Proper writing — you know, novels and stuff — shares a few common traits with blogging. The most common is ‘writers’ block’ or THE WALL. You simply run out of things to write. It can either creep up on you slowly, or just suddenly emerge before you like a big… brick thing… but either way, [...]
It’s not quite the App Store frenzy by any stretch, however Palm’s webOS App Catalog has hit an important milestone with 1,000 applications now available for the Palm Pre and Pixi devices.
We’re going to be covering some of these 1,000 in the coming days here at Download Squad, however we’d be remiss to not [...]
Some nerd (seriously, it takes a nerd to uncover this kind of thing) has just discovered that WordPress now hosts an android.wordpress.org subdomain. It’s currently a protected blog with nothing to see, but…
I never thought I’d be the type to report website subdomain rumors (what next, trawling trademark repositories?) but this is one of those [...]
If you’re a Tumblr user, you may have noticed the Tumblr staff teasing a new feature on their own Tumblogs over Christmas — Ask a Question. It allows you to easily pose a question to the Tumblr user (or users) behind your favourite Tumblog. The blog owner can then easily post the question and their [...]
It’s not that I don’t understand what Intel is trying to do with AppUp – their angle is pretty clear. There’s plenty of potential profit if Intel negotiates distribution deals with OEMs and can get AppUp preinstalled on millions of netbooks.
But what’s the big selling point for the consumer?
There are, after all, loads of [...]
There are many ways to automatically update your Twitter feed when you create a new post on your blog. There are two that we’ll look at that will work with any content management system that outputs an RSS feed: Twitterfeed, and Feedburner.
When it comes to externally hosted utilities like this, I rate them in two [...]
Since the FTC is now requiring bloggers and advertisers to clearly disclose in a conspicuous fashion when an author has received a payment for writing a post, bloggers have chosen to tackle the issue in various ways. Some sites (like Download Squad) are able to post a blanket policy because they don’t accept any kind [...]
The super-simply blog platform Posterous has just released a new feature on its post.ly domain, which was previously used only as a URL shortener. For those that are not familiar, Posterous is a blogging platform that makes posting dead simple. You just send an email to post@posterous.com, and if you don’t already have a blog [...]
We often get comments from readers who would like to be able to subscribe to specific feeds here on Download Squad — Windows, Google, Firefox — you get the picture.
As it happens, you’ve always been able to do that. Here’s how!
The easiest method is to check out our Feeds Page. You’ll find direct links to [...]
[Update - As noted in the comments, it appears that themes.posterous.com is not an official directory of themes as the title of this post suggests, but rather is a 3rd-party theme directory that cleverly grabbed the "themes" subdomain at posterous.com.]
The super-simple blogging platform Posterous has released a theme directory, offering up eight new themes [...]
