Technology


I’m writing this post using Google Chrome — Google’s new web browser that was just released today. After a little goofing around with it, here are my initial impressions.
1) It’s fast — running some JavaScripts side by side with Firefox, Chrome is noticeably faster.
2) Everything works as expected — no weirdness or non-functional websites yet.
3) [...]

Twitter has a widget that you can use to display your latest update in your blog sidebar or elsewhere on your website. But it’s…well, not perfect. I found that it was bigger than necessary for the text it contained, and the empty space didn’t exactly enhance the look of my blog.
So I wrote my own [...]

Magpie and CaRP are two popular RSS parser scripts, both written in PHP, but which is better? I did a quick comparison, and this is what I came up with. Yes, I am the creator of CaRP, so read carefully and decide for yourself whether you can trust me! I’ll try to be as objective [...]

Yesterday I started a new blog on a domain I’d been using mostly to redirect traffic to other sites. The domain name is “ToSeeMore.info”. The blog directory is “about”. It’s on a subdomain named “click”. So the URLs to the blog posts and categories end up looking like this:
http://click.ToSeeMore.info/about/how-i-got-319713-organic-google-clicks-in-a-month/
http://click.ToSeeMore.info/about/-/getting-web-traffic/
I called it “uber-optimized”, but it’s not [...]

Ever wonder just how much of a problem spam email is? To give you an idea, here in no particular order are the 1,231 IP addresses from which my email server received at least 3 messages sent to invalid addresses within a single 5 minute period over the course of 4 hours.
That sentence may have [...]

AWeber is a great service, and for the most part I’m very happy with it. But it does have a few irritating problems. Here’s my list of the worst. Have any pet peeves that aren’t listed? Share them in the comments.
Just Plain Wrong
There’s one feature where my complaint isn’t just a matter of opinion — [...]

I’ve just posted a new page on Chordata called “Net Pulse News“. It pulls the hottest search trends from Google Trends, and displays news, blog and video search results based on those keywords.
Google Trends identifies the hottest trends in search — the keywords that massive numbers of people have recently started searching for. When big [...]

I’ve just released a new revision of the CaRP/WP WordPress plugin that integrates my RSS to HTML converter with WordPress. The new version adds support for the YouTube plugin that I just released for CaRP. Using it, you can display dynamically updating YouTube videos in your WordPress posts and pages.
The videos can be selected either [...]

I’ve just added a YouTube plugin to my RSS to HTML converter script, CaRP.
Using the new plugin, you can display YouTube videos on your website using their preconfigured RSS feeds (for example, recently added, top rated, most viewed, etc.), or you can get a feed for any tag or YouTube user by following the instructions [...]

I just launched a new service on Chordata called “Top Feeds” that generates RSS feeds from the content of the top feeds in each category on the site. Go to any category and click the subscription button near the upper-right corner of the page to subscribe. As the top feeds in a category [...]

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