CeoXi DeSigN: plugin

I love you all, my dear readers! Some of you are sending in some great ideas for plugins, and I've coded two of them. First, Michael Gray requested in this blogpost that someone built a plugin to automatically add your Amazon affiliate ID to Amazon links. I've done that. It's called Amazon Auto Affiliate Linker, enjoy!

Then Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, the creator of the oh so wonderful Twittercounter, pinged me, and asked if I could make a simple plugin to add Apple Touch Icons to your blog. I've done that, added the option to add favicons too, and here it is: blog icons!

Both plugins will probably have some updates in the coming time, feel free to comment with your ideas below!

SearchStatus: Firefox Extension to Examine Sites Performance

I'm always curious to learn about statistics of a website I visit and that explains why I installed Alexa plugin and Google pagerank bar. They are, however, only related to alexa ranking and Pagerank. On top of that, more Firefox extensions need to be installed and this will somehow contribute to excessive memory consumption on Firefox.

SearchStatus is a Firefox extension that allows you to see how a website is performing by presenting related information on a compact toolbar. This extension is particularly useful to people who do research on their competitors performances.

By installing SearchStatus, it lets you view the Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), so providing a balanced view of site efficacy. If you like to lurk on somebody's website performance, you may want to try this out.