As I posted on Friday, the Wordpress Postalicious plugin broke on Friday when Delicious launched their redesign.  Thankfully, the plugin author, Pablo Gómez Basanta, quickly cranked out the changes and updated the plugin to v2.6 which fixes the issue.

I’m not a full time blogger or anything so I rely heavily on the Postalicious plugin to keep my blog active.  All I have to do is bookmark interesting sites/pages/articles using the Delicious Firefox plugin and the links are published automatically for me on whatever interval I choose.

Features

• Automatically create posts in your blog with your bookmarks
• Works with delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit and Yahoo Pipes.
• Complete control over how often your bookmarks are posted and how many bookmarks should appear on each post.
• If the post is not ready for prime time, Postalicious creates a draft with the pending bookmarks which you can publish any time.
• Full customization on the look of posts created by Postalicious.
• Integrates with WordPress tags.
• Filter the bookmarks that are posted to your blog depending on how you tagged them.
• Logs all the activity so that you know what Postalicious did and when.

Popular bookmarking site del.icio.us has updated their site to a sleeker version and also changed their name to delicious.com.  Doesn’t sound like a big deal right?  Might be for me.

I use delicious to bookmark sites and articles I think are noteworthy almost everyday.  While bookmarking still works for me looks like the Wordpress plugin (Postalicious) that automatically pulls my bookmarks out and makes a post here on my site (like this one from yesterday) has stopped working.  It’s generating an error now and won’t update.  I haven’t really looked into it too much but if it’s not broken I find it highly coincidental to be throwing errors on the day delicious did a major change.

If I’m lucky, it’ll just start working again… if not, I’ll have to wait for an update to the Postalicious plugin.  Lots of bloggers use this plugin so it shouldn’t be long before an update comes out.

Anyway, in the meantime, here’s a delicious video of the site redesign showing the transformation.

You can also see a list of all then new features on their site.

Is Postalicious broken for anyone else or is it just me?

Yesterday there was a Microsoft Ad showing on my site. I captured it in the video below (chances are it’s running on the page today since I’m writing about it).  It’s about their new ad campaign, The Mojave Experiment (I first mentioned Mojave in an earlier post July 25th), which takes people with negative preconceived notions about Windows Vista and lets them test out Microsoft’s new beta operating system Mojave.

The catch is… they are really testing Vista!  The Mojave site has some pretty funny videos with the users bashing Vista then doing a 180 when they get to test Mojave. Microsoft has posted some really interesting before and after survey numbers from the experiment.

• 94% of respondents rated Mojave higher than they initially rated Vista
• 0% rated Mojave lower than initially rated Vista
• Average pre-demo Vista score: 4.4
• Average post-demo Mojave score: 8.5

It’s about time Microsoft is finally attempting to dispel the Vista sucks rumors. I’ve been using Vista for two years now (since beta 2).  Ever since RC1 it’s been pretty good except for some compatibility issues.  Since the RTM release though it’s been solid.

Is it too little, too late?  Can Microsoft turn around the reputation the Mac commercials gave to Vista? We’ll see.

I finally got my SlideRocket Invite last night.  I saw their demo a couple weeks ago.

My first impression after having a bit to play with it is pretty good.  They’re still calling it a “Preview” which is more like an alpha version.  They actually warn you when first logging in that there still may be issues.  It didn’t take me long to see why they have the warning.  Most of the functionality is working correctly but I did experience several glitches when working with the slide components, text and graphics.

The biggest thing I noticed was my laptop fan kicking on very soon after opening a new presentation in edit mode.  Turns out SlideRocket is pretty CPU intensive using up 60% of my Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz processor and Firefox was consuming double the RAM I’ve seen since upgrading to 3.0.  Firefox was sluggish at times and even froze for over a minute on multiple occasions.

All in all though I’d have to say I’m very impressed so far.  The menus were totally different than traditional presentation software but were pretty intuitive and easy to navigate.  SlideRocket is definitely feature rich especially when compared to PowerPoint and creates much more powerful graphics in a lot less time.

Here’s a little slideshow I threw together showcasing some of the transitions, text effects and things.

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch thinks it can be a reality and he’s setting his sights on making it happen. I agree that it could be a great product if done correctly. However, I think it may be a while before decent components will be cheap enough to stay under the $200 goal.

I’m tired of waiting – I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn’t exist today, and as far as we can tell no one is creating one. So let’s design it, build a few and then open source the specs so anyone can create them.

Check out the rest of what Michael has to say about it.