In my case, I started migrating some of my non-essential domains to a reputable web hosting service that offers free inboxes, like Dreamhost (Note: referral link), because I’ve my account with them for a long time. It was not exactly as straightforward, especially for non-techies. Additionally, all you get is email service, without the Google services bells-and-whistles.

Fortunately, sensible minds inside Google prevailed and they’re now allowing people to keep their free service, provided you’re not using it a business or for-profit context.

Anyway, my research into this topic a few backs pointed me to other sensible alternatives, especially if you’re just forwarding your @customdomain.com mail to another inbox in another. After all, hosting your own email is never easy. So what are the free alternatives out there?

• ImprovMX – The free tier allows for one custom domain, with a few caveats like a 10MB limit on attachments.
• Forward Email – Unlimited domains, 50MB attachments, but curiously (and justifiably, I think) leaves out the 99.99% SLA (Service Level Agreement) guarantee for the free option.

Both options simply require you to make changes to your DNS, and you should be good to go. Note that all you get is good ol’ email service, with all its failings like spam.

If you need help with DNS and other web administration type of things, drop a comment and we can probably help!

I like its simplicity that’s almost too bare, aside from the built-in archives page it provides. You can see it in action on this site now.

/**
* code #5 - removes excess WordPress header tags from default themes. 
* feel free to customize the options to suit your own needs.
*/
function clean_wp_header() {
	remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');
	remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');
	remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link');
	remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links',2);
	remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links_extra',3);
	remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');
	remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_shortlink_wp_head', 10, 0);
	remove_action('wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);
}
add_action('init', 'clean_wp_header');

There’s more of it in this collection.

if((window.devicePixelRatio===undefined?1:window.devicePixelRatio)>1)
    // do something here

More details on this technique from Shaun Inman’s post.

But thanks to a project named wkhtmltopdf, it can now be done with minimal configuration and programming. Using the Linux shell and some PHP scripting via the snappy library, taking screenshots of web pages aren’t so hard at all.

Administrators can create detailed, hierarchical documentation for the site’s authors and editors, viewable in the WordPress admin.

Now if you’re building a custom WP site with lots of customizations and tweaks, the WP Help plugin will make things easier for you and your users.

This seems a very useful way to get high–quality optical character recognition across all services in a network.

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable. Autojump will listen and rank your ‘cd’ commands by frequency.

This seems like a good utility for commandline purists!

sudo mkdir /media/external
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/external

Or something close to that.

All examples use simple, semantic HTML. No empty elements, no unnecessary extra elements, no JavaScript, no images (apart from that Twitter logo)…