Apple today approved and released the WordPress iPhone app. Hopefully this will persuade me to post a bit more than of late, have been a bit busy drinking wine see.
First impressions are very good. Setting up blog access took minutes, as did creating a new post and adding tags and categories. Now can I add a pic?
Came across diigo this evening and am converted immediately. Waiting for del.icio.us v2 and not hearing much detail or eta. One of the main problems I have with del.icio.us is the lack of a facility to securely share bookmarks with colleagues, diggo takes care of that and a hell of a lot more, video here tells you all about it:
It is 00:21 on the 26th of October 2007 as I write this. All Apple whores rejoice, today is Leopard day, the long awaited release of OS X 10.5 will be over @ 18:00 tonight.
Apple have had a great year with the introduction of the iPhone, the iPod touch, and increased Mac hardware sales above projection, now with the release of Leopard, it’s ease of use, simple but powerful built in backup with Time Machine, things can’t get much better.
But wait, how about a celebrity endorsement, from a lovely young lady with a new tech podcast to help us all out, yep, that will provide the final push to help Apple take over the UK home computer market, probably.
So, without further ado, get yourself over to Byte Me TV and check out episode 1, where Keeley Hazell wrestles with the choice between a PC or a Mac with the help of Byte Me TV resident puter guru Gary Schwartz .
It’s a tough choice, with well constructed arguments on either side of the question, but Apple just about swings it, welcome aboard the Mac bus Keeley :O)
Apple today announced the release date of their latest OS X iteration 10.5 Leopard on 26th October 2007. Apple have updated the Mac OS X page to include a countdown and more details on the highly anticipated upgrade to their operating system.
So now to decide whether to watch the early adopters struggle with application incompatability and wait for the first updates to fix, or whether to throw caution to the wind and go for it on release day. Probably the latter as I am such an Apple whore!
Apple announce a special event on Wed 5th September.
iPod supply being run down all over the place.
Seems like the whole iPod range will be updated on Wednesday 5th September, will the much rumoured video iPod make an appearance at last? After all the announcements, could the one “one more thing” be the addition of The Beatles back catalogue to Apple iTunes? Some are saying NO, but I find it rather coincidental that Paul McCartney has just been announced as a special guest on BBC Radio 1 with a rather big announcement on …. Wednesday 5th September (announced by Edith Bowman on Friday afternoons show)
All will be revealed next Wednesday, locking the credit card away now, and throwing away the key.
Search for a plugin to post a minifeed of t’blog to facebook profile and ye shall find.
Added another of Rob’s wordpress plugins Wordbook so now I am cross platform baby, combined with Robs facebook application, it means that I do posting action here, and a minifeed on facebook profile is updated, hey presto, traffics gonna hit the roof now.
Updated the social links you see at the bottom of each post with new plugin Slashdigglicious
Previous plugin was missing facebook link, which seemed a shame as I’ve been playing with facebook for a few weeks
You may or may not have noticed the blog went a bit wonky (in tech speak). This was due to a few issues with regards upgrading the wordpress installation, and then the K2 templates that I am using. So, just in case anyone comes across any of my issues, hopefully this will help you:
First off I installed an auto update plugin from Keith Dsouza which I hoped would make the upgrade process easier, and less scary. Plugin installation went without a hitch, but on activation I received:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) in /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-admin/admin- functions.php on line 864
When trying to access the admin panel. Eeek! The site carried on serving ok, which was a good thing, but I could not access the admin to write new content etc, what to do??? I dropped Keith a line, Keith got straight back (thanks Keith) with a suggestion:
This is probably because their host has allocated less memory for php to run and has to be rectified by your host.
Here is a solution to overcome this from one of my commentators
I had the same error with other plug-ins, until I changed the .htaccess file and gave WordPress more memory to work with. I put this code in the start of the file:
<FilesMatch “\.(php|html?)$”>
php_value memory_limit 32M
</FilesMatch>
I tried this, no joy, scratched head, checked error again and realized that there must be some setting in the php installation that I could update to sort the lack of memory that php was reporting.
A quick google and I found that I could edit the php.ini file in /etc/ to adjust how much memory php has to play with, amended:
memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)
To:
memory_limit = 16M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)
Saved the file and tried to access the blog admin panel – Huzzah!
So that was nice, thank you Google and the peeps that post help on forums :O)
Now I had me site back, it all looked a bit cack though, another quick Google to find that there is a new release of the K2 templates HERE. Grabbed that and an accompanying plugin to disable WP now standard sidebar widgets HERE to make sure the K2 doodads all work nicey.
Now we I am back to where I want to be. With the added bonus that I have a great autoupdate plugin that takes all the stress out of the Word Press update process, although why WP don’t include this by default is beyond me? Maybe they should speak to Keith Dsouza.
Hope that helps anyone else that may have similar issues.
I am watching MacRumors Apple WWDC (world wide dev conf) updates to see what new Apple gear I can spend my hard earned money on, this is indeed a new low. I will of course later be mooching about for a webcast of Steve Jobs keynote to see what the “secret” features of the new OS X Leopard are.
I will then go shave my head and paint myself green. I am an Apple whore.
UPDATE: OS X Leopard looking very nice indeed, have a look October can’t come soon enough, hopefully they’ll get the iPhone out in Europe by then as well.
Apple today released some nice new teaser ads for the upcoming iPhone. Looks like June 29th release in the states, no news on Europe yet, so I’ll keep saving the sheckles.
Ad1 – Never been an iPod that can do this.
Ad2 – How To.
Ad3 – Calamari?
Personally, I am hoping vodafone get the european contract and that the iPhone comes in at around £200 > £250. Bet your ass that they will be going for a lot more than that on e-bay though, maybe worth a punt for a quick profit, ala the Nintendo Wii, and very unlike the Sony PS3.