You might prefer to perform this delicate task in a quiet, well-lit environment with the correct tools, on a nice big flat work table.
Rather than in 20 minutes on a poorly-lit, commuter-packed train on the way home from work on a Friday evening, working off a dodgy tray-table that pitches all over the place.
That’s entirely up to you — but here’s how I did it:
Another friend of mine has bravely unlocked his iPhone using the hardware hack. It’s now working on the Vodafone NZ network.
What blew me away was the Installer application that allows you to download and install various packages on a ‘jailbreaked‘ iPhone. You can get Python, Apache httpd, Ruby, Rails, and a bunch of other stuff. I was well impressed.
Hmm… Christmas is not too far away…
Meanwhile, I should have a bit more of a look around to see if someone has found a way to enable WPA Enterprise access on the wee beast.
John has released Tweetr 2.0. Now with file transfer!
Well, there’s not been a lot going on here lately. Sorry about that.
There’s plenty of goodness going on in other places, though: Mike is posting lots of good bits, Yahoo (whose YUI has been helping developers not think about JavaScript since ages ago) have released YSlow; a Firefox extension for performance analysis of web pages, I’m finishing my first piece of commercial-grade AJAX, and many other great pieces of goodness.
Don’t forget about the next Auckland Web Meetup! It’s guaranteed to be yet another evening of thrills, spills, and insane geek-out goodness.
So I thought I’d figure out how many social networking applications I had accounts with. I was surprised when I saw just how many I was signed up to.
So those are the networks I have accounts with. I really only use a couple of them; the others I’ve just signed up to for a look-see.
Alas, I’ve not got anything ready for the May 1st Reboot.
My sincerest apologies; work has been busy. Off-the-hook busy. So I’ll do something quicker and easier and not-at-all like redesigning my site.
My toolbox. At the risk of starting a meme, the applications I have use regularly enough such that they are always open are as follows:
So, what’s in your toolbox?
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Search engine ranking for particular keywords
Friday, September 21st, 2007I was recently asked if there is a way to find out where a site ranks in a search for particular keywords.
I know that Google Webmaster Tools shows a table of queries that most often returned pages from your site, and the average (over the last seven days) top position for that query.
For example, here’s a bit of a screenshot of stats for this site taken from Google Webmaster Tools:
Google Webmaster Tools has a bunch of other features as well:
It really is a must-have for tweaking and optimising your site.
Also, SEOmoz has a fairly comprehensive range of SEO-related tools, many of which are free to use. Their Rank Checker requires you to register (it’s free) and allows you to perform up to five keyword checks per day against your chosen URL.
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