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RegCure is one of the most popular registry cleaner programs on the Internet with many different people all over the world using it. It’s got to be the most exciting and powerful system to hit our computer screens since the creation of the Registry Cleaner tool and it’s definitely one of hte most popular… but does it live up to the hype? According to this RegCure Review, it certainly does – with a lot more than just a “registry cleaner” as a feature, this tool helps you quickly and easily make the most out of your ability to clean your PC.
Have you noticed those strange black and white grids – like demented crosswords – popping up around the place? In newspapers, flyers and the like? No? Well, I have. And I dare say if I lived in Japan I’d have seen them on T-shirts, coffee mugs and a whole lot more.
They’re 2D barcodes for your mobile device (primarily phones). You take a photo with the built-in camera and the onboard software automatically extracts some text, a phone number or a link. (If your phone is a bit older, you can download the software from your manufacturer.)
I’ve been playing around with these mobile codes (QR codes and Datamatrix) for the past few weeks, thinking of things to do with them. As a starting point, Nokia’s handy webservice for creating the images needed to meet our friends at Yahoo Pipes.
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If you use a lot of TinyURLs on your blog, you might want to checkout this new tool – Embiggen. It expands those cryptic TinyURLs (eg tinyurl.com/2dfmty) to their full version, allowing your readers to make an informed decision about following a link. (That’s good URL etiquette.)
It’s available as a button to insert into any page eg Blogger, but it’s especially handy for micro-blogging services like Twitter. You can also get it as a bookmarklet for when you’re browsing around and come across a mysterious TinyURL.
The hack works by using Dapper to grab the URL from the TinyURL preview page and munging the resulting JSON object with regular expressions.
I cobbled this together as part of another
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One question that arises regularly with my blogging is the update dilemma – what should to do with those little scraps of information that pertain to an earlier post? This article outlines an approach to dealing with this common issue.
When I’m following a breaking news story or there’s delayed developments or even a random thought occurs, I want to inform my readers in the most convenient way. If it’s big enough, a whole new post may be warranted (with a link back to the earlier post). Otherwise, I ask myself: should it be done with a comment or with a manual update to the bottom of the original post? Thanks to Hearsay (and other recent comments hacks), a comment will have visibility across all blog pages, informing all visitors (but not subscribers). If there’s a lot of comments on a particular post or a high rate of
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In my ceaseless quest for content to clutter up my blog’s sidebar, I have found a rich new source: reader search queries, or “buzz”. BuzzFlux allows you to retrieve and display these search queries in near-real-time, right in your sidebar, for the amazement of your readership. It also signals my return to blog-hacking after a six month hiatus.
Should I Do This?First things first: is it a good idea to display your readers “live” search queries on your blog? On the plus side, it gives readers a good idea about what kinds of content your blog has (at least, as far as search engines and their users are concerned). In that sense, search queries may be considered as micro-content, a bit like tags. It may also help keep readers on your page, especially if coupled to your built-in blog search (see below).
On the downside, it may disturb some readers to see
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For those who haven’t seen the news yet, Google has announced TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service. It’s in BETA, and those wishing to participate must apply TODAY, April 1, 2007.
Installation couldn’t be simpler: Remove the spindle of fiber optic cable from the installation kit, activate the patented “GFLush” system which connects the cable to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes, where Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) complete the access point connection.
Drawbacks: Google Toolbar must be installed, presumably so Google can serve up their ads on this advertising supported service.
Don’t forget, incidentally, that today is Internet Spring Cleaning Day.
Although there’s still quite a bit going on with Yahoo Pipes, interest in the gee-whiz user interface seems to be waning around the blogosphere. While the drag-and-drop interface is cool, I think one of the more useful and interesting features of Yahoo Pipes is its ability to export data as JSON data.
Yahoo makes all of its data — including Pipes feeds data — available as JSON. JSON — Javascript Object Notation — is just data presented as Javascript code. That means you can write Javascript to work directly on the data without any XMLHttpRequest objects to open, get and parse. And because Yahoo provides a nifty callback mechanism, you don’t run into the cross domain security issues that plague Ajax developers — everything runs on the client and Yahoo Pipes enables some truly interesting mashup possibilities that go way beyond the “aggregate 200 feeds and filter on my keywords and
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Technorati has their top 100 blogs, with popularity based on the number of links to the blog. These popular blogs are high volume and tend to be heavy on geek-tech subjects, though a number of political blogs are also featured.
These blogs are linked to because the content tends to be pretty good, but the busy blogger may not have time to follow these feeds effectively. If you blog about a niche topic, you’ve probably been scooped by some of your friends who caught a mention of your favorite subject on BoingBoing or engadget.
I’ve created a handy, subject-filtering tool just for you. Enter the keywords you’re interested in and you’ll have your own, custom RSS feed that search for those keywords from many of the most popular, English-language blogs. Subscribe to that feed and you’ve narrowed your view of these high volume blogs to just
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I plan to post a series of tips on how to use RSS to help with your blogging. This first one comes from howtogeek.com.Digg.com can be a great source of traffic to your site. If you want to know if an article has been Dugg, follow the link and read the post.