Blog News: We’re Turning Off Comments. Here’s Why.

• June 13, 2013

As you may (or may not) have noticed, we’ve been doing a little spring cleaning in terms of the site’s overall design in the past several hours. For example, you’ll now find a summary of the 5 latest articles from tag categories such as; Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung at the bottom of each post, alongside being able to see direct links to our top 5 featured articles. But there’s one other change we want to tell you about …

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News (Without The Rumors). Introducing Our New Rumor-Free RSS Feed.

• March 11, 2013

Rumors and speculation are great, if that happens to be your thing. However, over the past 5-years of running this site, I’ve learned that not everyone reading RazorianFly on a daily basis wants to be constantly bombarded with unverified reports consisting of what is considered – (for the majority) – sheer speculation.

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Tidbit: Now Providing Live Chart Information For iTunes® Espana, iTunes® France and iTunes® Germany

• March 10, 2013

When we began offering live-updating iTunes chart information for Apple’s digital stores across the world back in January, we originally set out a timeframe of about two weeks to get charts up for most of the world’s major regions. We think we came good on that timeframe, now providing you with live updating charts for iTunes® UK, iTunes® U.S, iTunes® Japan and, more recently, iTunes® Australia.

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RFLY.IT – The New RazorianFly-Powered Shortening Service. Your World Just Got Small(er).

• January 30, 2013

Today, we’re very pleased to announce the launch of our new publicly accessible, branded URL shortening service. Taking advantage of the latest in URL shortening technologies and metrics functionality, we can now provide you with a super-short, ultra-convenient way to share those long links with your friends, family or colleagues, across Twitter, Facebook … (and more!)

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Poster 2.0 – Support For Custom Post Types, Editable Excerpts, Sticky Posts … (and More!)

• January 16, 2013

Tom Witkin’s Poster just received a significant update. The WordPress WYSIWYG blog editor – going 2.0 this week – now includes support for custom post types. This new support is available for any self-hosted WordPress.org blog and can be activated within the app’s settings panel.

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Creator Of The RSS Specification, Aaron Swartz, Has Died At The Age Of 26 – [UPDATED: Inventor Of The WWW Comments]

• January 14, 2013

Aaron Swartz – who was thought to be on trial after he was allegedly found to have downloaded ‘huge quantities’ of journal entries from the non-profit JSTOR, has sadly died at the age of just 26. The modern world owes a lot to Swartz, given that at age 14 he was the person responsible for the creation of the RSS specification – a (now globally recognized) standard which allows online publications and blogs – (like this one) – to serve their valued readers with daily updates as to the new content that they may have published since their last visit.

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A Quick Word On Search

• January 6, 2013

With the launch of our site redesign at the beginning of this month, we aimed to build upon what we had learnt since launching RazorianFly 5.0. We designed our content slider to be more intuitive, now allowing you to manually swipe between our 5 most recently featured articles. We also introduced a new polling system, and social features to better help you interact with the site. However, there was still something missing.

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New Changes To Our Mobile Site

• November 8, 2012

This morning, some of you out there may have noticed that we pushed out a rather major update to our mobile-optimized site. The aim of the redesign was simple. We wanted to take the core of our old design and build upon it, with the main goal being to provide a “Retina”-ready experience for devices such as Apple’s iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, and 5th-generation iPod touch.

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