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September 2008

Alternate Recent Posts Widget

I’ve been fooling around with WordPress a lot lately, trying to get GeekLad.com configured just how I like it.  Most recently I added a Recent Posts widget.  The default Recent Posts widget displays links to all of your most recent posts.  If you are already displaying your most recent posts on the front page, the default Recent Posts widget can be rather repetitively redundant.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find something out there that could quickly resolve the issue, so I resorted to writing a hack myself.
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Useful Applications on the Go

If you’re a geek like me and you carry around a USB drive on your keychain, you might be looking for some useful utilities to keep on your drive.  First and foremost you need to protect your portable drive with encryption.  Information can fall into the wrong hands if the drive is lost or stolen.  Your data can even be stolen if you hand your keys over when you get your car serviced or parked by a valet, so it is absolutely essential you keep data on your portable drive protected.
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Google AdSense Coming to Analytics

Back in August, Digital Inspiration reported on AdSense click tracking data coming to Google Analytics.  This is great for webmasters with high traffic web sites that make a significant portion of their revenue by displaying AdSense advertisements.  Analytics will provide pertinent information such as the number of times AdSense ads were clicked, the revenue per page, the CTR and CPM for individual referrers, and top AdSense referrers.
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Encryption: Never Leave Home Without It

As portable drives have gotten physically smaller and larger in storage capacity, they’ve become an indespensible gadget for many.  If you use yours to store vital and sensitive information, you need to secure that information with encryption.  I should not need to tell you about the long list of problems that would arise, were you to ever misplace the drive or have it stolen.
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