Fellow blogger Alex King is an exceptionally talented guy, he never ceases to amaze me with his adeptness in creating new, and more important useful plugins for the likes of Wordpress and for making the most of some of the…

If you’re reading this, then presumably you’re either viewing the post in a browser window or an email program via the free updates service, but how would you get your regular fix of Sciencetext, or MajorGeeks for that matter, if…

This week’s Saturday Quick Tip is one for anyone who gets a shipload of spam.

Install antispam filtering on your blog (Akismet, say) or forward all email to GMail for spam filtering. Train the filters by flagging false positives or false…

Do you ever see strange 404 missing page errors in your weblogs or your Google Webmaster Tools diagnostics page. These pages often contain the term “office2003blue” stuck in between a URL and an address for a page on your site.…

How organized is your computer desktop? Not very? Same here! I install and test programs almost on a daily basis and they litter my desktop with new icons. I also save some files to my desktop for really quick access.…

If you’d like to connect with your visitors at a more personal level then try this classy new Wordpress Plugin from tech writer Wayne Smallman. I’m not sure I can claim to have inspired this plugin in any shape or…

I and others (including Sig Figs regular Wayne Smallman) have discussed how spammers have started trying to engage webmasters in comment spam conversations with a view to getting their stupid little messages through the spam filters and moderation processes. It’s quite…

Is your blog getting scraped? Don’t risk a Google duplicate content penalty. A simple Wordpress tweak to your feed-rss2.php file will make the scrapers link back to your original post.

Find your feed-rss2.php file in the wp-includes folder and add the…

Everyone with a PC and various external hard drives, card readers, and other storage devices will no doubt recognize the frustration of running backup and reader software and getting path not found errors. It usually occurs because you set up…

PureBlogging ran a post by web designer Steven Snell on the subject of the advantages of running multiple blogs. In it, Snell offered what he sees as the top ten benefits. These included the chance to improve total income, increase…

Do you have a website or blog? Do you use Google’s Webmaster Tools? If not, why not? It’s one of the greatest tools available for free to help you improve the search engine optimization (SEO) aspects of your site.

With Google…

New research shows how an online learning community at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, can improve creativity and boost learning using virtual tools with both newbies and experts working together.

“Within such a community the participants are exposed to a number…

Here’s the first ever Saturday QuickTip (SQT) from Sig Figs

If you’re using webmail or blogging antispam tools don’t ever tag as spam emails that have come from your server (comment form messages, comment subscriptions, or test blog comments, for instance).…

Some time ago, Rob Watts over on YackYack created a dynamic blog post, one that utilizes the rand function to appear to be discussing any given popular topic. A page refresh will bring up a new subject. It might be…

If you use WiFi access in public places or even at home or in an office, you could be open to all kinds of scams. Anyone with the know-how could access your login details, credit card number and other information…

There are lots of benefits to commenting on this site, some of them are altruistic, others are ephemeral, some of them are automatic. Take the effect on the Top Commentators Plugin, for instance. If you comment frequently, then the blogging…

I know it’s probably a little late for New Year’s Resolutions, unless you’re Chinese of course, and then it’s a bit early (The Year of the Rat begins February 8, 2008). Anyway, one of my thoughts for 2008 was to…

Jesse Ruderman posted a snippet of bookmarklet code you could call Asterisked Password Revealer. It’s a bookmarklet that shows you the passwords behind the asterisks, in case you forgot what you used and want to save it to a properly encrypted…