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Why Is This Person Following Me on Google+?: A Suggestion

If you’re like me and on Google+ odds are you have people who have added you to their circles that you don’t know. I actually don’t mind if people I don’t know add me to their circles (Twitter has desensitized me to this) but I don’t want to share certain personal information with them. One […]


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Building a TwitPic Replacement with WordPress

A couple of months back the Twitter world was aghast at changes made to the terms of service of TwitPic, a third party service that stores photos for easy sharing with your Twitter followers, that would allow it to sell any photos posted to it royalty free and the subsequent deal it signed to, in […]


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Share on Facebook Updated to 1.7

Yesterday morning I released version 1.7 of Share on Facebook. The new version addresses an issue that some users were experiencing when saving options. The redirect that is triggered to bring the user back to the page with the “Options saved.” message was causing this issue. This issue has been fixed. See the Share on […]


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+1 for WordPress Now Available

Earlier this year Google announced Google +1. +1 is Google’s social initiative where you can give an item a thumbs up that your friends will see when using Google’s search engine. The service was originally only avaiable on Google’s search engine. This week Google made the +1 button available for anyone to put on their […]


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Displaying Backslashes (And Other Non-Displayable Characters) in WordPress

The other day I ran into a problem while writing a post to one of my WordPress blogs. I needed to use a backslash character (\) but it wouldn’t appear when I viewed the post. Though this character is saved in the database and displayed on the backend when editing the post it is not […]