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Archive for November 2008
URLOpener opens multiple browser tabs
In my role I give a lot of presentations which involve demoing multiple sites in a browser. To have all the URLs preloaded when I start the presentation, I’ve experimented with a number of tools: 1. Firefox session manager (works fine, but fiddly to transfer between PCs) 2. Firefox portable (fiddly and unreliable in our … Continue reading
SearchWiki. A test too far?
Google has unveiled its SearchWiki product which adds a familiar social media flavour to Google’s clean search engine results page. When signed and opted-in, the changes recall elements from Digg, StumbleUpon and most strongly Wikia search, the community-powered open-source search engine from Wikipedia. It allows for comments, influencing of the results (personal rather than community … Continue reading
Displaying related posts in WordPress
In an attempt to improve the bounce rate on the blog, I’ve finally added a related posts plugin which exactly what it says on the tin. After some experimentation with the WordPress plugins, I settled on the amusingly named ‘Yet another Related Posts Plugin‘ which is anything but yet another plugin. With a simple install … Continue reading
Random comments award
Something strange is happening on one of my archived posts, Pimp my blog. The majority of non-spam comments that I get on the site are relevant and informative, but for reasons unexplained that post has now attracted a request for help with SQL, a test message, a joke, a business article and even a comment … Continue reading
