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WordPress Goes Real-time With RSS Cloud Support

September 21, 2009

Ever wish your RSS reader worked more like a Twitter client? Or even FriendFeed, where updates just appear in real-time? Well, that idea has been gaining ground for some time, and it just got a whole lot more appealing now that WordPress has announced support for RSS Cloud. RSS Cloud takes advantage of the cloud [...]

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WP.me: WordPress.com Launches Short URLs

August 15, 2009

If you’ve got a WordPress.com blog, you’ll be pleased to know you can now share an itsy-bitsy-Wordpress-linky to each of your posts. That’s right: WordPress has launched the WP.me short URL, designed for linking to your blog posts from space-limited sites like Twitter. It isn’t a general purpose URL shortener or rival to Bit.ly: it’s [...]

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Why Designers Should Learn How to Code

June 11, 2009

More often than not, designers have rightfully been accused of retreating into their cocoons of ignorance as soon as their work of creating a web design is finished, leaving the dirty and more hands-on work of putting it up on the web to developers. This apathy is prevalent not only in the web-building industry, but [...]

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WordPress 2.8 Now Available for Download

June 10, 2009

WordPress has just released the newest version of their installable blog software: WordPress 2.8 – Baker. The most notable addition would seem to be the ability to browse themes from within the WordPress Dashboard. With the Theme Browser, you can specify the color you want, how many columns there should be, and fixed or flexible [...]

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Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes?

May 29, 2009

Here are a few quick mistakes that I see new bloggers making (some of which mistakes I made myself). They’re listed in no particular order and I’d love for you to continue the list in comments below: Giving up too early – blogs take time to take off Putting off starting a blog – waiting [...]

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WordPress 2.7 – 20 Must See Features

December 4, 2008

WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs.  This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but the thing is that this time it is.  WordPress 2.7 comes with a huge number of changes, a good chunk of them making some older plugins redundant. This [...]

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Fancy Veho USB Microscope with 2GB storage

November 5, 2008

We have mentioned a few USB Microscopes before, but this new one takes the cake. This new microscope boasts a 1.3MP or 1600×1200 image resolution and up to 200x magnification. Included is software allowing you access to store and share 2GB of your images online, and free to boot! You can even record video in [...]

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8 WordPress Plugins for Page Management

September 23, 2008

While the page feature in WordPress has been a mainstay of the blogging platform for years, it doesn’t get a whole lot of love from the programmers or plugin community. Here are 8 plugins that are compatible with at least WordPress 2.5 that will allow you to change their order, make sub-pages easier to navigate, [...]

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