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Google Chrome Browser : Simple and Fast

September 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment

While we already have a perfectly good Web browser like Firefox, Opera, IE, or Safari, do we still need another Web browser? Yes, if we want something simpler, a little faster, and less prone to crashing… that’s what Google Inc.’s new Chrome want to offer.

As we know, Mozilla’s Firefox 3 and Apple Inc.’s Safari 3 browsers have their loyal users but aren’t as widely used as IE. So, last week released Chrome from Google, the search engine giant might be a Web browser that competes directly with market leader IE7, from Microsoft Corp.

I tested Chrome for a few days and yes I can feel it does offer a few innovations and hits the mark on speed, stability and simplicity. So far I thought Firefox is the fastest browser, but Chrome beat it during browsing the net with multiple pages open simultaneously.

Chrome certainly has the plainest user interface of any browser I’ve used, including IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Don’t try to find out where they put menu bar, status bar, or even an option to organize bookmarks cause its really not exist in this beta version. That features might be to be added later when official release. [Read more...]

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Gustav

September 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment

While everybody remembering Katrina 3-year anniversary which were killed more than 1,600 people, the Gulf Coast now wait for another powerful hurricane… its Gustav.

1. Historic evacuation of nearly 2 millions people from Louisiana coast complete. Thousands more had left from Mississippi, Alabama and flood-prone southeast Texas.

2. Gustav already killed at least 94 people on its path through the Caribbean.
3. It had top sustained winds of 115 mph, and was likely to stay a Category 3 storm when it made landfall west of New Orleans. Category 3 storms have winds between 111 mph and 130 mph.
4. The nation’s economic attention was focused on Gustav’s effect on refineries and offshore petroleum production rigs. The combination of prolonged production interruptions, such as occurred when Katrina and Rita damaged the Gulf infrastructure, could trigger rising prices.

Satellite Image of Gustav

Read recent Gustav’s news at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gustav_gulf_coast

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Zimbra : Now is Ubuntu Partner Repository

August 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment

ZimbraDesktopUbuntu users have been able to access Zimbra for the past year. But now, they will have direct access to Zimbra’s next generation email and calendaring solution. On August 7, 2008, Zimbra (a Yahoo! company) has announced that Canonical, sponsors of Ubuntu, will give users direct access to Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through the Ubuntu Partner Repository.

The inclusion of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop in the Ubuntu Partner Repository provides Ubuntu users with best-of-breed collaboration technology that is built natively for the Linux platform. With Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, Ubuntu users will have access to Yahoo! Mail, Gmail™, AOL Mail and any IMAP or POP enabled e-mail account, such as work, personal and school accounts, from the same place, even when they are not connected to the Internet. Additionally, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop allows people to use the iCal standard to take their calendar offline.

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop provides the same sleek collaboration experience as the Zimbra Web client version including advanced calendaring, self-organizing mailboxes, powerful search, tagging, and mash-ups with Web services including Flickr, Yahoo! Maps and Amazon. In addition, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop offers a number of features designed to help users stay organized, such as document creation, spreadsheets, task management and document storage, giving users a robust alternative to other desktop applications.

You can read full story at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/zimbra-desktop

No clue about Zimbra? Here are key features of Zimbra Desktop.

  • Email, contacts, and calendar all in one application
  • Available for Windows, Apple, or Linux desktop computers
  • Easily set up Zimbra, Yahoo! Mail Plus, AOL and Gmail email accounts with the Account Wizard
  • Any POP or IMAP email account can be added to Zimbra Desktop
  • No limit to the size of your email storage
  • It works online and offline

Feature details can be found at http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop_features.html

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WordPress Theme Development – Part 1

August 11, 2008 By 1 Comment

Hey! I’ve told you before, that I’m gonna make my own WordPress theme.. yes, I’m serious about that. After take a look at codex.wordpress.org, I found that they have nice documented of sources for theme development.
There are many resources listed on where to learn about HTML/XHTML, PHP and CSS. But, what most important thing they didn’t mentioned there are the tools to get start with. So, while studying these coding things, I’ve prepared myself the tools to use in making my theme. Here they are, [Read more...]

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Olympic Games – Beijing 2008 Open!

August 9, 2008 By 1 Comment
Olympic Beijing 2008 Logo

Olympic Beijing 2008 Logo

Olympic Games XXIX officialy open on Friday, August 8, 2008 (08.08.08) started at 8:00 p.m in Beijing China. 91,000 people watched the opening ceremony at eye-catching National Stadium, also known as ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium. Expected 4 billion audience worldwide watched the ceremony through television broadcast.

Other than Beijing, this summer games also will be held in co-host city, Qingdao, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao until August 24, 2008.

Olympic Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony

Olympic Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony

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Develop My Own WordPress Theme

August 4, 2008 By 4 Comments

It’s time to move on… I had enough testing and using other peoples WordPress theme for my own blogs. Of course, there are many great & creative themes on the net available and ready to use for any types of WordPress blogs. Myself also had downloaded, tested and used many of them. Some of the best themes are Ikarus from Braydon at wpthemespress.com, Options from Justin Tadlock at justintadlock.com and of course this blog’s current theme, Amazing Grace form Vladimir Prelovac at prelovac.com. [Read more...]

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Installing Ubuntu

July 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Recently I’ve messing-up myself with Linux operating system (OS)… to be exact, it’s Ubuntu. Yeah, I can’t stop myself to test and feeling this great OS. It’s long time enough for me and most of us using Microsoft’s OSes (Windows family)… I didn’t know about your experience, but myself was used it since it released of Windows 3.1 (I’m really wonder was there any Windows 1 or Windows 2 ???). Currently I’m still using Windows XP version (the most successfull OS as claimed by Microsoft and its fan). Eventhough there is Windows Vista, the latest from Microsoft which looks more atractive than XP, but it still can’t beat XP. [Read more...]

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