Tag: Facebook

Bingo sites join the social web

Bingo sites join the social web

| February 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

Well, it’s been a while coming. Bingo sites in the UK seem to rely on extravagant adverts on TV with big named stars but, unlike everyone else, appear to be missing what everyone else is milking – social media! That’s now been corrected with new sites which offer directory and review services for such bingo sites. [...]

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Groupon – saving you money the easy way

Groupon – saving you money the easy way

| August 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

Launched only in 2008, Groupon has become big, quickly. The idea of it is that they have a deal each day and, if enough people sign up for it, the deal is given. It works much like the ill-fated “dot com” startup LetsBuyIt.com. Starting in the US, it spread quickly to other countries. Google offered $5.3 [...]

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Sony Ericsson Elm

Sony Ericsson Elm

| March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments

It’s been a good few years now since I bought my Sony Ericsson K800i . It really was an excellent phone – easy to use, basic functionality and a superb camera – and when it came to give it up (for my Nokia N95), I chose to give it to my wife. And, believe it or not, it was [...]

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Spam Magnet Blog Posts

Spam Magnet Blog Posts

| September 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

The website planetOzh has an excellent post about blog posts that attract spam. In it, he provides not only a piece of SQL that you can run to see how your site is affected, but even provided a PHP script that you can upload to your website to graph the results. Mine is to the right. I have my spam [...]

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21 Useful Browser Bookmarklets

21 Useful Browser Bookmarklets

| June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment

A bookmarklet is a browser shortcut that runs a small JavaScript script, adding useful and immediate functionality to whatever page you might be browsing at the time. There are many, many to be found on the internet – the site marklets.com is a rather complete collection of around 1000 that you can use. Equally, the site [...]

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WordPress Plugins Updated

WordPress Plugins Updated

| March 4, 2010

Today I have updated Simple Facebook Link and Simple Social Bookmarks . In both cases, I have added the ability to pass an API key, user name or password to the URL shortening service. Simple Social Bookmarks also has new default options and user specific icons are now stored in the theme folder, rather than the plugin folder a . If you [...]

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Recommended Android Apps

Recommended Android Apps

| March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

I’ve had my HTC Hero now for over a month, and have already settled on a number of apps, after much installing, trialling and uninstalling. I therefore thought I’d share my results, all neatly categorised. I haven’t linked to any of the apps, as they should all be searchable in the Android Marketplace. Oh, and [...]

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Simple Facebook Link – Plugin updated!

Simple Facebook Link – Plugin updated!

| November 12, 2009

My most popular WordPress plugin, Simple Facebook Link, has been updated. It now makes use of the Simple URL Shortener plugin to provide, erm, URL shortening. And various bug fixes and general tidyness have been implemented. Oh, and you can also now override the default URL. Full details on the plugins official page .

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Simple Social Bookmarks – WordPress Plugin

Simple Social Bookmarks – WordPress Plugin

| July 9, 2009

This new WordPress plugin will display icons for various popular social bookmarks sites on your posts and/or pages. You can view more details and download it from the official WordPress site , or from it’s official page on this site .

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