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I have just bought the Blog Comment Demon software. It cost $47. Setting it up was simple.
I did some research before I bought it; I read about 20 blog posts and watched a couple of videos on YouTube. Most of the posts had good things to say and the posts that did not have good [...]

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Twitbin – A neat Firefox plugin for Twitter

by Stephen on March 26, 2009

Twitbin Screencast from brbreslin on Vimeo.
Twitbin is a Firefox plugin I have had installed for a while. I haven’t used it in ages and I had forgotten all about it until I noticed the little icon in the bottom right hand corner of my browser. I clicked the icon to see what it was for [...]

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Organise that messy CSS code with Styleneat

by Stephen on March 26, 2009

I have to admit to being quite a messy coder, especially when it comes to CSS files. I can understand exactly what is going on in my stylesheets, but I would be quite embarrassed to show them to anybody else.
Now there is an online solution which will clean up messy code and present it back [...]

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Feedly plugin for Firefox

by Stephen on February 12, 2009

This is a video of Edwin Khodabakchian talking about the awesome Feedly Firefox plugin.
I have been playing with it (the plugin) for about half an hour or so and I have to say I am blown away by it! Once you have been using it for a little while you will wonder [...]

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When designing a new website or developing a theme for a blog, it is very important to test how it looks in multiple browsers. This is especially so for older versions of Internet Explorer, which are known to cause coders a multitude of problems.
There are a few major players in the browser market – Internet [...]

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Tr.im is quite a new url shortening service. It allows you to shorten the url of any web address for posting on Twitter or for using anywhere else it is neccassary to shorten a web address.
I signed up for the services of Tweetburner recently, but each time I visit the site there is a problem. [...]

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Why Firefox should be your default browser

by Stephen on December 19, 2008

There is absolutely no question about it, if you are running, developing or writing for a website or blog, the only browser you should be using is Firefox.
The reason for this is very simple – there is a massive community of programmers and developers writing addons which make it much more than a browser. It [...]

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AutoPager 0.3.0.3 plugin for Firefox

by Stephen on December 16, 2008

Tnerd has just put me onto the AutoPager Firefox plugin which downloads the next page of a website inline with the previous page. This means you can just keep scrolling down the page without having to click on the “next” button to get to the next page of the website.
So far I have tried it [...]

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CrunchBase Widgets for web pages and blogs

by Stephen on December 16, 2008

The CrunchBase Widget is a handy little tool to use on web pages containing articles or information about companies, people, financial organisations or products. The widgets can be used in singular fashion as in the examples below.
CrunchBase Company Widget

CrunchBase Information

Google

Information provided by CrunchBase

CrunchBase Person Widget

CrunchBase Information

Matt Mullenweg

Information provided by CrunchBase

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Following on from a previous post about focusing on a specific task, I would like to mention an automated system provided by Google which I find almost as useful as RSS feeds. It’s called Google Alerts.
You will need to have a Google account to use the Alerts system. Once you have that you can login [...]

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SiteUptime offer a service which tracks the availability of a website and sends an email when a website is down, which will happen to you from time to time, no matter how much uptime your web host boasts about.
There are three levels of service available, the base package is free and allows you to monitor [...]

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Down Them All! is a Firefox plugin that enables the user to quickly download images, links and other embedded content from any web page viewed in Firefox.
The currentl stable version of the Down Them All! plugin is 1.0.3 and it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. It is currently available in 31 [...]

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