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How to Rename Your IE Titlebar
October 21, 2008 · Comments
Go to ‘Run’ then type regedit.
- The Windows Registry editor will appear. THis time, we just need to tweak just one registry key here. We’ll use fist the pane at the left to navigate to the registry key.
- Let’s make things easy for newbies. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main Use the pane at the left just like you’re using Windows Explorer.
- Click on Edit Menu to add a new String Value then label it as ‘Window Title’
double-click it to add a value in it then type in your desired title.
- Restart IE, then see the changes..It works perhaps all versions of IE including 8 beta 2.
Wordpress Acquires Polldaddy
October 16, 2008 · Comments
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, bought the Irish startup Polldaddy (which is my poll service of choice and used in this blog). This is to further push and make WordPress better more than other things, similar to the recent acquisition of IntenseDebate. However, the acquisition, just like IntenseDebate and Gravatar, will not lead to exclusivity of the service to WordPress users.
Polldaddy’s stiff competitor in the Poll service space is Vizu, which provide features that daddy’s poll doesn’t provide. However, the same can be said for Vizu, and thus I created a test post displaying the two top poll services side-by-side: POLL: Where are you from?
Congratulations and good luck to Polldaddy and Automattic!
Originally Posted at: Technology Playground™.
Filed under Blogging, Internet, Software · Tags: Automattic, gameshogun, Gravatar, IntenseDebate, PollDaddy, wordpressMSN Groups Migrating to Multiply
October 16, 2008 · Comments
MSN Groups, one of the last remnants of the MSN Brand, is going to shutdown its services on February 21, 2009. All groups in the service will be given a chance to move their group, discussions, files, and histories over to Multiply – the 8th largest Social Network today.
The optional migration will hopefully start next week, as MSN and Multiply do the final testing on the scripts. After this, Microsoft will be able to concentrate and pool all their resources to the upcoming Windows Live Groups.
Below is the letter posted by Charlotte Jones, Group Product Manager of Microsoft, in the CommunityFeedback of MSN Groups.
You may have heard rumors that MSN Groups will in closing, I’d like to respond to those here so that our most active users have the information you need to manage your groups effectively. It is true that we are planning to close the MSN Groups service on February 21, 2009 and will offer you the opportunity to move your group to our new partner service, Multiply. We understand the importance of keeping your group together, so we partnered with Multiply to create a migration process that moves your group to their service to preserve your online community and its history.
The migration method that Multiply has built for you is still in the beta stage, we plan to open it next week. Once the service is ready we’ll be sending all of our users an email and will post notices within the MSN Groups site with more information, including instructions for beginning the migration process. In the meantime I encourage you to visit http://Multiply.com to get to know the service and see some of the thousands of groups they host already.
The natural question to ask in this situation is why we are closing MSN Groups. It is our goal to provide our customers with the most current and user friendly technology available today. We made the difficult decision to close the MSN Groups service as part of an overall investment in updating and re-aligning our online services with Windows Live. In the long term we believe that closing the service is the best way to continue to offer innovative, best of breed services that help you stay in touch with the people you care about. It’s very important to us that you keep the data you created using MSN Groups and that is why we have partnered with Multiply, so you can keep your group going into the future despite the closure of MSN Groups.
Between today and February 21, 2009 the MSN Groups service will remain the same as it is now. We will remove the option to add more storage to your group but other features will remain until the service is shut down and you can use it the same way you do today until the date of closure. Watch the site and your email inbox over the next week as we will post updated information there, including a more detailed outline of your options and next steps.
Regards,
Charlotte Jones, Group Product Manager, Microsoft
Originally Posted at: Technology Playground™. Filed under Internet · Tags: gameshogun, Groups, Live, microsoft, MSN, Multiply, windows
Android and iPhone gets 1st MMO
October 16, 2008 · Comments
MMOs for Mobile Phones
It’s been years since the first announcement about an MMO for Mobile Phones – Nokia’s HinterWars: The Aterian Invasion. It’s defined as:
the revolutinoary dual-platform Symbian Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Game (3MOG) that allows gamers to play simultaneously with tens of thousands of others using either their Nokia Series 60 and Nokia N-Series gamedeck or their PC.
(as copied from the official site)
Well, MMOs for Mobile Phones are getting closer and closer to reality.
But first, we have to check out how the journey continued after Nokia’s HinterWars. The next step (or maybe backstep) was the availability of Mobile Applications that allows a player to check his character and his friend’s statistics.
For example, the EVE Tracker by Saggy Software, that keeps you updated on your pilots.
The features available are:
- Pilot pager – track your pilots; includes attributes, race, gender, bloodline, and more
- Currently training skill
- Pilot skills
- Skills database – search the skills database and plan the future of your pilot
There is also Rudip’s Warcraft Characters, that tracks your World of Warcraft characters anywhere and everywhere.
It features:
- Checking all your characters
- A summary of your character, similar to what’s seen on WoWArmory
- Ability to see all the items you are wearing
- See the ‘tooltip’ of the items
- Track your reputation stats
- Worldwide support for WoW-US, WoW-EU, WoW-KR, WoW-CN, and WoW-TW
These two applications are available for Apple’s iPhone only, but we can see how the MMO world slowly invades our mobile phones. A short stage but with a wide effect and opened plenty of possibilities for the players and the companies alike. Today, welcome the new kid on the block, a Mobile MMO by PerBlue entitled Parallel Kingdom: Age of Exploration.
As the name suggests, this Mobile MMO is set on a parallel world much like Earth. In fact, this world is on top of our world! Or if you’ve seen the movie – “The Spiderwick Chronicles” (or read the book), there is another world right here on our own planet that we can only see by some ‘means’.
This is what Parallel Kingdom is, and that ‘means’ is the iPhone and Android-based phones. By using GPS (Global Positioning System) combining it with the virtual world, a player will be able to explore this parallel world as s/he travels around the real-world (products that use GPS are called geo-aware).
Get to fight monsters in this virtual world, collect gold in this world, and even have a duel with another player (you two must be near each other in-real-world). The virtual world itself shows a Google Map of where you are in the real-world, imagine your phone as the window to another world giving you a visual of what our naked eyes can not see.
Parallel Kingdom is set to launch on October 31, and will use the same game network regardless if you are an Android user and your friend is an iPhone user. The game will be free initially, and we can hope that they release a 3D graphics version that will make use of iPhone’s and Android’s GFX capabilities.
And that is only just the beginning. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team have been conducting polls for the past few months about Mobile Phones and Mobile Games, which led fans to believe that the company is considering developing a mobile version of WoW. Philippine online gaming companies are into Mobile Games development already, some are already providing Mobile services link to a player’s account. The possibilities are endless and the future of gaming and mobile phones are merging.
I can’t wait as our lives gets more mobile than ever, bringing online and social entertainment together and wherever we go. I just hope that they do not separate the game worlds between mobile, console, and PC (it’s possible). For now, I’ll wait for Motorola’s first Android Phone, then I’ll join the world of Parallel Kingdom.
Originally posted at: Technology Playground™.
Filed under Cellphones, Gadgets, Gaming, Mobile, Software · Tags: Android, EVE, gameshogun, iPhone, Kingdom, mmorpg, Mobile, nokia, Parallel, warcraftInviting developers from here, there and everywhere…
October 14, 2008 · Comments
Once again, the MSDN Session hits the streets of Mandaluyong this October…
Join us as we debunk the fast spreading urban legend that LinQ to SQL was made for demo purposes only and not real world applications, exploit the full capabilitites of the object-relational mapping technology released with Microsoft .NET Franework 3.5 and Microsoft Visualy Studio 2008…
Real World LinQ to SQL
October 17, 2008, Friday, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Megatrade Hall Function Room B
Summit, 5/F Mega B, SM Megamall, EDSA cor. Doña Julia Vargas Avenue,
Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City
REGISTRATION AND ENTRANCE IS FREE!
See you there!
P.S.
The last time we had an MSDN Session here, some of the participants got confused with the location of the room, so here’s a map for your reference:
Function Room B is located at the CONFERENCE CENTER
Filed under Announcements, Events, News, Software · Tags: developer network, Events, microsoft, msdn
International Conference on Open Source Software for Health (INCOSSH2008)’s Call for Participation by IOSN-InWEnt-USM
October 8, 2008 · Comments
The preceding decade has witnessed numerous new developments with regard to medical knowledge, medical technology and healthcare. To avoid being left behind, it is imperative that we initiate steps so as to be more innovative in exploiting these new advances for the benefit of patients, particularly in Malaysia and throughout the Asia Pacific region in general. In realizing this aim, the Malaysian government has taken the smart initiative in establishing the Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI) which will function to manifest this aspiration particularly for the benefit of the public in the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia as well as throughout Malaysia in general.
The main mission of AMDI is to function as the prime catalyst in producing scientists and dental and medical specialists who are competent, holistic and contemporary in their practice and profession as well as being capable of generating novel discoveries in the fields of medicine and dentistry. To realize this aim, AMDI will adopt a comprehensive approach embracing both clinical and pure sciences in training, service and research. It is envisioned that this “cross fertilization” philosophical approach will foster a fertile and inventive environment that will increase the probability of new discoveries in both dentistry and medicine. Hence, the AMDI infrastructure will be designed to facilitate this cross-fertilization approach.
URL: http://www.amdi.usm.edu.my/
Conference URL: http://bpio.amdi.usm.edu.my/incossh2008
DEADLINE OF APPLICATION: 10 OCTOBER 2008, 1800H (GMT+8)
TARGET AUDIENCE: managers and implementers of health information systems, developers, programmers of health applications
APPLICATION FORM: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pVJdhWBPoeQTF7W3Ug2whXA&hl=en
IMPORTANT DATES
September 15 – October 10 (application period)
October 10-15 (evaluation period)
October 15 (selection and notification of qualified applicants)
October 16 – November 20 (pre-conference discussions and networking)
November 22 (arrival of participants)
November 23 – 25 (conference proper)
November 25 (departure of participants)
Applications are open for institutional participants from CAMBODIA, INDONESIA, PHILIPPINES and VIETNAM.
IMPORTANT:
Everyone is requested to carefully read and understand the criteria, objectives and conditions prior to submission of their applications for evaluation and consideration.
Filed under Events · Tags: Health Software, IOSN, Open Source SoftwareNokia 5800 Announced
October 6, 2008 · Comments
Remember Nokia 5800? The cellphone which was also dubbed as Nokia tube and was also called Xpressmedia instead of Xpressmusic. Nokia had just announced this new phone, anyway I will give you the specifications.
TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Handwriting recognition
microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, 8GB included
81 MB internal memory
128 MB SDRAM memory
ARM 11 369 MHz CPU
HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
Black, Red, Blue
3.15 mega pixels with Carl Zeiss optics, Flash & autofocus
Video (VGA at 30FPS)flash
secondary videocall camera
Built-in GPS receiver
A-GPS support
Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch
Stereo FM radio with RDS
TV out
As you can see, that is a touchscreen phone. What do you think?, can it be the iPhone and iPod touch killer?
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