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Word Press Plugin for Twitter

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

So im still seeing how powerfull i can make a blog and how powerfull and easy to use wordpress is. Twitter is all over the place and now that i am tweeting (i guess that is what the cool news media calls it from what i have heard) i thought it would be awesome to have my blog post automaticaly post to twitter so all 8 of my current tweeps (wow i feel like such a douch mover saying that) can follow me easly.

So i figured there was a plugin for twitter and i was correct.  There were several plugins and they did everything you can think of. I was original looking for one that would just post to my twitter account but after looking at twitter tools i realized it had several features that would also make my blog easer to intergrate with twitter posts and direct comments once my twitter grows.  The Features are as follows.

Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:

* Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)

* Create a blog post from each of your tweets

* Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets

* Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post

* Post a tweet from your sidebar

* Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens

* Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)

So i set it up and this should be my first post that get posted to twitter.  looking for the other feathers if this blog or my tweeting grows. incase you missed my post follow me on twitter at @freakyfowler44

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IE 6 Is The Worst

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
warning for IE 6

warning for IE 6

Internet Explorer 6 is the worst, yuck, for the post i will refer to IE 6 as The Yucky. As a web devoloper you have to make sure your websites and web apps run nicely in all of the web browsers out there. It always seems like The Yucky gives me the most problems, nothing every looks exactly the way i designed it and not to mention that it runs slower than every other browser and that it does have tabs and there are security issues and there is just no reason to be running The Yucky at all.  I ran into an artical expressed my same feelings and had a neat little word press plugin to help with getting people off of The Yucky and into a newer browser that enhance there internet experence.  This plug pops up a warning “You are using Internet Explorer version 6.0 or lower. Due to security issues and lack of support for Web Standards it is highly recommended that you upgrade to a modern browser.” and give the user a link to download several other browsers.

The plug in is called Shockingly Big IE6 Warning, which is named appropaly.  Like every other word press plugin it was easy to install and easy to set up.

You can choose from 3 types of warning:

  • TOP, a discreet top bar
  • FULL, a fullscreen warning
  • CRASH, the mean option

I choose the full warning type because i want people to be informed and go to my site but i was tempted to just crash The Yucky everytime someone came to my site. So hopefully people start to get off of The Yucky and start using a browser that will cruse you around the internets faster.

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Follow me on Twitter

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

So you can follow me on twitter @freakyfowler44.  not the ideal username for me but i fell back on an old username. So of course i wanted michaelafowler so i go to check if it was avialble and it was taken i was like WTF mate.  I wanted to know who else would take michaelafowler as a user name so i look them up on twitter and the whole time i was thinking this guy is a tool for taking the name i wanted. the page finally loads and its a girl and her name is Michaela Fowler, that hoe (not really i’m upset someone took my username that has never been taken before in all of my user registrations).

I am relatively new to twitter but i am amazed that everyone is using it and that everything intergrates with it. its such an easy concept that is so simple everyone can do it. but one thing that annoys me is all of the twitter lingo, i defantly not a fan of saying my tweeps or i was tweeting.

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Why I Play Top-Flite Gamers

Friday, June 26th, 2009
2 Dozen Top Flite Gamers

2 Dozen Top Flite Gamers

I have been golf quite abit lately and i have looked in to what ball i should play. I ball i have chosen is the Top Flite Gamer for several reasons. One of the reasons is I am a video gamer, i play Halo, UT 2003, Age Of Empires and John Madden Football, so the ball is named perfictly for me. I mean isn’t that a great reason to play a golf ball? Ok maybe not so a more serious note  the second reason the Top-Flite commercials are exactly marketed to my golf game. “Hit a diver on every hole” and “Never Lay Up” i mean basicly if Tin Cup was for real and playing today he would play a Gamer.

Ok from all of my research all of the top balls are 3 peice golf balls. The Nike One Platumuns, Titilus Pro v1 and Calloway Hx tours on some of the top balls played on the PGA Tour and all 3 peice golf balls.  The Gamer is a 3 peice ball that is half of the price of all three of the ball listed above.  That is good for me becuase i am inconsistant and am prone to lose a couple of balls so under $2 a ball is much better than around $4 a ball. So a Cheap ball isn’t any good if it doesn’t preform well. So i was trying to find some informaion on golf balls and i found an artical in Golf digest that tested all of the balls on the market. The Gamer preformed near the top is pretty much all of the catogories. Sure there were several balls that were ahead of the game but when they filtered out balls that were 20 or less per dozen the Gamer came out on top. So its a quality cheap ball that is marketed directly to me i mean i don’t think i can find a better fit for me.

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One more wordpress thought

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

I forgot to add that the free iPhone app is clutch for wordpress. Even tough I don’t write many articals on it, I do place most of my ideas in the local draft and then uploaded the draft when I have time blog. But with 3.0 os for the iPhone with the sideways keyboard I might be writing more blogs like this one from it. Sidenote: iPhonesAreDaBomb.com

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Thoughts on Word Press So Far

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Most of you may now that i am a computer programmer and i develop web applications as a job. i have always wanted to write my own blogging application like word press but way cooler. I just don’t have the time when web apps like wordpress already existes. One of my goals is to get this blog on my own written bloging web app. I just wanted to get his blog up and rolling and i didn’t want to wait for me to write my own before i started blogging.  So i just installed word press and started blogging.

Here are some of my thoughts on word press so far. godaddy made it easy to install word press. There were alot of diffrent themes that were easy to install. It was straight forward to edit the theme i don’t know how hard it will be to create your own, also something i would like to try.   The blog were simple to draft and anyone could write a blog that looks good with the html view. i still want to try out some javascirpt or maybe even PHP if it will allow it.  The last thing that word press had build in search engiene friendly urls that were fully customizable which will be great if google ever spiders my site.

Myth: word press is the greatest thing every.

Fact: Word press is one of the best blogging application out there.

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Cookie Monster Cupcakes

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Cookies cookies cookies cookies

cookie monster cupcakes

I frosted the top. Me want cookies!!!

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How To Install a Putting Green pt 1

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Recently my wife got in to golf and she said she wanted a putting green installed in the back yard. So natural when your wife tells you that you can do something that is out of the ordinary like “honey why don’t you go and get us a new TV” you do it before she changes her mind. So i did some research and found out i could do either a real grass one or an artifical grass one. Initialy i was thinking real grass one till i found out you need to buy like a $800 mower to cut it. I would like to do more than just putting on my green as well like chipping and hope it could take like a 50 yard shot. while researching i found that the length of the grass helped hold the chips better. I ordered the 1 inch Ultimate Poly Turf from Backyard-putting-greens.com which came with 2 holes and 2 putting green flags and had the widest cut i found online which was 15 feet compaired to the 12 feet most offered. now its a matter of installing it. i found these vide0s and followed the directions best i could and installed the SOB. Part 2 will contain the auctial installing process i’m tired of bloging right now and it seems to be a logical place to stop.

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Ultimate Frisbee

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

I had a party at my house and have a decent size back yard with several yard games set up. There was Corn Hole and Ladder Ball and Bochie ball and not to mention the putting green i just installed(i will get to posting about that one later), but what did everyone want to play? Ultimate frisbee. I have never played in my life so i was scheptical about how fun it would be. We used inbetween 2 fence post as goals and had a blast jumping over the fence once a shot sailed over it. Besides the skinned knee on the fire pit and the blood finger from a newly weds square tungson carbide ring (Highly Reconmended for anyone looking for a wedding band) it was a blast. So much so next sunday there is a good chance we will play it again.  This is a weak first post but i need to get some stuff out there so Google Adsence will aprove my site for advertising. there is better stuff to come.

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