Archive for the ‘Web & Web 2.0’ Category

Google Custom Search added to MacAmour Blog + Small Tutorial

Posted on 3 August 2008 in Web & Web 2.0, Wordpress | No Comments »

Just added the Google Custom Search engine to MacAmour instead of the classical search engine (mainly) based on Tags added manually.
This tool is powerful, because it really makes you feel you have Google’s power for a blog.
You can give it a try by searching for a combo of keywords like “unlock iphone 2.0″.
Impressive tool by Google (again).
The implementation of the code was quite easy.

  1. All you have to do to make is to follow the wizard, check the “display in a custom page” the results.
  2. Create a new page in your Wordpress blog for example “MacAmour Search Results”, and paste the page’s URL in the Google Custom Engine’s wizard.
  3. Go to your “header.php” file, replace the search engine code by the one give by the Wizard.
  4. Edit the custom search results page by pasting in code view the code given by the Wizard.

Done.

PirateBay Celebrates the Availability of the Latest Batman

Posted on 27 July 2008 in Web & Web 2.0 | No Comments »


That is the new banner you can see at the torrents site known as TBP: The Pirate Bay!
TBP is celebrating the availability of the latest Batman: “The Dark Knight”.
Yeah, provocation! I’m impressed…

Wordpress for the iPhone

Posted on 23 July 2008 in Web & Web 2.0, Wordpress, iPhone & iPhone 3G, iPod & iPod Touch | No Comments »

I was impatient for the release of this (free) iPhone application; I was wondering when Wordpress would react against its competitor TypePad (who released its application a long time ago).

Wordpress for iPhone is intuitive like almost all the iPhone applications; it supports self-hosted blogs and blogs hosted at Wordpress; it also enables you to manage more than a blog.
Adding a blog doesn’t require a high level of expertise, all the applications asks for is the URL of the blog, the username and the password, a child can do it.
Now, losing your iPhone is more dangerous than it ever has been… Too many sensitive data stored there!

Download Wordpress for iPhone.

Last.fm Relooked!

Posted on 17 July 2008 in Web & Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Awesome!!! I love the new grungy style!

And there’s something directly inspired (or stolen) from Mac OS X (after the jump)…
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Mac.ALLtop has added MacAmour!

Posted on 28 June 2008 in Web & Web 2.0 | No Comments »

I’m so proud to see the MacAmour blog now in the Mac AllTop referencing website!
We’re at the bottom I know, but it’s ordered by date of addition. 

Create Beautiful Tag Clouds

Posted on 23 June 2008 in Web & Web 2.0 | No Comments »

With Wordle, you can create awesome looking Tag Clouds from any del.icio.us account or from a bunch of text your enter.
Here’s what it gives with my del.icio.us account!

Go to Wordle to create yours!

Top Ten Reasons why People Unsubscribe for your RSS feed

Posted on 27 February 2007 in Web & Web 2.0, Wordpress | No Comments »

  1. The author publishes too many posts. Readers can’t keep up and feel overwhelmed.
  2. Inconsistent or infrequent posts. Readers don’t know when to expect your next post.
  3. Author doesn’t broadcast the full RSS feed. This forces the reader to click and visit the blog, defeating the purpose of syndicating.
  4. Author changes direction. People loose interest because the author talks about things that no longer interest them.
  5. Lack of original content. Author invests too much time into reporting old news found on other blogs.
  6. No fire or spark in the content. The author is boring, negative and doesn’t make people feel good.
  7. Content is irrelevant. Author writes about one topic while readers expect to see another.
  8. Big Head Blog Syndrome. The author is over confident and comes across as being arrogant and goes overboard on self-promotion.
  9. The articles suck. The articles are hard to follow and readers fail to understand or grasp the point.
  10. The articles are novels. Aside from cost, there is a reason most commercials on TV are only 30 to 60 seconds in length. The length of your posts could kill your number of readers.