Aside from writing regular posts, responding to comments and emails, and keeping on top of spam, running a Wordpress blog is an ongoing process. There are sporadic updates for plugins and themes and regular Wordpress updates to the core system files…

Some bloggers choose not to display their Feedburner feedcount, but as long as they haven’t disabled it or deliberately hidden it, you can usually find out what it is. Visit the blog click their RSS button and then copy the…

If you are running a Wordpress blog, you may find that at certain times, maybe when there’s a full moon, or there’s an “R” in the month, that certain admin activities lead to either a blank page or a 404…

“Jordan” emailed Sig Figs with a problem he couldn’t solve relating to his MySpace account. It’s probably something a lot of web 2.0 users will face at some point in their surfing.

“Hi Someone got on to my MySpace account and…

Are you worried that your intercepts are not quite as hi-fi as you hoped? Can’t catch the details of other peoples’ electronic conversations? Your wiretaps letting you down? Welcome to the unfortunate world of the modern eavesdropper!

Computing and information scientists…

Despite assertions in the Western media, people in China can still get all the news about Tibet and other sensitive issues they like. However, don’t waste time searching on Youtube for video clips or in Google News. A search for…

There is an easy way to reveal a Feedburner count even if the blog in question doesn’t display an FB feedcount button. Just use a URL of the following format - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/BlogFeedburnerName. The following URL will show you how many subscribers…

What do the following blog post titles have in common?

“Mid-week Roundup”, “Links 2008-03-19″, “Updates”, “Weekly Links, #3, March”, “March Wrap-up”, “Comment”, “New sites - March”, “Best of the blog, March 2008″, “Blog Update”

Did you feel inspired to read any of…

Is advancing multimedia entertainment technology set to ruin the movie theater industry, do movie goers face extinction? Or, is it just this generation’s equivalent of the disruptive technologies that were first television and then the VCR, which led to renewed…

Do you comment on Blogspot (Google Blogger) blogs? If you login to a Blogspot account to do so you’re missing out on a new-ish feature of Blogspot - nicknames. Instead of logging in to your personal Blogspot account or using…

Remember Alexa? It was one of the earliest add on search toolbars for web browsers and came in for a lot of criticism early on as it showed up in the alerts and logs of anti-spyware programs. It is, of…

NEWSFLASH - Sig Figs’ partner site - Sciencebase.com - is listed among the founding partners in the Alltop Science section right above NYT Science and next to Sciencefriday. You can find the science section itself under the “GEEKERY” tag on the…

There are times when you might want to uninstall Firefox. For instance, you might want to clean up your machine and do a clean reinstall without all the Firefox addons for security reasons. You might even have become enamoured of the…

I’ve talked about the little treasures that are Google Sitelinks before. They show up when you search for big name sites by big name. They are something that a lot of webmasters and bloggers hope to achieve as they do…

If you are using Google Bookmarks and you’re browsing with Firefox, then you really ought to grab the Google Bookmarks Button addon to improve your surfing experience. The button slips into the Firefox toolbar and enhances the way you handle Google…

Regular readers may recall a short “vanity” item I posted recently entitled David Bradley Killer, Lover, Player, Puller in which I pointed you to the seemingly thousands of other people on this planet called David Bradley. There are actors, computer engineers…

Most blogs have some kind of social bookmarking implementation whether that’s a Digg plugin, that gives Diggers a quick way to Digg a specific post or a plugin like AddThis or ShareThis that give you the full spectrum of bookmarking…

Passwords and security are a perennial problem we all face when using the Interwebs. There are various solutions, but none of them are perfect. Even the strongest encryption technologies available for common use could be broken given enough computer power…

Countless times I choose “Open…”, “Save As…” or whatever other Windows file explorer function from within a program only to discover that the order of the files and folders has reverted to some seemingly random state. Here’s how to make…