New Media + IT

Joe Wilcox has postet an entry titled "Why I Killed Office Live" over at Microsoft Watch.
Basically it's about some, or all, of the trouble Wilcox has had with Microsoft's Office Live.
I also received an invitation to Office Live, but I didn't even get to the domain registration, figuring I didn't really need it. Reading Wilcox' [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft ]

According to The Register Google overtakes Technorati.
I'm afraid I have to agree. Lately Technorati hasn't been doing so well with a lot of searches returning in a "error — please try again later" message.
Maybe it's time to consider Google's blogsearch?
Update 1: TechCrunch has a more thorough post on the current state of blog search engines: [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

According to LiveSide Microsoft has plans to offer 4 gigabytes of storage for $19.99.
The Windows Live Mail Plus is currently only available in Holland.
While I'm not ready to pay 20 bucks a year for 4 gigabytes storage for my mail the list of features appears to be more attractive:

4GB inboxes from Spring 2007
Attachments upto 20MB
No [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Microsoft ]

I've just created a Firefox plugin that enables you to search directly in my blog from the search field in Firefox' upper right corner.
Link to installation, you're done in a jiffy :-)

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[ categorized as: About this blog, Search ]

The book WordPress Complete is now out. You can read more about it at Newsforge:
This book is a beginner's guide to WordPress, for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and [...]

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[ categorized as: Books, CMS ]

The more advanced users of Mozillas mail application Thunderbird may already know them, but Thunderbird has some quite useful shortcut keys.
See the list of Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts.

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Software, Tips ]

After Rene's comment, to my previous post on this subject, saying that messing with individual WordPress files is a no-no, I installed the Unfancy Quote plugin, and it's working just as well.
Thanks René :-)
PS: And yes, the reason I wanted the curly quotes removed is because code often get messed up when copied from a [...]

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[ categorized as: CMS, Tips ]

This tip on how to remove curly quotes in WordPress also works in WordPress 2.0.5.

So if you, like me, don't like the curly quotes in WordPress, here's what you need to do.

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[ categorized as: CMS, Tips ]

Via Firefox Extension Guru I found this cool Firefox plugin: CoLT.
Now I can right click a link and have it copied to my clipboard as an HTML link. Sweet Jesus, how I've missed this feature!
However… it would be nice, if the extension had a "copy as HTML link with target="_blank"" feature :-)

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[ categorized as: Extensions ]

I just ran my site through the W3 Validator and got some errors fixed.
I specifically noted, that whenever an URL/URI included an ampersand (&) the validator returned an error.
This is because, and I didn't now this until now, that ampersands has to be written in HTML code (&), even in URLs/URIs!
Just thought you'd might like [...]

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[ categorized as: Tips ]