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Switch Back to Technorati Incoming Links

October 11th, 2007 at 11:00 PM by Matt Freedman

When WordPress 2.3 was released, it introduced a change that, most likely, affected every Blogger using WordPress. Whether the change affected the Blogger in a good or bad way, it still happened.

That change I’m talking about is, of course, the Incoming Links section, of your WordPress Dashboard, beginning to use Google Blog Search, instead of Technorati, to get a list of the links. Using Google over Technorati does have it’s advantages. Google is faster and includes links not just from Blogs, but from all sites. However, if you’re a Blogger that’s obsessed with your rankings on all the rankings sites, you might want to see who’s linking to you through Technorati’s eyes, so that you can easily tell when your Technorati rank is improving.

So, for people who want to change the Incoming Links on their Dashboard back to using Technorati, I created a simple WordPress plugin. I called the plugin Technorati Incoming Links. When activated, the plugin will start using Technorati for the Incoming Links instead of Google. If you want to switch back to Google, just deactivate the plugin.

This WordPress plugin requires WordPress 2.3 or higher and is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.

I hope you enjoy the Plugin! 😀 If you find anything wrong with it, let me know.

Deal: 1GB Crucial PC2-5300 RAM at NCIX

October 7th, 2007 at 11:14 PM by Matt Freedman

Crucial RAM

Just wanted to tell you about a great deal over at NCIX. They have Crucial PC2-5300 1GB RAM for just $19.99 (CAD)! They have it $25 off of the regular price of $59.99 and Crucial has a $15 mail-in-rebate. As of writing this, they only have 137 left at this awesome price, so you’d better hurry up if you’re going to order this.

Free Ruby on Rails Book

October 4th, 2007 at 12:30 PM by Matt Freedman

Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web ApplicationsSitePoint is currently (and for the next 57 days or so) giving away a free download of an entire book!

That’s right, they’re giving away a free download (PDF) of a book called “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications”, which is a Ruby on Rails beginner book. You get the entire book, all 12 Chapters and all 447 Pages.

To get the book, all you have to do is to go here, click the Download button, enter your email address in the window that pops-up and then check your email for the PDF link.

This is a great resource if you’re interested in developing in Ruby on Rails. I might do some playing around with it, since BlueFur supports Ruby on Rails. Even if you don’t have the time to play around with it right now, download the book anyways, it’s free and you might want to use it at a later time.

Problogger’s Birthday Giveaway

October 3rd, 2007 at 10:04 PM by Matt Freedman

Over at Problogger they’re celebrating their Blog Birthday! Problogger is giving away over $54 000 (USD) worth in prizes!

Currently, you can win two 20″ LG monitors with DisplayLink. DisplayLink is technology that allows you to plug a monitor into your computer via USB. It is true plug-and-play!

You know what? All you have to do to be entered to win these monitors is write up a post on your blog and link to Problogger’s Birthday Bash! Full Details here.

So, go and enter the contest, and be one of the first people to own a DisplayLink powered monitor (and two of them, to boot)!

Random Blurbs: Sept. 30

September 30th, 2007 at 1:19 PM by Matt Freedman

Welcome to Random Blurbs: Sept. 30. Random Blurbs posts will be like speedlinking posts, except different. 😛

Michael Kwan has wrote a post on tips for first-time job hunters, which is fairly specific to me. After I emailed him about tips for making a Resume for someone who has never had a job before (eg: me), he said that he’d write up a post on it, and he did. Thanks, Michael.

BlueFur Code is completely inactive right now, so Gary has “hired” me to make it active and essentially manage it. Starting tomorrow, I will be working on it to make it more active and to get people to join in on the coding fun. If you’re interested in doing to Group Programming Projects, keep an eye on the BlueFur Code Blog.

Vote on the new Poll. There’s a new Poll this week asking whether you use a Desktop or Laptop computer… or both! Vote on it here.

 

What's Your Internet's Advertised Download Speed?

  • 6-10 mbps (67%)
  • < 1 mbps (33%)
  • 1-5 mbps (0%)
  • 11-20 mbps (0%)
  • 21-50 mbps (0%)
  • > 50 mbps (0%)

Total Votes: 3

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That’s it for this weeks Random Blurbs. 😀