Technology Talk – 10/07/2007
October 7th, 2007
Here are a bunch of posts I enjoyed throughout this week:
- Mashable has finally got around to providing their SEO Toolbox. This blog focuses a little attention to SEO, so I felt this was a good reference to have.
- Foxit Reader releases version 2.2. Ryan at CyberNet News, as usual, has the latest about what to expect from this new version. Foxit Reader is one of my favorite pieces of free software, so I recommend it to anyone using Adobe Reader still. Ryan also has a great post offering Opera Tips & Tricks.
- Karthik 0f Shankri-la gives us 5 Great Ways to Use Google Alerts. I’ve played around with Google Alerts a little bit, but never really found a good use for them. This post helped me find a few ways to use them that I hadn’t thought of before.
- Feedburner announced a critical update to their Feedsmith plugin (which redirects your WordPress feed to your Feedburner feed. Its critical because the update is security related. I use the Permalink Redirect plugin for feed redirecting, as well as its standard use.
- GHacks provides their favorite 14 Firefox Themes. The post is helpful, as it includes pictures of the themes!
- Theme Playground shares their favorite magazine-style WordPress themes. Unfortunately, included are paid themes, including the Revolution theme.
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Great work man! I only use SEO for firefox and SeoQuake 
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Does Gravator have an affilitate program? 
Great list. All the important ones covered. I've made my own Top 10 list at the following;
http://thatimportantblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/10-best-greasemonkey-userscripts-2009.html
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Glad you found the post useful. Google Alerts has become very essential to me in blogging. Appreciate the link..
I upgraded my Feedburner plugin right away because of your site getting hacked.
I think I’ll be doing upgrades a lot more frequently now.
Ryan – Yeah, people often forget to upgrade their plugins.
Out of curiosity, I know you build a lot of yours into your site, but do you upgrade them in your site when the plugin receives upgrades?
The stuff that I have built into my site has all been hand coded by me. Sometimes I looked at the source code for some of the plugins available to see how they did it, but I always did a lot of it myself to ensure that my server wasn’t going to do more work than it had to. Looking at some of the plugins almost makes me sick how bloated they actually are, and how much extra load they can place on a server. Sure some people love the extra features, but most people don’t realize what kind of performance hit it can cause. I focus on performance before functionality, because people won’t want to use something if it’s slow.