Friday, 31 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-31

Google PageRank Checker – Check Google page rank of any web pages (tags: free google search software) TechCrunch » The State of Online Feed Readers (tags: reader feed RSS)

Thursday, 30 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-30

What’s eating Microsoft? (tags: windows microsoft) WordPress Development Blog › Widgets Plugin (tags: wordpress) 10 Ways To Lose RSS Subscribers | Performancing.com (tags: blogging rss)

Eponym

Eponym is a new hosted blog service, and a direct competitor with Blogger. It’s nice and easy to use, and it’s really quick to set up a new blog – like I did (check out that nice Slashdot-esque theme). My one…

Even Microsoft Hates IE

As spotted by Google Blogoscoped, this is from a CSS comment on Microsoft’s website: /* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */ * html .StupidIEMarginHack { margin-right: 1px; }

Government sites fail web tests

According to the BBC: More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows. Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.…

Wednesday, 29 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-29

Touchstone – Are you paying attention? (tags: aggregator AJAX blogging news rss web2.0) Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » So what now? (tags: dvb digital tv) Search Engines :: Mozilla Update List of search tools for Firefox (tags: browsers extensions…

Firefoxbot

Daveybot provides a great round up of his Firefox set-up. Have pinched a few of those extensions for myself. [tags]firefox, extensions[/tags]

Tuesday, 28 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-28

Evoca – Easily create, organize, share and search voice recordings. (tags: podcasting blogging rss) Alertbear – The free Windows RSS reader that offers a true river of news (tags: blogging news rss) www.centos.org – News – CentOS in the News…

Miliband blog costs £6k

Apparently the blog run by David Miliband, the UK government’s “Minister of Communities and Local Government”, costs the taxpayer £6,000 – whether that was a one off payment or an ongoing annual fee it doesn’t say. Clearly the government’s ability…

Monday, 27 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-27

Netvibes (tags: aggregator AJAX rss web2.0 software) Keotag – tag search multiple engines and tag generators (tags: search web2.0 tags)

FeedDemon 2 now released

Nick Bradbury has announced the release of the final version of FeedDemon 2. It is such a great piece of software – I am hoping that when my new PC arrives, there will be a Linux equivalent that is as…

Spam

Akismet caught its first attempt at comment spam today – the first spam I have had on this blog since it was set up. Nice to see it working so well – and I guess it means that I must…

Friday, 24 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-24

Micro Persuasion: Newsgator Upgrades Outlook, Desktop, Online Clients Newsgator gets a facelift (tags: rss)

Thursday, 23 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-23

TechCrunch » Jigsaw is a Really, Really Bad Idea (tags: privacy) www.ajaxwrite.com (tags: web2.0 AJAX)

New PC soon…

Just had news that my new desktop PC is on its way and will be here on Monday. Woot! Then I can get cracking with installing Ubuntu onto it… perhaps a few days off to get it sorted would be…

ajaxWrite

There is a bit of a buzz around ajaxWrite, a new Web2.0 word processor, like Writely. Much of the buzz is around the fact that the guy reponsible for it is Michael Robertson who was previously behind Linspire, the user…

Wednesday, 22 March, 2006

Tagging

One of the recommended actions for any blogger to take is to tag their posts, inserting appropriate links at the end of the post to a service like Technorati, say, which might be of use to a reader and will…

Tuesday, 21 March, 2006

links for 2006-03-21

reddit: what’s new online (tags: web2.0 rss links bookmarks) Google Finance (tags: google finance news) The Lightning Project – Integrated Calendar Lightening 0.1 released (tags: calendar extensions) David Miliband | odpm.gov.uk/davidmiliband the first blog by a UK cabinet minister (tags:…

Comment Email Subscriptions

Thanks to Neville Hobson for pointing out the Subscribe to Comments 2.0 plug-in which allows readers to click a tickbox to receive email notifications of when replies are made to comments they have posted. A great little WordPress plug-in.