In the following screenshot, I rearrange the sci/tech section to the upper left of the front page and add a new custom section, AdSense, with keyword AdSense of course. Then I place the new section on the upper right of the page.

Macromedia Studio 8 features the latest releases of Macromedia Flash Professional 8, Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8, as well as Contribute 3 and FlashPaper 2. The new release improves workflow features and includes new video encoding tools, new CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) enhancements, visual authoring tools for XML, and new tools for authoring and testing mobile content.

Dreamweaver 8 makes the best practices of web development available to everyone, from users working on their first website to those developing advanced web applications with Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). New visual tools in Dreamweaver 8 simplify the integration of XML-based content like RSS feeds into websites and applications using a drag-and-drop workflow. Other advancements include improved code hinting for XML and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT).

Flash Professional 8 enables creative professionals to design and develop interactive content that provides customers with the most engaging online experiences. Flash Professional 8 now includes unique tools for designing graphic effects, animation, text, video, and content for mobile devices. New effects, including drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, and color adjust, permit more compelling designs with pixel-perfect control and precision. The new custom easing tool enables precise control over animation. The revolutionary FlashType font-rendering engine ensures clear, high-quality text. These new expressive features raise the bar for the quality of business and individual websites and improve digital experiences.

Fireworks 8 is unique in its ability to support both vector and bitmap images. The new release adds a range of effects, enabling more beautiful, realistic, and higher-quality web graphics. The latest features include more than 25 new blend modes, such as overlay, color burn, additive, and subtractive, to alter the look of colors and objects. The new shadow effect adds a perspective shadow that gives images greater dimension and depth. Fireworks 8 was designed specifically for web designers as a stand-alone image editing and optimization tools and includes highly efficient roundtrip integration with Dreamweaver 8 and Flash Professional 8, letting users save time by sharing assets without having to reapply changes.

Macromedia Studio now included Contribute and Flash Paper. Contribute enables developers to modify or update content, and FlashPaper converts any file type to PDF or SWF file formats for Web readiness.

As an addition, Macromedia also announced the beta of Macromedia Flash Player 8, the next version of the Flash Player client runtime. Flash Player 8 features a new text-rendering engine, a new video codec, 8-bit alpha channel video, and performance and security improvements.

Taking web video to the next level, Flash Player 8 introduces support for 8-bit alpha channel video, allowing Flash developers to create innovative media compositions with interactive, semi-transparent video overlays over video, text, and graphics. The new video codec offers exceptional video quality at a lower bandwidth, significantly improving the overall viewing experience for users. Flash Player 8 offers substantial performance gains with video, ensuring faster and smoother video playback. Flash Player 8 also dramatically improves runtime performance through optimizations such as more efficient caching and platform-specific enhancements.

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The blogosphere is continuing to grow, with a weblog created every second, according to blog trackers Technorati.

In its latest State of the Blogosphere report, it said the number of blogs it was tracking now stood at more than 14.2m blogs, up from 7.8m in March.

It suggests, on average, the number of blogs is doubling every five months.

Blogs, the homepages of the 21st Century, are free and easy to set up and use. They are popular with people who want to share thoughts online.

They allow for the instant publication of ideas and for interactive conversations, through comments, with friends or strangers.

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– 1 orang blogger baru per detik, korban” trend sesaat? )

Methods and devices for creating and transferring custom emoticons allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication. In one implementation, custom emoticons can be included in a message and transmitted to a receiver in the message. In another implementation, character sequences representing the custom emoticons can be transmitted in the message instead of the custom emoticons in order to preserve performance of text messaging. At the receiving end, the character sequences are replaced by their corresponding custom emoticons, which can be retrieved locally if they have been previously received, or can be retrieved from the sender in a separate communication from the text message if they have not been previously received.

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Latest Changes:

- PDO (PHP Data Objects) – A new native database abstraction layer providing performance, ease-of-use, and flexibility
- Significantly improved language performance mainly due to the new Zend Engine II execution architecture
- The PCRE extension has been updated to PCRE 5.0
- Many more improvements including lots of new functionality & many bug fixes, especially in regards to SOAP, streams and SPL

Download : PHP v5.1.0 (Beta 3)

Key improvements of PHP 5.1 include:

- PDO (PHP Data Objects) – A new native database abstraction layer providing performance, ease-of-use, and flexibility.
- Significantly improved language performance mainly due to the new Zend Engine II execution architecture.
- The PCRE extension has been updated to PCRE 5.0.
- Many more improvements including lots of new functionality & many bug fixes, especially in regards to SOAP, streams and SPL.

Everyone is encouraged to start playing with this beta, although it is not yet recommended for mission-critical production use.

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Couple days after Firefox v1.0.5 released, v1.0.6 coming up and released today. This one only contains a small bugs fixes.

Our preliminary testing doesn’t turn up any issues, but patches similar to the ones we’ve recently taken in the 1.0.6 development builds have created some small bugs in out of the way places in the UI so please poke around and let us know if you find anything not working as it did in previous 1.0.x builds.

Download: Windows (exe) | Windows (zip) | Mac | Linux

Windows: Deer Park Setup Alpha 2.exe
Linux: deerpark-alpha2.installer.tar.gz
Mac: Deer Park Alpha 2.dmg

This release of Deer Park contains:

• Software update system to streamline product upgrades (currently disabled– will be turned on shortly for testing)
• Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance – Fastback
• Drag-and-drop reordering for browser tabs
• Improvements to popup blocking
• Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) – Safari profile migrator, Aqua compliance and shell service
• Several security enhancements

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Skrinsot? Uh, ada sih. Kasih imel kalo mo dikirimin, hihihi.

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Without the Internet, you would not be reading this. There would be no way to instantly find the name of the movie your favorite actor was in five years ago or how much it costs to fly to Aruba. Shopping required braving the elements and the crowds. Paying bills relied on the postal service.

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