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Nothing is more embarrassing than a misspelled word or incorrect grammar in an article on your blog. OK, may be there are other more embarrassing things out there but this still is not a nice scenario for a professional blogger. As a blogger you should try to catch all your mistakes before your readers catch them and point fingers at them (or worst publish your mistakes on flickr for all to see:) ). Almost all commercial word processing programs offer built-in spell and grammar checkers. These tools allow the users to write without worrying too much about the spelling and to some extent the structure of their sentences. This peace of mind naturally increases their productivity. Now you can get that same functionality for your WordPress blog by installing a smart plugin. Aptly named ‘After The Deadline’, this plugin frees you from worrying about spelling and grammatical structure and let you focus on your main goal – to write.

“After the Deadline is a plugin for WordPress and TinyMCE with contextual spell checking, advanced style checking and intelligent grammar checking.”

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Smart phones are a great tool for bloggers to blog even when they are away from their computers. Ever since iPhone was introduced mobile-blogging hit its stride. With a plethora of apps available for iPhone you can now easily post to your blog wherever you are. Although most iPhone apps have a modest price but if you search hard you can find some gems of applications even for free. Following are five free but excellent iPhone apps that are immensely valuable for the bloggers on the move.
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Recently Darren Rowes of problogger.net launched a premium forum for bloggers ( problogger.com). I was surprised that he offered the membership of only $1.95 a month.
I singed up as soon as I heard the news and I believe it’s worth much more than that. The community is getting close to 2000 member strong. The first advantage of a fee-based forum is that usually do not get spammers flooding the message boards. More

If you are thinking of starting your own blog or have just started it, I would recommend that you download and read the free eBook, Make Money Blogging, by Daniel Scocco.

Daniel runs a successful and a very helpful blog “DailyBlogTips” and is quite well know among the bloggers. In this free eBook Daniel laid out a well written plan on how to get started in blogging universe.

In the introductory chapter he explains the need of a domain name and the virtues of using WordPress platform.

In the next couple of chapters Daniel lists important steps a new blogger should take to become a successful blogger. He explains how to choose a niche for your blog, how to write killer articles and how to attract and retain more visitors.
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For most web developers, programmers and bloggers taking screenshots is quite a common task. Sometimes you need the screenshot for your next post or article or just to send it to your tech help desk to troubleshoot a problem.

I have been using Snagit for several years and I really like the features it offers and its intuitive interface. Snagit is not a freeware, last I checked it costs about $50. But don’t worry there are quite a few alternatives to Snagit that offer similar features for free. Following are four free screen capturing software that I think are worthy substitutes for any commercial software in this category. More

One of the first blogging tips blogs I started following was ProBlogger. Run by Darren, this blog offers incredible tips to new and experienced bloggers. I still follow Problogger because everyday I get some more useful tips about blogging.
In 2005 and 2007 offered a 31-day series on how to become a better blogger. This year 31 Days to Build a Better Blog session will begin on April 1 April 6. It is free for any blogger who is interested in learning from a successful blogger on how to become a better blogger.
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I have been using Entrecard for some time now. About 10% of the visitors come to my blog through Entrecard. Recently Entrecard launched a new service called Marketplace. Entrecard members can buy and sell their services in exchange of Entrecard credits.
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I am opening my blog to advertisements. I have had Google AdSense ad units for some time on my website, and now I think is the appropriate time to solicit ads directly from advertisers. While I am working on getting my marketing arm in place, I thought it will be a good idea to let follow bloggers and website owners to advertise on my blog for free for a limited time. I am offering 3 125×125 ad spots on the right side of the blog.
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Have you ever wondered how when you “follow” certain Twitter users, you get an immediate thank you email from them? Some of them may even start following you immediately. After I received about half a dozen such quick emails thanking me for following some users, I started thinking that there must be a service that auto responds whenever a person starts following a Twitter user. More

One of the changes in WordPress 2.7 release is the disappearance of page id column from the admin console. As far as I know, currently there is no way to display the page id column.
Page ids can be used to exclude or arrange links to the pages in the navigation menu.
I use page id to exclude certain pages from appearing in my navigation menu.

So, without the convenient page id column how do you determine the page id for a particular page?

There are some plugins available that add the page id column back to your admin console.
But there is a simple way to determine the page id without installing any plugin.
Here is what you need to do to find the id of any page. More