Archive for August, 2010
Amazon Kindle eBook Reader
For a while I’ve been watching the eBook reader market with interest. Not necessarily for myself, but my wife is an avid book reader, and only a truly amazing device would probably move her away from the paper variety. Amazon’s Kindle was a start, but it relied on a limited 3G network arrangement in the [...]
Pogoplug
Pogoplug is a really great concept. Essentially, it’s a box in which you plug in your home router and then one, or more, USB drives. The Pogoplug then connects these drives to “the cloud” where you can instantly access their contents wherever you are – via their website or using desktop software. Up until now [...]
Belkin Mini Bluetooth Adapter
The Belkin Mini Bluetooth Adapter (which I bought from from Amazon for £6.98) is a tiny USB device that barely sticks out of the size of your PC/laptop when plugged in. What it does do, though, is provide your computer with Bluetooth capabilities. It has a 10 metre range and uses Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) “to provide optimal [...]
WordPress Plugins Updated
I’ve made changes to two of my WordPress plugins today… Simple Draft List Yes, I know I only changed this yesterday , but I’ve now made an improvement to the date ordering (otherwise scheduled posts would always appear at the top of the list, as they have a future date). Now it’s based on the last modification date, meaning that changing a draft [...]
SlimPDF Reader
It was just asking for it. The front page for SlimPDF states Get The World’s Smallest Desktop PDF Reader and 10% of the size of Adobe Reader but views 100% of PDFs Can this be true? Just as good as Adobe Reader but one tenth the size? They even show a comparison on their site, reporting [...]
Simple Draft List WordPress Plugin Updated
My WordPress plugin, Simple Draft List, has been updated. Until now it’s been of use to display draft posts on your site. However, I’ve now added the feature to also include scheduled posts that have not yet been published. By default this feature is switched on but can be turned off via a new parameter. [...]
Kingston DataTraveler mini10
Yep, it’s a USB memory stick. It’s also quite small (there are smaller but they can be really fiddly to use). Available in a number of colours and capacities, I have the dark red 4GB version. It cost me £6.49 from Play.com . The packaging is minimal and it comes with absolutely no software installed (as I [...]
The WordPress Loop
I often get asked about “the loop” in WordPress, as many of my plugins require knowledge of it for successful integration. “The loop” is simply some WordPress code that handles the fetching of post or pages. Each WordPress theme has a number of files that handle different types of output – for instance, index.php is [...]
TeckNet M002 Wireless Mouse
Welcome to my first “Quick Review”. As well as recently purchasing a new desktop PC for myself, I’ve also bought a Laptop for my daughter and have also been looking for various accessories to go with recently reviewed products. As a consequence, I’ve bought a lot of small accessories which I now want to review. [...]
Simple Content Reveal – WordPress Plugin Updated
Two new versions of Simple Content Reveal have been released this week. Version 1.1 improved the way that the JavaScript was added to your blog (it was suggested that the original method may have affected some themes) Version 1.2 was a bug fix, where the JavaScript was found not to be working in Internet Explorer.
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