2008 April - Part 3

Archive for April, 2008

Videos now on Flickr

posted on April 14, 2008 in Internet with 0 Comments

Seen this around lately? Yup, Flickr has gone video now. They don’t just host your photos anymore but now your videos too. However, Flickr is not here to take over from YouTube. 90 seconds videos and pro users only. The Flickr team refers to videos as long photos thus their decision to limit videos to [...]

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

posted on April 13, 2008 in WordPress with 5 Comments

Finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.5Ã‚Â yesterday. Loving the automatic update and install feature for my plugins. However, the Popularity Contest plugin and Popularity Contest Widget are not compatible with WordPress 2.5 yet. Get WordPress 2.5

How to change the system date in Linux

posted on April 7, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 1 Comment

A friend needed help changing the system date on his Linux box today. This is usually a simple task for Linux users but newbies tend to get confused by the “date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]” line in the man page. To simplify, this is how you do it. Set the current date to April 7 2008 8:42:45pm. [...]

U Mobile High Speed Mobile Internet

posted on April 6, 2008 in Cool Stuff, Malaysia, Tech with 41 Comments

I tend to be slightly skeptical nowadays when the words “high peed” and “mobile” are used within the same sentence. You can’t blame me, adverts all around boast blazing speeds over mobile network but do you ever hear the same feedback from their subscribers? Hardly ever right. Well, here’s a another new kid on the [...]

Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.8.7 released

posted on April 6, 2008 in BitTorrent, Linux, Software with 1 Comment

Can’t believe I’m 2 versions back. Not been torrentting much the past weeks thanks to work. Anyway, the latest version out is 0.5.8.7. Mostly bug fixes and tweaks. Read the changelog or download it here.

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