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.
Disclaimer: Do not use a javascript hack to fix each browser rather than adjusting your style sheets or using a reset style sheet first to solve the big stuff. This is last resort stuff here.
I managed to find a way to have Chrome show styles only set for Internet Explorer. Don’t ask me how but it has something to do with pulling Twitter updates via a js file into a custom WordPress template. The updates themselves already have styles attached to them before I pull them in so I have to undo/override them on my side.
This worked for all browsers using a conditional statement for IE and that straightened it all out – except Chrome. I know what you’re thinking. It can’t be broken in Chrome if it works in Safari. They’re both based on Webkit so they have to obey the same rules. Well, I found one they don’t agree on.
Anyway, here’s a last resort solution for you that will target any browser you want to via the style sheets by just adding the browser name to the selector like .chrome. I was led to the solution via Nathan Rice’s post on the subject but I used the one described in the contents since I couldn’t get his to play nice with the rest of what was going on. Here’s that solution:
Just upload this file to your server, call the script in the header of the page like this:
<script src="css_browser_selector.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
and then just set your trouble maker selectors using the browser name as a class. So let’s say you want links to be red for IE 6, black for Chrome and blue for Firefox 3.5. You’d do this in your style sheet:
.ie7 a { color: red; }
.chrome a { color: black; }
.ff3_5 a { color: blue; }
Pretty snazzy and works like a charm. Again, don’t use unless you have to but it’s great to know this is out there. There are tons more usage examples and all the browser class titles here.
