Archive for August, 2006

August 31st, 2006

gotfoo.org’s Essential Wordpress Plugins

Comments Off, Plugins, Wordpress, by jay.

Essential list are just like fingers; every body’s got at least 10.
I’ve been using Wordpress since March 2006 and in that time I have found a loads of plugins that enhance the whole Wordpress experience.
The way I see it is that there are 3 types of plugins:
Plugins that enhance the Readers Experience.
Plugins that [...]

August 29th, 2006

ThinkFree, I Think I’ll Pass

Comments Off, Productivity, by jay.

*updated 2006-09-06*
A Mr Crow from the ThinkFree team contacted me to let me know that he will have the developers look into and fix my gripes about the system.
*
Wow this a record for dismissing a technology. 30 seconds after registration on ThinkFree I uploaded a .txt file and then clicked on it [...]

August 29th, 2006

Writely uses .NET?

Comments Off, Programming, Web2.0, by jay.

With in the first 5 minutes of using Writely I noticed the URL to a doc I was editing: http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=…. Do you see what I see? Writley is using the .aspx file extension which means it is built on ASP.NET, Microsofts’ pride and joy.
I don’t know how to react to this? On [...]

August 28th, 2006

Online Word Processor – Zoho Writer

Comments Off, Productivity, by jay.

Zoho Writer is just the thing I have been looking for to store documents that I can access either at work or home without having to do the flash drive or ftp thing. With Zoho I can creat docs im my private folder access them from where ever. The other bonus is I [...]

August 28th, 2006

Wordpress Plugins: RSS Feeds

Comments Off, Plugins, Wordpress, by jay.

It’s all about syndication. Today I have gathered some Wordpress Plugins the aid in consuming and producing RSS Feeds that I have found useful.

InlineFeed
This lets you display RSS feeds in your Wordpress posts and pages. It’s very easy to use and you can see it in action here.
CompleteRSS
This removes the ‘content:encoded’ tags from [...]

August 25th, 2006

Wordpress Plugins: FeedBurner

Comments Off, Plugins, Wordpress, by jay.

As of 2006-08-25
Here is a collection of Wordpress Plugins that use FeedBurner in some way shape or form.

FeedBurner Awareness
This lest you access FeedBurner statistics

Feedburner Wordpress Widget
This allows you put Feedburner subscription links into your WordPress sidebar and arrange it with the rest of your widgets.

Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports
This is a very handy tool but [...]

August 25th, 2006

Wordpress Plugins: Technorati

Comments Off, Plugins, Social Networking, Wordpress, by jay.

As of 2006-08-25
*updated 2006-08-2005*
Here is a collection of Wordpress Plugins that use Technorati in some way shape or form.

TechnoTag
Adds a Tags button to the post editor which you add a list of tags to.

WP-CaTT: WordPress Category Technorati Tag Plugin
Add (t) to the end of each category in the post: Tagging(t)

My Technorati Tag [...]