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Toodledo: A Practical To Do List
Productivity To be clear, Toodledo is not the prettiest looking app in the world nor is it the most feature-rich. It does one thing and it does it very well, manage your todo list. You won’t be awed by the interface or even the innovative new features, but you will be impressed by how fast, powerful and useful this app is. In short, if you use todo lists to organize your life, whether you’re a follower of Getting Things Done or just simply scrawl ...
Continue readingAfter The Deadline: Much More than Spell Checking
WordPress Plugins All major browsers, save Internet Explorer 8, have inline spell checking as a feature out of the box and even IE can be trivially updated to do so. This has been a boon for bloggers who do much of their writing in the browser and having the spell checker built into their browser has probably prevented millions of typos from seeing the light of day. However, when Automattic purchased After the Deadline (AtD) last year, I knew it was important. ...
Continue reading5 Tips for Using WordPress for Non-Blog Sites
WordPress When I needed to create a site for my new consulting firm, I immediately turned to WordPress as my CMS of choice. Not only is it the CMS I am most familiar with, but because it is flexible enough to get the job done with a minimal amount of keyboard-pounding. Though WordPress is known as being a blog platform, as the Squeeze Theme shows, it can be used for much, much more. However, that doesn’t mean that all of the pieces fit neatly ...
Continue reading4 Tips to Keep Your Feeds Safe(r) from Copying
Blogging Earlier today, Sharon posted an article that asks a simple, but profound question, Should you really unlink your feeds?. The idea comes from Tim Maly who makes the compelling case that combining all of your content into one feed is disruptive to yourself, your friends and your readers. One of the major reasons is that it results in your content being duplicated all over the Web as search engines pick up both your source content and the feeds ...
Continue reading5 Lesser-Known Sources for Free, Legal Content
Blogging The desire for free content is an understandable one. Sometimes bloggers don’t want to or don’t have the time to hammer out a post or need images to go along with one already written. Though most bloggers are aware of Creative Commons Licenses and know they can search for CC images on Flickr. Others are well aware of the StockXchng as a good free stock photo library as well as sites like Articlesbase for free posts for your site. But ...
Continue reading5 Copyright Facts Every Blogger Should Know
Blogging If you have a blog, whether you realize it or not, copyright is a subject that directly impacts your life. Not only are you constantly creating new copyrighted works while making your blog but, most likely, you are integrating other’s works into your site including your blogging application (IE: WordPress), your theme, images with your posts, quotes, etc. However, there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding on matters of copyright. ...
Continue readingWill Bloggers Adopt Google Buzz
Social Media When Google announced Google Buzz earlier this week, it kicked off a heated debate as to how great (or useless) it was. Though some have lauded it and others have outrighted panned it, most of the conversation has been somewhere in between, basically believing it to be a neat product with a lot of potential, but no Twitter or Facebook killer. But a big driving force behind social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter, as well as social ...
Continue readingPutting My Blog on a Diet
Design & Coding Earlier this week, I decided that I needed to put my main site on a diet. Simply put, the loading time of the site was nowhere near my personal standard and, though no one had complained about the time it took to load, I wasn’t pleased with the numbers I was seeing and even Google Webmaster Tools was providing less-than-subtle hints I needed to improve. So I set my mind to do just that. I took an afternoon to research the problem and try ...
Continue readingSeesmic Look: Miles of Style, Inches of Practicality
Reviews, Social Networking Seesmic already makes two of the best and most powerful downloadable Twitter clients available, Seesmic Desktop and Seesmic Windows, as well as one of the best-loved Web-based clients, Seesmic Web. All three, however, are very traditional Twitter clients with familiar columns and features. They are powerful and work well, but they can be intimidating to new users of Twitter. However, their newest product, Seesmic Look, hopes to change that. ...
Continue readingWhy YouTube’s Move to HTML5 May be Huge
Design & Coding Today YouTube announced a new beta program that will allow you to view the movies on its site using pure HTML5, no Adobe Flash required. To be fair, it isn’t a huge change if you enter the beta. The controls for the movies are different and the loading animation says “HTML5″ rather than having the familiar YouTube spinner, but the potential impact could be huge. Even though it is just an early test and has several limitations, ...
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