Archive for July, 2007

We’re hours (okay, maybe 24 to 48 more hours) away from going official with the new Knowledge Base. That said, here are the currently-known issues. Feel free after we make the announcement on the news feed to post more in the comments.
Knowledge Base 2.0 Beta 1 - Known Issues
• Carrier Wiki is not finished, pages [...]

I’m wrapping up the iPhone review (yes, the full month long one)… and I wanted to point out a cool trick that Apple forgot about.
Apple said that videos always play in widescreen mode… essentially, you can’t hold the iPhone upright and have the video rotate. Or, can you?
Turns out this is a built-in hinderance of [...]

I had a perfect blog entry ready to go… super-hype and all. Basically, it was an announcement that the Phones Section 2.0 Beta 1 was coming in the next couple of days. Yes, we’ve been hyping it long enough… expect lots of placeholders, but everything on the Knowledge Base will be there when we throw [...]

Triaging isn’t fun… especially when it’s your works systems that are sick. Three OS installs, two system upgrades and about a half dozen hard drive swaps later… things are finally starting to stabilize in the PhoneNews.com offices. So, what’s up this week?
Well, for starters, both the Knowledge Base and the Forums are going to get [...]

It’s summer time, and that means it’s time to upgrade all the PhoneNews.com workhorses that handle all the writing-o-content. We’re finally purging the place of Intel NetBurst systems… we’ll be going from three down to one (and that’s a Windows Home Server… so it’s already overkill for that task).
What’s replacing our systems? We’re going with [...]

PhoneNews.com hasn’t been the easiest thing to run, and one of the ways we’ve gotten the job done is with coffee. Lots of coffee. And, I haven’t been afraid to promote the wonders of the Senseo Coffee System many times on this blog.

Well, now is the best time to jump on the Senseo train. Philips [...]

What do T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon have that Sprint doesn’t? No, it’s not the ability to use unlocked devices (well, that’s true). One of the reasons Sprint has had trouble growing is the lack of affiliate marketing to webmasters.
If you’re an aspiring blogger, one of the ways that you can make money, is with affiliate [...]

Some of you may be wondering what is up with the servers. We know we a few folks heads spinning after changing servers, and then having to fall back to our old servers. We’re sorry.
Later this month though, we’re going to try again. We’re setting up newer servers that do all the magical PHP inside [...]

We’ve made it easier for folks that wonder on into PhoneNews.com, to access both the blog and the news. If you’ve happened to google to one of our blog articles, you’ll now see the latest news items on the right. And, on the right of our news items, we’re now listing our latest blog items.
So, [...]

First, tonight we’ve updated to MediaWiki 1.10, the latest version. So yes, we’re now up-to-date as usual.
As to the Phones Section… our data entry team unfortunately is behind. Granted, we’ve moved forward with the look-and-feel, and thanks to our seamless transition, you aren’t missing any content. So, where do we stand? To be honest, we’re [...]