Archive for July, 2009

29 Jul

Skype misleading their customers…

skype_oopsOK, so this is pretty unrelated to websites, but it must be said. Like many people, I use skype on almost a daily basis. The quality of calls is good and the features it packs are enough to get me by.

However, things change when it comes to the paid service. Who would have thought things stop working once you actually pay?

Last week, I bought an online number and tried to assign it to myself within the business panel. To my surprise, after buying this number I discover that I can’t assign it to my account, as my account details say “You cannot assign online numbers to this member”. Hmm…. thanks for warning me before I bought it! (more…)

28 Jul

Change the core “Name” profile field in BuddyPress

Those that use BuddyPress along with their Wordpress MU installation may have found some limitations with the xprofiles. BuddyPress Devs have improvements listed as an upcoming feature, but in the meantime some things need to be fixed NOW!

One particular feature I needed to get round was the fact that you can’t change the default “Name” field. Whilst very common to have this as a field in most installations, we should at least be able to edit the field names the user sees, but unfortunately this is not so. (more…)

14 Jul

Digg This Button

Adds the smarter digg button. Extended options like topics, prefilled descriptions, shortcodes etc. allow full control of your digg icons.

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Requires At Least : 2.7
Test Up To : 2.8.5
Current Version : 1.1
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08 Jul

Google OS is taking it to Microsoft’s Playground…

Wow… I joked about this day coming, and here it is!

Google announced today about plans to develop it’s own operating system, Google Chrome OS, based on the Linux kernel and boasting promises of speed, simplicity and security. Oh, and it’ll also be open source. (more…)