Aug
28
Mapping of the Cat Brain
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Aug
28
There are numerous products sitting around every household that are super heroes of the natural cleaning world. Most people just don’t realize that they don’t need to go out and buy so many cleaning products, because their kitchen pantry is filled with natural alternatives.
Natural cleaning has several benefits, it is better for the environment, it cuts down on harmful chemicals in the air we breathe and it keeps more packaging products (plastic bottles…) out of our landfills. It’s also cheaper, why spend money on a separate cleaning product for every task. The benefits go on and on, grab a good book about natural cleaning and find out more of its benefits at your local library. Read more
Aug
28
Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
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PC Magazine has listed their top 100 picks for web sites they feel you should know about for 2007. The picks are organized into the following categories:
- Info, Reference, and Search
- Health and Food
- Lifestyle and Entertainment
- Money and Career
- Music
- News, Politics, and Government
- Reading
- Shopping, Classifieds, and Travel
- Tech: Download and DIY
- Tech: Gaming
- Tech: Hardware News and Blogs
- Tech: Software and Internet Blogs
- Video
- Web Apps
Aug
28
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress
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Keep your visitors on your site by offering links to related posts. Related Posts, a plugin created by Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne, automatically lists related posts either based on the title of your post or through custom keywords. Simple upload and activate the plugin and follow the “readme.txt” file for instructions on how to place the automatically created links.
Aug
28
Los Angeles Now Accepts More
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The Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation which oversees the collection and processing of waste and recyclables from its citizens will now allow more items to go into the Blue Bin for recycling. After having expanded its recycling program on July 1st to accept polystyrene foam aka “Styrofoam”, you can now place plastic grocery bags and hangers into the bin as well.
Aug
26
Sometimes you want a unique behavior or style for a single post or all the posts that fall within a certain category. Ryan Boren has created a WordPress plugin called Custom Post Templates that will achieve just that. This plugin which is easily tweaked, will point all of the posts within a category or a single post to a custom template that you set up.
Aug
26
Fantastic WordPress Plugins
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WordPress is not only great blogging software but it can also be used as content management software (CMS) for web site management. What makes WordPress particularly powerful are the enormous amounts of plugins available to extend its funtionality. Listed here are some fantastic WordPress plugins that are essential for most web sites.
- Google Sitemaps
Without a Google compliant sitemap, your web site can be lost to the indexing power of Google. Help Google help you with a sitemap (if you haven’t already, you should be signed up with Google’s Webmaster services as well). Created by Arne Brachhold, this plugin will create a Google compliant sitemap and ping Google for you. - Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam
Part of the benefit of using any blogging software is the ability to solicit comments from visitors. If you don’t want to have to slog through spambot comments, download and install this plugin by Peter Keung which uses image verification to stump spammers. - WordPress Mobile Edition
Don’t leave visitors from mobile devices squinting at your garbled web page on their handheld. This nifty plugin developed by Alex King automatically detects a variety of handheld browsers to reformat your site into an easy to read format. - WP-SNAP!
If any part of your site needs to be organization in an easy to navigate alphabetical fashion then this plugin from Nathan Olsen is the ticket. - Event Calendar
Offer your visitors a calendar of events related to your web site. Visitors can see upcoming events or browse via a calendar. Plugin developed by Alex Tingle. - Boakes MostWanted
Show off your most popular pages with this plugin from Rich Boakes using StatTraq (a plugin you will need to install first). - IMM-Glossary
If you have a jargon-rich web site, then you will need to offer your visitors a glossary. This plugin automatically hyperlinks predefined words and offers up the definitions from a choice of three formats.
Aug
13
Manage your time better
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Careerbuilder.com offers six “slam-dunk” ways to work better and more efficiently. If you move beyond the corny basketball clichés in the introduction, the tried and true tips that follow are great for getting more organized and on top of your day.
Aug
5
Weird stuff that could save the world
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From Newsweek:
A bizarre substance, like ‘frozen smoke,’ may clean up rivers, run cell phones and power spaceships.