You may be someone out there who blogs more than text messaging, or just can’t live with the lack of Internet connection for everyday’s blogging, or brings your laptop everywhere you go so that your self-hosted medium for news is always up to date. Nothing special, we all live in the age of user generated content.

But we all know that blogging through the weblog’s admin area is just like pain. What if after typing for 3 hours, the connection suddenly resets, or some freaky error appears while you are submitting the post? (That is I am saying about blogs that don’t have auto-save function) Everything may happen, and make you lose what you have just done within some seconds or just a click. Your inspiration, your passion, your idea for the writing, your hours, your batteries, and your “fingers’ muscles”… they’re all just suddenly gone!

Here comes the need for a blog writer, an application which lets you do the word processing, with WYSIWYG feature, but specialized for blog writing.

Free or Not free? Mac or Windows or Cross-platform? Here you go…

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If you are among of the millions of people who are using Yahoo! Messenger these days, then you probably are in love and familiar with the lovely 16×16 GIF Yahoo! emoticons. You even remembered all the keyboard shortcuts for each emoticon! So why not bring up those emoticons up here in your blog?

Well, well, I know, there are a lot of plugins out there. But again, plugins plugins :-& Oh my… As my blog has been developed each day, the plugin page really got longer, one plugin to help akismet, one plugin to count the stats v.v… and now one more plugin for the emoticons?

I would say no! So that’s why I wrote this post just to help you how to use Yahoo! Emoticons on WordPress without having to use any extra plugin!

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