If, you have ever found yourself at once needing to post online, but you have left the laptop at home, putting words to keyboard will be almost impossible. But not if you have a Nokia to hand, installed with the latest app to hit Ovi Store. This week I examine the WordPress for Nokia app, written by Nokia and WordPress developers using Qt.

One of the advantages, or disadvantages depending on how you look at possessions, of living in this hyper-connected age means that we are always online and plugged in to the world. With WordPress for Nokia in your pocket you can fill up your WordPress-motorized blog, start writing from your phone and post online in an instant, which means you never need to miss that target again.

Word Press is an open source blog box up that gives you the tools to form written masterpiece to place online. The people behind WordPress, Automatic, have been around since 2005 and they have seen the platform’s user’s grow from a handful to become the most-used blog tool in its category. They are also liable for other online tools such as Poll Daddy, Gravitas and other well known Internet services, so it’s safe to say they discern their possessions.

This morning alone, I must have ended a million decisions should I take the weeping baby from his filch, even though it’s tranquil dark outside, or let him cry it out? What’s for breakfast? Do I have time to snatch in a shower? Should I try to fit in a workout now? Do the boys need coats? Do I have enough gas to make it to Georgetown and back? Should I turn left on to Volta Street to try to evade running into the trash bus that I see on O Street, or not? And that’s all prior to my first cup of coffee.

If really stopped to reflect about every last one of these choices, it would perhaps take me hours, if not days, to get out the door. Happily, I don’t boast to, thanks hundreds of simple policy, mental shortcuts and biases that humans have developed over time, some of which we learn by experience but many of which are now indelibly stamped into our neurons, allowing us to make crack-second, automatic choices, most of the time. These raze instincts which allow us to act directly slightly than stand paralyzed by the large number of aforesaid verdicts we have to make every day are what psychologists call heuristics.

Blogging has been around, in one form or another, for more than a decade. But what was one time a platform for propagation one’s personal diary opinion to the digital world has turn into a support of the Web. And for small and medium-sized businesses looking to start their own blogs today, the utter number of tools, products and services out there may verify irresistible.

When sifting through the mind-boggling number of blog options out there, start small or rather, start free.

One of the reasons blogging continues to thrive today is thanks to the number of premium, free-to-use blogging platforms available to users. With just a few clicks, anyone, including a small business, can start a blog based on a pre-made design theme. Such sites make a great starting point since the entire set-up process is painless and costs nothing.

In my last post, I explained how you can use social media to identify the main trends and issues in your industry. Now, I’ll discuss how to find out where your target audience is getting information and what people are saying about you.

Where are your target audiences getting information?

Every industry talks to one another on places like Facebook, LinkedIn Answers, Twitter, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, YouTube, forums, mailing lists, and link aggregation sites like Digg and delicious.

Have you asked customers what they read online and in print? Are there specific trade publications or journalists they follow? Bloggers? Trade shows? Webinars? Are they on Facebook and Twitter?

Let your customers know that you are on the same social media sites as them. Display it on their website, put it in your company’s email signature, add it to press releases, hang signs at trade show booths, and include it in online marketing campaigns.

Brands, marketers and designer have long struggled with maintaining brand values on the Web. For being there were two main challenges: colors and fonts. Because a designer cannot recognize what fonts an end user will have installed on her apparatus, the designer had to exploit mainly system fonts like Arial or Verdana unless they were creating graphics. But even in a world of high-speed Internet connections, it’s immobile not a good idea to generate an entire webpage that uses only graphical text. Since about a year ago Web designers’ dream of the concept Web-safe fonts has become as outdated as the concept of Web-safe colors. Monitors have long been able to exhibit more than 256 colors, and now the font barriers have begun to break down too.

With the release of the Firefox 3.5 Web browser in June 2009, the Web was introduced to @font face. This trait permitted designers to display fonts hosted on their own servers to any site visitor who is using Firefox 3.5 or higher. As of July 2010, Firefox has 23% of the global market share but that still foliage almost 80% of the viewers seeing Arial, Verdana or other Web-safe fonts.

While many graphic designers use publishing software that retails for upwards of $1,000, computer program company Serif has developed a new substitute for those on a tighter budget. Page Plus X5 offers some remarkable high-end features considering its low cost, reports PC Magazine. The software lets designers work in the CMYK color space and also provides abnormal typeface editing tools, such as optical margin alignment.

The latest iteration of the software adds Open Type script features, enabling users to create easy swashes, fractions and balancing characters. PDF support has also been improved and now allows for vigorous scaling options. The plan debuts at a very budget-responsive price of $100 and can be downloaded from Serif’s website. It is compatible with machines running Windows 7, Vista and XP platforms.

While Page Plus X5 isn’t accessible for Mac computers, it may soon be. With the number of Apple workstation owners increasing, many software developers are beginning to make their programs available on the platform.

Digital Juice announced today that it has released Juice Drops Collection One obvious aim the first in a series of new and expanded layered Photoshop graphics collections. These new Collections will each contain over 400-layered images delivered in a wide variety of styles, themes, looks and size formats. This first offering, Juice Drops Collection One clear INTENT, takes its inspiration primarily from the existing Digital Juice Fonts library with many of its illustrations designed to support the addition of DJ Fonts headlines and text layouts. The resulting collection contains more than 400 original customizable images in a useful text template format.

Our focus the last three years has been on rapidly rising our motion design and compositing products, says David Hebel, Founder and CEO of Digital Juice. That’s why you have not seen any new print and graphics creations lately. We are now getting back to our ancestry and plan to release a host of new vide and print graphics products starting with the prelaunch of the Juice Drops line.

What are Juice Drops?

The Juice Drops library is a set of royalty-free layered backdrop and illustrations that are completely customizable. Often described as Art You Take Apart each background is a finished complete graphic, delivered with all the original layers intact for easy customization for any type of design use from billboards to web pages, from motion graphics to print advertising and packaging applications. Artists can use the graphics trodden in their inventive composition or they can mix and merge layers from different backgrounds to create new and unique looks.