TweetMeme By Alex King (http://alexking.org/) Why it’s awesome: Allows Twitter users to quickly share your blog post, and it tracks how often they do it Why it was picked: Super simple to install; no Twitter account is needed Manual Install URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/ Automatic Install search term: TweetMeme Geek level: Webmaster Configuration location: Top Navigation | [...]
Two and a half WordPress Themes I really dig – Aug 2010
Boldy by Site5 – (Download) Boldy is another clean and well thought out theme by the boys at Site5.com. With its very subtle textures and a strong contrast, Boldy really shines. Shaken and Stirred Theme Shaken and Stirred is a super clean and simple theme with a very unique home page. The home page morphs [...]
WordPress Top Plugins, the book. Ready for pre-order!
For the last 11 months I have been writing WordPress Top Plugins, and finally the book is finished and available for pre-order. When I agreed to write the book, I thought to myself “this will be easy, just install the best plugins and write about it – no problem”. Boy was I wrong! There are literally thousands [...]
FlickrIt! Realtime stream of flickr – a challenge
The results of my latest challenge – a Flickr Streaming app with no javascript libraries (except json2.js)
ChaCha API with PHP
ChaCha has finally released an API for their Question and Answer service (documentation here). Personally, I have been waiting for years to get my hands on this data, and today I am happy to share this PHP Class for accessing both questions/answers and trending topics. You will need to register for an API, but the [...]
3 awesome small business ecommerce options.
Thanks to the open source movement, small businesses now have a gaggle of options for running an online store. However, the volume of options usually manifests a decision-overflow that results in complete paralysis. So in efforts to help make your decision easier, here are 3 e-commerce platforms that I would recommend to any small business [...]
Post to Twitter from PHP
Looking to Tweet from PHP? This little function will do exactly that. Simply supply a username, password and Tweet, and thanks to CURLs black magic your message will be Tweeted.
MediaCenter – Mac Mini vs Acer Aspire Revo
I recently purchased the Acer AspireRevo from Frys for $329.99 – this is a tiny little thing with 2gigs of ram, HDMI, Wifi (n), 160GB HD and a nice graphics card (NVidia Ion) with Windows 7 installed. The only reason I was looking for a new computer was due to the fact that my MacMini (with 1gig of ram, and a 80GB HD) “seemingly” broke while I was trying to replace the hard drive.
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