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I’ve been a Windows user my whole life. I was born that way. The first computer I remember using seriously (for more than a game of Menace on my AmigaOS) had Windows 3.1 installed. I have Windows XP on my laptop, Windows Vista on my PC, and Windows Mobile on my phone. But I’ve got something to admit: I love Apple’s Safari.

Safari, a web browser developed by Apple, has been the default browser on Macs since about 2003. However, it was released as a public beta for Windows XP and Vista users for the first time in July 2007. I’ve finally given it a try on my XP machine, and I’m loving it.

My default browser has…

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I’d like to say welcome to Simply-Basic’s first sponsor: The Sunday Blog. The Sunday Blog is a new site that’s just getting started. What is it?

We are a kind of news organization, and a type of blog. We plan to release new content every Sunday, much as the most important news of the week would be delivered in your Sunday paper! - Source

Seems interesting enough! It looks like their website’s just finishing construction, but it seems promising. You can see their sponsorship as a text link in the sidebar. Wecome, The Sunday Blog, from Simply-Basic.

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I finally got around to listing my Admin Favicon plugin into the WordPress.org Plugin Repository. It was quite the process. Luckily there was a great tutorial at WBTC. You can check out the plugin’s page here.

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Typically, I’m not a huge image gallery fan. However, when they’re presented right they can truly show off one’s photo album in an artistic way. There are plenty of scripts out there that that use javascript or ajax to create spectacular image gallery effects. CSS Image Gallery from Dynamic Drive, however, uses purely CSS to achieve similar effects. What’s the big deal? By using only CSS, the image gallery is much more versatile in its usage and isn’t effected by users who beef up the security of their browser by disabling javascript. Even more, the gallery looks darn good, too.

CSS Image Gallery

Tutorial presented by Simply-Basic.com
Coded by Dynamic Drive
URL/Demo: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/css-image-gallery/

This code lets you create a gallery of thumbnailed images that…

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While surfing the internet today, I came across something called “The List“. Simply put, it’s a to-do list written in PHP with a MySQL database. It’s actually quite remarkable. It would be the perfect to-do list for a web-based group working on software development, but could be adapted to suite almost any need.

The List would make an interesting addition to WordPress. Hmm, and interesting idea indeed! It’s released under the LGPL license, so it’s easy to adapt. I’m going to play around with it for a while and see how I can adapt it. I’ll report on my findings later. You can visit the release article here, or see a live demo here.

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Tech News »

WordPress Multi User (MU, for short) was recently updated to version 1.3.3. Based on the recent WordPress 2.3.3 upgrade, it fixes a some serious security flaws. Users should upgrade to ensure the integrity of their WordPress blogs. The official download can be found here.