It looks like Canada’s Rogers Wireless wasn’t content with merely jacking up its BlackBerry prices as it has just gone and made and a decision that is sure to aggravate plenty of smartphone customers
via Rogers changes minimum HUP length from 12 to 24 months for smartphone users : Boy Genius Report.
Damnit, I was number 5 000 312 on the site, not the magical number. See here:
The Famous Sayings Blog is getting close to 5 million page views. I decided to give a prize to the person on twitter who comes closest to being here for the # 5,000,000 page view and who documents their participation by taking a screen shot and posting it on their blog with a link back here and then posting to twitter about their accomplishment.
NEW YORK – When Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father’s gaming friends know that he hadn’t just decided to desert them.
I have been looking for a good plugin for people who access the blog from a mobile device for quite some time. It is almost mandatory today to make sure that people’s experience on their mobile device is just as good as if they were sitting at their computer.
Today I downloaded PDA Plugin For WordPress from http://imthi.com/wp-pda. The author has done a good job of updating the experience based on what mobile device you have. After the installation I immediately tested this on multiple phone types. I am lucky enough to have enough friends around me with different phone types to make this possible.
Based on my tests I like what I see so far. On a Blackberry it was nice and clean; having most of the heavy graphics removed and the site reformatted to fit the screen size. Having a Blackberry Bold myself this was good to see and it’s something that I would definitely use to view a site such as mine. Next I took a loot at the site on a Windows Mobile phone and was surprised at how well it did at making it look like the Blackberry. I have seen the Windows Mobile browser screw up so many websites that were not designed for mobile browsers, but with this plugin the site was nicely displayed. The last test for me was on an iPhone and I must say that they did a great job. Typical to a lot of sites who are making their pages specifically for the iPhone the PDA Plugin For WordPress automatically formatted it the same way. I love how the menus no longer even look like HTML, they are iPhone-esque which is what iPhone users want.
I am very happy with this plugin and hope that it brings more people over to the site. You can now take a look at a clean site from a bus, train, car (passenger of course) or where ever you might be while waiting for something.
Happy surfing!
How many hits will those two words get in a Google search? Probably only an amount that the Google computers can compute and that is the reason that the people over at TweetDeck have incorporated Facebook support into an already popular Twitter client.
I have installed the version that now has Facebook integration. It is not available as a standard upgrade through the automatic notification feature but can be downloaded here.
So far so good in my books. They have not over complicated their integration with Facebook, limiting it to just updates of your friend’s statuses. This is a good move in my books. In a review that I did over the weekend (submitted today, I know) about PeopleBrowsr.com I mentioned that it is great because it is the same on every computer but the extra features above TweetDeck were not really a benefit to me. This was largely because their integration of other features seem overly complicated for a program that needs to react and be used very quickly. TweetDeck has kept the Facebook integration simple and thus it is very fast and easy to navigate.
Now I have a conflict… PeopleBrowsr.com for reasons mentioned here, and TweetDeck for it’s continued simplicity.
Have fun with the new version Tweeps!
There are a ton of ways to access Twitter these days and many of the solutions offer advanced ways of organizing the tweets in a logical way. I have been a fan of TweetDeck for quite a while but I always found it a pain to set it up on each computer I use. I have an office PC, a laptop, a home desktop and sometimes I work on my wife’s laptop if it is the handier of the computers in the house. Having to install Adobe Air, then TweetDeck and then configure TweetDeck like I am used to using it can be a real pain. Then there are other times when I have to re-do it because like a lot of techies, I format and reinstall quite often.
Most recently, while Tweeting about I heard of an alpha release of PeopleBrowsr.com. This is a website that is quite similar to TweetDeck in layout and features, but like most websites I don’t have to worry about configuration when I move to another computer. I think it comes down to the same reason that I use Google’s hosted e-mail; no matter where I am, I always have access to it and the configuration remains the same.
Knowing how to get somewhere and do something in a software that is meant to increase efficiency is the key to its success. The only reason that TweetDeck worked for me is because I invested the time in setting it up exactly the same on every computer I use. If not for that, TweetDeck wouldn’t have been as effective.
On the other side of the coin, if I were a person who was always on the same computer then I wouldn’t have made the switch. Other than the accessibility of the product, I don’t use many of the extra features. I am able to connect to other services such as FriendFeed but I actually prefer to login to the FriendFeed website and use their interface. The same reasons why PeopleBrowsr.com is a great access point for Twitter don’t apply to FriendFeed.
So a heads up for those of you who find yourself at more than one computer in a day. To be able to instantly jump into the Twitterverse as soon as you sit down, even for the first time at any computer is an awesome thing.
Note that this is still an alpha version and is prone to bugs. I haven’t found anything that is stopping me from using it in the last week. It is also only compatible with Firefox and Safari at this point.
It is being reported that Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 will be outday – Paula Rooney @ ZDNet. It looks like the most recnt Beta is complete and they have scheduled Beta 4 for release in mid April.
It is said that Beta 3 testing and fixes included new features introduced in Beta 2 some of which are Private Browsing Mode, Worker Threads, Speculative Parsing and TraceMonkey.
Those of you who want to be on the cusp of Firefox releases should be able to get this from the Beta sight that is slated to be ready later tonight.
Happy Browsing!
Turns out that it was time to make some changes on the site. The old background and colours are gone and I am back to something a little more blue. It was time to update some of the plugins I use, 6 of them had newer versions and who knows what those updates would fix.
I have been working on testing a recording scenario for podcasts and that has taken most of my free time lately. The techy side is a lot of fun but my real dilemma is still the theme. I have been talking with a friend who I think will join me as a co-host about this and we are both really interested in tech/geek crap in general. I think that we are going to shoot for a general tech show related to current events and then throw some interesting features into the show.
Only outstanding thing right now on the blog is the email. Right now I am getting 2 copies every time I post. EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE TOO!!!!
Ciao for now.
… the problem with this of course; is that 90% of them wouldn’t ever answer the question and a good portion of those probably wouldn’t read the question. I suppose it’s every blogger’s dream to know that. Then you can make sure to post and include the information that readers are looking for.
Strangely enough my posting has been erratic at best lately. I know, I know… I realize how often I post these days, and most recently it has been slower plus I have had a cold from hell. So most readers know that I had big plans in the fall to set up a live video stream on the website and stream myself 24/7 for the masses. Well it turns out that it takes a lot of time to gain viewership and maintain it. You would think that I could have come up with that before investing all the time in the setup of the stream, but I guess that was also part of the fun for me; twas a true geek maneuver.
Now I have my head geared towards podcasting. I am not 100% sure of format or topic yet, but of course it will have to do with technology – no question there. There are so many podcasts out there that are very topic specific that I think it would be difficult to try and spin a “general technology” podcast from an unknown creator. Let’s face it (more talking to myself here I suppose) I really have never created anything published, so I am definately unknown in the podcasting world.
I think I am going to try and come up with a few different ideas with a subject and description, then post it back up here and ask for feedback. What is missing or what is it that I am so interested in that I think I can do it better than the rest of the world :P
Uh oh, could be a long list…. Mwahahaha.
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