If you’re a jQuery lover like we are, check out vTip at Vertigo Project. vTip is designed to quickly provide very lightweight (1.11KB js, 272b CSS) tooltips to users of jQuery. The zip includes everything you need (including an example page), as well as jQuery for the examples to work. They look great and are extremely [...]

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I’m assuming this wouldn’t do well full scale as the spammers would catch on, but I recently saw a wordpress plugin which adds input fields to your comment forms that are hidden using CSS (e.g. display: none). Then if data is submitted in those inputs you can tell it wasn’t a human with a browser, [...]

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Speeding up Vista is something I read a lot about – its more of a niggly habbit really but I’m the kind of guy who defrags files more than once a day, so when it comes to disabling services; cleaning up the drive and improving performance I’m a bit of a nut. Image by cocoate.com [...]

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Image via CrunchBase After my previous post about jailbreaking an iPhone, I would like to point out the difference between jailbreaking and unlocking to those who are unsure about the whole procedure. Jailbreaking The iPhone and iPod touch hack that allow users to gain access to the entire Unix filesystem. In Unix terms, this refers [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Lifehacker have an article detailing 5 pieces of software you should have if you are planning on setting up a home network with some sort of server taking care of either storage, http access or a mail server. Media files, data synchronization, and remote backups, oh my! Home computing has advanced to [...]

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There is a bug apparently brought on by Firebug where a large download can sit on “A few seconds remaining…” indefinitely in Firefox; something I had happen to me this morning after downloading a 2.2Gig file. Naturally your first guess is to pause and resume the download – but this fails, meaning you may have [...]

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We posted an entry called “Triple Your WordPress Blog Hits in a Week“, which essentially guides you through installing an automated blog translation tool in order to attract non-English readers to your blog – this is an update to that post. Now in the beginning it did look like we had tripled our readership but [...]

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This is especially valuable if you’ve been rolling a WordPress install thats been around for a while (such as ours); a plugin which deletes old post revisions, spams, and optimizes the tables in your database! WP-Optimize [plugin] is pretty simple but it may save you a lot of space, and speed things up a bit [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Recently I’ve needed to compress the **** out of a various selection of files (binaries, text, etc) and been looking for the best method. I stumbled accross Maximum Compression’s ultimate test: http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf.php Their test is made up of a huge list of files as shown below: Filetype(s) Description % of total # [...]

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For anyone who doesn’t know, Gravatar is the global avatar system used by a lot of bloggers, specifically supported by the latest WordPress. Essentially, it associates an avatar with an email address you use to comment, so you can have your avatar show when you comment on blogs! Now, naturally its important to have an [...]

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