Bloggers and web designers are familiar with flickr, the most famous and largest photo sharing website and online community platform. Where users showcase and share favorite and creative photos.

While showing off your photogarphy technique and skills, you also give others opportunities to appreciate your creations.  To upload digital images to flickr in a more systematic way, you can consider a few uploading tools below.

Picasa2Flickr: Picasa2Flickr is a simple “plugin” that allows picasa users to upload their photos to Flickr in Java environment. Some changes on security in the latest Picasa release (v2.7 build 37.27) has disabled the use of Picasa2flickr plugin. Thus, if users want to add this plugin as an uploading tool to Flickr, users shall not install any version after v2.7 build 37.27 version. It is an excellent photo management software and and is very user friendly. It features all the basic and useful photo editing tools. With Picasa2Flickr plugin, the uploading process on Flickr is made easier and more manageable.

ACDSee 10: The Latest verzion of ACDSee photo manager introduced a plugin, ACDSee 2 Flickr Uploader Verzion 2  to allow users to upload digital photos to flickr. This plugin allow users to select security, safety and content, set tags for individual images or all image  type  Select which ACDSee metadata fields (including IPTC and EXIF) to display in Flickr fields, create new Flickr sets or direct images to existing sets, resize large images and view the space remaining for the current month.

jUploadr: jUploadr is a another useful uploading tool developed by flickr users.  It is a cross platform and cross-site Photo uploader which can run on Windows ,Linux and OS X and supports both Flickr and Zooomr. The latest version of jUploadr is V1.2. This application allows users to set all properties of their photos before uploading. It also supports batch editing, so users can make short work of uploading a bunch of files.

Flickr Uploadr: Besides the flickr upload form, users can try an official uploading application Flickr Uploadr by flickr. The latest verzion of flickr Uploadr can be downloaded from  the Flickr tools page. It is a cross platform application which works well on either Windows or Mac. Users can just drag the photos from their hard disk into Uploadr and publish them straight away to their Flickr Account. Comparatively, Flickr Uploadr 3.0.5 has more features but is not so user friendly compared to Flickr Uploadr 2.0. For instance, Flickr Uploadr has problems in identifying Chinese characters even though it supports the Chinese language. It will mess up your photos labels if you use Chinese Characters to label them.

Flickr users can now add video clips alongside their photos a much requested and a anticipated features  that has been promised for over a year.  In other words, both free and Pro members can now upload and share short videos using Flickr.

There are still some limitations. Free members can only upload 2 videos a month and those videos can only be in standard definition. On the other hand Flickr Pro users,  can upload high definition videos. Videos are treated the same way as photos and are placed alongside those photos in albums and the main stream. Videos can also be tagged (and geotagged) in the same way as photos.

The video player itself is extremely clean, so videos look like photos on pages that include them. Another great feature is the ability to play the videos from the thumbnail screen as well as the permanent page for the video.

Other standard Flickr features are also available for video, such as search by tags and descriptions, uploads directly from camera phones, and various licensing options. So if you’ve got a Flickr account and want to share short videos in addition to photos, Flickr’s now an option for everyone. Or you could just use YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo, Viddler, or any of dozens of other online video sites that don’t impost upload limits and time limits.

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Merry Christmas to all from the RealGeek team. A Big Thank You! from us, we appreciate your support.

A news for you guys who have been following us and appreciating our work and giving us reasons to perform better. We have changed our theme as you might have noticed if you are reading this on our blog and not on RSS. The RSS users will have to jump into our site, RealGeek in order to see what has changed.

The major change has been regarding the number of stories which are now featured on the homepage. We will now feature five stories on the home in contrast to three earlier. The website theme now sports more soothing colors which we believe would make for a great reading experience.

We have tweaked the logo of RealGeek as well which now looks more funky and appears more in sync with the name and our philosophy. We must also inform you that this is not a final copy and we will keep making changes of varied degrees in order to satisfy our users and the demands of our bloggers. There are some bugs in this theme and we are working to fix them.

Meanwhile, we would love to hear your suggestions and comments which will help us to make it more user-friendly. Afterall, we have changed for You.

Give your blog a professional look with this new blogger template specifically designed while keeping in mind the distinct needs of professional bloggers around the globe. This new blogger template has been named “Daily Inspired” & its layout is based on the blog of India’s first sedentary professional blogger Amit Agarwal’s Digital Inspiration.

Following is a screenshot of the new blogging template:

Three days ago, someone asked me to define “what is a GEEK, and how could one discover if they have in it them or no?”, I responded to him by saying that it is not about discovering or infusing geekiness, it is about having that spirit that doesn’t let you settle on something regular or mediocre. I believe that Reaching out and trying different things comes natural to geeks.

Some people mistakenly identify geek as to be the one wearing spectacles and nerdy T-shirts and geeky gadget stuff they have on them, but it’s not primarily external it is really in deep within you, your heart, mind and soul.

I think I was born curious, the only subject I loved in school was science and I always had the enthusiasm to question “why stuff happens”, I believed that I am in the world for a significant cause.

I loved it when mom took me to her office when she could not have anyone to baby sit me, she worked with punching cards then moved on to magnetic tapes and then she really worked on the first Personal Computer, and I fancied it to be the best device that could do so much. I just loved to be there, little sense it made to me then, but it was great and I knew this is what I want to do when I grow up.

The only TV channel I watched was Discovery, Nat Geo and Technology related programs while my school mates gossiped about MTV and the hottest new star. I always had difficulty in meeting people with whom I could have an intelligent conversation with, no I didn’t think I was out the world or something, I could mingle with my peers but I always craved for something that was intriguing to my mind.

I always had a thing for gadgets, I never missed trade fairs in the town, where one could see new world technology, innovations on display.Thankfully my dad took me to places like these and to more, like book fairs, yea those were the days internet didn’t existed and books had so much knowledge to offer. I remember how hooked up I was to the electronic magazines and latest reviews etc. I have always dreamed to go to Akihabara, one of the largest Electronic shopping Districts in Tokyo, Japan, you could get anything and everything here, shop for anything electronic, computer etc. and one day I will go there before I die!

To add to my inspiration and enthusiasm, one of my cousin who graduated as an Engineer got the job in town and lived with us, She worked for the only tech magazine in the country and she did technology reviews for printers, monitors everything that was new and fascinating, which I didn’t even seen in Mom’s office or school. I always followed her work, her research and her creativity, I guess this was the beginning of me getting geekier.

When School was over, I had to select my college and get a degree, so I picked up Electronics & Telecommunications as my major. What a great time really to do it, late 90’s I learned everything I always had questions for, Engineering Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and everything else that I studied were like pearls of wisdom. By then Mobile Communication was in. Optical fiber and Digital signal processing were my favorite subjects in those days.

In last two years of my Engineering studies I realized that there is so much to be learned yet, I just did Fortran77 and pseudo code, 8085 and 8086 which were ages old and obsolete in the market, New were C, C++ and JAVA…so I picked up on these and SQL. Along with this I did an intern ship at a telecom manufacturing unit. All of this made me more aware and skilled. I did start my career as a programmer and ended up becoming a Web design and Internet Marketing Professional. But I never gave up my love for gadgets and computers.

I screwed my first laptop in the first week of me getting it, LOL it is hard to give up experimentation when you are this curious, I even screwed my first digital camera and I have had plenty of PDAs and cell phones and until recently I have this hang of Apple! everything I use or plan to buy is by Apple..

Most of my friends who are really truely my friends and are with me always Online! ..I am active on Facebook, Twitter, and loads of others spaces. I also meet them in person and guess what, we gel along great! and yea they have dugg all my stories on digg and never miss stumblin’ them LOL.

I loved working on two computers, but since I have worked on Macbook Pro, since march this year I didn’t pretty much needed anything else. I also have a thing for electronic dance music, and I have a drive full of Trance music. I spend more than 10 hours on internet 365 days a year.. not cause I have to but cause I love to. I can sit for hours in Cafe. Somehow, Coffee, Computers are inevitable for geeks.

I also like to be on each tech meet ups that happens near by, I try not to miss any Barcamp, Mobile Monday or other seminars etc. I start my day with Google reader and end with it too. I gained a lot, still have missed so much but I am determined to do a lot, all that and more..this is the spirit in me, which is probably my definition of me being a true Geek. Yes I strive to learn more and learn best and share my experiences.

Today We all know wordpress. Bloggers simply love it for its unique features, wide coverage and tons of free plugins. Being an open-source content management system, Wordpress attracts the cream of developers & designers who contribute to further enhance this product by creating new compatible apps for it . Today we will be giving you a brief review of some of the most popular Wordpress plugins for managing your website statistics.

Website statistics is perhaps the most exciting part about owning a website. Just having an online presence simply doesn’t do wonders if you don’t know the way to reach your target readers/customers. Consistent traffic analysis is a prerequisite for the success and future planning of any website and on the other hand, a reliable traffic statistic tool is one of the prerequisites for a correct traffic analysis.

Website Traffic analysis requires a set of parameters for correctly judging how your site is performing and what strategies should be planned to attract more of the target audience rather than just featuring your site in front of a herd of billion people possessing the eyes of stone. These free wordpress statistics plugins will allow you to know many things such as the number of visitors visiting your site, visitor demographics, their system configuration, for how much time a visitor remains at your site and even more. Just check out the below list to meet the Wordpress Plugin of your dreams.

Most Popular Wordpress Plugins for Traffic Analysis

Open Web Analytics: It is a great tool for tracking visitor analytics. It allows you to track page views, visits, unique visitors, clicks, referring websites and many more. You can even plot the visitor geography on Google Earth.

AWStats Xtended Info: In case you are hosting your wordpress blog on a personal server then you must check out the cpanel of your site which contains the AWStats Visitor tracking tool. It provides an elaborate data on the site statistics but the tool we are talking here is the extended version of your favorite cpanel AWStats. The AWStats Xtended Wordpress plugin for site statistics goes further deep & allows you to know about things such as screen size, Flash, PDF, & Java support.

Ultimate Google Analytics: Yes We like Google Analytics as much as you do. But what about a Free Wordpress Plugin that offers the same Google Ananalytics script to your site alongwith a lot of other useful stuff. Yes you would certainly replace the old analytics for this plugin.

This plugin is called “The Ultimate Google Analytics” and is actually open source API that runs google analytics script as well as counts downloads and outbound links for your site. It offers a much better user interface which is highly customizable. Definitely worth a try.

WP OnlineCounter: It is a very straight forward Online Tracker Plugin for Wordpress that performs the following three functions:

• counts the number of currently online visitors
• counts the highest number of visitors online
• counts the total count of visitors

Social Traffic Monitor: This is a great Plugin for monitoring the traffic coming from Social media sites such as Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, Fark, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon on your Wordpress Blog. Currently it doesn’t monitor traffic coming from direct links or any other reference source.

When any visit occurs from any of the above given sources, this wordpress plugin captures the source url and adds it to the statistics in the bar graphs.

Wordpress.com Stats: Wordpress stats is an official traffic monitoring tool by wordpress. It is pretty convinient since it uses the Wordpress API key to pull all the stats into a centralized admin page. It is also one of the fastest statistic monitoring system as it does all the information collection & processing on the wordpress server itself.

BSuite: It you want to take a peek at how the search engines genies are treating your adorable wordpress baby, oh i mean on what search terms the search engines are referring your site. Or you just intend to monitor the incoming links or page loads.

The BSuite Wordpress Plugin does it all for you. Oh i forgot something. It also shows top performing posts, lists related posts at the bottom of each entry.

Backlinks Inbound links counter: It is an MSN based statistics monitoring plugin which uses MSN to track all incoming links to your site, not just from blogs.

Bluetrait Event Viewer: Do you have a multi-user blog? Or, you feel somebody might be spying on your online presence and trying to gain entry to the doors which you lock with your passwords. Oh don’t be confuse.
If you feel your online security level is not upto the mark then you would definitely like trying this Free Wordpress plugin that tracks your logins, deleted users, last passwords, invalid user names and more.

DownloadCounter: It is a simple download monitoring plugin for your wordpress blog which maintains the statistics for every file downloaded from your site.

Dschini Bot Checker: This free plugin is very helpful for people engaged in Search Engine Optimisation & content writing as it gives a complete review of which pages of your site are visited by various Search Engine Bots & how often.

Search Phrases: Yet another gift for seo experts! This Free Wordpress Plugin provides the complete statistics about what Search Phrases brought visitors from Search engines to your Wordpress Site.

One of the founder of Google, Sergey Brin has started to blog at too.blogspot.com. He welcomes readers in his first post and starts out by saying that this blog will chronicle his life other than professional.

He has written three posts at the time of writing and surprisingly none of one has received any comments as of yet. The second post was about his health and that why he is prone to Parkinson’s Disease when he gets old.

May be you should hear straight from the horse’s mouth itself. Head over to his blog please.

If you have more then two or three blog site or you are connecting them with other social networks it can be complex if you start to share your same objects in different platforms.

SwitchAbit is a web based free service and you can manage cross platforms and automatically your posts contents will be synchronize for others platforms. For example: you involved with wordpress and your post will sync and posted at blogger, facebook, twitter. Just it’ll save your times and no more error corrections and no more extra efforts to share others.

The SwitchABit is a cool new innovation and is aimed at simplifying the complex flow of ideas and information is being facilitated by various powerful and popular web services, systems and aggregators like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Seesmic, Qik, Ustream, YouTube, BlogTalkRadio, Disqus, WordPress, Tumblr, TypePad, Blogger, and more.

SwitchAbit is now on beta version but it’s working well in many platforms and on twitter you can’t post more then 140 characters as because title links and short url will be postedon twitter and people can get your updates easily.

Do not expect these integrations between such platforms to get any simpler over time, rather people are going to want to connect more apps together, with more flexibility and therefore more complexity. SwitchAbit is going to help…we hope.