Archive for February, 2008

• 02.29.08 And then there was Pownce posted in Geekery

  And somehow the Pownce API release slipped below my radar last night. I’ve already got the authentication and app registration figured out, just need to add some Obj-C code for posting from MoodBlast. For now, only public messages will be supported. Support for links will be coming soon, and I may work out some parameters for specifying lists of recipients. All in due time.

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• 02.29.08 The State of the Blast posted in Geekery

  A quick update on the state of MoodBlast…

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• 02.25.08 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin posted in Web Design, Geekery

  Michael Erlewine has improved on the Wordpress Related Posts Plugin with Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. An improvement to the full-text search that allows limiting by a relevance threshold allows the most relevant posts to show up at the top of the list, so if you only display 5 results, they’re more likely to be of interest. It also allows control over retrieving both posts and pages. And for those less code-oriented, it can function without modification to your theme and has an improved options screen. Wordpress users should check it out!

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• 02.02.08 Giving Flock some love posted in Geekery

  Okay, it’s time for a little more in depth post on why I’m loving Flock. The easy part of that answer is that it uses the Mozilla rendering engine while adding some very useful (to me) functionality (Twitter sidebar, blog tools, media stream…) and provides compatibility with most Firefox plugins. The more complex answer is that with a little effort, Flock can be customized to do way more than advertised…

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