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Fire Eagle from Yahoo! aids location sharing

Published by Bruce on August 21, 2008 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

Fire Eagle is a free service from Yahoo! that provides a conduit for updating a centrally-stored current location, permitting delivery of location-aware services by means of an API allowing developers to resolve and share user location across various applications. Care has been taken to address privacy concerns by keeping choice in the hands of users, who can update their location manually or automatically from "anywhere". For example, Fire Updater on your MacBook might put you in a London hotel, while subsequent telemetry from SearchQuest GPS on iPhone tells your mates which pub to find you at; at least one WordPress plug-in is in development.

Publicizing WordPress post revisions

Published by Bruce on August 4, 2008 in Internet. 1 response

WordPress 2.6 introduced post revisions, a form of version control that allows you to review or revert to previous editions of a post or page on your WordPress blog. The value of this feature has generated some debate, largely because it's "on by default" with no easy toggle to disable it. The thing is notification of post revisions is private, within the admin interface. So how do you make the date of last editing public?
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WordPress for iPhone

Published by Bruce on July 22, 2008 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

WordPress for iPhone is now available via the iTunes App Store and is compatible with both self-hosted and WordPress.com blogs. Photobloggers will appreciate that images taken with their iPhones can be included in posts and previewed with Safari. As with desktop clients, changes introduced in WordPress 2.6 mean you'll need to enable "insecure" XML-RPC services to permit remote publishing/ editing, otherwise will get an error (preview). It appears this 1.0 app ignores your ramblings after the more tag (preview), severely limiting its use.

Geo Mashup for WordPress adopts Geotag Icon

Published by Bruce on July 17, 2008 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

Geo Mashup by Dylan Kuhn uses the Google Maps API to search for locations and geocode WordPress posts for plotting on a customized map. Features include display by category, inclusion of post excerpts in pop-up info windows, automatic generation of GeoRSS feeds (example), importation of KML files, and flexible template tag options (e.g. you can write code to create waypoints in RouteBuddy). The Geotag Icon was added to v1.1b3 and illustrates "Show on map" links.

Customizing WordPress feed content

Published by Bruce on April 13, 2008 in Internet. 11 responses

When I last looked at customizing feeds in WordPress, it was all to do with being able to offer a summary and full text feed simultaneously—making use of WordPress' flexible feed URL syntax and a .htaccess file. In this post I look at modifying the actual contents of the feed using a functions.php file (which may already exist as part of your current theme).
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Pages and searching in WordPress 2.5

Published by Bruce on April 4, 2008 in Internet. 1 response

WordPress 2.5 lets you search across pages (non-blog entries) as well as posts. This is undoubtedly a good thing, but if your pages are liable to turn up in site searches you might want to make a couple of changes to stop page content from swamping your results screen and improve appearances if you use category icons.
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