Entries from December 2005

Giving a blog as Christmas gift

December 24th, 2005 · No Comments

Yesterday, the editorial department of the newspaper I work for celebrated its Christmas party. No Christmas party is complete without the exchange of gifts and we held one yesterday. But two weeks back, we were already supposed to give the recipient of our gifts small items, costing from P20 to P50, based on the week’s [...]

Tags: Blogs · Personal

Performancing.com releases visual editor for blogs

December 21st, 2005 · 2 Comments

Performancing.com, which is turning out to be an excellent resource on blogging, released a Firefox extension that puts a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) blog editor in the open source browser.
I tried it out for a few minutes (screenshots below) and even used it to publish the previous post and found that it worked flawlessly. The editor allows [...]

Tags: Blogs · Free services

DIY paper bookmarks

December 21st, 2005 · No Comments

Fabiosima.com offers downloadable templates of do-it-yourself paper bookmarks. Instead of pressing the bookmark between the book’s pages, you put it at the upper corner of the page.

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Cybercafe Experiments included in AdSense e-book

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments

I saw a curious entry in my traffic logs over the weekend. It seemed a few visitors to this site came from a PDF link. When I checked it out, it was a compilation of AdSense case studies by Joel Comm and my blog was among the sites discussed in the e-book.

The case study was [...]

Tags: Blogs

Tim Berners-Lee tries out blogging

December 18th, 2005 · No Comments

(Via del.icio.us) The man who wove the World Wide Web, as Time puts it in a 1999 article, has started blogging to try publishing content using blog tools. Tim Berners-Lee said he never felt the “urge to blog with blogging tools” because he has largely been updating websites using Amaya and Nvu (an excellent open [...]

Tags: Blogs · Internet

Free PHP/MySQL hosting without ads

December 16th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Pinayhosting offers free MySQL and PHP accounts with no ads. With the free account, you get 25MB of web space, 250MB data transfer (I assume it’s a monthly quota, it’s not indicated in the FAQs), Cpanel, htaccess and with no forced advertising.) The monthly quota isn’t enough to use the account for your blog. This, [...]

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