The Personal Site of Dan Masters

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  • WordPress Desktop Client Search – Ecto 2 Review

    Ecto has recently come out with a new version that peeked my interest. You may remember in post – WordPress Desktop Client Search I gave Ecto a because I needed to install .Net 2.0 to run it. I still take the stance that I do not like to have to…

  • Personal Update – My Son was Born

    Hey there everyone. I just wanted to drop a note here since I have not written in a couple days and since it will probably be a few more days since I write again. The reason for my lack of posting is that my son – Dan Jr. – was…

  • Formating Fix for the Subscribe to Comments Plug-in

    I found a temporary fix for the formatting for the Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plug-in. I was forced into fixing it because I was trying to implement the plug-in on another web site and the formatting was broken there too. You need to open the subscribe-to-comments.php file and go to…

  • Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plug-in

    I have added a new plug-in the idano.net web site which I think is really cool. Now you are able to subscribe to comments on posts. I had seen this on a few other sites and really like it. Basically, you enter the usual comment info – Name, Email, URL,…

  • WordPress, Zoundry, and Lightbox 2 – Imaging Bliss

    Update 06.01.06 – As cool as this plug-in looks I had to disable it on this web site. The reason for this is that it is dreadfully slow and really impacted the loading of ALL of my pages. Therefore you will not be able to see the LightBox effects on…

  • WordPress Desktop Client Search – Bleezer Review

    Well there is another Blog Desktop Client on the block. It’s name is Bleezer. This software is a little different the your average program as clicking on the .exe file in the download folder actually launches the program as opposed to installing it. I guess this would have it’s advantages…

  • I Dropped Google Adsense

    After a couple of weeks with Google Adsense running in my side bar I have decided to remove it. I am really not trying to make money with this web site and it was taking a lot of real estate on my side bar. I would consider running specific ads…

  • Most Popular Posts Plug-in

    I have added a new plug-in that calculates the most popular post on your blog calculated by visits to the post and comments. The plug-in is called Popularity Contest by Alex King. You can now see the popularity of each post under the title and next to the time stamp.…

  • Web Site Statistics for April 2006

    The idano.net web site went “official” with my initial post on March 24th. I got a whole 50 unique visits that month. Well in the month of April things were a whole lot different. According to AWStats on my web server the idano.net web site received 606 unique visitors and…