Category Archives: tools/tips

Various web bits – Firefox3.0, image editing online, and make your own comix

robinna/ December 5, 2007/ social media, webdesign, tools/tips, my art, Search engines/browsers/ 0 comments

Good overview of Firefox3.0 in terms of web editing is located here I uploaded a rather large (and upside down) photo to pixenate, a free online web editing tool that even works with facebook.Pixenate tools include zoom, crop, resize, rotate, red eye, whiten, saturation, a few other features. Pretty nifty and easy to use. When you’ve finished, you can import

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Link to all blogger posts

robinna/ November 17, 2007/ tools/tips/ 0 comments

So, I was trying to figure out how to create a link to all of my blogger posts. This one will work for now:http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000

google vs. yahoo (interesting little visual)

robinna/ November 5, 2007/ tools/tips, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

Sometimes I find the most interesting things on the internet… A cliché true, but I found this little google vs. yahoo comparison today. I’ve no idea of its accuracy (but I would think it probably is), but a very neat little tool to compare results ranking for a particular term in yahoo vs. google.

will portals win the social networking war?

robinna/ October 23, 2007/ tools/tips, web 2.0+, networking/ 2 comments

Finally, some real contendors in aggregating social networking — a centralized spot to collect all of YOUR web 2.0 stuff! Isn’t it funny how there is all of this “stuff” and then the next step is to organize it and streamline it (sounds like cataloging, no)? Create the content and then organize it! 😉 Pageflakes has a lot of functionality

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Speed up your website!

robinna/ October 6, 2007/ webdesign, tools/tips, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

For those of you who create websites, here is an interesting article about speeding up websites (and a free little tool, too!): ySlow a firebug/firefox plug-in: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/Most of the rules revolve around making sure the browser doesn’t haveto work too hard to load and display your Web pages, particularly bymaking maximum use of the browser cache. That’s where your browserstores

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display only selected blogger labels (tags)

robinna/ September 15, 2007/ tools/tips/ 0 comments

For those of you who use blogger and use labels/tags, just a heads up, if you delete posts that you have labelled or try to remove labels, it may not work properly. If you need help deleting labels, check this post. A few ways around displaying all labels (and it would seem that this would be a feature in blogger

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deleting unused labels in blogger

robinna/ September 12, 2007/ tools/tips/ 2 comments

For those of you who use blogger and use labels/tags, just a heads up, if you delete posts that you have labelled or try to remove labels, it may not work properly. You’ve removed the label from all posts, yet there it is in the label list, with a post count. Clicking on the post count, shows no posts associated

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5000 resources to do just about anything online

robinna/ September 9, 2007/ software, publishing, social media, Leadership, CMS, webdesign, twitter, tools/tips, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

5000 resources to do just about anything online I love mashable and I can’t possibly summarize everything in this article, but if you are looking for new things to do with your blog/website, or just to have a little fun on the ‘net, do take a look. You can find things such as 30 widgets for a wordpress blog, 70+

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limiting blogger labels (tags)

robinna/ September 6, 2007/ tools/tips/ 0 comments

Using the blog clound from phydeaux3 and limit labels by post count is a handy way to control the size of your blog cloud. The code and instructions for the label cloud are here:http://phy3blog.googlepages.com/Beta-Blogger-Label-Cloud.html Tweaking the var cloudMin= 1 to var cloudMin= 2in the script will suppress any label from display in the cloud with less than 2 posts (i.e.,

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migrating to a new user name in blogger.

robinna/ September 1, 2007/ Scripting, tools/tips, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

I started blogging at blogger long before google purchased it. Once google purchased it, users were given the option of continuing to blog the old way, or move on over to the google way. To entice people to move on over to the g way, google offered enhanced blogger with lots more functionality (widgets!!!!!!!! love widgets. thank you ajax. another

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