Facebook’s new privacy policies are confusing people just as much as the old one did and many users are closing their accounts. Two days agao on June 1, 35 978 Facebook users fufilled their commitment on QuitFaceBookDay to close their account. The reasons for them leaving are not just concerns over privacy, but also a [...]

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The first beta of WordPress 3.0 has just been released and I installed it to try out some of the new features. It’s in the early beta stage so I didn’t expect everything to work correctly, if at all. Setting Up WordPress The installation process went smoothly. It seemed like a typical WordPress install, except [...]

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Novell has completed a project with Microsoft to create an implementation of Silverlight for Linux systems. The product, Moonlight, will allow Linux users to view Silverlight applications, content, and video (including streaming ones) that previously only Windows and Mac users could access. I couldn’t find any references on the Moonlight web site for which version [...]

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I’ve installed the latest version of Eclipse today (version 3.5, Galileo). The Classic version was installed instead of the Eclipse for PHP Developers edition. I started with the base edition of Eclipse (with the Java tools) and adding PHP and other web development components. Download and Install Eclipse The first thing you need to do [...]

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An update for WordPress was released today after a minor security issue was discovered yesterday. A bug in the code allowed a blog user to reset the administrator’s password and cause a new password to be e-mailed to the admin. The attacker would not get access to the account, but the administrator would be inconvenienced [...]

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