Nokia N8 Review: Social Networking (Twitter, Facebook, RenRen)

December 1st, 2010 by Youzhny 
Nokia N8 smartphone comes with a “Social Network” app by default. The app is an all-in-one app that supports the 3 most popular social networks today: Facebook, Twitter, and RenRen. In order to launch the app, you need to sign in your free Nokia Ovi account. Then, you can add your social network accounts. Currently, only 3 social networks are supported: Facebook, Twitter, and RenRen (China’s...

Featured BuddyPress Theme: Studio

November 30th, 2010 by Youzhny 
To end our week of BuddyPress Themes and Plugins let’s take a look at a Premium theme from BuddyDress. Studio was released back in September. It has an attractive slider, beautiful design and is packed full of options for customization. It has built in theme options, built in Google fonts directory, and comes SEO ready. Features Content buckets – choose the content you want and let StudioPress...

CyanogenMod 6 seen on the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G!

November 28th, 2010 by Youzhny 
CyanogenMod 6 has been installed on the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G, and although reports are that the build is “very broken”, it’s still pretty cool that this is available in such a short time. There’s no doubt that will have many cool features coming with it, making the MyTouch 4G even sweeter! Look for that soon!. Visit TalkAndroid for android news, android guides, and much more! CyanogenMod 6...

WPAdvent will bring 25 days of WordPress deals in December

November 27th, 2010 by Youzhny 
Due to preemptive mentions on Twitter, Ben Gillbanks has announced his latest project WPAdvent a bit earlier than it seems he intended. The new site claims it will give visitors “25 days worth of special offers from your favorite WordPress developers”, beginning December 1st. According to the WPAdvent about page: The goal of the site is two fold. To help promote the awesome WordPress development...

Multi-DB Plugin Updated For Improved WordPress Multisite Scaling

November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny 
Our Multi-DB plugin allows for massive scaling of your WordPress Multisite network to hundreds, even thousands of sites. It allows you to split your single database into 16, 256 or 4096 database – and if you are using cPanel, even incorporates a script that will do that for you. We’ve recently taken it up a couple notches with improvements that will help to keep everything running smoothly. What...

Introducing BuddyBase: A New Free BuddyPress Theme Framework

November 23rd, 2010 by Youzhny 
BuddyBoss has just made a splash in the BuddyPress world with its new free theme framework called BuddyBase. Given that free BuddyPress themes are still few and far between, we always want to make sure that our readers are the first to know what’s available. BuddyBase is a high quality theme that will make an excellent starting point for any BuddyPress design customization. Let’s take a closer...

Daily Tip: Plugin Test Drive Lets You Test WordPress Plugins Before Activating

November 19th, 2010 by Youzhny 
Ever wanted to see how a plugin would interact on your site before activating it? Plugin Test Drive was written for just that purpose. You can test it out to see how it looks on your site and configure it properly before making it publicly activated for your visitors. How does it work? // Plugin Test Drive works by conditionally activating the plugin based on user name or IP address. Use the IP...

New Plugin Makes it Easy to Embed Any Facebook Content on Your WordPress Site

November 15th, 2010 by Youzhny 
Embed Facebook is a new plugin that makes the process of posting Facebook content in WordPress ridiculously simple: Paste the URL (of a facebook album, picture, video, page, or event) and the plugin will automatically embed the related object. // The only requirement is that the object must be public and should belong to a Facebook Page. That means you cannot embed your personal albums. If you...

Featured WordPress Plugin: Lazyest Stylesheet

November 14th, 2010 by Youzhny 
Ever make changes to your theme or plugin’s stylesheet, forget about them and then lose them after you update your theme? Happens to me all of the time. Then there’s much head scratching about what changes I had made and how I can get my site looking like it was looking before I went and updated. // The Lazyest Stylesheet Plugin provides a space for a permanent stylesheet where you can put your...

New Chrome Extension for WordPress Stats Addicts

November 13th, 2010 by Youzhny 
Are you addicted to viewing your WordPress stats? It’s okay to admit it. However, it’s not okay if it eats up all of your time logging in and out of your websites. You need a way to save yourself some time and keep your stats instantly accessible. // WordPress Stats is a new extension for Chrome that provides you with the referrers, top posts, search terms and clicks of your site without the...

New Plugin Seamlessly Integrates Google Calendars and WordPress

November 12th, 2010 by Youzhny 
If you’ve ever had to add a Google calendar to WordPress in the past, then you know that there’s really no elegant option for embedding your calendars. They always end up looking ugly, distorted and utilitarian on your otherwise beautiful website. // Now you can say goodbye to ugly Google calendar solutions, because a new plugin called wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stout-google-calendar/”...

Obox Design upgrades their OCMX framework to version 2.5

November 12th, 2010 by Youzhny 
Calling it a “major upgrade” to the framework, Obox Design has made version 2.5 of their OCMX theme framework available on their site. My copy of zbench does not have that option. All I have is places for RSS,Twitter and Facebook info. Thats it… I keep reading about the options b ut I can’t see them. The new version of OCMX includes: Auto-updating of the theme for future updates Drag &...