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  • Next WordPress release will have visual editor for posts

    WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg announced in his blog that the next version of the blog script (1.6) will have an integrated What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor – tinyMCE. Users, however, will have an option to turn the WYSIWYG editor off. I’ve long wanted to install a WYSIWYG plugin for a…

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  • When the cousin of a dictator offers you part of his hidden wealth…

    It’s called a 419 scam or advanced fee fraud. Many people have lost a lot of money to these scammers. The Urban Legends Reference page Snopes.com quotes a US Secret Service official as saying in a 1997 newspaper article that “We have confirmed losses just in the United States of over $100 million in the…

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  • TiddlyWiki evangelization

    I‘ve been sharing with office mates and friends the use of TiddlyWiki for the storing of notes and tasks lists. If you want to try TiddlyWiki out, check on the following posts [post 1] [post2] or head to this tutorial site. If you still need help, send me an e-mail using this site’s contact form.…

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  • Moving to another TiddlyWiki adaptation

    Just as I finished transferring all my notes using the TiddlyWiki adaptation I wrote about in an earlier post, a reader provided a link to a better option: Serversidewiki, a hosted service using the latest TiddlyWiki version and Ruby on Rails. Tim Morgan, the author of Ziddly Wiki, also wrote to offer help in the…

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  • Konfabulous

    Everything stopped when I downloaded Konfabulator last week – all tasks were set aside as I went through all the available widgets in the software publisher’s website. At the end of my search, I decided on using the following widgets: SiteCheck – to monitor the availability of my personal and work websites; Thesaurus-Dictionary, which gives…

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