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Stop Excel Using Scientific Notation on Numbers

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Excel is brilliant!
It is so brilliant, that it’s helpful.
Excel is SO helpful THAT IT SUCKS!!!
Probably for 99.9% of the general population, all of Microsoft Excel’s cool features that help you format your data into something legible are something really [...]

Creating your Google Reader Application with Google Chrome

Google Chrome was finally released, and I’ve been playing around with it for a few hours.

I decided to try out creating a “Google Reader Application” by making use of the “Chromeless Chrome” functionality.

So, here goes…

Google Chrome – Google’s Free Web Browser

Looks like all the MANY, MANY rumours of Google releasing their own web browser have finally come true.

Welcome, Google Chrome.

Updated my plugins – Please Read This!

I’ve updated my 3 WordPress plugins:
WordPress Generic Statistics Plugin
Please Link 2 Me
Hotlink 2 Link
I fell prey to the whole “serializing serialized options”. In the words of DD32:
Ahah! One of those people who insist on passing serialized data to update_option()…
Honestly: update_option() serializes any non-string data thats passed to it allready, get_option() will unserialize on return as [...]

Opera Mobile 9.5 is SLICK!

I’ve been playing with the new Beta version of Opera Mobile 9.5 for a few days now, and I must say, it is just plain COOL!

For all you iPhone geeks out there, this one’s not for you, thank goodness. At least us Windows Mobile (and other mobile OS owners other than the iPhone) have something you don’t. ;-)

So, what do I like about the new version of Opera Mobile…?

WordPress 2.6 is out and it’s Turbo Charged

It’s finally here. And a month ahead of schedule.
Why am I so excited for a new release of WordPress? If you read my “Google Gears and WordPress” post, you’ll see.

And, with quite a few cool new features, there’s no real reason why you won’t want to upgrade. Take a look at the video…

Hotlink 2 Link WordPress Plugin

Here’s a new plugin I’ve written for WordPress users who want to benefit from everybody who hotlinks to their images.
A little background on HotLinking
If you write an article and place an image in your post, that image most likely sits on your web server. Every time somebody views your post, that person’s browser will download [...]

Vernon Koekemoer having his 15MB of Fame

The saying used to be “15 minutes of fame”. Now, thanks to the online world, it’s 15MB of fame. Well, maybe even 15GB of fame thanks to broadband connections.

Everybody knows Chuck Norris, but if you’re South African and you’ve been online recently (or you’ve seen the latest Vodacom ad), then you might have heard of Vernon Koekemoer!

WordPress 2.6 and Google Gears

It looks like a new feature in WordPress 2.6 is the “Speed it up!” feature using Google Gears.

At least, I HOPE it comes out with WP2.6 because

What you can do with WordPress

In response to a reader question, here’s a post about what you can do with WordPress, and how you can go about doing it.