Updating WordPress while mobile (e-mail, MMS) Published on June 22, 2010
I was trying to find a way to keep one of my blogs updated while on a two week motorcycle vacation across Europe. I needed an easy, hassle-free, non-expensive way to update small road-side bits of information.
I have several applications that would do it, like:
- Publishing directly via e-mail does not allow images, and needs an extra step checking the email to post.
- Installing a mobile UI
- Adding a custom posting interface, etc. etc.
But all this required a moderate time-consuming mobile connection, and if your are doing it abroad (roaming), by the end of the two week journey you phone bill will be grown quite fat….
What I really needed was something like an SMS, or MMS. E-mails can be sent via MMS with a fixed price. But directly publishing to WordPress via email (as i’ve described in my previous article “word press posting via e-mail” ), is a bit limited.
So I’ve done a bit of research and…
RIP José Saramago Published on June 18, 2010
Since life is not just tech and computers this brief post is about another form of culture.
We’re grieving the death of the Portuguese writer, nobel prize winner, José Saramago.
Saramago wich was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature, back in 1988, died this morning, aged 87yo, in his house in the Canary Islands (Spain) victim of cancer.
He was the only writer in the Portuguese language to achieve the Nobel prize.
RIP
More about José Saramago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago
WDMAC on WordPress 3.0 Published on June 17, 2010
We’re from this moment running on “thelonious” (word press 3.0)
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” is out! Published on
Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard)!
Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation.
As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video. 
(In HD, if you can, so you can to catch the Easter eggs.)
Originally posted in wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/
Trend hunter – What’s hot? Published on June 7, 2010
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