Website update

One of the things I always planned to do with this blog is to anounce my website updates. So now, all you have to do is install a suitable RSS aggregator (see recommendation 'Abilon' on the Freeware page) and subscribe to this blog (use the URL "http://padleywood.blogspot.com/atom.xml" without quotes). That way, you get all recent feeds including the monthly website update. Go on, treat yourself!

This month:

General: this month, the website celebrates its 3rd birthday with a 'Focus on Freeware' issue!

Books: new Poem of the Month.

Drink: new Drink of the Month ('The Cranberries' - Finlandia Cranberry Vodka and cranberry juice, with 4 recipes).

Food: time once again to head down Mexico way for the Recipe of the Month. There are also new recipes for couscous, gnocchi and wraps.

Fractals: new Fractal of the Month.

Freeware: as well as Spotlighting the wonderful Maxthon browser (see below), there are some other excellent programs reviewed this month, plus some 'passengers' dropped, as the whole section gets a spring clean.

Garden: new Garden Tip

Links: this month, Spotlight on... (usually a site new to me, but could be an old favourite):


This browser (Maxthon) just gets better! I cannot recommend it enough, hence the Spotlight. In addition to the existing review, I'll mention some of the add-on features available via the DAILY updates. Essential is the RSS feed plugin that now comes bundled as standard. Add feed from the plugin site, click the sidebar tool and you get a list of recent updates(with tooltip descriptions) in the sidebar, without having to visit the website. Click an item to open its webpage in a new browser window where you can download and read a fuller description.

Other invaluable plugins include Weather feed and LookUpWord, both sidebar, and CloseTabs (9 options - most useful for me is close all to right) and CopySelection (copies selected text plus page title and URL to the clipboard), both toolbar.

I've also been spring-cleaning the links too, deleting dead links and updating those that have moved.