Monthly Archives: August 2010

Published:
August 29, 2010 – 12:47 am
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By Dave

Dear Boxee, Please Don’t Pull a Joost 1

Boxee, you have a lot going for you and I’m pulling for you to win the race for the living room (with new arrivals from Google and an Apple iTV on the horizon). I use you as a centerpiece of my home media setup after ditching my cable plan. My family and myself have fully embraced the whole “TV over internet” model. But we need to have a talk.  The most positive thing that you have going for you is that are an open platform. Developers can write plugins for you, with the only restrictions being the developer’s own ability and dreams. This is a good thing, as it allows infinite development of your platform – and I believe this is where boxee should be focusing its time on: enticing talented developers and content producers to write apps for your interface. With the latest release of Boxee you’ve added an….

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Published:
August 17, 2010 – 12:35 pm
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By Dave

The Problem With Twitter 0

Twitter has a problem. I have many different social groups that I interact with. For reading messages from these groups – I have created lists. They work fairly well on the reading side to see what a certain group of people are tweeting about. But what about sending messages? I send out messages on many different topics. Maybe it is the eclectic in me showing. I might tweet about a local traffic problem, and in the next moment about the latest research on geolocation privacy. My shared links to do with the law (I work in the legal profession) may have no interest to many in my group, but will be spot on for other members. So what is the solution? Right now we are presented with only 2 options: – Create different twitter user for each ‘topic’ we want to post tweets on, or- Use external services for sending….

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Published:
August 16, 2010 – 8:34 am
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By Dave

A phpBB 3 iPhone Style Theme With Option to Disable 16

A forum that I am an adminstrator for has been clamoring for an iPhone theme (style) for a long time now. In the past, I hadn’t seen any usable iPhone template for phpBB3, until now.

View this entire post to view my modifications to a theme switcher for mobile devices, so that the end user can disable a mobile theme for their login if they should choose to do so.

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