You can now access a mobile-ready version the Zoinger blog here! In addition, WordPress now auto-detects various mobile browsers and automajically displays the mobile version for those browsers.

Enabling a mobile edition of WordPress is easy… all you have to do is install a plugin called WordPress Mobile Edition. After that, the plugin pretty much does the rest.

I did encountering a bug with the plugin when I initially installed it. It worked fine except it was bouncing mobile browsers up one level in the file structure, so I was getting a file not found error. That is, the plugin was sending mobile browsers to www.zoinger.com/wp-mobile.php instead of www.zoinger.com/words/wp-mobile.php. To fix this, I hacked this line in the wp-mobile.plugin.php file:

$URL = $siteurl.'wp-mobile.php?';

changed to

$URL = $siteurl.'../words/wp-mobile.php?';

I’ve updated the WordPress Customization static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this plugin.

Mo.bil.icio.us!

If you are running Windows XP and have an LCD monitor, you should be running Microsoft’s ClearType. Microsoft’s description of ClearType says:

With Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.

Before, you only had the option to use the web-based ClearType tuner which required IE (since it uses ActiveX). Now you have the option to download the new ClearType Tuner PowerToy. It allows you to adjust the settings locally, and has an alternative adjustment UI in the Advanced tab.

In the past, I’ve tried to link to Wikipedia for an explanation of the term screencast. Well, I’ve finally been able to do that, since a user recently posted the original entry for this term on the 13th of March, 2005. You can see this by looking at the history view for Wikipedia term screencast.

Another recent entry to Wikipedia is the term podcasting, which was created on the 2nd of Oct, 2004.

How about folksonomy? Born on the 8th of Nov. 2004.

Del.icio.us? Created September 1st, 2004.

Perhaps there is something to monitoring Wikipedia for new terms as they are created and as they are changed… perhaps you can tap into trends very early in their lives?

Just watch Jon Udell’s screencast entitled Language Evolution with Del.icio.us all the way to the end. You can find a link to the screencast on Jon’s del.icio.us/judell/screencast page.

I’ve created a couple of new static pages detailing how I’ve customized Firefox and WordPress: Firefox Customization and WordPress Customization. Static pages, as opposed to post(s), seem like a better place to organize this information. It will be easier to find information related to each software application, and will all be in one place.

The goal is to detail the plugins, themes and extensions I’ve used to customize Firefox and WordPress. I’ve also included a link to the theme that I am using for this site.

These pages are in alpha state, so some of the information is somewhat dated (I grabbed some of it off old posts). I’ll try to make the pages current in the next few days… or so.

Enjoy!