I do update my blogs almost anywhere. I do posts even if I am traveling, but I do most of my programming work from my home after my days work. I live in Male’, the capital of Maldives.

Boss Sound Deck for iPhone

My mobile gadgets, iPhone and an Samsung Omnia

My laptop is connected to a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. I have a 24inch Monitor

If you are a user of Yahoo Messenger and want to chat with your blog visitors, you can add the Yahoo messenger on your blog. Login to your Yahoo account and go to Yahoo PingBox and create your PingBox according to your blog template.

An interesting post at Smashing Magazine. If you are going to start a blog and thinking of the CMS platform, then you should read this post.

10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS

iPhone has just a 2 megapixel camera, but some apps which can help you to optimize the images you take.

10 best iPhone apps that do Photoshop tricks

Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform. If you are looking for a tool which can create custom pages with different sidebars, then you need to have a look that this tool, WP Remix which is totally different from regular themes. WP Remix 2.0 is completely coded different way with many more functionalities than the original theme. Infact, this is a completely different approach in WordPress themes that offers complete flexibility over your page templates.

You will be provided support for any problems that you come upon. Some of the highlights of this tool are color schemes, grid based layouts, theme admin option, plugin compatibilities, clean design, SEO ready and many more.

You can also get PHPBB3 template that you can use to create a Forum on any topic for your site. The template has been designed to match WP Remix theme so you can have overall integrity in the looks for your site.

You can watch this video to learn how to create a page using WP Remix.

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Find out more about this tool

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ibisMail is a new email client for iPhone. This application has some additional features like creating folders, create filters or rules per message, signature for individual mail accounts. Supports POP3, IMAP, SMTP and SSL and receive attachments in different formats like Word, Excel, Power Point, PDF, JPEG, GIF and PNG, but you cannot send attachments yet. I have not seen in the Apple App store yet.

If you are doing some customization on your blog theme and looking for good icons, I have a small collection of websites which should be helpful for you. I was recently modifying my blog theme adding some custom widgets.

I found this website which offers feed icons. They have a good collection of feed icons with different colors. You can check this feed icons collections.

Some Good collections

• Icons Archive
• Free Icons
• Myspace Icons
• Wonder Icons
• Icon Bazaar
• Icons
• Free Icons Download
• Fam Fam Fam Icons
• Icons Factory

If you know any other sites which provide excellent icons, please let me know. Most of the above are free to use

I came across an excellent keyboard for my iPhone today, the ShapeWriter keyboard from ShapeWriter Inc which has totally different concept. You have to move your fingers on the keyboard to write a word. Its very easy and I am using this now. In iPhone the restriction make is unable to use as the default keyboard, but you can type notes and send emails using this keyboard. ShapeWriter Keyboard is available for iPhones, Windows Mobile, Google Android and Tablet PC. It costs US$ 9.99 for iPhone and US$19.99 for Windows Mobile. Unless iPhone unlocks the usage will be limited.

I need to travel a lot and many times I need to access my office PC or sometimes Home PC while I am travelling. I use an excellent free service with extra features for affordable charges. This remote control service is from LogmeIn which is being very widely used around the world. You can control your assigned systems (Windows PC’s) using this service. You can browse the files, use the softwares, almost everything that you will need to do. You can even use this service from a Windows Mobile Pocket PC or an iPhone also.

What do you have to do?

First create an account with LogMeIn.Com and add the computers that you need to use or access remotely. Once you add the computers, you will be able to see the computers online or offline from your account control panel. If you want to remote control your added PC, just click on the link and you get the login screen and you finally get the desktop of the PC. You need to have the computer connected to the internet to access it remotely. Remote control is a free service, but if you want other Pro services, you need to pay a very small monthly fees which is very much worth the service you use. You can add as many computers that you would like to add

Other Paid Features – LogMeIn Pro

1. Drag and Drop – You can drag and drop your files
2. File Transfer – You can transfer files from one PC to the other
3. Remote Printing – Automatically print files from your remote PC to your local printer.
4. Mini Meeting – You can chat and have mini meetings with your colleague or friend
5. Sharing – You can share your files or pictures using this features
6. File Synchronizing – You can synchronize your files with other PC
7. Direct Connect – You can save time and clicks by going directly from the My Computer’s page into a remote control or file transfer session.
8. Drive Mapping – You can even map drives from other connected PC’s

Microsoft has released an update for windows live writer. If you are using Windows Live Writer as your blogging tool, you can download the upgrade. 

I checked the Windows Live Writer home page which is not updated with the latest version, it shows an older version. The left image is from my Windows Live Writer installation and the right image is from the Writer Home Page. You can get the latest version from the link given above.