Computing Posts From Across The Web Part II

August 30th, 2008


Probloggers group writing project is now over, so I thought I’d update you with some more top computing posts which were submitted in the third and final days. If you missed my first selection, you can check it out here. The post I submitted was 8 Reasons Why Every Computing Student Will Love Linux.

 

 
Did you enter a post in the Problogger group writing project? Or have you written a computing related post recently you’d like to share?
Feel free to share your links in the comments.

Computing Posts from Across the Web: The Best of Problogger’s Group Writing Project.

August 28th, 2008


Recently Problogger announced a group writing project encouraging bloggers to write a post on any topic, focussing on giving it a killer title. I’ve been looking through the list of entries so far, and I wanted to share some of the top computing related posts.

  1. 5 Reasons You Should Use Plain Text To Save Your Data from Rarst. A short, but informative and convincing post on the benefits of using plain text to store your documents.
  2. But Mom, You Guys Look at Porn Sites Too from Data-Drop. An amusing post on the importance of cleaning your cache and browser history.
  3. Memo: Please Erase All Memories of Lost Memory from Tech Cult. Thoughts on the Britains current trend of regularly loosing our personal data.
  4. Geek-Speak and Legaleze – Fess Up! from GrowMap. A portrayal of how inexperienced users feel about the technical terms open source users find commonplace, and the amount of legal jargon found on the web.
  5. 9 Super Sexy Betas to Crave Right Now from Listropolis. A list of the hottest betas online right now.
  6. Best Blog Footers are Standalone Creations from Webomatik. Views on why great footers are important for websites, and a selection of strong examples.
  7. 9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client from Just Creative Design. A selection of ideas from presenting mockups of websites to a less than tech-savvy client.

I hope you find some of those links useful. As for me, I entered my post 8 Reasons Why Every Computing Student Will Love Linux.

Today is the final day of the project, so I’ll update this list with the best of todays entries when it is published tomorrow. If you’ve entered, feel free to link to your post in the comments below.

Oh noes!

August 11th, 2008


I’ve been busy in Edinburgh working at Dare to be Digital: Protoplay today and yesterday (which was also my birthday) which is all going great. I have a lot to update you on.

Unfortunately, my laptop has died again. I sent it off for repair a few weeks ago and despite the motherboard being replaced, it was still constantly restarting and now will not boot at all. Which is especially problematic since I’m going to be away at Phil’s house for a couple weeks and had a lot of work to get done. I am not impressed.
Anyway I’ll be back at my desktop soon and will type up the entries I still have to share.

Plugins and Stuff

August 4th, 2008


Since Ashok just got a new WordPress blog and was asking about plugins for it, I thought it was about time to update my own.

Behind the scenes now I’m using wp-super-cache (not that I get enough traffic to actually need it), the All in One SEO plugin that everyone recommends, and an XML sitemap plugin. I’ve also set up automatic backups.

I’d really like to have a go at writing a WordPress plugin, but I can’t think of anything that I want which doesn’t already exist. Anything in particular you would like to see?

Otherwise, are there any other great plugins which you think might help my blog?

Gravatars

August 1st, 2008


You many have noticed that the comments on KCNB have a little avatar next to them. Since most of these are showing up as the default image, my little blue space invader (who by the way is called Marcel), I thought I’d share with you how to get your own image showing up.

This site, like many other blogs and websites, has been equipped to use Gravatars. The idea is that you sign up for an account, and an image is tied to your email address. When you enter that email address on a Gravatar enabled blog or website, your avatar will automatically be displayed. This makes it easy for you to have a perpetual identity between a range of different sites – essential for bloggers hoping to promote themselves.

Hope to see some more pretty images soon – feel free to comment on this post to test your Gravatar. It does take a few minutes to appear after you’ve created an account.