Entries from May 2006

BBC releases blogging guidelines for employees

May 30th, 2006 · No Comments

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has released a guideline for its employees who maintain weblogs or websites. The guidelines, which can be downloaded as a Word document here but I’ve also reprinted it below, are noteworthy in that the BBC accepts that employees who blog “discuss their BBC work in ways that benefit the BBC.”
Employee [...]

Tags: Blogs · Journalism

Upgrading K750i firmware to the latest version: R1CA021

May 28th, 2006 · 98 Comments

I just upgraded my Sony Ericsson K750i to the latest firmware version: R1CA021. The actual upgrade took less than 20 minutes but I spent more than half an hour downloading the Sony Ericsson Update Service because I was also downloading a ton of podcast episodes that time.
To know the firmware version of your Sony Ericsson [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile

Anti-spam plugin Akismet updated

May 26th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Akismet, the anti-spam plugin created by WordPress founding developer Matthew Mullenweg, has been updated to version 1.15. The new version now tells you, via a tooltip, on which blog article or page a suspected spam comment or trackback has been posted.
When your mouse cursor hovers over the View Post link in the Akismet moderation panel, [...]

Tags: Blogs

Mon.itor.us: an even more fantastic free web server monitor

May 21st, 2006 · 10 Comments

A comment on my previous post on using Montastic and Site Uptime to monitor your web servers led me to mon.itor.us: a free web server monitor that I signed up to a few months back but quickly forgot because I encountered problems when I first used it.
I revisted my mon.itor.us account and boy is it [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Internet

Manage your K750i songs using ITunes Agent

May 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments

If you want to use iTunes to manage songs in your Sony Ericsson K750i, you can either use Mass Storage Synchronizer (which I wrote about earlier) or iTunes Agent. If you’re not technically adept, Mass Storage Synchronizer may be the software for you as it is simpler to set up than iTunes Agent.
Before using any [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile

Get a WordPress admin bar for your blog

May 10th, 2006 · 7 Comments

If you use the hosted blog service at WordPress.com, you would be familiar with the admin toolbar that appears on top of your blog whenever you are logged into the service. The admin bar is a user-friendly tool that I’ve long wanted to deploy in my blog and WordPress sites I help manage.
What’s great about [...]

Tags: Blogs · Highlights