Monthly Archives: September 2008

Recording Video on a Jailbroke iPhone

By Esther | September 30th, 2008
I have an iPhone, but I don’t spend a whole lot of time messing with it. I wanted to be able to record video on it (why you have to jailbreak your iPhone to get this working, I just don’t understand) and get those videos online without much fuss. Jailbreak iPhone using QuickPwn (offical torrents [...]
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Media Buttons fixed in WPMu 2.6.2

By Esther | September 30th, 2008
Reading Donncha’s WPMu 2.6.2 announcement this morning made me very happy. Especially this part: 3. Configurable media buttons on the Write page. #598, #738 Something that I’ve been working on for the Smith WPMu install is making it easy/intuitive to make rich content. This means being able to add images, video, audio, links, tags, categories, [...]
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New uses for WPMu at Smith

By Esther | September 24th, 2008
I just met with some folks from College Relations to talk about how they could use WordPress for faculty bios, which got me totally amped! They want to make faculty responsible for updating their own bios, which was being done with Adobe Contribute, with much resistance from the faculty. We discussed what the best strategy [...]
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Sub-sites in WordPress

By Esther | September 12th, 2008
Last year, I wrote a number of posts to TechNotes (the Smith College technology blog for students) about copyright infringement and the Acceptable Use Policy, but the posts were scattered chronologically, and other than searching by tag, there was no good way to gather all the information/announcements together in one place. With the new semester [...]
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That’s one way to build a dynamic front page for WPMU…

By Esther | September 9th, 2008
A few months ago, I started working on a WordPress MU (multi-user) install to host the few blogs at Smith College ITS. Once I got it setup, it seemed like the next logical step to open the install up to other people on campus. Hosting 10 blogs isn’t any harder than 1000 from an administrative [...]
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