Archive for December, 2008

We’re not going to beat a dead horse, but after weeks of delays, the Crunchies named nominees. We weren’t included. However, with only nine days left to vote, we’re far from alone in pointing out that something fishy is going on.
The Crunchies has erased all discussion on their web site of the concerns about the [...]

Later today, we’ll be requiring registration on the Phone Encyclopedia to edit it. As the Encyclopedia has grown, so have the spammers and botnets. Controlling the spam and junk edits on the Phone Encyclopedia is taking too much of our time.
The Phone Encyclopedia does require separate registration from the Forums. So, you will have to [...]

This week of the year, we usually slow down the news to a crawl, so that we can celebrate the Christmas holiday.
This year however, we’ll still be working behind-the-scenes to improve the site, and other MechaWorks sites with some general improvements. Late last week we deployed WordPress 2.7, and we’ll be rolling out some code [...]

Okay, maybe it isn’t all WordPress 2.7’s fault, but we are delaying the launch of a new site (which, as we’ve already hinted, is an extension of PhoneNews.com).
When will it roll out? We’re aiming for the later half of this week. It’s close. In the mean time, enjoy the upgrading to WordPress 2.7. Sorry, there [...]

We realize a few links on our site are broken. With thousands of articles, it isn’t always possible to go back through time and make each and every one of them work.
But, we’re certainly going to try. We’ve fixed the download link for the final free version of WMWifiRouter. We’re also going to make our [...]