Demon iPhone Case
To get your iPhone in the Halloween spirit, why not deck it out in an appropriate case? Check out this demon iPhone case in a variety of colors and glows in the dark!
About to Pass 200,000 Visits
Been a long time, but according to my Sitemeter stats, Pulpconnection should be passing the 200,000 visit mark sometime today.
Sorry, no contest or giveaway (not yet anyways) to celebrate this milestone, just sincere thanks for reading and sticking around these past 4 years.
Seen at Price Busters
A stop at Price Busters brings these gems. Yes, the Kailua location reopened across the street from its original location.
Snickers Fudge (that tastes about the same as regular Snickers)
Jumbo remote control. This was seriously large.
Pill box that was just as large as the remote control. Fits in your pocket?! I don’t think so.
Coconut M&Ms are still available.
Still Testing YOURLS Activation
Hmmm, does YOURLS tweet blog posts coming from Ecto. Seems like not, this post is coming from the WordPress admin interface.
Just in Time for Halloween: Tru Blood Drinks
With Halloween right around the corner, you can have a killer party serving up Tru Blood beverages. These replica drinks from the HBO vampire series release the end of the month and are flavored with blood oranges, a Top Chef staple.
Just be ready to pay an arm and a leg for these drinks. It’s $16 for a 4 pack.
Vampire Diaries Is a Knockoff
There’s yet another vampire inspired series coming to television. Starting Thursday, September 10, the Vampire Diaries is coming to the CW.
Checking out the previews, good looking humans and vampires interact, there’s unattainable love, and danger ensues. Where have I heard that before? There’s obviously some Twilight (did you recognize that outside gazebo lighting scene?), some Buffy, and some Angel.
What a complete knockoff! I’m so there!!
YOURLS Is Mine
Finally! My own URL shortener based on YOURLS is working. While the URL shortener market is already full, why not make a custom vanity URL shortener just for fun? That’s the reason for pulp.ly! Just for fun.
Took some (unneeded) effort to launch pulp.ly, but it was a learning experience. Thanks to @mirthlab for the recommendation and thanks to @ryankanno for the tech translation and guidance.
Here’s a rundown of some of the issues I encountered in case you want to set up YOURLS.
Be sure you can read the instructions.
Don’t necessarily use the latest version of the software. I installed version 1.3RC, instead of the stable 1.2. There was no htaccess file included in 1.3 which caused problems. I thought it was this issue, but it simply was not having an htaccess file that looks like this. Update: as Ozh himself points out, there is an included .htaccess file, but Mac OS X users don’t see (and hence copy) this hidden file. Use something like TinkerTool or xMod.
Once the YOURLS installation was working, integrating it with its companion WordPress plugin took some guessing. I guessed wrong and specified a remote YOURLS installation. Changing the installation type to local did the trick.
So if everything is indeed working right, this post should be shortened with a pulp.ly link then tweeted.
Changing to YOURLS Local
Changing YOURLS setting from remote to local. Does this make the difference?
One More YOURLS pulp.ly Test
Sorry, one more test using YOURLs and the domain pulp.ly. Hope this shortens and is tweeted.
Fighting with YOURLS
Trying to stand up my own URL shortener (for fun) using YOURLS. Kind of straight forward enough (once you can read the directions), and here’s another tutorial to help out.
The install was successful, but now I got this known issue to deal with. Thank goodness for geeks on IM and Twitter to help out. 😉
Say It With Me, I Am T-Pain
The latest iPhone app to hit the App Store is I Am T-Pain. With this app, you too can sound like the master of the auto-tune with your iPhone doing live pitch tweaking of your voice.
If that ain’t entertaining enough, you can sing along with favorite T-Pain tunes like Bartender and I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper). And yes, you can record your performances and share them via email or Facebook or Myspace.
I Am T-Pain costs $2.99 at the App Store. Check it out.
Somewhere Jay-Z is shaking his head.