MangoOrange™

Have you heard of lately that people are coming out with various "People Search Engine" where results are filtered collectively by humans. Spock is one of them. Currently they are in close beta and only by invitation that you can give that cool stuff a try.

Here's a Techcrunch review on Spock 2 months ago.

I have 3 Spock's invites to giveaway. Share with me your thoughts about "People Search Engine" and I'll give the invites away to the first 3 interesting thoughts. Hurry up... While stock last

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Nandx has reported that the current i3Theme cannot display sub navigation bar. After looking at it, the problem is due to the Widget plugin by Automattic. I understand that majority of us, including me, are having this useful plugin on their blogs. Worry not, there is a solution for this.

UPDATE: I realised that the solution does not exactly solved it. However, this time, I have found the solution to it. I will be releasing it on the next version in 12 hours time. So stay tune. Continue reading »

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I have been always wanted a list of WordPress plugins to help those who wish to enhance their WordPress sites. There has been a few of you asking where I got some of my plugins. So I decided to churn out a list to share with everyone.

I certainly hope it's useful. In addition, I have added a list on my sidebar to put the most updated plugins on my main list.

Be sure to check it out. More will be added in the near future. Enjoy.

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Many of us love to take photos. However, some of us didn't have the luxury of DSLR and expensive software to assist us in fixing the overexpose photos. For some, they aren't that photo friendly like the lady below. She looks great naturally but the camera expose too much of her skin details.

Not to worry, I found a nice, sexy tutorials to make your photo victims look like a model. Check out the sample below.

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The tutorial can be found at this link.

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I always wanted to give back to the society and lately, I told myself, "Why not teach the students on how to design and program a website?" In Singapore, not many have the web programming and design skills and I personally finds it very useful. Coincidentally, when I was back at home, my sisters wanted me to teach them how to do it. So I took this opportunity to try my teaching method.

Surprisingly, it's much harder than I thought. There are so many things involved around this "Web" subject ranging from the technicality of web server technologies, web standards, HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS, Javascript, etc. And most of them correlated. Chicken and Egg problem.

I began to wonder, should I take at a high level approach or a low level approach? A high level approach would to be give them a well-finish site, like WordPress, and start exploring parts by parts when they want to make changes to the website, wherelse a low level one will be explain bits and pieces and relate it to them.

What do all of you think? Do you all have any experience in learning or teaching?

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