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WordPress 2.6 scheduled for release July 2008

Barely 2 months after upgrading blogjer’s wordpress version to 2.5.1 , and yet to fix my broken page, WordPress 2.6 is on it’s way to be released July 7th (tomorrow GMT-5/6) or July 14th.  What are they gonna released? (plus my little comment)

  • Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to view (not edit) each of those copies (revisions), Shows forward (in time) diffs between any two revisions. – love this function especially for post with multiple authors
  • Add paging of Themes in Design panel
  • Word Count displayed when writing and editing posts and pages
  • Press This bookmarklet- cool!! i want this back
  • Add sorting to gallery
  • Export/import post excerpts
  • Theme Previewer- no longer need theme switcher plugin
  • Check (assigned) Categories at top Category box in Write/Manage Post
  • Show when a term is both a tag and a category – for SEO purpose??
  • Wider Profile fields
  • TinyMCE 3.1
  • Two categories can have sub-categories with the same name – ok I want this too

Via jwebdev, I got to know these new features described in more detail manner, thanks!!

Out of all these new features, I hope that the permalink bug for wordpress page introduced on WordPress 2.5 will be fixed.  I’m not interested to add index.php to my current permalink structure (/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/) if I want to stick with it. It made it looks rather long (and ugly)

Admin 6 July 2008 Wordpress , 6 Comments

How to display your social media profile widget on your blog

You have multiples social media profiles, which you want your readers to be your friend, or part of your community. To shows what you have, you want to put your social media profile on your blog sidebar, but you have profile on multiples social media websites. It’ll be troublesome, to put up images and link it to your profile one by one.  Fortunately, there are tools to make this task easir

1. justaddme .

Register, key in your profile and follow every steps to get the code widget such as below. The downside is the social media offered is limited

2. Mybloglog

This is better, it has almost all social media websites inside.

  • Login into mybloglog account (register if you haven’t). By default you should be in Myblog home. Click Add Service link on the right sidebar. Fill up all social media service that you have an account, with your user id
  • Click Widget tab follow by About Me Widget sub tab. Customize the looks and get the script code. I hide almost all panels and options and use white color to get clean & clear widget such as below

You now have your social media profile widget displayed in only couple of minutes. Don’t forget to visit my profile and add me as your friend!!

Admin 6 July 2008 socialize & media , , 3 Comments

how to prevent sending email from MS outlook without subject in place

A friend of mine forward me this useful tips for MS Outlook user. This works in MS Outlook 2003, but the steps may different on Outlook 2007

Steps: -

1. Open your Microsoft outlook
2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic editor and then Press Ctrl+R which in turn opens Project-Project 1 (left side).
3. On the Left Pane, one can see “Microsoft Outlook Objects” or “Project1″, expand this. Now one can see the “ThisOutLookSession”.
4. Double click on “ThisOutLookSession”. It will open up a code pane.
5. Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane. (Code Pane)  and save it.

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim strSubject As String
strSubject = Item.Subject
If Len(Trim(strSubject)) = 0 Then
Prompt$ = “Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?”
If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Check for Subject”) = vbNo Then
Cancel = True
End If
End If
End Sub

Keep in mind, to be able to run this script(message box) everyday, please enable your outlook macros.

To do so, go to Tools > Macro > Security.
Set the Security Level to medium.

Admin 6 July 2008 Software , 7 Comments

It’s official – Firefox 3 is the Largest number of software downloads in 24 hours

Firefox 3 is now officially the holder of Guinness World Record for “Largest number of software downloads in 24 hours“. This amazing feat will not materialized without the support from the whole Firefox communities and users. Give yourself a BIG clap!!

In 24 hours of ‘Download Day’, 8,002,530 peoples has downloaded Firefox 3. Amazing right!! The number could be higher, if not due the server crash issue at the beginning of the day.

If you’re not one of them, it’s not to late to get your copy today. Tell your brothers/sisters, uncles/aunties, in-laws to do the same. Until now 28 million copies of Firefox 3 has been downloaded. But yes, there are millions more internet users that are yet to use Firefox.  So there is huge opportunities for Firefox 3 to penetrate the market conquered by IE before.

Check out the pledge map to get to know how many copies has been downloaded by your fellow countrymen. Let’s beat this record when Firefox 4 launched in future!!

firefox download Its official Firefox 3 is the Largest number of software downloads in 24 hours

Admin 3 July 2008 Software , , , , 7 Comments

make your blog mobile web browser friendly

Blogjer now can be viewed better in your mobile phone web browser. This is inline with my personal goal to make Blogjer accessible from any platform and medium

Thanks to plugin form Alex King and/or WordPressMobile which make this possible, the mobile version of Blogjer is up and running in less than 1 minute. The ‘COOL’ thing here is that, your blog’s mobile version will be automatically detected if it’s opened from your mobile phone web browser. You’re doing almost nothing except activating this plugin. Reminder: This is works only on WordPress (yeah, we’re lucky)

The plugin will strip off your blog’s header, sidebar, footer, ads and only display the body of your post in sequence beginning from the latest one. It’s looks like a RSS reader, with an  exception that it still allow you to write comment. Unfortunately I can’t show how does it looks like in my mini opera, due to my camera lacking of macro snap feature

Both Alex King and WordPress Mobile plugin offers almost similar looks and features, so using either one of this plugin should be fine.

make your blog mobile web browser friendly

Non WordPress blog

For non WordPress blog, don’t feel being left out. Read this tips from Digital Inspiron on how to utilize Google Reader to build your own mobile phone web browser friendly blog within 10 seconds. Blogjer has it my own as well. Keep in mind that this optimization does not automatically detected by your mobile phone browser, thus please put up any link or logo to let your visitor aware your blog’s mobile version

Admin 3 July 2008 Internet, Promotion , , , , 1 Comment
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