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Understanding Netflix’s New Price Plans
So today Netflix announced that they are starting new price plans. This is great news if you’re only interested in either streaming or DVD rental (but not both), but not good news if you like both… Here’s why…
I’m finally on Twitter
Yeah, it’s true… I finally joined twitter. Well actually, I joined for a personal account a few weeks ago (as my Facebook friends know), but in an attempt to motivate me to update this blog more often I have decided to connect it to Twitter. So here it goes…
If you want to help me test it out, tweet me (yeah, it still feels funny to say that) @alexsantidote and I’ll tweet something back. If you follow me and you’re cool, I’ll probably follow you back (don’t be offended if I don’t follow back right away though, I am still new to this).
Integrating WordPress with Facebook
Facebook and WordPress (image from: www.serifgroup.com)
I find that I am on Facebook a fair amount during the day and since I have friends and family who may be interested in reading my blog and perhaps sharing an article or two here and there, I thought it might be worthwhile to integrate my site with Facebook.
I looked into the Facebook Docs to see what kind of options they had. It looked simple enough, but I thought it might be even more simple, so I checked for existing plugins for WordPress that might simplify things even further!
There are a lot of plugins to sort through, but the one that seemed to stand out the most was: Simple Facebook Connect
Alex’s Antidote now iPhone Friendly
Alex's Antidote iPhone icon
That’s right folks, my website is now iPhone friendly. (Note: from what I understand it should also work in certain other fancy phones too)
Here’s how it goes:
Step 1 – Open Safari -> Navigate to: alexsantidote.com
find Alex's Antidote in iPhone's Safari Browser
Step 2 – Check out my fancy mobile theme
New Mobile Theme
Page Menu
Step 3 – Bookmark for future reference
Bookmark Options
If you’re really awesome you’ll bookmark it to your Home Screen
Bookmark to iPhone's Home Screen
And you’ll see a nice shiny icon that will take you straight to this website when you touch it!
Shiny Bookmark Icon!
How’d I do it?
- Install the WordPress plugin called: WPtouch Mobile
Upgrading to WordPress 2.9 Memory Error Fix
WordPress Logo by koka_sexton via Flickr
So I noticed yesterday that a newer version of WordPress was available. I clicked on the upgrade link and proceeded as usual until I was presented with the following error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2515174 bytes) in /var/www/usr/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/http.php on line 1327
This appeared very odd to me at first… 33,554,432 bytes allowed, but when it attempted to allocate only 2,515,174 bytes it caused a fatal error? Well as strange as that looks, there’s an easy fix…
(note, I assume you already backed up your DB and existing wordpress installation — proceed at your own risk)
To Fix*: (assuming you want to use the auto-upgrade feature still