Classic comments. There are some highly entertaining comments in this post (if you’re following the #thesiswp ‘debate’). By the reasoning of @pearsonified the 27,000 users of Thesis make him “one of the top 3 most important figures in the history WordPress”, so do the 83,000+ users of Redoable (plus however many thousands use it on WordPress.com) make me one of the top two in WP history. Of course it doesn’t. Just one of the many stupid arguments he’s put forward in the last couple of days.
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Fluency 2.3.2 — bug fixes and translations
Ok, it has taken a couple of weeks and about a dozen different WP installations, but I finally managed to replicate the mysterious “disappearing ‘hide menu’ button” bug that so many of you were reporting — so hopefully this update should resolve that issue (it resolved the occurrence that I produced). Also included are the first batch of translations (Italian, Turkish, Spanish and Chinese). As always, grab the update from here or use the built-in auto-updater.
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Fluency 2.3.1 update now available
This minor update should hopefully fix the two common issues people were experiencing with the initial release of 2.3 — the menu overlap problem on the ‘Menu’ management page, and the lack of two-column hover menus. There are a couple of other small tweaks in there too, plus a new ‘coffee’ colour scheme. Grab the update from here or just use the auto-updater that’s built into WordPress.
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Bad News Kev.
So Australia’s gone an gotten itself a new Prime Minister on the eve of the Federal Election, and its a Female PM with Julia Gillard (and the rest of Labor) changing their minds about not challenging Kev for the top job prior to the election. “Kevin Rudd will lead Labor to the next election” they’ve been saying for weeks, only for him to be thrown from the roof in the final day of Parliament before the election.
So, yes we have a Female PM, but for how long? I can’t help feeling that Labor’s little stunt has hurt their re-election chances more than helping it, even if Julia is more popular that KRudd. Only time will tell.
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Fluency Admin 2.3 now available
Now compatible with WordPress 3.0. I’ve also added more customisation options including iPad friendly menus, and the ability to turn on/off hover menus and hot keys as needed.
Fluency 2.3 is a recommended upgrade for all Fluency users who’ve already upgraded to WordPress 3.0 (which was released earlier this week). Included in this update, in addition to WP3.0 support, are fixes for a number of small issues that were pointed out by users over the past 6 months, and a few additional options to ‘fine-tune’ how you use Fluency.
Well, what are you waiting for? Read more about the updates here, or head to your admin panel to upgrade/install Fleucny 2.3 (of course, you can also jump straight over to WordPress.org to grab the download from there too.)
As always, if you spot a bug or something I’ve missed please let me know. The best place for you to do so is in my help forums, or, if you prefer, in the WordPress.org support forums.
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More Nextga.me updates
Finished up the latest round of additions to nextga.me last night, newly added sporting fixtures include the 2010 NFL preseason and regular season, the 2010 FIFA world Cup and the 2010/2011 A-League. You can read more about the other improvements here.
I also really need to get around to writing a full post introducing nextga.me, but for those of you that don’t already know its a central sporting fixtures site that I’ve set up, with game times converted to your local timezone and its currently tracking almost 9,000 games covering 370+ teams from across the globe, with more being added all the time.
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Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Being a fan of Guy Ritchie’s past movies (Lock Stock, Snatch, Revolver etc) I was curious as to whether or not Sherlock Holmes would have the same feel, thankfully it did. I’ll admit it did seem like it took a little while for the story to get going, but most of that time was spent setting up things for the second half of the movie. Despite the slowish start, and having to get used to Robert Downey Jr speaking with a British accent, I quite enjoyed it… or at least I did once I’d sat through the painful previews etc explained in my previous post.
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DVDs and piracy
I just want to watch my Sherlock Holmes DVD, but instead I’ve had to sit through 8 minutes (and counting) of movie trailers (that I don’t seem to be able to skip), and a stupid message about the piracy of Australian films hurting the future of the Australian film industry. Seriously? No one pirates Australian movies, they pirate movies people actually want to see. Is it any wonder people pirate things when they get forced to sit through crappy messages and crappier trailers even after paying for the DVD (although I didn’t actually pay for this DVD, it was a birthday present). Oh look, the DVD is finished being an ass and is ready for me to watch it now. How generous of it.
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Sinkholes in Guatemala City
My first thought was “holy shit”, second thought was “it must be fake or from a movie”, but the image comes from the Guatemalan Government’s flickr stream. According to an article on io9 there are three of these sinkholes that have a appeared following tropical storm Agatha. It doesn’t mention how deep the sinkhole is but based on the scale it looks pretty friggin’ deep. How do you fix something like that? My guess is that you don’t, but then what?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/4657053554/
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Hahlo 4.2 — Now iPad friendly
Not that it iPad friendly wasn’t before, in fact Hahlo ran perfectly fine on the iPad, but with that extra screen space available it would be silly to not make use of it, wouldn’t it? All up it isn’t a massive update, but some good bits and pieces have been thrown in.
Not that it iPad friendly wasn’t before, in fact Hahlo ran perfectly fine on the iPad, but with that extra screen space available it would be silly to not make use of it, wouldn’t it? All up it isn’t a massive update, but some good bits and pieces have been thrown in.
What’s New
- iPad specific changes
- Custom landscape layout with menu visible on the left (see screenshot above)
- Portrait mode retains the ‘traditional’ Hahlo overlay menu accessed from the ‘menu’ button in the header.
- Slightly larger navigation tabs
- Bigger maps (640×480) on the geo-location pages
- Custom iPad startup image when you add Hahlo to your home screen
- New 72px home screen icon for the iPad
- Added ‘Retweeted by’ links (similar to ‘in reply to’) to all three retweet timelines
- These allow you to quickly see who else has retweeted that specific tweet
- Currently shows a maximum of 10 users (I may increase this in the future)
- Added all three retweet timelines to the menu (Retweeted to Me, Retweeted by Me, Retweets of Me)
- Using Twitter provided location data (for locations in the US), other locations are still using the google Maps API.
- Added link on geo-location pages to open the current location in Google Maps (will work on iPhone and iPad)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a link parsing bug where links that omitted http:// would be linked incorrectly, this has now been fixed for links that begin with www but still omit http://
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