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Since the Air is a little light on hard drive space I’ve been a little bit picky about what I install on it. It’s a good way to figure out what your “must have” apps are - this is what made the cut for me:

It’s interesting trying to wittle things down to the essentials. I keep letting little things leak in, but in general I’ve tried to keep it fairly tight.

What makes your “must-have” list?

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Since the Air is a little light on hard drive space I’ve been a little bit picky about what I install on it. It’s a good way to figure out what your “must have” apps are - this is what made the cut for me:

It’s interesting trying to wittle things down to the essentials. I keep letting little things leak in, but in general I’ve tried to keep it fairly tight.

What makes your “must-have” list?

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";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:24:"Crowd Favorite is Hiring";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/18/crowd-favorite-is-hiring";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/18/crowd-favorite-is-hiring#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:26:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:18:"Crowd FavoriteNews";s:4:"guid";s:60:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/18/crowd-favorite-is-hiring";s:11:"description";s:565:"We’re looking for a good couple of talented individuals to join us at Crowd Favorite. In particular we’re looking for: Web Developers - someone with good back-end skills, experience building modern web applications (AJAX, etc.), knowledge of scalability best practices, etc. Should have good knowledge of PHP, SQL, JavaScript, etc. Designers - should be comfortable with creating [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1552:"

We’re looking for a good couple of talented individuals to join us at Crowd Favorite. In particular we’re looking for:

We’re in the fortunate position of being able to work on the “fun” side of the web. We do a lot in the social web space; particularly WordPress work, building custom applications and we have a few projects of our own we’re working on.

We believe in hiring smart people and utilizing their skills - we’re not looking for “just another web developer/designer” to implement things. If this sounds like you, please get in touch.

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We’re looking for a good couple of talented individuals to join us at Crowd Favorite. In particular we’re looking for:

We’re in the fortunate position of being able to work on the “fun” side of the web. We do a lot in the social web space; particularly WordPress work, building custom applications and we have a few projects of our own we’re working on.

We believe in hiring smart people and utilizing their skills - we’re not looking for “just another web developer/designer” to implement things. If this sounds like you, please get in touch.

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";}i:2;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:30:"iPhone and BlackBerry Thoughts";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/15/iphone-and-blackberry-thoughts";s:8:"comments";s:75:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/15/iphone-and-blackberry-thoughts#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:50:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:10:"Technology";s:4:"guid";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/15/iphone-and-blackberry-thoughts";s:11:"description";s:511:"Last week I activated my iPhone - flush with excitement about the 2.0 software. I’ve been using the iPhone as a test device for the last year, without any phone service.1 The iPhone with phone service is definitely more useful. Overall, increased usage of the iPhone has done more to reinforce my previous opinions on it [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3369:"

Last week I activated my iPhone - flush with excitement about the 2.0 software. I’ve been using the iPhone as a test device for the last year, without any phone service.1 The iPhone with phone service is definitely more useful.

Overall, increased usage of the iPhone has done more to reinforce my previous opinions on it than anything else - except maybe making me more dissatisfied with the browser in the BlackBerry.

Some notes:

Having 2 phones seems a little silly at times, but the iPhone is actually an “add a phone” to my BlackBerry line, so it’s not too bad2. It’s pretty obvious to me that I’m going to need to be building great tools for the iPhone in the future, so… it’s a business expense. ;)

  1. For all those who have asked, it continued to work as expected the entire year. [back]
  2. I actually have the radio off most of the time to save battery [back]

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Last week I activated my iPhone - flush with excitement about the 2.0 software. I’ve been using the iPhone as a test device for the last year, without any phone service.1 The iPhone with phone service is definitely more useful.

Overall, increased usage of the iPhone has done more to reinforce my previous opinions on it than anything else - except maybe making me more dissatisfied with the browser in the BlackBerry.

Some notes:

Having 2 phones seems a little silly at times, but the iPhone is actually an “add a phone” to my BlackBerry line, so it’s not too bad2. It’s pretty obvious to me that I’m going to need to be building great tools for the iPhone in the future, so… it’s a business expense. ;)

  1. For all those who have asked, it continued to work as expected the entire year. [back]
  2. I actually have the radio off most of the time to save battery [back]

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";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Around the web";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/15/around-the-web";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/15/around-the-web#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:54:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:5:"Links";s:4:"guid";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/15/around-the-web";s:11:"description";s:492:" John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President - and there you have it. (thanks Dave) Weblog Tools Collection - Matt M On WordPress Weekly Weblog Tools Collection - WordPress Plugin Competition Prizes - doubt I’ll be able to participate this time. I should probably use the time to upgrade my current plugins when I get some. Spanning [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2708:"

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";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/15/around-the-web/feed";}s:7:"summary";s:492:" John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President - and there you have it. (thanks Dave) Weblog Tools Collection - Matt M On WordPress Weekly Weblog Tools Collection - WordPress Plugin Competition Prizes - doubt I’ll be able to participate this time. I should probably use the time to upgrade my current plugins when I get some. Spanning [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2708:"

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";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Presenting at Refresh Denver";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/12/presenting-at-refresh-denver";s:8:"comments";s:73:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/12/presenting-at-refresh-denver#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:56:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:25:"Crowd FavoriteDevelopment";s:4:"guid";s:64:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/12/presenting-at-refresh-denver";s:11:"description";s:524:"I’ll be joining Josh Pigford as a presenter at the next Refresh Denver meeting this coming Wednesday. I’ll be talking about Addictomatic, which we had the opportunity to build earlier this year. Leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to hear in the presentation. The last Refresh Denver meeting was the first since a [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1460:"

I’ll be joining Josh Pigford as a presenter at the next Refresh Denver meeting this coming Wednesday. I’ll be talking about Addictomatic, which we had the opportunity to build earlier this year.

Leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to hear in the presentation.

The last Refresh Denver meeting was the first since a short hiatus. There was a great turnout for the last meeting and we want to keep things rolling.

We’re going to be tightening up the presentations with a new format:

This should help things move along crisply - we’ll see how it works at the meeting on Wednesday.

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I’ll be joining Josh Pigford as a presenter at the next Refresh Denver meeting this coming Wednesday. I’ll be talking about Addictomatic, which we had the opportunity to build earlier this year.

Leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to hear in the presentation.

The last Refresh Denver meeting was the first since a short hiatus. There was a great turnout for the last meeting and we want to keep things rolling.

We’re going to be tightening up the presentations with a new format:

This should help things move along crisply - we’ll see how it works at the meeting on Wednesday.

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";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Around the web";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/08/around-the-web";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/08/around-the-web#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:54:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:5:"Links";s:4:"guid";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/08/around-the-web";s:11:"description";s:475:" Intense Debate - Who Owns Your Comments? - pretty good conversation here. Jury Duty Excuses - How To Get Out Honestly - Excuse And Dismiss Advice - Tips For Getting Out And Avoiding Court Trial Juror Service How to set a custom DNS server on the iPhone EricKerr - An Informal Proposal for CSS Class Selector Inheritance - [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1674:"

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";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Around the web";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/01/around-the-web";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/01/around-the-web#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:53:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:5:"Links";s:4:"guid";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/01/around-the-web";s:11:"description";s:535:" Biphasic Sleep FAQ - intriguing. The Social Networking Implications of Social Networking Tools - SOG and I have discussed this at length - great write-up. We Travel in Tribes Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Doctype Machine tagging relationships The day the music died - this one needs a double-quote. Apple calls these songs “iTunes Plus”, because it sounds so much better [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1831:"

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";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/06/01/around-the-web/feed";}s:7:"summary";s:535:" Biphasic Sleep FAQ - intriguing. The Social Networking Implications of Social Networking Tools - SOG and I have discussed this at length - great write-up. We Travel in Tribes Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Doctype Machine tagging relationships The day the music died - this one needs a double-quote. Apple calls these songs “iTunes Plus”, because it sounds so much better [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1831:"

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";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:28:"You know you?re a geek when?";s:4:"link";s:52:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/22/blackberry-pants";s:8:"comments";s:61:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/22/blackberry-pants#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 23 May 2008 02:29:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Fun / Humor";s:4:"guid";s:52:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/22/blackberry-pants";s:11:"description";s:485:"Justin: here’s a BB question for you… is there anyway other than putting it in a BB holster to “sleep” it? I’d love to just throw it in my pocket Me: sew magnets in your pants? Justin: You know, I thought about that Me: hah! Justin: I wonder how close it has to be to the sensor. you [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:921:"

Justin: here’s a BB question for you… is there anyway other than putting it in a BB holster to “sleep” it? I’d love to just throw it in my pocket

Me: sew magnets in your pants?

Justin: You know, I thought about that

Me: hah!

Justin: I wonder how close it has to be to the sensor. you know you’re a geek when you consider sewing magnets in your pants to sleep your blackberry

Me: :nod: can I blog that?

Justin: most definitely

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Justin: here’s a BB question for you… is there anyway other than putting it in a BB holster to “sleep” it? I’d love to just throw it in my pocket

Me: sew magnets in your pants?

Justin: You know, I thought about that

Me: hah!

Justin: I wonder how close it has to be to the sensor. you know you’re a geek when you consider sewing magnets in your pants to sleep your blackberry

Me: :nod: can I blog that?

Justin: most definitely

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";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Invisible Thighmaster";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/19/invisible-thighmaster";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/19/invisible-thighmaster#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 19 May 2008 23:50:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:21:"DogFun / HumorGeneral";s:4:"guid";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/19/invisible-thighmaster";s:11:"description";s:226:"Is the LOLCats meme dead? I sure hope this is still cool . ";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:884:"

Is the LOLCats meme dead? I sure hope this is still :scare: cool :/scare: . ;)

Invisible Thighmaster

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Is the LOLCats meme dead? I sure hope this is still :scare: cool :/scare: . ;)

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";}i:9;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Posting from ShareThis";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/19/posting-from-sharethis";s:8:"comments";s:67:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/19/posting-from-sharethis#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 19 May 2008 21:56:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:11:"Development";s:4:"guid";s:58:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/19/posting-from-sharethis";s:11:"description";s:512:"The ShareThis team has rolled out an update with some great new features; most importantly a feature which allows posting to a variety of services: It’s pretty handy - you can post directly to WordPress, Twitter, Blogger, TypePad, etc. You can’t yet customize or add to the message being sent, but if it’s a highly requested [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1475:"

The ShareThis team has rolled out an update with some great new features; most importantly a feature which allows posting to a variety of services:

Post from ShareThis

It’s pretty handy - you can post directly to WordPress, Twitter, Blogger, TypePad, etc. You can’t yet customize or add to the message being sent, but if it’s a highly requested feature I expect we’ll see it soon.

If you customized your ShareThis widget, you may need to go to the config page to add the Post tab to your tabs.

Besides the new Post options, the Reporting dashboard (which has some really interesting data) is faster and you can aggregate all of your domains into a single view. Pretty handy.

Check out the new features, let the team know how you like them in the forums.

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The ShareThis team has rolled out an update with some great new features; most importantly a feature which allows posting to a variety of services:

Post from ShareThis

It’s pretty handy - you can post directly to WordPress, Twitter, Blogger, TypePad, etc. You can’t yet customize or add to the message being sent, but if it’s a highly requested feature I expect we’ll see it soon.

If you customized your ShareThis widget, you may need to go to the config page to add the Post tab to your tabs.

Besides the new Post options, the Reporting dashboard (which has some really interesting data) is faster and you can aggregate all of your domains into a single view. Pretty handy.

Check out the new features, let the team know how you like them in the forums.

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";}i:10;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Brightkite presenting at Refresh Denver May 21st";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://refreshdenver.org/2008/05/15/brightkite-presenting-at-may-21st-meetup-at-forest-room-5/";s:8:"comments";s:70:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/15/brightkite-refresh-denver#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 16 May 2008 00:56:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:5:"Links";s:4:"guid";s:61:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/15/brightkite-refresh-denver";s:11:"description";s:404:"Looking forward to Refresh getting rolling again. The BrightKite guys are great, and the new venue (Forest Room 5) should be excellent. Look forward to seeing people there on May 21st. # | Visit Site » ";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:770:"

Looking forward to Refresh getting rolling again. The BrightKite guys are great, and the new venue (Forest Room 5) should be excellent. Look forward to seeing people there on May 21st.

# | Visit Site »

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Looking forward to Refresh getting rolling again. The BrightKite guys are great, and the new venue (Forest Room 5) should be excellent. Look forward to seeing people there on May 21st.

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";}i:11;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Around the web";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/04/around-the-web";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/04/around-the-web#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 May 2008 00:42:40 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:5:"Links";s:4:"guid";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/04/around-the-web";s:11:"description";s:555:" Ext JS Licensing Snarky Lenovo MacBook Air Ad - haha! Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails - flame-bait. Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon’s EC2 - Waxy.org - fantastic. Bush admits he approved torture Cooper Harrington - congratulations to Jeremy and family! Why use a polarizer? - filed under “things to do when I start shooting again”. Subversion’s Future? [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2196:"

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";}i:12;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:12:"Addictomatic";s:4:"link";s:48:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/01/addictomatic";s:8:"comments";s:57:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/01/addictomatic#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 02 May 2008 01:52:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:30:"Crowd FavoriteCase StudiesNews";s:4:"guid";s:48:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/05/01/addictomatic";s:11:"description";s:467:"Over the last few months, Crowd Favorite has had the privilege of working with Dave Pell to create a new search service: Addictomatic Addictomatic is a search aggregator, a way to see results from lots of sources all at once. Want to see the latest on a presidential candidate? Or the newest iPhone rumors? Or perhaps [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:4735:"

Over the last few months, Crowd Favorite has had the privilege of working with Dave Pell to create a new search service: Addictomatic

Addictomatic Home Page

Addictomatic is a search aggregator, a way to see results from lots of sources all at once. Want to see the latest on a presidential candidate? Or the newest iPhone rumors? Or perhaps an ego search? Addictomatic has you covered.

This isn’t a traditional search engine. It’s not designed to help you find answers about some error message or the cheapest flight to Aruba. Addictomatic helps you see what’s going on now on a given topic.

Addictomatic Search Results

We’ve implemented a number of pretty nice features on the site. One of these is the ability to drag and drop the results boxes around to re-order them.

Addictomatic re-ordering

You can also click the little X to remove a source from a page, or you can drop down the Available Sources panel to remove and add sources.

Addictomatic Sources

When you make changes to the results page, either re-ordering the sources and/or removing the ones you don’t want to include, you get a nice bookmarkable URL as a result. That URL will bring you right back to your search, with the layout you specified.

In addition to being able to create new searches, Addictomatic also offers a collection of NewsFix pages that gather the top sources on a variety of topics. I’m mainly visiting the Election 2008 and Baseball pages of late, though I also enjoy hitting Thought 2.0 and Web 2.0 with some regularity.

Building this service has been an interesting experience on a number of fronts, but one of the most exciting has been discovering that it’s something I want to use myself. I liked the idea when Dave first explained it to me, but I wasn’t sure how much I’d use it. As it turns out, I now use it quite a bit - it’s sticky. Much like Twitter, it’s value is hard to explain but readily apparent once you use it for a while.

The design of the site was done by well known designer Bryan Bell, who did a terrific job. We received the Photoshop files from him and created the front-end XHTML+CSS+JavaScript and all of the back-end systems.

Many thanks to Dave for letting us help him bring Addictomatic to the web.

UPDATE: Dave’s blog post is here and Bryan’s is here.

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Over the last few months, Crowd Favorite has had the privilege of working with Dave Pell to create a new search service: Addictomatic

Addictomatic Home Page

Addictomatic is a search aggregator, a way to see results from lots of sources all at once. Want to see the latest on a presidential candidate? Or the newest iPhone rumors? Or perhaps an ego search? Addictomatic has you covered.

This isn’t a traditional search engine. It’s not designed to help you find answers about some error message or the cheapest flight to Aruba. Addictomatic helps you see what’s going on now on a given topic.

Addictomatic Search Results

We’ve implemented a number of pretty nice features on the site. One of these is the ability to drag and drop the results boxes around to re-order them.

Addictomatic re-ordering

You can also click the little X to remove a source from a page, or you can drop down the Available Sources panel to remove and add sources.

Addictomatic Sources

When you make changes to the results page, either re-ordering the sources and/or removing the ones you don’t want to include, you get a nice bookmarkable URL as a result. That URL will bring you right back to your search, with the layout you specified.

In addition to being able to create new searches, Addictomatic also offers a collection of NewsFix pages that gather the top sources on a variety of topics. I’m mainly visiting the Election 2008 and Baseball pages of late, though I also enjoy hitting Thought 2.0 and Web 2.0 with some regularity.

Building this service has been an interesting experience on a number of fronts, but one of the most exciting has been discovering that it’s something I want to use myself. I liked the idea when Dave first explained it to me, but I wasn’t sure how much I’d use it. As it turns out, I now use it quite a bit - it’s sticky. Much like Twitter, it’s value is hard to explain but readily apparent once you use it for a while.

The design of the site was done by well known designer Bryan Bell, who did a terrific job. We received the Photoshop files from him and created the front-end XHTML+CSS+JavaScript and all of the back-end systems.

Many thanks to Dave for letting us help him bring Addictomatic to the web.

UPDATE: Dave’s blog post is here and Bryan’s is here.

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";}i:13;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Theme Browser ?Fixed?";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/29/theme-browser-fixed";s:8:"comments";s:64:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/29/theme-browser-fixed#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:32:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:32:"WordPressDevelopmentalexking.org";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/29/theme-browser-fixed";s:11:"description";s:459:"I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working. This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed. I had moved the theme browser from my site (to [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1576:"

I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working.

This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed.

I had moved the theme browser from my site (to reduce server load) to my hosting account at Joyent a long time ago, and set it up on the domain managedtasks.com. The frameset page and the top frame were hosted on alexking.org, while the bottom frame - the theme viewer - was on managedtasks.com.

This combination stopped working because the browsers changed their cookie security settings. If you have your cookies set to “only accept cookies from sites I visit”, then your browser was rejecting the cookie from managedtasks.com (because the URL in your browser was alexking.org).

If this cookie wasn’t set, the proper theme was not displayed; hence the theme browser being :scare: broken :/scare: .

I’ve moved it all onto managedtasks.com now, and everything appears to work again.

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I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working.

This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed.

I had moved the theme browser from my site (to reduce server load) to my hosting account at Joyent a long time ago, and set it up on the domain managedtasks.com. The frameset page and the top frame were hosted on alexking.org, while the bottom frame - the theme viewer - was on managedtasks.com.

This combination stopped working because the browsers changed their cookie security settings. If you have your cookies set to “only accept cookies from sites I visit”, then your browser was rejecting the cookie from managedtasks.com (because the URL in your browser was alexking.org).

If this cookie wasn’t set, the proper theme was not displayed; hence the theme browser being :scare: broken :/scare: .

I’ve moved it all onto managedtasks.com now, and everything appears to work again.

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";}i:14;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Around the web";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/27/around-the-web";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/27/around-the-web#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:41:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alex";}s:8:"category";s:7:"General";s:4:"guid";s:50:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/27/around-the-web";s:11:"description";s:454:"No “Around the web” this week. Too much has been going on at Crowd Favorite and I just got through my week’s feed reading with too few links to share to be worthwhile. Hopefully as things get back to a more normal state my feed reading will become more than a weekly event (and I can [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:675:"

No “Around the web” this week. Too much has been going on at Crowd Favorite and I just got through my week’s feed reading with too few links to share to be worthwhile.

Hopefully as things get back to a more normal state my feed reading will become more than a weekly event (and I can begin replacing some of my dead feeds). Until then, the Atw posts will be a bit inconsistent.

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";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/27/around-the-web/feed";}s:7:"summary";s:454:"No “Around the web” this week. Too much has been going on at Crowd Favorite and I just got through my week’s feed reading with too few links to share to be worthwhile. Hopefully as things get back to a more normal state my feed reading will become more than a weekly event (and I can [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:675:"

No “Around the web” this week. Too much has been going on at Crowd Favorite and I just got through my week’s feed reading with too few links to share to be worthwhile.

Hopefully as things get back to a more normal state my feed reading will become more than a weekly event (and I can begin replacing some of my dead feeds). Until then, the Atw posts will be a bit inconsistent.

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