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WordPress 2.5
March 30, 2008
WordPress 2.5 available for download. Many inprovements and new features (database version is 7499).
New User Features
- Admin dashboard redesign
- Dashboard Widgets (Stats, Comments, Incoming Links)
- Multi-file uploading with progress bar
- EXIF extraction
- Search posts and pages, now it includes pages too
- Tag management
- Password strength meter
- Concurrent editing protection
- Few-click plugin upgrades
- built-in Gravatars
- Friendlier visual post editor
- Built-in Galleries (Using the Gallery Shortcode)
New Developer Features
- Salted passwords
- Secure cookies
- Easy taxonomy and URL creation
- Inline documentation
- Database optimization (but no changes in table layout)
- $wpdb->prepare(), almost all of the SQL in WordPress is prepared first
- Media buttons
- Shortcode API
Fixed Bugs and Security Issues from Trac
Related:
- Codex WordPress 2.5
- Changelog WordPress 2.5
- Upgrading WordPress
- WordPress extended Upgrade Guide
New Cities Street View
Google added new imagery to their Street View for Google Maps (Toggle the “Street View” button at the top to get access), 13 new US cities and the Yosemite National Park. They also expanded their coverage in 6 existing Street View cities.
New cities: Albuquerque, Anchorage, Austin, Cleveland, Fairbanks, Little Rock, Madison, Nashville, Rockford, Richmond, Spokane, St. Petersburg and Tampa.
Related:
- Street View: expanding our horizons
Winamp 5.53
Winamp 5.53: Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI and video types (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV), custom appearances called skins, audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins, an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.
What’s New, Changelog Winamp 5.53
Winamp 5.53 Full (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish) - Size: 12.7MB
Winamp 5.53 Full US English - Size: 8.6MB
Winamp 5.53 Pro All (asks for key during install) - Size: 12.7MB
Winamp 5.53 Pro US English (asks for key during install) - Size: 8.6MB
Winamp 5.53 Lite - Size: 2.8MB
Homepage - http://www.winamp.com
XnView 1.93.4
XnView 1.93.4: View and convert all sorts of graphic files. XnView supports more than 400 graphics formats. XnView lets you modify, convert almost anything (gif, bmp, jpeg, png, targa, multipage tiff, camera RAW, jpeg 2000, mpeg, Avi, Quicktime). EXIF & IPTC metadata are also supported. Fast and easy in use.
Download XnView 1.93.4 for Windows (Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP)
Homepage - http://www.xnview.com/
South Park Episodes Online
March 26, 2008
Nice stuff at South Park Studios: Watch Full South Park Episodes Online. Use their Episode Guide or South Park Episode Player to browse the archives. This release covers all 12 seasons. 3000 available short clips are embeddable, unfortunately not the entire episodes.
Related:
- Come on Down to South Park and Watch the Shows Online
Most expensive iPhone
Great gift for someone’s Birthday.. The Princess Plus: Diamond studded iPhone designed by Peter Aloisson. 17.75 carats total with 18 white gold around the edge of the phone (138 princess cut and 180 brilliant cut diamonds on its surface.). Price: 120,000 euro (USD176,400), which makes it the World’s most expensive iPhone.
Related:
- The world’s most expensive iPhone
More Countries Weather Radar Layer
More countries for the Weather Radar Layer in Google Earth. Europe, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico are new added (Europe limited to Germany, France, the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland). Weather data provided by Weather.com. To enable radar in Google Earth, simply check the radar checkbox in the Weather folder.
Related:
- International radar updates in Google Earth
- Google Earth Weather Layers
Safari 3.1
Safari 3.1 Browser released for Mac and Windows. This update is recommended for all Safari users. They improved stability, compatibility, JavaScript performance and security. It supports new Web standards: HTML 5 audio and video tags, as also CSS Animations. More info can be found here: About the Safari 3.1 Update, list of new and improved features.
Safari 3.1 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X v10.4.11, a minimum of 256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Intel-based Mac or a Mac with a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire. Safari 3.1 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.
Related:
- The World’s Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows
