Burningbird has posted a way to enable multiple weblogs in WordPress…. not as clean as you might like just yet, but I have a good feeling that this type of support is coming quickly now that so many people are making the move from MoveableType. For now this seems to work, though I am not … Read moreMultiple Weblogs Support In WordPress
What if there was a way to fool those who would try to fool us, so that purchases could be made online without any danger of card numbers falling into the wrong hands? A few companies are trying such a plan: think of it as the stunt-double approach to online shopping. [The New York Times]
Just caught this off the BBC… “I’ve always wanted to do it. I bumped into Pierce Brosnan and we talked about it. He liked the idea,” the cult film director said. The Pulp Fiction director said he was interested in remaking the original story Casino Royale. “I would like to do the original book ‘Casino … Read moreKill Bill director aims for Bond
Jeff Jarvis suggests Typepad divest from Six Apart as a full service business so that Moveable Type can offer more attractive licenses, which he feels are clearly limited based on blocking potential competitors to Typepad. Jeff’s logic seems right on, based on and considering the backlash currently rising within the MT community, somethings going to … Read moreThe SixApart solution
I’ve only just started to play with this, but it seems pretty nice for non-blog stuff. You can create pages in an almost wiki style and they will follow a CSS structure you create for your site. It’s all managed through a clean web UI. Whisper is a small site engine, ideal for people seeking … Read moreWhisper – Quiet content management
Your call is important to us… please hold for the next available operator. I’ll be very surprised if this happens before cable is offering a completely revamped, much more adavnced and higher speed service. There are 6MB trials happening today, not planned for the future like in the Verizon marketing plan… we’ll see I guess … Read moreVerizon: Take That, Cable
Anytime I get an Apple newsletter sent to me through my .Mac account, I get this instead of the nice HTML I am supposed to see… You appear to be using an email application that won’t properly display the graphical (or HTML) version of our newsletter. I use Apple’s Mail app and receive plenty of … Read moreHow is this happening?
Be sure you watch in Incredisize (full screen) if you have iTunes 4.5 installed. The trailer for The Incredibles is online. [~stevenf]
Score another high profile convert to WordPress… No one is allowed to fork Movable Type, because it’s not open source. The WordPress development team is now working on releasing version 1.2. Version 1.2 will be GPL-licensed. Version 1.3, if it exists, will be GPL-licensed. Version 2.0, if it exists, will be GPL-licensed. I will never … Read moredive into mark now in WordPress
Hard to argue here… My experience has been great. Four basic rules. WordPress gets them right. Other products do too, even when they don’t have the same amount of support from a user community. Call it Product Management 101. [Lauren Wood – Anyway]
Engadget has a story running about a 4G ipod that will bring the Home on iPod function rumored previously as well as the ability to use the iPod as a conduit for Video and Images, but not playback.
Rick Schaut works in the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft … A few years back, Steve Ballmer sent out a company-wide memo stating the policy that no product can ship unless it first runs on Windows NT. He was pretty good-natured about it when we pointed out that this policy would have a seriously negative … Read moreA Day in the life of the MS Mac BU
Stuff/Things has a nice primer for getting yourself around WordPress if you are thinking of making the move from Moveable Type. Since most people who use Movable Type know more-or-less how to deal with MT-style templates, it might help those people switching to WordPress to compare the two templating schemes. [stuff/things]
A bluetooth pedometer sends info back to the player so you can find out how far you’ve run… In the coming weeks, you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot about a new MP3 player that isn’t an iPod. In late July, Philips and Nike will begin selling the MP3Run, a 256MB flash-based player that retails … Read moreThe ultimate MP3 player for athletes?
IBM has taken the wraps off the Cell processor, which will be the heart of Sony’s PS3. In addition, Sony and IBM will partner to create digital content creation workstations using the CPU. [Ars Technica
This is a great list… some of which I’ve never heard of… mo:Blog looks very promising In the search for a mobile blogging tool for Palm, Anil de Mello has rounded himself up a very nice list of some of the current mobile and phone blogging softwares. [Gizmodo]
Here’s to not looking back on my switch over to WordPress. I even paid for MT and would still have to pay more (yet it was free) to upgrade to 3.0. My previous site will live on for now, but thankfully all the content was easily migrated to this one. No need to deal except … Read moreMovable Type 3
If you were concerned about wireless security…. NYCwireless, Corp., a New York-based non-profit organization, today launched NYCwireless SafeMail, an affordable secure email solution for the wireless community. NYCwireless Safemail utilizes industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to ensure data privacy and security for users on public Wi-Fi networks. Both secure IMAP and webmail services will … Read moreNYC Wireless offers secure wireless email
If nothing else you have to love the System 7 motif. Browsing around makes me want to get classic installed again though… some tempting morsels from the past. The Macintosh Garden, a site devoted to preserving Macintosh abandonware games. Abandonware is commercial software that has been discontinued by the publisher and are not sold or … Read moreMacintosh Garden
Not until 2006, but still cool stuff coming… Qualcomm today introduced its series 7000 Mobile Station Modem chipsets that would enable six megapixel camera phones, according to a report from Reuters. The chipset also offers 30 frames per second for video recording and playback. In addition, the chipset offers enhanced features for location based services … Read moreQualcomm can do six megapixel camera phones