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Posterous: a critical look

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:15:16 -0500

It is difficult not to fall in love (insofar as such emotions have been called love) with Posterous, the fast-growing mini-blogging service, especially in comparison to its bigger competitor Tumblr….

The “nobody could have predicted it” meme has to die!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:15:16 -0500

The “nobody could have predicted it” meme has to die!:

When no WMD were found in Iraq the neocons who had been promoting the war on that premise offered as an excuse the claim that nobody knew or predicted that outcome at the time of going to war. When…

Fun with Ajax

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:32:52 -0400

Fun with Ajax:

As an example of how much ground remains to be covered before Ajax Web Apps can be considered mature:

Sequel Pro now supports SSH

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:13:03 -0400

Sequel Pro now supports SSH:

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Say you are not a PC. And you use MySQL in some manner that is compliant with…

Download: Audacity of Tanish 0.7 for Posterous

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:27 -0400

Download: Audacity of Tanish 0.7 for Posterous:

This is version 0.7 of Audacity of Tanish — a theme for Posterous. If you do not know what Posterous is, you should find out. This is the first release of the theme. The version number means that it…

Screenshots: Audacity of Tanish 0.7 for Posterous

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:27 -0400

Screenshots: Audacity of Tanish 0.7 for Posterous:

For whatever it’s worth, a quickly hacked up version of Audacity of Tanish is now available for Posterous (which now supports custom themes). Below are screenshots; download link coming up…

Jobs on the Kindle

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:31:01 -0400

Jobs on the Kindle:

Steve Jobs, like me, doesn’t quite get the point of the Kindle:
A couple of years ago, pre-Kindle, Mr. Jobs expressed his doubts that e-readers were ready for prime time. So today, I asked if his…

Screenshots: Audacity of Tanish 1.0 for WordPress

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:37:31 -0400

Screenshots: Audacity of Tanish 1.0 for WordPress:

Below are screenshots highlighting features of Audacity of Tanish for WordPress, including ones that are new for…

Download: Audacity of Tanish 1.0 for WordPress

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:37:28 -0400

Download: Audacity of Tanish 1.0 for WordPress:

Audacity of Tanish for WordPress is a theme for WordPress — more info here. What’s new in this release: Tileable configurable background choices
Option to display most recent post in expanded mode,…

Screenshots: Audacity of Tanish 0.9.5 for WP

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:43:19 -0400

Screenshots: Audacity of Tanish 0.9.5 for WP:

(Adding screenshots of 0.9.5 release of Audacity of Tanish for posterity ;-) — just moving it from the page about the theme to a…

Back in White?

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:49:15 -0400

Back in White?:

Take a look at the screenshots from iTunes 9. It looks like Apple is (regrettably) returning to the white look (also note the blue hues for the checkbox). As well as (again regrettably) adopting the…

John Gruber’s 15 minutes of schadenfreude

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:47:21 -0400

John Gruber’s 15 minutes of schadenfreude:

WordPress users need an upgrade to a fairly new version (2.8.3 or newer) to fix a security hole that was recently discovered. That bit of news has been dispensed via various outlets including…

The Ikea Font Wars

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:38:20 -0400

The Ikea Font Wars:

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We have all let this universal healthcare and economic recession business distract us from more pressing…

At long last: Ahimsa 3.0 for WP

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:04:36 -0400

At long last: Ahimsa 3.0 for WP:

Update: You can now download this version of the theme from the official WordPress site as well.
With apologies for all the delays, and for the incomplete features and issues that remain, I am…

Reply via email for WordPress blogs

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:45:42 -0400

Reply via email for WordPress blogs:

Earlier this year, the chaps at WordPress added a very useful feature for WordPress.com blog owners: reply to comments via email. No longer do you have to plod through the comments responding to them…

Ahimsa for WP skin: Sarvodaya (screenshots)

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:34:38 -0400

Ahimsa for WP skin: Sarvodaya (screenshots):

Sarvodaya is a new skin for the WordPress Theme Ahimsa and is available bundled in the 3.0 version of the theme. Below are some screenshots of this skin.
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At long last: Ahimsa 3.0 for WP

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:02:53 -0400

At long last: Ahimsa 3.0 for WP:

With apologies for all the delays, and for the incomplete features and issues that remain, I am releasing Version 3.0 of Ahimsa for WordPress.
There is a lot in this new release (hence the bump up to…

DropZone makes file transfers fun

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:05:42 -0400

DropZone makes file transfers fun:

Did I say file transfers? That’s an injustice because DropZone can do more than file transfers. It can zip and email files, install apps, upload pictures, post them to Twitter or Posterous (did I…

Snow Leopard gets less elusive

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:56:35 -0400

Snow Leopard gets less elusive:

The fanboy sites are buzzing today with the news that Apple has announced Aug 28th as the release date for the next version of their operating system. This one is called Snow Leopard and I won’t even…

A new home: GitHub

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:26:44 -0400

A new home: GitHub:

I am now in the process of moving all my source code to GitHub, an online public repository built on top of the Git version control system. This service includes an internal issue-tracking module, so…