the Squarespace iPhone / iPod touch app | What to expect

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We all know you love squarespace, and so do the rest of us. It blows the doors off Joomla, Drupal, and Wordpress by making blogging, human friendly. Squarespace is truley a premium blogging platform for people looking for their voice on the internet. Using Squarespace and making posts and changing templates and reaching out to a bigger audience is a truley rewarding experience.

What if

you could do all of these things on the bus, riding down 25th street on your way to work with Squarespace in your hand and a hot coffee in the other.

Being an employee of Squarespace has it’s perks and I’ve had the pleasure of using a beta version of the Squarespace iPhone app. All I can say is that it blows the livingbageezusout of any other blogging client available for the iPhone. Seriously. It’s like having Squarespace in your pocket. Makes me feel all warm and squishy inside just thinking about it.

If you want to do a little mobile blogging (known as moblogging to geeks) from your iPhone then you are going to want to get this app. If you are not one of the lucky 30 people to win an iPhone then do yourself a favor and go buy one! The Squarespace iPhone App makes the cost of the iPhone totally worth the money.

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How to lose friends and alienate people

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Twitter Banned From White House

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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned casually to CNN today that Twitter is blocked on official White House computers. Gibbs clearly doesn't appreciate the value that can be derived from the innovative social network; he jokes about it as if it is a tool for personal exhibitionism.

Many readers here will no doubt recognize that there's a whole lot more that can be done with the service than that. This is from the same administration thatwon't let its employees at the State Department use Firefox(State Dept. for IT admin reasons), so perhaps nothing is surprising. The Twitter admission by Gibbs was excerpted in a video embedded below, originally reported by Andrew Malcolm of theLA Times.

Malcolm points out the irony in the White House having severalofficial Twitter accounts, but blocking the service from its employees' computers. Perhaps that's whyPresident Obamahasn't been able to update very often since being elected.

Some cynics will say this is great news, that taxpayer money isn't being wasted on using Twitter on White House time. Note, though, thatEnergy Secretary Steven Churecently took to Facebook to have conversations with the public about energy policy, for example.

When it comes to rapid, public conversations and easy relationship building, Twitter is better than Facebook. There is a long list of very innovative "Government 2.0" advocates moving conversation along quite quickly on Twitter. Beyond conversation, the network of people on Twitter offer rapid research assistance, some of the fastest news delivery on the planet and other clear sources of value for knowledge workers. If the White House doesn't want its employees to have access to resources like that while at work, it's honestly a loss for all of us.

the Best Web-based HTML Text Editors for websites

Web-based HTML Editor, WYSIWYG editor, or rich text editor, is a web component that let users enter rich text input within the browser. Most of the time, these html editors are used within content management systems where administrators or authors can easily create posts and contents from the backend system. Without talking much, let’s see these powerful Web-based HTML Editors.

The Best YouTube Video Tools | Tips and Tricks

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Save and Download YouTube Videos

• Delutube – Lets you view deleted Youtube videos.
• Video Downloader – a firefox extension that allows you to download youtube videos to your computer from YouTube and most video sites.
• YouTubeX – allows you to save and download YouTube videos easily using only your IE or firefox browser.
• TubeSock – grabs YouTube videos from the web and copies them to your video iPod, Mac, or PlayStation Portable.
• VideoDL – is a quick AJAX application that allows you to download online video into your computer. It supports top 3 video sites – YouTube, Google Video, and Break.com.
• Download YouTube via bookmarklets – A collection of Greasemonkey scripts and bookmarklets to do the job.
• Youtube-dl – is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later.
• KeepVid – Download videos direct from most video sites like YouTube.
• YouTube Downloader – enter url and download YouTube videos.
• Youtube Grabber – is a free tool that downloads FLV files from youtube.
• GooTube FLV Retriever – enter the video page URL, download the youtube video.
• Capture Youtube and Google videos - save them as AVI files encoded in the MPEG4 format, using only one command.
• YouRipper – a freeware software which enables you to download videos from the YouTube and Google Video
• Save YouTube Videos – paste the youtube video url and download the video.

Top Youtube Third party tools

• Splicd – lets you isolate an interesting clip from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues.
• YouTube Userscripts – a collection of scripts to perform several tasks with YouTube.
• Youtube Video Slideshow – insert a username or a video tag below and it starts a slideshow.
• fTube – a YouTube player that downloads the list of 25 most recent videos featured on the YouTube front page. The user can select a video from the list and hit the play button to play it in-Flash.
• TubeCH – YouTube flash player.
• iTube – grab Youtube videos, then convert and import them into iTunes. Requires .Net framework and works exclusively on Windows.
• TvTube – For Mac users. Allows you to browse YouTube, Google Video and Yahoo Videos, for movie clips that people upload, choose your favorite clips and add them to your shared library.
• YouTube API Extraction Tool – PHP script that taps into the YouTube API to deliver videos by tag, by username or what’s a current favorite.
• YouTube Widget – brings all of YouTubes videos to your Mac Dashboard.
• Search The Tube – A quick way to find videos for your website, blog or profile.
• YoutubeCrazyVideos – A Youtube videos desktop player. Freeware.
• IndexTube – categorized and browsable index of the publicly available Youtube videos.
• YouTube Podcaster – makes Podcast feed from your submitted keyword or url. The feed is made up from embedded youtube video IDs and all videos are converted to the MP4 file format.
• MemoriesOnWeb – freeware photo slideshow software for YouTube.
• Overstream – lets you add subtitles to online videos.

Integrate YouTube In Your Site or Blog

• YouTube badge maker – will show your viewers images of your 6 most recently uploaded videos.
• YouTube Wordpress Plugin – Display YouTube videos on your Wordpress blog according to Tags.
• YouTube Video Gallery Wordpress Plugin – displays a gallery of videos from youtube.com.
• WordPress Related Videos Plugin – Uses tags to look for related videos on YouTube, displays the three most recent related videos on your WordPress blog post and updates videos automatically.
• Wordpress Favourite YouTube Videos – Wordpress plugin / widget to display, in a very configurable manner, your latest favorite videos from Youtube.
• Viper�s Video Quicktags – WP plugin that easily generates codes for copy / pasting to embed videos from sites like YouTube and Google Video or for self-hosted videos into your posts.
• WP-FLV – Wordpress plugin simplfies the process of inserting flash video files (FLV) inside a Wordpress post or page.
• TubePress – a highly configurable WordPress plugin that displays YouTube videos in an embedded gallery in posts and/or pages.

Top / Best YouTube Videos Services

• PureVideo – collects top 10 videos from around the web
• The World Internet TV charts – tracks the most popular video clips from four leading Internet TV sites.
• Top YouTube Videos – a daily updated selection of the most popular videos from YouTube.
• Vidspedia – is a collection of the best Google and YouTube videos, submitted and rated by users.
• Youtube top-rated – a coverpop with the 1,001 top rated videos from YouTube updated every week.
• Best of YouTube – a blog selecting the best Youtube videos.
• Viral Video Chart – tracks the world’s most blogged about videos including GooTube and MySpace.

the Best Light, Modern and Sleek Website Designs

The creative utilization of color gradients, lighting effects, glow effects, and details such as inset pixel dividers can result into a beautiful and impressive website design. When deciding on a color theme, designers often choose whether they’d like to use a dark or a light palette; in this showcase, you’ll get to see light and bright designs. This collection presents exemplary and gorgeous examples of light, bright and sleek web designs for your design inspiration.