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

Open-source Ecommerce Platforms reviews

22 E-commerce Platforms

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.

DeskAway is a cloud collaboration software to track & manage a project between team members, locally or anywere globally. Though there are many collaboration service similar to that of Basecamp & Zoho Projects but it targets small teams & business so pricing is also less.

Included in the extensive list of DeskAway services are project listings, project history, time sheets, a docs wiki, task lists, recurring tasks, discussion forum, calendar, blog, status updates and templates. DeskAway even offers a free account that lets users manage 3 projects with 5 users; the most expensive package is only $99 a month.. It is easy to use interface with some powerful back end functions.You can read details on how it works here.

As more and more freelancing and web based work is getting popular, so is the need to deliver the best to the client is also getting important. Freelancers need to use a proper invoicing system to track and record invoices & to show professionalism to clients. These are some of the best online invoicing applications one can use :

# Blinksale –  You can send 3-1,500 invoices monthly depending on the plan. The number of clients is always unlimited.  Prices are Free to $49 per month.

# EasyBill-  You can customize your invoices and estimates.The service creates PDFs for printing and record-keeping.It includes auto billing options. Cost: $9 to 29 per month.

# FreshBooks - Unlimited people can track time and send you an invoice, on any plan. Time tracking is available on all plans.There are limits on how many clients you can manage and how many co-workers can access your account. Cost: Free to $149 per month.

# Zoho Invoice- You can send 5 to 1,500 invoices per month.You can have unlimited customers. It includes invoice and payment tracking and recurring invoices. It also integrates with Zoho Projects. Cost: Free to $35 per month

# Invoice Place -  It allows an unlimited number of customer records, but has limits on amount of invoices/quotes per month.Cost: Free to $20 per month.

# Invotrak – There are many invoice templates to choose from. Clients can log in and see their account. Paid account does not limit number of clients or employees.There are limits based on number of invoices.

# Simply Invoices - Provides unlimited invoices with all plans. There is a limit on the number of templates. Invoices are generated as PDFs.

# Winkbill -  You can create sub-accounts within your account. There are limits on the number of invoices per month. You can send payment reminders and thank you messages.

# Free Agent - It allows unlimited clients, users and projects. You can track time, expenses and mileage.You can upload bank statements for analysis. Data can be exported and used in other applications.

# Billing Manager - It allows you to send and track unlimited invoices. You have an option to send billing reminders. You can add your logo and terms to your invoices.It has mobile access

Upcoming 2.9 version of WordPress will have minor changes,addons,improvements in security, administration as most wordpress updates happen. This time  WordPress 2.9 will have the possibility to update all your Plugins, which have an update available, in one step. That makes maintenance work for the blog more simple and faster as you do not need to each plugin seperately.

I am quite a die hard fan of WordPress/Automattic & maybe a little bias over it, but well that’s what makes the WordPress community one of the most widely popular community over the web. This time they have come up with spell-checking plugin called “After the Deadline”. After The Deadline is a service that uses artificial intelligence to find writing errors and offer smart suggestions. In a nutshell, it takes your usual spell checker to the next level.”.

If you’re a WordPress.com user, well it’s automatically available to you, and if you’re a self-hosted WordPress user you can just add the plugin through your own site or download it from WordPress.org. Self-hosted users will need to pick up an API key over at www.afterthedeadline.com. You can read the full review HERE .