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IP to Nation WordPress Plugin
Will guess country based on IP. I think this might be fun to implement here when I have some time!
[link via Blogging Pro]

Some freeware/shareware font collections not already listed here:
Wanted Fonts
Kids Fonts
Da Font
Font Identifier (identify a font by answering questions about it)

[links from code novice]

Mandarin Design has some neat CSS tricks:
Polaroid-style photos
Inline and magazine style pull quotes

[links to Mandarin Design, and pull quote tutorials via code novice as well]

Customizable Post Listings plugin by coffee2code
As described on his site: Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner (so no need to tweak plugin code). You can narrow post searches by specifying categories and/or authors, among other things.

[link via Weblog Tools Collection]

This little tutorial saved my butt today.

List Style Bullet Images
An alternative way of styling list bullets.

Arvind’s WP Tabs
“WP Tabs are a quick easy refrence to WP Tags. The bookmark will pop open a sidebar in your browser with links to all WP Tags.”

[link via Matt]

I’ve been moving towards CSS-based layouts at my work. And I hadn’t thought we were required to support IE 5.5, but I was mistaken. A few of the layouts I did required a minor change to work with IE 5.5, but since the sites had already been released I needed to defend my logic for not supporting that browser. So for my future reference, here is what I (actually my husband) dug up (in case I ever need to use it again)

You can see a quick summary here. And you’ll see the note that says security updates and support for IE 5.5 ended on December 31, 2003.

As well, you can see on this page that all “flavors” of IE 5.5 support (including security updates) from Microsoft have all ended with the exception of windows ME – but even that particular version has this note associated with it:

Microsoft strongly recommends customers install the latest released version of Internet Explorer, which provides improved security protection.

These links and notes from Microsoft all indicate to me that support for all OS except Windows ME is dead, and even then Microsoft says to upgrade to latest version to make sure that you are protected and have current security updates.

IE 5.5 users *really* should upgrade their browser. They are vulnerable to security risks otherwise. (my blog-only added note: Better yet - switch to Firefox!!!)

[HUGE thanks to my better-half Sam for finding all that for me]

Hoverdesk.net has a number of cool freeware utilities, among them: HoverSnap (a screenshot utility), HoverWeather (desktop weather utility), HoverNews.

Link via WordPress Reference Centre - a new WP-specfic-blog.

Link to WordPress Reference Centre via Blogging Pro.

Haven’t visited the plugin page on the wiki in a while and found a few plugins I’d like to play with at some point:

PictPress
(as stated on the wiki) : automatically add thumbnails and pictures for all images in a directory when publishing a post.

SnailGallery
create a static gallery of images inside a post.

Comment Moderation auto-switch on older posts
Automatically turns on comment moderation for older posts (good spam prevention - while not turning comments OFF for those posts.)

TalkBalk
This plugin by Shelley allows you to insert links to display all comments by a person(name or url) on your weblog.

Amazon Wishlist
Give it an Amazon wishlist ID, and it will display a random item from your wishlist

ImageManager Plugin
As stated on the wiki: The Image Manager plugin integrates the stand alone PHP ImageManager + Editor with Word Press. (read about the PHP ImageManager here. I’m assuming that it brings that functionality into Wordpress?)

Edit Button Template
A template that allows you to add buttons to the quick tag buttons using DOM. (so you don’t have to edit core files!)

Hide or Cut Post Text plugin
Make parts of your post only appear on the “permalink page” permanently hide other content.

Designers Galore
A massive list of designer stuff

Spellbound
Spell checker for Mozilla Firefox

[both links above found via Jennifer]

A Better Image Rotator: A List Apart

I always feel kind of silly linking to things on A List Apart. The site has so much good info - that you could easily end up linking to every article.