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Keeping blog visitors by showing meaningful search results in WordPress

By Michael Tyson | Published: June 5, 2010


I recently became disgruntled with the way my blogs displayed search results. By default, WordPress blogs will show searched posts exactly as they might appear on an index or archives page: Typically as an extract, or perhaps even as the full entry.
This doesn’t help at all if you’re looking for something in particular – It’s a much better idea to show the post ...

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The Making of Talkie: Multi-interface broadcasting and multicast

By Michael Tyson | Published: May 2, 2010

Part 2
Talkie is my newest product, a Walkie Talkie for iPhone and Mac.
In Part...write about the approach I took in Talkie for broadcasting from all network...multicast.
So, for these reasons, Talkie speaks multicast, instead of plain...8217;s how it’s done with Talkie: Sending
The send routine is...particularly popular feature of Talkie that allows it to behave more like a ...

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The Making of Talkie: Broadcasting

By Michael Tyson | Published: March 11, 2010

Part 1
Talkie is my newest product, the result...who did the user interface.
Talkie is a little different from many of the other walkie talkie applications on the App Store...about what I ended up with for Talkie’s network code after addressing...that brought back the fun walkie talkie experience we remember from our...Soon after I started developing Talkie, I realised I wanted a ...

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Talkie 1.1 for iPhone

By Michael Tyson | Published: January 22, 2010


Talkie 1.1 is now available on the iPhone...new version connects to other Talkies via Bluetooth completely automatically — start Talkie on your iPhone and within seconds...connected to anyone nearby using Talkie on the same channel.
Also new...receiving.
For a limited time only, Talkie is available for $1.99. Grab...8211; And don’t forget, Talkie for Mac is absolutely, 100% ...

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Error -12986 and you

By Michael Tyson | Published: January 10, 2010


A customer recently got in touch with me with an odd problem — Talkie for iPhone was going silent on him. After a little diagnosis, it turned out the audio system was throwing up an undocumented error — -12986 — while starting up on his iPod Touch.
Some googling...

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A Tasty Pixel’s store and Talkie for Mac Premium

By Michael Tyson | Published: January 4, 2010

...credit cards, in four currencies.
Talkie for Mac 1.0 is now available,...registered to access the features of Talkie for Mac Premium: Talk to others using the free version of Talkie for Mac Push-to-talk calls with...over the Internet, coming next in Talkie for Mac 2.0
…On top of...features of the free version of Talkie for Mac, of course: Zero-configuration operation: Start ...

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Talkie for Mac is here

By Michael Tyson | Published: December 22, 2009


Talkie for Mac is here!
Note: Talkie has been retired since mid-2011...only.
The current features of Talkie for Mac: Zero-configuration operation: Start Talkie, and start talking 12 distinct...The application can be used with Talkie for iPhone for free, as well as...with the registered version of Talkie for Mac, codenamed ‘Talkie for Mac Premium’.
To talk...others using ...

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Store options for the Indie Mac Developer

By Michael Tyson | Published: December 19, 2009


With my new product, Talkie hitting the iPhone App Store, it’s time to investigate options for the selling of software for the Mac too, as Talkie will also be available shortly on Mac OS X, in both free and commercial versions.
Happily, and unfortunately...

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