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Google Docs is one of the most popular alternatives to Microsoft’s suite of desktop apps, Office. Google’s free package offers limited tools for online, and collaborative, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, forms and drawings.

2. Flashcard Exchange

Creating your own study aids couldn’t get any easier than this. Using Flashcard Exchange, students can make their very own flashcards directly from the web, without downloading or installing a thing. Featuring an enormous flashcard directory of categories to choose from, flashcards on nearly any subject can be can be created and printed with no hassle, for free.

3. SlideRocket

SlideRocket offers online presentation production. You can import existing PowerPoint presentations to move them to the cloud, or just create brand new ones from scratch on the service.

4. ThinkFold

It’s no longer necessary to try and organize a time and meeting place to get together and work on a group project. With ThinkFold, students can participate in a group effort online from any place at any time. Group members can upload images and text, make changes, assign tasks, and more. Changes appear instantly to all group members, eliminating both unnecessary confusion and the need for group notifications each time a change is made.

5. Instapaper

Instapaper is a bookmarklet and web companion that allows you to save webpages for viewing later. You can then come back to reading these later on from the Instapaper website/app, Kindle or iOS device.

6. Smartsheet

Smartsheet is an online alternative to any kind of calendar app that is used for managing projects. In Smartsheet, you can create projects with subtasks in. Each of these subtasks can be set a status like “In Progress” and be assigned to members of your team or group.

7. Evernote

This unique web app puts a modern spin on the art of old-fashioned note-taking. It’s available for free download on nearly all types of mobile devices, and with it students can record and organize lecture notes, share notes with classmates, bookmark favorite webpages, take snapshots, scan photos or text, and store all kinds of information they may need for future reference.

8. VocabSushi

With this cool web app, students can broaden their vocabulary skills one new and challenging word at a time. Instead of learning the meanings of words through grueling memorization, this site encourages language development by using the surrounding context of a sentence to determine the meaning of a word. A mobile version of this app is available for download on iPhone and iTouch devices for quick and easy learning on the run.

9. MobileMe

MobileMe is Apple’s set of web apps built especially for syncing iOS devices. Included in the package is a powerful email web app, calendar app and gallery.The Mail app is especially important as it offers an experience similar to that of Mail.app on Mac OS X and Outlook on Windows. And it can sync with both those on your desktop and your mobile devices.

10. MyStickies

These little, virtual post-it notes take online bookmarking to a whole new level. Simply place a yellow sticky note on any webpage you may want to go back to, and mark it with a little note reminding yourself what was so special about it. This app will save a quick link to the noted webpage along with your reminder note. MyStickies also features a blank online notepad for students to write their own to-do lists, take notes, or to record any other information they don’t want to forget.

16 WordPress Plugins Everyone Must Install

Naeem Noor — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:44:04 +0000

Hello there! as i have already published a few posts about wordpress themes and code snippets. This time i’ve decided to write about the wordpress plugins, There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet, but some of the wordpress plugins are most essential to run a successful blog. below is a list of 16 essential WordPress Plugins I cannot blog without.

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Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Code Keeper

CodeKeeper plugin retains the formatting of blocks and converts any characters to HTML entities when necessary. It is useful for small snippets of code that do not require colour-coding, line numbering, or the other effects offered by more powerful syntax highlighters.

FD Feedburner Plugin

It Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

jQuery lazy load plugin

Lazy loader delays loading of images in (long) pages. Images below the fold (far down in the page) wont be loaded before user scrolls down. This is opposite of image preloading. Using lazy load on long pages containing heavy image content makes page feels snappier. Browser is in ready state after loading visible images. No need to wait for unknown amount of pictures to load.

Login Lockdown

This plugin records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range.

WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. 99% of your visitors will be served static html files.

Stealth Login

This plugin allows you to create custom URLs for logging in, logging out, administration and registering for your WordPress blog. Instead of advertising your login url on your homepage, you can create a url of your choice that can be easier to remember than wp-login.php, for example you could set your login url to http://www.myblog.com/login for an easy way to login to your website.

Platinum SEO Pack

This Plugin is the ultimate wordpress SEO solution .Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the features of All in One SEO plugin plus more.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

(YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. This plugin requires that your database run on MySQL 4.1 or greater.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

WordPress Database Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.

WordPress.com Stats

This Plugin collects information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.

Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.