Archive for October, 2009
Simple Social Bookmarks Plugin Updated
My Simple Social Bookmarks has just been updated – and it’s a biggie! Version 1.4 now gives you… Updated default icons Added AddToAny, Ping.fm, Google Bookmarks, Google Reader and email to the list of providers. By default these will be turned off so as to not to suddenly appear on existing installs and cause problems! Further improvement to [...]
Decoding a WordPress Post Title
By default, get_the_title and the_title will return the title of the current post. It’s stored in the database in plain text, however, when returned using the aforementioned functions if appears to be encoded. This means that characters such as ampersands and apostrophes will be converted to equivalents that are more HTML friendly. Unfortunately, passing, say, [...]
Simple URL Shortener – WordPress Plugin
I’ve not written a WordPress plugin for some time now – but I’m really excited about this one. This new WordPress plugin will shorten a URL using one of many different shortening services. Now, that may not sound exciting, but its true ability lies in its possibilities for other plugin developers – myself included. Expect [...]
Which Android?
No, not the name of a new publication related to robots Of course I’m referring to Google’s rather excellent mobile operating system. My current phone contract expires soon and I’m seriously interested in getting an Android handset. But which to have. I was excited by the Samsung Galaxy but reviews have generally not been as glowing as I’d hope [...]
Samsung NC10 – beware of cheaper versions!
The Samsung NC10 Netbook has received many positive reviews since it’s release and many believe it to the best Netbook on the market. A colleague of mine has recently purchased one at, what he thought, was a bargain price from Comet a . It turned out that the low price was due to it having a far inferior battery. Indeed, [...]
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What are Adobe up to?
Sometime ago I reviewed Adobe Reader against Foxit . Many people often direct PC users to Foxit when they find older versions of Adobe to be slow and bloated. My conclusion was that Adobe Reader is a lot better now and it’s many benefits outway the little speed improvement you get with Foxit. You’d have thought Adobe would have been happy [...]
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