WordPress JavaScript issues meant no drag and drop of elements, options or widgets under 3.3 and no posting either!

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Ever since upgrading to WP3.3. my site has been unusable.  Honestly, I’ve not noticed as I’ve been mainly microblogging on Tumblr, but over the weekend I wanted to update some stuff and NOTHING would work.  I eventually used Google to try and work out what was going on and that was no help either.  Eventually, I looked on WordPress support and, surprise!, there’s a known JSON issue with 3.3.  Queue one HotFix install and we are back in business.

WordPress Themes & Desktop Wallpapers

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I’ve had a clear out of the themes sitting in my WordPress install as most of them have been sitting in my repository for a while now and are really old or no longer supported or work with WP3.3 – like Hemingway H2.0 by gaarf and the classic & Kubrick WP themes.  A couple of them, Glossy Blue and iTheme, were also from n.design studio and whilst checking to see what they’d come up with as some of them were outstanding I found their desktop wallpapers which include some awesome Japanese artwork.  Well worth a look and the one below is available as iPad and iPhone versions too.

Mini Review: Batman: Arkham City

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Batman: Arkham City is frankly amazing and makes Batman: Arkham Asylum look like a tutorial level. The game seems to almost assume that you played the first one as it only highlights the new moves and new gadgets. Everything is bigger and I spent the best part of an hour this afternoon just gliding around, using my grapnel, doing AR (augmented reality) missions and generally enjoying being Bats on a routine patrol. The Catwoman missions are fun and she is well hot to look at on screen. I haven’t found a cartoon character this nice to look at since Jessica Rabbit. I’ve downloaded the bumper pack for the game too to give me an extra bunch of skins for Batman (I really only want 1970s Batman based on the work of Neal Adams) as well as playable characters of Robin and Nightwing. Lush!

Review: CardMunch by LinkedIn for iPhone

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I thought that I would share a review for a free iPhone application that I have found indispensable over the past week or so during the corporate party season where I attend many different vendor events armed with a suit pocket full of business cards and come back with the other pocket equally full of other peoples business cards. Historically, these have all been filed away in a card wallet with the ones I need on a regular basis in a pile somewhere convenient. This is where CardMunch comes in. I downloaded CardMunch when it was the App of the Day/Week and it saved me the effort of manually creating entries for not only all the new contacts I had but also the several hundred business cards I had sitting in the card wallet. It was effortless and I got through a 3 inch high pile of cards in about an hour including processing time (actual interaction on my part was far less as it just required me to take a photo of the card, most of this was waiting time as the card was transcribed, which is not a criticism!).

Opening the CardMunch app presents you with a list of cards already uploaded or the option to take a snapshot of a card. Line up the card, tap to focus and tap to capture it. I’ve even uploaded cards that are printed vertically and it still happily transcribes text set at 90 degrees.

The card is then scheduled to be transposed. You can capture as many as you want and I haven’t found a limit to the number that can be queued. If you haven’t got the app open when the transcribing is completed then you’ll get a message. The app grabs all the relevant contact details from the card and if you are already connected via LinkedIn, enriches their details. If not, then you have the option to Connect to them via a button. You also have two additional buttons to allow you to email them or to download the contact details to your iPhone contacts.

Cards appear in an alphabetical list with any cards still waiting to be transcribed sitting above the list. All new cards are highlighted in the list and the latest version, out this weekend, puts new cards in a separate tab for even easier locating.

I especially love the fact that I am not forced to download the contact to my iPhone, the information stays in the LinkedIn cloud and I can effectively use it as a second address book. Hmmm….. maybe I’ll be deleting some vendor contacts from my iPhone now and keeping there here instead.

Anything I’d like to see added? I’d love the ability to choose which Contacts Group on my iPhone to add the downloaded card to. I have so many people in my address book who are carefully categorised based on work, personal or the couple of voluntary activities I do that I need to be able to sort them without having to do it back on my MacBook (something Apple needs to fix in iOS anywhere as you still rely on the cord here). This is a minor niggle though and the app still performs a niche function flawlessly.

You can download the app here.