Archive for the ‘Apps & Services’ Category
Share files with your friends
On February - 23 - 2010
File sharing was never as easy for me as it is with dropbox.com. Previously I uploaded the files on my ftp server and send the links to my friends by email. Sometimes I uploaded the file on public sharing websites like rapidshare.com. However, the privacy of such files were questionable as most of the servers
Autopost to facebook and twitter from RSS feeds
On February - 20 - 2010
APIs of Facebook and Twitter can be used to develop number of web based applications. Like you can use the APIs to automatically publish the posts from your blog to your facebook wall or to your twitter stream. However, the same can be done by using the services of twitterfeed.com also. You have to create
Display delicious count on your wordpress blog
On January - 19 - 2010
Delicious is a very popular bookmarking website. After searching for number of websites, I found a plugin which counts the number of times the page has been saved in delicious.com. You can easily add the counter along with delicious share button on your blog powered by wordpress.
Login to your blog
Download the plugin (http://www.techwhiz.in/repository/zip/delicious_count.zip)
Add Facebook share button in wordpress blog
On January - 18 - 2010
It is very easy to implement Facebook share button in blog powered by wordpress.
Log-in to your blog and open the file in which you would like to integrate facebook share button (e.g. single.php)
Copy and paste the following code in the file and save the file.
<a name="fb_share" type="button_count" share_url="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Share</a>
Facebook connect in wordpress
On January - 17 - 2010
I successfully integrated facebook connect API with my blog running on wordpress. Users can now log-in with facebook and post their comments on the blog. The comments posted on wordpress blog will also be published on their facebook’s live feed.
The plugin for wordpress is developed by Adam Hupp and the modified version (v1.2.2) can