Bright Meadow’s related streams

• Flickr Photostream
• RSS feed for posts
• RSS feed for comments
• My tweets on Twitter
• Cas’ coComment conversations
• full del.icio.us feed

For a (more or less) up to date list of the feeds that Cas subscribes to, go to her Bloglines page (I don’t read them in Bloglines, but this is the easiest way to share what I read with you).

Cas’ Toolbox - The sites, programs, and plugins that I use to make my life that little bit easier and enjoyable.:
Programs:

• VLC Media Player - cross platform media player.
• WriteRoom - text editing at its simplest. It would be fair to say I live in this program. It is bar far the best computer writing environment I’ve found so far - just you and the insertion point, no distractions.
• Smultron Text Editor - OS X text editor, great for html, css, and php.
• MoinX - desktop wiki.
• Cyberduck - FTP client.
• Thunderbird - email client - Giving this a trial as Apple Mail upped and died on me. It has its good points, and its bad points. Only time will tell if I keep it as my main client.
• WordPress - blogging platform

WordPress plugins:

• BAStats - basic stats. Good for quick checks on page hits and referrers
• Akismet - my current weapon of choice against spam. Doing a sterling job ( 116,845 bits of spam since I installed it)
• Akismet Worst Offenders Extension - Akismet Plus! This extension marks out spam from the same source, bundling it together, so it’s even easier to nuke it.
• Follow URL - zapps the ‘nofollow’ attribute WP 1.5 has set up as default.
• Gravatar - enables the pretty picture next to peoples names when they comment (if they have a gravatar)
• Comment Quicktags - the bold, italic, etc buttons that appear on the comment form.
• Simple Tags - easy way to insert Technorati tags to a post
• Google Sitemaps Generator
• WP-ContactForm - simple contact form that can be inserted into any post.
• WordPress Database Backup - one click database backup.

Web Services:

• coComment - comment tracking service. Invaluable for tracking the many conversations I have across the web. Bright Meadow is fully coComment integrated
• del.icio.us - social bookmarking service. Great when you have a nomadic existence between numerous computers like I do.
• Kaboodle - social comparison tool. At first glance del.icio.us with added screencaptures. Actually a powerful tool to help you compare and organise information for many different websites.
• Flickr - social photo organisation. A wonderful tool to upload and share (or not, that’s up to you) your pictures. And more. Whenever I have a spare few moments, I have a browse through the public pictures, and frequently waste hours!
• ClustrMaps - visual tracking of visitors.
• bugmenot