Wow, it has been a very busy week online. Here are a few things I enjoyed from around the blogosphere this week:

  • The Simple Dollar shares their 30 Essential Open Source software. Included are the usual suspects, but also a few others have been thrown in that you may not know about.
  • Ashwin guest posted over at Life Rocks, where he explains how to edit your blog theme without messing up. Included is a theme preview plugin and some great tips to making sure you can restore things to normal if something goes wrong.
  • Daily Blog Tips gives us tips for writing bookmarkable content. Rather than writing news posts, I tend to write a lot more of these types of posts that are intended to be references, so I found this post particularly useful.
  • Blogging Tips provides simple secrets to blogging productivity. The post focuses on improving productivity with keyboard shortcuts. I’ve been working on improving my productivity for a few weeks now by applying various shortcuts to applications I use regularly.
  • Paul Stamatiou has posted his early impressions of Mint, which is a web-based application that helps you with money management. It looks like he has been testing it for awhile now and even covers many people’s main concern, which is security with your financial information.
  • Firefox Extension Guru talks a bit about what is in store for Thunderbird. Things were looking pretty bad for our favorite Microsoft Outlook alternative for awhile there, so it is good to see that the future is getting a little brighter.
  • Garry Conn has started a new website called UTube Skins. This site allows people to spice up the appearance of their YouTube videos a little bit whenever one is posted on your blog by adding a skin around it. One example is a television monitor that fits around the video to make it look like you are watching TV.