Published July 12th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Downloads and Web 2.0.
In developing the new site (more info soon I promise!) I’ve been scouring the ‘net for the best and brightest of plugins for Wordpress to not only improve the site and content, but to make my life easier.
Enter Pluginstaller.
This Wordpress plugin created by Henning Shaefer revamps the Plugin screen in the admin panel and […]
Published July 9th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Downloads and Web 2.0.
Just the other day, I noticed that my Akismet Spam filter for the blog had blocked it’s 10,000th Spam comment. That’s a lotta spam.
It’s amazing to me how much Internet bandwidth must be consumed by spam-bots posting to blogs and forums. The official Akismet website hosts a segment they call the Spam […]
Published June 11th, 2007
in Downloads, Internet, Tech News and Technology.
Apple announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today that the latest version of the Safari Browser (Safari 3) would be made available not only for Mac OS X, but also for Windows XP & Windows Vista-based PCs.
This introduces a fourth viable browser into the latest generation of the “browser wars” with […]
Well after several weeks of trying to work on things (and 10 days of waiting for SourceForge) I’ve managed to get the first Beta-build of PowerTray published and available for download.
The initial version has a few interesting features:
Plugin-based architecture to allow for future feature development
XML configuration file to allow for assignment of Hotkeys
Plugin for […]
Published May 20th, 2007
in Downloads and Utilities.
Recently I was looking for something to block ads while I surf the net, something quick and clean, and preferably a plugin for Firefox. What I found was an extension called AdBlock Plus by Wladimir Palant. This has been a great little extension, as it blocks ads, (images, swfs, scripts) from appearing on the […]
Published March 25th, 2007
in Downloads, MacBook and Utilities.
I just found an application called Flip4Mac which allows you to listen to or watch Windows Media streaming feeds in Firefox on your Mac!
The plugin is small, and installed without a hitch. Within 3 minutes of my Google Search I was listening to the Canucks’ game on the Team 1040 streaming feed!
If you love […]
I realize it’s not a new technology (its on ver. 23), but its one I’ve recently adopted. We’re planning on doing some re-arranging to put an office in the house, and that means computers in different rooms. What I need now, I said to myself, is a way of extending my wireless network to […]
Published March 11th, 2007
in Downloads, Utilities and Web 2.0.
Recently we’ve begun to deploy some Web 2.0 technologies within the workplace, namely blogs and a wiki. The team I’m on is fairly technical, and in some ways its a bit surprising that none of us had tried something like this before… but that’s a post for another day.
With the increasing popularity of the […]
Published February 22nd, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Downloads and Utilities.
For those of you who run your own blogs, and take care of the updates yourselves, I’ve created a Wordpress Upgrade script. Note: This is a Linux/Unix/Mac OS X shell script, not a Windows batch file.
The script is very simple:
Download the latest Wordpress archive from the website
Uncompress it to a temporary location
Migrate all of […]