My recent acquisition of an iPhone has simplified my digital world tremendously. I found myself using my laptop less as the iPhone has most of the capabilities I need – email, surfing, Facebook, IM, etc. The only missing capability or app was an easy way to post to my blog, which I haven’t posted to [...]
Here’s a how-to in adding whitespace in your WordPress posts, as the WordPress system currently wipes them out: For a blank line:<p align=”none”> </p>For a double blank line:<p align=”none”> </p>For an indented beginning (or any other space formatting), format the text in a simple text editor, enclose it in the following code, then copy-paste the whole:<pre [...]
Intel apparently just launched a Digg-like site where users can rate software startups/companies. Interesting… The CoolSW site is an online community of people passionate about software. Members can post information about an interesting new software company and, more important, the community votes on whether they think a software company is, well, “cool.” Companies that receive [...]
If you use MediaWiki to power your wiki, you’ve probably heard of the Bad-Behavior plugin to help fight spam. Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots. It goes far beyond User-Agent and Referer, [...]
My blog/site has been running for 17 days and it’s been quite a ride so far. And throughout my writing and posting, I’ve been using Microsoft’s beta version of Windows Live Writer. I must say, it’s very easy to use and has a plugin feature like Firefox and WordPress. Here’s a screenshot: There are, of [...]