David Chartier on July 3rd, 2008
Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
Another winner from The Onion. I’m constantly impressed by the high production values of these segments. Definitely a step or two above the rest.
via iRockandRoll
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on July 2nd, 2008
From Technosailor’s 10 things you need to know about WordPress 2.6, a new “Press This” bookmarklet will arrive that makes it much easier to blog photos, quotes, and videos you find around the web. This is one of Tumblr’s killer features, and it’s about damn time WordPress tackles something like this.
The other 10 things are certainly worth reading, including a new compromise to the ridiculous disabling of external blog editor access (by default) that MarsEdit developer Daniel Jalkut rightfully called BS on.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on July 2nd, 2008
“Performance” service customers now get upload speeds of up to 1 Mbps, and “Performance PLUS” (the caps mean ‘more better’) get 2 Mbps.
Looks like we’re on the PLUS plan. This is good news for my Mozy online backup that’s still chomping away at our 250GB+ iTunes library; maybe it’ll finish sometime in 2008.
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He got more expressive since last year’s videos, but now that he’s cemented his fame as “The iPhone Guy,” he’s really letting himself go.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on June 29th, 2008
Best iPhone WordPress admin plug-in I’ve seen. Be sure to check out the rest of the screenshots. WPhone works across all the essential areas, but there’s no telling what it’ll do to plug-in-specific pages.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on June 29th, 2008
I wrote about Many Tricks’ Leech OS X download manager back in May, but I’ve been using Speed Download for a while and didn’t see a reason to switch over. Leech is a good download manager with a simple, unique UI that I recommend, but it didn’t have any must-have features when I wrote about it.
Today I decided to give Leech another spin since Many Tricks has issued a few new features and fixes since its debut. While I’m not positive I want to switch over yet, I definitely think this searchable History menu that mimics Leopard’s system-wide Help menu search field is a smart feature, and I don’t remember it being in the 1.0 that I wrote about. If you keep Leech hidden or close its window while it’s working, this is certainly an easy way to look through all your downloads without having to reactivate a full window. Smart.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on June 29th, 2008
Disqus is an interesting new hosted comment solution for blogs and websites. I’m trying it out here at 1FPS because of some unique features, such as threaded and more interactive comments than you get with WordPress and many of its plug-ins.
A definite downside for users of WordPress and similar platforms is that you no longer get your commenter’s e-mail address sent in comment notifications. If you require those for off-the-record correspondence with readers, you may need to find a workaround or bug the company to add this feature. Off the top of my head, I think a reasonable solution would be to enable this as an option for publishers (probably by default, since it’s the default of every CMS I’ve ever tried), but also allow registered commenters to control whether their e-mail address is sent in Disqus comment notifications to publishers.
Speaking of new features, though, Disqus has been busy. Users can now enable trackbacks, and the company added support for logging in via OpenID (for registered users/commenters at the main website, not logging in at just anyone’s site—yet). There are also now easy-breezy Disqus plug-ins for Joomla and Drupal as well.
If you want to learn more about Disqus you can of course visit the site, but a recent post on the company’s blog titled A Commenter’s Rights also explains more of the philosophy behind the company’s hosted comment approach.
Update: Guillermo Esteves says you actually can see a commenter’s e-mail address in your Disqus dashboard. It may not be as convenient as getting them via e-mail for some users, but at least they’re there if you need them.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on June 24th, 2008
Daniel Jalkut, developer behind the popular OS X blogging app MarsEdit, on WordPress’ decision to disable remote access by default in version 2.6 and beyond:
WordPress’s decision to shut off remote access by default is analogous to a bank offering unrestricted drive-through access to its cash machines, while requiring pedestrians to ring a bell and wait for a security guard to open the door to the machines.
I don’t know if a new crew has taken the reigns of WordPress recently, but some really, really poor design and functionality decisions have been made since that $29 million VC score. Jalkut nailed this one.
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Inside the Tweet Factory. from John Moltz on Vimeo.
Good one to bookmark to show your kids when they ask.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on June 24th, 2008
TypePad introduced Blog It back in April, a cool little multi-service web app that bizarrely manifested as a Facebook application, of all things. Now, TypePad has morphed Blog It into an iPhone web app, living at http://blogit.typepad.com.
I haven’t signed in yet because I’m a bit too busy, but it appears to offer much of the same functionality wrapped in standard iPhone UI and controls. It also defaults to letting users sign in via OpenID. Cool.
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