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ingredients & tools used

only publicly available tools have been used to produce this work of art:

• emacs, the indispensable editor,
• gimp, the equally indispensable image manipulation tool,
• wordpress, the elegant blog system, and
• ubuntu, the easy to use linux system.

plugins used

active Plugins

  Akismet 2.4.0
» Automattic (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  AZIndex 0.8.1
» English Mike (url)
A highly customizable and user friendly plugin to create one or more alphabetical indexes of selected posts in your Wordpress blog.

  Bad Behavior 2.0.38
» Michael Hampton (url)
Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site.

  del.icio.us - Bookmark this! 1.2
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will allow you to add an “Bookmark this page on del.icio.us/digg/furl/newsvine/blinklist” link on you sidebar / posts / wherever. Don’t forget to add the <?php dbt_getLinkTag("Bookmark on del.icio.us"); ?> code in your templates OR use <?php dbt_the_LinkTag("Bookmark on del.icio.us"); ?> inside "The Loop". Look at the included readme.txt for more information.

  FeedList 2.61
» Bill Rawlinson (url)
Displays any ATOM or RSS feed in your blog.

  GeoPress 2.4.3
» Andrew Turner & Mikel Maron (url)
GeoPress adds geographic tagging of your posts and blog. You can enter an address, points on a map, upload a GPX log, or enter latitude & longitude. You can then embed Maps, location tags, and ground tracks in your site and your blog entries. Makes your feeds GeoRSS compatible and adds KML output. (http://georss.org/geopress )

  Google Analyticator 6.1.1
» Ronald Heft (url)
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.4
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  Markdown Extra 1.2.4
» Michel Fortin (url)
Markdown syntax allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format. Based on the original Perl version by John Gruber. More…

  Math Comment Spam Protection 3.0
» Michael Woehrer (url)
Asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot. Example of such question: What is the sum of 2 and 9?

  No Flash Uploader 1.1
» Dion Hulse (url)
Disables the Flash Uploader of 2.5

  OpenID 3.3.3
» DiSo Development Team (url)
Allows the use of OpenID for account registration, authentication, and commenting. Also includes an OpenID provider which can turn WordPress author URLs into OpenIDs.

  QR code 0.5.1
» Anthony Wong (url)
Creates and shows QR code images for blog articles.

  Smart Youtube 3.7
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Insert YouTube videos in posts, comments and RSS feeds with ease and full customization.

  Snap Shots™ Integrator 1.0
» Ajay D'Souza (url)
Add Snap Shots™ to your blog. Go to Options >> Snap Shots Integrator to configure.

  SyntaxHighlighter Evolved 2.3.8
» Viper007Bond (url)
Easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to modify the code at all. Uses Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter v2.0.320 and some code by Andrew Ozz of Automattic.

  Tag Managing Thing 1.0.2
» Christine From The Internet (url)
A thing for managing your tags. Things like renaming and deletions.

  Tag Suggest Thing 1
» Christine From The Internet (url)
Tag Suggestions for Wordpress using

  Technorati Tags 1.2
» Will Garcia (url)
Returns a list of technorati tags associated to the post (http://www.technorati.com/tag/). Follows the same convention of listing tags native to WordPress 2.3. the function the_techtags(); must be used within the loop.

  time2read 0.0.1
» eleZeta (url)
Time2read is a WP plug-in that allows you to estimate the time it will take an normal reader to read an article; auspiciaron con un fernet este plugin Rodrigo y Gabriel. What’s new: now you can choise show minutes or second

  Time of day 1.0.1
» Phu Ly & Dunstan Orchard & Michael Heilemann (url)
A WP plugin based on <a

  Time Zone 2.3
» Kimmo Suominen (url)
Automatic daylight saving time switching. Optionally specify the time zone to be used. Configuration: Options » Time Zone.

  Trackback Validator 0.7.1
» Dan Sandler and Andres Thomas-Stivalet (url)
Eliminates spam trackbacks with surprising accuracy (see website for details).

  Twitter Tools 2.4
» Crowd Favorite (url)
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.

  Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger 3.0
» Ultimate Plugins (url)
Replaces the built-in ping/notify functionality. Pings only when publishing new or future posts, not when editing. The new post’s url is pinged, not the main url. Also includes reverse order logfile.

  WordPress.com Stats 1.7.3
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

  WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

  WordPress Mobile Pack 1.2.3
» James Pearce & friends (url)
The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher, filtered widgets, and content adaptation for mobile device characteristics. Activating this plugin will also install a selection of mobile themes by ribot, a top UK mobile design team, and Forum Nokia. These adapt to different families of devices, such as Nokia and WebKit browsers (including Android, iPhone and Palm). If enabled, your site will be listed on mpexo, a directory of mobile-friendly blogs. Also check out the documentation and the forums. If you like the plugin, please rate us on the WordPress directory. And if you don’t, let us know how we can improve it!

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-Polls 2.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.

  WP lightbox 2 0.6.3
» Safirul Alredha (url)
Lightbox JS v2 is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page written by Lokesh Dhakar. Add rel=”lightbox” attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. This plugin integrate its feature into your WordPress blog.

  WP Plugins Tracker 0.2
» Sugan Shan (url)
This plugin helps webmasters to track the new releases of the plugins they are using in their website from admin panel.

questions, comments

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license

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