All Posts Tagged With: "Modding"
TypoXP Reloaded Theme Now Supports Widgets
I almost forgot to announce that my very popular TypoXP Reloaded theme as of version 1.1 now supports WordPress widgets. The theme has been downloaded over 1300 times, and is in fact currently the most popular theme on the WordPress Theme browser.
I’m very happy about supporting WordPress Widgets as I didn’t have to lift [...]
The Complete Guide To Optimising Windows XP
Over the last 12 months I’ve made several posts that list ways in which you can optimise XP - 10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows XP, 10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows XP and More Ways To Speed Up Windows XP.
I thought that now that I’ve already moved one of my PCs over [...]
Added Funky New Archives Page
I’ve finally got an Archives Page that I’m happy with, based on a custom Extended Live Archives stylesheet. Together with the Google search engine integration I added last month, it will hopefully help readers find relevant posts from the 1,000 or so posts I’ve made over the last 18 months and the 2,000 comments [...]
20Jan2007 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedI Need Laptop Buying Advice Please
I’ve just decided to buy my first laptop. I know next to nothing about laptop processors etc, so I need help speccing out a laptop.
I have a work laptop, but I rarely take it home as I commute by train to work now rather than drive, and if I do work at home, I [...]
Getting Ready For Vista - Does ReadyBoost Work?
I’m almost ready for upgrading to Vista. My new mobo arrives tomorrow and I was just about to buy some flash memory to take advantage of ReadyBoost. If you haven’t come across Vista ReadyBoost, gHacks explains it best:
ReadyBoost is a new disk caching technique in Windows Vista which uses flash memory from flash devices to [...]
How To Enable Gzip With WP-Cache2
I’ve made one last tweak to my site to improve performance that I’d like to highlight to other Wordpress users who use the WP-Cache2 plugin. WP-Cache2 unfortunately doesn’t work with gzip compression, which means that some of your pages might actually load slower than if you just used gzip.
Mark J as usual has provided [...]
Update: 10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don’t Get Glamorised
Writing my review of 2006 has made me realise I haven’t covered Firefox for a long time. One of my popular posts last year was 10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don’t Get Glamorised, which got picked up by all the top sites including Digg. That article is nearly 12 months old, so I [...]
2Jan2007 | Everton | 19 comments | ContinuedMake Web Pages Load Faster
I’ve started using Internet Explorer again as the majority of my readers use IE, so I need to make sure my pages look ok. I found an old page I’d bookmarked which gives clear instructions via video on how to make web pages load faster in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
If you want to [...]
Help: Showing Multiple Previous Posts
I’ve managed to add tabbed content blocks under my posts which I think make my posts easier to read and also make it clearer to readers what their navigation options are at the critical point when they’ve finished reading a post, where I need to get them to read another post or subscribe, or they’ll [...]
26Dec2006 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedFriday Fun: The Best Stories Of 2006 That Shouldn’t Have Happened!
It’s coming up to that time of the year, when everyone starts writing reviews of the last 12 months. Pretty soon everyone will be compiling the usual lists of the ‘The Best Gadgets Of 2006′, ‘The Best Websites of 2006′, ‘The Best Firefox Extensions’, ‘The Top Stories of 2006′ etc etc
I thought it’d be [...]

