6 August 2008 – 17:05
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Today, I just passed by an article talking about MyBlogLog and basically, they are giving some reasons I totally agree with for not using the system.
In fact I used to use that service, but it’s a complete waste of space on your website, and most of the people displayed in there are not leaving comments anyway.
In this article, the author suggest the use of a plugin displaying top commenters or last commenters not only using their names, but also via gravatar service.
So, here is the plugin, he got the idea and I made it :)
Here is the list of features :
- Display whether Last commenters or top commenters
- Display user name (or not, via options)
- Display link to user’s website (or not, via options)
- Default gravatar
- Gravatar size
Download ZdCommentsWidget
Once you installed the plugin, just add it to your sidebar and choose your options. A tutorial and Documentation will be written in the next days.
It’s not yet available through Wordpress extend, but it will be published today or tommorow. So you’ll be able to get automatic updates :)
By Anthony
5 August 2008 – 16:00
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I know this tip has been known for ages, but I wanted not only to explain how to do it, but also how and why it works.
This little search query will return you servers with mp3 files :
`-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3`
Let’s analyse this query:
- -inurl:htm -inurl:html => will not return results with “htm” or “html” in the url (no html page)
- intitle:”index of” => will look for “index of” in the title tag of the page.
- “Last modified” => will look for that string in the resulting page, this is due to the fact that most webserver software will display this when displaying a directory listing
- mp3 => just because you are looking for mp3 files
So if you want to extend this query, you can replace mp3 by anything (let’s say pdf for example) and even add a title or group, or album in the search, for example by adding : “Placebo”.
For example if you want to download ebooks, you can replace mp3 by “pdf ebooks“.
Of course, downloading stuff you don’t own legally if strictly forbidden !
By Anthony
4 August 2008 – 10:36
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Last saturday, while hanging around in Toulouse with our two daughters, I finally took the decision to buy myself a MP3 player. Yes, not a new one, just buy one, this just means I didn’t own one before last saturday.
I found that I would be likely to go to work with music on my ears walking, instead of driving to work. Indeed, I work at 900 meters from home, and therefore I could spend less on gas by walking.
This new player is a Sony NWZ-S616F RED with 4Gb memory. For now, it also enables me to work with music on my ears :D
At this very moment, I’m writing this post with “The Beach OST” which is to me one of the most meditating music I’ve heard, not talking of the movie that I liked a lot !
So let’s talk about the player:
- 4Gb memory
- FM Tuner
- Video player (MPEG-4, M4V)
- Music player, of course (AAC, MP3, PCM, WMA, Protected WMA)
- JPEG photo player
The screen is very clear and even if I will probably never watch a movie on it, the colors are great and it’s very feasible to watch a movie.
To me, it’s probably the best choice I could have done, it has great autonomy (around 33 hours while playing music) and great sound, and all this under 50 grams
By Anthony
31 July 2008 – 16:58
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After publishing my lastest plugin, I saw that some blogs are pulling posts directly from the RSS feed to publish it on their “splogs” (spam blogs). In order to avoid duplicate content, I decided to create a new plugin that will enable you to add anything you want inside your feed’s posts.
This addition is only limited to the feeds. For example, you will see that at the bottom of this posts nothing special appears on the site, but a copyright will be displayed inside the RSS version of it.
This can also be used to add any HTML code you want, it can be added on top of the post or at the bottom of it.
You will also note that I removed the related content plugin, I didn’t find relevant the correlation made between posts and related content.
Here is a Question to the readers, would you like to see the plugin published ?
[Image credits : eJk]
By Anthony
(4 votes)
