Microsoft Bing Apps for Office 365 Home Premium (with extra Windows Live Hotmail Outlook)
What is wrong with Microsoft and their ability to name products – why are they such a horrid mouthful.
Technology
IE Bug: Text ignores z-index of higher elements
Placing an anchor absolutely on top of another element to make an entire area a clickable link does not work well in Internet Explorer. The text underneath breaks through the overlaying anchor and it is no longer clickable.
WordPress: get enabled languages for qTranslate
If you need to get the currently enabled languages on a WordPress site running qTranslate, this is the PHP function you’ve been looking for.
Laravel: user “display name”, or first + last name
In the web app I’m building we allow a “Display Name” so we get users’ full names but give them control. Here’s how to get that info in a Laravel model.
Facebook, Google et al. – here’s how to ask for personal data permission
The Guardian discusses EU proposals which could force companies to ask permission before utilising user data for advertising purposes – here’s the solution.
Press – A review of the new feed reader app
A couple of days ago I posted about a new Android app called “Press”. I’ve spent a bit of time reading my RSS feeds from it and have been very happy so far. As a result I decided to do a video review of the app.
A scathing assessment of OS design gone wrong
In this video, Brian Boyko delivers a very strong indictment against Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 8.
Press – A new feed reader application for Android
Press is a brand new feed reading application. I quickly tested it out this morning and am quite impressed.
A lost web
Anil Dash’s recent post, “The web we lost”, is a great round-up of where we came from on the web and some possible failings in the web today.
WordPress 3.5 Released
A big release for WordPress this week to round out a great year. Welcome WordPress 3.5, named for jazz drummer Elvin Jones (a very awesome drummer).