www.GMail.co.za is NOT Google GMail – WARNING
This is a short notice to say that www.gmail.co.za is NOT Google’s GMail.
GMail is obviously not GMail!
You’re probably asking yourself why you care, and why I’m stating something that could be obvious?
Well, because to a LOT of people, it’s NOT obvious.
Read MoreWhy geniosity goes unappreciated at work!
Here’s a moment of enlightenment from my favourite comic at XKCD.com
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Generic Stats WordPress Plugin on version 1.2
Just another short little note to say that the Generic Stats plugin has been upgraded.
There are no MAJOR changes.
Here are the changes that HAVE been made:
- * Updated look & feel of admin page
- * Changed to use new “get options” methods
- * Added pretty little “Plugin Appreciation” box on the Admin page
- * Updated links to the plugin’s pages
Go read more about this plugin here:
Read MorePlease Link 2 Me Plugin updated to version 1.5
So, just a short post to say that the “Please Link 2 Me” WordPress plugin has been updated to version 1.5
Here’s a copy of the “changelog” section in the readme.txt:
= 1.5 =
* 2009/11/01
* Fixed changelog= 1.4 =
* 2009/11/01
* Recoded to use new Options methods
* Changed look & feel of admin section
* Added option to modify size of TextArea (the box for link code)
* Changed main URLs for the plugin
* Added ability to add the box to a Page
I had 2 updates today because I had a copy/paste issue with the documentation. It’s been a long day.
You can read more about it the plugin here: Please Link 2 Me WordPress Plugin
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EXCLUSIVE: Google Buys WordPress!
This was obviously an attempt at an April Fool’s Joke. I must say, I’m quite impressed with my WordPress/Google Logo 
I was chatting to my cousin a couple of hours ago via IM, and he let slip about the news that Automattic had sold off WordPress to Google.
He knows this because he works with Matt Mullenweg, but he obviously doesn’t want me to “reveal his name” until the news is made public (which is going to happen in a few hours time apparently). So, for the purpose of this post, let’s call him Byron.
I asked if he minded if I copied and pasted a part of our conversation about it and he said he didn’t mind because the news would be released later today anyway. (I’m guessing it has something to do with the fact that by the time anybody reads my blog, it will have been announced already).
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Hotlink 2 Link Plugin
Here is my latest WordPress plugin – Hotlink 2 Link for WordPress
This plugin will show a popup window if somebody right-clicks on an image and asks them to use specific code which will link to your article.
Below is an image example.
You can read more about this on my blog post:
Hotlink 2 Link WordPress Plugin
This plugin is based on and uses the JavaScript widget “LinkMyPics“
Read MoreGeneric Statistics WordPress plugin
Do you have the urge to SPY on your visitors?
The Generic Stats WordPress Plugin is a plugin that allows you to add any statistics tracking code to your WordPress blog without having to edit your WordPress Template’s code.
What does this have to do with spying on your website’s visitors? Well, you could easily sign up for the Performancing Metrics statistics service, and EASILY let you add the statistics tracking code to your blog, without you needing to change ANYTHING ELSE on your site.
This plugin also allows you to specify whether you’d like the code to be place at the top of your page (before the <body> tag) or at the bottom of the page (just after or just before the closing </body> tag).
This option is due to the fact that some statistics packages, like Google Analytics, prefer that you place the statistics tracking scripts at the top of the page, whereas it is actually recommended that you place all external scripts (external to your site) at the bottom.
The reason it’s better to place the code at the bottom is just in case the external site is down, it won’t prevent your site from loading.
Click on the image at the below to see what the plugin looks like on the admin side:
Click here to download the plugin
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Oh, and Click Here to sign up and try out Performancing Metrics. You will SERIOUSLY get addicted to watching your visitors moving around your site, IN REAL TIME!
Checking Domain Availability
Don’t Alert Others of your Ideas!
There is one MAIN thing you want to be careful of when checking to see if a domain is available or not, and that is alerting others that somebody is searching for it.
You see, there are some people who monitor searches for domains so that they can quickly register the domain in the hope that you will buy it from them at more than they paid for it.
A good way to prevent this is to use tools available from respected and well known Domain Registrars, such as GoDaddy and Moniker.com.
Tools to help you
To facilitate this (because I register domains quite often now, IT’S A DRUG I TELL YOU!) I have created to search tools that you can install if you use IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) or FireFox web browsers.
You will then be able to just type the domain that you want to check it’s availability of, and press enter.
To install these “search engines”, just click on the “down arrow” at the top right of your browser and click on the “Add DomainCheck“. This Search Engine will use Moniker.com’s Domain checking service to see if a domain is available to be registered.
The reason I use Moniker.com is because it can check more than one TLD at a time, for example, if you type in “james” (without the quotes) and click on the magnifying glass, the Moniker.com results will show you the results for james.com, james.info, james.org, etc. etc. etc…
You might have also noticed the ability to add the “CoZaDomains” Search Engine.
This search engine will check the availability of “.co.za” (South African) domains, using the tool provided by www.anno.co.za (the site that hosts my website).
Anyway, let me know if you find these tools useful…
