OpenID on Grogmaster

I’ve turned on OpenID authentication for comments on this blog. You can add it to your own Blogger blog by turning it on on Blogger in draft.

davidahopkins.com. It’s dot com.

A shout out to teh crawlers that my brother, David Hopkins, has a website!

Blogger Play is live!

I spent a fair bit of the last few weeks working on the UI for Blogger’s latest gizmo-distraction: Blogger Play!
Play is a rocked-up version of the old Blogger photoscroller, which has been kicking around in various public and not-quite-as-public places ever since there were Blogger photos. I wrote a bit more about that over at the Blogger Buzz.

This is an interesting example of doing something in HTML and JavaScript that could probably be much better done in Flash, but hey: it works on the iPhone. I actually felt a bit Apple-y getting the polish done on the UI. The fade timing and speed slider settings took hours to get right. I hope you like them.

Joseph did the visual design, so give him all the credit for that. I worked from his mocks. And of course Pong, who wrote the original scroller and several since, and did all the backend coding and plugging together for this version. Katie made this launchable by cleaning out very nearly almost all of the images that aren’t good to show to people.

Enjoy! Remember to stop watching and do productive things.

Blogger Dashboard Widget 1.0.1 now available

From the “about fracking time” department…

If you’ve still have the Blogger Mac OS X Dashboard widget running, you may have noticed it pop up a little message this evening.

Version 1.0.1 of the widget is finally available, featuring the following improvements:

• Copyright date updated to 2007
• “Publish Post” and “Save as Draft” buttons flipped to match the Blogger web interface
• Logging in and posting works
  

Apologies to everyone who was left waiting for me to update the widget to work with the new Blogger’s Google Accounts and Atom 1.0. Now that the dropped ball has been picked up, happy Dashboard-blogging!

Grogmobile Now on Grogmaster

My mobile blog is now off of Blog*Spot and available at http://mobile.grogmaster.com/, thanks to new Blogger’s latest feature, custom domains (and the resolution of a certain known issue).

Not much there, but some of it is good for a laugh.

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