Jason Calacanis said good bye to blogging.
It’s with a heavy heart, and much consideration, that today I would like to announce my retirement from blogging. (source)
Jason Calacanis Quits Blogging
Without Warranty
UPS with… brick! (hat tip: Kusaeni)
Getty Images and Flickr Partnership
Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery.
Getty Images and Flickr are working together to establish the first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community. The Flickr collection will feature photography selected by Getty Images editors based on their expertise in licensing digital content and insights into customers’ needs.
More from Yahoo! Developer’s blog.
Down for everyone or just me?
Probably, you will find our site is inaccessible. But, some friends tell us that nothing wrong with our site. Been to this kind of situation? If you want to find whether a site is accessible or not — only for you — try Down for everyone or just me?
Multi Account Twitter Tweeter
Matt (Multi Account Twitter Tweeter) is a service that help us post something to multiple Twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time. So, it’s not that Matt. :)
Using Google services to manage your marriage
Reading how something can change people’s life, or how people gets benefits from it is an interesting read. Here is one of them: using Google services to manage a marriage. How a couple use some Google’s applications (Google Docs, Google Page Creator, Google Calendar, etc) to keep everything managed.
Opera’s User JavaScript Contest
Opera Software helds a contest called User JavaScript Contest. This contest tries to find who can create the best User Javascript in best site enhancement and best tool — applied in Opera — using userscript feature.
So, if you’re a JavaScript ninja, it’s time to challenge your creativity and get a chance to win a HTC Touch Diamond™ Since I only an end-user of Opera, I think I’ll wait for the contest results. Go OperaMonkey!
The largest single tomato plant in the world
According to Wikipedia: The massive “tomato tree” growing inside the Walt Disney World Resort’s experimental greenhouses in Lake Buena Vista, Florida may be the largest single tomato plant in the world. The plant has been recognized as a Guinness World Record Holder, with a harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes and a total weight of 1,151.84 pounds.
FAM Trip Journalist (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2008)
We’re invited… as bloggers. Read the detailed story (in Bahasa Indonesia).
If you’re Coldplay‘s big fan, you can get the copy of Violet Hill (free single) for free. Yes, right. For free. (via)
This song is in their Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends album, and this offer will be available for a week (from April 29). The information said that this single has been downloaded by over 600,000 people in 24 hours after it was made available on April 29 (at 12.15 pm).
WordPress 2.5.1 some nice plugins, Identicons and more
- WordPress 2.5.1 is available. It’s recommended to upgrade to this version. More than 70 bug fixes and performance improvements.
- If you want to manage your blog categories (in WordPress), there is a plugin called Batch Categories. It will help us batch edit our posts, assign multiple posts to a category or delete multiple posts from a category in one fell swoop. (via)
- Tag Uncomplete. We can add tags easily in WordPress 2.5. And, it will be easier to insert tags (hey, it has tag autocomplete feature). BUT, some people experience slowdowns because they have many tags in database.
- We can have not only Gravatar when displaying comments, there are also Identicons, MonsterID and Wavatars. And, we can have them from Gravatar.
List of websites, blogs and other resources about Earth Day
Okey, let’s make it fast. Here are some links you probably want to know.
- How the First Earth Day Came About by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day. Also visit Envirolink Resource Guide.
- TreeHugger: leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.
- Earth Day at Kaboose: great resources related to Earth Day.
- Earth Day entry at Wikipedia.
- What will you do for Earth Day ’08? by Google.
- Earth Day Network
- The Free Cycle Network
- Earth Day at Yahoo! Green, read also “Reduce, reuse, recycle, Freecycle” at Yahoo! Developer Network.
- mybabytree.org – a campaign to plant a tree, you can help by sending a small amount of donation.
- Aku Ingin Hijau — useful information in Bahasa Indonesia about environment.
Of course, there are still many resources. Happy Earth Day!
News in brief: April 2008
Some news around the blogosphere/internet in general:
- WordPress.com will be banned in Brazil? Lorelle VanFossen shared her opinion about this issue. And, do not forget to read the detailed coverage.
- Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type, Typepad, Livejournal and VOX launched a Facebook application called BlogIt. When it was launched for the first time, it only had a basic feature. Now, we can use Markdown for text formatting.
- We can upload videos on Flickr now. It is limited to 90 seconds. It might be too short, but… it also a challenge. Not only that, Flickr also doubled the size of photos that can be uploaded. Free accounts can upload up to 10 MB/photo, and 20 MB/photo for pro accounts.
- Google Starts to Index the Invisible Web.
- If we love making to grids, there are great tools available: Grid Layout and Grid Calculator.
- jaxtr, a service related to your phone. Send message, voicemail, and more… for free. (hat tip: maseko)
Cinila.com redesigned
My girl just redesigned her blog. Great job, La! Currently, her blog is running on WordPress 2.5.
TinyPic, video and image hosting site
When I had a conversation with my friend Adhi, I needed to send a file to him. It’s only a screenshot. I told him that I would send it by email right away because I could not send the file from Pidgin. I was on Linux at the moment. He asked me to send it using TinyPic service. I know there are many image sharing service out there. But, what made me impressed is its simplicity. Just choose the file, uploaded and done. I will have some types of tags to use. Simple, and I like it.
TinyPic can be used as image and video sharing. It’s operated by the famous Photobucket. It also offers the same service. We can upload content materials with or without registrations. If we want to get other advantages like file management, just sign up there. the process also simple. We can add tags to our image for better management. It looks great. Thanks Adhi for the tip.
WordPress MU Hosts
http://wpmuhosts.com is a list of sites powered by WordPress Multi-User, just in case you want other alternatives than wordpress.com. Currently there are more than 80 sites. You can add yours too if you want. (via)
Firefox 2.0.0.14
Last March, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 was released. Today, the latest version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 released for public. In this release, there is an issue fixed. It’s about crash in JavaScript garbage collector. For more detail about this release, read the release notes and to download, just go to getfirefox.com.
Links for April 9, 2008
- Hey, we can build, share and download fonts using FontStruct.
- We’re on MetaFilter.
- Waxy.org got a new design. I love it!
- Wallpapers.NET, another social site for everyone that loves desktop wallpapers.
- Video on Flickr. Right, we can upload video to Flickr. Only available for pro users. The first 90 seconds will be played. (more)
- WordPress Codex — the biggest WordPress information resouces — comes with a new design.
Textpattern repository jumped to Google Code
Textpattern development team decided to host its repository to Google Code. Right, it has a new project page now. Now, it has a mailing list too. There is a guide about using this new repository.
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