Category: Announcements

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The Big 4: April 23rd, 2011 – Indio, California.

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax; collectively known as “The Big 4” have announced their only United States tour date.

Saturday April 23rd, 2010
Empire Polo Club
81-800 Avenue 51
Indio, CA 92201

Tickets are available on Ticketmaster starting 10:00 AM Friday January 28th, 2011.

http://TheBig4Festival.com/
http://www.facebook.com/thebig4

Note:
I was told by a Danish Elf that the production for this tour is going to be huge. I think the ticket is going to be expensive.

www.metallica.com
www.slayer.net
www.megadeth.com
www.anthrax.com

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LibreOffice 3.3 is now available.

LibreOffice, the spin-off to OpenOffice.org is now available for download.

LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.

From The Document Foundation Blog:

The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download

The Internet, January 25, 2011 – The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today.

Download LibreOffice 3.3 now.

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The Big 4 tour is coming to the US, announcement on Tuesday January 25th, 2011.

Prepare to spend a lot of your hard-earned money to buy the ticket to The Big 4 US Tour. The Big 4 US Tour will be announced at 8:00 AM on Tuesday January 25th, 2011.

http://www.facebook.com/TheBig4

Note:
I was told by a Danish Elf that the production for this tour is going to be huge. I think the ticket is going to be expensive.

www.metallica.com
www.slayer.net
www.megadeth.com
www.anthrax.com

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Today’s word is: Irony

Family Guy introduced new character Joyce Kinney the episode “Excellence in Broadcasting” as the replacement to Diane Simmons who was killed in the episode “And Then There Were Fewer.” The character Joyce Kinney is voiced by Christine Lakin.

So, where’s the irony? Get to the point!

Christine Lakin’s website is an irony in Web design.

Click on the picture for full resolutions of the screen capture.

Notice the nice iPhone design on Lakin’s website? It looks gorgeous.

So, I don’t see anything wrong with it. What’s your point?

Here it is:

Here’s another one:

The site is Flash-based! You can’t view the site on the iPhone while it has iPhone in the design.

Note to Christine:
Your site needs a new design.
If you need to complain to me in person, call Smart Entertainment (John Jacobs’ office) and show this to Mr. Turner. He can find me.
No, Seth McFarlane has nothing to do with this post or any writings on most Family Guy episodes. He got his own writing staff.

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Apple Mail.app and MobileMe Junk Filter need a lot of work.

Apple Mail.app and MobileMe Junk Filter need a lot of work. On daily basis, I mark too many of obviously junk mail on Mail.app and MobileMe such as the ones from bluesquareframe.com and LOL messaging. Gmail and and Yahoo! Mail junk filter work a lot better than the one Mail.app and MobileMe service have.

I saw this in my Mail.app:

An email from an Apple Store with a sales receipt was automatically marked as Junk by Mail.app. That is so ironic.

Apple needs to improve the Junk Mail Filter for MobileMe service. There are enough complaints from users that their MobileMe mail does not filter junk mail as it should. Apparently marking those mail as junk does not seem to improve the junk mail filter algorithm.

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Android 2.2.2 FRG83G for Nexus One.

UPDATE:

I received an email from a colleague late last night:

Weird, my phone updated to 2.2.2 frg83g.

He is referring to his Nexus One receiving Froyo 2.2.2 OTA update. I have a Nexus One also, but I have yet received the Froyo 2.2.2 OTA update. As a matter of fact I’m anticipating Gingerbread 2.3 to be delivered to Nexus One based on the tweet by @googlenexus back in December 20th, 2010. One month in, and still no news about Gingerbread for Nexus One.

I could install a custom Android 2.3 firmware, but I am waiting for the official version.

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Android 2.2.2

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Free WordPress Theme, a lesson in security.

So you are running your own WordPress site. There are a lot of things you need to be aware of to keep it secure. Keep up with the releases, be mindful of the plugins and know where you get the theme from.

Siobhan Ambrose at WPMU.org:

A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words “free WordPress themes,” builtBackwards’ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh’s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for “Free WordPress Themes” are.

…….

Out of the ten sites on the first page of Google, here are the stats:

  • Safe: 1
  • Iffy: 1
  • Avoid: 8

It is not a surprise, just like searching for “free movie download” and getting a list of danger-laden sites. If you a WordPress site hosted by WordPress.com, then you can be assured that it is as safe as it can be. As always, look for free themes through WordPress.org site.

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