Monthly Archives: February 2007

Using Brightside in Ubuntu

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

A simple little app today, Brightside. What this does is to allow you to traverse your desktops in Ubuntu Edgy by mouse, so that you can use the mouse to scroll from one virtual desktop to the next. A colleague … Continue reading →

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Captcha – How very annoying

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

I’m sure I must not be the only one whose heart sinks a little whenever I see a Captcha box on a form. The above example is taken from the signup for a hotmail account. I understand the reason of … Continue reading →

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WP-Amazon plugin – Add Associate Links to Amazon the painless way

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

So what you would like is an easy way in the middle of a blog posting to find a link to a product, and an image, and tie the link up with your associate ID? Have you tried doing this … Continue reading →

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Diagnosis for WordPress

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Well Lorelle has got me writing again, with her article about admin plugins for WordPress. There were a few in there I liked the look of, so I’m going to work through them and see how I get on. The … Continue reading →

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Testing my blog’s development

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

I’m picking up on the post from Lorelle on her Lorelle on WordPress blog about testing your blogs development. She lists a set of links you can test your blog on, and see what sort of results are returned. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Google | Tagged Blogging, Google, Lorelle, PageRank, Search, SEO, WordPress | View Comments

Dealing with no display in Ubuntu