Category: Software

  • A minimalist approach to PR outreach for Bing

    Microsoft formally launched their Bing search engine in the UK last Friday. I saw a number of reports in the mainstream media on the day itself and one or two posts in the blogosphere. But that’s largely it from what…

  • Thesis tweaks with a little community help

    About 15 months ago, I implemented the Thesis theme for WordPress on this blog. It’s  a premium theme (you pay for it) and a powerful one as it gives you access to the means to customize many aspects of the…

  • Art on the go

    If you’re an art lover who owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will rejoice today as you can visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris right on your device, wherever you happen to be. The museum just launched an…

  • See how far your tweets go with TweetReach

    This is one of the simplest yet most useful measurement tools for Twitter I’ve yet seen: TweetReach, discovered via a tweet by David Terrar earlier today. What TweetReach does is calculate how many people have seen something you, or anyone…

  • Upgrades to WordPress and the Thesis theme

    A new version of WordPress was released last week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that version, 2.8.5. As always, I followed my 6 tips to upgrading WordPress to ensure a smooth and trouble-free upgrade. The WordPress developers say that…