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Great jQuery Tooltip Plugins
2009-02-07 08:32:00
During the last couple of weeks I was involved in redesigning a news portal, the layout I created requires some help from jQuery to make some features work as intended. And during the process, I discovered several neat jQuery plugins that brought my attention. And I’m planning to write about them here in geekTips. For the ...
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Barack Obama Inauguration Video
2009-01-21 06:56:00
Yesterday was a history for all Americans. For the very first time, United States of America has a the first African-American president. Barack Obama after defeating senator John McCain in the U.S 2008 election. Barack Obama inauguration was held yesterday in Washington, and millions of people around the world watched the ceremony on TV. If you ...
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Watch Barack Obama Inauguration Online
2009-01-20 13:45:00
History will be made today. Barack Obama , the first African-American U.S President will be inaugurate today. Most of TV stations around the globe will be broadcasting the ceremony. I bet many people are eager to watch the ceremony on TV. But what if you’re too far away from TV and the only thing you have in ...
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LogoInstant: Free Web 2.0 Logo
2009-01-14 11:35:00
Internet is becoming better each day, you can find almost anything free and legal in the internet. Many people share what ever they can with others and with the power of the internet it became possible. Just like people over Logo Instant.com, they distribute and share their custom-made web 2.0 logos to everyone for free. Yes you ...
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WordPress Theme Design Contest Worth US$3500
2009-01-12 02:33:00
Are you a web designer? And are you familiar with WordPress theme? If yes, maybe you should enter WordPress theme design contest held by ColorlabsProject. ColorlabsProject is a premium WordPress theme provider, they are known for delivering high-quality WordPress themes to their members. The contest is devided in to three categories, which are: Category A: General Blog/Lifestream ...
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Joomla 1.5.9 is Available for Download
2009-01-11 05:54:00
Yesterday, the Joomla development team announced the release of Joomla 1.5.9 (code name Vatani). This release fix several security flaw in the previous Joomla 1.5.8. Joomla 1.5.9 was released about two months after 1.58. There are many security issues and bugs were fixed in Joomla 1.5.9, so all Joomla 1.5.x users are adviced to update their ...
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New Google Favicon!
2009-01-11 05:41:00
When trying to try to search something as a material for a new post on Google , I noticed that Google has a new favicon! They changed their favicon several months back and got many negative response for their users. And now they change their logo again and personally I think it even worst than the previous ...
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Add Facebook Connect to Your Site
2009-01-10 01:34:00
Facebook recently launched a new feature called Facebook Connect, it enables Facebook users to share their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any websites they wanted. According to Facebook, this features will enable any websites to implement and offer more features of Facebook Platform. Adding Facebook Connect to your or site is a bit tricky, ...
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Best Of Joomla - The Biggest Joomla Templates, Resources and Extensions
2009-01-09 10:08:00
If you have used Fireboard forum component on your Joomla site, the name Best Of Joomla maybe very familiar to you. Best Of Joomla is the creator of the famous Joomla forum component called FireBoard. The forum component have been used by many Joomla powered sites. Besides creating an open source forum component for Joomla-powered site, ...
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Wine 1.1.12 Was Released
2009-01-03 14:45:00
A great news for all Wine lovers out there, Wine development team recently released newest version of Wine (Wine 1.1.10)! The 1.1.12 release have several new features and some bug fix from the previous release which will resulted in a better user experience when running the program. For those of you who don’t have a clue what ...
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Best AJAX Resources on the NET
2008-06-04 18:37:00
Confused with AJAX? Welcome to the club! Or are you looking for AJAX resources? Hold on tight, this article will show you where to find usefull AJAX resources on the internet. For those of you who didn't know AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX is one of web development techniques used for creating interactive web-based applications. read more
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Acrobat.com - Inside Peek on Adobe's Web-Based Document Collaboration Servi
2008-06-03 14:52:00
On June 1st, 2008 Adobe officially launched Acrobat .com beta version for public use, and it's free! Acrobat.com is a web-based version of the popular PDF document creation apps. read more
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Digital Point Forums Down
2008-06-02 16:45:00
I noticed Digital Point forum (also known as DP forum) was down since more than 12 hours ago. When I tried to access the forums this morning (GMT+7) all I get was an error message saying that there was a database error on the forum. read more
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New Google Favicon
2008-06-02 06:19:00
Since a few days ago I noticed that Google have a new favicon on all of their sites (Google main page, Google Adsense, Google, Analytics, etc). To be honest, I really don't like the new Google favicon. In case you didn't noticed, the old Google favicon took the first letter from the Google logo, and in the new logo they took the 4th letter from their logo for the favicon. read more
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Adsense for Feeds from FeedBurner
2008-06-01 02:35:00
Starting next week, Feedburner will launch a new feature in their feed called Adsense for Feeds. Your adsense ad will now show inside your RSS feed page, just like ordinary Adsense ad. For the time being, Adsense for Feeds will only available to a small group of publishers. read more

openSuse 11.0 RC1: Getting Closer to Stable Release
2008-05-31 14:59:00
Good news for openSuse users, the openSuse Project today announce the release of openSuse 11.0 RC1. There are about 578 bugs were fixed, and 1,118 bugs resolved! FYI, is one of Linux distribution and it is sponsored by Novell and AMD. read more
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Wine 1.0 RC3 Was Released
2008-05-31 14:16:00
A few days after RC2 was released, today Wine release another update, Wine 1.0 RC3. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Wine enables you to run Windows applications on Linux platform. read more
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Firefox 3: Setting Up a Guiness Book World Record!
2008-05-30 14:18:00
Mozilla is set to release Firefox 3 stable shortly, and they want to make it big. The SpreadFirefox Community is targetting Guiness Book World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours! read more
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Asus EBOX: Another Asus Breakthrough?
2008-05-26 14:40:00
Asus Ebox, in case you're wondering what that is, Ebox is a desktop version of the popular Asus Eee PC. The launch date for Asus Ebox has also been confirmed, Ebox will be unviel on June 3rd 2008 at a major Computer x show. read more
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phpBB 3: New Improvements, New Cool Features
2008-05-23 17:37:00
phpBB, one of the most pupolar forum software released its newest version phpBB 3 not so long ago. So, what's new in phpBB 3? What makes it better than other competitors and what made Joomla.org official forum migrate from SMF to phpBB not so long after phpBB 3 was released? read more
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Joomla Template Club - Make Your Choice
2008-05-20 16:36:00
Joomla, if you're a big fan of open source CMS I'm sure you often heard that name. Joomla is (I think) the most popular open source CMS right now. With thousands of supporters on the official forum, and thousands of 3rd party add-ons making Joomla has the biggest open source CMS community in the world. And some people realize that this could be a great market to sell something. That's why now we see so many sites offers what we call Joomla Template Club service. read more
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Wine 1.0.0 RC2 Release Date
2008-05-19 18:05:00
The second Release Candidate (RC) for Wine 1.0.0 will be sceduled to be release on May 23rd, 2008. As until May 16th there are still 27 bugs reported and still not yet fixed. Wine developer said that most of those bugs will be fixed on the later release, which means after Wine 1.0.0 RC3 and so son. read more

Best Free WYSIWYG HTML Editor
2008-05-17 12:08:00
WYSIWYG HTML editor is one of the important tools in maintaining articles on your website. Without using a WYSIWYG HTML editor editing or writing an article can be much harder. Hopefully this article can give you a clue on which WYSIWYG HTML editor you should choose for your web-based applications. read more
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Flash Player 10 Beta Was Released!
2008-05-17 08:47:00
At last, Flash Player 10 beta (codename Astro) was released to public yesterday. Many new features comes with this new version. Some of the new features are 3D Effect, advanced text layout engine, more enchanced Drawing API and also some new improvement on visual performance. Adobe Flash Player 10 will also include Adobe's Pixel Blender that can be use by users to build their own pixel filters. read more
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Computer Forensics: Help Solving the Unsolved Case
2008-05-15 14:02:00
Computer forensics, not so many people have heard this term before, but without realizing it we have seen what computer forensics can do in the real world so many times. If you a CSI fans, I bet you know exactly what computer forensics definition is. read more
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Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha Was Released
2008-05-15 07:18:00
Linux Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha is finally released. It is the first alpha release of Fedora 9 with codenamed Sulphur. An alpha release is similar to what Debian calls testing. An alpha release represents a sanitized snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid changes and it will become the next major release. Fedora 9 is available in variety of "spins" of custom boot images for everything from desktop installs to USB devices with improved networking and eyecandy . read more
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Geek Tips Re-aligned
2008-05-14 17:37:00
Finally, after several months using the old crappy theme, tonight I decided to re-align Geek Tips . It took me about 2-3 hours to modify the site layout and make the colors look easier on the eyes. I hope most of my visitors love the modified layout, and I hope I can devoted more time fot Geek Tips. Adios...

AMD Phenom
2008-05-11 07:17:00
It took five years for AMD to shift from Micro Architecture of K8 using AMD Processor Athlon 64/Athlon 64 X2 to Micro Architecture K10. This newest Micro Architecture is using 4 cores AMD Processor either Opteron for server or Phenom for desktop. It is a very long time for Information Technology which runs in a very fast growth in producing one new product. read more

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released
2008-05-08 14:58:00
A very great news for OpenOffice.org users out there, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta is finally released. OpenOffice.org is a well-known open source office application software available for various operating system. read more
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Alexa Changed It's Algorithms
2008-04-18 12:35:00
Starting couple days ago, Alexa changed it's algorithms, making it more accurate it giving traffic rank to almost all web sites in the world. Before changing it's algorithms, Alexa only counted sites traffic juts by Alexa Toolbar installed in visitor's browser and several other methods. read more
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