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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 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.

Post Thumbnails

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.

The popular social networking site Facebook is now on its 6th year birthday since it was established on February 4, 2004. This is according to Wikipedia website. It was originally called “Thefacebook” with a website domain name thefacebook.com.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, together with his friends in college namely Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz.

Facebook headquarter is located at Palo Alto, California and currently has more than one thousand employees.

Facebook was originally intended to be social networking sites for Harvard students. Later, users from other universities joined Facebook. And now, it seems like the whole world is getting hooked on the Facebook phenomenon.

Latest report states that many Internet users now stay longer on Facebook than in any search engines like Yahoo, MSN and Google.

Facebook is the most used social network based on monthly active users on the Internet today.

There is now a new way to customize the look of your Firefox browser and this is through Personas.  Personas is an easy-to-use plug in that let you customize the look of your Firefox browser.

Personas simply changes browser’s look by changing the header and footer sections while leaving the navigation buttons and menus intact.

This is a great opportunity for those who would like to change the style their browsers without having to write any code. You can choose different themes from abstract to fashion categories.

To use Personas, simply install the Personas extension which is free to download at GetPersonas.com. Once the extension is installed, you can choose by clicking on the fox mask in the lower left-hand section of the Firefox window.

The world’s first short message had been sent on December 3, 1992 from a PC to mobile phone on the video phone GSM network in the United Kingdom. The message was “Merry Christmas”.

Source:  smslist.co.uk

The total text messages sent from around the world reaches 178.8 billion. This is according to VerySign, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services. The figure is equivalent to 26 messages per person on the planet.

Short Message Services (SMS) is the technology used to send and receive text messages to and from mobile phones. It is a means of sending messages up to 160 characters including spaces using a GSM mobile handset. The Short Message Service Center (SMSC) is the principal application behind text messaging. The majority of SMS usage is accounted for by consumer applications. In the latest development, SMS also changed the way people do banking such as account inquiry and remittance. In Australia, major banks have been sending SMS messages to bank customers every time cash is withdrawn from their accounts.

Short Message Services (SMS) has been a big industry in 2006.

reference:  http://www.textually.org

A new HP Mini limited edition was launched and features the design of famous Dutch industrial designer Tord Boontje.

This netbook features an 11.6 inch Diagonal High Definition LED BrightView widescreen display. It comes with 10 inch LED display and can easily be connected to HDTV through a HDMI port.

This notebook comes with a customized theme and screensaver by Stardock MyColors. The user manual is made from 100 percent recycled material and has a sleeve ships which is reusable.

It weighs 1.06 kg. and has a built-in Windows Live Writer suited for blogging. It comes with WLAN and an optional WWAN which enables users to easily get connected to emails, instant and web conferencing.

Amazingly, this limited edition of HP Mini introduces the HP Imprint 3D which features the first three-dimensional (3D) Personal Computer (PC) surface technology.