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New Flickr Plugin

Yes sports fans, it’s that time again — we’ve been messing around with yet another plugin over at BraveNewCode. But first, everyone should know that we just put the finishing touches on WPtouch 2.0 today. There are still a few small bugs to squish, but hopefully it’ll hit the market sometime in the [...]

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New Integrated Flickr Video Player

So I felt like flexing my brain a bit tonight. Everyone has been going rather stir crazy over Flickr video, so tonight I uploaded a few and played around. Two things I really like:

The quality is really good
They let you use whatever aspect ratio you want

Those are two big wins in my [...]

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WPTouch iPhone/iPodTouch Theme

Here’s a little teaser trailer for the new iPhone/iPodTouch theme that Dale Mugford and myself are launching soon. It’s a Wordpress theme that will allow your blog to be viewed properly on iPhone/iPodTouch devices. We’ve also integrated with blip.tv so that you can view iPhone specific videos on the device.
Also, make [...]

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iPhone Theme Nearly Done

So Dale and I put some of the finishing touches on our WPtouch iPhone/iPodTouch theme tonight. It’s looking pretty spiffy if I do so say myself. I’ve enabled it on this website, and it’s running smoothly. We’ll be working out a few kinks over the next few days, but you can [...]

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Wordpress Without Borders, Round Two

Thanks to everyone who left some feedback the other day about the new translation plugin. I’ve had some really great comments about it, and even the odd person that’s really anxious to test it out. I’m hoping to put a version up online tonight for people to download and try for themselves.
For those [...]

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Wordpress Without Borders

Yesterday, while browsing the Google blog, I stumbled across a recent entry they did regarding the release of their new AJAX language API. While reading it, I had a couple of crazy ideas what it could potentially be used for. One of those ideas was to dynamically translate content on my blog.
So [...]

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Apple iPhone SDK - Should You Be Afraid?

Going through Google reader tonight, I’ve encountered a lot of shared articles about the Apple iPhone SDK. And for the most part, every one of the articles praises the SDK and Apple’s approach with it.
Photo by John Biehler
But in pure Office Space style, I’m going to have to go ahead and, you know, sort of [...]

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Come On Steve, Show Canada Some Love

Yesterday Apple released their long-waited for SDK for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. What this means is that if you’re interested in developing applications for the iPhone, you can simply download the SDK and get cracking. That is, unless you live in Canada.
That’s right, Steve Jobs has limited real development to [...]