Category: Software

  • Does Google Friend Connect have a point?

    Early last month, I signed up for Google Friend Connect, the service that Google says lets you offer visitors to your site the means to be part of a community. It’s great, I think, as in a very short space…

  • Two tools to add value to your WordPress blog

    One of the features that make self-hosted WordPress such an excellent content management system or blogging platform (take your pick of description) is the easy way you can extend functionality through adding third-party plug-ins. I use a lot of plug-ins…

  • Is there an alternative to FeedBurner?

    In mid December, the RSS feeds for all my blogs including this one that have been managed by FeedBurner since 2004were auto-migrated over to Google. This is part of the changes that started happening earlier last year following Google’s acquisition…

  • Obamaicon me!

    One of the interesting things – phenomena, perhaps – of the US presidential election campaign during 2008 was how many people remade themselves to look like Barack Obama. By that, I mean the images people use to portray themselves online.…

  • Video: Installing Windows 7 beta

    The public beta version of Windows 7 was released by Microsoft on January 9 to great enthusiasm by fans and anyone curious about what the next version of the Windows operating system would look like. I tried to download the…