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Facebook to Drop Chat Support for Internet Explorer 6

lancecorner — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:31:46 +0000

Social Networking site Facebook announced that it will pull out it chat support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 6 on September 15, 2010. The company instead urged users to upgrade to a newer version of web browser.

Facebook chat

Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001 and is considered as one of the major revisions of Internet Explorer. IE 6 also faces security issues and lack of support to modern web standards. In the same development, Microsoft announced that it will unveil beta version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Sept. 15, 2010.

On Facebook official blog, the company states that they are fixing some bugs and will make some improvement on its chat technology to make it faster and more stable.

Facebook chat is one of the most popular features of Facebook.

Reference: Wikipedia.org

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Facebook Now Has Half Billion Users

lancecorner — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:58:54 +0000

Facebook, the world’s leading social networking site today has recently announced that the website now reached 500 million users from around the world.

Facebook member page

In the same development, Facebook is aiming to reach 1 billion members, matching the reach of search engine giant Google. Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerber is expecting that Facebook could grow to about 1 billion active users despite the stiff competition on the Internet. Mark Zuckerberg becomes the world’s youngest billionaire at age 23 according to a Forbes estimate.

Facebook was originally intended for Harvard students. Later on, it was opened to other universities and to the world.

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Google unveils HTML5 resource website

lancecorner — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:31:48 +0000

Google recently unveiled HTML5 rocks, a website dedicated to HTML5 technologies and its development. The online resource can be found at html5rocks.com. The site is very useful especially for web developers.

HTML code

HTML 5 has multimedia capabilities and now being used by popular companies like Apple and Microsoft.
In the same development, Google also adds HTML5 Support for its Google Reader.
The website is divided into 4 main navigations namely the presentation, playground, tutorials and resources.

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June 30 is Social Media Day

lancecorner — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:39:34 +0000

Victoria City, the capital city of British Columbia has officially declared June 30 as Social Media Day to recognize the revolution of media becoming a social discussion.

Social Media Day logo

One way to celebrate Social Media Day is by attending or organizing a meetup near you on June 30. There are already more than 500 meetups scheduled around the world and most of these are in the United States and Canada.

Social media are primarily web-based and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information. Popular examples of social media sites include blogs, wikis, photography and art sharing, video and audio sharing, social news and bookmarking sites.

Image courtesy of mashable

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Linux Jobs Board Now Available

lancecorner — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:52:41 +0000

Linux Foundation is now offering online jobs board for its visitors who are seeking for Linux careers and employers looking for potential applicants. This new website feature can bring together employers, recruiters and job seekers.

Linux homepage

Linux professionals are considered as one of the fastest growing job category in the Information Technology world. The Linux online Jobs Board is available on Linux.com itself. The most popular Linux job is Linux System Administrator according the jobs site.

There are two options for the job posting. First is through the linux.com website where posting starts at $99 for 15 days and the second one is posting on both Linux.com and with Job Thread Network which costs 49 cents for each matching view.

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Featuring Mozilla Firefox for Mobile Devices

lancecorner — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:02:03 +0000

Mozilla Firefox, one of the most preferred web browsers on desktop computers is now aggressively going mobile to tap the large numbers of handheld users.

Mozilla unveils the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia smartphone running on Linux operating system. Nokia N900 is a powerful smartphone with an ARM Cortex-A8 processor.

Nokia N900

It features excellent browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user like the AwesomeBar.

This Firefox variant is based on the Fennec project, which was originally launched in 2007 with the aim of bringing the full Firefox browsing experience to modern handheld devices. This is a major step of Mozilla to become a preferred mobile web browser.

Other notable features include:

Location-Aware Browsing gives you info and maps relevant to your locale

Tabbed browsing with thumbnail images

One-touch bookmarking

Users can set their own Preferences by changing default language. This version supports more than 35 languages.

It comes with add-ons features that let users customize web browsing experience

Mozilla Firefox for N900 does not support browser plug-ins.

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United Kingdom Wins First Philippine International PyroMusical Competition

lancecorner — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:56:08 +0000

The United Kingdom was adjudged grand champion in the recently concluded First Philippine International PyroMusical Competition. The competition started last February 14, 2010. The United Kingdom was represented by Jubilee Fireworks. The company has been in the Pyrotechnic industry since 1987.

During the competition, Jubilee Fireworks illuminated the sky with their artistic skills in fireworks. The competition was being witnessed by thousands of spectators.

The Philippine International PyroMusical Competition is a premier pyrotechnic event in the Philippines.

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MyPhone T11 Features and Specifications

lancecorner — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:56:57 +0000

MyPhone T11 is definitely one of the most affordable touch screen cellular phones available in the market today. Below are its features and specifications.

Myphone T11 unit

Features:

Network: GPRS/GSM 900/1800
Camera: 1.3 Mega pixel CMOS
Display: 240 by 320 pixels, 2.8 inches, 262K colors TFT
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection
Feature: Webcam Function
Memory: 1MB built-in User Memory
Expansion: Micro SD/T-Flash memory card slot up to 2GB
Device Control: Alpha Numeric keypad and Touch Screen
Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS
GPRS: Class 10, WAP 2.0 browser
Sound: 2 Stereo speakers, 3D surround effect
Multimedia: MP3/MP4 player/ Video Recorder

Specifications:

Weight: 95g
Dimensions: 109.3 x 57.6 x 14.58 mm
Talk/Standby Time: 2hours/ 100 hours
Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 950 mAh

Accessories: Headset, USB cable connector and extra battery

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The First Philippine International PyroMusical Starts

lancecorner — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:59:32 +0000

Good news for fireworks enthusiasts, the First Philippine International PyroMusical Competition has just started. The event is expected to be one of the premier pyrotechnic events in the Philippines and to be participated by the leading pyrotechnic experts from around the world.

Fireworks display in Sydney, Australia

Below are the participating countries with company names and schedules.

United States
Pyrofire
February 14, 2010
7:00 pm

United Kingdom
Jubilee Fireworks
February 21, 2010
7:00 pm

China
Liuyang Jinsheng
Fabruary 21, 2010
8:00 pm

France
Brezac Artifices
February 28, 2010
7:00 pm

Japan
Tamaya Kitahara Fireworks
February 28, 2010
8:00 pm

Singapore
Redhub Entertainment
March 7, 2010
7:00 pm

Malaysia
Pyro-Splendour Services
March 7, 2010
8:00 pm

Australia
Howards and Sons
March 14, 2010
7:00 pm

Philippines
Platinum Fireworks
March 14, 2010
8:00 pm

The competition will be held at the SM Mall of Asia, the Philippine premier lifestyle mall.

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What’s New with WordPress 2.9

lancecorner — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:10:06 +0000

WordPress, a popular blogging tool has released its new 2.9 version. The developer of this particular version has placed the release as candidate which means all features that were to be added during the beta version are added. This version could be made official except it can use some extra testing for possible software bugs.

Wordpress logo

WordPress users are welcome to give feedbacks on the release candidate and test run the version to know if everything works well. A good example is to check the compatibility of this version to third party plug-ins. Some plug-ins are developed for a particular WordPress version.

You can download the Release candidate version using the link below.

http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9-RC1.zip

Notable WordPress 2.9 Features:

WordPress Recycle Bin / Trash

This particular feature is very useful. Instead of permanently deleting posts, users can now put the blog post on trash and recovered it later. By default, WordPress will empty the trash every 30 days but this limit can be change by simply placing code below in the wp-config.php file.

define ( ‘EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS’, 10 );

Image Editor

This is probably one of the most awaited features among WordPress users. The image editor will let users make simple changes on images like rotating, cropping, flipping, resizing, scaling and more. Below is the screen shot on how it looks.

Wordpress Image Editor

Post Thumbnails

Wordpress Media Editor

For earlier version of WordPress, it is usually done through custom fields. The ability to add thumbnails without a custom field is very useful especially for newbie WordPress users. Adding post thumbnails and displaying it in the template is even much easier. Users must have a WordPress theme that supports this function. To add, simply go to theme’s functions.php file and add the code below.

add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );

To display, place the following code on the WordPress template:

The 2.9 version is considered a major update of WordPress.

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