WP e-Commerce, WordPress Plugin
The lite version of this plugin allows you to sell products via PayPal only. Whilst it’s called ‘lite’ it’s not that simple as such. You can have your products in categories, there’s a shopping basket and it uses the PayPal IPN for instant notification. I’ve not gone through the whole process but [...]

WP e-Commerce, WordPress Plugin

The lite version of this plugin allows you to sell products via PayPal only. Whilst it’s called ‘lite’ it’s not that simple as such. You can have your products in categories, there’s a shopping basket and it uses the PayPal IPN for instant notification. I’ve not gone through the whole process but I would assume that if you’re selling a digital product it will also then provide a download link to the buyer to download the product, as I’ve had the option to set how many times the product can be downloaded by the buyer.

This sounds like a really interesting method for selling stuff from your website. Sarah gives several interesting details (click over) and then the developer comes along in the comments to say they’re adding even more awesome stuff.

Let Mechanical Turk Do Your Dirty Work
For instance, someone with a deals forum was paying people .15 per forum post if they made unique post with a deal or coupon.
This is an interesting concept. Sure, a lot of people will use it to game Digg and so on, but you could also use it [...]

Let Mechanical Turk Do Your Dirty Work

For instance, someone with a deals forum was paying people .15 per forum post if they made unique post with a deal or coupon.

This is an interesting concept. Sure, a lot of people will use it to game Digg and so on, but you could also use it for having someone submit articles for you or post your Wordpress posts, etc. Definitely something to keep in mind.

OMG… What have I done?!?
So I did a complete wipe of the site - I’m thinking it’s in the tables of the database, I’ve done fix and restore with no success.  I had to bite the bullet and wipe everything and start again.
If you’re a self-taught webmaster, you are so totally going to go through [...]

OMG… What have I done?!?

So I did a complete wipe of the site - I’m thinking it’s in the tables of the database, I’ve done fix and restore with no success.  I had to bite the bullet and wipe everything and start again.

If you’re a self-taught webmaster, you are so totally going to go through stuff like this. It just happens. When it’s not something you screwed up, it’s the host who turns out to be less adept than you thought. When it’s not the host, it’s your software, and so on. Empress lists some good lessons you can learn from her experience.

Test Everything - a very cool tool for testing all sorts of things on your websites. Via MakeUseOf.
Google’s cut their referral payments from $250 to $100. And dropped most foreign webmasters altogether (keeping North Americans, Latin Americans and Japanese).
Skellie explains how to build your blog with forum traffic by creating a compelling signature and posting [...]

• Test Everything - a very cool tool for testing all sorts of things on your websites. Via MakeUseOf.
• Google’s cut their referral payments from $250 to $100. And dropped most foreign webmasters altogether (keeping North Americans, Latin Americans and Japanese).
• Skellie explains how to build your blog with forum traffic by creating a compelling signature and posting in relevant topics. Trust me, this tip works.

D’oh! I never before noticed there’s a way to auto-hide your taskbar in Windows so that it only appears when you hover your mouse over where it would be. This lets you reclaim some screen real estate and avoid distractions from other programs’ windows.

Right-click the taskbar, choose Properties.
Under the Taskbar tab, click “Auto-hide the Task [...]

D’oh! I never before noticed there’s a way to auto-hide your taskbar in Windows so that it only appears when you hover your mouse over where it would be. This lets you reclaim some screen real estate and avoid distractions from other programs’ windows.

• Right-click the taskbar, choose Properties.
• Under the Taskbar tab, click “Auto-hide the Task Bar”

You can also do something about icons you don’t really need showing down there, too.

I’ve never liked using Gmail and Google feedreader because I just don’t trust Google. Plus, Gmail for me was clunky and slow, and the feedreader didn’t always look like it should have in my browser.
Gmail’s ability to let you email with a different reply-to address turned out to be irreplaceable (update: Inbox.com has this feature, [...]

I’ve never liked using Gmail and Google feedreader because I just don’t trust Google. Plus, Gmail for me was clunky and slow, and the feedreader didn’t always look like it should have in my browser.

Gmail’s ability to let you email with a different reply-to address turned out to be irreplaceable (update: Inbox.com has this feature, too). But by the time I’d spent a while hunting, I also asked myself whether it was such a great idea to be sending emails like that through a third-party service - not to mention the confusion of having them come both to an online mailbox and offline to my email client. In the end, I went with Inbox.com, which has a pretty decent privacy policy compared to Google and works very similarly, except it has the ability for me to set up different folders as well as labels. Can’t tell you how much I still miss folders, even after working with labels in Gmail. It was just never the same for me.

For feedreading, I like a service that lets me read a bunch of feeds at once instead of going feed by feed. I also want to be able to clip or pin articles for future reference. I thought Rojo was going to do the trick, but I had trouble signing up with them, got no response to my email asking for help, and then voila - today the domain is on sale. Not sure what the deal is there, but in the end I found News Alloy. It has the features I mentioned and it works quickly. I think it’s got some more features I might start using, once I work out what they do.