Published on Thursday, February 21, 2008 .
Purpose
One of the best things about using WordPress is the ability to skin your site at will by choosing a new theme. There are theme switcher plugins available which allow your website visitors to skin your site with their choice of themes, selected from the stylesheets currently in your /themes/ directory.
I only have three themes in my /themes/ directory: Classic, Default, and K2. When I skin my site, I do it with a style, an alternate stylesheet for K2. So all the nifty theme switcher programs don’t work for me.
I wrote this plugin to be the K2 equivalent of a theme switcher.
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Published on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 .
It seems the less technologically savvy are storming yet another inner sanctum of the technogeek: gaming. In spite of the PS3’s superior processing power and more sophisticated graphic rendering capabilities, “the Wii has taken the lead in buzz and sales”.
Continue reading ‘Nintendo Wii Eclipsing PlayStation 3′
Published on Sunday, January 28, 2007 .
Pay attention. Pay very close attention. If you blink, you’ll probably miss it.
The revolution is coming. Web 2.0 is even now in its glorious descent.
Witness the words of The Technology Prophet, he who shall forever be immortalized as “The Gates” (”The Bill” being already taken by a President):
The Internet is set to revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday.
[The italics and the bold are mine.]
I’m joking. Mostly. Let it never be forgotten that much truth is spoken in jest.
It doesn’t even require much thinking. You have only to look, to see what comes.
Continue reading ‘Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years’
Published on Saturday, December 2, 2006 .
Due to ongoing personal issues, I have not been able to give this plugin the time and energy it needs. It has received no significant development in over a year. I have been unable to respond to user comments in a timely fashion. And there have been several excellent suggestions for development that I simply have not had the time and energy to work on.
All facts that have been quite disturbing to me, but with no viable alternatives, I had no choice but to continue on and hope to get back to development “someday”. Unfortunately, “someday” has a way of never coming.
Hugh Johnson of The Curious Frog has generously offered to take over as lead developer on the project. He contacted me after modifying the plugin to work with WPMU (WordPress Multi-User). You can find the new permanent home for the plugin on his site, where you can post any comments and questions you have. Development has already begun on version 1.0 of the plugin, and the development roadmap is in production.
Please visit the plugin’s new home at The Curious Frog.
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Oh, they just keep getting better and better, don’t they?
I’ve been paying almost $25/month for VOIP services (NetZero Voice Unlimited [$16], SkypeIn [$4], SkypeOut [$4]).
I was really wanting an integrated service. A Skype service, for about $19.95. They did me one better - free! I wanna say it again. FREE!
Buh-bye, NetZero!
Free calls to landlines and mobile phones in the US and Canada
Published on Thursday, May 11, 2006 .
Anyone who knows me (or has ever heard me rant ad nauseam on the subject) knows that I am a diehard Gmail user, even uninstalling M$’s Outlook 2003 earlier this year to migrate completely to Gmail.
I’ve never looked back, and the addition of the excellent Google Calendar application (review coming soon) has cemented my relationship with Google. I have no intentions of switching email clients anytime soon. Still, this review over at PaulStamitiou.com made me curious, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about.
Continue reading ‘Yahoo! Mail Beta’
The first ever DigiCast will be announced in a matter of days. And, good news! It will be free, courtesy of the good folks at Skype and using their emerging technology, SkypeCasts.
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Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 .
I started off at an article at Performancing.com, read through the comments, and ended up at another article elsewhere. The first post originally caught my eye because I have been intending to do a similar entry here for the past week.
The points made apply equally well to all business (and thus my entry title), although the time wasters specifically named probably apply more to virtual business.
Continue reading ‘Business Time Wasters’
Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 .
I’m just a wee bit behind in posting on this website. I’ve been dealing with technological snafus and the inevitable issues that switching to a new CMS bring. (Nevermind that WordPress isn’t technically a CMS. I’m using it to manage my content, so that makes it one in my book.)
Joomla had gotten just a bit too much to handle on a regular basis. I took a good, long, look at everything and realized it was far more program than I actually needed. Which meant that the time I was spending wrestling it into submission was badly invested. Then I looked around at a lot more of the systems I had put into place, and I realized, there were a few that were badly bloated and in need of replacement.
Continue reading ‘Joomla Replacement’
