You can now access a mobile-ready version the Zoinger blog “here”:2! 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”:1 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:

bq.. @$URL = $siteurl.’wp-mobile.php?’;@

changed to

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

p. I’ve updated the “_WordPress Customization_”:3 static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this plugin.

Mo.bil.icio.us!

[2(Mobile version of Zoinger blog)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/wp-mobile.php
[1(WordPress mobile plugin)]http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/01/12/wordpress-mobile-edition-17/
[3(Zoinger's WordPress Customization static page)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/wordpress-customization/

If you are running Windows XP and have an LCD monitor, you should be running Microsoft’s “ClearType”:3. Microsoft’s description of ClearType says:

bq.. 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.

p. Before, you only had the option to use the web-based ClearType “tuner”:1 which required IE (since it uses ActiveX). Now you have the option to download the new ClearType Tuner “PowerToy”:2. It allows you to adjust the settings locally, and has an alternative adjustment UI in the _Advanced_ tab.

[1(ClearType tuner page IE only)]http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

[2(Download page for ClearType Tuner PowerToy)]http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx

[3(Microsoft's ClearType page)]http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx

In the past, I’ve tried to link to Wikipedia for an explanation of the term “_screencast_”:2. 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”:3 view for Wikipedia term _screencast_.

Another recent entry to Wikipedia is the term “_podcasting_”:4, which was “created”:5 on the 2nd of Oct, 2004.

How about “_folksonomy_”:6? “Born”:7 on the 8th of Nov. 2004.

“Del.icio.us”:8? “Created”:9 September 1st, 2004.

Perhaps there is something to monitoring Wikipedia for new terms as they are “created”:10 and as they are “changed”:11… perhaps you can tap into trends very early in their lives?

[11(Wikipedia's recent changes page)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges

[10(Wikipedia's new terms page)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Newpages

[9(Original Del.icio.us entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Del.icio.us&oldid=5779908

[8(Wikipedia entry for Del.icio.us)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us

[7(Original folksonomy entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Folksonomy&direction=prev&oldid=7629254

[6(Wikipedia entry for folksonomy)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/folksonomy

[5(Original podcasting entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Podcasting&direction=prev&oldid=6313268

[4(Wikipedia entry for podcasting)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

[2(Wikipedia entry for screencast)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast

[3(Wikipedia history view of screencast entry )]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Screencast&action=history

Just watch Jon Udell’s “screencast”:2 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”:1.

[1(Jon Udell's del.icio.us screencast-tagged sites)]http://del.icio.us/judell/screencast
[2(Wikipedia entry for screencast)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast

I’ve created a couple of new static pages detailing how I’ve customized Firefox and WordPress: “_Firefox Customization_”:1 and “_WordPress Customization_”:2. 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!

[1(Zoinger static page on Firefox customization)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/firefox-customization/

[2(Zoinger static page on WordPress customization)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/wordpress-customization/