Tiny bytes of tech
Widget Context is a cool plugin for the WordPress platform that lets you control the pages on which a WordPress widget is shown. So if you have a widget that you only want to appear on the blog homepage, it’s a piece of cake.
Other options for filtering the pages where you want a widget to appear include single post pages, a WordPress page, search pages, archives, tag pages, author pages, and 404 pages. Neat!
If you have a blog or website, you can add share buttons by using a plugin such as addtoany or you can create individual share buttons and add them to single posts. Here are the web pages for creating your own custom share buttons for the following services:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php
ReTweet Button: http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/
Digg: http://digg.com/tools/integrate
StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/buttons/
Delicious: http://delicious.com/help/savebuttons
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/buttons/
Google is rolling out a new feature in its search results today called Music Search. Now when you search for some music-related, like a song title, artist, or album name, you’ll also see links to an audio preview of the song provided by MySpace or Lala.
You can also search the lyrics to a song, find the song, listen to it and purchase it, all links now being included in the search result pages themselves. Great way to find new music! Very cool!
Ever click the Send button on an email you really should not have sent in the first place? Or maybe you didn’t finish the email, but clicked Send by accident. In either case, you can enable the Undo Send feature in Gmail Labs that basically waits a few seconds before actually sending the email in case you want to undo it. Nice!
So you love listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers, but are kind of getting tired of the same song over and over again? Maybe you are interested in finding another band that is similar in music style, but has a different sound?
Digital Inspiration has a great guide on how to expand your music collection by using free services such as Pandora and Last.fm, which first figure out what music you like and then use advanced algorithms to find similar music.
Everyone should know by now that you need a strong password for your email account if you want to prevent it from being hacked into. However, there are other ways you can secure your Gmail account such as remembering to sign out when using a public computer or using HTTPS all the time. You can read the whole list on the Official Gmail Blog.