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This article was written on September 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

Current WordPress 2.7 Version: 2.00 (Download – 4KB)
Release Date: November 2, 2008
Compatibility: Only works with WordPress 2.7.x

Current WordPress 2.5/2.6 Version: 1.70 (Download – 4KB)
Release Date: March 30, 2008
Compatibility: Only works with WordPress 2.5.x and 2.6.x

Current WordPress 2.3 Version: 1.48 (Download – 10KB)
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Compatibility: Only works with WordPress 2.3.x

This is a plugin for WordPress 2.3+ that utilizes the built-in tag system for recommending and displaying a list of your current tags. It avoids the troubling issue of creating duplicate tag names that are nearly identical, such as “download” and “downloads.”

–Features–

Here is a list of all the features included in Recommended Tags:

• WORDPRESS 2.3 ONLY: Type-ahead tag completion will show a list of matching tags as you type them in the box. This is included as a feature in WordPress 2.5, and we have therefore removed it as a feature of this plug-in in the latest version.
  • The total number of times a tag has been used is also shown in parenthesis immediately after the tag name.
• Intelligently recommended tags based on the content of the article:
  • Tags can be “exploded” so that the tag name is broken up into individual words. This will let a tag called “Windows Vista” be recommended even if you only mention “Vista” (note that it is without the “Windows”) in your article.
    • You can specify words to ignore that may appear in your tags, such as “the”.
  • Common plural/past endings can be trimmed off of the end of tag names. That way a tag called “downloads” will still be recommended even if you only mention “download” in the article.
    • On the Admin screen you can customize which endings are trimmed off.
  • HTML tags are stripped from the post so that things such as URL’s are not matched in your tags. That way linking to a Wikipedia article won’t necessarily recommend the “Wikipedia” tag, unless you’ve specified the tag name somewhere in the content of your article.
• Complete list of all existing tags is shown below the upload box incase a desired tag is not recommended.
• Completely customizable via the WordPress Admin screen
  • Display a list of existing tags
  • Display the recommended tags
  • Enable type-ahead auto-completion of tag names
  • And more…see the screenshot below

–WordPress 2.5+ Installation–

• Download the current version of the plugin to your computer, and extract the contents.
• Upload the recommendedtags.php file to your WordPress plugins directory.
• Optional: There are several options which can be configured from the WordPress Admin screen. Just go to Options -> Recommended Tags.

–WordPress 2.3 Installation–

• Download the current version of the plugin to your computer, and extract the contents.
• Upload the recommended-tags folder to your WordPress plugins directory.
• Optional: There are several options which can be configured from the WordPress Admin screen. Just go to Options -> Recommended Tags.

–Screenshots–

Here are two screenshots of the Recommended Tags plugin in action on WordPress 2.3. The one on the left is of the configuration screen, and the one on the right is what it looks like when using the plugin (Note: there have been some changes to the layout, but it is generally the same as what you see in the screenshot). You may click on either screenshot for a larger image.

–Changelog–

• November 2, 2008 – Created a version that is compatible with WordPress 2.7.
• March 30, 2008 – Added a version of Recommended Tags specifically for WordPress 2.5. This version does not include the type-ahead auto completion because this is now a feature of WordPress.
• December 17, 2007 – Fixed a bug where tags on future scheduled posts wouldn’t appear in the list until after the post was displayed on the site.
• October 17, 2007 – Definitely fixed the “Empty Delimiter” error that some people were having. Thanks to Chris over at FootNoted.org for lending me his site to try it out on.
• October 13, 2007 – Hopefully fixed the “Empty Delimiter” error that some people were having. You must be running a certain version of PHP to see this error message.
• September 29, 2007 – There were some issues with cross-browser compatibility. Hopefully most of the issues should be solved now. To counter the issue that I was having I had to have the tag editor get placed below the Save/Publish buttons, which may not be ideal but there are not many other ways around it.
• September 27, 2007 – Added type-ahead auto completion of tags, and made all options configurable via the WordPress Admin screen.
• September 24, 2007 – First Public Release

–Contact/Support–

Feel free to contact me with any issues you may be having. I’ll do my best to help, and please tell me what browser you’re using when you contact me.

–Credits–

This plugin was originally based off of Andy Staines’ work, who created the Click Tags plugin.

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This article was written on February 18, 2006 by CyberNet.

Many people always wonder to themselves how computers work. The only problem is that when you try to find a book or a site that will explain it then they always lack diagrams. Roger Young, however, has put together a very good book that is now available for everyone to enjoy at no cost. The book is called How Computers Work and provides you with 152 pages of quality content and 96 diagrams! However, It is not a book that a novice user will be able to easily understand so you should have some knowledge of computers before starting to read this. Happy reading!

How Computers Work (PDF)
How Computers Work (Web Book)

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Apparently just standing back and watching Google gobble up company after company in acquisitions has gotten Microsoft itching to gobble up their own collection of start-ups. According to Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, the company has intentions of making 20 “smaller” acquisitions each year over the next five years, giving them 100 new companies to work with by the end of 2012. It sounds like an ambitious plan and makes you wonder which companies they’ll end up with and how they will be of benefit from and use each of them.

Ballmer was quoted as saying “We buy 20 companies a year within the range of 50 to 200 million. My email is steveb@microsoft.com.  If you want to sell your company, write to me.” That was essentially an open invitation to anybody who thinks they’d be of value to Microsoft to contact them because they’re in the mood to buy. When asked about a big $10 billion dollar Facebook acquisition, he simply said “No comment.” And of course he was also asked about a merge with Yahoo which has been rumored, to which he replied, “Great company, great relationship.  If at some point it makes sense… but not the focus now.”

So far this year it has seemed like Google has been buying companies left and right yet it’s “only” been 15.  With the DoubleClick deal pending, it would make it 16. Should Microsoft meet their goal of acquiring 20 companies each year, that would give them more acquisitions than Google which means every few weeks they’ll be in the news with the announcement of their latest purchase like Google was this year. Seeing how Google and Microsoft are always competing, is there anyone out there willing to bet that Google will make an announcement next week proclaiming that they will acquire 25 companies each year for the next 5 years?

Note: The image above is of Steve Ballmer and shows what he likely does anytime someone mentions Google.

Source: Marketing Pilgrim

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Microsoft announced via a press release that they will be discontinuing OneCare, their current antivirus product, on June 30th, 2009. I don’t think this is very surprising considering how much criticism OneCare has received in the past. After all, I expected more out of OneCare than any other antivirus since Microsoft knows the ins and outs of Windows, and they should therefore be able to protect users better than any other product.

To make things a little more interesting Microsoft says that they will have a free product ready (code-named Morro) somewhere around the time that OneCare is discontinued. Here’s what they have to say about it:

Code-named “Morro,” this streamlined solution will be available in the second half of 2009 and will provide comprehensive protection from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. This new solution, to be offered at no charge to consumers, will be architected for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios or less powerful PCs. As part of Microsoft’s move to focus on this simplified offering, the company also announced today that it will discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare subscription service effective June 30, 2009.

The timing of all this is very interesting. Windows 7 is expected to be available around the middle of next year, which is when Microsoft will cutoff OneCare. My guess is that they didn’t want to spend the resources making OneCare compatible with Windows 7, but Morro will work it in addition to Vista and XP.

Honestly this is a really smart move by Microsoft. I have previously pondered whether it is really necessary for me to have an antivirus application running on my Vista machine, but for some reason it makes me feel a little bit safer. Using Microsoft’s resource-friendly Morro antivirus might be just the solution for me, because I know that with the UAC I already have enabled a lot of things won’t be able to slip by undetected.

Now if only they could bundle it with the operating system, but we know what kind of anti-trust issues would arise from that.

P.S. It looks like they are killing off the Office 2007 subscription model called Equipt, which also comes packaged with OneCare.

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Soon you’ll be able to transform your standard 2D outdoor images into a more lively 3D image with Fotowoosh, a new service that’s just getting started. What’s great about it is that it only requires one image to get the 3D end result, unlike other services that typically require multiple photos.

Right now, the only way you can get your foot in the door at Fotowoosh is by signing up for a beta invite (here). All you have to do is enter in your name and an email address.  From there you’ll get an email telling you that when it’s launched, you’ll  get an invitation into the beta program.

For now you’ll have to be satisfied by their sample collection. In order to view the 3D models, you’ll need a browser plug-in because it uses VRML (explanation here) so that you can interact with the photos.

Also interesting is that this originally started out as a project of Derek Hoiem who’s a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. His project page actually made the front page of Digg 174 days ago. Hoiem explains it as a system that:

“automatically constructs simple “pop-up” 3D models, like those one would find in a children’s book, out of a single outdoor image. The system labels each region of an outdoor image as ground, vertical, or sky. Line segments fitted to the ground-vertical boundary in the image and an estimate of the horizon’s position provide the necessary information to determine where to “cut” and “fold” in the image. The model is then popped up, and the image is texture mapped onto the model.

I’m not sure how fast this technology will take off in it’s current state.  If a method is created where people can interact with these photos without any additional plug-ins for the browser, that would definitely help.

Source: TechCrunch

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