Posted in Tips and Tricks on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
This past month, I became aware of the great, free web service offered by the team over at OpenDNS. For the uninitiated, OpenDNS is an alternative DNS. Every time you access the Internet, you use Domain Name Servers or DNS. Typically, your DNS is provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). However, switching to the […]
Posted in WordPress Plugins on May 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
I just installed the reCAPTCHA WordPress plugin. It works like similar CAPTCHA plugins, but with a literary twist. From the reCAPTCHA website:
Over 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved every day by people around the world. reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive. When you solve a reCAPTCHA, you help […]
Posted in Tips and Tricks on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Today I needed to receive a fax, and the free service at K7.net came in handy. From their website:
Sign up for K7, the world’s leading web-based unified messaging system that channels your free voicemail and fax messages directly to your e-mail. K7 Unified Messaging provides you with a free phone number. This number enables you […]
Posted in WordPress, General on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Having designed and developed websites for the past seven years, lately I’ve found WordPress’ feature set, usability, extensibility, and open source community make it an ideal CMS solution for many of my clients. Now as a way of generating some interaction with my peers and marketing my abilities, I have added my own WordPress blog […]
Posted in WordPress Plugins on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I have seen at least one other WordPress Subpages Widget out there; however, I wrote this one before I found the other one. Check out my WenderHost Subpages Widget for more details, a demo, and the download.
Posted in Tips and Tricks on May 22nd, 2007 10 Comments »
In mid-April I started routing all of my michaelwender.com email through Google Apps Gmail. Since that time, I’ve definitely seen a boost in my productivity. Gmail’s “conversations”, filtering, and spam protection capabilities make working with my email much easier and quicker.
However, despite this boost, one small snag temporarily threatened my confidence in the switch-over, and […]
