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Windows Vista has automatically created Shortcuts keys for the first 10 items in Quick Launch toolbar. You don’t need to do anything. Just use it! Only if you know how to use it!

For my Quick Launch toolbar above, the shortcuts are as follows.

• Windows key + 1 = Show Desktop

• Windows key + 2 = Flip 3D

• Windows key + 3 = Internet Explorer

• Windows key + 4 = Windows Media Player

• Windows key + 5 = Outlook

The list will go on for the first 10 items in your Quick Launch toolbar. It is such a great idea to reach our applications faster than ever.

Actually you can make any folder in your computer as toolbar in taskbar. But for my favourite, I’ve always made “My Computer” as a toolbar in my taskbar.

Here is the procedure to do it.

First right click on the taskbar and then go to Toolbars. After that choose “New Toolbar” as in the following pic.

After that choose the Computer icon as follow. In case if you want to make other folder as a toolbar not My Computer, you can choose any folder you want.

That’s it! You can access your newly created My Computer toolbar in your taskbar whenever you want to.

Some of my friends feel this feature is annoying and taking space in their taskbar. For me, it is very convenient whenever I want to open any folders. It is up to you to decide whether this feature is handy or not.

If you are looking to start a new amateur blog at Wordpress.com, there is a good news for you. Now you can host your images, movies up to 3 GB. It is a big improvement from previous 50 MB. As you know, 50 MB means nothing. But for 3 GB of space, you could blog for at least a year or more.

From their official blog, Matt Mullenweg announced

Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year.

He also assured in the comments section that they won’t roll back this update. So if you’re new users or existing Wordpress.com blog owners, you can blog without having to worry about webspace.

Our View

Well, as you know hosting on Wordpress.com can’t give you any customization. You need to use their themes, plugins and you can’t insert any ads code too. So that if you’re serious about blogging, I would suggest you to get your own hosting. If you’re serious about blogging and still can’t invest money for your own hosting, I’d suggest you try at Blogger.com as Blogger allow you to insert any ads code you want. After you’ve learnt about monetization, get your own hosting.

Since I moved to Wordpress, I haven’t made a full explanation about how and what plugins I am using. So here is the lists of Wordpress plugins I am using as of now.

1. Akismet
2. All in One SEO Pack
3. Google XML Sitemaps
4. Maintain Blogger Permalinks
5. Shylock Adsense
6. WP-ContactForm
7. WP-DBManager
8. FeedBurner FeedSmith
9. Similar Posts

Let me explain you one by one in details.

Akismet

This plugin comes with Wordpress. This is a must have plugin for all Wordpress users. What does this do?

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under Comments.

Yes, as it is mentioned above, you need to have Wordpress.com API key for Akisment to operate. But it would take only a minute to create free Wordpress.com account and get your API key.

All in One SEO Pack

This plugin is very important to most bloggers. As the name says, this plugin fulfills almost every SEO needs. It can optimize your title, your post name, what you want to show or not, meta tags and many more. Highly recommend for organic traffic.

Google XML Sitemaps

The name says it all. It will create Google XML Sitemaps for you to submit at the Google Webmaster Center. If you don’t know what is Google Webmaster Center, well, you’re really a newbie. Start googling for it.

Maintain Blogger Permalinks

This plugin is for those who move to Wordpress platform from Blogger.com like me. As Wordpress.com have naming strategy different with Blogger.com, if we want to maintain our traffic and incoming links, we need to use it.

For example, a post title like: “Nobody give a damn about global warming yet” would make permalinks by blogger as:

nobody-give-a-damn-about

But for Wordpress, it would produce permalinks as follow:

nobody-give-a-damn-about-global-warming-yet

This plugin will simply convert that long Wordpress permalinks to make it look like Blogger permalinks. You only need to activate once. After that you can even delete this plugin if you want.

Well, whee, this post become too long now. So let me stop here and I will continue explanation about all other plugins later.

I have always wondered how a bobbin works when I was young. And when I’m getting older, this bobbin has gone totally out of my mind. But after I have stumbled upon Material Mama, this thing has shred some light on.

Just look at the graphic, that is really amazing. Whoever invented it at that time is really genius. This machine work with the perfect timing. The connection is really perfect.