Archive for July, 2009

Stumble! for WordPress

Stumble! for WordPress adds random article functionality to WordPress, behaving in a similar way to MediaWiki’s random article feature and StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru (hence, “Stumble!”).

The plugin also integrates with YARPP to allow stumbling amongst similar articles. You may have seen the green “Liked this Article?” button on some other blogs: READ MORE

File-Encryptor.com for Sale

Just a short post:

File-Encryptor.com, a web service providing an online encryption and decryption tool, is for sale. I have listed the site for auction at Flippa (here) with a starting bid of $100. The web service makes roughly $20 per month and gets 1,000 page-views per month. More details are available on the auction listing. I recommend you take a look and place a bid ;) .

Thanks,
Brendon.

10 PHP functions you (probably) never use

When scripting in PHP, we often restrict ourselves to a limited number of API functions: the common ones, like print(), header(), define(), isset(), htmlspecialchars(), etc. If some needed functionality doesn’t exist, we often write it making use of these basic components which we have in mind. The PHP API actually offers a lot of functionality, some useless and some useful; often seldom used. I have been looking through the available functions and was interested to find some really cool functions that I should have known about. Here, I share my findings. READ MORE

Tracking Visitors’ Mouse Movements

You probably already know about those services which let you track where a visitor clicks on your site. They are great in determining which utilised parts of your site are most “active”. However, albeit important, clicking is just one component of user interaction. READ MORE

Will Google Chrome OS be a WebOS?

When I first heard about Google Chrome OS, I initially thought it would be a basic operating system which supported just an Internet browser — where the Internet browser is within the OS. From what I have heard, however, it seems that “the” operating system could just aswell run within the browser.

Of course, there will be an OS to run the Internet browser; but, will there be another “OS” within that? READ MORE

An Early Look at Thank Me Later 2.0

I am currently developing the next version of Thank Me Later, my WordPress plugin which sends out e-mails to your blog’s commenters a few days after they post the comment.

Development is currently proceeding well. I have compiled the following list of features which will definitely be included in Thank Me Later: READ MORE