Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Quickly Delete Cached Pages

Monday, August 6th, 2007

wp-cache thumbIf you’re using the wp-cache plugin for wordpress and you’re editing your website often and you have your cache turned on THEN you may want to make a quick link to blow away the pages in the cache. This is so you don’t have to go all the way into the admin pages wp-cache options blah, blah screen.

[YOUR SITE]/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-cache/wp-cache.php&wp_delete_cache

wp_delete_cache is the hidden page attribute that is submitted when you press the delete cache button.

Google Webmasters Verify and Wordpress

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Wordpress .htaccess file has a rewrite rule that prevents the verify step of google webmasters from succeeding.

Add this to your .htaccess file, above the #BEGIN WORDPRESS

google rule

Do this and all will be fine.

Using Google Desktop Search

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Contents

  1. What is Google Desktop Search (GDS)?
  2. Searching Your Computer
    1. Checking if Desktop search is installed
    2. Doing a search
    1. Quick Search: CTRL-CTRL
    2. Toolbar Search
  3. Summary

This post has a couple of purposes. First is to explain usage of Google Desktop Search. Second it’s a test of the Wordpress and Word 2007 inter-operability.

What is Google Desktop Search

Google desktop search answers the question, where did I save that file?

You should make it a personal goal to navigate the windows file-system. We can remove that human-computer torture from our lives.

Searching Your Computer

To search your computer with Google Desktop Search you must have the program installed.

Checking if Desktop search is installed

  1. Look for the Google Desktop Search Icon in your taskbar.
  2. If you see this icon, then desktop search is installed.
  3. If you don’t see the icon, search isn’t installed. Download and install Google Desktop Search.

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Mapping your del.icio.us tags.

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

example mindmap

I’m a big fan of del.icio.us for organizing everything I read on the internet. I also use FreeMind for structured brainstorming and graphical organization as a mindmap. Displaying tags as a mindmap tree was an obvious fit. I figured it wouldn’t be too hard to transform an xml format from del.icio.us to the FreeMind file format.

DeliciousMind = del.icio.us + MindMap

A great benefit I found when I was researching, I discovered the mindmap format could also include weblinks on each of the nodes. This means you can click through the created mindmap tree and launch websites from your del.icio.us bookmarks directly within Freemind. On Windows, the links are even opened directly in your default browser.

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