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My Life Designed
I just wanted to share my personal site where I will be blogging about what inspires me http://stephaniefredrickson.com. I will be posting design inspiration and ideas . I wanted to have a separate place for my design ideas, what inspires me as a designer, design trends and more. So head on over and check it out 
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How to Build Your Own Web Site With Little or No Money
This is a great new book by Bruce C. Brown that helps people get started who have never made a website themselves. It goes over many topics including SEO and give many interviews by professional web designers of their recommendations to people just starting out wanting to take the do-it-yourself approach with web design.
I’m one of those interviewed in the book (pages 605-610). I describe the process someone should use to determine what type of elements to put on their website, different ways to sell products online, web design products for beginners and more. There are tons of other interviews just like mine and the same questions are anwered by each designer. It’s definately a great book to purchase to just get a grasp on how to start a website yourself with very little (or no money).
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WordPress for Android 1.0 Release
I’ve just installed the new WordPress for Android 1.0 app on my Droid phone and love it. It’s so easy to update my blog. You can download the app in the Marketplace on your Droid phone by Searching for “wordpress” and download the app by Automattic, Inc. OR visit the download page and scan the barcode with the barcode scanner app (if you have it installed).
Some of the features include the ability to:
- Configure and manage multiple blogs
- Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
- Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
- Create and Edit Pages
- Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar
Here is a brief video showing the app in action:
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.9.2
There’s another WP upgrade to 2.9.2. The problem is with logged in users, they can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. Or you can upgrade in your blog administration by clicking on Tools->Upgrade to upgrade.
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Flash Player 10.1 coming to Motorola Droid
For those of you with a Motorola Droid, you’re probably anxiously waiting for the release of the Flash Player 10.1. Motorola Announced on January 6, 2010, that the Flash Player will be released soon. This is an awesome step for mobile browsing to not have limitations anymore on what content can be accessed by a smartphone. I love this idea of actually being able to surf the web and view Flash websites and components.
You can view some info right from Adobe http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/01/flash_player_101_coming_to_mot.html of Flash Payer 10.1.
You can watch this video of Flash Player 10.1 on Motorola Droid
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WordPress 2.8.6 Uprgrade
There’s another uprgrade to WordPress available. Time to upgrade to 2.8.6. The upgrade fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended. Read more here http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release. Download the most current version of WordPress here http://wordpress.org/download.
Version 2.9 should be available soon but it’s still being tested http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/bug-hunt-in-progress.
