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May 26th, 2010

How to Sync Your Firefox Bookmarks to Your iPad

Yes, you read that right.

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December 28th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part III

Part III: Identifying Comment Spam

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May 31st, 2009

May 2009 Links

Links for the month of May.

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January 31st, 2009

January 2009 Links

Links for the month of January.

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January 20th, 2009

Turning Off a Plugin’s Update Reminder

Hacking it might be better than ignoring it.

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January 16th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part II

Part II: When Comments Go Wrong

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January 14th, 2009

Why WordPress Plugin Updates Aren’t Always a Good Thing

When updates go wrong.

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October 31st, 2008

October 2008 Links

October 2008 Links.

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April 8th, 2008

Upgrade WordPress Plugins Automatically

One of the great new features of WordPress 2.5.

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March 26th, 2008

PluginManager 1.7.3 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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February 22nd, 2008

Video Blogging with Viddler and WordPress, Part IV

Displaying a list of your recent Viddler videos in your WordPress blog.

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February 12th, 2008

Video Blogging with Viddler and WordPress, Part I

What’s this all about?

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February 11th, 2008

February 9 Links

Links worth following.

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January 19th, 2008

January 19 Links

Links worth following.

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January 13th, 2008

Bad Behavior/Digg Conflict

A problem and a fix.

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January 13th, 2008

January 12 Links

Links worth following.

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January 5th, 2008

January 7, 2008 Links

Links for the Week ending January 6, 2008.

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December 31st, 2007

CommentLuv = SpammerLuv?

One drawback to a WordPress plugin.

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December 6th, 2007

Locked Out of Your WordPress Blog?

Here’s a possible solution.

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November 21st, 2007

Oops! or Redirecting to FeedBurner

A realize that I messed up the Maria’s Guides feeds and fix them. Sort of.

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November 20th, 2007

How to Create a Gravatar

A few easy steps can get your custom image on gravatar-enabled blogs.

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November 19th, 2007

RSSImport

A WordPress plugin to add links to RSS feeds.

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November 15th, 2007

Deleting Spam from Your WordPress Blog

Marking it as spam isn’t enough to get rid of it.

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November 2nd, 2007

Canon LiDE 30 Scanner with Photoshop CS3 on Intel Mac

Not a good combination.

I finally got around to installing my Canon LiDE 30 scanner — I know it’s cheap junk, but that’s all I need — on my iMac. Much to my surprise the driver installer didn’t see Photoshop as a place to install a plugin. So I manually installed it And then

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November 1st, 2007

CommentLuv

A WordPress plugin that helps commenters promote their own blogs.

Yesterday, while following up on a pingback — I get a ton of pingback spam from sploggers — I discovered a legitimate link to an article on my blog. (Imagine that!) I decided to thank the author of the post linked to mine with

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