For the first part, I’ll wrote about jQuery tooltip. We can use tooltip to give users a slight idea about the information on a link before they click on it, you can also use tooltip to display information on a web form about what user should type in the form fields.

jQuery Tooltip

SimpleTip

SimpleTip enables you to easily create tooltips on any element on the page. You can create various tooltips with SimpleTip, the tooltips can be static, dynamic, or even loaded using AJAX with a variety of different visual effects.

Plugin Information, demo and download (all in one page)

Tooltip

This plugin displays a customized tooltip instead of the default one for every element you selected. You can implement the tooltip to many elements (links, images, maps, etc).

Plugin Information | Demo | Download

jTip

jTip loads the the data shown on the tooltip using AJAX. This plugin is very useful to give a hint on a web form.

Plugin Information | Demo | Download

Simplest jQuery Tooltip

A very simple tooltip script, it adds an element to the body when a user roll over a certain element.

Plugin Information | Demo | Download

BeautyTips

BeautyTips is balloon-hint style tootip plugin that is easy to implement. You can set any element to show the tooltip on hover, click, or any bindable event.

Plugin Information | Demo | Download

Barack Obama inauguration was held yesterday in Washington, and millions of people around the world watched the ceremony on TV. If you missed the ceremony, don’t worry. You can still watch the video recorded by people around the world.

Barack Obama Oath of Office

Barack Obama Inauguration Speech

Congratulation Mr. President, your task to bring America and the world to a better place is waiting!

Watch Obama Inauguration Live (cnn.com)

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 front of you are PC/laptop and a broadband internet connection?

Well, good news for you! Many sites are broadcasting the ceremony over the internet to help people that are away from TV to be able to watch the inauguration ceremony live through the internet.

Here are list of sites that will broadcast the Obama Inauguration ceremony live

• Joost
• CNN Live and Facebook
  
• Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
• Presidential Inauguration Comittee
• Hulu online TV

Watch history as it happens!

Free Web 2.0 Logo From LogoInstant.com

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 LogoInstant.com, they distribute and share their custom-made web 2.0 logos to everyone for free. Yes you heard me right, they share logos for free! But if you planning to use the logo for your own purpose, please make sure you read their Term of use.

LogoInstant.com was launch about a year ago with just a couple of logos but look at how they have grown today, up until this article is written they have 34 web 2.0 logos to offer! They are in fire right now, since several days ago they release new logo every day.

The logo published in the site is not a crapply looking one, it was professionally design and well thought of that’s why I think their site’s traffic is increasing in the past weeks.

If you’re looking for inspiration to create a logo for your company or your site, LogoInstant is a good place to look.

URL: http://www.logoinstant.com
Tagline: Download Free Web 2.0 Logo Designs

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 and Photo/Videoblog
• Category B: Business Blog/Portfolio
• Category C: Newspaper/Magazine

The contest is also divided into two phases, qualification and final round. The qualification phases starts from  January 10 until February 14, 2009 and the final round from February 14, 2009 until February 21, 2009. The winner from each category will received US$1000 and the overall winner will received another US$500.

All the design entries will be judge based on the story behind the concept, how well the theme concept presents the site’s content to the viewer and how far it transforms WordPress into something stunning yet well-functioning as a website. The judges are all from ColorlabsProject team, but according to ColorlabsProject they have also invited several guest judges and are still waiting for their confirmation.

Interested in joining the contest? Just head over to http://colorlabsproject.com/blog/contest to read all the rules and how the contest work.

The total prize for this contest is worth up to US$3500!

Joomla

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 Joomla site immediately. The highest security issue that was fixed was Directory Traversal, this issue can allow an attacker to view directory trees on the server.

According to Joomla development team, in total Joomla 1.5.9 fixed about 81 issues that were reported by the community. To view a full list of all the things fixed you can view it on Joomla announcement page.

Download Joomla 1.5.9

• Download Full Package
• Download Upgrade Package

Please remember to backup your files and database before upgrading!

Google New Favicon

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 one! The favicon looks like an image that was drawn by a six-year old. Honestly, what were Google thinking when they change their favicon to this one.

Google Previous Favicon

I still don’t know whether this will be a permanent favicon or they just put it there on special occasion (I wonder what occasion is now).

What do you guys think of this new favicon? Share your thoughts and comments!

Update:
Google wrote about this new favicon on their blog.

Facebook Connect

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, but if you’re using WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal, VBulletin forum or MediaWiki you can add this feature easily because those CMS have a plugin/module to help add Facebook Connect in just a few steps.

Add Facebook Connect on WordPress

Facebook Connect for WordPress

This plugin was developed by a Spanish named Javier Reyes.

Plugin Features

• Build a community for your blog
• Login to your blog using your Facebook account
• Send comments to Facebook profile feed
• Invite your friends to your blog community
• See who visited your blog

Download Plugin

• Download Facebook Connect plugin for WordPress and instalation tutorial
  
• Plugin FAQ

Watch the Video

This video was created by SixJumps.

Add Facebook Connect on Drupal

Facebook Connect For Drupal

This module was developed by lanetscouade.

Module Features

• After logging through Facebook Connect, users can then create a Drupal account on your site
• Users can choose which of their Facebook public information they want to import and synchronize with their Drupal local account, following Facebook Connect API Terms of use
• Users can see which of their Facebook friends already have an account on the Drupal website
• Users can publish a customizable message on their Facebook feed announcing that they have created an account on the Drupal website
• Users can invite their Facebook friends to create an account on the Drupal website

Download Plugin

• Download Facebook Connect module for Drupal
• Support forum

Add Facebook Connect on Movable Type

Facebook Connect For Movable Type

Plugin Features

1. Allows any Facebook user to sign in, comment, and share their actions on Facebook
2. Displays Facebook users’ name and photo next to their comment.
3. Share comment with their network of friends on Facebook

Download Plugin

• Download Facebook Connect plugin for Movable Type

Add Facebook Connect on VBulletin Forum

Facebook Connect For VBulletin

Add-ons Features

• Facebook users will be able to receive Facebook notifications
• News-Feed will be published on to the user’s wall
• Fetch user data from Facebook

Automatically befriend user’s friends

Download Add-Ons

• Download Facebook Connect add-ons for VBulletin Forum

Add Facebook Connect on MediaWiki

Facebook Connect For Mediawiki

Plugin Features

• “Single Sign On” experience via Facebook Connect
• On a successful Connect, creates a new wiki user from their Facebook ID, fills in Real Name from Facebook
• Mouseover tooltips of profile pics and info for Connected users

Download Plugin from SVN
svn co https://fbconnect4mw.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fbconnect4mw/trunk/FBConnect FBConnect

For support and instalation guidelines you can go to http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Connect_Plugin_for_MediaWiki

Add Facebook Connect to Any Sites

If you’re not using one of the CMS listed above, you can still add Facebook Connect feature to your site but it’s gonna be a bit tricky. Here are a list of tutorials from Facebook to help you add Facebook connect to your site manually.

• Facebook Connect Tutorial1
• How To Write A Good Connect App
• How To Write A Good Connect Plugin
• Facebook Connect Fourth Party Code

Best Of Joomla

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, Best Of Joomla also provides a place for Joomla template, extention and Joomla site creators to showcase their templates and extensions on Best Of Joomla site for free.

At the moment Best Of Joomla showcased thousands of free and commercial Joomla templates and probably the biggest site to showcase Joomla templates on the planet! The best thing is you can browse the templates and sort them based on several criterias and if you found templates that you like you can download them for free (for non commercial templates).

In short, Best Of Joomla have contribute a lot to the Joomla community including Joomla template designers, extention creators and also Joomla end-users.

Thank you Best Of Joomla!

URL: http://www.bestofjoomla.com
Tag line: The #1 joomla templates, resources and extensions

Wine

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 Wine is, Wine is an open source application that allows you to run Windows-based applications under your Linux operating system. You don’t even need to installed Windows on other partition. Great huh?

What’s New on Wine 1.1.12?

• You can now run several simple 64 bit application using Wine
• 64-bit code generation in the IDL compiler.
• Wine now support subpixel font rendering
• New version of Gecko engine
• Several bug fixes from the previous release

Download

Binary package: http://www.winehq.org/site/download
Source from repository: http://www.winehq.org/site/git