Today in The Guardian online there is a report on their top 100 websites,with some analysis of the winners and losers this year: 100 essential websites It makes for interesting reading,especially the part how Twitter has effectively steamrolled the opposition and now has become,in my opinion,the tool of choice for citizen-journalists . . . →Read More:Top 100 websites It’s Finally Ready! Google releases Chrome for Mac and Linux Chrome has been out at least a year for the PC,but unfortunately for us on the Mac (and Linux by default) there hasn’t been anything to use but the rather good Safari or the (in my opinion) slightly disappointing Firefox. I say disappointing . . . →Read More:Website Design TweetDeck by TweetDeck inc is a neat Mac app (there’s a Windows and a Linux version,too) for keeping your Twitter,Facebook and even MySpace account up-to-date without having to continually log-in. It’s downloadable from the tweetdeck homepage. The nice thing about it is that it’s relatively small and lightweight;so your mac won’t pop . . . →Read More:Tweetdeck –keep up-to-date If you’ve chosen to have your website hosted with Tall Poppy Digital,you can now check if there are any problems just by visiting here and looking in the sidebar. I’ve added a widget there for the Dreamhost Status feed,through Twitter,which gives updates on any issues that may be occurring. As annoying as . . . →Read More:Hosting status It is the fate of everyone who uses a computer to lose something important because of a hard disk crash,a virus,or through simple accident. Sometimes things don’t work,but you can take precautions by backing-up your data. DBC Backup will do this automatically for you,but does need some slightly technical know-how. You . . . →Read More:DBC Backup –backups are good With thanks to Randall Munroe of XKCD.com: The Tech Support Cheat Sheet –be the envy of your colleagues and co-workers and fix your family’s computers using this highly sought-after free guide You can download it here:Tech Support Cheat Sheet at XKCD.COM The XML sitemap plugin is a great time-saver for your WordPress blog. It constructs search-engine readable sitemaps on-the-fly (ie. whenever changes take place) and immediately advises major search engines like Google,Bing,and ask.com. One tip:once it’s installed,scroll down on the page and in the change frequencies panel,change the page and post . . . →Read More:XML Sitemap –let search engines know There are a few file types that WordPress doesn’t handle well. Two of these are PDF (adobe Portable Document Format) and PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint). However,with PDF and PPT viewer,you can now embed these file-types into your pages and posts! Note:I’ve written about BlogThing by Automagic Software. This will embed PDF,video and . . . →Read More:PDF and PPT viewer –embedding made easy Thanks to the wonderful people at Stylish Design,anyone who has Photoshop CS2 or up,together with some graphic design skills,can create really nice,convincing-looking 3d eBook and box images. Click to open the Stylish Design eBook page It’s a really nice solution and looks great! The only thing to remember is to save . . . →Read More:Photoshop 3d book and box Page Meta is a lightweight SEO plugin for WordPress that gives you control over the important metatags in each page: Title –the page title,displayed at the top of your browser window and which should contain your top keywords,not just page title and site name Description –the page description,displayed in search . . . →Read More:Page Meta –lightweight SEO |   | |||
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