Two new methods for sending and receiving money through PayPal… Read the rest of this entry »

I got a copy of Google Earth for Mac OS X this weekend. It’s pretty cool flying through downtown Chicago, or up the Snake River in Colorado. You have to work to find the download link (hopefully it hasn’t been removed).
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My main work machine — an Apple G4 Titanium Powerbook — went crashing to the floor this week propelling the LCD lid backwards and wrentching the hinges off of the LCD’s bezel. My heart dropped. While I have a backup desktop computer I could use, it’s not my normal work environment and would take a long time to synchronize with the laptop and get configured for work. I called the Powerbook Rescue divison of MacResQ and spoke to a technician there about it. They offer a variety of pre-set repair packages, one being the screen hinge replacement for $299, another a complete LCD replacement for $599. All their services come with overnight, three-way shipping (they send you a box overnight, you return your laptop via overnight delivery, then when the repairs are finished it’s shipped back via overnight delivery).
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Problogger.net readers have been reporting their favorite and “must-have” wordpress plugins. I’m gratified that my Adsense-Deluxe plugin for managing Google AdSense ads in WordPress was selected.

Stumbled onto the product below today (WordPress Elite) and was delighted to see after reading, "Installs 9 (and growing) ultra powerful plugins…" that my Adsense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin was one of those. Thanks Gary! :-)

Measure Map is a Web application that helps people get to know their blogs. We do this by collecting and analyzing blog-specific traffic statistics and presenting them in a browsable interface that encourages exploration. It is an experience that offers meaningful insight into the effects caused by small changes in how you blog, rather than the overwhelming complexity of most web stats tools with their query/report-style analytic methods. Measure Map provides understanding by refocusing the difficult problem of web statistics and solving it just for blogs. A demo was shown at the Web 2.0 conference last week.