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Most searched terms in 2008

2008-12-02T23:24:17Z

Yahoo just published its top 10 of the most searched words in the search engine during the year 2008.

Yahoo is mainly used in USA, so the research top 10 is very American. Google has won the war in a large part of the word (sadly, monopoles are never good).

The singer Britney Spears takes the first place.

In second place we find the wrestling with the term WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) a show totally unknown outside USA. And Barack Obama the future president completes the podium.

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Animusic, musical animations

2008-12-01T19:54:18Z

Animusic is a band composed with a musician and a graphic artist. As their name suggests they make musical animations. All their creations are available on DVD on the site Animusic.com, but we can find some extracts on the video sharing sites.

The first short films were made several years ago. Since that time, the 3D technologies make some progress, but my favourite is one of the firsts, named Pipe Dream.

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Javascript comments check

2008-11-25T19:13:47Z

By default in blogs, when we post an invalid comment (missing field, invalid e-mail...) we arrive on a error page. Unfortunately this method has the following disadvantages:

te be often a standard blog page, white, without your theme,
to require a new page download,
then visitors must go back to correct the comment.

In this article, I will show how to verify the comment fields on your blog instantly with Javascript by showing a error dialog box if something is missing.

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Mickey Mouse's 80th birthday

2008-11-21T22:50:09Z

Another birthday! With 3 days late I wish a happy birthday to the oldest mouse in the world! Mickey Mouse was born on Novembre 18, 1928 date of the first Steamboat Willie release, a cartoon showing Mickey piloting a boat.

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Windows birthday 23 years

2008-11-20T21:58:24Z

Yes, it's on November 20, 1985 that Microsoft released the first Windows.

This first version of the leading OS was build in a year by 55 developers (only!).

Mainly based on the command line MS-DOS, Windows 1.0 brought the graphical interface and the mouse to PC owners.

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Britney Spears Circus on P2P

2008-11-18T14:16:42Z

After AC/DC or others recently, it's Britney Spears' turn to have her album available in the warez world before the release date.

First on the topsites, the music quickly arrives on the P2P networks and other easy access sharing means.

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Self-defense in elevator

2008-11-14T20:22:27Z

A bad guy tries to steal the handbag of an innocent young woman, but she can defend herself! This is the funny video of the week-end.

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AC/DC Black Ice hacked

2008-10-19T09:52:21Z

Bad news for the Australian group AC/DC, the album named Black Ice scheduled for October 20 is already available on the Internet via the P2P networks and other illegal means.

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IMDb is 18 years old

2008-10-17T20:47:59Z

IMDb (Internet Movie Database) the biggest data base on movies, is 18 years old! It's obviously the oldest site on the Web, for a good reason: the first browser only appears one year later.

In fact, the IMDb founder Col Needham explains that he starts publishing movie credits on the newsgroups (usenet, an other Internet protocol, older than the Web HTTP).

Today IMDB.com has became a enormous website, collecting data from thousands movies. From older, to those still in production, pages about actors, but also about TV series and video games. It brings 2 millions visitors a day!

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Drink or drive a bus

2008-10-16T20:57:13Z

Is it better to sit on the back in a bus? This way you get less in case of a frontal chock, or in the front of the bus? This way you are less shaken when the driver is drunk...

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Windows 7 official name

2008-10-14T18:35:46Z

Microsoft has revealed yesterday the official name of the news Windows version, known until now under the code name Windows Seven or Windows 7 because it's the seventh "big" Windows version.

Suspense...

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Be careful phishing

2008-10-09T20:02:29Z

Beware, some seem so real! Some examples of e-mails I received and you must take care.

Phishing consists usually of sending a lot of e-mails by masquerading as a trustworthy entity, which often store money (banks, eBay, PayPal ...), asking you to connect your account for fictitious reasons.

The e-mail contains a link to a perfect clone of the original, but that only used to get you personnal usename and password.

Here are 2 examples of phishing I just receive and that you may get too.

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Nintendo DSi is coming

2008-10-04T18:21:08Z

The new small console from Nintendo, replacing the DS, is called DSi. It was introduced Thursday in Tokyo and et it will be available in a month, on November the 1st, for 18 900 Yens ($85) in Japan.

With Wii and DS, Nintendo has boosted both the company and the entire video game market. These 2 innovative consoles has increased a lot Nintendo sales since 2005.

The DS was the first console not only for gaming, and of course the first with a touch screen, which inspire new kind of games using this capacity. It will be the same with DSi and its new video features.

What's new then is this little DSi:

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Force to download .PDF

2008-09-26T19:23:38Z

With some PDF reader software, including the most popular Adobe Acrobat Reader, the default setting is to open PDF files in the browser when we click on a link to a PDF.

As a webmaster you can force the browser dialog box allowing to choose to open it directly or to save it..

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Firefox 3: boost opening and closing

2008-09-20T17:24:02Z

A small and simple tip to badly accelerate the launch and close of Firefox 3, and especially to avoid a crash which occurs sometimes when closing (Firefox disappears, but remains in memory taking 100% CPU). This happens in particular if the server of one of your extension is down or temporarily down.

To avoid this, and see Firefox 3 opens and closes almost as quickly as Opera, you only have to disable the automatic update for add-ons.

So, you will say add-ons won't be updated then. Yes, that's true, but with the seconds gained on each opening and closing, you will save enough time to update them manually.

I invite you to try, according to me you will keep that setting!

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Sexy medical visit

2008-09-10T20:11:05Z

These gentlemen are at a medical visit. The doctor is very sexy, and as she left her stethoscope under her blouse, she is forced to strip to catch it.

And she has boobs... waouh! It seems to be hot in this room!

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Spyware in Google Chrome?

2008-09-07T00:42:45Z

After the desinstallation of Chrome a process remains in memory, and this process accesses to the registry to modify the security rules of IE and Firefox. A way to continue to spy the user after desinstallation?

Source Flying over Clouds: Google Chrome and the post-desinstallation garbage

Let's see that with more details:

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Pictures of Google Chrome totally naked!

2008-09-07T15:42:12Z

This week all bloggers have followed Chrome like blind sheep and well propagated the advert for Google browser. Like the last celebrity story, they must write a post about Chrome, even to say that they won't use it.

But do the sheep-bloggers who have retransmitted the news on Chrome really know what interest really the leaders of Google?

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Write a text on an image

2008-10-01T19:14:07Z

Here is the next part of the tutorial to include text in images. To understand this, you must have read the basics on images in PHP with GD2.

Images in PHP with GD2 - Part 2 put some text on the image

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Images in PHP with GD2

2008-09-25T21:06:33Z

As I already said earlier, PHP can not only make web pages. We can also generate images. First, let's see how to add a text on an image.

As it's a very long tutorial, which will be followed by other articles about images management in PHP, I divided it in two parts.

Images in PHP with GD2 - Part 1 image creation

Possible uses include

create nice image titles with complex fonts like above (see the image address ),
add a signature text on all your images,
make a captcha (anti-spam image),
put dynamic text coming from PHP variables in images.

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