Is your WordPress blog being hammered by comment, trackback, and/or referrer spam? Then look no further than the WordPress Codex document on Combatting Comment Spam. This comprehensive document will guide you through using WordPress’ default anti-spam tools, provide you with anti-spam plugins and captcha, and teach you how to block spammers with .htaccess. This is a recommended read for all WordPress users.
Currently, MacManX.com uses Bad Behavior and Akismet.
Wuhan (download), by Meng Gao, is a great theme. And now, thanks to Meng and yours truly, Wuhan validates. That’s right, Wuhan now validates as XHTML 1.0 (transitional) and CSS. As a bonus, Wuhan now complies with the U.S. Sec. 508 Accessibility Standards. Please note that I am not Wuhan’s developer. I only helped to validate it. If you have any support requests, please contact Meng Gao.
Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Bryan learns how to run his feeds through a subdomain.
Michael announces the features of the upcoming K2 (Kubrick v2).
Brian notices that podcasting has begun to take a commercial twist.
Khaled announces BrokenKode v3.
Craig reflects on his least-favorite movies.
Orson has a few words to say about Global Warming.
Sarah contemplates perfection with Knilling’s “Perfection” Pegs.
The Rafterys celebrate a momentous occasion.
And, Podz takes on Google.
Your Mac is full of invisible files. These are typically system files and application support files. Sometimes, however, these may be files which you don’t want lying around. You can learn how to manage these invisible files by reading this week’s Power User Monday. Enjoy!
Alex Kings’s WordPress v1.5 Theme Competition is now closed, and we are all patiently awaiting the results. In my opinion, this is one competition which will be very difficult to call. There are 139 themes to choose from and at least half of them are worthy of first prize. Obviously, I chose Rin, but it was a hard decision due to other entrants such as Gespaa (and Gespaa v2), Green Marinée, Minema Plus, Plain Vanilla, Ocadia, RDC, and Wuhan. As a side note, Blix, Kubrick (WP v1.5 Default), Manji, and TicTac-Wuhan are all great themes, but they were not entered into this competition.
MakingMusic is an online Musical Instrument Encyclopedia, providing a description, an image and a sound clip per instrument. This is an ongoing Freeware project, with new instruments being added to the database as the research progresses. Each time you launch the application you may find you have access to different amounts of information. The aim of the project is to form a comprehensive database of musical instruments, the criteria being anything from any culture or any age that is used to make music. This may take some time!
Pros: MakingMusic provides a large and comprehensive database which also accepts community submissions. As well as being a Mac-only application, MakingMusic is also provided as a web-based Flash version.
Cons: None significant.
To make a long story short, Google made a new interface called GoogleX, and they got rid of it in less than six hours. No one knows where it went. So, being my good-natured self, I have decided to upload my own mirror of GoogleX. I know, there are plenty of GoogleX mirrors out there, but this one has my URL on it. ^_- Enough chatter, enjoy GoogleX mirrored by MacManX.com (for a limited time only)!
