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Monthly Archives: October 2007

100 Open Source Useful Mac Apps

Found here. A good list. I already have the essentials installed on my machine. Stuff like VLC, Firefox and Colloquy. But when I get home, I am going to download the following: Tofu iPodDisk Aurora Sixty Force Nestopia iEatBrainz KisMac

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Free Halloween Sticker Icons

Icon Factory has released Halloween sticker icons. The icons are free for personal use. Click here.

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New XAMMP for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

Last October 8, Apache Friends released new versions of XAMMP for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I use XAMMP on Windows, but for Mac OS X, I use MAMP – the Mac OS X release of XAMMP is still … Continue reading

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Indepth look at PHP DateTime and DateTimeZone

Here is an interesting article from Laughingmeme. Here we can see the default constructor sets both the time and a timezone — correctly, for the moment, identifying my timezone as America/New_York. That’s somewhat contentious behaviour, some people will tell you … Continue reading

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PHP User Group Philippines Meetup Photos

I could never be a part of anything like this. Events like these only happen in Manila :(. Here in Cebu, people are not so organized. It is always nice to meet new people with the same interests as you … Continue reading

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DigitalFilipino and Cyberfair

It is always good to see someone doing something for the children – especially here in the Philippines. Just wanted to share this as I got this in my Yahoo Inbox today. CyberFair is an opportunity to engage businesses, schools, … Continue reading

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My Sister’s iPod Got Stolen

My sister had her iPod stolen the other day. It was brand new! A bluish-thingy 8-Gig Nano! I was searching around if there was a way to disable it by reporting to Apple that the serial number was stolen but … Continue reading

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Detect browser close / page exit using Javascript

Here is a sample code to detect that a browser is closed or a link has been clicked. This detects if the user is exiting the page. I am using this for locking/unlocking table rows in my database. <script type="text/javascript"> … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.3 Upgrade

Just upgraded my WordPress to 2.3 – it now has a tag cloud built-in. But I am experiencing errors though when posting. I will sort this out later.

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PHP Statistics for September 2007

I don’t usually post news that are already posted from other sites unless the news is useful to me (I post it here so that I can search for later on – sort of like a bookmark) or it interests … Continue reading

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