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Blogs

Wordpress Wow — This site has some tips, tweaks, suggestions and resources to help you improve or update your Wordpress blog.

Tumblr.com — Rich recently updated his blog using a “goodie” from the Tumblr service. Mark Forman suggested that Rich try the “Bookmarklet” to capture sites and places that he has been reading. These are collected in the Tumblr log and shared with others that subscribe to it or visit Rich’s Tumblr site. To enhance this service, embed the script provided by Tumblr to your widget text blog in Wordpress. You can now feed the sites that you’ve captured with your bookmarklet to the sidebar of your main blog. Rich is using it as a “read list.”

Views

Rich shares an update about FreeScreencast.com. Jason Askew contacted Rich to help him correct some of the problems that he was having with the application. Don’t forget to download/update the Windows Media Encoder and be sure that you have Microsoft .NET framework in place.

There is a small bug that is being worked on for the next release of the Screencast recorder. When there are multiple monitors, the application will record the blank space of the second monitor, regardless of the chosen recording area. A quick fix is to unplug the monitor, reboot the machine and record using only one monitor installed.

Blues

Eddy Clearwater, Ronnie Baker Brooks
“Hypnotized” (mp3)
from “West Side Strut”
(Alligator Records)

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Background music in this episode courtesy of Derek K. Miller. Tracks featured are “Had a Plan, Had to Change It” and “More Red Than Red.”

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