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Experiments, investigations, and tests of web things
January 13, 2012

Exclude categories from home page and RSS in Pagelines

For The Beantin Index that I launched earlier this week, there are posts that contain ratings and then there are blog posts. The main focus of the site are the ratings, so I didn’t want blog posts appearing on the home page, and I wanted two separate RSS feeds.

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November 8, 2011

Google+ Company pages: Locked to personal profiles

Google has rushed the implementation of Google+ Business Pages without thinking through how pages are too be owned and managed over time.

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October 28, 2011

Creating a cloud-based virtual hard drive

I’ve been storing my backups “in the cloud” for a number of years now. For the past 3 or so years I’ve been using Amazon S3 and various linux-based solutions to store my backups of absolutely can’t afford to lose things.

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May 19, 2011

Facebook profile picture and thumbnail size in 2011

If you are running a Facebook page for your business or organisation, then you’ll want to make sure you get you design your profile picture exactly right so that you make optimal use of the space available and at the same time making sure the thumbnail picture is spot on too.

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April 1, 2011

Firefox 4/5: How to change the minimum tab width

In firefox 2 and 3 it was possible to set the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth within about:config to zero so that tabs shrank in width the more tabs you had open until just the icon was left. In Firefox 4, that option has been removed, leaving you with fixed width tabs of 140 pixels.

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January 21, 2011

Customise your static Tumblr pages

Tumblr can be surprisingly flexible using a bit of CSS and a few theme variables. When Tumblr added static pages (and redirects) in March 2010 it opened up a whole new range of possibilities. Unfortunately, Tumblr missed a few important features out – such as a block in the theme for controlling the display of static pages.

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