Archive | November, 2007

Gmail 2 Greasemonkey Scripts

Nov/13 in Hot Web Topics

Gmail 2 and GreasemonkeyAs some might have realized by now, the new Gmail is great and all – but it breaks a lot of old Greasemonkey scripts that i have grown to love. Over time though, it seems that these crafty developers won’t be held down. Instead they are re-tooling their work and getting them back out there for the public to enjoy.

Here is the list of Greasemonkey scripts that are now working with the new Gmail 2 interface.

Some of these have been wrapped into the new Better Gmail 2 (from the Lifehacker crew) and I am sure others will follow suit. Know of any others that I might have missed?

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Top 18 Hosting Feed List (for Netvibes)

Nov/12 in Web Hosting

Want to see the hosting feeds I read and watch daily?

Netvibes Super Feed List

Want to add this? Just click this button: Add to Netvibes

Some of the web hosting related feeds I watch are:

Know of a few I might be missing? Let me know about it. The biggest missing feed from the list in my opinion is Hosting Hoopla – mainly because this list is where I find a lot of my source material for my hosting link blog project.

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37 WordPress Theme Databases and Blogs

Nov/09 in Popular Posts, Web Development Tutorials

Looking for a new WordPress theme? There are a lot of places to go check out before you decide – so make sure you do a lot of comparisons before you decide on the theme you want.

  1. WordPress.net’s Theme Viewer
  2. WPThemesFree.com
  3. WPThemeSpot.com
  4. ThemePorter.com
  5. WordPressThemes.com
  6. n.design studio’s WordPress Themes
  7. Just Skins – WordPress Category
  8. AlexKing.org – Theme Viewer
  9. Ask Graphics – Free Templates
  10. SEO Friendly WordPress Themes
  11. iGuides.org – WordPress Themes
  12. Free Themes at Cureless.net
  13. Ext JS WordPress Theme
  14. BlogsTheme.com
  15. RowMow’s Free WordPress Themes
  16. CSS Design Templates – WordPress Styles
  17. Templates Factory – WordPress Themes
  18. Free WordpRess Themes at DirJournal.com
  19. AllInfoDir.com WordPress Theme Collection
  20. ReviewMyTheme.com – WordPress
  21. WordPress Theme Generator
  22. 980 Free WordPress Themes
  23. Free Winter Themes – Lunarpages
  24. TopWPThemes.com
  25. TemplateMonster.com – WordPress Themes for Sale
  26. Free WordPress Themes – Lunartics
  27. ElegantWPThemes.com
  28. WordPress WOW!
  29. WordPressTheme.com
  30. GFXedit.com Themes for WordPress
  31. DirSurfer Free WordPress Theme List
  32. SkinsforWP.com
  33. GII WordPress Themes
  34. WordPress Themes on biboz.net
  35. Template Xtreme WordPress Listing
  36. Site Ground WordPress Themes
  37. WordPress at Headsetoptions.org

Also be sure to go check out my theme, Simpblue for WordPress – if you haven’t already. It is free and awesome – some might even save time and say it is freeawesome. I know I would.

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Hide and Show Content in WordPress

Nov/08 in Web Development Tutorials

Here is a handy WordPress theming tip that I have been using for some time now on my web sites. Have a block of text that you would only like to have shown on the main web page index?

Here is the code you’ll want to use:

<?php if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>content only shown on your index page<?php }?>

Replace content only shown on your index page with your own content and then paste that into your WordPress template file. Here are a few more resources to help you out if you want to go a little further with this.

Now where would this come in handy? Well I use it to hide my links and long Google AdSense ad from all places but the index in my sidebar. It might also be useful if you wanted to display a greeting at the top of your web site or blog and only show that greeting on the index page. Truth be told, your imagination is the only limit with this tweak.

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Another Social Hosting Site – HostingBookmarks.com

Nov/07 in Web Development Tutorials, Web Hosting

There is another digg clone from the hosting world to look at today. HostingBookmarks.com is the first though to focus more towards hosting news and help rather than hosting deals.

Hosting Bookmarks

I’d like to see them ditch the “this was made with Pligg” stuff – kind of makes a bad first impression. Funny enough though, when you register and login it goes away from public view so maybe it is something they are just not seeing. To be a success it looks like this web site just needs more members.

Submitting a link couldn’t be easier – so that is one positive. Here is an example link I submitted for testing purposes:

http://www.hostingbookmarks.com/WebHostingHelp/The_Web_Hosting_Show/

Overall with a little bigger of a user base and a few tweaks to the interface here and there, Hosting Bookmarks could be an awesome service and tools for finding out what is going on inside the hosting world.

So with Hosting Bookmarks in the mix, that makes three social hosting tools out there to date:

What will be next? I am still sort of surprised that none of the bigger hosting players have jumped into this mix – but then again it is still early in the game.

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Simpblue – Free WordPress Theme!

Nov/05 in Web Development Tutorials

Update: Test Drive Simpblue at WPThemesFree.com!

My weekend project this week was to finally sit down and create my own original WordPress theme. Here are the results…

simpbluesmall.jpg

Hope it is something you can all enjoy and get something out of. I wanted to create a theme that would both look good by itself but could also easily be customizable too. I think Simpblue does both of those jobs very well.

+ Download the Simpblue WordPress Theme! (.zip)

Only thing that I ask is that you keep my design credit (and link) at the bottom in one way, shape or form.

As this is my very first WordPress theme that I have created I would appreciate any feedback you have. Feel free to leave a comment or drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com. Happy blogging!

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Is Your Domain Registration Really Anonymous?

Nov/01 in Hot Web Topics

Stealing WhoIs InfoIt is pretty easy to get private domain name protection on your domain name through your domain name register. This way you can hide your personal contact information from the public. One really haunting trend though I have seen on a lot of web sites is copying the whois information on domains to display on other web sites.

One service that does this is AboutUs.org.

I found out about this the other day by using DomainTools.com to do a whois lookup. I was checking to see if a domain name my friend registered was privatized and it was in the who is search but About Us still had the information listed. How sneaky!

Another offender is Alexa.com. I really hope this does not become a trend. The whois domain name search is already a big enough problem as it is – we don’t need even more places to check to make sure our private domain name information isn’t being shared with the public at large.

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Video Game Desktop Wallpaper

Nov/01 in Desktop, Free Wallpaper

I love video games images, I think the old NES and SNES days deliver a lost art that you just don’t see with today’s video games. Plus I guess there is some nostalgia wrapped up in my feelings about it too.

If you want to cover you computer’s desktop with some video game levels – time to visit desktopgaming.com.

Video Game Wallpaper

They have content from just about every old video game system you can think of and honestly I could spend hours just browsing through the images. Right now I am using the World of Ruin map from Final Fantasy 6 but later I know I must at least try to have the 1st level from Super Mario Bros.

I just wish somebody had a better world map (I want the whole thing) from the Legend of Zelda – A Link to the Past. Want to make your own? They have a tutorial that will teach you the ways.

Many props go out to Todd for finding this jewel.

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