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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
In my Google Alerts today I found an interesting article about
clipmarks, a social network type site that is also a very useful Blogging tool, see the demo below of a clip from the article that led me to them:
| The Clip-to-Blog feature makes it easy for people to add fresh content to their blogs. When users come across something on the Web that they want to add to their site, they can instantly Clip-to-Blog it, eliminating the back and forth of copy and paste. The service is compatible with all leading blogging platforms, including Blogger, Wordpress and all Six Apart services (TypePad, LiveJournal, Movable Type, and Vox). |
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It is a very easy to use little tool that can be added to your Firefox browser. When using the clipper you can customise the CSS to a certain extent, which helps to stop the clips you post to your blog being too jarring, note that the border and link colours are in line with my current theme.
The version I am using is v2.0, so if you have used this service in the past you may want to update.
The site itself does also act as a social network, a bit of a
Digg type site that allows other members to vote on any publicly saved clips that you may make to your profile.
All in all a pretty good tool to have in your box of tricks, though an option of whether to post or save as a draft would be a helpful addition. Give it a go yourselves and let me know what you think.
Do you use a similar tool that you would recommend I try?
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
A little while ago I came across an article on the
wp-amazon plugin, though for the life of me I can't remember where. Anyways, I made a mental note to give this one a try at some point as it looked like a very useful tool.
What is it good for?
Have you ever wanted an easy way to link to a book, movie, or product that’s relevant to what you’re writing about? Typically, this is a pretty cumbersome task—open up a browser, go to Amazon, look for the product you’re interested in, copy the URL, then paste the link to your entry.
Not anymore. With WP-Amazon, the Amazon product catalog is available right from WordPress. This plugin will allow you to search Amazon as you compose your post or page entry.
Sounded pretty good to me, so I have now added it to my site. Check out the demo video on their page too, it's a surprisingly easy and versatile tool. If you have an associate id with Amazon this can be integrated in the "Options" area of your admin. It is now fully functional for WordPress v 2.1 but there are still other versions available
here for those who may have chosen not to upgrade yet, or maybe can't due to some problem with their website host.
There is also a
Google Group support forum.
So, here is my first attempt, and if I can do it, so can
you.
Do you use a similar tool on your blog? Do you use it to monetise your site or just to add a feature to your posts?
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
If any of you are returning to this site you may notice that once again I have changed themes, not that I didn't love using
dark.cash but I felt happier with a right sidebar and I quite fancied a three column theme as well.
I have settled on
Zen for now, partly because I love the idea of the distinctive middle column. I feel that one of the disadvantages of a three column theme is that the eye can easily become confused unless everything is clearly delineated, and the layout of Zen avoids this nicely. Plus it's mighty pretty.
It comes pre-packed with
sweetTitles and
iBox, two very nice plugins. I have had a few problems getting iBox to work properly, I think that there is probably a better way to implement it than the way I have at the moment but I will have to mess around with it some more. You can see the way iBox works with the image in my previous post:
"Thank Fleck For That".
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
I am still getting used to this new bit of independence, still trying to find my way around with all the options available with
plugins and widgets, the widgets requiring that you have a theme that allows these extensions, available
HERE. At the moment I am mostly still "window shopping". It's good to know I am not alone in this, though. I came across the
Just-Thinkin' blog today, seems the guy has just got past my stage and got a handle on some things that I will need to learn, guess I could be popping round to pick his brains at some point.
;-)
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Big thanks go out to
Robert Buzink for his excellent plug in, now I can have some of my favourite videos over here!
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Firefly
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Running a test on this plug-in, what better way than with a little "Firefly" madness!
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