These are the best wordpress plugins for Google Adsense.

Easy Adsense – It  provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. Having lot of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

Adsense Inline – This inserts adsense ads in blog posts.

Adsense Deluxe – It is easy-to-use plugin for WordPress for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. It can switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.

All in One Adsense and YPN – All in One Adsense and YPN is a Free and Open Source WordPress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 post or 100,000 posts, it will insert your ad code into all of them automatically.

Adsense Injection – It inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code.

AdRotator WordPress Plugin – This plugin rotates adsense ads with other affiliate programsas needed.

Adsense Beautifier -  This make your Adsense look beautiful in order to increase you Adsense earnings. Images adjacent to ads can help increase click through rate (CTR).

Advanced AdSense WordPress Plugin – A simple plugin to help make your Google AdSense Ads display better, more relevant ads.

MightyAdsense - It will allow you to host the code in wordpress without having to modify the templates. Google ads is displayed in post item and you can specify how many block its going to show up in a page. Ads preview tool included in control panel.

Google Ad Wrap – Section Targeting – Section Targeting is a way of embedding special tags inside HTML to give Google’s also a better idea of what’s important on your page. This is a really simple plugin that wraps posts and comments inside these tags, in the hope that they’ll lead to better search rankings

jQuery library is quite popular among developers & designers. These 10 plugins can be used widely for any kind of development work in any generic website development.

Virtual jQuery Keyboard – Very useful for typing password in various public places, can be used for websites where requires secure virtual keywords for passwords. You can download full source codes & read the @ Design Shack site.

jQuery 3 State Switch Plugin -  Useful for sites which requires to show some specific selection & some states of list item using radio button & checkbox at the same time.

jQuery Tooltip -can be used  to show any kind of tooltips in websites & web applications. The code is really simple & it adds tooltips without any hassle.

ColorPicker – is a jQuery plugin that let you select color in the same way done in Adobe Photoshop.

Date Range Picker – this allows allows you to set the date range without using the keyboard. Uses jQuery UI.latest & Date.js integration for easy preset development.

Sliding-Sliding Doors - allows you to show animated menu with beautiful sliding door visual effect.

Word Counter – Easy but useful code to show wordcount in a text area. great for using on any website allowing comments from users.

jQuery quickSearch – allows you to do search in a table. See examples here & you can find more details about it @ riklomas

Text-shadow in IE with jQuery – this code is written by Kilian Valkhof  in one of his posts where he explains how to create shadows for text with jQuery in Internet Explorer. The plugin offers two functions: textShadow(); and removeTextShadow()

Facebox – is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages. Requires jQuery 1.2.1. & also you will require loading image, close label, four corners, and solid border images in addition to the javascript and css files.

note : post inspired by ajaxline which is a great resource for developers.

Ecommerce applications are the best developers resources for setting up any kind of online shopping website to sell products & services. Open Source shopping carts are one of the best choices for the coders who want to get something to work with ease & less of efforts.

These are some of the best open-source e-commerce commonly used.

osCommerce -  It’s one of the oldest shopping cart .apps to be used. Completely multilingual, compatible with PHP 4 versions. It is SEO friendly & supports almost all payment methods.

Magento – This is very popular nowadays. Multilingual, supports local languages, multiple currencies. SEO friendly, has lot of marketing & promotional tools & can supports lot of payment gateways.

Zencart – It can be very easily installed & customized. Though it does not support many payment options as osCommerce, but serves quite well for physical product sites & file download sites.

PrestaShop – Very sleek interface & creating special deals as gift coupons, discounts, tag products, selling virtual goods and service is a breeze.

VirtueMart – This is a system for Mambo and Joomla. It hardly takes any time to integrate with Joomla. It has lot of features for people in terms of stock market to instant currency conversion.

More resources on Open-Source E-commerce Platforms

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Microsoft Powerpoint is the most  popular software in creating slideshows for business presentations. As most presentations have lot of data to show & produce, charts are quite often used in these slides. The common way to make Powerpoint Charts is Microsoft Graph. You cancreate several types of charts, including line, column, area and pie charts. It is quite easy to make charts in this. You can check out a nice tutorial on adding a Chart to PowerPoint.

But as more websites like www.slideshare.net is emerging the trend of making & uploading corporate presentations is growing. Though Microsoft Graph is a good option but lacks a bit in looks & animations. FusionCharts is launching a Powerpoint Charting add-on called oomfo, the product is still in beta but you can register for a sneak peek  here. The best part of it is the interactive charts & great 3d animations. You can also watch a product screenshots video to see it in action.

Facebook is one of the most successful social networking site after Myspace. The receipe f or it’s success is some nice concepts which sets it apart from other social networking site. But well that is for another post to discuss on.

So if you are a wordpress blogger you can’t igmore the power of Facebook to promote your blog, these are some of the best worpress plugins for to integrate facebook in wordpress blog.

# Facebook Connect : This plug-in makes it easy to bring Facebook to your blog. This plug-in is used in TechCrunch btw.

# Add to FaceBook : This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed. While the plugin is activated a link will appear after the content of the post with the text “Share on Facebook” or the Facebook icon or both.

# Facebook Photos :  Show your Facebook photos right on your blog easily.

# Facebook Dashboard Widget : This plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed, your posted items feeds and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard.

# Facebook Posted Items : Facebook Posted Items plugin allows you to display posted items from Facebook on your blogs. The fetched post items are in unordered list and you can style them easily.

# Wordbook : Wordbook allows wordpress users to publish blog updates to their Facebook’s profile mini-feed. To use this plugin, you need to link your WordPress blog with your Facebook account.

# Gigya Socialize : It allows you to authenticate users through Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and AOL.  Also, you can update your social networking sites within your blog and invite your friends to visit your blog through this plugin.

# QuailPress : QuailPress allow you to add a button so that your readers can easily share your stories on their Facebook account.

# Friend Bookmarklet : Detects hCards, Facebook links, and Wink.com search results and allows the user to add the detected people to their WordPress links system.

# StatusPress : This plugin takes your Facebook status updates and places them in your WordPress blog.

# WassUp : This WordPress plugin for Facebook helps you to track your visitors in real time.

# Socialize Me!: Adds your blog posts to Facebook and other social networking sites.

WordPress is known to be the most popular blogging platforms, but it has moved far beyond to  be JUST a blogging platform to a fully customizable CMS solution. One can tweak wordpress to turn it into a fully functional website, a social networking site & even a shopping cart site.  There are quite a number of eCommerce plug-ins for WordPress, the most popular one is wp e-commerce plugin which you can get for free. Many of the themes use this as the base plugin for the shopping cart  functionality.

These are the best Shopping Cart Templates For WordPress :

Crafty  Cart - It’s a fresh flavoured retro style for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for any online shop. This is one of the best-  looks great, quite stable, & of course free.  It uses WP e-Commerce plugin for WordPress for functions.

Crafty Cart – Download it HERE

Vanilla Cart – This is also a good free clean & elegant theme for shopping cart sites. Similar to Crafty Cart it also uses WP e-Commerce plugin.

Vanilla Cart – Download it HERE

Shopper Press - It’s a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress with it’s own set of templetes. It has free as well as paid templetes.

ShopperPress  – Download it HERE

eGoods – This is also a nice option for setting shopping website, made by designers based in Germany.

eShop – Download it HERE

WordPress has a long list of plugins os displaying Most commented posts in wordpress is very easy to do with a pluin called Most Commented which displays a list of most commented posts in your sidebar.

First You need to download and activate the plugin. Then you need to place the following code in your sidebar.php or any other theme file.

<?php mdv_most_commented(); ?>

To customize the list, you can use parameters like:

<?php mdv_most_commented(10, ”, ‘<br />’, true, 30, true) ?>

Parameters You can use:
$no_posts – sets the number of posts to display
$before – text to be displayed before the link to the post
$after – text to be displayed after the link to the post
$show_pass_post – whether or not to display password protected posts
$duration – displays comments for recent number of days
$echo – whether or not to echo the output or return an array of values

That’s it, now you can use most commented posts in sidebar.

Heres a list of the top 126 Ajax tutorials out there. They are organized into a wide range of categories from Getting Started to Shopping Carts. Everything you need regarding Ajax is right here. This is one great resource for the web developers !!

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Recently I was searching for online task managers for my web freelancing work & projects as I noticed off late that too many of my to-dos were not getting done. Often I am accused of being messy & unorganised with files & task lists, so I was wanting some Web-based applications that I could access anytime, anywhere, from any sort of device.

The top priority for me in an online to do list is it should allow simple adding and editing of task & attractive at the same time.

This is the list of Top Online To Do Lists: ( No Specific Order)

Ta-da List – This is simple manager created by 37signals, the influential Web application company.

It’s strong point is that it’s a to do list and nothing more. It’s clean and simple, gets right to the point, and only provides feature that you actually need. You can create multipe lists and add, edit, re-order, and remove tasks from each list. You also have the ability to share your lists to friend or by using a public address.

Remember the Milk> – It is a more feature packed task management solution. It allows you to organize your tasks into tabs and tags, make time specific tasks with automatic reminders and repeat intervals, and even has collaborative features. It also has two innovative features: There’s an iPhone app that can pick up your location and suggest nearby chores, and there’s an option to display the RTM task box within your Gmail account.

Wallnote - I am listing this as it allows you to manage your to do list in two ways. You can either access your to do list online at the Wallnote website or you use it on your Windows Desktop.

Orchestrate - It has a unique method to help you organize your to do lists. Instead of allowing you to create a list, it lets you create multiple lists each with their own name.

ListPool - A neat solution that allows you to build your own to do list selecting only the fields you want to add and share them when complete. You can select from preset types of lists or start from scratch.

TaskFreak! – It requires you install it on your own server, as it does not have hosting solution still it’s a great system. Features excellent organization, status marking, and priority control. TaskFreak requires PHP and MySQL/SQLite and installation on your server. Online demo available at site.

Time Tracker> – It Keeps track of the time you spend on any task. Add a task and record time-splits until completing the task. You can also view an overview of total time to complete your tasks.

Tasks – King Design, makers of Feedlounge, offers Tasks, a commercial suite of web-based task management software. Tasks requires installation on your own server and comes in three packages: Tasks, Tasks Jr., and Tasks Pro.

voo2do – Advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals. Features organization by project, deadlines and time tracking, collaborative functionality, and more.

TaskToy – Todo list service with note taking, bookmarking, and projects. Also gives a lot of options for list items.

Sproutliner - a “supercharged structured to-do list” that has the more advanced feel to it. Source is also available.

e2doList.com – Allows you to create and manage multiple lists, add notes to individual tasks, share them with others, and set email reminders.

Tudu Lists >- Nice todo list that has a simplistic style to it and features sharing and cool priority functionality.

Bla-bla List - Simple and sharable todo lists that uses Macromedia Flash. It also features RSS updates and private sharing.

Hitask.com – This is also pretty cool to use & currently I am using this since it’s quite simple. It has some useful features like drag n drop & export features to Excel and Outlook, OpenOffice iCal, Mail.

Great pictures of the newly built Googleplex in New York. An insiders look to what it means to be googley ! Looks like a fun place to work. Some Inside Pics…

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