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Entries from December 2005

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Performancing for Firefox

December 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

I have kept using Firefox on my Mac, and today I read about the Performancing for Firefox extension, so I thought I’d give it a try – I’m posting this using it. It’s quite nifty – you get a split-view screen with the posting editor at the bottom, while being able to continue using the [...]

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Wordpress 2.0 and plugins

December 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Wordpress 2.0 will be released any day now, and like any self-respecting geek, I would like to upgrade as soon as possible, just to have the shiniest, newest toy. The trickiest issue seems to be plugin compatibility. Here’s my current list of enabled plugins, and their status according to the compatibility list:

Akismet 1.12 -works
Akismet spam [...]

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Akismet works

December 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments

After a few days using Akismet, it seems to work quite well. My blog doesn’t receive so much spam so far, but since I installed it 9 days ago, it has caught 11 spam messages, all correctly, and I haven’t had to moderate any more spam. Woohoo!

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Converting Sogudi bookmarks to Firefox (HOWTO)

December 11th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I’ve been using Safari on my Mac since Tiger came out, but with Firefox 1.5 being released, I’ve decided to give it another try (I use Firefox on Linux, but I haven’t been very happy with it on the Mac before). It properly imported my Safari bookmarks, settings and even the cookies! Quite impressive. the [...]

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Anti-spam measures

December 11th, 2005 · No Comments

As of late, the amount of spam attempts on my blog has increased considerably. So far I’ve been deleting it manually (I have all comments moderated anyway), but it’s getting tiring, so I’ve just installed Akismet, we’ll see how it works…

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