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.

Barack Obama Oath of Office

Barack Obama Inauguration Speech

Congratulation Mr. President, your task to bring America and the world to a better place is waiting!

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

The contest is also divided into two phases, qualification and final round. The qualification phases starts from  January 10 until February 14, 2009 and the final round from February 14, 2009 until February 21, 2009. The winner from each category will received US$1000 and the overall winner will received another US$500.

All the design entries will be judge based on the story behind the concept, how well the theme concept presents the site’s content to the viewer and how far it transforms WordPress into something stunning yet well-functioning as a website. The judges are all from ColorlabsProject team, but according to ColorlabsProject they have also invited several guest judges and are still waiting for their confirmation.

Interested in joining the contest? Just head over to http://colorlabsproject.com/blog/contest to read all the rules and how the contest work.

The total prize for this contest is worth up to US$3500!

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.

According to Joomla development team, in total Joomla 1.5.9 fixed about 81 issues that were reported by the community. To view a full list of all the things fixed you can view it on Joomla announcement page.

Download Joomla 1.5.9

• Download Full Package
• Download Upgrade Package

Please remember to backup your files and database before upgrading!

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.

Google Previous Favicon

I still don’t know whether this will be a permanent favicon or they just put it there on special occasion (I wonder what occasion is now).

What do you guys think of this new favicon? Share your thoughts and comments!

Update:
Google wrote about this new favicon on their blog.

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?

What’s New on Wine 1.1.12?

• You can now run several simple 64 bit application using Wine
• 64-bit code generation in the IDL compiler.
• Wine now support subpixel font rendering
• New version of Gecko engine
• Several bug fixes from the previous release

Download

Binary package: http://www.winehq.org/site/download
Source from repository: http://www.winehq.org/site/git

New Version of FriendMobilizer is Available

I just got tipped by Andrey Lu from FaceofMobile via email. He said that FaceofMobile proudly release the newest version of FriendMobilizer.

FaceofMobile is mobile application on Pocket PC or Smart phone that will enables you to stay connected to Facebook where ever you go.

FYI, I have use FriendMobilizer from quite some time now and I think it’s a pretty handy to keep me stay connected and get updates anytime I received a new message on Facebook.

And I’m really hoping the new version will make me and the rest of Friendmobilizer users out there more in love with this Facebook mobile application

Here are several new features added to FriendMobilizer

• Changes on main screen
• Best friends features
• Upload photo to Facebook
• Upcoming birthday & relationship change notification
• Find a friend

How to Upgrade

If you already installed the previous version, the upgrade process is not too hard. All you need to do is go to FaceofMobile upgrade page and you’ll be asked to grant permission to allow FriendMobilizer to make changes to your Facebook account upon your request. After that, you’ll be redirected to the download page where you can download the software to your PC or download it directly from your Pocket PC or Smart phone.

Oh and by the way, I want to say Happy New Year to all geekTips readers. I hope you all enjoy your new year holiday and I also hope this year will bring us to a better place.

The stable version is release about a week after the released of WordPress 2.7 RC1, looks like a very fast move from the WordPress team.

There are a lot of new features comes in WordPress 2.7, here are some of them:

• New administration layout (including the dashboard)
• New comment system
• Keyboard shortcut keys for moderating comments
• Sticky posts
• Threaded comments, and more

Download it now and feel the brand new features and administration layout on your blog.

Drupal.org New Design

Drupal.org, the community plumbing site for all Drupal users around the globe is preparing the final iteration for Drupal.org redesign (iteration 11). The team are now in the process of recruiting theme developers to help theme create a base theme and site’s specific theme for Drupal.org.

Besides preparing for redesign, Drupal.org also in the process of porting the site (which still use Drupal 5.x) to Drupal 6.x

You can help contributing to the redesign and porting process by  giving your thoughts and suggestion on these Drupal groups:

• Drupal.org redesign infrastructure group
• Drupal.org redesign group
• Drupal.org theme developers

Or you could just tell what you think about the new design on the latest iteration.

As some of us might know, WordPress 2.7 features a whole new set of new back-end GUI, on 2.7 the backend will have 3 columns unlike WordPress 2.5 and 2.6 which only has 1 to 2 columns which leaves a lot of space if we’re using a  high resolution monitor.

I would personally congrats the development team for their hard work in making WordPress 2.7 closer to its stable release.

Want to try WordPress 2.7 RC1? Download it now, don’t forget to BACKUP your blog!

More info about WordPress 2.7

• WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1
• The Visual Design of 2.7
• The New 2.7 Dashboard
• WordPress 2.7 Wireframes

I haven’t updated the site since July (gosh, such a long time). The main reason is because I was busy with my daily job and hard to find time to wrote again for geekTips. I hope in the future I can write and share many great things on the site in my spare time. Cheers!