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After one week using Twitter I’ve decided which apps I’ll be using in the future with this micro blogging service: Safari140 – Twitter extension for Safari with auto-shorten for long URLs and a great shortcut: ^T I’m using Tweetie as my iPhone Twitter client. It’s just great! Decided to use Twitterrific and Safari140 on my [...]

When Safari 4 (beta) was officially released yesterday the whole internet noticed that our favourite password-remembering piece of software didn’t work anymore. Just one day after this outcry by all Apple-loving geeks (and a workaround) 1Password 2.9.9 is here to save the day.

GeoMapLookup — a website/web app to geolocate a host, domain or IP address with Google Maps integration — has been updated to include a fullscreen web app mode. To view this web app in fullscreen mode, just add a link to your iPhone or iPod touch home screen (+ button in Mobile Safari). To use [...]

I’ve just noticed the Google Mobile App for iPhone/iPod touch appeared on the German iTunes App Store — finally. The reviews aren’t good, though so be sure to read them first. Update: After one test the app is gone again. It wasn’t useful to me and it rendered my Settings app useless, even after removing [...]

The alpha version 1.3 of Commenter Spy adds compatibility for the latest WordPress release and is only working with version 2.5 or later.

My updated GeoMapLookup — a website to geolocate a host, domain or IP address with Google Maps integration — now sports a newly created iPhone and iPod touch version which was chosen as Apple.com’s Staff Pick and featured web app for February 26th 2008. GeoMapLookup is a web app to display information about the geographical [...]

Apple’s iPhone started a new era of mobile internet usage: Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset [...] Financial Times link

Today’s iPhone software version 1.1.3 supports a feature called WebClip which lets you add a bookmark icon for a website or iPhone specific web app directly to your home screen. While doing this the iPhone asks the server for an image called apple-touch-icon.png: 84.131.nnn.nnn – - [15/Jan/2008:23:51:59 +0100] “GET /apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/1.1″ 404 226 “-” “CFNetwork/152.4″ [...]

iChat Matte 2.0 removes the gloss from iChat 4.0′s chat bubbles. Chax is now Leopard compatible and fixes ICQ/HTML bug and thus makes iChat 4.0 usable. Refer to the Chax blog for the latest version.

You could turn on your speakers and visit Zombo.com, but seriously: why would you want to?

New elements in HTML 5 — Structure and semantics is an interesting article by Elliotte Rusty Harold on the new elements introduced in HTML 5 which include section, header, article and aside nav and footer video and audio Running a blog yourself you might have noticed these new tags are exactly what you need to [...]

onAirNow 1.8 is a maintenance release. Changes in version 1.8 include: Fixed CSS inclusion code: the plugin’s directory can now be renamed to something different than “onAirNow”. Song length can now have the format hh:mm:ss, mm:ss or just seconds. fixed the timeout logic Timeout is delayed by 5 seconds to give the track info a [...]

Spacializer is a flash animation of slowly moving clouds of different colors by Sébastien Chevrel, an artist, designer and programmer focusing on interactive media. The animation itself creates a faint background noise when left alone. Moving your mouse cursor above different colors and the spots where different colors mix results in changing sounds all very [...]

GeoMapLookup — my web application to show the geographical location of an IP address using Google Maps — now provides a download link for .kml files to be used with your copy of Google Earth. Zoom in on your commenting blog visitors with Commenter Spy the GeoMapLookup integrating WordPress plugin.

onAirNow 1.7 introduces some new features including WordPress 2.1.x support and support for widgetized themes. New in version 1.7: Added widget support so there’s no need to add code to your theme’s PHP files. (thanks David Goldstein) Added an option to display the song info only on the homepage. Added a link to my onAirNow [...]

Commenter Spy 1.2 includes a new link to directly query GeoMapLookup from within you comment moderation and notification e-mails sent by WordPress. No need for going to your admin control panel first! See the dedicated Commenter Spy page for more information »

About a day after the official announcement I’ve found the time to make deUncategorize compatible with WordPress 2.1 codenamed Ella. Until now I was to lazy to try a version still in development or testing. There’s only one version for WordPress 2.0.x and 2.1. The only difference on WordPress 2.1 is the lack of any [...]

The purpose of deUncategorize is to deselect the default category set under Options — Writing (Uncategorized per default) if any other category is selected while writing or editing a post on your WordPress blog. The 1.3 release allows a custom default category to be deselected — obviously a bug. Thanks go to Ian Murray for [...]

The purpose of deUncategorize is to deselect the default category set under Options — Writing (Uncategorized per default) if any other category is selected while writing or editing a post on your WordPress blog. The 1.2 release contains a fix to make this plugin Internet Explorer compatible. (Which I’m pretty sure it was but it [...]