Archive for August, 2009
New social network: Trustler.com , network based on trust and respect
Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Trustler is a new social network which aims to promote the spirit of socializing in a new, revolutionary way. People can easily interact one with each other easily, through a slick, intuitive user interface. Trustler.com
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Ubuntu terminal: invalid host type && configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
If you get this error, then most likely a file doesn’t exist or the browser plays tricks on you, driving you mad. For example here’s a command: ./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 –with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql Either /usr/bin/apxs2 doesn’t exist or the argument is incorrect. Instead of a one hyphen before “with-apxs2….”, there should be two. The browser automatically transform the [...]
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PHP:ob_start() Display page at once, forget about cookie,headers sent too early errors
Posted on 21. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
If you want to display your web pages at once, not subsequently, and reduce the “headers already sent, cannot send cookie information” errors, add ob_start() at the start of your script. This function will turn output buffering on. While output buffering is active no output is sent from the script (other than headers), instead the [...]
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Digg: new marketing technique. Selling ad space among other stories and promoting sponsored stories
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Digg has recently came up with an interesting marketing technique: selling ad space among other displayed stories. There’s nothing special with with the sponsored story, except that it is emphasized from the other stories with top & bottom borders and an above text stating which company sponsored the story. The sponsored story, usually appears as [...]
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Hostmonster:New feature added CPU Throttling analysis page
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I luv this host, every time I log in there’s a new useful feature added. This time, Hostmonster added a very useful (IMO) analysis feature: CPU throttling. This will show when your website(s) has/have been loaded the most. This information is useful to those who want to optimize their websites per specific hours, in order [...]
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Best Virtual OS software: VirtualBox 3.0.4
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
When you need to quickly run a program which is not supported on your current operating system, most likely you’ll want to install a virtual operating system. Virtual operating system can run simultaneously with other operating systems, so you can easily/efficiently to your work quickly. Let’s say you’re a true Linux adept and need to [...]
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PHP: Script to extract one’s contacts from email (Gmail, Yahoo,Hotmail,AOL…) and send invites – OpenInviter to go!
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
You’ll find many scripts to extract email contacts, but many of these are either commercial or just given as apis. For the last case, it’s good to extract contacts from an email using an external server, because that’ll help reduce the server load, but what if the website providing that service goes down? Not good. [...]
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Firefox 3.5: The web is not ready!
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve noticed that some websites still don’t show up correctly in the new Firefox 3.5 (3.5.2-3.5.3). I was looking for some photos on Deviantart, but I couldn’t scroll the page to see all results. On twitter, some buttons don’t work.. sometimes. Google Adwords complains that the new version of the browser is not fully supported. [...]
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WikiPedia: New beta look. I don’t like the new website template
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
..because it’s non-professional. The current layout looks more solid, more professional and more like an Internet encyclopedia. Why don’t they hire a professional web designer to make them a perfect website template, or better ask the people what they want new to be added. Though, I don’t think any changes should be made to the [...]
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Acid3 Test: Best browser performance Opera 10 beta 2. Firefox 3.5.3 and Epiphany 2.26.1 slightly fail
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
First of all, I am a Ubuntu user, so all tests made by me were performed on a Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope OS. Results may differ a little bit in other operating systems. So, I took the Acid3 Test with three different browsers – Opera 10 beta 2, Firefox 3.5.3 pre and Epiphany 2.26.1 . Note [...]