Easy Google RSS Scraping

Posted on Sunday, 4th December 2005 | 2 Responses
So, for all those of you that use GYM to scrape for URLs to ::ahem:: study, and are forced to use their normal messy SERPs because their API only allows 10 results per query (or even those that use /ie or /palm). I just noticed that on their Blog Search, Google allow you to grab an RSS feed of the results. So now (more...)

Windows Server 2003 Remote Desktop of Console

Posted on Saturday, 3rd December 2005 | No Comments
A remote desktop connection to Windows XP is great as it opens up the actual main current console session. So if you're working on something at one machine then you can connect later from elsewhere and carry on whatever you were doing. On Windows Server 2003 however, it works as default like it did on Windows 2000 Terminal Services. If you Term Serv onto the machine, even (more...)

WordPress Stats

Posted on Friday, 2nd December 2005 | 3 Responses
I spent ages hunting for a decent stats system for WordPress, but nothing seems to fit my needs. I want to see number of views on the site as well as number of feed grabs. The closest thing I could find was Counterize which deals with page views nicely, but doesn't track RSS views. As the feeds are served through PHP it shouldn't be too much trouble to hopefully (more...)

My Firefox Extensions

Posted on Friday, 2nd December 2005 | No Comments
No YATB would be complete without a list of their Firefox Extensions, so here's mine together with their links + own description: Html Validator 0.7.1 Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the briwser. The validation is done by Tidy, originally developed by W3C. SearchStatus 1.8 Display the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking with search-related tools. IE Tab 1.0.6 Open-IE-only pages in "embedded IE" !!! Web Developer 0.9.4 Adds (more...)

Tabke Splashing Out

Posted on Thursday, 1st December 2005 | 1 Response
Brett Tabke is obviously making more than enough cash from WebmasterWorld and his Pubcon conferences - he's just moved the company into plush new offices. WebmasterWorld Moves into New Offices in The Prestigious River Place Pointe Corporate Park in Austin, Texas WebmasterWorld Inc., the leading online search engine and Internet marketing forum and producer of PubCon conferences, has outgrown its offices and is moving to larger (more...)

Save The White Hats

Posted on Thursday, 1st December 2005 | No Comments
Absoutely fantastic, funniest thing I've seen for a while - The White Hat Appeal :-) By giving to the White Hat Appeal you can help ensure that one less White Hat turns to the dark side. Many white hats are struggling to retain their holy glow; in fact for some it's becoming a taste of do spam or eat spam. The White Hat Appeal aims to help needy White Hats keep the (more...)