MU Tutorial

Has to be pushed back a day or so, sorry about that. Some emergencies here at the palace of Sillyness have taken up all my time.

Hacking the MU

So yeah, I bet you didn't see this one coming. I am back with a new series on hacking WordPress. This time we are going to focus on WordPress MU. Fasten your safety belts people, it may be a bumpy ride.

Setting the stage

So, while I have left behind WordPress in favor of Habari for my personal sites, I still use WP in some of my professional endeavors. I have found that WordPress MU specifically is a great platform to build on for a number of situations.

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Fascinating read

A great article about emerging theories that attempt to explain, in non-religious terms, the undeniable rightness of the universe. Some of my favorite parts are when Davies rattles off seemingly ludicrous explanations of quantum physics, beginning with the phrase "I don't think anyone would disagree...". Go check it out.

iPhone and iPod Dock

So I have access to one of those fancy iPod docks with the video out and IR reciever, so I thought I would see what functionality, if any, I could coax out of my iPhone.

Unfortunately I don't have any video on my phone at the moment, so I can't really test the video out, but I do know some things. Currently you can do the following:

1. The docks works fine for charging and syncing the iPhone.
2. The line out for audio seems to work fine as well.
3. The apple remote works for some things with the phone. For instance you can:
• Increase and decrease the volume of the ringer (when not playing music), or the audio (when listening to music)
• You can skip between songs while the phone is locked and charging, which is one of the cooler features in my mind.

Things that you currently cannot do:

1. Scroll lists on the phone. Case in point, the listing of music on your phone.
2. Navigate back and forth between views when the phone is unlocked (like drill down/up in your playlists).

I am really hoping that future updates to the iPhone software improve the interaction between the iPhone and an iPod dock with remote. One good bit of news is that I can rig up something for the iPhone in my car, and use an apple remote to interact with my music. Not having to take you eyes off the road++.

OS X Mercury

An interesting web desktop application that apes the MacOS. Could be interesting. Check it. There is also a Front Row like application that I presume, streams internet video content.

Here Pownce

Take this favicon, please. You have no excuse now to not have one, look I did all the work for you. Just download it, rename it to favicon.ico and upload it to your server. Couldn't be easier. Seriously. You can see it in action on my Lifestream.

iPhone tip #1

UPDATE: It seems it wasn't a software glitch, but a hardware one, since now the bottom 3rd of my screen doesn't work. Oi. Don't let someone with fingers twice as big as yours use your iPhone during the first week when the phone is learning how you type. It horks the software and the only way to fix it is to restore the phone. Which means of course, that I will have to reactivate it. Bah.