Woot, just after a short beta releases and now 2.6 is officially released.

I have upgraded to 2.6 now and so far so good.

Cheers

Wordpress 2.6 RC1 has been released. I have upgraded my blog to RC1 and everything works well. Cant wait for the full releases.

Download here and changes:

• Media uploader and gallery improvements
• Image caption and image editing fixes
• Press This fixes
• Ability to toggle between the flash uploader and a regular browser uploader
• Notification bubble on the Plugins menu when plugin updates are available

Wordpress 2.6 Beta 2 now available for download after second week of the Beta releases.

New in Beta 2:

• Insert image and edit image fixes
• SSL fixes
• i18n fixes
• Lots of new inline documentation
• Improved tag auto-suggest
• TinyMCE 3.1.1 with Opera 9.5 and Safari fixes, proper align = center removal, and improved embeds support
• jQuery UI 1.5.1

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Ever heard of OOPrint ? They have a lot of free name card around, yes it is free. All you have to do is pay the shipping fees.

URL: http://www.ooprint.com

Examples:
Business Card

Bloggers Business Card:

I have joined Google Adsense for over 1 year now, finally I got my first payment from Google Adsense in total amount of AUD$107.97 in June 2008. Most of the credits actually generated from last 3 months. Just a few dollars earn from the first 9 months.

100 bucks may be not a big number but it is enough for me to pay my VPS hosting every month.

If you want to get started, head to http://www.google.com/adsense for more information. Signup is free, just copy and paste the ads code to your website and start making money online !

Blizzard has finally and officially announced Diablo III at its World Wide Invitational (WWI) event in Paris 2008.

With current World of Warcraft still going strong. I guess Diablo 3 wont be hitting the street within 4 years time now. Blizzard always announce something and took 4 to 5 years later to release it.

More information can be found here.

Yeah, another new beta releases of Wordpress. Some of the new features pretty impressive like the Theme preview, you can now preview the theme without activate it first ! Post Revisioning, what a great function to get everything logged and you can view them anytime and reverse any changes you have made. Again, this is still in beta version, use as your own risks .

Download here and features as follows:

• Post Revisioning
• A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
• Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
• A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
• Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
• Built-in word counting in the post editor
• The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
• XML-RPC API for changing blog options
• Better SSL support for the Admin
• Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• The ability to relocate your content directory
• The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
• Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
• Customizable default avatars
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
• Check box range selection with shift-click
• TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
• jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
• jQuery UI 1.5
• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Google Talk default installation does not allow users to set their online status. Your friends will always know when you are idle or active. There is a tool called  galwaysidle to solve this problem. After you have installed it, you will be able to set your online status such as Always Active, Always Idle or the normal way.

After the installation, right click your google talk icon at the taskbar and you will see something like this:

Due to the increased of traffic and caused the site constantly crashed and break down. I have upgraded to a better plan and now page load faster than before significantly. Previously running on 128mb of memory and now running with 256mb.

Effective starting on 05 June 2008, fuel price control will be removed and petrol price raised to RM2.70 per litre. A 40.6 percent jump from RM1.92 per litre to RM2.70. Ouch, what a shame. And the worse part is that price could reach 3 to 4 RM per litre in August, said Domestic Trade Minister Shahrir Samad.

Fuel price is just the beginning, food, daily goods and especially gas & electricity will increase as well due to the increased expanses.