For those of you with widescreen macs, who use Apple’s Mail.app for your email, may like the following hack to convert it to a 3 column view for viewing messages.

It is not quite as neatly done as you would expect from a proper Apple release, there is a slight quirk with resizing the two main [...]

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I just received an adblock update from Mike over at everythingisnt.com, that made me think that perhaps there are people who still don’t know about this easy, effective, and free technique to block adverts.

The method is simple, use the hosts file to trick your computer into thinking the advert servers linked in web-pages are actually [...]

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Partly as an excercise in trying to write a plugin for WordPress, and partly because I like the idea of having “posted 2 hours ago” on my blog but none of the existing plugins for WP did what I wanted, I have written this plugin.

The plugin consits of a single function, which returns the approximate [...]

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This has been updated again, see this post for details.

I have made some minor updates to the script that generates the Quicktags buttons in the WordPress post editor.

The default quicktags toolbar looks like this screenshot below, with 15 grey buttons:

I wanted a few extra functions, including: Heading 3 & 4; Quotation; small; big; superscript; and [...]

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