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Blogging on the ipod / iphone

Josh — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:15:15 +0000

I recently got an iPod Touch, I guess both for myself and for testing the apps that I am working on for work. So this is my first test post for making a post from my iPod using the wordpress.org app.

The app is fairly easy to use, and seems to be more of a use for checking the comments on blog entries – as it does fairly well – but for writing posts it feels lacking and needing more. I guess it would be nice to post pics or links from here as well.

I guess we’ll see how it all develops over time with it.

Anyone used this before or made posts on the go using other apps or devices that might work well? … I have tried the iPsd and it is ok and definitely better than this app, but it does work from the normal / traditional wordpress admin interface.

Cheers!

Wow… How quickly can your password be cracked?

Josh — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:50:57 +0000

I thought that this article was very interesting. I know that my passwords are not so strong, but this was a good article on password security and strength, and I thought to share:

Mike on ghacks has posted an interesting introduction to password strength. You may think your password is strong, but the range of times required to crack passwords of different types goes from essentially instantaneous (for any 3-character password, e.g. 3D%) to several years for an 8-character password of mixed case alphanumerics and symbols (e.g. 4$Gqvt}k).

Mike displays a nice table to show the range of crackability:

His top tip for passwords? “Choose one or two super-strong passwords and change the passwords on every website you have an account with to those.”

My own tip is to use a password manager, allow it to create a different random super strong password for every site and then create a super strong master password. Use an offline password manager that does not store your passwords on its servers whether encrypted or not.

This article was taken from Sciencetext.com.

Other Password articles:

Blogging on an ipad and wordpress

Josh — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:14:14 +0000

So the iPad has been out for two weeks now. I am at the Apple store right now playing with one.

Ok, so my first run on the machine tells me that this is a powerful machine, … But honestly blogging on it is not the best. I am typing right now inside the Wysiwyg, but only in the HTML view and not in the visual editor.

Overall, if I wanted to use this to blog, it would be a bit of a pain, but I could get my thoughts out if needed.

My first impression of the iPad is that it’s great, but it’s not great for blogging just yet. I would consider getting this on the 3rd generation iPad when they get a camera, video and the ability to wirelessly connect a USB … Wirelessly since they DO NOT have USB ports on this thing.

I expect the iPad to get better with the next generation.

Idea: I would like to have a saved-archived page Revisions in WordPress

Josh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:13:40 +0000

I often would like to change the content of a page, but be able to come back to a saved page version as well, later on.

Anyone listening out there know of an exisiting plugin in WordPress that will allow you to save / archive page revisions? I know that it keeps a record of page revisions, but I would like the ability to save particular versions in a list to return later easily without only idetifying the vision by the date.

I use WordPress for a radio program that has weekly topics and often later in the year we re-broadcast the topic — so the content I need for the page (images, text, products offered) are the exact same as a year before.

So, something that would allow be archive old page versions and come back to them to be published would be nice, but only for the pages that I need to have archived versions.