A tip I thought I’d share… setting up AVG Antivirus to work with Windows Live Messenger. Unfortunately an install of AVG doesn’t do this by default, nor does there seem to be any advice on how to do it.

It’s this simple:

“C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe” /SE

is the line you need to enter in the Tools > Options > File Transfer box.

Michael Arrington of techcrunch.com has written (updated) a very handy article listing some excellent Web 2.0 companies you should get to grips with. I can’t say I use all of them but I do use a fair few (Flickr, Gmail, Netvibes, Digg, Wordpress, Skype, Youtube), and I love them. I dare say I’ll be signing up for a few more, and hopefully with the increased convergence of web services, 2007 will see people adopting and contributing to sites such as netvibes more frequently.

Firstly, complete credit to tijs for the original plugin, allowing you to display your recent tracks on your wordpress blog. I wanted a weekly artists option, and noticed some other people were after the same, so I modified a few parts and decided to make it available :)

You can download it here: lastfm_artists.phps

Installing:

1. Save the file, and change .phps to .php
2. Upload to your plugins folder.
3. Call the weekly_artists function (as explained in the plugin) somewhere in your template (for example, sidebar.php).

Hope this helps some people! :)