Category archives: Tech Zone

Update to 'WordPress for BlackBerry' article

I found that Geolocation and Geotaging worked so well. They worked too well, in fact, that I had to update my original article and removed the geo tag. The geo tag had pin pointed exactly my home address which obviously is not good to show on a blog article ;-)

WordPress for Blackberry

I’m testing a BlackBerry app for WordPress. This app looks to allow users to manage posts and comments. The app supports both wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress like this.

I also have just added geolocation plugin to my site’s wordpress. Together with wordpress for blackberry and blackberry internal GPS, it’s supposed to allow me geo-tagging my postings. Let’s see if geo tag is attached to this post and displayed properly.

WordPress for BlackBerry can be downloaded from: (download)

Mac Mail TruePreview Plugin

How can we ‘stop’ macmail from automatically marking mails as read when we scroll through them? Answer is practically we can’t. A simple problem that’s very annoying.

There’s a work around. The so called ‘preview’ pane is, in mac mail, actually a ‘reading’ pane. Because it is a reading pane, your email is, obviously, marked as read as soon as it shows up in the reading pane. The work around is to close the lower window (so called preview pane) by dragging it’s edge down to the bottom of the page then mac mail won’t mark any selected messages as read. Still … very annoying and not a solution I want.

So come TruePreview (http://christianserving.org/project/truepreview) to the rescue. TruePreview adds a preference panel to Mail’s preferences that allows you to mark messages as read immediately (Mail’s default), never, or after a delay. It also allows you to specify these settings independently per-account, if desired. That’s just what I need … now mac mail is so perfect. Thank you!

Fixed: CPAN failed with "Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen…

For some unknown reasons, CPAN on my macbook suddenly stopped working.  This is the error I got whenever I tried to use CPAN to install a module:

Catching error: “Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/CPAN/Tarzip.pm line 122.\cJ” at /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 390
CPAN::shell() called at /usr/bin/cpan line 198

I found a lot of suggestions from googling for it.  The best solution for my case was to remove all Compress::Zlib (Zlib.pm) from every perl library and re-install a new one.

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WordPress Facebook Plugin

I’ve just installed a new WordPress plugin called WPBook.  This plugin supposedly can bring my  WordPress blog posts into Facebook, and enabling my facebook’s friends to comment and share those posts.

http://www.openparenthesis.org/code/wp

This post should show up on my facebook wall.

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