Entries from May 2007
More RSS Radars: Video Search
May 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Video on the Internet is hot, hot, hot. But you already knew that. You visit loads of video sharing sites to check out what’s new. Or maybe you already monitor a few sites using their RSS feed in a feed reader. But now you’re finding it increasingly harder to keep track or find the types [...]
Tubetorial Quick Tips – WordPress – Choosing a Theme
May 29th, 2007 · 6 Comments
As I mentioned in the WordPress – Choosing Permalinks quicktips tubetorial, WordPress has a lot of nice features unconfigured out of the box. For example, despite there being probably thousands of free themes for WP 1.5 and 2.x series, the standard install only comes with two themes. One is so so and the other is [...]
Tubetorial Quick Tips – WordPress – Choosing Permalinks
May 29th, 2007 · 17 Comments
This tip is aimed at those of you using the WordPress blogging platform, or planning to. WordPress is relatively easy to set up. Many web hosting companies offer it as something you can set up with just a few clicks and some configuration information. Even if you don’t have that luxury, it’s still relatively easy [...]
Tubetorial Quick Tips – Yahoo Pipes – Concatenate Strings
May 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Yahoo Pipes has numerous modules which may appear useless at first glance. However, my feeling is that they’ve been very carefully selected for some very powerful RSS feed processing. This post is part of a series of “quick tips” for Yahoo Pipes that will lead up to more complex feed manipulation.
While most Pipes modules produce [...]
Advanced Mindmaps: Processing A Keyword List For Blog Post Ideas
May 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Looking for ideas for your blog? NicheADay is a web service that emails you a list of keywords for a hot niche of the day. Sign up is free, but you can use any keyword list for this tubetorial, which will show you how you can take a keyword list and quickly process it in [...]
Review: W3 <MarkUp/>
May 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments
As a blogger and an occasional web developer, I weave pages for that growing network called the internet, for clients I have not seen, who live 5-8 time zones away from me. Where I work is irrelevant, as I work anywhere; I work everywhere. Right now I’m on my bed, my trusty Macbook [...]
Create Your RSS Radar With Yahoo Pipes
May 21st, 2007 · 8 Comments
The Closet Entrepreneur has a nice tutorial on how to find bargains with RSS feeds and a feed reader. Many bargain sites have an RSS feed, which of course you can track with your favorite feed reader. If you’re looking for something specific, though, you may not want to wade through multiple feeds and irrelevant [...]
Brainstorming Ideas With Mindmaps
May 19th, 2007 · 16 Comments
Mindmaps are one of those tools that appeal to some people and not to others. I think that’s because they haven’t been shown how powerful they are for productivity and planning. Personally, I’ve been using mindmaps for 25+ years, mostly on paper, and more recently with software.
Mindmaps allow you to brainstorm, to plan projects, to [...]
Creating a Photolog With Tumblr and Flickr
May 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments
This tubetorial is a loose continuation of the last one, create a random photostream, which used Yahoo Pipes, Twitter and Flickr. You can either use the RSS feed from the Pipes random photostream, or choose any RSS feed that contains images, including one of the many “tag” feeds available at the Flickr site.
For simplicity on [...]
