Archive for November, 2009
Add Twitter links to your WordPress posts
Want an easier way to add links to Twitter user pages? Here’s a quick solution. Add the following code to your functions.php file within your theme folder… add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘link_to_twitter’); function link_to_twitter($content) { $start=strpos($content,”[@"); while ($start!=0) { $code=substr($content,$start+2,strpos($content,"]“,$start)-$start-2); $content=str_replace(“[@".$code."]“,’<a href=”http://twitter.com/’.$code.’” target=”_blank”>@’.$code.’</a>’,$content); $start=strpos($content,”[@",$end); } return $content; } Now, you simply need to simply specify a Twitter username [...]
Google Chromium OS
Details of the Google Chromium operating system have been sloshed around the internet since they were announced yesterday. And, you’ll be happy to hear, I’m not going to repeat them. However, watch the video below (taken from the Chromium website ) and, in particular, the last few seconds. Do you see that boot time? And they’re looking at how to get it better. Superb. One [...]
Beeb See Me
After yesterdays post about the iPlayer on the Wii , I was surprised to have a couple of BBC techie people commenting on it. I was, however, even more surprised to come in this morning and find that the same post had been referenced on the BBC website ! a I suspect they’ve not seen my update though, where I had constant problems with bandwidth problems and the resultant [...]
More WordPress plugin updates
Two more updates to my WordPress plugins today. Simple URL Shortener This is a big change in that it now uses a caching system – once it gets a shortened URL from a particular shortening service, it won’t get it again! This means that other plugins that access this one will no longer need to do their own [...]
BBC iPlayer on Nintendo Wii
Last night, or rather at midnight, the BBC iPlayer channel was released for the Nintendo Wii. The iPlayer has been usable in the past using the Opera-powered browser channel, but has been of limited quality and, well, not very easy to use. Now we have a very specific channel just for iPlayer. And it’s been [...]
Improving Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a rather excellent WordPress plugin that adds various Twitter functionality to a blog. The two elements I use are the automatic posting when a post is submitted and the ability to display your latest Twitter entry. It’s clever in that the latter won’t show the former – i.e. it won’t display on your blog [...]
Two further WordPress plugin updates
I’ve updated Simple Twitter Link and, only recently launched, Simple Twitter Data. Simple Twitter Link now uses Simple URL Shortener and there’s also an option to override the default URL. Simple Twitter Data now has a second function, which will pass the number of references to a URL on Twitter.
Vacuum Firefox for improved performance
Since Firefox 3.0 bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases and, ass with any other database, SQLite databases become fragmented over time. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these eventually result in a performance hit. So, a good way to improve startup and some other bookmarks [...]
Simple Facebook Link – Plugin updated!
My most popular WordPress plugin, Simple Facebook Link, has been updated. It now makes use of the Simple URL Shortener plugin to provide, erm, URL shortening. And various bug fixes and general tidyness have been implemented. Oh, and you can also now override the default URL. Full details on the plugins official page .
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The mobile phone search goes on…
Ok, quick catch up. My phone contract expires in a little over 2 months. My supplier – Carphone Warehouse – will be contacting me in a couple of weeks to get out of my contract early if I stick with them and my network (O2). The problem is that I’m after an HTC Hero, which [...]
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