10th
JAN
Coincidence or Price Fixing
Filed under Mac, Technology
Today Apple introduced their new MacBook Pro and an update to the iMac model. These are the first two systems to use the Intel processors that Apple announced they are switching to back in June 2005.
A little history lesson. In 1978 Intel released the 8086 processor. This is the processor that “fathered” the 286/386/486 lines and Pentium lines. In the personal computer world the 8086 is a founding father . . . the George Washington of micro-processors if you will.
In today’s stock market news — the day that Apple introduces their first Intel based products — Apple stock closed at $80.86. I know that price fixing on the stock market like this would be extremely difficult, and probably impossible, but still . . . it’s almost too strange to be a coincidence.
[tags]Apple, Macintosh, Intel[/tags]
10th
More Wordpress Plugins
Filed under Plugins, Wordpress
Building on my previous post, here are some more Wordpress plugins for you to check out:
- SimpleTags - “SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need…” You will notice the fancy Technorati tags at the bottom of this post (I just installed this one myself).
- Google Analytics - This is a different plugin for Google Analytics. The major difference between the one I highlighted earlier is the link tracking feature this one has. This plugin also adds the appropriate code to links within the posts to track what links people are clicking on to exit your site. If you click on this link it will register it with GA.
- Live Preview - This plugin presents a real-time preview of what your visitor is typing into the comment box. That way they can preview exactly what it will look like when they actually submit the comment. I’ve installed it, so you can try it out below.
[tags]Wordpress, plugins[/tags]
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- jschwanz: tons of NASA links on that list, very cool to see them embrace it January 4, 2009
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- jschwanz: I really like WordPress 2.7, the changes from 2.6 are excellent; quick edit and FTP-less plugin install are my two favorites at the moment January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: @timage nice post on using Twitter January 4, 2009