Author: Andy Wibbels

In the middle of reading Jonathan Black’s Yes You Can: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz and my favorite nugget so far: Dejected, he threw the manuscript into the garbage and ordered his wife to leave it there. She did – and carried the wastebasket to yet another publisher, who had it […]

I want one of these bad boys. That or a SEKS-SEE Fujitsu Lifebook. Of a VAIO Stats: The Eee PC is running a version of Intel’s 910 mobile chipset, it uses a 900MHz Intel Dothan based Pentium M CPU, it has 512MB of DDR2 memory, full 802.11g wireless capability, and a flash-based hard drive. There […]

A discussion on Metafilter about an article in Wired about the quality assurance and user testing for the upcoming Halo sequel, Halo 3 leads to some great insights from a QA tester from the Marathon: Durandal game team: Shooting shotguns and rocket launchers is fun, and you can’t have any fun if you’re running away […]

Or maybe just so far. Granted it is a German product so it wouldn’t carry nearly the cultural/historical baggage it would if rolled out in the USA: An MP3 player in the i.Beat series called i.Beat blaxx nice. (via Metafilter and Engadget and Fake Steve Jobs)

This plugin helps you add more buttons and options to the rich-text/WYSIWYG editor without having to edit the underlying JavaScript code (which is from the TinyMCE plugin, if you were wondering: This plugin was designed to act as a framework for managing TinyMCE plugins and buttons. This should not be confused with WordPress plugins. TinyMCE […]

Now that Google allows their maps to be embedded as easily as a Google Video there is of course a WordPress plugin to help you do just that. While editing your post, you can quickly pop-open Google Maps from the editor and generate your map through the Maps interface, or quickly grab the link to […]

Like Sandbox, Particles is another WordPress theme that is designed to be built upon with extra features and design elements. Particles is maximized for dial-up users: 4 Seconds or Better – The Particles theme has loading time of 4 seconds or less on a minimum connection speed of 56K. These meta-themes are great for getting […]

A PDF diagram showing how the widgets in WordPress function. (via)

A diagram showing how the various tables of the WordPress blogging platform relate to one another. (via)

MarketingSherpa looks at a promotion Madone bike company did to launch high-cost bicycles. Full case study. Nugget: They paid more attention to placement and made sure to put an image, text and a call to action above the fold. Also: Send traffic to a dedicated microsite: All emails were directed to a microsite that further […]