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New WordPress Shirts now available outside US

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Wordpress ShirtsOn the lighter side of things, WordPress recently announced the launch of their latest apparel — the new red WordPress T-shirts, which are now available for purchase outside of the U.S., and anywhere in the world.

Made of high-quality American Apparel material, these limited edition WordPress T-shirts are screen-printed and are available for both men and women. You can purchase them from WordPress’ official online shop while stocks last. Grab one for yourself now!

I, however, join some people in asking: why just red? I hope the shirts become available in pink, too.

Originally posted on July 26, 2007 @ 1:01 am

WordPress theme viewer cleans up database, launches version 3.0

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Wordpress Theme Viewer 3.0Barely a week since the launch of version 3.0 of WordPress Theme Viewer and already, drastic changes concerning cleaning up its database have garnered both applause for a job well done, as well as questions regarding their criteria for keeping and dispatching themes.

This latest development in the popular wordpress theme database aimed to fix site problems which include slow filter and search system, theme quality concerns, and abusive and ethical problems such as theme rip-offs, staged rating and downloading system, and embedded spammy links, as explained here.

Hundreds of themes with embedded links to spam sites were taken out of the database, as well as sponsored themes that were mostly made for marketing and linkbuilding purposes. In this regard, some theme authors were also suspended, and were requested to correct and clean up their codes if they want to resubmit their themes for re-inclusion.

Signing up and uploading themes is suspended at the moment until further notice.

Originally posted on July 21, 2007 @ 9:16 am

Safari 3 should love Google Apps, does it really?

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Safari 3One of the big things with Safari 3, now available on Windows as well as we’ve reported previously, is that it should work better with Google Apps. Apple and Google are lovers nowadays and the former makes money from the search box delivered by the latter.

Yes, that is the way to make money on free browsers. Did you think they did it for the fun of it?

I’ve been running Safari 3 for over a week now and I’m satisfied. It’s a lot faster than Firefox on Mac, but it does have its issues. Like the WordPress editor, as reported, and Gmail. Yes, Gmail – while the visual editor now works as intended it often hangs when sending, forcing you to stop the transfer and resend. Then it usually works. Most other Google Apps seems to work though, but there may be more issues.

Does Safari 3 work for you? Also, does anyone besides Mac folk actually run it?

Originally posted on June 21, 2007 @ 7:40 am