Posted on March 1st, 2009 in Web Design | 10,846 views

What is Browsershots?
Browsershots is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. It can take screenshots of your websites/blogs in different browsers to help you check if your websites/blogs show up correctly on them.
Test your website/blog in different browsers
How does Browsershots do?
It's quite simple. When you submit your site address, it will be added to a job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your site in their browsers then they will take screenshots and upload them to the central server where you can view them.

Currently Browsershots can make the test with many browsers on four Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD). Besides that you can choose options about screenshot size, color depth, javascript, java and flash for many kind of testing.

This is a great tool for web designers who otherwise have to pay for paid services to check their designs on different browsers. So check it now at browsershots.org.

Posted on December 15th, 2008 in WP Plugins | 68,565 views

This is a plugin for WordPress 2.6+ that can help you know where your commenters come from, which type of web browser and OS they used when they left a comment on your blog. It provides two functions that take IP and User Agent as parameters and then return HTML string contains country flag, web browser and OS icons. You can put these icons anywhere you like in each comment.
In fact, this plugin is a combination of two plugins: WordPress Browser Detection Plugin and Easy IP2Country that I have intergrated as a built-in plugin for my premium theme before, see this page for example, but now I decide to separate it as a new plugin with some enhancements and share it for everyone. :)

Features:

  • Detects and shows commenter's country flag, web browser and operating system
  • Supports many web browsers and operating systems: major desktop browsers, antiquated browsers, blogging software (for trackbacks and pingbacks), text based browsers, various PDAs and cell phones.
  • Uses a binay file for IP to country resolution and supports database sources from Webhosting.info - Software77.net
  • The returned string can be configed as a template to suite your theme

Screenshot:

comment info detector

Download:

download

Installation:

  1. Download the plugin and extract its content
  2. Upload the complete folder "comment-info-detector" to the "/wp-content/plugins/" directory
  3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WP-Admin
  4. Go to 'WP-Admin -> Settings -> Comment Info Detector' to configure the plugin

Update:

To update new version for this plugin, please deactivate it => delete the old plugin-folder from your server => upload the new plugin-folder => activate the new plugin.

Usage:

  1. Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/comment.php
  2. Find the comment loop:
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    foreach ($comments as $comment)
  3. Add anywhere you like below the comment loop:
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    <?php if (function_exists("CID_init")) { CID_print_comment_flag(); echo ' '; CID_print_comment_browser(); } ?>
  4. Optional: you can change the CSS style for flag - web browser - OS icons, open and edit:/wp-content/plugins/comment-info-detector/comment-info-detector.css

Credits

Comment Info Detector is written by me, HieuDT. Big thanks to Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo for web browser, OS detection code and Omry Yadan for IP2Country library.

Changelog:

  • 1.0.0 [12-15-2008]: First released.
  • 1.0.1 [12-16-2008]: Added two quick-tags for web browser and operating system to return result correctly.
  • 1.0.2 [01-12-2009]: Updated database for ip2country library and increase ability to detect some new web browsers - operating systems.
  • 1.0.3 [01-18-2009]: Added two options that automatically display icons, no need to modify comments.php file.
  • 1.0.4 [03-02-2009]: Updated database for ip2country and added icons for IE8, Vista.
  • 1.0.5 [09-07-2009]: Updated database for ip2country and added icons for Windows 7.

Now I still continue to develop this plugin and I'm very glad to receive feedback from you. If you feel this plugin is missing or not working well, you are welcome, please let me know! :D

Posted on November 25th, 2008 in UIQ 3.0 Software | 10,064 views

Ozone is a free, world-class mobile browser that offers great performance and an outstanding mobile browsing experience for UIQ based phones.

Ozone's features make it one of the best in its class. From the open-source WebKit engine, it not only delivers advanced features such as client-side database support, zooming, tapping and multiple windows, but Ozone also provides the best web-standards compliant experience that's available.

Features:

  • Touch screen control
  • Zooming and panning by finger
  • Multiple windows
  • Pop-up blocking
  • Auto-comple URL editing
  • Desktop/mobile mode switch
  • Netscape scriptable plugin
  • HTML5 client-side database support

Click here to download this software or go to the homepage

Note: I just tried it out and I must say that I really like it! Maybe even faster than
Opera
Mobile. What about you ?

Posted on in UIQ 3.0 Software | 7,917 views

After waiting for months and months - since the start of this year in fact - it's finally released!

Below are some features of this version: (Touchscreen-based devices only — Last updated: 20.10.2008)
  • Faster: Speed tests show Opera Mobile 9.5 beta loads Web pages 2.5 times faster than Internet Explorer Mobile.
  • Pan and zoom: Opera Mobile 9.5 defaults to full Web page viewing and allows users to pan and zoom into their desired content in just a few clicks.
  • Improved user interface: Opera Mobile 9.5 defaults to full Web page viewing and allows users to pan and zoom into their desired content in just a few clicks.
  • A true Web experience: Multitask with tabbed browsing, view content in wide screen, and enjoy small-screen rendering.
  • Type less and browse more: Save time with address auto-complete, Password Manager and pop-up handler

Click here to go to the Opera Mobile Download page and enjoy :)