Category: Software
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A feast of WordPress plugins
If your blog runs on WordPress, take a look at Mashable’s massive list of 300 tools to enhance your blog from both your perspective as a blogger and that of your readers. Plugins are the oil that smooth the running of…
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Become a cartoon with MSN
This is one of those delightful mashups of software, the web and imagination that doesn’t really have much obvious practical application but is great fun. MSN China is running the MSN China cartoon beta that will take any photo of…
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Fix for Windows Live Writer bug
My post the other day about Windows Live Writer attracted a notable comment from Shannon Whitley with the solution to a show-stopping bug in using this excellent offline blog editor with WordPress (and maybe other platforms, too). The bug in question arises if…
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Windows Live Writer is a winner
Having upgraded this site to the latest WordPress version, I’m now able to use Windows Live Writer to write posts offline and then publish. The latest beta version, out since the end of May, wouldn’t work with the pre 2.1…
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First impressions: Sony Vaio SZ4XWN-C
In my search for a new portable computer, it wasn’t too hard to succumb to the allure of a Sony Vaio SZ series notebook. I’ve bought the SZ4XWN/C model. Ordered it online from PC World Business late last Tuesday night;…