Entries from September 2007

Fix for TanTan Flickr & Reports Plugin on WordPress 2.3

September 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Earlier this week WordPress 2.3 was released, and I was quick to upgrade. However it seems two of the plug ins I use on my blog had problems with the new version of WordPress. Both Plug ins were produced by tantannoodles.com / silaspartners.com
Flickr Photo Album for WordPress This needed a line commented out and replaced [...]

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Tags: BitTube Work · Development · WordPress

Ultra-Edit Text Editor Goes Portable, But at a price.

September 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

In previous posts I have espoused the virtues of portable applications, and provided a list of applications I keep installed on my USB Drive. One application I have used for a number of years is IDM Computer Solutions Ultra Edit. This feature rich text/hex editor has now been updated to be compatible with the U3 [...]

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Tags: Development · PortableApps · Software

Who made the .mobi domain so long?

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

I have been examining how I use ‘tinternet on my phone more and more over the last few months. Ownership of the N95 really has altered how I view the web, and also how I use it. I have read a couple of posts recently regarding the good (contains harsh language) and the bad of [...]

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Tags: BitTube Humor · BitTube Thoughts · Mobile Devices · Mobile Phones

Google introduces Worldwide Caching Proxy. Sort Of.

September 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Last week Google launched the new Gadget Ad, these seem to be some pretty 2.0 ad deliveries. Allowing a kind of cross between RIA/Widget that users can have installed on their iGoogle page. Google are offering an caching proxy, presumably this will allow more geographically relevant delivery of the ads that are produced. Speeding up [...]

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Tags: Development

AirPress. Desktop video blogging comes to WordPress thanks to Adobe AIR

September 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

The Weblog Tools site has a link to an AIR application aimed at blog authors, its called AirPress. AirPress seems to offer similar functionality to other blogging tools I have seen such as the ScribeFire add-on (used to be called Performancing) for FireFox. The major interesting addition in AirPress is the inclusion of webcam support [...]

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Tags: AIR · Development · Flex 2 · Software · WordPress

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

September 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I stumbled across this on the Adobe.com press area. The suite looks like it contains all the products you could need from Adobe if you are required to produce Technical Documentation, Training Material, Help files for products and even E-learning courses.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Technical Communication Suite software, a first-of-a-kind, integrated [...]

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Tags: Development · Software

Bill Perry presentation availible for download, Creating and Selling Your Mobile Flash Content

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Bill Perry has posted a very interesting presentation, the subject is Creating and Selling Your Mobile Flash Content. You can down load the presentation from Bills Site.
Creating and Selling Your Mobile Flash Content
I also noticed Bill has a document linked at the very top of his site, under the banner “Addressable devices for developers”.

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Tags: Development · Flash Lite · Mobile Development · Mobile Devices · Mobile Phones

Renaming 13,000 photographs and XMP Files. LightRoom Wins.

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

As I mentioned not long ago I have always been a huge fan of Adobe PhotoShop LightRoom (Although its full name can be a real mouthful!). I Love the non-destructive transforms and its great at organising my photos straight from the camera. I read today of a different challenge from the National geographic digital photography [...]

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Tags: BitTube Thoughts · Photography · Photos · Software

Wordpress 2.3 Released

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

I have just seen on my WordPress dashboard that the new release WordPress 2.3 was released today. Code named “Dexter”.
This release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon
Download WordPress 2.3, “Dexter”
Also today I found this useful article on using Subversion for managing your WordPress installation.
Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion

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Tags: BitTube Work · Development · Downloads · Software

Detecting Screen Rotation in Nokia N95 Browser

September 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Continuing my work with Web Development for Mobile Phones and other Devices I updated my very simple early FlashLite 2 tests that I showed on in screen shots on my N95.
In those posts I discussed the problem of detecting screen rotation detection on the Nokia N95. I could not get the FlashLite player to [...]

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Tags: ActionScript 2 · Development · Flash 7 · FlashLite 2 · Mobile Development · Mobile Devices · Mobile Phones

Developing Applications and Sites Accessible from Mobile Devices

September 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Recently a large portion of my time has revolved around development for Mobile and Devices. This has predominantly been focused on FlashLite version 1.1 and also some FlashLite 2 or FlashLite 2.1 . This new area of development, and also the purchase of a Nokia N95 has bought a new appreciation of the requirements for [...]

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Tags: Development · HTML & CSS · Mobile Devices · Mobile Phones

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Updated to 1.2

September 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for all my Image management now, It has made me far more efficient at getting the photos i take into a semblance of order. This evening as I was about to do a hunt for some specific visuals when Lightroom kindly let me know that there was an update.

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Tags: BitTube Work · Photography · Photos