Isaac Keyet

This is not as simple as it seems. In the WordPress add video interface, there are no pointers on how to embed a Vimeo video specifically. Searching Vimeo support I stumbled across the solution, it’s really simple and goes as follows.

1. Be sure to use the HTML text mode when writing your WordPress blog post
2. Add the following text string where your video should appear: [vimeo 2073923] where the number is the ID of the video. So if the URL to the video on vimeo.com is http://vimeo.com/2740700, that is the number you would use.

Note: This works in later versions of the self-hosted WordPress blogging software as well.

Just read about this, Swedish official iPhone carrier Telia will soon offer an application that, for the first time, makes MMS messaging possible with the iPhone. The company that has developed this iPhone app is called Mobispine AB, and their press release of the product looks promising. Apparently it’s a white-label solution that Telia will get in on.

While many people argue that you might as well send an email with the image you just took, fact is most older phones don’t support email reading in a manageable fashion, plus most users would not set up an email account anyway.

I’ve not used IRC before, but now I have to since most of Automattic’s internal discussions are happening in an IRC channel. So I was looking around, trying to find general IRC commands but didn’t find anything. So here’s what I’ve learned so far:

/join #roomnamehere
To join a chat room within an IRC channel, type the above. Ex: /join #gamechat.

/nick newnickhere
To change your nickname in a room, type /nick newnicknamehere. Ex: /nick fred.

/topic topichere
This is to set the topic of an IRC room. Ex: /topic Support cases.

/me raises his hand
Will output your nick followed by the message. Example: “borat raises his hand” (Thanks Nick!)

/whois nickname
shows nickname’s information
//whois $me
shows your information
//part $chan (reason)
leaves channel with a reason (Thanks Firas for these!)

That’s what I’ve found out so far. Feel free to give me more tips in the comments, and I’ll add them to the list!

I’m happy to report that the fabled second version of our IntenseDebate plugin is now out there, running wild. We’ve had incredible numbers of installs the past few days, and it’s a lot of fun seeing it being used.

The biggest change with the new plugin is that it automatically syncs comments back and forth between your WordPress DB and the IntenseDebate servers. This means that once the initial import is completed, you should always have the same set of comments showing up in IntenseDebate on your blog posts, as in your WordPress database. So if a reader has JavaScript turned off for some reason, they’ll still be able to comment and participate in a conversation using your native commenting system – and the comments will still show up in IntenseDebate for everyone else! And if you ever chose to leave, no problem, your comments are right there in your database already. No need to export.

I could go on and on (you can tell I’m pretty excited), but here are the biggest highlights of the new WordPress plugin: www.intensedebate.com/wordpress

So true…

This was news to me. I stumbled across this article about Chosr, a web based command like interface that works just like Quicksilver. (Read more about Quicksilver here.) The idea is that as soon as you open a new tab in your browser, the startpage (Chosr) appears and lets you type in what you want to do next. This alleviates the problem of always changing input medium (keyboard/mouse), and you can do more just using the keyboard.

Let’s take an example. You are watching the election closely, and want to see his latest ad that aired on several TV stations yesterday. Normally you would open a new tab, move your cursor to the address field, click, type in “youtube.com”, wait for it to load, move your cursor to the search field, type in “obama ad”, press enter and wait for the search results, click your preferred video, wait for it to load, then watch it. (I’m fully aware that there are several other ways to speed up this process, I’m using search keywords myself, for instance.)

If you were using Chosr though, you would do the following. Open up a new tab, type in “obama ad”, tab to the next box, type youtube, hit enter to load the list of results, then enter again to play the video. A much faster process, just because you don’t have to go back and forth from the keyboard and the mouse.

You don’t even have to sign up to give it a test run. Just go to www.chosr.com and take it for a spin! They also have a bunch of tremendous videos that teach you about the possibilities of the startpage interface.

Best song this week. Once again mysterious Swedish tunes..

Maskinen is a really cool new electronic/rap band from Sweden. Look & listen to “Maskinen – Alla Som Inte Dansar” below…

Go to last.fm and view the video…

Today, IntenseDebate officially got acquired by the fabulous company Automattic, the makers of both WordPress.com and WordPress.org!

Here’s IntenseDebate’s Tom Keller and Toni Schneider talking about the acquisition at the SF TechStars event:

I’m super excited about the deal, and starting to work for Automattic. I feel like this is what we’ve been working for for the past 1.5 years, and now we’re finally there… And it’s an amazing feeling.

I’m off to have some champagne. Yay for us, IntenseDebate Team!

Go read Jon’s Blog Post about the acquisition, and TechCrunch, and the TechStars Blog, and Andrew Hyde’s Blog, and Mashable, and Matt Mullenwegs blog, and Toni Schneider’s blog (CEO Automattic), and IntenseDebate’s own blog post about the acquisition, and… Many more.

I’ve had this problem for a while, that Mac OS X Mail (the native mail client in OS X) sends emails that other email clients don’t recognize as attachments, but as embedded pictures. This has been really frustrating, because if I’m sending an image to a client that needs to be saved on the client’s computer, he or she is unable to do so because the image is not a “real attachment”.

So, here are the facts: Wether an image is embedded in the email or not, it’s still an attachment. Thus, OS X Mail does nothing wrong when it embeds the image, other clients simply doesn’t want to understand that it’s still an attachment. The clients (read: “Outlook”) offer no way to save the image other than to right click it inside the email, but that only generates a .bmp that’s scaled down to the email size in pixel width.

Please note that it doesn’t matter if you click the Attachment button in the main taskbar or simply drag the images to the email body.

The solution:
The reason my images were getting embedded was because I was using some signatures with colors in them. As soon as you set the font, a color or similar, Mail turns the email into a “Rich Text” email, which basically means it’s a HTML email. So when you attach images to such an email, Mail generates an tag for that image, thus embedding it into the email itself. You can avoid this easily by just using Plain Text emails (see screenshot).

You can also try to simply don’t use any formatting in the email, including your signature.

Hope this helps.