My top 8 favourite iPhone apps

Apr 17

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My favorite iPhone apps

When I started writing this blog post, it was called My top 5 favorite iPhone apps. But as I sorted through my installed1 apps, I had a really hard time limiting my self to just 5 apps – so I changed the scope to “top 8″.

If I could only install 8 3rd party apps these are the ones I would choose. These 8 apps are the ones I use most frequently, and I couldn’t imagine living without them.

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  1. I have 107 apps on my iPhone and a total of 144 apps in my iTunes library. [↩]

Share your active WordPress plugins

Mar 18

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A friend of mine challenged me to share my active WordPress plugins.

So here goes, from one plugin addict to another :-)

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WordPress migration

Mar 10

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WordPress

Just over a month ago I began contemplating a move from Movable Type to WordPress, and for the last 14 days or so I have been running my blog on WordPress. I must say that the experience have been very nice so far.

Back in the day, when Movable Type was free, that was my blogging platform of choice. When Six Apart went the non-free way, I rolled my own, I used Blogger and Typo and I was mostly happy.

For a long time I stayed away from WordPress because I thought it sucked and more importantly because it was writen in PHP1 which truly does suck.

On December 10th, 2008, WordPress Version 2.7 was released, and this version puts all previous versions of WordPress to shame. This is really a great release and almost makes PHP look sexy2. WordPress has matured into a very powerful blogging platform which has an abundance of plugins3.

I think that Movable Type lost its momentum when Six Apart released Movable Type 3.0, with its new pricing scheme, and this inturn let WordPress take over. I have found WordPress plugins for all but one Movable Type feature, and that is “multiple blogs in one installation”. I have also found several plugins that I can’t imagine living without now.

I exported my Movable Type blog with tags and categories and used the supplied importer and a little custom perl script to fix-up the export before import. Piece of cake!4.

  1. I don’t particularly like PHP, buy hey 10 million n00bes can’t possibly be wrong [↩]
  2. I said almost! [↩]
  3. I went nuts, and are currently using no less than 36 plugins [↩]
  4. If you see some funky looking links, then maybe it wasn’t totally a piece of cake… [↩]