Dave

So, having had a look at a few offline blog editors, what stuff is missing from them all that would be nice to have? How about being able to moderate and manage comments offline too? It seems dumb being able…

New page: WordPress. [tags]WordPress[/tags]

Have added four more header images to keep things interesting:

The discussion about offline blog editors only covers a certain amount of the different ways one can blog. For example, one could: Use a blog’s inbuilt editor Use an offline editor Use a browser extension Sending posts in via email Post…

I have installed a couple of extra WordPress plug-ins – one seems to work nicely, the other, well, less so. First up is Comment Quicktags which adds little buttons above the comment form to help people out with formatting HTML…

Following all the recent discussion about offline blog editors, I thought I would give Zoundry a pop, following a recommendation that appeared in my comments from Dan Masters. It’s another free one, and I’m using version 1.0.18 to write this…

Images Inserting images in a blog post can be a tricky thing. This hit me when I set up a WordPress installation for some friends who wanted to have their photos on the site. There a few ways of doing…

Tiger Admin is a nice little plug-in for WordPress which makes the admin panel far more aesthetically pleasing. For a comparison, here are a couple of screenshots, of the standard and the modded view. I know which I prefer! [tags]WordPress,…

The AJAX Shoutbox is a great little WordPress plug-in, which works really well. If you would like to have a place for visitors to leave a quick comment, it’s ideal. [tags]WordPress, plug-ins, AJAX[/tags]

To brighten the place up a little bit, I have put in some new header graphics. There are four at the moment, and load up in a random order thanks to the WordPress god Matthew Mullenweg‘s dead simple PHP script.…

“I want a Freeware Utility to…” is a great page: essentially a massive list of freeware and open-source software, listed by task. Very useful. Technorati Tags: freeware

So, Scoble is going to start moderating comments. Fair enough – given the amount of abuse the guy receives on there, I am only surprised he hasn’t done it before. It’s a shame, really, that a chap who wants to…

Is this sort of thing: If you’ve ever wanted to play any of the Civilization games by Sid Meire, but were not look to shell out the cash for it, check out FreeCiv. This free GNU alternative to the popular…

Is now apparently live, here. Too slow to access at the moment though. Mike Arrington has a review, I’ll do one when I can get it. [tags]google, google calendar[/tags]