I know it’s late. The reason I hesitated to publish this post is that… I can’t figure out a way to do the pre-serialization. CS4 won’t respect an application.xml.override like CS3 did, unless you have a volume license (according to the official CS4 deployment manual). So this time I can only share with you the [...]

I don’t wanna say much about Nero. We don’t install a huge piece of crap just to burn some discs.
ImgBurn has always been the perfect replacement. It’s free, it’s compact and it’s powerful. I will also recommend to you the open source InfraRecorder. Ok, I won’t go too far.
The official component (or say “plugin”) foo_burninate.dll [...]

The final version of Firefox 3.0 has been officially released! Though I obtained it from Mozilla FTP some hours before the official launch, I wasn’t stingy to donate another click to help them set a world record. And please don’t you be!

btw, The “last modified date”, 11-June-2008, hints that the final version is actually RC3.
I’ve [...]

Long time ago I asked the (mt) guys for some high resolution (mt) logos but they only showed me these. Apparently, the official ones are not what I was in need of, I still had to make one myself.

Today when I was preparing for renewing my (dv), the logos were brought to my mind. I [...]

Introduction
Lightview is similar to Lightbox yet superior to Lightbox. Since version 2.0, Lightview has been able to overlay not only images but also videos, iframed webpages, and almost anything! It works with all popular browsers. The original Lightview JS is a project by Nick Stakenburg.
Demonstration

The first photo is an individual one, while the rest four [...]

The 5-year-old BlogBus is the earliest and most reputed blog service provider in China. Their 5th anniversary ceremony will be staged this weekend in Wuzhen, an ancient water town south of the Yangtze River. Congrats to them! It’s my great honor to be invited to the event but my schedule wouldn’t let me fly to [...]

What do you use for enhancing the navigation in your admin center? The ancient thing, Admin Drop Down Menu by Ozh, has always been my choice. This plugin is simple yet very useful, it saves you a lot of clicks! But the plugin was designed for WordPress 1.x, and is too old to get along [...]

Attentions have been drew since yesterday by the return of wordpress.com.cn. I also wrote about the issue at my Chinese blog. But friends from all over the world may not have an idea about what is going on. So here’s the story:
WordPress.com.cn came out in late 2005 as a FAKE official Chinese version of wordpress.com. [...]

Want some nice RSS-related images for your web templates? Let’s forget about the so-called “standard” ones. Today Feedicons version 2 by Kuswanto hits the web with 16 new additions. All 33 icons in 16×16 and 32×32 png. FREE and released under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative license.

Download Feedicons 2 at Zeusbox Studio.
Also see another 3 [...]

I’m going to Beijing again in November, for the Chinese Blogger Conference 2007.
Aha, finally I have the chance to meet my good friend Scavin, he owes me one for his new domain name. But of course I’d like to meet more people there. Such as the foreign guy feng37 who currently lives in my city [...]

Yep, I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and started using a new theme “BlueScent”.
I had waited so long for WordPress 2.3 to come and planned to change the permalink structure to better use the native tagging support. But I got stuck at the second thing. Neither of the two reputed redirection plugins worked properly. At last [...]

The permalink structure of this blog has been updated. I used to include “category” in my permalinks but since tags have been greatly promoted in WordPress 2.3, I believe that categories are going to be disfavored by both users and the development team in the future. Thus I abolished it (so far not completely though). [...]

This time the good news comes from Ultimate Tag Warrior, another (used-to-be?) must-have plugin.
First, a bugfix version of UTW Final for the current WordPress has been released. Second, a beta version for WordPress 2.3 is out. And of course, the latter one is what I care about.
So far, three “sub-plugins (things)” has been unveiled to [...]

Extended Live Archives is still one of the most outstanding archives plugin today, though it is losing popularity within WordPress blogsphere. WordPress 2.3 will come with native support for tagging, the upgrade of database structure has resulted in incompatibilities for the current version of ELA and a number of other plugins. A Hongkong blogger Tinyau, [...]

It’s been a long time since my last post. Lately I had been extremely busy with my graduation and the god damned thesis, and now I’m done. Today I finally graduated from university. However that worthless scholar certificate, which I wasted 4 whole years on, is not yet available. Anyway, I am a free man [...]