eJoneClicks.com

7:55AM BST
I got up early this morning to check up on any responses regarding the submission of my first plugin on WordPress.org last night at midnight. Does anyone know if they are having problems with their web hosting? Are they transferring their domain names to different servers? Could it just be unreachable from this side of the pond?

Worse still, could somebody have tripped on a wire while watching the World Cup? Hehe.

I guess we’ll just we have to wait and find out.

10:00AM BST
It’s still unreachable. Anyone has better luck?

12:25PM BST
Looks like all is well now.

This is a plugin for WordPress that adds a small PayPal Donation form on your sidebar. It allows visitors of your site to make a donation or contribution via PayPal, the most popular and largest online payment processing service. Some settings can be changed via the Options Page.

For a while now every (almost) technology blog I came across on the internet has the PayPal Donate button. Sometimes they are located on an article, but most of them they can be found on the sidebar. Obviously I didn’t want to be left out, so I went to seek the code for my own PayPal Donate button.

If you have been keeping tabs on the official Google Blog, you might notice that a couple of days ago they announced the Google Browser Sync extension for the Firefox web browser.

Product Manager Brian Rakowski states:

…unifies your bookmarks, history, saved passwords, and persistent cookies across all the computers where you install it. It also remembers which tabs and windows you had open when you last closed any of your browsers and gives you a chance to reopen them.

Apple Mac OS X users already have this ability on their Safari web browsers with a little help from .Mac Sync (pronounced dot-mac-sync).  This is one of the many reasons why .Mac is appealing; the ability to synchronise your bookmarks (among other things) across any Mac that you log on to. However, unlike .Mac, Google Browser Sync is free.

I got myself an Apple PowerBook G4 early last year which was my first ever Mac. Having been a Windows user almost my entire life (with a tad of Linux here and there), I never thought it would change my web-browsing experience forever. Just like Windows XP has Internet Explorer as their default web browser, Mac OS X has Safari (since v10.3). Initial impressions were fairly inconclusive, as I was so used to Internet Explorer. Over time however, I grew more and more accustomed to it, especially with the inclusion of ‘tabbed browsing’.

Mozilla released an update to its award-winning, free web browser that fixes several security issues.

The release notes on Firefox 1.5.0.4 states:

Firefox 1.5.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

• Improvements to product stability
• Several security fixes

Security is always a serious issue (if you do a lot of online banking and purchasing like me) and I always keep Firefox up-to-date, but 1.5.0.3 was crashing on me all the time. I’ve been using 1.5.0.4 non-stop for two whole days now and it seems a lot more rock-solid stable.