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Incoming Links not working

I noticed the other day that on a blog I admin that Incoming Links wasn’t working in WordPress, I scratched my head over it for a few minutes. Then did the sensible thing and went to Google Blog Search to check their were actually incoming links to the site!...

GMail Notifier?

Does yours pop-up in the bottom right of your screen (just at that annoying moment where you need to get to the thing that’s hidden by it!?!?). If so take a look at J4mie’s GMail Notifier Lamp. photo credit: greg westfall

iTunes killer? Not quite yet for Songbird!

I love my EEE, it’s fantastic – I’ll be taking it on holiday instead of the Philips X53 for the first time this year. It does everything, bar one thing….. Manage my iPod. I used to be able to switch albums on the iPod at the end of every day, a...

Showing some Luv!

I’ve installed CommentLuv here today, to reward my comment authors more (particularly now the comment policy is in force and I feel perfectly happy about blowing away any comments that are spammy or I don’t like! 😉 ) We all love comments, but CommentLuv...

A Week in the Life of an EEE 900!

The ASUS eee PC 900 has been in the house (and out and about a bit!) for just over a week now, and as I’ve already pointed out the eee Desktop, it’s about time I talked about this device! My other half thought I was barking mad taking photo’s of the...

[Quick Posts] Extracting Still Images from a DVD

A colleague asked me if this was possible the other day, to take photo stills from say a film  (in his case of diving) and have them to put on say Facebook. I couldn’t find what I used last time I did it, but did find this and have been reliably informed that...