During the last couple of weeks I was involved in redesigning a news portal, the layout I created requires some help from jQuery to make some features work as intended. And during the process, I discovered several neat jQuery plugins that brought my attention. And I’m planning to write about them here in geekTips.

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. Read more…

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Yesterday was a history for all Americans. For the very first time, United States of America has a the first African-American president. Barack Obama after defeating senator John McCain in the U.S 2008 election.

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. Read more…

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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. Read more…

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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. Read more…

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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

Read more…

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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. Read more…

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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. Read more…

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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. Read more…

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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. Read more…

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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? Read more…

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