Lately I’ve been getting too much errors in my browser FireFox.
I’m sure what the cause of those errors but there is an obvious slowness in the broswer especially with gmail chat on.
Sometime I can’t even move from one tab to another and whenever I try to type email, the letters appear too slow.
May be I got too much extensions loaded or conflicting some.

I tried to use Opera sometimes but it’s abit slower page load…or that’s how I feel, plus cant use my favorite extensions.
Anyway it’s very annoying to get errors all the time…if it’s keep happening, me not gonna like it anymore.

Technorati Tags: FireFox Errors, Browsers, Errors

Just now Jason notified me about Lightbox JS upgrade.
Serious shits going on there.

What’s New in Version 2.0

• Image Sets: group related images and navigate through them with ease
• Visual Effects: fancy pants transitions
• Backwards Compatibility: yes!

Very light, fast and way better than flash image effect(don’t start Min Thu).
I mean I prefer this over flash gallery effects.

Check out the “Image Set”, click one image and hover over it to browse forward or backward.
Very cool isn’t it?

So better get one copy and test it yourself. I got to too, I’m abit behind with it.
Download Link Here: Lightbox JS V2.

Technorati Tags: JS, LightBox V2, Image Effect, Scripts

Ping and Trackbacks are quite well known terms in blogger world. I’m not gonna talk about trackback(Blog-Blog/ post-post, notifying this blog uses content/resources related/referenced to that blog) here but like to share some of my notes about blog pinging and my collection of rss ping services.

Ping is the name of a computer network tool used on TCP/IP networks (such as the Internet). It provides a basic test of whether a particular host is operating properly and is reachable on the network from the testing host.
Ref: Wikipedia

If you are a blogger, you might have been using some of the most famous ping services to notify the blogosphere about your site update.
Some of you may not know that everytime you post to your blog, you are sending a ping to one or more services depending on your blogging platform. For example, those of blogspot users are pinging to Weblogs.com ping service everytime you make a new post. Ofcos that is if you specified it under “Setting” > “Publishing” > “Notify to Weblogs.com” to “Yes”.
For wordpress blogs by default includes Ping-O-Matic service. As usual, the good thing about wordpress is that you can add any number of ping urls in the text box specifies there.

There are lots of sites offer XML-RPC ping services on the web to track your site/blog updates. What those do is that, you added new post to your blog, you notify(ping) one of those xml-rpc services and they’ll come and crawl your site which in term updated in their database and make available to their visitors and propably those visitors will visit your site. Ah…something like that.
The main thing is that pinging and xml-rpc services publish your post/site to a wider medium, which is good.

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. It is a very simple protocol, defining only a handful of data types and commands, and the entire description can be printed on two pages of paper. This is in stark contrast to most RPC systems, where the standards documents often run into the thousands of pages and require considerable software support in order to be used.

It was first created by Dave Winer of UserLand Software in 1995 with Microsoft. However, Microsoft considered it too simple and started adding functionality. After several rounds of this, the standard was no longer so simple and became what is now SOAP.
Ref: Wikipedia

The followings are my collection of XML-RPC services. I guess only non blogspot blogs can use that. I suggest blogspot users to use the following links to submit the ping manually:
# Ping.o.matic
# Pingoat
# Blo.gs

You don’t need to add all those in your admin ping list. Only the main links as followed would be enough cos’ they ping to others as well.

Main list I use

• Blo.gs: http://ping.blo.gs/
• BlogRolling: http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
• PingGoat: http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
• Ping-O-Matic: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
• PubSub: http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
• Syndic8 : http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
• Technorati: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
• TopicExchange: http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
• Weblogs.com: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
• WebLogAlot: http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

The List

1. 1470Net: http://1470.net/api/ping
2. a2b: http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
3. Amagle: http://ping.amagle.com/
4. Blo.gs: http://ping.blo.gs/
5. BlogRolling: http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
6. BlogDigger: http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
7. BlogShares: http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
8. BlogsNow: http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
9. BlogStreet: http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
10. Bitacoles: http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

    http://bitacoras.net/ping

11. BlogDB: http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
12. Blogg.de: http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
13. BlogMatcher: http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
14. Blogoole: http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
15. Blogoon : http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
16. BlogPeople: http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
17. BlogRoots: http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
18. Bloggoone: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
19. BulkFeeds: http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
20. Bitacoras: http://ping.bitacoras.com
21. BloggerJP: http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
22. BlogMura: http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
23. BlogBuzzMachine: http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
24. Bakeinu: http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
25. CoreBlog: http://coreblog.org/ping/
26. Cocolog-nifty: http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
27. DataShed: http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
28. Exblog: http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
29. FeedBurner: http://ping.feedburner.com
30. FeedSter: http://api.feedster.com/ping
31. IceRocket: http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
32. Lasermemory: http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
33. My.Yahoo: http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
34. My.YahooRSS: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
35. MyBlog: http://ping.myblog.jp
36. MoreOver: http://api.moreover.com/ping

    http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

37. NewsIsFree: http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
38. PingGoat: http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
39. Ping-O-Matic: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
40. PubSub: http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

    http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

    http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

41. PopDex: http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
42. RootBlog: http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
43. Syndic8: http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
44. SnipSnao: http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
45. Technorati: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
46. TopicExchange: http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
47. Weblogs.com: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

    http://rpc.weblogs.com/

    http://ping.weblogs.se/

48. WebLogAlot: http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
49. Weblogues: http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

Only the links download txt file here. I hope this post helps you.
So next time you browse the net and come across new ping services, save the url and share with me too so that I could update my list.

Resourceful Links:
# Community Server list
# Elloitt Back Ping List
# Blog Herald Ping List
# SEO Black Hat Ping List
# Ensight Ping List

Technorati Tags: XML-RPC, RSS, Ping, Syndication, SEO, Useful, Links, Resources, References, Blogosphere, Services

Just got one more interesting extension : QuickChat

QuickChat is an extension that is designed to allow you to chat about anything on any website with the users that are actively browsing that site.

Pretty cool one, chat with whoever online for visiting site.
Updated to my “Favorite Firefox Extensions List”.
Link: QuickChat

Technorati Tags: Firefox extensions, QuickChat, Firefox, Extensions

Sharing some of my favorite firefox extensions with you. All of them compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.1.

• Web Developer 1.0.2 – Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
• Screen grab! 0.8 – Takes a screen shot using Java.
• LoremIpsum Content Generator 0.4.2 – Uses latin words to create filler content.
• JustBlogIt 0.3 – JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
  
• Performancing 1.1.1 – Excellent Blog posting.
  
• SpellBound Development – Adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions.
• IE Tab 1.0.8 – Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mizilla/Firefox.
• Foxylicious 0.5 – Integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks into your Firefox bookmarks.
• X-Ray 0.6 – See the tags on a page without viewing the sourcecode.
• QuickChat 0.2 – is an extension that is designed to allow you to chat about anything on any website with the users that are actively browsing that site.
  
• Fangs 1.0.0 – Renders a text version of a web page similar to screen reader output.
  
• FireBug 0.3 – Web Debugging Evolved
  
• CSS Viewer 1.0.1 – A simple CSS property viewer
  

So what’s your favorite extensions? Please share with me too.

Technorati Tags: Firefox 1.5.0.1, Extensions, Web Developer, Performancing Firefox, SpellBound, IE Tab, Foxylicious, Screen Grab!, Lorem Ipsum Content Generator, JustBlogIt, Browsers

Is she Burmese? Her surname, “Myint”, sounds very Burmese. She looks like one too.
If she is then great! Good to see some Burmese faces in well recognized companies such this.

Janice Myint
Customer Support

Janice has a Masters of Engineering from Cornell University. She brings with her a great deal of experience working with customers and a commitment to uphold Technorati’s mantra: “Be of Service”. A transplant from Virginia, she lives in San Francisco, co-owns an urban art gallery and retail store in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, and, as a second degree black belt, practices Taekwondo in her spare time.

Oh I wanna complaint about technorati.:D
I can’t see any technorati back links in my wordpress dash board. Before I can see who linked me but now I can’t, been a while now. Don’t know how to fix or it’s technorati problem that they’re not tracking my site??

Link: Technorati Staff Profiles
Check her blog

Technorati Tags: Technorati Staff, Profiles, Burmese, Myanmar, Technorati Back Link Tracking

Have you guys heard of this “Lightbox JS” yet? It’s pretty cool way of displaying images.
It’s really neat and compatible across all modern browsers.

Lightbox JS is a simple piece of JavaScript that allows you to place images above the page rather than within. A thumbnail image can be clicked on to show the full size image ontop of the page which remains darkened in the background. Closing the overlayed image brings the webpage back to normal, the user never leaves the current page.

I got an idea to use this lightbox in a new section that I’m planning to add here. At the moment I’m a bit lazy to test it yet but one of our very own developer has already used that in the new revamp of FijiTimes site and it’s working like a charm. You can have a look at in the story section. Click on the story image to enlarge and see how it go. Cool huh!

Benefits
Places images above your current page, not within. This frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths.

Keeps users on the same page. Clicking to view an image and then having to click the back button to return to your site is bad for continuity (and no fun!).

More info on what/how to use LightBox JS can be find as follows:
# Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar
# LightBox Gone Wild at particletree
# Working Samples at FijiTimes.com

Technorati Tags: LightBox JS, Development, Scripts