Yearly Archives: 2008

3 Flash Web Players For Audio

Sep 15, 2008 by Matt | Posted in Software & Scripts 2 Comments

Do you produce podcasts, or otherwise make use of audio files on your website? Here are a few Flash players to enable your listeners to easily stream audio from your server.

JW FLV Media Player

Jeroenwijering’s player is one of the wider-known ones, and one of the first. It plays MP3s, AACs, H264 video, FLV video, and it can even stream video from YouTube. It’s very customizable too. Get it here.

1 Pixel Out Audio Player

This one is very popular among WordPress users. It’s available as a WordPress plugin or as a standalone solution. It’s very compact and simple. Get it here.

Dewplayer

Dewplayer is the “new guy.” It’s lightweight and compact. It comes in three versions with varying amounts of buttons. Get it here.

Preparing Your Blog For Easy iPhone Usage

Sep 14

I’ve previously talked about scripts that make it easier to develop iPhone web apps, or parse blog RSS feeds into a format easily navigable format for the iPhone. But that’s a lot of work, isn’t it? What if you just want to make your…

BlogBuzz September 13, 2008

Sep 13

WP125 1.1 Released

Sep 12

The WordPress 125×125 ad management plugin has just got better. I’ve just released version 1.1.0, which improves performance, adds several customization options, as well as a few major features. New is version 1.1: Setting to change the widget title. Option to remove the default…

Featured Premium WordPress Theme: Papercut

Sep 11

Every month I highlight a free WordPress theme that caught my eye. In addition to that (I posted this month’s WPTOTM yesterday), I would like to give a shout-out to a premium theme this month. Papercut is a premium theme by the new WooThemes…

WordPress Theme of the Month: Notepad Chaos

Sep 10

This month’s featured WordPress theme is Notepad Chaos by Smashing Magazine.

Background Advertising

Sep 9

What’s your opinion on “background ads”? They often come up on sites like IMDB and GameSpot, or on other sites with fixed layouts, replacing the normal background image with an ad that seems to have the website floating on top of it. Do you…

Dowtime Yesterday

Sep 8

Webmaster-Source was down for about six and a half hours yesterday (along with Fantasy Folder and NTugo). No explanation from the host so far. Be sure to follow me on Twittter so you’ll know what’s going on if something like that happens again.

Oh No They Didn’t! Microsoft and Web Standards

Sep 8

Remember the big deal Microsoft made about how Internet Explorer 8 would finally be standards compliant. Aside from some odd stuff they were doing, it looked like they were actually putting in an effort to follow through with their promise, or at least something…

First Look at WordPress 2.7

Sep 7

The WordPress team is hard at work on the next major release of WordPress, 2.7, which Weblog Tools Collection says may be every bit as important of a release as 2.5 was. It will have another major interface overhaul, and it looks like it…