Tool Time Friday | Cooliris

July 30th, 2010

The Cooliris 3D Wall — Simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll an infinite “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.

Meet Cooliris, the 3D Wall that speeds up search on Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and more. Enjoy the richest way to view photos from Facebook, Picasa, and even your own computer. On our infinite 3D Wall, you can effortlessly scroll though thousands of images and videos in seconds without having to click from page to page. Our Channels feature even lets you surf the latest news, TV episodes, and more. For details see: http://www.cooliris.com

Bitchin’!

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Tool Time Friday | Tab Kit – Oh Yeah!

July 30th, 2010

Tab Kit makes tabs more efficient for power users, allowing a wide variety of tweaks, all of which are optional, notably:

- Group tabs, by domain or opener (parent) tab, manually or automatically
- Vertical tab tree (with splitter), like Tree Style Tab
- Multi-row tabs
- Sort tabs, by address, last loaded, last viewed, order of creation, origin or title
- Control new tab position and close order
- Easily duplicate tabs and groups and copy/move them between windows by dragging
- Scrollwheel tab switch
- ‘Mouse rocker’ to go back/forward in history
- Highlight unread tabs (and emphasise current tab)
- Scrollbar instead of scroll arrows in over-long Bookmarks and All Tabs popups
- Open Selected Links feature
- Switch tabs on hover
- Options for urls, searches and/or bookmarks to open in new tabs by default

Crazy!

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Tool Time Friday | Here comes the Vimperator!

July 30th, 2010

Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in. For example, it has a special Hint mode, where you can follow links easily with the keyboard only. Also most functionality is available as commands, typing back will go back within the current page history, just like hitting the back button in the toolbar.

But Vimperator is more than just a simple command interface to Firefox — it is a complete development environment as well. If you are a web developer, you can enjoy an interactive JavaScript shell — even with completion support. Or if you want to extend Vimperator, you can easily do that by just dropping a JavaScript file in its plugin directory.

Shazam!

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WordPress 3.0.1

July 29th, 2010

After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku:

Three dot oh dot one
Bug fixes to make you smile
Update your WordPress

This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.

Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to reinstall it, which you can do right from your Updates screen. Our bad.

Free Traffic TwitterChat is Today! #netsol [with contest] Free Traffic Tips [del.icio.us]

July 29th, 2010

Free Traffic TwitterChat is Today! #netsol [with contest]

July 29th, 2010

The Network Solutions sponsored TwitterChat I was talking about last week is today at 1 pm Eastern/New York time, and will last until 2:30 pm or until we get to as many questions as possible.

Highlights:

  1. The event is completely free. .
  2. No charge, really.

  3. All you have to do is click here to register for Keep Them Coming! How to Increase Traffic to your Website.
  4. (Both web traffic and SEO will be discussed.)

    Update: Two prizes are being given to registered attendees.

    One will be a free prize from me. The other is a surprise. One is a random registered attendee, the other is to the registered attendee with the best question.

  5. Every person who registers, even if they can’t attend at the last minute, is getting a special freebie to help with their Web Traffic.
  6. And no, it’s not 366 Traffic Methods.

  7. Free tips on search engine optimization
  8. Answering questions like “Why is SEO critical to increasing web traffic?”

  9. Free tips on web traffic
  10. Key information, such as: “Top 10 tips on how to increase web traffic”

  11. You get to send me questions through the moderator.
  12. I won’t be answering any questions about naked pictures, or accepting marriage proposals. Stay on Topic, People!

If you’re a Twitter Chat newbie, there are some tips on the post about the Women Grow Business Inbound Marketing Twitter Chat from April.

You don’t need  a free Twitter account to attend, but that sure makes it a lot more fun.

One more thing. I have a bet going with someone that I can get 100 people to register and attend.

So if you know people on Twitter or Facebook who you think would enjoy this free session or help save them money in their business, retweet this message or share it on Facebook. You can even email it your subscribers, or republish this whole post on your blog.

I’ll owe you one retweet or Facebook share that you cash in tomorrow morning, if

  1. you’re one of the first 12 people, and
  2. you respond to this message with your Twitter handle  so I can make arrangements with you.

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Tool Time Friday | Multiple Tab Handler

July 23rd, 2010

This provides features to handle multiple tabs at once, for example, close them, reload them, and so on. When you press the mouse button and dragging over tabs, they will be selected. (Note: The tab will be just moved, if you move the mouse quickly. To start selection, you have to keep the button pressed and wait for a while.) After you release the button, the popup to choose command will be shown. Of course, you can toggle selection by Ctrl-click on each tab and call features from the context menu. Yes, the behavior looks like Excel.

Buit-in features for selected tabs:
* Close selected tabs
* Close not-selected tabs
* Reload selected tabs
* Duplicate selected tabs
* Move selected tabs to a new window
* Bookmark selected tabs
* Copy URIs/titles+URIs/HTML links for selected tabs to the clipboard
* Save (download) selected tabs to the local disk
* Print selected tabs

And there’s so much more!

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PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

July 23rd, 2010

Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now is one of those times. You probably guessed it from the title — we’re finally ready to announce the end of support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4!

First up, the announcement that developers really care about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.

For WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, we will be raising the minimum required PHP version to 5.2. Why 5.2? Because that’s what the vast majority of WordPress users are using, and it offers substantial improvements over earlier PHP 5 releases. It is also the minimum PHP version that the Drupal and Joomla projects will be supporting in their next versions, both due out this year.

The numbers are now, finally, strongly in favor of this move. Only around 11 percent of WordPress installs are running on a PHP version below 5.2. Many of them are on hosts who support PHP 5.2 — users merely need to change a setting in their hosting control panel to activate it. We believe that percentage will only go down over the rest of the year as hosting providers realize that to support the newest versions of WordPress (or Drupal, or Joomla), they’re going to have to pull the trigger.

In less exciting news, we are also going to be dropping support for MySQL 4 after WordPress 3.1. Fewer than 6 percent of WordPress users are running MySQL 4. The new required MySQL version for WordPress 3.2 will be 5.0.15.

WordPress users will not be able to upgrade to WordPress 3.2 if their hosting environment does not meet these requirements (the built-in updater will prevent it). In order to determine which versions your host provides, we’ve created the Health Check plugin. You can download it manually, or use this handy plugin installation tool I whipped up. Right now, Health Check will only tell you if you’re ready for WordPress 3.2. In a future release it will provide all sorts of useful information about your server and your WordPress install, so hang on to it!

In summary: WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4 and MySQL 4. WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, will require PHP 5.2 or higher, and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher. Install the Health Check plugin to see if you’re ready!

Tool Time Friday | Compact Menu 2!

July 23rd, 2010

This extension adds the CompactMenu icon to the Navigation Toolbar, and hides the Menubar.  To press the icon or Alt-key then “Menu” open.

After installation, “Compact Menu” icon is added to left side of Navigation toolbar.
If you want to customize it or, right-click on menubar and choose “Customize…”, drag “Menu” button, “Compact Menu” icon, “Bookmarks” button or icon to the position where you like on toolbar, then click Done.

To avoid any possible conflicts, please uninstall any other Compact Menu versions first.

Sweet as butter.

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Tool Time Friday | Multisidebar – Cool!

July 23rd, 2010

Use multiple sidebars simultaneously. To use, right click on a menu item in the sidebar menu, or right click on the sidebar header. Then, you’ll be able to place that sidebar on another side of screen, allowing multiple sidebars at the same time.

It’s a must have.

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