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Full Circle Magazine | Issue 18

2008-11-02T16:53:14+08:00

This month:

Command and Conquer - Package Management.
How-To : Program in C - Part 2, Secure Network Drive
Using GIMP - Part 7 and Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
My Story - Ubuntu And Me
Review - Urban Terror
My Opinion - How Many Distros Is Too Many?
MOTU Interview - Harald Sitter
Top 5 - Mind Mapping Applications

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Google Chrome Tips

2008-09-24T22:09:52+08:00

Cybernet have picked a fee tips and tricks for us, Enjoy!

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What hurts the most - Rascal Flatts

2008-09-24T20:34:37+08:00

What hurts the most - Rascal Flatts

WPCoder - Affordable PSD to WordPress Coding

2008-09-16T12:57:19+08:00

Today, WPCandy announce a new site named WPCoder, which is the most affordable and quality-ensured PSD-to-WordPress turnaround site on the net.

For more information, Please visit WPCandy or WPCoder.

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JD-GUI 0.2.5 is out

2008-09-16T08:57:43+08:00

JD-GUI 0.2.5 is ready. It includes minor changes but some important improvments have been added to the core of decompiler. Test it! (Update day: 2008-09-11).

JD-Core is a freeware library that reconstructs Java source code from one or more “.class” files. JD-Core may be used to recover lost source code and explore the source of Java runtime libraries. New features of Java 5, such as annotations, generics or type “enum”, are supported. JD-GUI includes JD-Core library.

JD-GUI is a standalone graphical utility that displays Java source codes of “.class” files. You can browse the reconstructed source code with the JD-GUI for instant access to methods and fields.

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Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator

2008-09-15T02:00:54+08:00

Simply put, this extension will allow you read Chinese on websites. This is useful for just getting around a site, or even MORE useful if you are studying Chinese. It works with both Simplified and Traditional characters, and also allows you to export words to a file to study later.

After installation, you can goto the "customize toolbar" menu and find the green book icon and put it on your firefox toolbar. When you are on a site with Chinese, simply click the green book icon and then put your mouse over Chinese words to view the reading and defintion.

In the extension options dialog you can set a place to save entries to, then when a the popup window with a definition is being displayed, if you press it will export the topmost entry to the file you designated.

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Some 1,600 paper-made pandas are on display in Bordeaux, Southwest...

2008-09-13T00:02:21+08:00

Some 1,600 paper-made pandas are on display in Bordeaux, Southwest France, to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the WWF, September 7, 2008.

Giant panda has been the symbol of WWF since it was formed on September 11, 1961.

A survey released in 2004 revealed that there are about 1,600 pandas to remain in the wild.

Chrome tweaks - free WordPress theme

2008-09-09T00:17:18+08:00

A free WordPress theme based on Google's browser - Chrome.

A nice WordPress theme, I recommend it.

Here are some of the features:

XHTML/CSS valid;
Two sidebars 125px and 300px wide;
Gravatars for comments;
SIFR for headings;
You can edit the logo with Photoshop – included PSD file and font
Ad spots for easy monetization - 300×250px, 125×125px, 468×60px, 120×600px;
Easy to edit;
No sponsored links;
Widget ready - both sidebars support widgets;

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Nginx 0.7.16 for Windows is now available

2008-09-08T20:40:26+08:00

Nginx 0.7.16 for Windows is now available for immediate download.

As usual, Nginx for Windows was built on Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit) using Cygwin. It works on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000.

This software is offered without support and without guarantees in the hopes that it helps you in some way

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Chrome theme for firefox

2008-09-07T23:08:04+08:00

A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Say hello to Chromifox, a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on Windows and Linux, inspired by the default theme from the Google Chrome web browser.

If you like the theme of Chrome, try this one!

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Bright Focus For Firefox

2008-09-05T21:35:33+08:00

Safari displays a blue border about active elements like forms, buttons and links. And the same to Google's Browser Chrome.

In this regard, the only different between these two browsers is the color of the border. Chrome's border color is orange.

how about Firefox? Can it do the same work?

The answer is yes!

The first method is to use a Greasemonkey script named Bright Focus.Of course, before you install this script, you must install Greasemonkey or Stylish.

And the second method is to use userContent.css. yes, you just need to add some css codes to this file and then save.

the code below:

@-moz-document url-prefix(http), url-prefix(file) {
input:focus,
button:focus,
select:focus,
textarea:focus {
  -moz-outline: 2px solid -moz-rgba(16,186,224,0.5) !important;
  -moz-outline-offset: 1px !important;
  -moz-outline-radius: 3px !important;
}
button:focus,
input[type="reset"]:focus,
input[type="button"]:focus,
input[type="submit"]:focus,
input[type="file"] >; input[type="button"]:focus {
  -moz-outline-radius: 5px !important;
}
button:focus::-moz-focus-inner {
  border-color: transparent !important;
}
button::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="reset"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="submit"]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type="file"] >; input[type="button"]::-moz-focus-inner {
  border: 1px dotted transparent !important;
}
textarea:focus, button:focus, select:focus, input:focus {
  -moz-outline-offset: -1px !important;
}
input[type="radio"]:focus {
  -moz-outline-radius: 12px;
  -moz-outline-offset: 0px !important;
}
}

Now, restart your browser, you will see the absolutely beautiful things.

FYI, if you like the chrome's border color, you can replace:

-moz-rgba(16,186,224,0.5)

with

-moz-rgba(252,156,0,0.5)

VisualSVN Server

2008-08-31T18:03:19+08:00

An official introduction to VisualSVN:

VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console.

And the features:

Zero Friction Setup and Maintenance

One package with latest versions of all required components
Next-Next-Finish installation
Smooth upgrade to new version

Enterprise-ready Server for Windows Platform

Stable and secure Apache-based Windows service
Support for SSL connections
Active Directory authentication and authorization with groups support
Based on open protocols and standards
Configured by Subversion committer to work correctly out-of-the-box

User-friendly Management Console

Create, import and remove repositories
Dashboard showing overview status of Subversion server
Manage Subversion security policy
Start, stop and restart service
Repository browser
Manage users and groups
Edit Subversion hooks

And last but not least - VisualSVN Server is completely free!

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iPhone GUI PSD

2008-08-30T23:03:48+08:00

If you like iPhone or if you need the iPhone for you develop application, you will find this design set very useful. all fully editable.

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Use Google Search to Easily Translate Words

2008-08-29T09:21:34+08:00

yep, Google’s translation services is very useful for us.

cybernetnews just point out we can use the www.google.com to translate single words, For example:"translate test into chinese".

And the translation services powered by google only for chinese finally come back.

You just need to type "fy 测试" into google's search box, then you will see the result.

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Show image placeholders in Firefox

2008-08-28T15:36:53+08:00

IE always show borders/outline of where the image would be when it loads but firefox doesn't....

Does firefox supports these featurs too?

yes, it does, if you are using the firefox 3, you can use the userContent.css to fix it.

You just add this bit of CSS code to this usercontent.css file and save. You will then need to restart firefox in order for any usercontent.css changes to take place.

the code is:

/*
 * Show image placeholders
 */
@-moz-document url-prefix(http), url-prefix(file) {
  img:-moz-broken{
    -moz-force-broken-image-icon:1;
    width:24px;
    height:24px;
  }
}

Enjoy!

Some issues of Chyrp

2008-08-06T02:10:59+08:00

ah, I have found some issues of Chyrp.

the first, I don't know why! Alex have restored the videos into feed content, but today, I have posted a video, and then found that feeds have not include the vimeo's video. sigh, Next time, I will test it using youtube's video.

second, some days ago, I have wrote a module named fancyzoom for chyrp, this module is using the FancyZoom JS library, But I like Lightview more than FancyZoom. So, I want to use the Lightview on my site, and I have wrote a module similar to the fancyzoom for chyrp, but it is not working on any browsers, I do not know how to fix the issues.

the end, when I'm writing something in the admin panel, the cpu usage goes to 100%, What's so terrible about this?

I wish Alex can fix these three issues some day.

ReCSS

2008-08-05T21:33:43+08:00

ReCSS — Reload your CSS.

ReCSS is a bookmarklet that makes refreshing your CSS a breeze, if you are web designers, I think you will like it.

usually, when we modify the css file of some web site, we must reload the whole site,but this bookmarklet only reload the css, very valuable.

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Features Planned for WordPress 2.7

2008-08-03T20:31:11+08:00

If WordPress 2.7 comes out,Many plugins should lose his job.

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Chyrp 2.0 RC1 released!

2008-08-02T17:00:15+08:00

Chyrp 2.0 RC1 released! Alex bring us many added, improved, fixed and miscellaneous. You can read the chyrp's blog to get the more informaction, and get the chyrp 2.0 rc1 from here.

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fancyzoom for chyrp

2008-07-30T00:42:01+08:00