Sunday 2 March 2014

Tricks For You

Tricks For You


9 Best Android Apps for Writers

Posted: 02 Mar 2014 07:37 AM PST

For the writers we have the great news that there are lots of applications on the Android market which you can have them in your phone and can improve your writing skills.

So in this article, we are going to share some brilliant apps with the Android users who love to write. Go on & have a look on the article and the amazing apps mentioned below, I am sure you will like the apps which we have gathered under a single page just for you. Don't wait just have the one you need and feel best in your profession.

Android Apps For Writers:

1.Evernote:

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Enjoy the ease and the powerful way of writing that helps you to remember everything. It offers you to save notes, capture images, voice recording and whatever you will save it will be synced to all your devices. So, if you are in a writing profession and something to write down your app, then this is best for you.

2.Springpad:

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Like Evernote it is the wonderful writing app available in the Android market, which got great appreciation among the users. It offers you to save written notes, recipes and allows to save the data from the browser directly in the app (need to click on the Save to Springpad Option).

3.Mindjet Maps:

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The best way to organize the giant notes and maintain them from jumbled up, so if you are a writer and you have a lot of data to save then it is best for you. It allows you to draw a chart in the form of map to write everything in a format and distinguish them with the colorful lines.

4.Voice Recorder:

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The wonderful handy voice recorder is available for you at the Android market which provides you a beautiful feature to record your thoughts no matter where you are because we all know the important and classic ideas does not wait for the place that you can write it down, so that time it can help you.

5.My Writing spot:

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If finding it difficult to write a novel in one place and if jumbling the chapters to each other then have this app. It allows you to create a document for each chapter and you can guard the documents with the passwords. The best about it is that you will be provided with the word counts of the words you have written in the document.

6.BookWriting:

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BookWriting is one of the best apps in the list of writing application available on the Android market. Double tap on the icon to open and enjoy the simple and the powerful method to create notes, diagram and save the data in the pdf format directly to your Android device.

7.Celtx Script:

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For the professional film and theatre script writer this is the coolest app which offers you various templates in different categories like theatre, video clips, films, radio scripts and comics. Enjoy the trial version of the cool app and if find good for your profession, should have that.

8.My Screenplays Free:

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It is the most progressive and the versatile writing application which allows you the easy and the interesting scripts. When you insert the data it automatically provides dialogue for the words you have written and if you are a fiction writer this will be definitely magical for you.

9.Storyboard Studio:

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Last in the list of writing applications I am sharing this wonderful and one of the most popular apps available on the Android market. Similar to other apps, it also offers you the most beautiful features and if you are looking for that then go for Storyboard Studio.

Here we have mentioned 9 amazing apps above in the article, choose the one you like and don't hesitate to mention the name if we have missed any. Share with us using the comment section.

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Top 10 Best Tips To Decrease Loading Time of WordPress Blog

Posted: 01 Mar 2014 09:02 AM PST

A fact that, “The WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform till exists!”. Undoubtedly, in our current generation, the craze of ‘WordPress’ is catching its maximum height at a fast pace. Indeed, there are millions of Bloggers exists in the ‘Blogoshpere’ and still the number goes on increasing day by day! This is only because, the ‘WordPress’ offers amazing and customizing features, using which any user can set-up its own blog’s structure uniquely.

We all know that creating blogs using ‘WordPress’ platform is hassle free, but to maintain it on a large scale is quite difficult task. We need to undertake many factors in mind and maintain their desired proportion to rank our blogs on any of the ‘Search Engines’. All Search Engines have their own policy & ranking factors to display search results on the fired query and obviously, we need to fit it that to gain user’s attention and high ranking.

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One of the biggest common ranking factors for all Search Engines is ‘Site Loading Time’ and here, many of the bloggers fail! Most of the bloggers think that their main task is to simply create a desired niche blog, perform on-page SEO, off-page SEO and that’s it! Actually, that’s not the only things which matters, the ‘site loading time’ matters a lot. Just imagine; you are ranking on the first page of Google, a user made a first visit to your site’s specific page, but it takes too much time to load, definitely, that user will leave your site without seeing the content and never come back. This shows that, the site speed affects SEO and if you are not good at that then you will lose both rankings in Search Engines as well as visitors.

No offense that the ‘WordPress’ is quite slow but all is needed to do is customization. So, today, I have come up with some extremely best tips to decrease loading time of WordPress blog. Get a detailed eye on the post and then apply it on your WordPress blog(s) to see the difference. Before going further, I personally recommend that note your current speed and loading time of your blog and then go for below tips. Let's take a look over 'Top 10 Best Tips to decrease loading time of WordPress Blog'.

Top 10 Best Tips to decrease loading time of WordPress Blog

#1. Update WordPress Version

‘WordPress’ is the most popular platform and as the technology evolves, many new features are added by developers. And the developers are really trying hard to fix existing bugs and other problems. So, to receive all updates in one package, you need to update your WordPress to the stable version, when it’s available.

#2. Use Only Needed Plugins

It’s obvious, if we need to add any extra functionality in our blog then we need plugins. And you will surprise to know that plugins consumes more bandwidth while the page load. “More the plugins installed, More the bandwidth will be consumed”. It’s advisable to deactivate and delete those plugins which are unnecessary installed in your site’s WordPress database.

List of Most Common Needed Plugins

#3. Cache + CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Caching plays an important role in improving page loading time of any any site hosted at any platform. Obviously, it’s a difficult task; but in case of WordPress platform; we have numerous Cache Plugins which helps in page caching. The recommended plugin is “W3 Total Cache“, you can also go with any of the other caching plugin that doesn’t matter a lot.

I hope you have noticed that every popular blog uses CDN. Essentially, the main feature of a CDN is to decrease site loading time and to provide better performance at the visitor’s end. The CDN service is available for free as well as paid. For free, CloudFlare is one of the best CDN networks and for paid, maxCDN comes on the top.

#4. Optimize WordPress Database

We never store junk data on your PC or in Smartphones because ‘Junk data decrease performance’. Similarly, you need to keep our site’s WordPress database clean and in optimize state. You can optimize your site’s WordPress database by manually or just by using a simple plugin called “WP-Optimize“.

5#. Enable gzip compression

Gzip is the quite useful compression method which reduces response size over 70 – 80 % and gzip is support by every browser now-a-days. To to enable gzip compression there are two ways manual or using a direct plugin named ‘WP HTTP Compression‘.

#6. Leverage browser caching

To hinder browser requesting new resources from the server, if previously downloaded resources exists in the local disk (browser’s cache) that can be loaded well at the user’s side, we need to set headers expiration time. To do so, paste the following code on the top of your ".htaccess" file.

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access 1 year”
ExpiresDefault “access 2 days”
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

 #7. Customize .htcaccess file

We know that “. htaccess” file in a WordPress database is the main server configuration that controls all the directories and sub-directories exist in the WordPress folder. Well, no one likes to play with “.htaccess” file because if anything goes wrong then your blog will go down! So, to customize your “.htaccess” file easily, there is a plugin named called “WP htaccess Control“. Using that plugin, one can do the following things:

  • Disable Server Signature (recommended)
  • Protect wp-config.php file (recommended)
  • Protect htaccess file (recommended)
  • Use mod_gzip (recommended)
  • Use mod_deflate (recommended)
  • Disable hotlinking (recommended)
  • Control 500 error (recommended)
  • Control 403 error (recommended)

#8. Reduce Post Revisions Stored

WordPress provides has an inbuilt feature of automatic post saving after a specific interval of time. No doubt, the feature is really useful, but it has major disadvantage – If the post is already been published then the stored revisions are not deleted automatically and we don’t need that saved revisions. So, to set the desired value of post revisions, a plugin called “Revision Control” is really helpful. The recommended revisions must be up to 2 – 3.

#9. Delete Unnecessary query strings from Themes Header file

No matter if you using a “Cache-Control” for caching your sites pages, you can't cache a link with a “?” in its URL. Generally, the query strings are used for dynamic resources, not for static pages. The theme “header.php” file contains many query strings, which may increase your site loading time and that’s the reason, you have to delete it.

From your theme “header.php” file, find the below codes and delete them.

  • <?php language_attributes(); ?>
  • <?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>
  • <?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>
  • <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>
  • <?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>
  • <?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>

Note: Don’t hesitate while deleting the codes from your header.php file; it will not make any changes to your existing site/blog.

#10. Optimize Images

Images at a time of loading also consume bandwidth and users need loads lots of data at a time. To optimize performance and decrease the image loading time, I recommended two plugins namely “WP Smush.it” and “Lazy Load“.

Well, the above are the best tips to decrease loading time of WordPress blog. Apply it on your blog and check the difference. It’s really advisable to take backup of specific files while making changes in that to be on a safer side. If you have any other tips that should be included in the list; then definitely, I would like to hear it from you. Share your reviews and put your comments in the below comments section.

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