Free Blogging Tools For Enhancing Your Blog

Now that blogging has become commonplace, competition has taken various forms. One form where users compete over the best content, and others where competition over the layout, and general design of the blog. Free blogging tools are just what a blogger needs. These tools allow the user to enhance his or her blog in a number of ways, from layout to content to file hosting. And to top it all, they come with no price tag. Yes, they are absolutely free. Here are some of the popular free blogging tools that you would like to use on your blog:

FileZilla

Uploading a blogging platform (such as Wordpress and the like) require an FTP (file transfer protocol) program. There is a plethora of file hosting services on the internet, but FileZilla is undoubtedly one among the best in the market in recent times. It is a powerful FTP client designed for Windows NT, 2000 and XP. The main features of FileZilla are said to be its support for firewall and SFTP. It also has the ability to resume uploads or downloads of any kind in the event of pausing. It also permits custom commands, queues, multi-language support, proxy support and a timeout detection system.

The Gimp

GIMP is an acronym term for "GNU Image Manipulation Program". It is a powerful picture editor that is extremely useful for working with images. Tasks such as photo retouching, image composition, image authoring, image format conversion and other such work that need to operate on images. GIMP works on many operating systems and it also works with many different languages. It also allows plug-ins and extensions that let the user do just about anything.

Omea Reader

Omea Reader is an RSS feeder that allows the user to view only a summary of the RSS feed so that the user can skip from one blog to the other pretty quickly. It keeps one's blog organized. Some additional features that are available include desktop search, contextual access, quick extensibility and flexible organization of information. The reader is also upward compatible.

Audacity

Of late, podcasting has become an emerging trend in the blogosphere. With podcasting, one can turn one's blog into a veritable audio station. This however, requires a bit of technical knowledge and some skills and not everyone who is in the blogging world can make their blog an audio station. Audacity is one such open source software that allows a user to record and edit sounds. It is available for various operating systems like Windows, MAC and Linux.

BlogRolling

To put it short, BlogRolling is a linklist manager. This can be used to keep track of other blogs that one frequently reads. It also has the capability to display recently updated blogs. Installing BlogRolling just involves adding a single line of code to one's website. Editing, deletion and insertion can be done with ease using the blogroll editing page.

This article has reviewed only some of the many popular free blogging tools in the market. There are still many more, and effective and efficient usage of such tools can really give that competitive edge that a user so desperately requires.

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