February 3rd, 2007

Greencode WordPress Theme Updated (0.3)

I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.3. Since version 0.2, I’ve added a print stylesheet (screenshot of a printed page below), optimized the header image to reduce its size by half, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

February 2nd, 2007

Top Diggers list is back

Digg removed its top users list this morning. However, as I mentioned yesterday, It’s an exercise in futility. A competent programmer could easily throw together a page scraper to determine the top submitters, so when the dust settles, Digg will still have problems with pay-for-play, but the most prolific users will no longer be recognized [...]

January 30th, 2007

Netscape 9 Teasers: Week II

My latest teaser/progress report for Netscape 9 is available at the Netscape blog. More discussion at UFAQ.org and the Netscape Community message boards.

January 29th, 2007

Social Traffic Statistics

Until URL Fixer got Dugg last week, I hadn’t had a good real-life example for my Social Traffic Monitor WordPress plugin. What follows is an analysis of the traffic my blog received from social news and bookmarking sites late last week, as recorded by the Social Traffic Monitor plugin. This is the chart that the [...]

January 26th, 2007

Social Traffic Monitor 1.2

After giving it a workout this week with all the visitors to my blog from Digg and StumbleUpon, I’ve made some changes to the Social Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress, and I’m releasing version 1.2. Since version 1.1, I’ve added StumbleUpon as a social news/bookmarking source, fixed a few bugs with logging non-social-referring sites, and [...]

January 25th, 2007

Shortcuts are people too

While I was reading over the comments at Lifehacker’s post on URL Fixer, I came across this critique: [...] I’ve run into one little problem with this sucker. I avoid bookmarks like the plague and, instead, create keywords to jump to sites by typing in one word or a short phrase. Anyway, one of my [...]

January 25th, 2007

URL Fixer gets a little British flavour

URL Fixer will now correct “.ku” to “.uk”, but I’ve made no decision on colour, metre, or encyclopaedia. Cheerio!

January 24th, 2007

Netscape 9.0 is coming

I’ve posted the first in a series of teasers for Netscape 9.0 at the Netscape blog: [...] Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, and from this screenshot, you can infer several things: it will be tightly integrated with the Netscape.com service, as evidenced by the icons for the two available Netscape.com extensions (Friends’ Activity [...]