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Xmarks is closing
For quite a few years now I’ve happily used Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) as my de-facto bookmarks synchroniser. However, they’ve now announced that within the next 90 days, Xmarks will be closing down. It’s mentioned on their blog, but not their site front page (and I probably wouldn’t have realised if I hadn’t seen the news…
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Google Rich Snippets
Google have recently introduced a new “Rich Snippets” feature that allows you greater interactivity with the way your website results appear in their search results. Using one of 3 formats (microdata, microformats, or RDFa) you can add “meta data” about your site which Google will then pick up on and then format your results appropriately.…
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WordPress & Spam Pingbacks
My posts often receive s – these are other blogs that have referenced my post. However, I still insist on manually authorising these, like comments, because they too can be prone to spam. These spam sites are often WordPress sites which are set up with plugins installed that are designed to trawl and integrate content…
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Portable DVD players in Cars
A lot of new cars appear to come with DVD players built into headrests, etc. Mine doesn’t and I’ve wondered whether they’re worthwhile. My daughter borrowed a portable DVD player whilst on holiday recently and enjoyed the experience of being able to watch DVDs wherever she wanted, but never go an opportunity to try it…
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Play at Pump
It’s been a while since I posted something personal. Or a rant. But today I had the joy of using a well-know supermarket’s petrol station. In fact, I use it most of the time – the petrol is cheap and I can collect Club Card points (Oops, gave that away) as well. Anyway, they have…