I reward regular readers by featuring good posts from the best commenter’s blogs. If you would like to see your blog posts featured here, join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

• Get Song Lyrics in Winamp and Windows Media Player - Nirmal
• Removing CD/DVD scratches with Toothpaste - listikal
• How to Remove COM Surrogate Error in Vista - Madhur
• Top Five Blue Websites - Grace
• 10 reasons the iPhone will succeed - tech blog
• How To Get Your Kids To Love Taking Medicine -Husbandhood
• Edit Pictures online using free picture editors - Techie Buzz
• iPhone Skin For Winamp - Pallab

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Buy me a Beer is a WordPress plugin that allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. The plugin adds a “Buy Me a Beer” button to the sidebar and at the end of all posts. When your readers click on that button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page from where they can donate money to you.

Why add a “Buy Me a Beer” button instead of a simple “Donate Money” button?

Past experience shows me that asking people to donate money by giving them a specific reason increases donations by 200%!

For people who prefer non-alcoholic drinks, there is a setting to replace the beer mugs with coffee cups.

I currently have this plugin installed and will try it out for about a month to see if it turns out to be a good way to make money online. Ok I am tired and thirsty, how about you buy me that coffee now?

Chitika Linx is an In-Text Advertising solution, similar to Kontera’s ContentLink and Intellitxt, that is currently in beta and being offered only to selected publishers on an invitation basis.

Chitika | Linx will automatically identify key products/keywords mentioned in the content on a website or blog and hyperlink (double underline) those keywords to interactive paid (CPC-based) product listings featuring best deals, offers and promotions from name brand merchants. When users mouse-over these links, a small bubble-like scroll over is revealed listing offers from merchants.

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In WordPress 2.2, the post preview frame (the frame at the bottom of the edit screen showing a preview of your post) was removed and replaced with a preview link. Though I prefer this new change due to the speed improvements in editing a post, some people do not like it.

For those who want do not like this change, there is a plugin to return the preview frame.

Installing the plugin is easy, just upload the preview-frame directory to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it in the admin panel. The post previews will immediately start displaying when you edit posts.

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In my last post I had asked my readers to suggest categories for Blogg-Buzz. I have added the suggested categories, but would like to see which categories are wanted the most. So I have put up a poll to find out (below this post).

Please vote for the category you want the most. The poll will automatically close on June 1st.

Update: Poll closed. ‘Web’ category was voted the most.

Blogg-Buzz already has lots of categories but users are still suggesting more. So we would like to add the categories that most people want. Some of the categories that users wanted were Digital Photography, Family, Religion and Pets.

Which categories would you like to see added in Blogg-Buzz? Suggest them here via comments or use this contact form.

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Today I found a video via Problogger.net of Andy Wibbels giving blog tips for new bloggers to clean their sidebars by removing all unnecessary stuff like twitter, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos, etc.

This is one common mistakes most new bloggers make. Infact even I made the mistake in my early days of blogging , I used to fill my sidebars with lots of links, buttons of blog top sites, badge, etc and then I realized later how each of them where increasing my page load time and getting my readers distracted.

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On my recent power of photoshop post, Moha linked to one his Photoshop drawing videos in his comment. Watch the videos and you will see how well talented this artist is.

In the below video you can see the artist drawing a good looking lady, coloring her and then undressing her

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Blogg-Buzz, a Digg like site for bloggers, has been redesigned and is much faster now and includes some new cool features! For those of you new to Blogg-Buzz, it is a blogger driven community, exclusively for bloggers to share, discover and promote blog posts that they find interesting. After you submit a story, other bloggers will read your submission and buzz the story if they liked it. If your post rocks and receives enough buzzes, it will be promoted to the front page where more bloggers will find it.

Blogg-Buzz is not just for submitting blog posts, but also to find interesting bloggers around the world and to get closer to them. Blogg-Buzz can also be useful for those who want to find the best content on the Blogosphere and can give your blog good number of readers when you make a good post and reach the front page.

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Placing videos from YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, etc on a blog post can be hard at times. I have been asked a few times on how to add YouTube Videos on WordPress Blogs by some readers, so I would like to mention some WordPress plugins that will make it easier for you to add videos to your blog post.

Viper’s Video Quicktags is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily insert videos from YouTube, Google Video, IFILM, Metacafe, MySpace and Vimeo by just clicking one of the buttons that th plugin adds to the write screen and then paste the video URL into the prompt box. You can also fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more.

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