Welcome to the fourth voyage of the BlogHarbor Cruise, an audioblog or podcast where we take a trip around the BlogHarbor community. On this voyage, we catch up with some of the changes in our service over the past few months. The BlogHarbor Cruise is somewhat more of an audio weblog than podcast; it will be very convenient to listen to the program in front of your computer while visiting the locations we speak about in your web browser.

On this program which is just over 33 minutes long, we'll touch on these topics:

New Features
Sticky Posts
Ever wanted to add an article to your blog which would always appear at the top of a category or the top of your Main Page? That's a Sticky Post! We've made it easy to mark a post as sticky. Read our user manual page and learn how make your articles sticky.
 
Spell Checking
A spell checker has been integrated into the Rich Text Editor. The user manual page on the spell checker is here.
 
Prohibit hotlinking
To control your bandwidth usage, you can now prohibit other websites from hotlinking your files. Hotlinking, which we refer to as "sourcing of files" or "file sourcing," is when another website loads your images or files on their site. Your bandwidth is used when that site's visitors load their page and see images hosted from your blog; enabling this feature prevents other sites from sourcing your files. Learn how to manage file sourcing.
 
Delete and Block Trackbacks
It's now possible for you to delete incoming trackbacks in batches, and also to block problem Trackbacks from recurring, allowing you to better handle trackback abuse. Learn more about managing trackbacks.
 
Ten New Color Schemes Available
10 new themes or color schemes have been added to the set of default templates, bringing the total number of available color schemes to 32. Thumbnails are here.
 
Blog Hosting Plans and Lower Pricing
More powerful plans at lower prices...
 
Email Hosting
Our new business-class email service is the perfect match for your blog using a custom domain name.
 

The RSS feed for this podcast is http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/Podcasting/Cruise/index.xml so if you're using a podcast receiver or podcatcher such as iPoddder Lemon, you can use that address to automatically receive new BlogHarbor Cruise podcasts when they they are released.

Questions, suggestions, feedback, and MP3 comments to cruise@blogharbor.com or via the comment form below. All aboard!