Monthly Archives: January 2010

BlogBuzz January 30, 2010

Jan 30, 2010 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No Comments

The iPad Will Find its Niche: My Thoughts on Apple’s Tablet

Jan 29

Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere, you’ve almost certainly heard about Apple’s new iPad tablet. The $499 device is essentially a giant iPod Touch, but with a few additional features. The integrated ebook store (or iBooks, as Apple prefers to call them…)…

Is Firefox Losing its Focus?

Jan 28

Firefox is a great web browser, certainly the most extendable. In the beginning, one of Firefox’s strong points was how lightweight it was. It wasn’t full of extraneous features, it was pretty snappy. It did one thing, web browsing, and it did it well.…

The History of the Emoticon

Jan 27

Have you ever wondered where the ASCII “smiley face,” and the later emoticons, came from? It was first used on a Carnegie Mellon bulletin board in the early 1980s, September 19, 1982 to be exact. The motivation behind the symbol was to devise a…

An API for the Web: Learning YQL

Jan 26

I just read one of the most interesting articles Net.Tuts+ has published in the last few months: An API for the Web: Learning YQL. Web apps and web services multiply like rabbits. They’re all fun to play with (like rabbits) and fun to integrate…

WordPress Category Templates + Custom Taxonomies

Jan 25

Here’s a part of WordPress that many people overlook: Category Templates. It’s actually quite easy to set up your theme so that it adapts to the content being displayed, allowing you to set up “departments” or “sub sites” that are styled differently. This isn’t…

BlogBuzz January 23, 2010

Jan 23

jQuery 1.4 Released

Jan 22

Version 1.4 of jQuery has been released, and Net.Tuts+ has published a nice guide to some of the more interesting features that are now available. I’m particularly interested in the first item, which sounds intriguing. Pre 1.4, jQuery supported adding attributes to an element…

Poll: What Do You Look For in a Premium Theme?

Jan 21

There is no shortage of “premium” WordPress themes nowadays, and their creators are fairly large in number as well. You have the monumental WooThemes, the bargain ThemeForest, and DIYthemes, the people behind the ever-popular Thesis theme, to name just a few. Companies aside, what…

The New York Times to Start Charging Online Readers

Jan 20

The New York Times is expected to announce that they will be charging online readers to access their content. The newspaper is expected to announce in coming weeks that it will institute a metered pay plan in which readers would have access to a…