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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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Title Tweaks is the name of a new Gmail Labs release which allows you to monitor the amount of unread emails within your Gmail account without having to have the tab open.
When Title Tweaks is disabled the browser tab will say “Google Mail – Inbox (7) – emailaddress@gmail.com“. This is showing you the website name, [...]

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TwitterHawk is a new advertising service aimed at Twitter users.
The service allows you to engage in extremely targeted marketing campaigns by sending tweets to people who may be interested in your product or service. In its simplest form, it works by locating tweets which include your chosen keyword or keyword phrases and then sends the [...]

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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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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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StumbleUpon! is one of my favourite websites.
It works by people voting and recommending websites they “stumble upon” by clicking on an icon on the StumbleUpon! toolbar. Newly Stumbled pages (rather than sites) will be given high priority and will be frequently delivered to StumbleUpon! users over a fairly short period of time.
To gauge the likability [...]

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It seems like everyone loves a list. Everywhere you go there are top tens for this and top twenties for that.
We were going to compile our own list of great WordPress plugins, but we have decided to compile a list of great WordPress plugin lists.
Here are 10 popular WordPress plugin lists:
21 of the Best WordPress [...]

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Like Twitter but With More Characters – Twitblogs

by Stephen on December 18, 2008

Twitter is currently the talk of the internet for those in the know, but the limit of 140 characters per tweet can be a little restrictive for some people.
As an extension to the Twitter format, Twitblogs has just launched (Twitblogs is not affiliated in any way with Twitter). You can log into Twitblogs using [...]

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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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ReelSEO is a website focused on providing valuable tips, information and other resources for video search optimization and online video marketing. The content comes from news reports, tips, conference coverage, commentary and other resources and is updated on a daily basis.
If you are serious about your online presence you cannot afford to ignore the power [...]

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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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In a recent post at ProBlogger it was suggested that bloggers track which phrases are entered into a blogs internal search engine in order to find out just what people are looking for. The thought process being that content could then be tailored toward the search phrases. This, of course, is an excellent idea. The [...]

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