Entries Tagged as 'Free services'

Reinvigorate: the best hosted website metrics service I’ve tried

May 9th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Hot on the heels of the release of the Automattic Stats came the sending of invitations to the beta version of Reinvigorate, a hosted free website metrics service that appears to trump most of the free website metrics services available today.
A day after installing and using the service, I think Reinvigorate is the most impressive [...]

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Organizing photos into albums in Zooomr using SmartSets

May 8th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Blogger Jhay Rocas sent me an e-mail a few weeks back to inquire on how to organize photos into albums in Zooomr, akin to the sets in Flickr.
I host all my photos in Zooomr not just because the service offers unlimited photo uploading but, more importantly, its terms of use is more lenient. Unlike Flickr, [...]

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WordPress offers hosted blog metrics system

May 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has released Automattic Stats, a hosted blog metrics system. The system, deployed as a WordPress plugin, allows those running WordPress on their own servers to have the metrics system already in use in the hosted WordPress.com services.
I’ve long drooled over the metrics used in WordPress.com, where I keep a personal [...]

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Business cards 2.0 with mobile phone codes

April 30th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Mobile phone codes such as semacodes and QR for “quick response” codes allow you to to embed data such as SMS messages, phone numbers, and URLs into images of square patterns.
HYPERLINKED BUSINESS CARD. This mobile code is linked to my blog address. I’m planning to have this printed at the back of my business [...]

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Spamming Charles Krauthammer

April 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Last year I got a curious e-mail buried in the pile of auto-responses that clogged my inbox. Someone using a forged @limpag.com address not only sent spam to scores of poor souls all over the world, he or she also spammed Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer.
That spurred me into action. I use my limpag.com domain [...]

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Server monitoring site adds weekly e-mail reports

March 26th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Mon.itor.us, a free service that monitors the availability of your web server, now sends weekly PDF reports on the uptime of your websites. The report provides a snapshot of the availability of your site within the week. The weekly PDF report seemed a recent addition to its already formidable lineup of services. This is still [...]

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