The most popular self hosted blogging platform, WordPress, has rolled out an upgrade, version 2.9, to all the users. This new version has few cool features to the end users and  many awesome features for the plugin and theme developers.

Here are the few cool features for end users

Built In Image Editor now allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images right inside the WordPress. These are just the tip of many new media handling capabilities that are going to come in the future versions.

Global undo – deleted a post or comment by mistake? Now you can recover it from the Trash feature. What ever we delete(now it’s called move to Trash) are kept in the Trash for 30 days and then permanently deleted. GMail style

Batch plugin update  allows you to update all your outdated plug-ins at one shot. Less work to admins.

Magic Video Embeds -Just paste the URL of the video and it will be embedded magically into the post.

Check this videos for the demonstration of new features

If you are a WordPress developer or a theme designer then you got loads of new features in this release. For a detailed list of these features read WordPress guru Aaron Brazell’s 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9.

Upgrading To WordPress 2.9

The new features of WordPress 2.9 is really tempting me to upgrade techdreams. But before I upgrade I want to make sure that existing theme and supporting plugins are compatible with the new version. So upgraded goodtimes(which uses techdreams theme and plugins) to make sure that everything is going to be smooth. As WordPress promises, the upgrade to 2.9 was very smooth. Tomorrow I’m going to upgrade techdreams to 2.9. What about you? When will you upgrade.

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WordPress 2.9 Released With Built In Image Editor, Undo Deletes And Many More Features

It’s been a month since new content is posted on techdreams. These days I’m little busy spending my time for personal life and some extra time at office too

Soon we will be back at techdreams to provide you all the interesting technology stuff.

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Quick Update

More than a month long wait for Google Wave invite is over. Today morning I received an invitation mail from Google to access Google Wave. Here is the screen grab of my Google Wave inbox.

At a first glance the UI looks very much similar to GMail, but after spending couple of minutes I understood that Google Wave UI is many times powerful than GMail. As I want to blog about this first, i did not explore Google Wave much .

How I Got My Google Wave Invitation?

A month ago I applied for Google Wave invitation and today received invitation mail directly from Google. If you want to know how to get Google Wave invites, read the article Two Ways To Get Google Wave Invitation.

Google Wave Invites Give Away From Tech Dreams

I hope my account will be able to invite at least 8 members to try Google Wave. I’m yet to figure out how to invite others.  So please stand by for Google Wave invites from Tech Dreams.

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I Received Google Wave Invitation

This is an awesome animation that depicts human body as an Industry that process raw material(food) to produce the final product(energy). Don’t miss to watch it.

Thanks Vijay

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Human Body As An Industrial Palace – Awesome Animation

Remember the recent experiment by NASA that bombed Moon to explore water? There was lots of out cry from public but NASA proved that it’s correct in bombing. In a press release yesterday they announced the results of the experiment and said “We didn’t just find a little bit; we found a significant amount”.

Significant amount? Yes seems to close to “a dozen two-gallon buckets” of water is unearthed(may be un-mooned) from the surface where the bombing happened. That’s a great achievement by NASA and some credit goes to India’s Chandrayaan mission that identified water first on Moon.

This great news is celebrated by Google in the best way it always does – decorating the Google home page with a special doodle.

If you visit google.com now, you will see this doodle.

Further Reading

• ‘Significant’ water found on Moon – BBC
• Water Found on Moon, Researchers Say – NY Times
• Water on the Moon Confirmed by NASA Crashes – National Geographic News
• Lunar impact tosses up water and stranger stuff – nature news

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NASA Finds Significant Amount Of Water On Moon – Google Celebrates With a Doodle

The greatest of the eclipse takes place at 19.23 (Universal time) and that is when the eclipse reaches the highest magnitude, which is 0.0763. As the eclipse occurs in the eastern hemisphere, most of the Asian,European and African countries can experience this eclipse.

The following table has the list of few places and the time during which the eclipse occurs there. All the time listed here are the local timings of that place.

CC Image Credit : Fjota

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Lunar Eclipse Hitting The Earth Again

Here come blacksn0w to break all the barriers surrounding your iPhone firmware 3.1.2 and let it free. The much awaited blacksno0w is released by the iPhone hacker team Geohot that unlocks iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS running on firmware 3.1.2.

For detailed step by step instructions on how to use the application to jailbreak the iPhone, read the post Unlock iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware with blacksn0w by Raymond pie.

Please note that this version of blacksn0w does not jail break the older versions like iPhone 2G. This application is intended for only iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users.

Happy Jail breaking

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How To Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware With blacksn0w

The more you use Facebook, the more you love it. As I explore Facebook and it’s features, I’m learning new things. Here is something I learnt new in Facebook – how to set Status Updates page as home page so that I’ll see the status updates as the first thing when logged in.

It’s very simple. Here are simple steps to be followed

1. Click on the More link available just below the left side menu. Now you see an expanded menu list with a stack icon next to each menu item.

3. Drag the Status Updates menu item and move it to the top. That’s all. From now onwards when you login to Facebook, you will see Status Updates as your home page. That’s simple and useful right!

In fact you can set any of the left side menu items as your homepage by just dragging it top the top of the list.

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Facebook: Set Status Updates Page As Home Page

Related: What If Apple Buys Twitter

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What If Twitter Is A Microsoft Application [Geek Fun]

Google Reader is my favorite RSS reader and also the best source of information I read every day. I spend at least 2 – 3 hours a day with Google Reader to read 500+ feeds I’m following.  But after reading “Why I don’t use Google Reader anymore – by Robert Scooble”, I’m all set to replace Google Reader with Twitter Lists.

Twitter Lists. Does this sound unfamiliar to you? Here is an explanation of Twitter Lists by a blog post on Twitter

[Twitter Lists] The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense.

Like how I use to add interesting RSS feeds to my Google Reader account, now I can add interesting tweeters to my Twitter account and arrange them as a List.  The best part of the Twitter Lists is they can be shared publicly and anyone can follow them just a single click.

For instance look at the Twitter Lists shared by Robert Scooble on his account. They are awesome and I’m now following two of his lists Tech News Brands and Tech Companies. The information I read in these tweets is all I see in my Google Reader with a delay of couple of hours. Like this if I find few more lists that can feed my knowledge hunger then I will not even bother to open Google Reader at all.

Out of all the reasons listed by Robert Scooble for not using the Google Reader and moving to Twitter Lists, the most convincing one to me is

I see most news faster on Twitter than in Google Reader. Where did Marissa Mayer announce Google’s deal with Twitter? On Twitter. It didn’t show up on my Google Reader until later after everyone had written blog posts.

Twitter is the king of real time communication and the news on twitter is spread at lightening fast. When I’m able to read the up to the minute news on Twitter Lists, why should I go to Google Reader to read 2 to 3 hours old news?

What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree or disagree that Google Reader is not relevant to us anymore?

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Twitter Lists Is All Set to Replace My Google Reader