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Now iPhone friendly!

XiYu — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:33:17 +0000

I’ve installed the WPTouch plugin for this blog and it works pretty well. It greatly simplifies the interface of the site when viewed on an iPhone or any other mobile device.

Simple, elegant, fast. What more could I ask for?

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reCAPTCHA Anti Spam

XiYu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:29:56 +0000

I used to use Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam plug-in with my WordPress blog, but when I tried to upgrade WordPress, it messed up the plug-in. So I stopped using it and then upgraded that when it was available and it was still messed up. In the end, I quit using it altogether and now use reCAPTCHA.

The concept’s more or less the same, it shows a word which is obscurified (sp?!) and you’ve got to type it into the box for your comment to be accepted on the blog. If you get it right, you get a cookie. Only kidding, in both the edible and computer type. What I ment to say was that if you get it right, your comment gets accepted.

reCAPTCHA looks the business and does the job. No complaints here. I quite like how you can change the way it looks.

Muy Bien!

XiYu — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:37:21 +0000

Well, I spent most of the evening installing Windows XP. It was pretty straightforward, just set the netbook to boot from a USB CD-ROM and away I went! Every thing seems to work. Everything apart from the built-in microphone, but that’s not too important since I don’t think I’ll actually use it. If I’m to Skype, I’ll probably use a headset anyway.

Installed all my programs including this new thing called WeFi. It’s quite neat, it tells you where the closest WiFi hotspot(s) is(are) while you’re WiFi-ing about. Also, if your chums are set up for it, you could see where they are and how close or far they are. If you’re often using public hotspots, I highly recommend this little app.

On a separate note, it’s snowing outside. It’s October and its snowing in London. Brrr… I can’t say that this was anticipated.

WordPress appears to have yet another new release.

Theme Change

XiYu — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:06:00 +0000

I decided to change my WP theme from Desk Mess, which I’d modified having some of my own belongings draped around the “desk”, after less than a month. I quite liked it to start with, but got bored of it fairly quickly, also, Jac changed her blog theme recently so I thought I’d follow suite. Sheep mentality.

This new stripey theme’s quite neat I reckon, but perhaps a little pink some might find. I think I might get a skin designed for my netbook (should I take the plunge) based on these stripes. I got the theme from Design Disease.

For nostalgia purposes, I’ve stuck in a screenshot of the old theme.