In this episode I walk you through downloading, installing and configuring a free wordpress theme, to change the look of your wordpress blog and add some new functionality.

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Woohoo a free Wordpress app was just released for the iPod touch (and iPhone too). Expect this to be featured in a podcast soon

In this episode I show you how to install Google Analytics in Wordpress without installing a plugin. I walk you through editing the PHP files to include the Google Analytics code.

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In this episode I show you how to set up a video podcast for free, and even make a bit of money doing it. I walk you step by step through setting up an RSS feed, and submitting your podcast to iTunes. Of course, all for free!

Here is a PHP script I put together for a web site I am working on. It retrieves a random image from my flickr stream. The nice thing is you can treat the php file like a image. I needed this so that I could reference it from a css file. Enjoy, but don’t forget to change the flickr information to your own.

<?php
$file =file_get_contents(‘http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?count=1&display=random&size=m&layout=v&source=user&user=19617468@N00&tag=&group=19617468@N00′) preg_match(‘#<img (.*)src=”(.+)”#U’, $file, $r);

$photo = $r[2];
$contentType = ‘Content-type: image/jpeg’;

header ($contentType);
readfile($photo);
?>

In this episode I show you how to sign up for and configure google apps. This allows you to have free gmail style email on your own domain name. It’s easier than you think.

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In this howto I show you how to download and install the semiologic google analytics plugin so that you can track visitors to your site and gather useful stats.

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