February 22, 2011
- Shawn Blanc Becomes Full-Time Blogger ✔
- One of the few people on the Internet left that I can still actually stand decides things like food and clothing are merely luxury items. Here’s to hoping that it works out.
- Rumors of iPad 2, iPhone 5 delays are not true ✔
- Jim Dalrymple setting the record strait on rumors versus announcements:
The Internet is buzzing this morning with separate rumors that Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will be delayed. The fact is, neither rumor is true.
Ahem and ahem.
From what I’ve heard this morning both products are on schedule and will ship when they are supposed to. Only Apple knows exactly when that will be, but the products are not delayed.
February 21, 2011
- Facebook chat available everywhere in Hotmail ✔
- Two of my least favorite things, now bonded at the hip! What could be better? Malaria. Malaria could be better than this. They deserve each other.
- CSS drop-shadows without images ✔
- Nicolas Gallagher puts together most of the widely-available techniques for making drop shadows using only CSS.
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- Mary Worth on Twitter ✔
“It’s just a bunch of sentences!“
(Not really Mary Worth)
February 18, 2011
- Are Web Fonts Ready for Prime Time? ✔
- Not a Single-Serving Site for once! Pat Dryburgh on why Web Fonts are not quite yet ready for practical use.
- Delicious to Google Bookmarks Import ✔
- Sad to watch this happen, but nice to know that I could keep the thousands of links I have. Even with thousands of links, works pretty fast. Might start Google innovating Bookmarks, or even get them to buy Delicious (HINT HINT).
- Everyone’s bookmarks for “Google Bookmarks – Delicious to Google Bookmarks Import” on Delicious ✔
- That’s depressing. I found this on the Delicious popular page.
- Customising your WordPress theme for the DF Linked List plugin ✔
- In case you wanted to create your own mini-Daring Fireball in WordPress. About as good instructions you will find for people who don’t know much about mucking around in WordPress themes.
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February 17, 2011
- “Sometimes it’s like working at McDonald’s, with better pay.” ✔
- Confessions of an Apple Store Employee. Or, should I say, a soon-to-be-fired Apple Store Employee. Pretty much sums up what I figured was the Apple Store Employee Experience. Especially the MobileMe thing.
- Neven Mrgan’s Pixelfari ✔
- Just in case you were looking to view the Internet in a standards-compliant browser on your Nintendo Entertainment System.
- What your iPad looks like after you use it ✔
- Taking pictures of the screen of an iPad after normal use. The video one caught my eye, as are not many easy-to-use controls, yet. Amazing how boring (spatially-speaking) the YouTube application is, for instance.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Prequel ✔
- Fan-made, unfortunately. As somebody who both appreciates independent cinema and the original vision of comic book creators, I was glad that Vanilla Ice was not credited with an appearance. See more at the Fight The Foot site.
Somebody at Apple PR needs to contact Apple PR about this
In the fun of a new thing from Apple today, a lot of websites linked to the announcement of the addition of subscriptions to the App Store. Like many other intrepid followers of these websites, I clicked on the link.
On my iPhone, I saw this.
Is it just me, or is that really impossible to read? Is there some setting I don’t know about in Mobile Safari for “Make Super-Small Writing Fit on Screen So You Don’t Have to Scroll Sideways Back and Forth?” Or am I the only one with this problem?
Regardless, seems an odd quirk of the Apple website that it doesn’t work well on one of Apple’s flagship products.
And about the ruckus this announcement caused…
Boy, there sure were some people who got really excited about something that everybody already figured out, huh? I was not aware this was a closely-guarded secret. Nor did I know that it was going to doom any products in any other way that wasn’t already happening.
February 15, 2011
- An Introduction to all 11 Doctors ✔
- Brilliant Doctor Who infographic briefly describing all the actors who’ve portrayed the Doctor on the BBC Television show Doctor Who. See also the guide to all the time-traveling Doctor hookups.
- Breaking the Web with hash-bangs ✔
- I first saw this on Twitter, and thought it was a bad idea. Turns out, that
#!you keep seeing all over the web really does mess things up.
- The 960 Grid System Made Easy ✔
- Nice writeup on the reasons behind using 960.gs. Showed me a couple of other things I could use for my CSS tomfoolery as well.
Fixing Google Feedfetcher
Here’s a simple thing you can do if you are trying to get a searchbot to behave.
Years ago on one of my sites, I noticed Google Feedfetcher constantly trying to load /?action=active&type=RSS in an effort to read the syndicated feed. Since I don’t think there was ever a feed like that there, it wasn’t going to find anything. In fact, since WordPress will try to run anything after the ?, it made it appear to you that it is trying to load index.php (which it was).
My fix was to alter the .htaccess file. You’ll also need some offending user agent, like the Google Feedfetcher. With the aforementioned .htaccess file, and said offending referrer, I wrote this chunk this code to stick in there:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Feedfetcher-Google
RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/d3ft [R,L]
In this case, it will send Feedfetcher (the bot it uses for blog feed search) over to the FeedBurner address.
February 12, 2011
- How did WordPress win? ✔
- Byrne Reece answers the more precient question than “How did Six Apart screw up?” It was many things, but mainly because WordPress beat Movable Type.
- How did Six Apart screw up? ✔
- A follow-up question about current startups that are likely to close. There are so many reasons. Here’s a few of them.
- AdRotate Plugin for WordPress ✔
- The plugin I’m using to show the recommended things in the sidebar. Extremely comprehensive tracking of clicks and impressions.
February 11, 2011
- Twitterrific 4.0 for Mac ✔
- Time was, Twitterrific was just about the best thing that ever happened to Twitter. Then Twitter and everybody else moved on, and there just doesn’t seem to be a compelling reason to buy this — or ever use this — with all the other free alternatives that do more.
- Ars Technica’s Review of Twitterrific 4.0 for Mac ✔
- Now (almost as good as) Tweetie 2!
- “Things RSS can’t (and can) do” ✔
- Dave Winer, ladies and gentlemen:
4. You don’t need a quote from RSS to appear to be plugged-in.
I agree. Stop trying to make something simple into something it isn’t. You can’t monetize everything, believe it or not.
5. RSS won’t hire you when your publication folds.
6. RSS can’t pull strings to get you into Sundance.
February 10, 2011
- Firefly was a Psychological Thriller? ✔
- Christopher Badeaux makes a compelling argument that it was all in Mal’s head. Honestly, his reasoning makes a lot of sense. But sometimes you just have to realize that it wasn’t Life on Mars or LOST, and the events in Firefly and Serenity really happened (in their fictional universe).
- Press This Reloaded ✔
- Enables the full post screen for the Press This bookmarklet. Makes the kludgey posting of links in WordPress using custom fields a bit more palatable.
- Daring Fireball Style Linked List ✔
- A cheaper and easier way of putting in links in the WordPress milieu. I’m glad somebody took to developing this, as the original by Jonathan Penn seems to have vanished into the ether.
- CreativeMYK Becomes CreationSwap ✔
- A much better name, if you ask me. Still tons of free stuff for the taking, but they are finally working on the legalities of the art.
Happy. New. Year.
Hi, everybody. Hope you didn’t crash into a tree or something on the way home from whatever leisure-time activities of the first day of the year.
Or something. I guess I’m saying, “Thanks for not being dead.” Your reward is getting to watch the University of Tennessee’s head coach Derek Dooley say things.
Also from the University of Tennessee, something about sex helping neurotic people.