I’m officially announcing that I’ve turned 22 two days ago. Couldn’t make this announcement any earlier that this, while I was engaged in various subjects, ex. celebrating my birthday with my girlfriend, calling MediaTemple for my new server I’ve purchased, and lot other stuff going on. But it’s not a big deal whatsoever, because I’m here again, one year older.

I’ve also promised I’ll upgrade my blogs, however iTechnologize is still not updated, for what I should do first is transfer it to the new home. After that, I’ll run things from the beginning again. In the mean time, I’d be glad if someone would suggest me a nice minimalist theme for this blog as I’m not feeling comfortable with either ones I’m choosing from time to tome. Currently I’m unable to take some time and develop a new one for myself, as a matter of fact there are three themes I’ve started to develop and yet remaining uncompleted.

Again, I truly thank you for being so loyal to this blog, I thank you for the visits, I simply thank you for your interest in what I write encourages me to keep on trying harder to offer you new interesting stuff to read. You made my 21th be a very entertaining year for me to have lived and experienced new things.

I consider you’ve noticed that I didn’t publish anything about WordPress 2.6 RC1, and I assume you pretty much know the reason why I didn’t do so. Without further rambling I announce (after Matt of course) the availability of WordPress 2.6 final release. Honestly, I am so excited to write about it.

Personally I had enough time to play with 2.6 beta releases, while ignoring the RC1 I’m jumping right upon the final and enjoying what it’s coming with. The new features have already been mentioned many times, here and in other blogs, so what really matters now is to encourage you download it here. However if you missed anything, a full list of in-the-package features can be found in the official announcement so enjoy of what you’ll face with.

Regardless of my criticism WordPress developers insisted on releasing a Release Candidate, but obviously they followed that no longer than in three days with the final hit, which I’m pretty happy about. I think Matt read and didn’t really like what I’ve said in my previous post about WordPress Betas and RCs. I assume he was on a WordCamp and rushed to get back as soon as possible saying to his guys “Hey, what are you waiting for, release the Final!” In worst case scenarios he would have said “… no matter how much we could improve, just do it.”, or maybe not, this only happened with the major 2.5 version I think. Anyway, this is my fantasy, the story I came up with.

Below you can watch a worth watching video which demonstrates new embedded features in WordPress 2.6.

Earlier I’ve stated that I want to upgrade my blogs before I turn one year older, but I’m not going to hurry though as for tomorrow I have a Web Applications & e-Technology exam, plus I’m waiting for a potential 2.6.1, who knows what may happen. Enjoy it.

A very short note about changes and naming, I was just wondering at least. The latest changes seem to be very promising, and sincerely we’re expecting something very much improved. Now below I’ll provide some useful links so you get a closer feeling of the new WordPress 2.6 Beta3 release.

However, there’s this naming convention which confuses me, probably I lack some necessary information, but why Beta tag has been used instead of RC that the major 2.5 was named after. On his blog posting about Beta3 of the version 2.6 Ryan Boren says:

We have one more week to go before the final release of 2.6.

Now, according to that there will be no Release Candidates hopefully, and oh, the release dates. Well, we all have a bad experience from the long process until 2.5 was released, will the same happen with 2.6 too? I strongly hope not.
It says due in 5 days, so I certainly expect no “due in 22 years” joke again. No serious influence will hit us with the upcoming 2.6 as long as there are a lot of other bloggers who still use 2.3, even 2.1 actually, but for multi-author blogs, well the Post Revisions feature is pretty much welcomed I suppose, plus much more. But anyways, everybody enjoys new features, they ease our work process, make us feel more comfortable.

WordPress 2.5 has been downloaded 1,917,488 times, let us show how much we were disappointed from 2.5 by exceeding this number with surprising downloads of 2.6, but don’t rush, we have to wait for the final.
Or no, maybe we should be polite and spare their servers bandwidth (that was meant to be a joke).

Eventually, I yet expect a response from Matt about my emails I’ve double sent him, as he made a promise about that through commenting here. But hey, popular people are very busy usually, that much so they even forget their promises of a human-to-human. Who am I after all to beg Matt for a response?

However, I’m excited to list a short version of new changes concerning 2.6 Beta3 release plus providing a direct link for downloading 2.6 for you who wish to give it a try before 14th of July is here. As I speak, I’ll be 22 in 20th so I want to update my blogs before I turn one year older.

Some among many changes since the last Beta.

• Image captions
• Yet more inline documentation
• “Add Media” buttons for the RTE full-screen mode
• Theme Preview fixes
• Gallery sorting fixes
• I18N fixes

WordPress Track – full list of latest changes made in 2.6 Beta3 release
Download Now – WordPress 2.6 Beta 3

Wish them luck.

Usually, we all listen to a particular song for its rhythm, or for its lyric, sometimes even for the combination of both.

I’m wondering if you’ve ever heard an Albanian song. You probably didn’t have the chance to, or it didn’t raise your interest, however, I’m extending this time.

Tingulli Trent has faded from the scene for nearly half a year, but they’ve returned with new album. Regardless of the reasons of why they disappeared for so long is none of my business, hence I’m not commenting anything about that, but at least I’m showing you their brand new single which is totally amazing. Chances are that I only feel that way, but I think you’ll enjoy the rhythm too, so here it is for you below, give it a shot who knows what would be the impression afterwards ;).

One Sunset in Prizren

Originally uploaded by Arian.x

It’s been a long since I had the chance to experience such a sunset in my hometown. Probably because I’m always away from home, either never happen to be in the right moment.
Regardless of past unluckiness, yesterday the sky looked really wonderful, as if we were living near the beach, but the tones that covered the sky were simply perfect.

Indeed I didn’t even notice it while I was working on my laptop, but a friend of mine which I seriously need to thank, made me aware (as she knew that I’ve become a photography maniac) of the view outside my window. Outside was raining, so I had to take an umbrella with and then fire couple of shots.

In the end I the results came out to be pleasing, so I can say that I enjoy it. I hope you enjoy it too. After all this something I’ve been trying to catch on Prizren. I’m proud to live in such a beautiful town.

Among many useful and very needed blogging tips for novice bloggers, providing with handful WordPress tips, plugins and everything else related to it, Alex Cristache the man behind Blogsessive.com today has just released a new free WordPress theme. A brief description from Alex concerning the theme is as follows:

Simple Balance theme is a 3 column widget-ready WordPress theme. Some of the features include:

1. Widget-ready left and right sidebars;
2. Top 468×60 ad space;
3. Right sidebar built-in ad space for 125×125 banners;
4. SEO smart coding for titles and content;
5. WordPress 2.5 ready;
6. Valid cross-browser tested XHTML and CSS;
7. Possibility to fully display the latest X posts on homepage instead of the post excerpt (to prevent duplicate content issues);
8. Not to forget, beautifully balanced design;

If you want to get a feeling of theme’s look you can view the provided demo here, but I truly recommend that you go and download here instantly.

A little bit of more info can be found in this link.
For this accomplished work, I think Alex deserves to be hailed, do so if you drop by his place and leave him a comment.

21 hours ago I received an e-mail from adsense-noreply@google.com about the planned retirement of Google’s AdSense Referral program. It’s really not an urgency but they’re giving AdSense users a clue to start cleaning up unnecessary and future useless code so to speak. The last appearance of Referral links will stop showing in the last week of August 2008.

I didn’t really profit that much from this program, actually not from the whole AdSense at all, hence it’s not influencing me in any way. Last time I checked my total income through AdSense was only $0.91, which really is to be ashamed of. However, I know some people who earned hell of a benefit from it, and this news could find them unprepared.

The newly implemented strategy is totally different comparing to the old Referrals. Google has acquired DoubleClick Performics, hence their Affiliate Program will be functioning as part of the Google Affiliate Network. From all this inflection, considering that Google is always “constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers”, there was a sentence that caught my eye for a second while, reading through that email letter:

Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting users located in the United States.

I’m not aware if AdSense Referrals worked the same way only for US advertisers, as I told you I wasn’t much of an AdSense fortunate, but the above statement tells me more or less that users from other countries won’t profit anything using this newly implemented program. At least not for the beginning, probably later on it’ll widen it’s possibilities. Thus, this means that as long as I’m leaving in Kosova, I shall not plan on using this service, instead search for other alternatives. Period.

Whatsoever, there is a sign I’ve usually noticed when a company gets acquired by a bigger one. They usually lack the time to update they’re website once they get pwned. The same detail I noticed at Performics Affiliate Marketing page (see for yourself if page is not altered yet). The Google Affiliate Network logo used there is of the highest resolution possible, they didn’t even think of resizing it. Probably it could be a matter of “feeling proud to be Google” thing or either “I don’t want to use Microsoft Paint to destroy Google’s Logo quality”. Either ways it looks not nice.

Last but not least, AdSense for Search & AdSense for Content are not altered from this deflation. So consider continuing to earn income, if until now you did so. I wish I would though.

I’m indeed feeling a little bit angry. Why do I always have to be the last one to be aware of new things about WordPress. Although I haven’t posted in a while now, keeping track of WordPress events is something that can’t keep me silent.

Ryan Boren just posted about the latest made changes, and believe me the list is quite impressive. He states that 2.6 isn’t a big release as 2.5 was, but I honestly think that this is it, this is how WordPress should be actually. Probably this should have been the “big” 2.5 release. But anyway, here’s the list of new stuff one can experience if one gets 2.6 installed.

• 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

I’m preparing to go out for a tennis match with my cousin, but surely as soon as I return, a brand new WP 2.6 review is expected to show up here. In mean time, if your curiosity pushes you to get hands dirty on 2.6 earlier click and grab it here right away. Laterz.

Not plizz! originally uploaded by Arian.x

It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded a new photo in my Flickr photostream.

P.S. i’ve kept this write post window opened for half of the day now while not knowing what to say about it. So now I think I’m finishing it.
Enjoy my last image :).

Even occasional surf leads to interesting stuff. Sometimes you just drop on a strange site you’ve never ever seen nor heard before. But there’s something that attracts you by any means. And then it’s kinda nice to share it with others.

This is how I currently feel, probably you won’t laugh as much as I did, or even not find it funny but it’s always worth giving it a try. Hope you’ll find it a little entertaining. Whether yes or not, don’t hesitate to shout a comment, it costs you only a few words

Credit: to Travors

But despite of the image, we as humans are expected to always try hard. Even if we’re mushrooms.

It became what it should have been in the beginning. Windows Live Writer team has released an update of their product with significant changes which directly impact Writer users. If they’d have made this improvements a little bit earlier, probably would have saved my time from being forced to finalize my posts from within WordPress admin panel. Speaking of it, Windows Live Writer is publishers number one favorite tool for blogging. If you ever got a chance to drink a coffee with me, most probably you could hear me declare: “There are only two products Microsoft deserves to be acknowledged of, Visual Studio and Windows Live Writer.” In a nutshell, following are the latest changes.

New Features for users:

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements

• Upload videos to Soapbox
• Image cropping and tilting
• Additional border styles
• Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
• Support for centering images

Editing Enhancements

• Auto Linking
• Smart quotes/typographic characters
• Word count

UI Improvements

• Revised main toolbar
• Tabs for view switching
• Improved category control with search/filtering

New for developers:
SDK Updates
What is pretty much obvious once you fire up Live Writer are the tabs to change from three different modes: Edit, Preview and Source. In previous versions this was done only through main menu, now tabs came as a very useful addition.

Image manipulation just got better. Earlier we weren’t able to align any post image left, right or center it. But now when you select an inserted image you’ll have the opportunity to align it as you wish, even various types of borders can be applied. I’ll use the Rounded Corners on this post for they seem to look just nice.

As stated above, cropping & tilting is now the newest opportunity one can experience within Live Writer.

The main menu is much better organized and specific tasks are in appropriate places. Although there’s something I would have made different though. In the top-right of Live Writer’s window there’s this button which has completely the same options as the Weblog menu. If they’d have asked me I would turn that into a Switch blogs button. Thus, giving the user an easier way to select within blogs.
Actual functionality

My suggested modification

And finally, there’s an option called Word Count. Honestly this is where Windows Live Writer Team beats Automattic. WordPress still lacks this function promising to bring it with the future 2.6 release, hopefully.
In Live Writer now you can check how many words your post consists of, paragraphs, characters with and without spaces.
And this post overall consists of

We all love it for it’s simplicity, or at least I do. However, some source claims that Gmail soon will get built-in themes available for it’s users.

I’m not even going into wondering of how the themes will look like or how many of them will be, but what pushes me to write about this, is the thought of why didn’t they make it earlier. Google’s engagement has certainly been much higher upon dealing with troubles caused by other competitors and other particular things rather than worrying about Gmail themes. Plus it could be intentional but the BETA tag still remains there, 4 years and 3 months since it’s initial launch a lot could have been accomplished, considering the fact of Google having 19,156 full-time employees under its giant empire, yet it remains there.

Ultimately, users are able to change the look & feel of GMail, but that in an indirect way of approach, through a GreesMonkey script, using a Firefox extension called Stylish with one, two, three or more user created styles, and again through another Firefox add-on.

If you ask me, there’s no certain need to do that, whether or not Gmail is skinnable makes no real impression to me.
Its functionality is what I like the most.

My honest readers!

I’m very sorry of my absence during all this time.
The last two weeks I’ve gone through a serious fuss with many issues and troubles. Hopefully managed to settle everything down and renormalize again. I’ve put to it’s end another heavy year of my military studies, in the other hand the Computer Science part is almost over, actually it’s over with lectures I just have to deal with the rest of left exams. But that’s trivial for I usually manage it right therefore I don’t panic so much. What matters to me is YOU, the reader, the returning visitor, I’m barely fine without you.

Sincerely, nothing makes more happy to see most of you returning, eventhough I haven’t served you anything new for so long. In relation to that, I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to each of you in particular, while letting you know that during these summer holidays as I’m off from school, I’ll completely engage myself to providing you with interesting articles and various stories from different topics.

While wishing you all the best and a great week, I put this announcement to it’s end and hoping for future contact with everyone.

P.S. I’ve got a new camera hence you could browse my Flickr photostream to enjoy my latest shots, I’m gonna prepare an article for my Canon Rebel XSi.

Cheers, may God bless YOU all!

The arrival of GTA IV was amazing, for gamers their long waiting is over, but for critics. . . well there’s a lot to talk about. Ten days after it’s release GTA IV has totally fascinated its fans. Rockstar put the cap with it above all other available games out there, featuring with the new graphic improvements, new features and gameplay. According to IGN’s Review GTA IV is definitively the best game ever. I don’t want to go into other details for I’m not a gamer myself, instead I’ll provide below some interesting facts where you can get a perfect description about every inch regarding GTA IV.

However, there are two things actually that pushed me to write about this game.

1. In its first week of release, GTA IV was sold in over 6 million copies world-wide, which overpasses not only its previous versions but as a matter of fact all other games on the market could score on their first week of availability, even more than what Microsoft Corp. Halo 3 has scored.
2. The main characters personality represents a mentality of Easter Eastern Europeans. Furthermore, one of main protagonists is an Albanian called Bledar Morina wherewith I’m pretty excited of and feeling glad about this fact.

Nevertheless, besides IGN’s review another more of a freelance’s review is available which I just got aware of, by doing an occasional surf on the net. Before you jump in to see the video review I feel obligated to inform you about the reviewer. He uses an uncensored freedom of speech thus swearing can be heard throughout the video. You’ve been alerted!

Eventually, excluding all my previews experience and unwillingness to play games, I think I’m going to try GTA IV out this time, for I must obliterate my curiosity. You probably have already . . . ?

Yesterday when I’ve published the announcement about launch of European Roadshow sites I’ve neglected to emphasize an important part of that tiresome day. Today, I’d like to fill that gap by sharing some insight with you. I hope we’re all on the same page.

While I together with Valon were working on Come to Europe site I hear him shouting out loud complains about WordPress “Write Post” visual editor. Honestly, this wasn’t the first-in-the-row complain for I’ve had talks to few other colleagues who weren’t feeling comfortable while trying to write down an article from within WordPress. Well, I had to react though for first of all I like to help and feel glad about it, second of all he’s my manager and basically I must had assisted, wasn’t I ?!

For most bloggers using WordPress “Write Post” editor is annoying, and I’m pretty much aware that the visual editor is gimpy, yet it can be improved. Although the improvement should have been done by WordPress developers, which certainly hasn’t, though we are forced to do it manually by using extra plug-ins. Indeed, it’s not really that bad but sometimes adds additional unwanted html tags that alter the look of the post plus switching from the Visual to plain HTML editor to clean them up is a nerve breaker.

Hence, I told him what I am about going to tell you here what one should do if still insists on using “Write Post” rather then switching to whatever 3rd party alternatives. This is what, read ahead.

The easiest and simplest action through which you can lower down the annoyance and give yourself a little more comfort from the buggy TinyMCE used in WordPress is by turning off the visual editor. You can do this with the following steps -> login to your WP dashboard and click your name on the top-right of the page

Then in the Personal Options section uncheck “Use the visual editor when writing”

Finally click the button to save the changes.
And this is all about it, now you’re not going to see Visual Editor unless you re-enable it again. But remember from now on you’re going to need to type a little more coding tags than you used to for advanced editing capabilities now are disabled.

The second alternative is appropriate only if you’re an avid to the Visual Editor and insist on using it again and again, or simply you find it pretty convenient, and right there is the solution for you too. Thank God there are such generous plug-in developers who offer us free plug-ins to improve and ease our work experience.

The plug-in I use (I’m not aware of a better one until today) is called TinyMCE Advanced (click to read more about it) which adds extra advanced functionality to the Visual Editor by extending it’s worthiness. Below is a screenshot of TinyMCE Advanced configuration panel with the extra options that come with it.

To put it into work simply

1. Download.
2. Unzip.
3. Upload to the plugins directory (wp-content/plugins).
4. Activate the plugin.
5. Set your preferences at “Manage - TinyMCE Advanced”.
6. Clear your browser cache.

Finally, after this you’ll feel more confident while preparing a post from within WordPress “Write Post” page plus no annoyances will occur throughout the process. Personally when not writing from my laptop I do use Write Post page to publish my articles, certainly with TinyMCE Advanced enabled, running smoothly and safely.

Initially, I’m sorry for not mentioning earlier that I’ve been working on this but nevertheless they say “better late than never” so here it is the announcement of it’s official launch. Allow me to make the announce a little more official, you know like those Linux Distro’s announces

Today, the Ogilvy Kosova - Interactive Team consisting of me and Valon are pleased to announce the official launch of the European Roadshow in Kosova series of sites making them available for the public. After couple of stressful workaday we managed to launch all three of them, the list is as follows: Come to Europe Kosova (in English), Eja n’Evrope (in Albanian) and Ajmo u Evropu (in Serbian). All three of them serving for the same intention but offered in three different languages for the manner of multi-nationality.

Doubtlessly we used WordPress as the tool to build up our newly launched products for assuredly it’s the best out there. Inspiration was taken from a three-column theme for WordPress called Modicus, however, as you can notice everything has changed fundamentally. All the logos, stars and everything else was designed by Valon, whereas the exhausting yet challenging and entertaining coding part was done by me, finally I can conclude that the new layout came out to have pretty nicely been aligned I think.

In addition to all that I’ll provide the jingle of the European Roadshow, a short 3d animation with a lovely caressing sound in the back. And last but not least if you’re interested in understanding what this fuss is all about I encourage you browse one of the relevant sites with the language you speak.

Yesterday blocking of YouTube links during a usual chat on Microsoft IM both MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger occurred to numerous people. It even happened to me personally. At first it seemed strange to be, thought the problem was lying by me, but after couple of temptations trying to send different YouTube links I realized that it is a Microsoft internal server issue and not mine.

“This block seems to be related to the recent launch of Messenger TV in 20 countries which allows for sharing video clips from MSN Video on messenger.” claims B.E.T.A Daily. That statement justifies the scenario, but certainly only if it’s true, else if it was intentional then honestly I can call it no less than lame move from BIG Corporation’s side. I’m capable to understand every possible undertaken action to beat other rivals, but Microsoft simply didn’t pick the right way this time, to undermine Google Inc. it’s serious number one rival.

Currently everything has pretty much turned back to regular flow for I’ve just tested it and links are sent without a glitch. Therefore it’s no real need to abandon or disuse Microsoft IMs again, but if this occurrences happen to become a habit then assuredly I will reconsider my alternatives. Whatsoever, some dude has gone mad due to this incident whereat dares to nominate all those who continue to use Microsoft products as retarded (note: the post has explicit filthy words).

Update: Windows Live Messenger team justifies their action, yet putting blame on some 3rd party company who maintains the Messenger service for them.

Many alike posts can be found on the net these days about blogging topics, tips & tricks, from a wide range of bloggers. Usually the intention behind those blogging articles is to help beginners with the elementary steps to professional blogging, either explaining the way as they see something convenient or simply pouring some parts of personal experience. As for me, well I think it’s a matter of making analogy between various practical ways or even batter being naturally intelligent to realize by oneself and choose the best appropriate one. One of the best blogs I could come across is Blogsessive, a personal weblog of the newest blogger friend of mine Alex C. Blogsessive is totally committed to providing readers with useful articles and Alex is really good at those.

However, I’m considering that necessary to elaborate my own way of what is the easiest way to lose readers and/or site visitors. These methods are ensured and tested, plus based on my personal experience. Read the five following points to get a clue and even try it yourself (not really) if you want so.

1. Start a blog when you’re in a military academy and know that you’ll be unable to post regularly. This not due to your inability to get insight but due to time limitations and other military related censorships.
2. Start blogging when you have other social obligations and timing constrains. Such examples could be having more than two jobs simultaneously, girlfriend, etc.
3. Don’t create a schedule for publishing new article nor staying up-to-date with latest technology or other events you’re blogging about.
4. Lack of commitment to your blog, not confident whether you will (pretty seriously) blog or neglect this sacred enthusiasm.
5. Don’t prepare and publish anything new for two weeks whatsoever that might be, simply withdraw yourself for couple of days and your readers will wave you goodbye.

All the points emphasized above are real life examples I took out from my blogging experience, especially the last one in bold letters, which honestly is the newest and totally fresh. If you’re curious about it I encourage you to try it out your self and see the immediate desperate results.

P.S. What I learned while being a military cadet is an important rule of being an example for others. I am more ore less being an example in this case, but not a descent and progressive one though. Excuse my absence!

I’d like to remain silent but I certainly can’t. Despite Matt’s attempt for justification through commenting on my previous post about latest WordPress update, again facts are on my side. Four days after the availability of this update, the first issues show up on the stage, one of which could affect all users with enabled registrations plus single author blogs, and the others issues, well a little bit of small complains.

Seen on my Dashboard feeds, Weblog Tools Collection reports about a solved yet unprovided fix for the scenario when a user tries to reset his password, the password reset link sent by email from the system seems to not work giving out the error message “Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.”

A user named Kuja Jhay wonders how the “Please update now” strip is still showing up even after I’ve upgraded to WP 2.5.1?

A Geekologist called Jim Dicecco claims: “I upgraded to version 2.5.1. None of my RSS link pages work. The shortcode is rendered as text in some cases. I’ve tried subbing other plugins but nothing works.”

Jermayn Parker askes: “Any chance this will fix the upload images problem??”

As a matter of fact I cannot deny that this update has been applauded too, nevertheless troubles usually tend to catch the attention more.

A tip for those with the password reset problem is pretty much explained by Ryan McCue a 14 year old WordPress user & developer, it’s a manual way of reseting the password through phpMyAdmin.
Finally, all those who don’t have the opportunity to access phpMyAdmin I’d be glad to make you aware that this known issues have been already fixed but are expected to be released with the future 2.5.2 update.

Update: if by any means waiting for the 2.5.2 update seems too long, Ryan has done a modest work for everyone and compressed the changed files into a .zip archive, so you could overwrite the actuals with the working ones. Hence the patch is available, but of course I take no responsibility if anything goes wrong, consider me more than away from the computer after you’ve read this.

Ever wondered what a Web2.0 application looked like? Or probably you used one but never thought it is one of that kind. WebWare.com is the site where computer users can learn about new and useful Web applications, hence they’ve announced the top 100 winning Web 2.0 applications based on over 1.9 million user votes.

Each of these web applications has been classified in categories like: audio, browsing, commerce and events, communication, productivity, publishing and photography, search and reference, social, utility and security, and video. Unsurprisingly over 15% of all are Google’s products, following comes Yahoo! then Microsoft. There are a lot other apps which I haven’t heard of and not even tested yet, a lot of fun is waiting in front of me, however, I’m also glad to see WordPress on the list, because it fully deserves the award, oh yeah, and Firefox as well, yeah and Vimeo too, and Flickr, and Last.fm, and Gmail, and… (running out of air, need a breath!).

“Microsoft may own the desktop, but not the Web. Online, Google has solid productivity apps.”