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Addition to the Site: Latest Tech Podcasts

On the right column, I’ve added a list that displays the latest Tech Podcasts from several sites.

For now, I list the ones from:

“Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff.”
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. They also have a great youtube Channel and a ųTorrent app that will keep you up to date.
WIRED is the first word on how ideas and innovation are changing the world.
The BBC’s flagship tech TV show. On BBC Breakfast Sat 0645, Sun 0745; News Channel Sat0130, Sat/Sun1130, 1530 in the UK. Also on BBC World News, & iPlayer.
The Boagworld show is the longest running web design podcast and has something for everybody, whether you are a designer, developer or website owner

 

As soon as any other interesting ones appear, or come to my attention, I will add these to the list. You can hit the small RSS iconRSS next to the title to add the complete stream to your RSS Reader, Download software, etc.

It was quite easy to create a single RSS Stream using Yahoo pipes, I’ll post about that soon! 



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Mobile Theme Launched

By the end of last week, I received some comments on the bad rendering of my site in a mobile browser. Not really on an iPhone, iPad or an Android phone, but in all the other small screen browsers. I found it looked rather nice on an iPad last week!

I found a wordpress plug-in to solve this problem, called the WordPress Mobile Theme pack. It took me a bit to configure it, but I think I’m almost there.

The main configuration problems where related to the menu I use on top, which is based on another plug-in and not on the standard WordPress menu. I had to take the standard one out of the theme header.php file to make sure people where not presented with a list of about 20 pages, ranging from the Christmas puzzle to other stuff I try to keep hidden ;)

That problem seems to be solved now, and aside from a few validation errors and still quite a long load-time, which I have to have a look at I think it looks quite well. Please have a look for yourself (use your mobile ;) ).

- WordPress Mobile Theme Pack Plug-in

- Mobile Web Test Website



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Enable Gzip on 000webhost

It’s a bit tricky to find how to enable Gzip compression on pages hosted on the 000webhost, a free hosting service.

Gzip compression is server-side compression of web pages that can lower the amount of data the browser has to download around 60-70%

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There are many techniques to do so, but most common is to modify the .htaccess file in your site root directory.

Most of the ways to add compression contain flags or parameters based on Apache modules that the 000webhost chooses not to use, a pity but there is a solution.

 

If you add the following lines to your .htaccess file, gzip compression will work:

 

php_flag zlib.output_compression On

php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

 

You can test this by going here, add your URL and check the test button.



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Feeback Roulette

I tend to use this site a bit as my playground. I play with the CSS, wordpress platform and its plug-ins among other things.

Usually this causes quite some visual changes to the site, or functional changes that might be for the better, or for the worse.

I stared using an online tool to get feedback for my site. Not the typical scan for CSS errors tool, but feedback by people who make an effort to maintain the feedback constructive and with a certain level of quality.

Feedback Roulette LogoFeedback Roulette works in a very simple way. You earn Feedback Points by reviewing peoples websites. As soon as you’ve reviewed the first, people start reviewing yours. The fact that the feedback given needs to be rated guarantees the quality of the feedback.

Best thing of all…. It’s Free!

 

So If you have a sit you’d like some honest, people-generated feedback on, give it a shot!!



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GTranslate WordPress Plug-in

image Since I saw on my stats that I have some visitors from Latin America, The Netherlands and and Spain, I just installed the Gtranslate plug-in for my Blog.

It’s a simple setup to have a small translate dropdown like you see on the right here.

The translations are well… like most machine translations a bit quirky. This one however, is using community corrections, and should therefore give a more reliable result.

Since I’m limited to 5 languages only ;) I’d like that if you use it that you let me know the result in comments. Thanks!!



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