The Bitmenu site has undergone that post-launch scramble to implement changes resulting from user feedback. We decided there were too many ‘attention-getters’ on the index, so that’s been simplified. There’s also a cool new navigation bar that shows up only for child pages.
There’s still a lot in the works. Oh, and I’m pretty busy with school right now, so this post also serves as my “well, sorry for no update in awhile” update.
Here’s a great article that talks a little about how a few particular publishers use Bitmenu to sell their digital content online. The article includes a screenshot of the Facebook app – neat!
http://emediavitals.com/content/single-sales-digital-content-String-Letter-Bitmenu
I love it when I find a new program that’s better in almost every way than another type of program that you’ve used for years, and that you used to swear by. That just happened to me with WinSCP versus FileZilla. See, FileZilla is great, minus two huge annoyances.
Number uno — WinSCP uploads files immediately upon them changing. In FileZilla, I became accustomed to a cycle of edit, alt+tab to FileZilla, ram the enter key as if I’m playing the bell and hammer, and finally ctrl+R to see the changes in my nearest browser. Sure, maybe FileZilla can be configured to do that too, but guess what, I didn’t find it in the preferences, and I don’t need to hunt for it when WinSCP just does it.
Number dos — I can create a new file on the server and it immediately opens for editing. This seems like a basic feature to me, and you’d think it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But I hated having to hunt for some small file to upload, rename, and change instead of simply right clicking and choosing New > File. Oh, and there’s a Trac ticket open regarding this issue, that has been seemingly just floating there since 2008.
After reading Ed Bott’s article about trying Windows 7 Starter on a netbook and other various sources about the OS, I was shocked to learn that there was a window of time, something like October 2009 to May 2010, when Microsoft convinced itself that a great way to degrade cheaper versions of Windows 7, to encourage people to buy at least Home, was to limit the number of programs (not windows) that Win 7 Starter could run simultaneously.
Kay. All I can say is, I am so glad that Microsoft developers have at least a scrap of common sense since they did change their mind. But to think that severely restricting a version of their best operating system to date, that will be on millions of netbooks, is in-sane.
As I’m flicking through Maximum PC articles, partially looking for something to criticize, I stumble across a really good article about the effect consoles have on PC gaming. Nathan Grayson touches on various weaknesses of the console-influenced PC gaming market, such as the decline of dedicated servers and the rough edges of console-designed games ported to the PC. One of this points is Games for Windows Live. That phrase going through my head makes me cringe — what a Microsoft product! More
Just played around with making Zip files with PHP. Generated a plaintext XML file on the fly, added it to a Zip archive, and added a separate pre-existing file to a folder within the archive. Awesome!
