There is a known bug in the latest version of WP-prettyPhoto that basically prevents it to work as intended. While you wait for an official fix, which will come soon, here is what you can do to make it work:

1. First, identify the problem. Look at the source code of your page, within the prettyPhoto javascript stub, there is a value called “autoplay”. If that is not set to true or false, you have the bug.
2. In your admin options, deactivate the plugin then reactivate it.
3. Go in the WP-prettyPhoto options and change the value of “autoplay”, you can change it back later.
4. Look at your source again, “autoplay” should be set and your pictures/videos should pop up nicely.

Thanks to Brad Keeling who reported the bug to me (as opposed to bitching on twelve different forums) and confirmed the fix.

If you’ve ever jailbroken your iPhone in the last months, you know how much of a necessity the freedom of an independent third-party alternative can be. The guys involved in cracking Apple’s continous efforts to fortify the box their customers agree to be locked in have been doing excessively great. Whenever Apple released a new firmware version in beta, they were on the case trying to get around the various protections to allow users the freedom to choose. They would do so impressively fast, too. Now, with iPhoneOS 3.1, Apple decided to up the ante.

Should you decide to update your pre-3.1 device to 3.1, Apple will make it so that not only does it wipe your jailbreak data, but make it nearly impossible for the user to manipulate the device in the future. As it is a highly technical subject, I’ll simply direct you to Jay “saurik” Freeman’s article which covers everything you need to know about this particular topic.

That being said, there’s a hard reality out there. 3.1 is out, and iPhone owners want their devices — may they be jailbroken or vanilla — to run the latest firmware. It’s absolutely normal, and even encouraged. Nowadays, you need to stay on top of software updates for security purposes, if anything. To that reality, you can add the current problem those people have: you can’t jailbreak 3.1. Today, I’m going to enumerate the possibilities that lay before you as a jailbroken iPhone owner who wants to update to 3.1. more…

I’ve thought a bit about the concept of Twitter’s Follow Friday, as well as some insightful arguments by friends and decided I would follow their alternative method to suggest Twitter users. Here’s my first list in this series.

1. @mashable (Pete Cashmore): I love Mashable news and the way they deliver them. This account is obviously used to aggregate content posted on mashable.com but Pete often manually updates his timeline. If you’re a web geek or have any interest in social media and the Internet as a whole, be sure to follow him.
2. @rww (Richard MacManus): To follow in the same line of content as mashable, ReadWriteWeb is also a very good source of technology and social media news. Most of Richard’s updates are done via TwitterFeed, but like Cashmore, he often post updates himself.
3. @michaelgeist: Michael Geist is without any question the Canadian copyright laws vigilante. If you have any interest in topics such as freedom of speech, copyright and digital politics, you won’t want to neglect his input.
4. @oggy (Agustín Vazquez-Levi): Agustín is, aside from an excessively entertaining tweeter, an authority in SEO/SMO, Analytics, and digital marketing. If you’re striving to stay on top of these topics in terms of evolution, following Agustín is a great idea.
5. @xutopia (Gary Haran): Frontend ninja, Rails genius and aggressively opinionated  atheist. Entertaining all the way.
6. @afrognthevalley (Sylvain Carle): Sylvain is Montreal’s local web celebrity. CTO of Praized Media, president of Alliance Numérique and Alliance Internet, board member of Île Sans Fil, co-organiser of WordCampMTL and iPhoneDevCamp… and so on. To stay on top of Montreal’s tech events, he’s the one you’ll want to keep track of. He also tweets in French under @sylvaincarle.
7. @evablue (Eva Blue): Eva’s kind of the official photographer for every cool Montreal  events. She’s also quite insightful and fun to talk to/hang with.
8. @TamyEmmaPepin (Tamy Emma Pepin): Hired by Tourisme Montreal to improve Montreal’s digital tourism campaigns, Tamy does quite a good job at sharing interesting Montreal-related information, events and media.

Today is another great day in the history of the Internet. Unless you’ve been living under a rock in a deep, dark corner of the web, you know who Rick Astley is, what he does and how it can be used to generate endless laughter possibilities. Keep that part in mind when I go over the next piece of information.
Someone named DJ Morgoth did an amazing mashup of Rick’s (in)famous hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” to the music of Nirvana’s Smell Like Teen Spirit. Let me say that again. Someone used Nirvana’s instrumental from “Smell Like Teen Spirit” and added the voice of Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up”. If this doesn’t sound awesome by now, please, by all means, do yourself a favor and check the video. Both pieces fit together in a very, very creepy way:
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For those of you who don’t know (which may very well be all of you right now), I will be presenting a talk at WordCamp Montreal July 12th. The title of the presentation, if you haven’t guessed, is “Hacking WordPress: Introduction to custom plugins and advanced templating“. I’ll explain how you can use your own plugins and functions to make your WordPress site sing. In other words, it will basically be a relatively improvised primer on the following things:

• Introduction to creating WordPress plugins
• Managing your sidebars and widgets
• Using WordPress’ Codex and API documentation
• Hacking up your templates to use all the power provided by WordPress

If you’re not registered yet, you have until July 9th to do so on EventBrite. For more information regarding WordPress Montreal 2009, check out the official site, mailing list, blog, Facebook group and Twitter account or see what’s going on by looking up the #wcmtl tag.

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