by Scott on March 24, 2009
What is the Movie Wedge? It’s a simple bean bag with an area to hold onto your iPhone. The Movie Wedge is one of those “I didn’t realize I needed that” products that you really come to appreciate and miss when it’s not around.
This product is made to hold onto your device, whether it’s an iPhone, PSP, Zune, or iPod and give your hands a break. If you’ve ever watched a movie or even an episode of a TV show with an iPhone then you know how annoying it is to hold onto the device while you’re watching it. I usually end up trying to prop it up on something without a whole lot of success.
I used it on a recent trip (although the image above is from the Movie Wedge website) and was happy to be able to place my iPhone and Movie Wedge on the tray in front of me and eat my snack at the same time.
You can even wipe off the iPhone screen with the Movie Wedge since it’s made with a soft microsuede covering. This simple item costs only $9.95 and is well worth the price.
by Scott on March 16, 2009
TweetDeck, the most popular Twitter application, has added Facebook integration. This update allows you to use one simple application to interface with both your Twitter followers and Facebook friends.
After installing the application you can easily add your Facebook profile by clicking the icon shown above. After you enter your Facebook credentials the status of your Facebook friends will be added as a new column (third on the right below).
You can now post directly to Facebook or Twitter right from within TweetDeck. From the TweetDeck blog:
The other element is the ability to direct your tweet/update to post to twitter or facebook or both directly within the tweet window.
…following pretty much unanimous yes vote on whether to auto block message which start with @username from posting to Facebook, v0.24.1 has this functionality and is now available
In order to post to Facebook you must check the Facebook checkbox shown above and then confirm the “Allow Status Updates from TweetDeck” shown below.
Success!
This new version is considered a pre-release but can be found at the following TweetDeck blog post:
TweetDeck V0.24.1 Pre-Release: Facebook Integration
by Scott on March 14, 2009
Recently I was given the opportunity to review WordPress Plugin Development by Vladimir Prelovac. I just received the book this past week, but the publisher and author were kind enough to allow me to post an excerpt from the book that details how to create your first WordPress plugin. You can expect a full review from me within a couple weeks.
Chapter 2, Social Bookmarking with WordPress Plugin
In this article by Vladimir Prelovac, we will learn to create our first functional WordPress plugin and learn how to interact with the WordPress API (this is the WordPress interface to PHP) on the way. The knowledge you will gain in this article alone will allow you to write a lot of similar plugins. This article is extracted from the “WordPress Plugin Development” book.
Let’s get moving! In this article, you will learn:
- Creating a new plugin and having it displayed in the plugins admin panel
- Checking the WordPress version and control activation of the plugin
- Accessing API features—for example the title and permalink URL of each post
- Using WordPress hooks to execute your plugin code when it’s needed
- Using conditional tags to control the flow of your plugins
You will learn these by creating a Social Bookmarking type of plugin that adds a Digg button to each post on your blog
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by Scott on March 11, 2009
The latest version of Smart To-Do List has been posted to the server. If you’ve previously purchased Smart To-Do List you will be getting an email detailing where to download the latest version. This version adds the following functionality:
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by Scott on March 3, 2009
The Adobe Air runtime allows developers to create rich Internet applications that run from the desktop on Windows, Mac OS X, as well as Linux.
From the Adobe Air Wikipedia entry:
AIR is intended to be a versatile runtime environment, as it allows existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to construct a more traditional desktop-like program. Adobe positions it as a browser-less runtime for rich Internet applications that can be deployed onto the desktop, rather than a fully-fledged application framework.
Adobe provides a marketplace to find applications that have been developed using this framework. Here are a few of the applications that I found looking through the productivity and creativity sections of the Adobe Air Marketplace. All of these applications are free.
1. BetaDesigns Caliper
This application provides a caliper on screen that can be used to measure anything that you have displayed on your monitor. This is a really convenient little application for measuring the width of your webpage elements or parts of a user interface that you may be working on.
The caliper is draggable to anywhere on the screen you would like and it also rotates through 360°.
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