It was developed by Getalime as an entry to the Rails Rumble 2008 contest, which is an annual competition for web applications programmed in Ruby on Rails.

You simply tell it what you want to be reminded of, when, and how. Reminders can be sent as e-mail, mobile text message, or to your jabber or twitter account.

Remindr has earned a place in my list of favorite web applications, and you can try it out and see for yourself by visiting here. No registration required, and it’s free.

I’m already back in blogging mood

Opera Mini allows you to access your favorite websites by sending a smaller size version of every page to your phone, allowing fast browsing with little to no compromise regarding the display. This makes it easy to browse the web even if you don’t have a fast G3 mobile phone or connection, and have to use GPRS.

Opera Mini 4 beta has recently been launched, and it is truly amazing. It is exactly how a mobile phone web browser should be – and it’s still in beta development.

The previous version of Opera Mini made website content fit to your mobile phone’s screen. Usually breaking the design intended to be viewed on computer screens by displaying text and images in a linear manner.

Now, “fit to screen” remains an option for users of the new beta version, however websites load by default almost exactly as they appear on your home computer’s screen. Of course, that makes everything extremely small – but users can place a rectangular selection tool over any part of the website they need a closer look at and Opera Mini instantly zooms in on it. Check out all the new features at their website here.

Support for CSS makes it easier for web designers to produce content that will render and display near perfectly, while users can manage RSS subscriptions, and bookmarks of their favorite places on the web.

Do you mobile browse? If you never tried to before, perhaps now is the time!

Click here for more information and how to get your free copy.

More information can also be found on the Wikipedia article for Opera Mini.

More information about this new version can be found here, you can download it here, and instructions on upgrading are here.

One plugin that has been around for quite a while and has recently been upgraded to a new – improved version, is Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition.

An easy to install, plugin that allows a WordPress powered blog to be read on hand held devices, such as PDAs and mobile phones.

Since people often use their hand held devices to search the web for information, offering one’s content in a form these devices can access is going to increase both readership and accessibility to it.

The new version of WordPress Mobile Edition allows bloggers to have mobile access to their admin interface, and readers can now access content on WordPress “Pages” as well as on regular posts.

Simply put – one of the best plugins for WordPress out there.

This release WordPress 2.0.5 is code-named Ronan, after WordPress developer’s Ryan Boren’s baby son. Congratulations and best wishes!

It is recommended everyone upgrades their WordPress installation, as the latest release also includes security fixes. Happy blogging!

People who’ve used WordPress for blogging, love among other things – the ability to enhance the software with plugins and themes, and ultimately customize and make everything suit their specific requirements, wants, or personal style.

bbPress follows closely in that tradition. It is easy (and getting easier fast) to install and operate, designed with both extensibility and security in mind. If you want to build an online discussion forum, community, or simply integrate a forum to your current website or WordPress blog – this is an ideal solution. And light-weight as it may be in that it doesn’t really require a ton of useless stuff to work, it is a very powerful solution with a very active development effort. Which means there will soon be enough themes and plugins for it to satisfy everyone. And you know how hard is for “everyone” to be satisfied in this world.

So, if you’re thinking of opening up your own forum and have some knowledge of what that entails, head over to the bbPress website here and take it out for a spin. If you like it half as much as I did – you’ll be impressed. Don’t forget it’s free and open-source software, and there are very few things at that price which are worth way more than that price exactly.

WordPress Podcast

This is a NEW podcast, so perhaps it could use the publicity. Although it already has a dedicated listener base which it deserves, since it’s very well produced and very enlightening! Discussing news and more about the world of blogging on the WordPress platform, what’s happening in the WordPress blogosphere, new plugins and services to make your blog even more nice and comfy. It is not affiliated with WordPress.com/.org etc, but it’s all about it.

Latest show is about 20 something minutes, very easy listening, nice intro tune, great source of information. Honestly if you are running a WordPress blog, or are considering to do so – you have to listen to this podcast.

Website: http://wp-community.org/
Podcast Feed: http://wp-community.org/feed/

Guardian Unlimited: Newsdesk

Wow (2), I like this so far better than listening to the news on the radio. I can listen to it at any given time I want to be informed of stuff, pause and resume. Excellent work, on this daily news Podcast by the Guardian Unlimited Podcasts. A roundup of world news and other interesting stuff reporters and news people find out about and want to share with you.

If you are only to pick one news Podcast, pick this.

Website: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/podcasts/
Podcast Feed: Guardian Unlimited – Newsdesk feed

FeedBurner Podcast

“Another blogging related Podcast?” You wonder in anger. Oops, sorry, I just had to, this is too good to not tell people! And yes “Podcast” is capitalized even in angry thoughts.

FeedBurner, the blogosphere’s favorite distributer / manager of news feeds, is producing a Podcast! It’s official, it’s new, and it’s good!

It’s mostly about Feeds and Podcasting, mostly I say, but that does not mean it is of no interest to “normal” people as well. Check it out – you’ll be able to “manage your feeds” much better after this!

Website: http://blogs.feedburner.com/podcast/
Podcast Feed: http://blogs.feedburner.com/podcast/index.xml

Well, that’s it for now! Don’t forget to send in your favorite podcasts, my nose only goes that far. Discovering new things is something I’d like your help with as well! Remember to use my favorite tool to subscribe / manage your Podcasts / subscriptions, the free – Juice Podcast Receiver. And if nothing in this post makes any sense to you, check out Wikipedia’s article on Podcast. Ciao

At this point I should extend my love and appreciation to everyone working on WordPress. An active community of developers, testers, documentation volunteers, who make it possible for the best part of the blogosphere to exist.

Upgrading was quite easy and moving from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 didn’t even require any database changes as there are none between those two versions. Remember the golden rule of upgrading though – first backup everything, and then read the instructions here.

No specifics have been announced yet, but I will keep watching. This time it appears everything will be well organized, well in advance of officially opening the competition. Lots of sponsored prizes are to be expected as well. What is perhaps most different about this competition in particular is that only original / new themes will be accepted. Skins and mods of WordPress themes out there already should not apply. I expect this to generate a pool of new, hopefully brilliant themes for the WordPress blogging community.

Truth is WordPress has changed to feature many innovative and new tools which aren’t being properly used or implemented by many of the older themes. A competition could bring more widgetized or ajaxed themes to light. Something I’d like to see happening soon.

Any theme designers out there, sharpen your keyboards!