Essential Tools For A Professional Blogger

Every professional blogger has some favorite set of tools that he uses to carry out his day-to-day tasks. Some of them are quite popular among all bloggers, and some are limited to individuals. Some tools are platform independent and enjoy wide popularity among the bloggers. Here are some absolute essential tools that every professional blogger must keep handy on his desktop.

DarkRoom: A minimal full screen text editor with pitch-dark black screen and customized width for writing space. It is very popular among bloggers, as it removes any distraction while writing posts.

FileZilla: A very stable and easy to use FTP client to manage your blog installation tree. A must for every self hosted Wordpress installation.

SnagIT: Want to embed screenshots of desktop pictures in blog post? Then get SnagIT and get this excellent piece of screen capturing software. It is not just simple screen capturing software. It gives you some cool features to cut, snip, trim, decorate, add arrows, bubbles, zoom, watermark and many other special effects that can be easily added to pictures and make them more presentable for your blog readers.

Visual Color Picker: Very useful for those bloggers who work extensively on CSS of their blog template. This software easily lets you pick colors from any object on the screen along with their HEX codes. A must for those, who work with CSS code and highly customize their blog theme.

twhirl: Social Media has become such a powerful tool today, that almost every blogger uses it to network and promote their brand. twhirl is an excellent desktop client for famous micro-blogging service Twitter. Another gem for every professional blogger.

Camtasia Studio: A powerful blog marketing tool is video posts. A good number of bloggers do video posts and use YouTube for blog promotion. Camtasia Studio is an excellent software to create high quality videos for presentations, tutorials and documentaries. Through Camtasia you can easily create YouTube compliant Videos and can export it directly to your YouTube blog marketing channel.

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