January 16th, 2009 | Posted in
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Theyr’e many types of comment spam. Some spam comments are really sophisticated, and are designed to get people to click on a simple link, or even on the author’s link. Some of them are to promote questionable sites (no respectable site would use these tactics) and sell questionable products. Some are designed to spread viruses. [...]
November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in
Fun,
Web |
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Saw this in school the other day on two of the desks. The “link” is to jacobss.co.il.
September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in
Web |
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As someone that has more ideas than he can handle, I often find myself building a site overnight with a $0 budget. Well, really a $7 budget cause you need a domain. 1 thing that disturbed me is that you can’t even begin to look semi professional if you don’t have a logo. In the [...]
June 13th, 2008 | Posted in
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…Or at least it should.
Since I released the new version of WPPA a few months back, I’ve been practically too busy to breath.
The Problems:
1. Install
Sine the beginning there have been problems installing this plugin on certain server setups, and since WordPress 2.5, it stopped working. This is now fixed. A huge thank you to Mark [...]
April 25th, 2008 | Posted in
WordPress |
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Some history first: For a few years now, I’ve been interested in photo publishing solutions for the web. Way back, when I still ran a static site, I was working on a desktop application for Mac OS X that would publish photo albums. I created it using AppleScript Studio, and it was called WebPhoto. I [...]
February 5th, 2008 | Posted in
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Yes, You!
Yesterday I noticed that 41.7% of you are still using Internet Explorer. And this is a blog written by a Mac fanatic, and which most probably cannot be understood by the common non techie english speaker. So you don’t have excuses like “that’s what my computer came with and installing software is too overwhelming [...]
February 3rd, 2008 | Posted in
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Only 5 days ago, I purchased ResourcefulCooking.com. The plan was as follows: Create a search engine, that indexes the top recipe sites, and is searchable by ingredient. As a chef-wannabe, but also an empty fridge cook, the idea was natural. What better way to find out what to do with 2 onions, a carrot and [...]
February 3rd, 2008 | Posted in
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ProBlogger posted a question:
When choosing domain names do you get a keyword rich or more brandable name?
Basically, the days you can have a domain which is both nice and also actually has the a keyword or two in it are long gone.
But look at the real world: most brands, branded for people, do not [...]
January 29th, 2008 | Posted in
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of Facebook. But the fact is that in most scenarios, I cant read certain info without adding an application, and I can’t add an application without inviting friends, and I can’t accept an invitation to add an application without adding icons and banners to my [...]
January 29th, 2008 | Posted in
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While not the biggest believer in the traditional form of microblogging, such as twitter, (Face it, nobody really cares what you’re doing) I think that the format is excellent for group communication. That’s exactly what Prologue is. While not exactly a blog theme, Prologue stretches WordPress into the right mold in a way only WordPress [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | Posted in
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Microsoft has warned corporate administrators that it will push a new version of Internet Explorer 7 their way next month, and it has posted guidelines on how to ward off the automatic update if admins want to keep the older IE6 browser on their companies’ machines.
Read More.
While IE7 is still far from being even [...]
January 17th, 2008 | Posted in
Web |
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I’m working on a project that needs some custom development, and one thing that was important to the client is that the site has nice and SE friendly urls. This being my first time actually manually writing a .htaccess file, I searched around and found a cool mod_rewrite cheat sheet on I Love Jack Daniels.
Looking [...]
January 8th, 2008 | Posted in
Site Updates,
Web |
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About 2 years ago, I launched DesignerLinks.net, which is a web directory dedicated to sites and articles about web design. I forst created it as my first attempt at creating anything with a MySQL database, as basic as it is. Basically users can submit links, and those need to be approved my an admin. Everything [...]
November 12th, 2007 | Posted in
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OpenReaction hosting solutions, Inc. is running a design contest through our very own OpenDesigns to get a new design for their site.
The contest will run for one month, ending November 12th.
The winner will be able to choose one of three prizes:
One Year Free Enterprise Hosting With OpenReaction  Valued at $3629.87
or a [...]
September 10th, 2007 | Posted in
Site Updates,
Web,
WordPress |
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After a not releasing any new theme for a long time now, I’m proud to present my newest addition to the collection: Faulkner. It is based on an amazing html template by the same name created by DemusDesign and posted at Open Designs. The theme is available for dowload from my WordPress Themes Page. [...]