Fixing the Lastpass Errors

Like many people I've been suffering from not being able to access my account since the potential hack of the Lastpass site.

I finally managed to get it working by following these instructions step by step.

1) Turn off Modem and Router
2) Turn off PC
3) Reboot PC but leave the Modem and Router off
4) Load up your browser
5) Clear both Cookies and Cache on the Browser (very important)
6) Remove the Lastpass Extension from your browser
7) Close your browser
8) Start your Modem and Router
9) Once connected load your Browser
10) Re-install the Lastpass Extension
11) Log back on using your original password before the hack
12) If that does not work and you changed your password after the hack then try the new password.

If you are still not working now try to log in via https://lastpass.com/?ac=1

Failing that email their support support@lastpass.com

Adding Facebook Social Plugins to your Blogger Blog

Facebook is all the rage these days and adding it to your blog is a good way to drive extra traffic and make your site more "social".

However, it's not very simple for new blogger to add the various Facebook social plugins to your site.

This guide will hopefully change all that!

Details after the cut

Better Polls for your Site

A great way of adding some interactivity to a blog for your readers is that of asking poll questions. There are plenty of poll making sites out there, and even Blogger itself has it's own simple poll gadget. However if you're serious about your polls then you really need to check out PollDaddy. It's probably the de-facto standard of Polls around the blogsphere and some of the largest blogs on the net use it ... and best of all, it's free!

So lets take a quick look at Polldaddy and what you can do.

Adding a Stat Counter to your Blog

Like most bloggers it's always nice to know more about who is reading your site, where they come from and what they are reading etc. This post will show you how to add an excellent free statcounter to your site which will give you access to a large amount of useful information.

This should be sufficient for 90%+ of bloggers. However, if you later find yourself being in the envious position of getting 1000's of hits per day then you can always look at a more powerful solution such Google Analytics which I will write about later on.

Ok, so how do we get some stats on our blog? For the purposes of this How-To I'll be using the excellent free service from Statcounter and assume you have a Blogger blog, although the technique applies the same to almost all the Blogging services out there.

Blog Comments - Best 3rd Party Solution?

Disqus vs JS-Kit/Echo vs Blogger vs IntenseDebate

Before setting up my first blog I spent some time looking at the various comments systems that are available for the Blogger Platform.

The default comments that come with Blogger are Ok but they don't allow for some of the more sophisticated Social Media notifications that are becoming more and more popular.