The mobile is taking over the world. Today, almost all mobile phones come equipped with browsers, not to forget the whole host of mobile devices out there. While most mobile browsers can easily support your normal blog theme, you might want to create a better experience for users by offering a custom look for mobile devices.

You can manually do this or use one of the many services that allow you to do so. MobStac is one such powerful service that helps you get the job done.

Creating your mobile blog is extremely easy and you'll be done in 20-30 minutes.
Simply enter the site URL and let MobStac populate the fields. You can choose to upload a logo or just use your Twitter ID. I tested using the Techtites Twitter ID (the screenshot below shows me using the upload option).

This is the easy step. The next step is to install the WordPress plugin and enter the API key and you're good to go. The mobile plugin ensures that if someone visits your blog on their mobile browser, they will be redirected to the mobile version of the site above.

If you have your own domain (you do, don't you?), an additional (and optional) step is to create a CNAME entry to create a domain for your mobile site. This ensures complete sync and no third party URLs.

MobStac is currently available as an open beta, so you may see a few bugs on and off. The site still lacks decent documentation, which I am sure is WIP.

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When you are searching for something on the internet, you might come across websites which are not in your native languages. There are online services like Google Translate which can be used to translate words in to other languages but that can be time consuming. To get rid of this problem, we came across an excellent extension, Bubble Translate, which can be used to translate words without opening any websites.

Bubble translate is an extension for Google Chrome which can help you translate a selection of text inside any website and view the result without leaving the page. Using the extension is simple and straight forward. Just go to chrome extensions page and install the extension.

Once the extension is installed, a blue color icon will appear in the address bar. You will be able to see it if you open any website which is other than the language you selected in the extension options.

If you come across any website which is in any other language other than the language you selected (e.g English), click on the blue box in the address bar. It gives you options to translate any specific text, entire web page or do real time translation.

Select the option you want to use and it will translate according to the option you selected. For example, I wanted to translate one line. Just highlight the line and click Translate Text. It will show the complete translation of the line as shown below:

In the same way, you can use the real time translation or web page translation. In order to change the default language of the extension, go to Bubble Translate options.

Just make the changes you want like changing main language, real time language etc and click Save.

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Fascinated by great YouTube videos? It is a good idea to download YouTube videos on your Mac and build a YouTube library for playback. Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader for Mac is just an easy and useful tool to help you download, organize and play downloaded FLV videos on Mac.
Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader for Mac has upgraded to 2.0.0. It has been improved with friendlier interface and better quality.

There are several remarkable enhancements of the new version:
1. Much easier way to download with a single click. Besides, users can download videos by entering URLs or dragging URLs to the program icon in the dock.

2. Supporting download HD videos and batch downloads.

3. Organize YouTube library easily and conveniently by search names or arrange by name, time and date added.

4. More stable FLV player for the playback of all the existed FLV videos on Mac. The iTunes-like user interface of built-in FLV player is convenient for users.


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Note: 
1. When you open videos on Safari, the application can automatically detect it and a floating download button will turn up. If you apply other explorer like Firefox, the app will open the same site with safari for you to download.
2. An advanced version of YouTube downloader- Wondershare AllMyTube for Mac- is needed if users need to convert FLV to various formats to put YouTube videos to iPod, iPhone, iPad, mobiles etc.

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