Blogging

• Blogging Pitfalls: How to Avoid Blogging Overload
• Three Ways to Take Advantage of Being a Blogging “No One”
• The Art of Leveraging your Blog
• How to Get More Mobile Visitors On Your Email List

WordPress

• WordPress Blog Claims WordPress Is The Riskiest Web Software?
• How the WordPress Upgrade Works
• How To Organize Your Content with WordPress Custom Taxonomies
• Add Voice Search to WordPress

SEO

• 6 Ways to Sculpt Your Site’s Link Equity
• Duplicate Content: Block, Redirect or Canonical
• How Human Factors May Affect Information Indexing And Retrieval
• The Impact of Content Change on Search Engine Rankings

Social Media

• In Social Media, Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
• 8 Social Media News Items You Need to Know
• Why Your Social Media Strategy Sucks
• Using Social Media to Boost Search Rankings

Technology

• Major Security Flaws Discovered In Internet HDTVs
• Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street
• Kneber Botnet Strikes, Targets Gov’t Agencies
• Google Ready To Rule NFC-Based Mobile Payments?

Gadgets

• Samsung’s 9 Series Laptop Takes the MacBook Air Head-On
• Hard Drive Withstands Drops, Submersion, Shotgun Blasts
• The Best New Blu-ray Player
• ThinkGeek Joystick-It

Pinoy Blogs

• 5 Reasons ISPs Implement Bandwidth Caps
• Easy Pasaload with Smart’s Facebook Pasaload App
• Philippines is global number one in voice BPO services
• Motorola Xoom: Android Honeycomb Tablet

JaypeeOnline Weekly Recap

• Do You Use the WordPress Plugin Compatibility Feature?
• Google Adds Email Signing on Google Apps
• HowTo: Fix Ubuntu “Requires Installation of Untrusted Packages” Update Error

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions or want your article or find an interesting story that you want to be featured in the next Weekend Roundup, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message via the contact page.

Looking to make extra income from your blog by selling your knowledge, articles, your own products, or plr (private label rights) items like e-books or software? You can do all that by charging your visitors for accessing your special blog posts and product pages with this free WordPress plugin I’m sharing with you today.

LockPress is a free WordPress plugin, created by a small company called Two Enough that lets you “lock” certain areas of your blog like posts and pages, and charge users for access to those areas. Here’s a short introduction from the LockPress product page:

Free WordPress plugin to charge your visitors for accessing blog posts and pages. With LockPress you can easily earn side income by selling articles, your knowledge, your own products or MRR/PLR items (ebooks, software, etc) and even run a membership site. The possibilities are endless. You will get the payments directly to your PayPal account and you can set the flat or recurring fee items.

Features

• “Lock” a post or a page (or a part of it) in WordPress blog. To see that item your visitor will have to pay a fee you set.
• You can charge visitors with a flat or recurring fee.
• Easy templates edit – change the appearance of the locked post, purchase page etc.
• Your visitors will pay directly to your PayPal account – you will only need to put your PayPal-attached email to the install settings.
• Lock-code generator will help you to create a code to put to your posts/pages so they are unavailable before a fee is payed.
• You can create item groups – by generating specific code and putting it to multiple posts/pages of your install you can charge your visitor once and allow access to all the items of a group. For example you can lock a whole category this way – once any post is payed rest items of the group will be unlocked for the user.

Screenshots:
Settings

Lock Combination Generator

Templates

Messages

My Take:
LockPress is a useful plugin if you want to earn extra income from your blog by selling some of your “special” articles or some products from your blog. Unlike most plugins that offer the same type of features, LockPress is FREE and lets you receive payments conveniently via PayPal.

From what I’ve read from the product page and manual, LockPress is pretty easy to setup and configure, the process usually takes less than 5 minutes. All you need to do is download the plugin, upload it to your wp-content/plugins folder, activate the plugin from your WordPress dashboard. To activate LockPress, you’ll have to fill out a form from the Two Enough site. Once you’re done with it, you will receive an activation code on your email address, use that code to activate the plugin.

For further details on how lock a post/page or how to customize your install, visit the LockPress manual page.

I haven’t tried LockPress myself because I don’t have any products to sell yet but it might come in handy one of these days so I’m keeping it for future use.

Find out more about the LockPress WordPress Plugin.

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When I blogged about my new toy the Sony DCR-DVD 105, I didn’t expect the post to be a support forum of sorts for this device. Visitors have posted comments and asked different questions regarding this camcorder and other video related stuff. Recently, one of the visitors asked me about video editors or video editing software. So I decided to do some research and put up a list of free video editing software or what people usually refer to as free video editors for Windows.

Here’s the list in alphabetical order:

Avedit
It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on…
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Avid Free DV
Avid Free DV is feature-streamlined, standalone software which includes basic video and audio editing capabilities, up to two streams of real-time effects and support for both Windows XP and Macintosh OS X platforms.
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Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
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Chopper XP
Chopper XP is a tool that lets you extract a part of any DVD easily. It is a Vob cutting program with a video display and a great interface. You just need to scroll to a location and select mark in and out points. The program also lets you set any priority of extraction and displays the estimated time left for extraction.
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DDClip Free 2.23
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FFMpeg
FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video. It includes libavcodec (a leading audio/video codec library), and libavformat (a leading audio/video container mux and demux library). FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can be compiled under most operating systems, including Windows. The project was started by Gerard Lantau, a pseudonym of Fabrice Bellard, and is now maintained by Michael Niedermayer. It is notable that most FFmpeg developers are also part of the MPlayer project, the VLC/VideoLAN project, plus one member of the xine project, and that FFmpeg is hosted at the MPlayer project server.
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Jahshaka
Jahshaka is the worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. We currently support Linux, OsX, Irix and Windows, and Solaris is on the way! Jahshaka is licenced to the public under the GNU GPL agreement.
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SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type 1 and 2.
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WAX
Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.

Wax can create 2D & 3D special effects and can work in two modes – as a standalone application which would appeal for home users/beginners, and as a “plug-in” to video editors/NLEs which would be more useful for professional editors. Currently Wax can work as a plug-in with Sony Vegas, Pure Motion EditStudio and Adobe Premiere and work for integrating with various other NLEs is in progress.
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Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker is a video editing software that is included in recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be modified using XML code.
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Virtual Dub
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
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Virtual Edit
Virtual Edit is a semi-professional software video editing package aimed at ambitious content creators to video novices, who want to produce material with a slick and professional look, on a limited budget. Virtual Edit has been written by experts with experience in the Television and Broadcasting industries, which has been encapsulated in this simple software package.
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Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere. With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.
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Let me know if there are other free video software that I missed so I could add it to this list. Next, I’ll come up with a list of free video editing software for Macs so stay tuned!