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Limiting Categories in Wordpress

Bren and I are working to setup a news/announcement blog at work. This blog will have multiple authors, and most of the authors will only post to one or two categories each. There might be some overlap of categories. Following the logic of the Principle of Least Privilege -- ...

Add Digg It Badge to Wordpress

I just recently added the Digg It buttons on here. I had to do some debugging to try to get it to work properly, so I figured I'd pass along my work for anyone else to use. There are two things that I did to make it work ...

Wordpress Reporting With a Side of Noodles

I've been following Joe Tan's plugin development for Wordpress for quite a while. I initially checked his stuff out for his Flickr Photo Album plugin, but found my favorite plugin of all-time (behind SpamKarma2 of course): Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports. Obviously this plugin only benefits you if you ...

News Blog at Work (and RSS)

This is the third of a three-part series on Web 2.0 at Work. I saved this one for last because I was just in a meeting on Friday of last week to discuss this exact topic. The issue of internal communication has been a recognized problem where I work, not ...

Team Blogging at Work

This is the first of a three-part series on Web 2.0 at Work. As Tim figured out, I work in a university admissions office with Bren. Being in the sales business there are two general types of staff: those that sell (recruit) and travel, and those that support (file coordinator, ...

Lots of Wordpress Plugins

Lorelle, over at Lorelle on Wordpress, is doing a bangup job so far in her Month of Wordpress Plugins. I've been happy to see some of my favorite plugins featured already. I'm even finding some new types of plugins that I'm wondering how I've made it without them. This ...

January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 3 Comments

MindMeister Revisited

It's been a while since I talked here about MindMeister (11 months), and about six months since I've seriously used it. In that time they have made some pretty sweet changes. The big announcement in November was their release of MindMeister Offline. Built on Google Gears, MindMeister Offline allows ...
January 16th 2008
Tags: Links No Comments

Link Harvest: January 1 - January 16

Here are my links: Can You Run It?  Can you computer run that video game you've been eyeing?  Windows required. OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 - A great howto guide. ScreenSteps - Screenshot-based documentation, made easier. GCal In Your Firefox Sidebar
January 13th 2008
Tags: Firefox, Tools, Web One Comment

Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...
January 2nd 2008
Tags: Apple, Linux, Tools, Windows One Comment

Multi-protocol IM Clients Done Right

There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...
December 21st 2007
Tags: Firefox, Safari, Tips 'n Tricks No Comments

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

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