After 2 years I’ve finally updated my WordPress plugin and decided on a new name (it started out life as SocialList, but someone else has that name now). Hopefully I’ll keep more on top of things this time!

PopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg. When PopuList is activated, a page is added to your dashboard giving the number of times a page has been saved or upvoted.

Prompted by an article by Andreas Gohr [splitbrain.com] giving a PHP function to get StumbleUpon rankings for a given URL I decided to revisit the SocialList Wordpress plugin I wrote in 2007 (I see someone else has taken the name for a different plugin now, guess that’s what I get for leaving it 2 years!)

Unfortunately Andreas mentioned that his method doesn’t work anymore as StumbleUpon have changed something. Well, I didn’t have anything better to do this evening, so I’ve reworked Andreas’ code and come up with a solution that works with the StumbleUpon changes.

This function should be pretty much a direct replacement for the one in the splitbrain.com article and the same instructions apply especially that to make it work you will need to set the two variables at top of the function.

Possibly useful to anyone testing a site in Firefox, I just found out you can view the error console in a tab by going to the URL:
chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul

Also of interest:

Library (bookmarks):
chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul

Downloads:
chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.xul

Add-ons:
chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul

You’ll need to copy and paste these into your address bar as links don’t work, also they only work in Firefox (and possibly other Mozilla browsers).

[From: MozillaZine KB]

IsMyLcdOK is a small program to easily check for dead/paralysed/stuck pixels on LCD monitors. There’s not much to it: Just run and then walk through the battery of onscreen tests designed to isolate any problem pixels. The only trouble is it’s Windows only.

There are some alternatives for other platforms, but I decided to make a cross platform solution, and what could be more cross platform than HTML (admittedly with some javascript). Feel free to try it out here: Check my LCD - Just click anywhere on the screen that loads to rotate through the tests, you’ll also get better results using your browser’s full-screen mode.