Cleeng: A web service that helps you increase your site income
Any self employed individual appreciates new ways in which he/she can increase his/her income. The same applies to website owners. If you are a site owner, then there is a cool new way for you to give your income a boost.
Websites can generally be categorized into two categories: ones that provide free content and ones that provide premium/paid content. The free sites make money through online ads and the paid sites make money through user subscriptions. But a web service called “Cleeng” lets you merge these two type of website to maximize your income.
Cleeng is a Europe-based web service that aims to boost a site owner’s income. The service comes as site plug-in that blends flawlessly with your site and development platform. What Cleeng lets you do is divide your site content into free and premium. Such a division lets you earn by the online ads on the free content; if visitors viewing the free content like what you have to offer, they will surely subscribe for the premium content as well.
Cleeng accepts payments through PayPal and credit cards. People who buy your content through Cleeng are able to read on various platforms: computers and different types of smartphones. Therefore by buying your content now, visitors will be able to read it later on any device they want.
Cleeng plug-ins can be downloaded for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and Brightcove. The service also offers a PHP SDK and its own API.
Check out Cleeng to learn more about the service and see its video introduction.
About Umar
Umar is a professional content writer all the way from Pakistan. He loves discovering and reviewing new websites. He blogs at http://www.techcityinc.com
Protect your blog from spam with Confident CAPTCHA
So you’re worried about spam bots attacking your site. You must have heard of CAPTCHA. Maybe even implemented it with the hope that it will stop those spam bots.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the fool proof solution, because spam bots are known to break these. So, CAPTCHAs tend to become even more confusion, with distorted lines and text and more.
Confident CAPTCHA™ is an easy to use, clickable picture CAPTCHA that stops spam and bots on websites by asking visitors to simply click on images, rather than decipher the warped and distorted text used in most CAPTCHA tests.
Confident CAPTCHA stops spam and bots on blogs, Web forms, new account registrations, ticketing websites, social networking sites and more. Our image-based CAPTCHA alternative:
- Eliminates the user frustration associated with ugly text CAPTCHAs
- Reduces website abandonment
- Increases online interactions
- Stops spam,fraudulent registrations and other threats caused by bots
- Improves the user experience, resulting in repeat visits
Confident CAPTCHA is available for PHP, ASP.NET, Python, WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.
It does not take up space on the Web page. Only a small button sits on the Web page and the CAPTCHA image grid appears as a fly-out or a light box when a user clicks the button.
Web developers and website owners can get Confident CAPTCHA for free by registering for an account here, which provides access to the API.
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
Create a mobile version of your WordPress blog with MobStac
The mobile is taking over the world. Today, almost all mobile phones come equipped with browsers, not to forget the whole host of mobile devices out there. While most mobile browsers can easily support your normal blog theme, you might want to create a better experience for users by offering a custom look for mobile devices.
You can manually do this or use one of the many services that allow you to do so. MobStac is one such powerful service that helps you get the job done.
Creating your mobile blog is extremely easy and you’ll be done in 20-30 minutes.
Simply enter the site URL and let MobStac populate the fields. You can choose to upload a logo or just use your Twitter ID. I tested using the Techtites Twitter ID (the screenshot below shows me using the upload option).
This is the easy step. The next step is to install the WordPress plugin and enter the API key and you’re good to go. The mobile plugin ensures that if someone visits your blog on their mobile browser, they will be redirected to the mobile version of the site above.
If you have your own domain (you do, don’t you?), an additional (and optional) step is to create a CNAME entry to create a domain for your mobile site. This ensures complete sync and no third party URLs.
MobStac is currently available as an open beta, so you may see a few bugs on and off. The site still lacks decent documentation, which I am sure is WIP.
If you’re running your WordPress blog, do check out MobStac. If you’re on your mobile browser, check out our blog at http://m.techtites.com/
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
Ajax Edit Comments New Year’s Special – $175 discount
The folks at Ajax Edit Comments (me included), are offering a discount of $175 on their unlimited plan option!
When subscribing, all you need to do is use the coupon code HAPPYNEWYEAR.
The coupon will be valid for 24 hours, so act quickly.
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
WordPress 2.8.1 and the Plugin Competition
WordPress 2.8.1 has been released today. WordPress 2.8.1 fixes several bugs and also a minor security risk that was reported by Core Security Technologies.
Changes in WordPress 2.8.1 over 2.8:
- Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
- Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
- The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
- A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
- Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
- Translation of role names fixed.
- wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
- Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
- Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
- Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
- SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
- Switched back to curl as the default transport.
- Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
- Stricter inline style sanitization.
- Stricter menu security.
- Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
- RTL layout fixes.
In other news, the annual WordPress plugin competition is on in full force. Check out the new entries already available in the plugin competition blog.
If you’re a plugin author, remember to read the rules and regulations before you submit your plugin.
Oh, we’ve sponsored $100 to the plugin competition prizes. There are already more than $3000 in prizes to be won. If you’re interested in sponsoring a prize you can send Mark an email.
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A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
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