Recently, I’ve been using Twitter more and more. I recently launched a tiny web service and decided to use Twitter as a “marketing” platform (maybe I’ll blog about this later) so I really needed a way to switch easily between multiple Twitter accounts and identity. The best twitter client I’ve found yet is Splitweet, a free [...] → Read more

Here is part 2 (of 2) of my “reviewing”, mostly from a plugin coder’s point of view, the plugins running in the WordPress Plugin Competition. Please, please and puh-leaaase, if you are a contestant and if you didn’t read Part One, do read it before you proceed to part 2. There is a mandatory disclaimer that [...] → Read more

Every year or so, the excellent staff from the excellent Weblog Tools Collection runs a Plugin Competition. This is a very exciting moment of the plugin year because it fosters plugin coding and plugin ideas, and introduces new coders. This year, 50 plugins were submitted, which I think is excellent. As I looked at some of [...] → Read more

Widgetized Dashboard: this very efficient plugin allows you to populate your Dashboard with the widgets you want, all the widgets you want, and just the widgets you want, just like sidebar widgets. Remove the “Plugins” widget? Add any RSS feed you like? You name it. In my early WordPress 2.5 review a few weeks before it [...] → Read more

ShareWP is a digg-like site (using Pligg I think) dedicated solely to, obviously, WordPress. It seems fairly new (domain registered a few months ago, only a handful or registered users) and I think it has some potential: overall it’s nicely done, and well focused on WordPress, a topic that other socialish sites such as [...] → Read more

In a few days, the next blue thing will land: WordPress 2.5 should come to a download link near you. Being a fairly old WordPress user (I’ve started looking into it when it was version 0.72 and this very blog was first online on version 1.02) I can remember every major release and the new [...] → Read more

Little Miss Sunshine: OMG. I laughed to tears. Share This Related posts Brohemian Rhapsody : Party Parody (0) The Simpsons Bash Apple (2) The Official God FAQ (1) Real Life Simpsons Intro (1) Real Life Calvin & Hobbes Tribute (0) [...] → Read more

Let Adii self introduce him: “I’m a freelance web designer & strategist from Cape Town, South Africa and I specialize in Wordpress designs. I’m currently finishing my Honours in Business Strategy and I would love to combine traditional business models with the new principles and philosophies of Web 2.0.” When Adii asked me to review his [...] → Read more

I have been using UltraEdit as my primary text editor over the last few years. I thought it had all the features I could expect from a text editor : tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for a number of languages, code block collapsing, regular expressions for searching and replacing, opening and closing brace matching, you name [...] → Read more

Me and the terrible world of Instant Messaging.[...] → Read more