iPhone and iPad users: If you’ve had enough of the complete bugginess of the WordPress App you need to give this one a try. At $2.99 it’s not as cheap (free) as the WordPress app but BlogPress (iTunes link) actually works! You just enter the type of blog you have (WordPress self-hosted blogs still use the WordPress setting), your username, password and site address. That’s it!
My site was giving me error messages until I enabled the XML-RPC feature under Settings > Writing > Remote Publishing but now all is well. Holy crap! It’s like the future!
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Has anyone else noticed how long it takes for pages to load with those crappy Facebook Like or log in apps included on them? You sit and watch the page loading and down in the little status bar it’s always Facebook something something or Google analytics. Well, aside from AdBlocking analytics (which I do on some of the more highly trafficked sites I visit) there’s not much we can do about Google but Facebook’s contribution to the web is debatable to me and well worth removing for a faster surfing experience. Thankfully someone agrees with me.
This fun little outfit called Webgraph has developed a plugin for Safari and Chrome that will block Facebook goodies on sites other than Facebook. Yes! Now you could probably (and easily) do the same thing by blocking the Facebook bits using AdBlock (if you already use that) but this niche plugin may be the scalpel you were looking for rather than the butcher’s knife. Let me know what you think.
Go here to download.
Once again GroovySoup is starting to look long in the tooth to me. I need something a little more text-friendly and a lot less shiny. It’ll still run on WordPress but I just need a new canvas for some of the exciting things I’ve been working on.
Stay tuned.
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to my old friend Jason Derifaj (DARE – A – FAY – you’re welcome). He’s got a great looking site here he just revamped and you may want to keep an eye on his blog as well. Fun stuff for web peeps and fans of web peeps – if fans of web peeps exist. If you’re looking for help with your javascript and/or Flash coding, do yourself a favor and give Jason a shout. Or just call us and we’ll put all of you talented people together to do something really cool.
