offers a simpler interface and is more easily managed than other Skype recording tools we’ve tested. Like other similar applications, this tool also has to be connected with Skype before recording can be initiated.
This application supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Testing was carried out on Windows 7 x86 system.

Download CallGraph Skype Recorder

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Skype Multiple Accounts Login

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Are you looking for a solution to login to multiple Skype accounts simultaneously? CalimSkypeLauncher allows users to sign in to multiple Skype accounts at the same time. With this application, you can open multiple Skype accounts for your professional and personal contacts and keep all of them running at the same time.

It is a portable application that can be launched instantly after download. The first step is to enter the username/password of all your Skype accounts. It supports multiple login of upto 3 Skype accounts. When done, providing this information, open CalimSkypeLauncher file to sign into multiple Skype accounts. You will be prompted when it successfully signs in to all your accounts.


A handy application for signing into multiple Skype accounts. You must have Skype 4.0 or later for this app to work.

Download CalimSkypeLauncher

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Use Hotkeys To Position And Resize Windows With FP-WindowManager

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Are you dealing with multi-monitor setup and need an application windows management tool which can optimize both size and position of active windows? FP-WindowManager offers you just that. It is a small open source window manager which lets user configure a list of pre-registered hotkeys to make use of multiple types of window management features, including, restore original size and position of active window, set window on top, stack all active applications, increase/decrease height & width, arrange windows side by side and so on. Since it works through numerous hotkey combinations, you have option to change hotkeys and add your own to prevent any sorts of conflicts.

Usage requires nothing more than to configure hotkey. To understand the shortcut combinations, click Help to understand the characters involved in combinations. To edit the hotkey, select one from the list, enter new combination and click Save. Once all the hotkeys are configured, click Close to minimize it to system tray.

Now you can verify the configured hotkey combination by using it on any active window. The screenshot shown above displays all the windows management functions it has to offer. It works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported)

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