Its been an exciting month since the release of Hahlo 3, my analytics show that usage has increased approximately 300% since launch (wow), Twitter has been up and down and now looks like it getting back in order after the troubles of a week or so ago, and Summize have added some fancy new features to their service and api…
More powerful search
The addition of the Summize.com powered search function in Hahlo 3 has been a huge hit. For those of you who also visited the Summize site, you probably had a play around with their “Advanced Search”. Now in Hahlo 3.1 you can also do these same “advanced” searches with ease, to try it out just tap the “Advanced” button, in the menu just below the standard search box.
“Near Me” and location based searches
In the time since Hahlo 3 was launched, Summize have also bee adding to their own API, one of the big updates was the inclusion location data for each tweet, and the ability to search based on those locations.
New TV show written/produced by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Those three have already worked together on Alias, Star Trek, Mission Impossible 3 among other things. Kurtzman and Orci also worked together on Transformers and The Island.
The trailer looks pretty interesting, but I think I’ll watch this simply based on whose writing and producing it.
Update: Found some neat promo posters for Fringe over on a FOX blog (which is just using the default Wordpress theme…very unimaginative guys…) Check them out
The latest and greatest Hahlo has just been released live to the world, the original Twitter client for iPhone just got even better. Hahlo 3 has been in development for the past month, and in active beta testing for the past two and bit weeks. The beta itself has proved popular among users, with over 1,000 people signing up to take part. Not bad when compare to just the 120-odd that tested the Hahlo 2 Beta last year. Several sites have run reviews of the Hahlo 3 Beta, including a nice detailed preview by The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
A couple of days ago I asked for some beta testers for Hahlo Version 3 via Twitter, if you haven’t already, and you would like to try out the latest “bleeding” version of “Hahlo 3 - Legendary Edition” then drop me a line at beta@hahlo.com and I’ll provide you with more details. It’s definitely worth a look.
While you’re at it, have a read of John Gruber’s thoughts about the current crop of Twitter webapps…and finally someone who agrees with me about Thincloud’s abuse of the Twitter logo.
New Leaders seem to have recently renamed Thincloud to the rather scammy-sounding “Twitter for iPhone”. They use Twitter’s logo and name in such a way that, unless you read the light-gray small print in the footer on their web site — which small print is not displayed when viewing the web site on an actual iPhone — creates the impression that you’re looking at some sort of official Twitter iPhone interface. - daringfireball.net
So last night, spurred on a little by some feedback that I received via Tony, I began work on Hahlo v3. I’ve already got a bunch of ideas after a quick brainstorming session on the bus ride home from work, but what I really want to know is what YOU want from Hahlo. I can’t promise that I’ll implement everyones ideas, but I’ll try my best. Post your idea or request here!
Over the last year or so I’ve released several plugins for WordPress. Some of the were adaptations of existing plugins, some were built from the ground up, some have been updated and some…well…haven’t. The release of WP2.5 gives me a good opportunity to take a look at what plugins (other than Fluency as I think I’ve covered it enough on here in the last month or so) I have released, and what their future holds.
Current Version: 3.0 Development Status: 4.0 is in progress. Next Release: Before the end of April.
While this is relatively simple plugin, it took me a while to get the basics working as I had originally intended them too. The first release was quite buggy to say the least, which was the main reason that v2 follow fairly soon after. I was happy enough with v2 not to update it any further, until WP2.3 came out and changed the way that categories were handled. I updated UCC to v3, bringing WP2.3 compatibility, along with some much need “cleansing” of my code, the removal of unneeded cruft, basically it was an overall refinement.
I’ve recently started work on v4.0 which will add (much needed) widget support which will make it even easier for users to add to their blogs, I’ve also sorted out a few oddities in the code which have been there since v2.
Happy April Fool’s Day everyone! I had planned to play a prank on my visitors (I even had the post all written up) but I thought this would be better.
This is no joke, as promised Fluency v1.1 is now fully compatible with the stable release of WordPress 2.5. Thank you to all those who provided feedback and bug reports which helped iron out most things, and huge thank you to the 5,100+ people who download v1.0 (in just 20 days). Remember if you have any issues, jump over to the forum or the bug tracker and let me know. If I don’t know about a problem I can’t fix it.
Theres no new features as such, but a lot of “fixes” for things that changed between WP2.5-RC1 and the final release of 2.5. From big things like the “Add Media” modal dialogs now being styled correctly, to the smallest detail like adding 2 extra pixels of padding to an element. I won’t list all the changes, but if you’re interested you can get an idea of the main changes by checking out the bug tracker.
I’ve now got full and proper support for several popular plugins, including Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menus and NextGen Gallery. For full details about which plugins are supported head over to the plugin compatibility page, and if you’ve got a plugin you would like to supported just let me know. A big thanks to Ozh for his help and suggestions in streamlining the method used to apply the styles on a per-plugin basis.
Ok, thats enough talk, what are you waiting for. Download v1.1 now and give it a whirl. And you can find out more details here.
…I am Captain Planet. I’ve been looking for quite a while for a “decent” lifestream plugin for WordPress. All those that I found either didn’t work, or didn’t work how I wanted them to. Solution: Make my own. Its still a work in progress (but good progress, since I only started it a little over 24 hours ago). More info soon. http://deanjrobinson.com/lifestream
Ok, since so many people keep asking why Fluency Admin “does nothing when activated in Internet Explorer”, I thought I should post a nice graphic example of why I have it set up this way. I can guarantee that I would have had dozens more complaints if I had released it with broken IE support from the beginning…
On the left is a screen shot taken of Fluency running (or trying to) in Internet Explorer 6, quite clearly something is VERY wrong. And I have absolutely no idea how long (if its even worth it) it would take to fix. On the right is a screen shot taken of Fluency running in Internet Explorer 7. I was extremely surprised at how close it is to working correctly (since it was never tested in IE7), only really seems to be a few things out of alignment, which should be fixable.
What does this mean? Well, since IE7 is so close, I’ll see what I can do to get it working for the next release. All I need to do is find a different method of ‘hiding’ Fluency so that IE7 can see it, but IE6 can NOT.
Based on the theme that I used on this site for the latter part of 2007. It comes with 21 different color schemes built-in, as well as simple integration of twitter, flickr and delicious.
