Elephantsquared. » christmas http://elephantsquared.com hypertext & software Sat, 19 May 2012 10:59:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Stalking Santa’s journey around the world http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/stalking-santa-s-journey-around-the-world/ http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/stalking-santa-s-journey-around-the-world/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:25:08 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=1158 Wondering about when Santa is coming to your town this Christmas? No need to worry. Thanks to NORAD that is tracking Santa’s journey around the world, you can find his current location on the 24th. The tracking will start in about 8 hours from now. So get ready for some stalking! You can also stalk him from your mobile phone! Just go to m.noradsanta.org or search for “Santa” in Google Maps.

Wouldn’t be awesome if Santa was using foursquare (..with his Google Nexus One)?! :P

]]> http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/stalking-santa-s-journey-around-the-world/feed/ 0 EtherPad is now OpenSourced! http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/etherpad-is-now-opensourced/ http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/etherpad-is-now-opensourced/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:50:45 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=1148 I guess it is not too soon for Christmas presents. About two weeks ago, AppJet and the Google PR Team announced the acquisition of AppJet (the company and technology behind EtherPad) by Google and a few hours after that they made a second announcement about EtherPad going back online until open sourced. Two days ago, EtherPad announced the release of its source code to the public which can be found here. As they said:

Our goal with this release is to let the world run their own etherpad servers so that the functionality can live on even after we shut down etherpad.com.

So, if you are up for a challenge you can read these instructions for compiling and running the EtherPad open source release and try out your own etherpad server.

]]> http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/etherpad-is-now-opensourced/feed/ 0 WordPress 2.9 and the global undo feature http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-and-the-global-undo-feature/ http://elephantsquared.com/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-and-the-global-undo-feature/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:36:00 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=1144 Ho ho ho! Christmas came earlier for WordPress this year. WordPress 2.9 is out with features that you are going to love. I think the most handy one is the new global undo/”trash” undo feature. There were times when I wished I could go back in time and prevent me from clicking that “delete” button. Well, that times are over now!

Other than that, there a few other exciting new things that come along with WordPress 2.9. First and foremost, the new built-in image editor which allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images. I am sure it will come in very handy when you just want to crop or flip an image just after uploading it. There is also this batch plugin update and compatibility checking and this rocking new feature for easier video embeds that allows you to just paste a URL on its own line and..

have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support

Last but not least, another cool new feature that I am definitely going to use is the automatic database optimization support! All you have to do is add a define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true); to your wp-config.php file and your are done!

Read more about the new WordPress 2.9 release here.

UPDATE: Note to self: I just love the new “squareish” buttons

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