Archive for June, 2010

WordPress 3.0 – woohoo!

So the new version of wordpress has come out, and I like it!

I was impressed hearing about people doing its flawless update to 3.0 from their older version. This is a good thing for me, as they really do seem to put in a lot of care for their update system to make sure everything gets updated nicely. I don’t remember any botched updates in a long while related to wordpress, so good on them.
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iPad and word press – a review

I’m writing this post from the iPad, and to be honest it feels a bit weird. The device itself has some fantastic apps out there, like tweet deck, brushes etc…. But the official word press one doesn’t seem to motivate me to write anymore than from say my mobile phone.

For one, the keyboard feels awkward. Maybe i still need to get used to it but that’s the thing – I shouldn’t have to be doing – just let me get to the content! Infact in writing this paragraph, I ended up switching to the aptly named iGo Stowaway keyboard. This is a portable keyboard that worted right from the start, no drivers or anything needed. Compared to about a days worth of tracking down drivers for an older symbian based phone, this was a royal treat, and offsets the problem with typing longer posts while using the onscreen keyboard. Read the rest of this entry »