Recently I’ve been working on a few projects that have been moving along quite slowly. The old PulseBlogger.com has changed dramatically to a blog about blogging. I will be posting my WordPress and blogging articles there from now on and keep this site for more personal posts (which will most likely appear less often). Hopefully PulseBlogger will pick up some momentum soon and kick start me back into the blogging rhythm.

Another thing I’ve been working on is a supercharged WordPress theme. I don’t think I am at the point where I can design one totally from scratch, however I can fool around with the work of others quite succesfully. On Patrick DeVivo dot com, I am currently using the Jello-Wala-Mello theme by Small Potato. I think it’s a wonderful theme, but lacks some of the features of great freemium and premium WordPress themes today. That’s why I’ve been working on trying to “supercharge” it. There will be more about this in the near future, and it will be availible for download soon. However please note that I am learning as a go, so it may take a little while to get it up to the standards I believe it should be at.

The Youth Bloggers Network is putting along slowly, I would like to devote more time towards it, but unfortunetely I have a lot of other stuff to juggle. Not much new from that front, but hopefully more soon.

This is a very cool little feature I was turned on to by a friend the other day. Apparently, on September 19th, Facebook added another language to their site to commemorate International Talk Like a Pirate Day. By setting your language to English (Pirate) at the bottom of your Facebook page, you can modify all the text to be “pirate speak” when using Facebook (except for user posted content). Here is a sample screenshot:

To set your Facebook page to pirate speech, simply scroll to the bottom of your homepage and find the language settings box. Change your language to English (Pirate).

Apparently this trick does not work anymore. The StumbleUpon error page just shows “Unknown Error”. Oh well…Thanks to Brian for pointing this out. 

A while back, on the old Patrick DeVivo dot com, I posted a neat little trick which seemed to get a lot of publicity. This is just a quick repost of how it works.

Have you ever hit your stumble button but then got stuck with an ugly error page? Most likely, you were redirected to this page: http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php and then displayed some sort of error message. StumbleUpon uses the PHP GET method to display the error, so you can easily modify the message by editing the url in your address bar.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php?error=YOUR%20MESSAGE%20HERE

Will appear as:

Basically, to create your own StumbleUpon error message, simply add some text right after http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php?error=. You don’t need to put in the %20 for spaces, your browser should insert them automatically.

Be creative. Do something fun. Use TinyURL to send jokes to your friends. Leave a comment with a message you created.

Clicky, the wonderful web analytics service has just launched Clicky mobile for the iPhone and other smart phones. Read the blog post located here for more information.

We just released a more generic version of the mobile interface for other mobile phones. It is available at the same address, m.getclicky.com. The iPhone site has been moved to i.getclicky.com. For all of you who have already bookmarked m.getclicky.com on your iPhone, we automatically detect if you have a WebKit browser and redirect you to the iPhone page. We’re doing WebKit detection instead of iPhone/iPod detection, since any WebKit browser (such as Android’s upcoming release) should have the same features as Safari on the iPhone.

Thanks to MoFuse.com, Patrick DeVivo dot com is now easy to navigate and use on your iPhone or smart phone. Simply navigate to this url (or have it texted to you via the widget in the sidebar) and MoFuse will do the rest. I’ve got to say, so far I am absolutely in love with MoFuse. The interface is sleek and wonderfully easy to use. The functionality of the site is unbelievable. Within a few clicks, you can easily create a full mobile version of your website or blog, even hosted on your own domain. If you are unsure how to get started with MoFuse, try reading this tutorial on nettuts.com.

The awaited ThemeForest.net has just recently been opened for public use. ThemeForest is another great addition to the Envato Network, and now stands besides the FlashDen and AudioJungle marketplaces. In the ThemeForest, you can find quality themes and templates for WordPress, Joomla, other various CMS’s, or just CSS designs on their own. FlashDen, AudioJungle, and now ThemeForest are all deeply linked together, allowing user accounts on one site to be integrated into the others as well. If you are a CMS user, or designer looking to make some extra cash, be sure to check out the new ThemeForest marketplace.