By Owen | August 30, 2008
I came across a great plugin for Firefox the other day. It’s called PicLens by a company called CoolIris. It takes a webpage which shows you photos, like Picasa or Flickr and turns all the photos into a lovely 3D wall. You can pan around, click on a photo, zoom in, then move off to [...]
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I’ve just written a WordPress Plugin that lets you display the last few people who dropped their Entercard on your blog. It’s a fun little widget especially if you’re into the whole Entrecard space. I quite enjoy building WordPress plugins; and WpAuctions was great fun. Who knows, one of these days I might be spending [...]
I’m working on some enhancements to WPAuctions at the moment. The free version is available for download and everyone can have a shot at selling their stuff on their own blog. We’re working on a premium version now that will have some more features and ship with a number of new styles. Should be ready [...]
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By Owen | February 20, 2008
I’ve been looking for a couple of plugins for WordPress. Here’s one I had great success with:
Google Maps for WordPress Plugin: This is just great. It lets you put a map up on your blog in a really really easy fashion. All you need to do is set up a link in the correct format [...]
By Owen | January 29, 2008
Every once in a while some new product comes along which changes the way that things are done. This time it’s eBay’s dominance in the online auctions market that is about to be shaken! Everyone can now auction off their products, stuff in their garage and run an auction blog FEE FREE thanks to WP [...]
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By Owen | November 2, 2007
You might have noticed that things have been quieter than usual around here recently. It’s partly because I have an exam coming up, but also because I’m working on a top secret project I can’t talk about just yet. You can rest assured that it will be awesome though; and it does have some link [...]
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Approaching a spam milestone
This blog seems to be getting a few hundred spam comments a day and I’ve just noticed that I’ve just superceeded 48,500 spam comments stopped by Akismet. Not that I mind spam so much nowadays; my plugins do an awfully good job in stopping them get through, but it’s still a pretty big number. Most [...]