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WordPress 2.6 Released

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It was released a few days ago. This time, I will refrain from upgrading. Perhaps I will wait a little longer. How many WordPress blogs do I have already? It is tiresome, I tell you. I would rather just spend time blogging instead of taking care of the technical aspects of a blog. I am not going to be an early adopter this time. LOL

Whatever, WordPress 2.6 brings us improvements from 2.5, like a new upgrade always does. And get it: it fixes a total of 194 bugs!!! I never knew there are so many bugs crawling around my WP 2.5 blogs! LOL

I am glad to note that they have revamped the entire image control and handling. Also, theme preview is a great new feature. Anyway, I wonder if they have brought back drag and drop of widget. I miss that convenience but I will soon know, I guess.

So have you updated you WordPress already?

P/S: After holding from upgrading, I read that some people had the categories of their blogs broken. There IS a solution but it is a lot of hassle, and only for people who know what they are doing. Boy, am I glad that I stuck to my guts this time.

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Filing An Insurance Claim

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I was going through my old correspondence when I stumbled upon an email from a friend who told me that a mutual friend was involved in an industrial accident and he was having a hard time making am insurance claim.

Back then, i did not know of the services offered by an Omaha Personal Injury Attorney in Nebraska or I would have told him about it as this case happened in Nebraska too though not Omaha.

Larry R. Demerath of Demerath Law Office offers free consultation and is an experienced personal injury lawyer. He would have been able to assist our friend. I find it ironic that it is not enough that a person is injured, but had to jump though fire hoops in order to claim his rightful compensation!

Computing & Internet

How Much Is Facebook Worth?

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So the courts have ruled that Facebook is not worth US$15billion but “only” US$3.75 billion. Would any investor be willing to fork out this amount of money to take over the company, or buy some stocks? I think that prices for virtual commodities are always overrated. If you are an investor, you should seriously think about its inflated value.

In the case of Facebook, I know that companies seeking to buy shares look at its advertisement potential. When it comes to membership based websites, you need to show the number of members you have, traffic levels and the amount of time unique visitors are spending at the website.

However, investors are not users and they are not at the user-level. They do not know that even membership count is inflated. My friend and his friends have multiple accounts per person and when you advertise to a hundred members, you are actually doing so to about seventy members.

So Facebook is actually the same as other social website during the dot com boom. I really do not see anything special about Facebook that I have not used before in one social networking site or another.

Computing & Internet

Top Class Aural Entertainment in The Leviathan Chronicles

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I was complaining to a friend that this Summer, we have had more than our share of sci-fi movies but if sci-fi were forced upon me, I would rather watch it than read it. The Leviathan Chronicles is even better I could just LISTEN to it!

I wouldn’t have thought I would say this, being impartial to all things sci-fi but The Laviathan Chronicles has brought podcasting to a new level.

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The Laviathan Chronicles sees MacallanOrsel, a female genetic scientist in New York City caught between a secret war and being told that she is a Messiah to a group of people, people whom she does not know about.

Each new podcast episode, which you could easily stream from your computer or download and sync to your iPod or iPhone, sees her discover why her race is suddenly dying off. The question posed by The Laviathan Chronicles is, would you choose freedom or immortality?

If sci-fi rocks your boat, I encourage you to check out The Laviathan Chronicles at LeviathanChronicles.com, a top class adventure/sci-fi series in podcast created by Christof Laputka. The Laviathan Chronicles will invoke your imagination no end and keep you at the edge of your seat.

I have to say that even though I am not a sci-fi fan, after just listening to the trailer of The Leviathan Chronicles, I am hooked already.

Sponsored by Leviathan Chronicles

Computing & Internet

Gmail’s Global Log Out

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The other day, my desktop computer crashed and after failing to fix it myself, I decided to send it to the repair shop. I didn’t have the time to meddle with it and I hate troubleshooting computers. I think that it’s absolutely tedious to shut the computer and put it back on after every slight change in hardware.

I sent a text message to my friend and told him that my computer has been hospitalized. He reminded me that I could use my notebook to log in to my Gmail account and look for the Global log off feature at the bottom of the Gmail page.

HHmm that’s new to me but what a nifty feature. I normally don’t log out of my Gmail account so since it crashed, I did not have the chance to get online and log out properly.

Gmail also reminds us that if we are afraid that our account has been compromised, maybe we did not get online quick enough to log out of our Gmail globally, we could change our password too. This is great for people who use auto-fill. LOL I am guilty of that!

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Easy Navigation For User-friendliness

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When I saw this website of Recruitment Juice I think that it would be most helpful to my cousin who works as an executive in a recruitment agency. Browsing through the website, I have the impression that Recruitment Juice is something innovative, fun and best of all, fresh. I guess the developers of Recruitment Juice recruitment training courses wanted their training module to be easily remembered and digested hence they play on the word “juice” and relate it to fruits every chance they get.

Also, looking at the packaging of their six training modules on DVD, I have the impression that they look like vitamins. I think it must be the young and refreshing colours!

Frankly speaking, this website is so easy to navigate that even someone who is not as web savvy would find it user-friendly. Ease of navigation is the most important aspect of a website and I am glad to say that Recruitment Juice passed with flying colours!

I don’t see the point of having a flashy website which is not able to convey what it is all about or what service it is offering. Recruitment Juice has stayed away from that kind of web designing that is every casual web browser’s nightmare.

Just like how they describe their training modules, the website of Recruitment Juice is certainly engaging.

Computing & Internet

Upgraded To FireFox 3 At Last

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I finally upgraded my FireFox browser to FireFox 3. I had to wait till the add-ons that I MUST use have been upgraded as well before switching. Still, I only just upgraded it on my desktop computer and not yet change the one in my laptop. I will wait and see if there’s any issue. There are times where I will be an early adopted and there are times where I prefer to wait.

Before making the switch though, I felt as if my FireFox browser experienced such lag it was as if Mozilla had planted a bug on it to force all of us FireFox 2 users to upgrade. Well, I am not sure if that really was the case but if you think about it, companies could force our program to act in a weird way since it is always connected to the internet.

Having said this, FireFox is still not my primary browser. I use Opera, FireFox and IE at the same time, opening different websites with different browser. No matter what Mozilla says about FireFox being the fastest web browser around, Safari claims this as well, there are times where it takes ages to load a page and when I use IE to access the same site at the same time, I did not have an issue at all.

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