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Measure your pixels onscreen

Measure Your Pixels with JR Screen Ruler
Enter the JR Screen Ruler. This little download can give you an expandable moveable ruler on your screen – just perfect for quick measuring of images, webpages or the size of Ivan the Terrible’s hat (200 pixels!).
That is so seriously cool!

Measure Your Pixels with JR Screen Ruler

Enter the JR Screen Ruler. This little download can give you an expandable moveable ruler on your screen – just perfect for quick measuring of images, webpages or the size of Ivan the Terrible’s hat (200 pixels!).

That is so seriously cool!

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New blog statistics program

Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program
This program could revolutionize the way we gather information about our visitors and interact with them. Imagine being able to communicate with your visitors without any extra software or hardware. Imagine getting information you need in a way you can really use it to focus your blog’s content to better server [...]

Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program

This program could revolutionize the way we gather information about our visitors and interact with them. Imagine being able to communicate with your visitors without any extra software or hardware. Imagine getting information you need in a way you can really use it to focus your blog’s content to better server your readership. The possibilities are endless.

This sounds really interesting, especially the part about being able to communicate with visitors on the fly. I can’t even wrap my mind around that, but I’ve signed up to see how it goes.

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Easy method for showing random banners

Quick and dirty way to show random banners
Initially I just threw up AdSense, the old chestnut that it is, but I thought it might be nice to try to show some other ads as well. I know there are probably plugins out there that randomise the showing of banner ads, but I reckon the way [...]

Quick and dirty way to show random banners

Initially I just threw up AdSense, the old chestnut that it is, but I thought it might be nice to try to show some other ads as well. I know there are probably plugins out there that randomise the showing of banner ads, but I reckon the way I’m going to show you is quicker and simpler (plus, how do you know, I mean really know, that the author of that plugin is not showing their own ads from time to time on your blog?)

It really is pretty simple, and he’s right about trusting this method over a plugin. A lot of the plugins don’t work that well, either.

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Reeling in traffic and buying donains, for example

Some good, realistic tips on bringing traffic to your site
Is it worth buying typo domains to protect your brand? Yeah, if you’re serious.
This is good to hear, since sometimes I think I use too many examples in my posts.

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Spamming, theming and monetizing

Spamming pays, but not longterm, and not enough to justify the work it takes. That’s what I always figured, and why I never bothered. I just love how honest Mark is.
How To Create A Wordpress Theme - Part 4. The whole series is good.
A really nice digest of the ways to monetize a [...]

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Investigate sites, cover your ebooks, fancy up your sidebars

Four online apps to help you find out who hosts a site, owns a site, who the IP neighbors are, and what technology builds the site. Definite bookmarks for me.
Sarah is offering a Photoshop program that helps you make ebook covers.
Wordpress plugin lets you put WYSIWYG formatted text into a sidebar widget

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