Monthly Archives: September 2010

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3 WordPress Plugins to Stop Spam

Published on: September 29, 2010 in Wordpress and has 35 Comments

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If you manage a Wordpress blog, there are many Wordpress plugins to stop spam. Spam is an annoying part of blogging, and if it isn’t managed properly, can turn a good, respectable blog into a trashy-looking blog. People have used many approaches to controlling spam, from captcha images to requiring registration on their blog.

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How to Prevent Scripts from Loading for Logged in Users in WordPress

Published on: September 17, 2010 in Wordpress and has 1 Comment

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I recently was thinking about how to prevent some scripts from loading, and executing, each time I logged into WordPress. The scripts were traffic statistics scripts and I didn’t want them from counting the visits from myself. If the option was available from the statistics script owner, I would simply have told it to exclude [...]

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1,000,000 Visits to Technically Easy

Published on: September 15, 2010 in Blogging and has 18 Comments

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I was looking at my all-time visitors stats for Technically Easy and noticed that I was approaching a milestone: 1,000,000 (1 million) visits. I enjoy looking at the visitor stats for my blog, mainly because I am a stats-junkie, but the stats provide a lot of information about who visits my blog. Sometimes I also [...]

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Why BloggerLuv is Great for Bloggers

Published on: September 10, 2010 in Blogging and has 14 Comments

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Ever since I started blogging, I have always been fascinated with blogging communities. The problem is that there are probably hundreds of them online, and many of them aren’t worth the trouble of joining. All require some sort of registration process, and then you need to verify your blog, and or display some image somewhere [...]

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How to Profile a Scanner in VueScan

Published on: September 8, 2010 in Scanning and has 1 Comment

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I have written several posts in the past about how I use VueScan to scan in old printed photographs, but never talked about how to profile a scanner in VueScan. While it took some getting used to, I have managed to create a VueScan scanning workflow that works for me. While everyone will have their [...]

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How To Disable Audio Enhancements in Windows 7

Published on: September 3, 2010 in Windows and has 15 Comments

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A popular post on Technically Easy is where I recommend disabling audio enhancements on Windows Vista to help reduce the CPU usage of the audiodg.exe process. Depending on the enhancements that were enabled, this can have a large effect or no effect on the CPU usage. While the above post covered how to disabled the [...]

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10 Important Things I Learned About Blogging

Published on: September 1, 2010 in Blogging and has 10 Comments

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It has been over three years since I stepped into the blogging arena. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started, and while I have made many mistakes, I have learned from all of those mistakes. It was June 2007 when I decided to try my hand a blogging, and I am glad [...]

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