Archive for November, 2005

Added optimal_title plugin

I’ve installed another Wordpress plugin called Optimal Title from ElasticDog.com. Instead of the blog name being first, the posting title is first. This should help with search engine traffic.
For those of y’all with Wordpress blogs, give it a shot. It’s really easy to install. It took me about 5 minutes to [...]

Microsoft considering free desktop applications

Internal Microsoft memos show that the Redmond software publisher is considering free ad-supported versions of its software.

Ping-O-Matic bugs fixed

Ping-O-Matic came across a full hard drive and a database table size limit at the same time. Reportedly, it’s now fixed.

Old shows find new life on net

Early next year, America Online is planning on offering free access to vitage television shows through a video-on-demand plan.

IM Preferred over E-mail

Instant messaging is becoming more popular than email among teenagers, a new study finds.

XML-RPC vulnerability found

A recently discovered vulnerability in the open source PHP component XML-RPC is leaving many systems vulnerable to attack. Now a virus called Lupper exploits the vulnerability and loads itself on to unpatched systems.

Find your own dancing yoda

Apparently the dancing Yoda posting I did a couple days back was pretty popular. So, using Google’s beta video search, here’s a search to find more Yoda videos.

Oops, I tried a little too hard to block spam

Well, maybe I should have checked my comment form. I had installed a captcha spam blocker to the form, but never actually put the image code in. And it never occurred to me that I was getting tons of comments (mostly spam) on my other blog, but none here. Oh well, every [...]

Photoshop Tip: Photo Filters

After messing with color balance and such in Photoshop, my wife hit upon a menu item that I had missed – ‘Photo Filter…” under Image -> Adjustments.

Photoshop Tip: Quick Fix with Levels

Here’s a quick way to fix blown out or too dark images.