I’ve just updated to WordPress 2.5.1 from my previous version, 2.2.1. Along with the update, i’ve installed WPtouch to expand the features available for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The expanded set of features is a grid view of my photos on Flickr, an archive view by tag or month and a fancier links viewer. If you attempt to click on any of the pages in the menu bar on normal browsers, you will see only the introduction text. However, the archives view is available for people who’re not using a iPhone or iPod Touch to view the site here. (Surprisingly, the compatible Archives page is the first link, while the iPhone and iPod Touch-only page is the last link.)

Along with this update, more will come! My only clue: keep your eyes locked on the search field!

I’m sick of spam comments! I hate using my mobile bandwidth when i’m away to mark the comments as spam, or waste my time when home . So, I headed on to DynamicDrive.com , my best friend for everything Java, JavaScript and AJAX (and yes, I know AJAX uses JavaScript as well, not stupid ), and headed to .htaccess (the file that controls access to that directory. Enables your-domain.com/blog-post-so-called-slug for most blogging applications) thingies. I have regular IP (Internet Protocol address) spammers, about three, so I wrote ‘em down in the box, got the code, saved, and voila! I shouldn’t be getting spam at all. These bots shouldn’t even see my blog! .

If you have the same issues, look in your email for some IPs (and keep the list going), head over to Dynamic Drive’s ban-by-IP-in-.htaccess-file wizard , paste ‘em in the box (seperate by a line break), generate the code, head on to your server’s file manager, edit the .htaccess file on the directory where you encounter spam (my blog for instance), insert the code snippet, save, and voila! They will now be banned.

From now on, when browsing on an iPhone or iPod Touch-optimized Safari browser, you will see the blog in a redesigned, tidy, format. You can try it by using an iPhone or iPod Touch, or by doing the following steps: (good for testing any web app for iPhone/iPod Touch — method works only with Firefox)

1.  Go to about:config
2. Right click > New… > String and name it “general.useragent.override”
3. Paste in the value dialog the following text: “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3″
4. Browse to a page of your liking. If it has a version optimized for iPhone or iPod Touch, it will show it instead.

To undo it:

1. Go to about:config
2. Write in the search field “general.useragent.override”
3. Right-click the result and select (not sure about the text in english, could be: ) “Delete”, “Format”, “Erase”, “Remove”, etc.
4. Continue browsing…

Once you do the first set of steps, recheck the blog homepage :-).