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What’s coming up next Engadget?

I was reading an article in my RSS feeds from Engadget Home Entertainment section regarding a battery-less remote that gets power using small vibrations from button presses, which it then uses to beam out signals to the nearby set. It is supposed to be ready for production in 2011.

This got me interested and want more [...]

Turbo-charge your WordPress blog using Google Gears

What is Google Gears?

Google Gears (or GG) is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
A database, to store and access data from within the browser
A [...]

Join Yahoo! Purple Open Hack Day in Manila and a chance to win iPod Touch

Join the Yahoo! Purple Hack and stand to win an exclusive iPod Touch!

Show off your developers skills and you may be one of the 5 winners to walk away with this cool prize!

Here’s you can take part:

1. Create a hack using Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP)
2. Host your hack on the YAP [...]

Is Houseonahill.net got hacked or infected with malware?

Yesterday, mella alerted me regarding her laptop acting weird. It keep triggering a virus alert while visiting one of her favorite site, houseonahill.net. She confirmed that only this site  triggered the alert. I told her to reboot the laptop and try again. I keep thinking that this might be the effect of a heuristic configuration I [...]

Google Gmail down?

Apparently, Gmail is down as it is giving me this error page when I tried opening my mail

and a bit of searching led to this post in Google help page:

the good things is that last week I enabled a new feature of Gmail from Google labs called “Offline Gmail” so I was able to access my [...]

WordPress image upload http error

If you’re one of the frustrated users who are excited to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress 2.5.x only to be turned-off by the image upload function, then read on.

The new version has great way in handling media upload, it is a redesign from the previous version. It is sleek and simple but because of [...]

Google’s “Latitude”: A major security flaw in Google’s global phone tracking system

Technorati Tags: Google latitude,location awareness,mobile location privacy,mobile privacy

 

One day after the global launch of Google’s “Latitude” phone tracking system, Privacy International has identified what appears to be a fundamental design problem that could substantially endanger user privacy.

Google Latitude, a new service from Google that allows you to send your location to Google Maps and share it [...]

WordPress Automatic Upgrade: Fatal error Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()

Technorati Tags: redeclare pclziputilpathreduction,wordpress upgrade issue,wp fatal error,class-pclzip,upgrade wordpress error

There is a minor WordPress update today, version 2.7.1. Since v2.7, they have introduced an automatic update feature that is part of the core WP. It will detect and compare your current installed version against the latest available in WordPress repository.

If you have v2.7, you should [...]

How to Monitor the health of your shared hosting server

Technorati Tags: monitor shared hosting

So you got yourself a shiny new web hosting package. In today’s rate, multi-gigabyte storage space and multi-terabyte network traffic is very much affordable.

The thing with this packages is that they are shared-hosting meaning you shared the same physical server with other clients. The ratio of user’s to [...]

Manage WordPress blog via mobile phone

If you’re looking to manage your WordPress install via a mobile phone, then the award winning WPhone plugin is exactly what you’re looking. It will create an option that you can select while logging in to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone:

It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface:

* Rich: [...]