Everyone around the world who observes Halloween are now making stuff that scares their friends. TV shows here and there have segments related to the upcoming Halloween.
In Philippines, Halloween or the locally called as "Araw ng mga Patay" is filled also with scary stuff. During my childhood, we share scary stories and make each of us scared to death. In generation today, most of those scary things or related to Halloween are shared in digital way. Some would send halloween comments or halloween quotes to their friends social sites profile such as Facebook, Friendster, Myspace and etc.
If you are looking for halloween comments or halloween quotes you can check the following sites.
Google today also made another doodle in relevance to the Halloween. You can also Google halloween comments and halloween quotes to obtain more sites results.
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Just blogging my debugging experience in Wordpress.
First problem encountered : Timthumb.php by Darrent Hoyt not displaying the resized images.
Solution: First thing to do is to check the file permissions properties of the temp/cache folder where your timthumb.php stores its temporary files is set to 777. This is also part of the timthumb instructions so don't hesitate to visit their site. If this doesn't solved your problem, you can also try contacting your host because I noticed it will give an Error 403 or 500 which is particularly in security issues. By searching the Wordpress forum I found a solution at this thread . It was suggested to use relative path of the images. Solution is straightforward, you just have to omit from the path of images your url address and leaving only "/wp-content/uploads/bigs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1". I immediately tried copying the URL of the image and paste it to the address bar of my browser, removed the address of the site with the following sample.
Working
http://www.address.com/wp-content/themes/magiting/functions/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/big_boobs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1
Second Problem : Conflict between Jquery's plugin Jcarousel and WP plugin CformsII
After the first problem was solved, I noticed another problem from the Jcarousel. Both navigation buttons of the carousel was not displayed eventhough the its background was already loaded. I suspected some javascript or css files are doing it.
What I did was, I copied the source in plain HTML and save it to my local disk. Initially, I removed some css and javascripts pre-loaded by some WP plugins. The last plugins' javascript and css I removed was from Cforms II, upon refreshing the page the navigation buttons of Jcarousel magically appeared again. Until now I'm still looking for solutions to make the Jcarousel gallery and CformsII work together. If anyone have some solutions to this issue please leave your comment.
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Yesterday, I was surprised to read from Technorati that White House's website will be shifted to popular CMS Drupal which happen to be my favorite when I lost my appetite with Joomla!'s categorization.
Also yesterday, I posted my first experience in converting WP theme to Blogger layout which I worked out last month but got pissed off with the posts display problem. Today, I'm happy to post that my conversion with WP theme Masunurin to Drupal theme is another milestone to me.
For those interested in creating Drupal themes, I suggests reading this tutorial How to Make a Drupal Theme which was my source in converting the Paddsolutions' Masunurin WP theme. Also, you can visit Drupal's Theme guide for more comprehensive documentation.
Tomorrow, I will finalize packaging the said theme for Drupal community to give it a try. I will also capture screenshots and setup its demo site.
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I have been studying for a month now how to create a Blogger layout but unfortunately I only spend a day then back again after a few weeks or more because of my daytime job. In short, I just did it during my leisure time.
Anyway, here's the screenshot of my amateur conversion of Wordpress theme to Blogger layout which you can visit at Bloggers Templating. During the peak of my conversion, I decided to check some of my resources for Blogger template tutorial and noticed that FalconHive already converted the theme I'm working on. Too bad for me I was late in publishing it earlier. Well, I can't do anything about it now so I decided to continue what I've started last month and post it here instead.
I also checked FalconHive's work, it was awesome, great actually. I didn't even bother to put Tweetmeme plugin in my version because this is just my exploration with Blogger. What makes my version different? Very obvious is the color, I used the magenta/pink version the Masunurin theme of Masunurin Pink of Paddsolutions. And the most is, when you add gadgets in the sidebar, it will have the same styling with the original design.
Last month, I was really having problem creating this because the posts and other contents are not displaying as expected that was also one of the reasons I ended up to nothing. But with the help of the blank template by Kendhin , it works brilliantly. Then, I was able to play around with it a little bit more.
For those interested to download my Masunurin Blogger Theme version just leave a comment. I would also like to acknowledge FalconHive because it has been my resources for learning the Blogger theming.
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Have you ever thought of watching TV in front of your computer? Well, for technical person like me that's really possible. First you need a TV card tuner installed into your PC and of course a cable subscription from your local cable service provider. That's quite heavy to handle. You have to add new parts to your computer plus a cable subscription.
Since you already have an Internet connection, have you thought of watching TV online with at least 3,500 channels? No subscription? No monthly fees? No hardware install? Channels from all over the countries?
Doubting it? Well, here are some reviews for you.
REVIEWS
"I was amazed by your large collection of channels, my cable company only had a quarter of your content. Great stuff!"
- Maria C. Albany, NY
"Product was just as described. Big selection of channels and easy to use. A+++"
- Sylvia R. Seattle, WA
"I hooked my computer to my 65" flat screen and now your software works just like my previous satellite dish service, except 100 times cheaper. Thank you!"
- Jason E. Montreal, Canada
"Thanks to your software, I cancelled my costly TV Cable service. Money well spent!"
- Mark D. Manchester, UK
As for my experience, I'm watching Sample Stream: (France 24) during the writing of this post and found no delays at all. How cool is that? I'm in Philippines particularly in Cotabato City which is 3 days away from our capital city Manila by boat while an hour and half more or less away by plane but still enjoying the live streaming.
If you're really insterested you may click here. You may also visit DishTVforPC to know more.
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I'm not a Wordpress expert myselft but I often asks by friends to do some stuff with it. Recently, I tried debugging some error we encountered with my friends blog using Wordpress.
Normally, in some CMS or some other web project there's an option to turn on the debug mode for us developers to know what are those error we don't easily see by walking through the lines of codes.
Now, I tried enabling Wordpress' debug mode by adding define('WP_DEBUG',true); at wp_config.phpfile at the root directory of Wordpress and noticed the following errors:
Notice: get_settings is deprecated since version 0.0! Use get_option() instead. in F:\AppServ\www\projs\wp\wp-includes\functions.php on line 2918.
Well, it won't actually make a huge problem with your Wordpress site using the version 2.8.4 but for compatiblity concern this must be change from its core since 2.8.5 has arrived with security issues addressed already. I believe 2.9 will be coming soon too hope this has been addressed too.
It's been a week since my last post Happy Birthday To You been quite busy for a quite some time. Also happens that my PC's power supply gave up. At first I thought my processor was the one causing the malfunction particularly no display and beeps at all. I must have missed big G's crawls everyday.
What makes me decide to post today is that I found out my Blogger's latest editor is now working without those bug I screen captured at my post Blogger bug.
I just love using this editor which I can quite compare it my most favorite one which is FCKEditor which I think love by most web developer from different CMS's, PHP frameworks and other web user interface such as email.
With this updates I'll be happy posting in the next few days.
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Around the world, there are at least 360,470 born everyday. Well, we have a lot of birthday celebrations to attend to if only we could. In every celebration I attended, we usually sing "Happy birthday to you" melody to the celebrant. Tradition.
Do you know that October 13, 1893 was date when the "Happy Birthday to you" melody was copyright registered? The melody must have been an very popular in almost around the world, I bet.
The "Happy Birthday to you" or commonly known as Happy Birthday was originally published as "Good Morning To All" in a book called "Song Stories for the Kindergarten" written by sisters Mildred and Patty Hill who are both kindergarten school teachers.
With that, I'm somehow thankful with the two sisters who made those melody possible. You may also at Wikipedia regarding some issues on its copyright.
Boyzone's member Stephen Gately passed away on October 10. He may not be popular around the world but for those who knows Boyzone knew him very well as one of the lead singers of the band.
According the news, Stephen Gately's cause of death is still unclear but perhaps will be reported within this week. Also reported that he went out for drinks, returned to his accommodation and sleep but never woke up.
He will be missed. He will be remembered in a Different Beat.
Yesterday until this posting I'm still having trouble using my Blogger post editor.
For non-Blogger user, Blogger has added a new features to its services and one of them is the latest post editor with a lot of new features.
Here are my favorite features of the latest Blogger post editor.
Image handling - When you upload an image to the new post editor it will appear as a thumbnail in the image dialog box. That way, you can upload several images at once, and then add them into your post at your convenience. The thumbnails will be available until you close the post editor.
Post preview - Post preview is now in pop-up window.
Add/edit/visit/remove Link - Easily add, edit or remove link from your post. Visiting your added link in just a click within your post.
Actually there's a lot more but in general I'm not happy using my blogger now. I'm currently using the old version of post editor (at least it gave me a chance to post). I hope this will be fix soon. Does anyone have encountered the same?
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Today, I visited one of the blogs of Google Code speed and read the post entitled CSS: Using every declaration just once. It has caught my attention because according to author Jens Meiert, Google Webmaster, declaring your properties for your selector once will reduce its file size for about 20-40%. With smaller file size of your CSS that means your server will not consume more bandwidth loading it.
How does it work? Here's sample from
Assuming we have the following selectors and properties.
h1 { color: black; }
p { color: black; }
This can be optimized like this.
h1, p {color: black; }
This is applicable to theme developers who separate their CSS typography, layout, color schemes and etc or anyone who would like to reduce their CSS file size.
Very easy isn't it? I will be applying this too.
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Earlier today, I misspelled searching for the keyword Phillipines instead of Philippines and surprisingly found results about the wrong spelling of my country.
The very first entry is from Wikipedia but I took it as Google's initiative about the keyword and gave the correct result for the said keyword. While the following entries of the search results are obviously typographical errors.
Here's the following sites that contains the wrong spelling Phillipines.
Philippines Hotspots - the URL http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/asiaphillipines.htm
Essential travel .co.uk - Travel to Phillipines with travel insurance from Essential - http://insurance.essentialtravel.co.uk/cityguide/philippines/philippines.htm
Daily motion - Dailymotion - Maxim - Miss Phillipines - a video - http://www.dailymotion.com/family_filter?urlback=%2Fvideo%2Fx331gq_maxim-miss-phillipines
World News Network (They should correct this because they built a news site for global coverage and yet they are spreading wrong spelling) - http://upge.wn.com/?template=cheetah-photo-search/index.txt&query=phillipines&language_id=-1
For majority's concern, it's spelled as Philippines. Our country was named after Philip II of Spain when Ruy López de Villalobos reached Samar and Leyte during his expedition. The original Spanish name was Las Islas Filipinas. And in the twentieth century, it was expanded to the entire archipelago. Las Islas Filipinas was later changed into Philippines during the American colonization.
Sing along with One Less Lonely Girl by playing the embedded video and lyrics below.
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
How many I told you's
And start overs and shoulders
Have you cried on before
How many promises be honest girl
How many tears you let hit the floor
How many bags you packed
Just to take 'em back, tell me that
How many either or's
But no more,
If you let me inside of your world
There'd be one less lonely girl
(Chorus)
Oh no
I saw so many pretty faces
Before I saw you, you
Now all I see is you
Oh no
Don't need these other pretty faces
'Cause when your mine in the world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
I'm gonna put you first
I'll show you what your worth
If you let me inside your world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
Christmas wasn't merry, 14th of February
Not one of them spent with you
How many dinner dates, set dinner plates
And he didn't even touch his food
How many torn photographs saw you taping back
Tell me that you couldn't see an open door
But no more,
If you let me inside of your world
(Chorus)
Oh no
I saw so many pretty faces
Before I saw you, you
Now all I see is you
Oh no
Don't need these other pretty faces
'Cause when your mine in the world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
I'm gonna put you first
I'll show you what your worth
If you let me inside your world
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
I can fix up your broken heart
I can give you a brand new start
I can make you believe,
I just wanna set one girl free to fall
She's free to fall
With me
My hearts locked and nowhere to get the key
I'l take her and leave this world
With one less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
There's gonna be one less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
Yaaaah
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With Facebook becoming more and more popular each day. I think Friendster is having difficulty of competing with Facebook in the past couple of days.
Recently, my wife Ariane already joined to Facebook and enjoying the games in their. I joined Facebook before just to have my Facebook address but not really into networking stuff. What really hook people with Facebook? Number one for me is games or technically called as apps. With a whole lot of games and other apps for leisure you really have to get into it. I won't be discussing more of Facebook's features here (maybe in the next posting).
As of this posting, Facebook is on second place of top 500 sites based on Alexa (). See listings below. Youtube is even at the fourth place. (I think people are just embedding videos to their Facebook )
Google google.com
Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.
Facebook facebook.com
A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
Yahoo! yahoo.com
Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
YouTube youtube.com
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!
Baidu.com baidu.com
The leading Chinese language search engine, provides "simple and reliable" search experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search in China.
In reality, Friendster is not really popular globally but here in the Philippines it is really on top ten but Facebook is number one. On August 15 this year, Friendster came up with the idea Pinoy Friendster Day which maybe successful (Sorry I don't have time reading news about its success). because a lot of Friendster fans did commit to attend and enjoy the concert.
See figure below for Top 20 sites in Philippines as of this posting.
The sites in the top sites lists are ordered by their 1 month alexa traffic rank.
The 1 month rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.
Facebook facebook.com
A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
Yahoo! yahoo.com
Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
Friendster friendster.com
Friendster is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more.
YouTube youtube.com
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!
Google google.com
Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.
Blogger.com blogger.com
Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.
Multiply multiply.com
Users can create, share and discuss blogs, photos, videos and music with others as well as post reviews of movies and books, or share a calendar of events.
WordPress.com wordpress.com
Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection and other features.
What make me entitled my post Friendster will be closing soon? In fact they are still on top ten and position at top 4. Well, it's just my personal observation. People around me in about many months now are just talking about Facebook, Mafia wars, Vampire wars, Farm Town, Farm Ville blah blah blah..I bought a new friend to my Facebook etc etc etc.
I'm not against with those stuff in fact I'm happy people are enjoying what they're doing maybe sooner or later i'll be back playing with my Farm town again hehe.. Anyway, let's enjoy what Facebook offers but not overdo it.
Credits: Top listings source is Alexa.
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Here's a funny dance video entitled Fan nude dancing - dance of the year Drinking Boys created by DJ Ozma. Me and my office mates laughed so hard about this video. I hope you too. Women will love to watch this.
In our organization, every December we have annual meeting and each area have to present one entertainment number depending on what theme have agreed by all area offices.
I think this will do if we'll have sort of Japanese theme.
Everyone around the world who observes Halloween are now making stuff that scares their friends. TV shows here and there have segments related to the upcoming Halloween.
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