I really don’t like the backend changes in WordPress 2.5. Really, really, really don’t like them. Most of the staff on PhoneNews.com doesn’t either… I’ve been getting an earful about it. The WordPress team says that they hired an external research team, to determine how people use the backend. Problem is, they weighted experienced and […]
I know, I said I wasn’t going to do any updates while at CTIA. It’s Vegas, and I should be doing other things… but, I noted that WordPress 2.5 had a few things that would improve coverage. So, using my blog as a test, its now running WordPress 2.5. Up next? The PhoneNews.com Blog, and […]
One of the many, many things I don’t like about Engadget, is when they chose to write something completely biased and opiniated, and just slip it into the middle of a sentence. Like, in this article: “Granted, we fully understand Creative’s right to disallow the distribution of untested, potentially harmful third-party drivers…” Stop. Where in […]
It’s official. I’m getting too much email. This year’s CTIA show prep for PhoneNews.com has caused such a deluge of email, that I am not able to function day-to-day communications. This has brought me to the painful what-to-do-with-the-mail situation. I now have to decide if I’m going to do one of several options: 1) Deal […]
I didn’t see this one coming. Ziff Davis is Chapter 11… with over $225 Million in debt. For those of you too young to remember (and I have to start saying that), Ziff Davis at one point was king of all technological media. They had a near monopoly on Mac newsprint, and the online media […]
This is a review of a designer for WordPress, E.Webscapes Design Studio. They did the current PhoneNews.com look and feel which I hired them to do. E.Webscapes’s lead designer wrote the book on WordPress… literally. But, that’s not the main reason that we chose them over at PhoneNews.com, we quoted several designers on their past […]
For those people interested in migrating from Joomla! 1.0 please note that this is a continuously evolving process and is likely to be refined and optimized heavily over the next few weeks as feedback is received. There is no immediate need for people to migrate existing Joomla! 1.0 sites to 1.5 so please be patient […]
Now that PhoneNews.com mothership has been updated, you can expect the new look-and-feel to be re-tooled for ChristopherPrice.net as well. Still haven’t figured out what to do with the toolbar, but it’s coming. No real timeframe on it yet… when time permits really (and, to be honest, that may be awhile… if it isn’t broken, […]
Back from Macworld, unfortunately most of my systems are down for updating. In fact, all of them are. From Vista SP1 RC2 (or, RC Refresh as it has been titled), to all the Mac OS updates released at Macworld… the coverage is coming, but everything has to get “faster and more reliable” first. Just to […]
I’m starting a new series called Bad Ads, where I point out advertising techniques and individual campaigns that wind up being is a dismal failure. HP and this movie called Jumper, have teamed up for what I call a dual-ad. Basically, the ad spot starts off with promoting the movie, and then 15 seconds into […]