Kanok’s Balcony

Google just released version 3 of their browser Google Chrome.  This new version claim to be faster than previous release and also more customizable such as now it supports theme.

I personally still cannot see the speed increase from previous version but the theme and movable tab is very interesting.

The new version can be downloaded from Google web here

Plaxo was starting with address book and calendar online synchronize.  It had a rough start that everyone consider its invitation was spam.  But later it proved itself that it was a good application and very useful.  I have used Plaxo to sync my calendar and address book for more than 4 years and also backup to Yahoo and Google calendar.  It also has ‘Premium’ feature with subscription cost.

Until recently, Plaxo decide to move the Outlook sync feature to ‘Premium’ service.  The subscription fee of $49.95 per year is quite steep for me to just sync the pda.  So I have to say goodbye to Plaxo.

Please let me know is there any good and workable alternative for this.  I’m sure that there are a lot of  former users of Plaxo would like to know as well.

Just a quick update. My blog now using Wordpress 2.7.1 released. No more RC.

Just a quick update.  Want to keep in the record that I just upgrade my blog engine to Wordpress 2.7.1-RC1 (release candidate).  It hasn’t been not out yet, only in final beta (sort of).

I’ll keep eyes on how it behave.  Lots of time this weekend anyways.

Facebook เป็น social networking ที่ได้รับความนิยมมากในต่างประเทศ  แต่เมืองไทยจะไม่ค่อยดังซักเท่าไหร่  เพราะส่วนใหญ่คนไทยจะรู้จัก Hi5 ซะมากกว่า   แต่เจ้า Facebook นี้มีคนเป็นสมาชิกถึง 150 ล้านคนทั่วโลก

ปกติแล้วการ login เข้าเวปหลายๆ แห่งนั้นเรื่อง login และ password ก็เป็นปัญหาว่าจะจำกันไม่ไหว  และเดี๋ยวนี้ยิ่งมีผู้ไม่หวังดีทำ phishing ไว้คอยหลอกเอา login / password ไปอีก  ก็เลยมีความคิดเรื่อง OpenID ขึ้นมาที่จะมีหน่วยงานที่เชื่อถือได้ในการ authenticate  ทำให้จำแค่ login / password เฉพาะของ OpenID เท่านั้น  แต่ดูเหมือนว่าจะไม่ค่อยจะได้รับความนิยมเท่าที่ควร

จน Facebook ออก Facebook Connect มา  โดยให้ใช้ login / password ของ Facebook ในการเข้าเวปอื่นๆ ด้วย  และยังสามารถเอาข้อมูลที่เคยให้ไว้กับ Facebook มาใส่ในการลงทะเบียนได้ด้วย  พอเริ่มระบบนี้ขึ้นมาก็เท่ากับมีฐานผู้ใช้อีก 150 ล้านคนทันที

kanok.net/blog ก็ลองเอา Facebook Connect มาใช้ดู  ก็อยากจะรู้เหมือนกันว่าจะมีคนใช้ feature นี้เท่าไหร่   ถ้าใช้แล้วดีหรือไม่ดีอย่างไรก็บอกกันด้วยครับ

Note: ดูเหมือนว่าตอนนี้เจ้า Icon Facebook Connect บน IE ยังจะใช้งานไม่ได้  แต่บน Firefox นั้นเป็นปกติ  กำลังพยายามหาทางแก้อยู่  ดูเหมือนจะเป็น bug ของ plugin

My blog software has been upgraded to version 2.7.0 of Wordpress.  Many change on administrator screen but not much on user side.

Here are the list of new features.

• XMLRPC Comments API (Ticket 7446)
• Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation (Ticket 7643)
• Sticky Posts (Ticket 7457)
• Theme update api, like we do for plugins (Ticket 7519)
• Dashboard and write box rearranging (write box in trunk)
• One-click plugin installs (Ticket 6015)
• Reply to comments from admin (Ticket 7435)
• Core updating (Ticket 5560)
• Frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
• Plugin browser embedded (Ticket 6015)
• PHPXref hosted on WordPress.org
• Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements (Ticket 7151)
• Comment threading (Ticket 7635)
• Comment paging
• Batch and inline editing (Ticket 6815)
• HTTPOnly cookies
• Column hiding for all management pages
• Post box hiding for all edit pages
• Upgrades and install over SFTP
• Template Tag wp_page_menu wrapper for wp_list_pages and support for Home page (Ticket 7698)

Just want to let you know that Microsoft just release Live wave 3 or 3rd edition of Live suite.  Number of online application are included but the one most people know is Messenger.  The new one has Aero look and feel, also can login from multiple PCs.  The other is my favorite, Live Writer.   Let’s have a try.  

Go to http://download.live.com/ and select download.

iPhone 2.0.1 now available through iTunes – Engadget.

I’ve successfully upgrade my blog software to Wordpress 2.6.   What’s new and improvement can be found at www.wordpress.org or if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds spare time, you can watch the video below.

Does anyone know Firefox?  It is a rival Internet browser to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.  The developer claims that it is faster and more secure than IE.  It gain more and more popularity as the market share grows.  The Mozilla foundation is continually develop and add more functionality to this program.  And now it come to the third generation.

For over 34 months that Mozilla foundation and developer around the world develop Firefox 3.  They had announced that the will release long await Firefox 3 on June 17… (see the announcement HERE)   They even have a campaign to set a download World Record.

But wait June 17 on whose time?   Is it GMT, PDT, ICT or what?   It is clearly that they are over joy on their new product and forget that there is time zone in use on this planet.  People on one side that get to June 17 than others wait the whole day wait for Firefox to appears and they announce.  Until later on June 17 they must have tones of e-mail from east side of the world that “where is Firefox on June 17? I’m about to go to bed already”  that they announce that it will be June 17 at 1700 UTC (see the announcement HERE)

By the time they release their product, it is already June 18 here already.

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July 18 1.12 GMT

Now the download link is up.  You can get FF3 by clicking HERE (the link download FF3 direct from Mozilla.com)