iPad Peek: Thanks to iPad Peek, you are now able to visualize how your blog or website would render on the iPad. A few tips as offered by Mashable include clicking on the top border to switch from landscape to portrait mode, disabling Flash on your browser to simulate the lack of Flash support on the iPad and changing your browser user agent string to that of the Apple iPad.

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There comes a time you may have to leave one web host for another. No matter the reason the idea of relocating an entire website – especially one that has been online for sometime – can seem very daunting. With a WordPress based site – I found it easier than expected – way easier. My WindowsObserver.com website has 1,100 posts, 9 pages, 4 categories, 2,436 comments, uses 17 widgets, and has 35 active plug-ins. On top of all those elements I use Windows Live Writer to create all of my content and I use a good bit of screenshots and graphics in my posts. As a result I have over 40MB of images (1,100 files) to go along with my 1,100 postings. Now for the purposes of this story I am not going to get into a comparison of hosting services or the like. The landscape is massive out there […]

New Plugins Unicornify Changes all gravatars into algorithimically generated pictures of unicorns. LAMP Version Checker “LAMP Version Checker” is a plugin to check the versions of server applications: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and Web Server. Utech Spinning Earth Put a slowly spinning earth on your site with shortcode. Incredible small file size, realist and rich graphics. Validation Helper Converts XHTML output to HTML and checks all pages and posts for code validity. Updated Plugins Rico Ajax Menu This plugin will create a menu with tabs, accordions or pulldowns using Rico Ajax Upside Down WordPress This plugin allows you to “flip” your entire WordPress blog. It will not affect your database in any way. It’s made just for the lulz, I guess it can be a really great April Fool’s Day joke. Grooveshark for WordPress The Grooveshark plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert a link to music on […]

WordPress for iPhone OS 2.4.: WordPress for the iPad is now available, according to the WordPress for iPhone blog. The Automattic team has worked with Small Society to work on this new version. Find more details about the application at iphone.wordpress.org and also at the Next web writeup, which has some nice screenshots as well. Writing and editing posts along with streaming through comments and moderating them should be easier on this iPad version. I would love to hear some real world opinions on this product because it might make or break my desire to get myself another toy.

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New Plugins Pretty Theme Files Organizes the theme files in theme editor to be consistent and accessible Rico Ajax Menu This plugin will create a menu with tabs, accordions or pulldowns using Rico Ajax WP-Cartoon It adds a button to the TinyMCE Editor in your wordpress installation so that you can integrate the cartoon with one click on any page or post you like. The config page lets you choose the size of the cartoon image and the border thickness. The plugin comes with a widget to make it easy to integrate the cartoon on your sidebar. Website Monitoring This plugin integrates the user panel of website-monitoring.com with WordPress administration panel. After installation and giving the proper login and password, the uptime history (tables and charts) as well as service configurations are available in WordPress without the need to login separately. website-monitoring.com offers paid services. Updated Plugins Top 10 WordPress […]