A WordPress Plugin Tutorial
Filed in Technology, WordPress on February 23, 2005 at 8:37 pmIf you’re interested in writing your own WordPress plugins, look no further than Owen’s tutorial, How to Write a Simple WordPress Plugin. As an additional reference, you may want to read Carthik’s Plunge Into Plugins. If you’re looking for free text editor for your platform, take a look through this list. If [...]
A Dive Through the Blogroll
Filed in Blogs, General on February 21, 2005 at 11:58 pmOut of nothing but sheer boredom, I decided to take a dive through my Blogroll. Here are the highlights from this evening’s dive:
Bryan returns from vacation and finds that my keyword moderation list is quite helpful while he’s away. Owen advocates the necessity of using digital transfer methods when stealing source code. [...]
PUM: Create a Website for Free [Update]
Filed in MacMerc, Technology on February 20, 2005 at 5:34 pmWith the release of WordPress v1.5, I have updated the Create a Website for Free PUM with new WordPress v1.5-specific tutorials and resources. If you have yet to create your own website, consider this as your quick-start guide.
Adium X Update v0.77
Filed in Freeware on February 19, 2005 at 5:06 pmAdium X has been updated to v0.77. This update is primarily a security release and is recommended for all users. The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Adium X here.
Favored Freeware: VLC
Filed in Freeware on at 2:49 pmVLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Pros: VLC [...]
Kubrick Header Image Generator
Filed in Technology, WordPress on at 2:46 pmKubrickr is a tool that lets you replace that giant blue blob at the top of your WordPress 1.5 blog with a nice photo from Flickr. Simply type some words that relate to your blog and push Submit. Choose one of the photos from the that appears, and save the resulting file to your [...]
Any Spam Karma Troubles or Complaints?
Filed in General, WordPress on February 18, 2005 at 11:22 pmThose who know me well, know that I’m very picky about my anti-spam plugins. I’m more concerned with the effect an anti-spam plugin has on my readers than I am with how effective it is against spam (so Captcha are completely out of the question). I have spent 24 hours using Spam Karma, and it [...]
The Gallery is out of Beta
Filed in Nostalgia on at 5:05 pmOver this past month or so, I have been very pleased with the performance of both SimpleViewer and SimpleViewerAdmin. The only bug I have noticed is a slash being added in front of any apostrophes when you edit an images caption, but that’s livable. So, I’m pleased to announce that The Gallery is [...]