Spokeo is a social network and rss feed reader/aggregator. It allows you, the user to keep track of all your friends in whatever social network they’re from – Myspace, Friendster, LiveJournal, Twitter and also read your favorite blogs’ RSS feeds. You can also keep track of your friends newly uploaded videos or photos in YouTube, Picturetrail, Photobucket, Flickr, etc. You can do all of these from your own Spokeo page and buddy list. It even notifies you when your friend posts a new blog article or photo. How cool is that?

Joining Spokeo is easy. No registration is required. Just provide a valid email address and password and you’re all set.

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You may ask, “Why do I need Spokeo?” Simple. Because keeping track of friends’ updates and RSS feeds has never been this easy and convenient. You don’t have to go through each site and login just to check for updates. Once you see an update in Spokeo, then its up to you whether you want to go and check it out.

Try Spokeo now!

Newly Installed Plugins:

• Full Text Feed – Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed.

  I added this plugin coz for the mean time I’ll be using the < more > tag while I work on something to customize the way my posts are displayed.

• Impress – Impress your readers with statistics on the number of users, posts, comments, pages, categories, words in posts, words in comments, and words in pages you have.

  I installed the Impress plugin to display some of my blog stas on my About page.

• Leprekhauns Word Count – Adds a word count to your backend without having to submit the data

  This plugin comes very handy especially if you’re into paid reviews and sponsored posts where you need to meet a minimun number of words per post.

• Permalink Redirect – Permalink Redirect ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued.

  Installed this to make my permalinks prettier and search engine friendly.

• WP-Page Navi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.

  Makes it easier for visitors and readers to navigate and access different pages.

Aside from these plugins that I’ve installed I also did some changes to the layout and design.

• Increased size of the default text and post title.
• Removed the bottom bar.
• Added icons for RSS feeds, Sideblog, Categories, Archives and Top Commentators.
• Created a new custom header

I did the first two changes thanks to K‘s comments and suggestions. I think he’s the only one who has the guts to make suggestions or comments regarding my blog theme and layout. I appreciate it man!

If you have any comments, suggestions or feedback regarding the current layout or to the changes I’ve made, please do let me know. I would be happy to hear them. You can leave a comment here or use the Contact page.

Lastly, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the loyal readers, rss subscribers, other supporters, and sponsors. This blog won’t be where it is right now without you guys.

Aside from better security, pop-up blocking and faster browsing, one of the reasons that I love Firefox is the vast array of extensions, themes and add-ons that you can download and use to customize it for your personal needs. As a blogger, here are some of the add-ons that I find to be very useful for my activities as a blogger and some that I think would also be useful for other bloggers.

What I use:

Sage
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It’s got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don’t.

From my experience, Sage is the best RSS feed aggregator add-on for Firefox. Adding, managing and updating feeds is very easy. Link

Colorzilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

Helps me find out the hex code of a certain color from a website or blog. All you have to do is click on the dropper icon (lower left corner of Firefox), and hover mouse over desired area and you’ll see the hex values beside the icon. Link

MeasureIt

Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.

Just click on the icon (lower left corner of Firefox), then click and drag across area you wanna measure and it will automatically display the width and height. If you wanna make a new measurement, just click and drag across any area of the window. Link

*Colorzilla & MeasureIt are really helpful especially when you want to customize your WordPress theme. (changing colors, resizing things)

Other useful add-ons:

These are some of the add-ons that I found that I thing would be useful for other bloggers. I haven’t tried or tested them yet so I’m not sure if they really work.

coComment
This extension allows you to activate coComment! from the right-click context menu and reduces your onscreen movement time so that you dont have to move all the way from the comment text box to the Bookmarks and then back to the Submit button. Link

Adsense notifier
Displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar. Link

Live Writerfox
Windows Live Writer is a new desktop application for composing blog posts to your blog service. It blogs a page or selected text to Windows Live Writer. To use it you need to have Windows Live Writer installed on your machine. Link

WordPress.com Sidebar
Get quick access to your wordpress.com account from your browser sidebar. Easy to use. Link

Share your favorite Firefox add-ons for blogging or let me know if I missed any add-ons that you think are useful for bloggers.