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I've more than once had difficulties finding where on Plaxo I'm supposed to edit the privacy settings. Plaxo is a primarily work-oriented profile/ social networking site like LinkedIn So here's a quick note to those that have the same difficulty. Go to the Plaxo homepage Click the My Profile menu Click the About Me tab Navigate down to the Websites section Click 'Edit this section' Click on the website name to edit privacy settings N.B. If you don't see the 'Edit this section' link, go to the top of your profile and there should be an 'Edit this section' link visible there. Then go back down to the Websites section. These websites don't seem to realise how badly their navigation sucks for people that don't use their website on a regular basis.

OK, just giving the iPhone app BlogPress a quick test. It costs 2 euro something, but that didn't put me off giving it a try. I'm using it for this blog, but it supports plenty of other blog formats. Google BlogPress for more info. It supports horizontal typing on my iPhone with iPhoneOS 3.0 (3.0.1 firmware) not sure about older iPhone firmwares. That makes typing a 2-thumbed affair at least. I'd prefer a physical keyboard *cough* but that's a whole different story :-) So now I'll add a couple of tags and see how this looks on the blog! Oh, and here's a link of course just to test that out too. http://twitter.com/gigajosh Btw, I forgot to mention that when you choose a Blogger blog, BlogPress lets you choose which of your Blogger blogs you want to use, as you'd expect. Anyway that all went fine, bar a couple of login errors. So now I've got 2 of my Blogger blogs hooked up on BlpgPress :-) Do I really continue to use it long term? That's always the bi...

You may be unfortunate enough to get this error when you try to switch on AdSense for your Blogger blog: "The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations on the publisher's account." Don't stress, you just need to go to your Google AdSense account -> My Account -> Account Access Now under where it says "Hosts with access" you may/should have a blogger.com entry with a link next to it "grant access". Click the link, confirm, and you're back in business :)

Anyone installing the TiddlyWiki beta version will probably already know how to do this. But anyway, this is for those that want a quick 1-2-3... Remember, as stated on the TiddlyWiki beta page, and as with anything "beta" (although half the services on the web these days are in beta) don't use it for important data, and don't complain if it breaks!.. just report it to the developers ;-) So, get TiddlyWiki beta as follows: Go to http://tiddlywiki.com/beta/ Now just save this web page locally to your computer In Internet Explorer 6 you do this by going to File -> Save As (in most browsers the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+S) Save the browser page as HTML-only (tip: put "beta" somewhere in the filename so you don't forget) You have now saved your TiddlyWiki Beta locally. So you can open it and edit it as usual. Now if you want to upgrade an existing (non-beta) TiddlyWiki to the beta version you just downloaded do the following: Open the TiddlyWiki beta fi...

First I wasn’t sure how to install TiddlyWiki plugins. Then I figured that one out . Now I was a bit confused on how I was supposed to install a TiddlyWiki Adaptor (I always thought Adaptor was spelt with an ‘e’ but I guess not J ) I wanted to import plain text files as tiddlers, so was looking for a plugin to do this when I came across this page about importing on tiddlywiki.org. It mentions that “By default, content can only be imported from other TiddlyWiki documents [but] Adaptors can be used to extend that functionality to arbitrary sources”. The Adaptors page it links to simply contains a list of links to Javascript files, so I wasn’t really sure what to do with them a first. However, after downloading one of these Javascript files, the RawTextAdaptor.js , using right-click à Save Target As , and opening it in a text editor I saw there was a source URL ( http://devpad.tiddlyspot.com/#RawTextAdaptor ). I realized that RawTextAdapter was itself a tiddler on a TiddlyWiki compati...