WordPress will now Publicize new blog posts as Twitter updates!

Enabled from your blog’s Dashboard>My Blogs under the “Publicize” column check on Twitter. Complete the authorisation process after you click on the “Enable” button. A yellow box appears below your Twitter check-off in which you request a link to Twitter. I was already signed onto my Twitter account so Twitter simply asked for my consent to link then switched me back to WordPress.

Now, when posting a new story, amongst the “Publish” control’s you get the “Publicize: Twitter” option already enabled to tweet an update of your post. “Edit” if you want to uncheck Twitter updates but more especially to add a custom message to your Tweet. WordPress will append a short URL to your update in the form of http://wp.me/s0m3th1ng.

This post will, in fact, be the first post that I tweet automatically via this new functionality!

Turn your iPhone into a Web Server with ServersMan’s CyberDuck …

Turn your iPhone into a web server using ServersMan’s CyberDuck application. Uses 3G or WiFi.

Caption: CyberDuck here seen serving over a WiFi connection.

Why would you want to set your iPhone up as a web server? Good question. I’ll try to address that in my conclusion. It would seem more useful to be able to edit and administer a web server remotely with your iPhone: The server remains up when you use your iPhone for other tasks. When the iPhone is the web server you’ll need another computer to edit the files on it and you lose the iPhone’s primary functions as a smart phone. But I’ll show you how to do it anyway.

Share your Urbanspoon experiences with me …

I loaded up my iPhone with the free Urbanspoon application some months back and since then I’ve discovered several good restaurants where I live, work and play. It uses the phone’s GPS to be location aware. The key is to find like minded foodie friends so I’m inviting you to follow me on Urbanspoon by linking here. An account is free if you haven’t signed up yet — and there is no kickback or financial incentive for me to promote Urbanspoon to you.

Why ruin a good story with the facts?

Fear tells a good story and sells well: The Conficker April Fool’s joke as told to you by CBS and a security consulting business …

Caption: The Finnish youth group which CBS’s 60 Minutes falsely accused of being a Russian cyber gang

A bit of Apple April Fool’s humour, or what?

Take the guided tour here for a spoof of the Apple Store: Find out what an iHam nano looks like!

Will Skype for the iPhone be released tomorrow?

UPDATE Tuesday 31st March: Yes! You can find it here.

There’s a lot of net chatter suggesting that a Skype app for the iPhone will be in the App Store on Tuesday. For free (yay!). Works only when you’re logged onto WiFi (doh!). Still, I’ll be in line to download and test it tomorrow …

A parody of Twitter actually explains it best …

Tetris for the seriously bored …

There’s an online version of Tetris that I cannot imagine you could complete in less than a fortnight here.

Why? Not only because you can but, maybe, also because you can’t!

Keyboard: Left, right and down cursor keys and space to flip.
On screen, upper right: You can toggle the sound and pause for five minutes.