Archive for Technology
Posting from my iPhone
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Things just keep getting better. Now I’m typing on my iPhone into WordPress — doesn’t sound like a big deal, but I’m doing it in an iPhone optimized interface.
You can check out the plug-in at wphoneplugin.org.
Steve Balmer gets egged
Posted by: | CommentsYou know you’re having a bad day when you show up to give a speech and answer questions only to have eggs thrown at you.
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Posting to WordPress from Facebook
Posted by: | CommentsIt's amazing the things you can do with Facebook these days.
Over at Blogspot for a bit
Posted by: | CommentsIf you’re looking for me, check out my little Blogspot page. I decided to try out for the service, just for fun.
Finally got Spam Assassin working
Posted by: | CommentsSometimes I feel pretty stupid — this week was one of those times. I’ve been running my server without Spam Assassin because I really didn’t need it. However, lately it’s become necessary, so I decided to set it up.
Right away it started picking up spam email and marking it correctly. Then it started marking emails spam that really wasn’t spam. So I setup the Junkmail and Notjunkmail email boxes so I could train the Bayesian filters.
But it didn’t really work. Then I realized that there was no cron job setup, so the damn thing wasn’t learning anything. I downloaded Spamtrainer ran the fixes and the rules and everything is running fine now.
Working with CSS drop shadows and image galleries
Posted by: | CommentsI really like what CSS can do for a Web site. I try to build everything now without using any tables whatsoever and for the most part it’s worked really well. CSS itself has come a long way allowing you to do many things including shadows, which is what I’ve been working on recently.
There was really no need for me to have an image gallery on the site since Peter gave me a Flickr Pro account, but it’s one of those things that I wanted to work on for myself. I’m using a really nice piece of gallery software for WordPress called Gallery Manager.
Gallery Manager gives you everything you need and integrates well with WordPress itself. Having that out of the way, I wanted to give the thumbnails and images a nice drop shadow, but I didn’t want to use Photoshop, I wanted it all done with CSS.
So the thumbnails you see on this page have a slight bit of padding and a nice drop shadow, which gives them some nice depth.
I tried it with Safari and it works great, but when I align any of the thumbs to the right Camino and Firefox won’t show the images. Strange, but I’ll keep playing around with that.
Update: Shortly after posting this I found what I was doing wrong to make the images align right in Firefox and Camino. If it doesn’t look right to you, let me know.
Why Does Windows have to be so stupid!
Posted by: | CommentsI sat there this afternoon looking at my daughters Dell wondering why the hell it had to be so difficult to join a wireless network. A Mac is so easy — turn it on and it finds the network for you. That’s it, nothing else.
The iPod halo effect is here to stay
Posted by: | CommentsI had an interesting conversation yesterday with an IDC analyst that said the iPod halo effect could be around for some time. The only catch is that Apple has to continue to innovate in order to keep building the momemtum.
Don’t get Podcasting? You’re not alone
Posted by: | CommentsIf you don’t really get the new Podcasting phenomenon taking over the Web these days, you’re not alone. Macworld Editor Rob Griffiths, who admits to adopting technology rather quickly, doesn’t get Podcasting either.
“I have to admit, though, that this incredible surge of interest in podcasting has caught me completely by surprise. I have no idea why people find it so amazing and interesting. Though Podcasting is technically not a ‘new’ technology, since it’s been around for a few years, Apple’s recent change to iTunes and the Music Store has really brought it to the masses — hence it’s ‘new’ to a large number of people now.”
You can read the rest of Griffiths blog at Macworld.
Signed up for a Flickr account
Posted by: | CommentsEverywhere I look these days, it’s Flickr, Flickr, Flickr. Like the saying goes, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” so I did yesterday afternoon. I’m still not convinvced Flickr is any better for me than .Mac, but I’m sure there are a lot of people out there that can give me some opinions and examples on why it’s better.
I uploaded a couple of albums already to test out the interface. Overall, it’s pretty good — there are quite a few options and there is a whole community of people that you can make as contacts. I quickly found several people that I know to add as contacts.
I’m currently using a Flickr plugin for iPhoto, which seems to be the best upload/management interface I’ve found so far. The plugin doesn’t seem to be able to create an album for me, although it did upload pictures just fine if I didn’t choose to create a new album.
Shortly after signing up, a good friend got me upgraded to a Flickr Pro account (Thanks), which gives you a whole lot of extras — mostly lifting restrictions of the free account.
Like I said, I’m not totally convinced yet, but I’m going to give it a try and see what happens.
