Posts Tagged ‘web’

Divvyshot – photo sharing for the rest of us?

Divvyshot is a photo sharing site, fresh off the presses. Even though the name is hard to remember, the website is quite the opposite.

Divvyshot has taken a somewhat different approach to photo sharing where albums are thought of as events, and multiple people can easily contribute to them. Imagine a wedding where there will probably [...]

Which platform do you use for middle-space blogging?

 
 

OpenID and why it matters

Logging into websites have always been a pain if you want to stay somewhat secure. One could either use the same username and password everywhere or choose from a few remembered passwords. The next best thing is to use some kind of password manager, such as the one built into most modern web browsers or [...]

Instapaper, or how to read stuff later

I recently came across a service on the great web called Instapaper. It solves the ancient internet problem of wanting to read long articles when one just haven’t got the time. Everyone has probably thought:
I’ll just save it and read it later…
It’s not easy to manage all these links and texts without any kind of [...]

Dreamhost adds unlimited bandwidth and disk space for all

If you happen to be in the Dreamhost Panel and clicked on Billing -> Manage Account, you might have seen that it is now possible to upgrade to unlimited bandwidth and disk space — for free!
Just click the link and accept the agreement. It basically states:

Everybody on your account is using their full email address only [...]

Google Knol — The new online source for knowledge

Google just released a new web application called Knol. It is used to make it easy to share knowledge through article and in-depth guides. The service puts a strong emphasis on authorship, and every piece of information has one or more names behind it. From the announcement:
Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by [...]

WordPress for iPhone released

WordPress for iPhone has been released, making it super easy to post to your Wordpress blog on the go!
There have been reports on the iPhone crashing when using international characters such as åäö, but it will surely be fixed soon.
I will write a review when I have the opportunity to try it myself.

Micro blogging – Jaiku, Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Identi.ca

Micro blogging seems to have exploded this last year. Most of it is probably thanks to Twitter, but there are lots of other services popping up, such as Jaiku and Plurk, which have identified the shortcoming of Twitter and extended the service to include the missing features as well as adding more innovative extensions.
If you [...]

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.6

So I have just updated my blog to Wordpress 2.6, and it was a very easy transition. Since I’m tracking the Subversion tree, all I have to do is:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6/ .
More information on how to trach Wordpress using Subversion is available in their documentation.
Everything seems to be working except for is_human(), but since I’m using [...]

Wordpress 2.6 released – lots of new features

Wordpress 2.6 has just been released, bringing lots of new features and polish as usual. The following video from the Wordpress website will give you a tour on what has changed.

I have not updated yet, but will be doing it very shortly.