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Links 21/12/05

Google Modules – add functionality to your personalised Google home page Steve Rubel writes about the Performancing FireFox extension – which from “any page in your browser, just right click and special blog publishing frame opens. Fill it out, add…

WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate

Exciting (well, for the likes of me it is…) announcent on the WordPress development blog: The next release of WordPress is drawing near. Please help us shake out any last remaining bugs by downloading and testing the 2.0 Release Candidate.…

MyHeritage.com

My Heritage is currently in beta – it’s going to be some sort of genealogy website or something – but it does have this face recognition thing on it, where you upload a photo of your face, and it tells…

Not moving

Moving URLs is a stupid idea. What was I thinking of? It’d be crazy to just abandon all the existing links out there and would take ages to sort everything out. Instead, I’m just going to change the name of…

Moving…

I am going to ignore my own advice and move this blog’s URL next week. The new address will be Obviously I will keep the two running side by side for a day or two to ensure everything has…

Living without the Desktop

Here is an article I have written and submitted to the now active-again Living Without Microsoft website, run by John Naughton and Quentin Stafford-Fraser. You would have thought that working without desktop applications would be pretty tricky. But there are…

PAD

The Palimpsest Authors Directory is up and running, and the slog is now to get some content in there. Most of it is being cut and pasted from Wikipedia, which is released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. This means…

Writely recognition

Wasn’t aware of this, but when browsing through the Writely blog, I found this snippet of a press release: Since its beta launch in August 2005, Writely has enjoyed enthusiastic adoption from users all over the world including businesses, bloggers,…