Having released this somewhat minor update, we’ll be returning to work on a more complete overhaul of Text Web — originally built in 2009 — to offer better performance in this reader-oriented text-only web browser. We expect to release a thorough revamp of Text Web in Fall 2012.

The e-book features more than 25 pages of new content exclusive to the Kindle Store, including photo albums of settings from the novel and Jane Austen’s life, new scoring pages and more. The e-book will be available as a Kindle Exclusive in both the Kindle Store and Kindle Lending Library for its first three months of publication.

Check out FonQuiz.com for more information about this multi-platform mobile quiz project.

Ratings by Day

We’re launching some recent additions to the Bubbly Crowdsourcing Platform this week, including Bubbly Reports, a Bubbly-specific plugin that allows you to export detailed user reports and see real-time imaging based on the activity on your Bubbly site. Other additions include the ability to attach images to your comments and an improved shortcode system that allows administrators to display Bubbly entries by tag and category.

These features are rolling out to all Bubbly hosted clients in the coming week. We hope you enjoy them and would love to hear any feedback you have. Thanks!

Now the Bubbly team, in collaboration with the Small Cities Movement, wants to take small town crowdsourcing to the next level by launching a platform designed specifically for use by small cities’ downtown revitalization projects. Supporters get access to set up hosted and professionally maintained crowdsourcing websites using the new platform and can join the Small Cities Movement Hall of Fame for leaders in the small cities movement.

Please help us make small cities better everywhere with open collaboration. Visit the IndieGoGo page to find out more.

To solve this problem, I created a new plugin that disables the toolbar in existing users’ preferences and changes the default setting for new users. Once a site administrator installs the plugin, they can choose which behavior to use on their site by user role. Users can restore the admin bar in their individual preferences by choosing “Show Toolbar when viewing site” if needed.

I hope some of you find this plugin helpful. It is offered for free under the GPL-2 license with no support or warranty, but has already been put into production on several of our sites and is working well. Please feel free to leave a comment here with any questions or problems.

Screenshot:

Download: clean-admin-bar-removal-1.0.zip (also available in the WordPress Plugin Directory)

This is free software is released under the GPL-2 License with no warranty.