CMS – Joomla, trouble migrating to 1.6 from 1.5.xx with jUpgrade?

Using Firefox..

enable ‘XML-RPC – Joomla’, ‘XML-RPC – Blogger API’ , ‘System – Log’.
and then finally ‘System – Mootools Upgrade’ will appear. enable that.

jUpgrade will work now.

Adobe Flash on Samsung Tab with Google Android

Two Awesome Shell Functions

Put these in your .profile and/or .bashrc file and you’re good to go. Enjoy!

mkcd – Make a directory and then change into it in one go.
extract - Extract all kinds of archived files without having to know what type they are.


mkcd() {
mkdir -p "$*"
cd "$*"
}



extract() {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
*.rar) unrar x $1 ;;
*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;
*.tar) tar xvf $1 ;;
*.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.zip) unzip $1 ;;
*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
*) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via >extract<" ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi
}


Also if you get errors unzipping :

gzip -d file.tar.gz then.. tar -xf file.tar

..extracts without errors.

Apple is Wrong

HTML5 better than Flash? Quite the opposite.

If you watch towads the end of the video on the Android HTML5 animation framerate is like 3 – 12 Frames Per Second. Kinda Pathetic (although they are working on it). While Flash 10.1 is 28 – 30 FPS and looks pretty normal. I benchmarked HTML5/JS VS. FLASH/AS animations myself using an animated cloth simulations and came up with very similar results about 2 months ago.. HTML5 and Javascript is worse than Flash and Actionscript in chewing up CPU AND MEMORY!! It’s what I suspected. HTML5/JS beats flash only when the animated particles / spites or physics crunching is VERY LITE.. when it is intense (lots of stuff going on at once) Flash is FAR SUPERIOR!!! It’s a fact.

Google Buzz Tip #1

If you receive too many frequent Buzz Updates in your Inbox at an annoying rate, but you like having it nonetheless to keep track of your conversations, I have a quick and easy solution:

1. Create a filter in Gmail with the subject keyword ‘Buzz:’ (use the colon or else you may capture any and all emails that simply say Buzz in the subject).

Google Buzz Gmail Filter: Create Subject Filter keyword 'Buzz:'

2. Label it ‘!Buzz’ (exclamation to make it appear at the top for easy access). Here’s the key: To get them to not appear in your inbox constantly, simply check the option that says ‘Skip the Inbox’!

Google Buzz Gmail Filter: Label the Filter '!Buzz' and Check 'Skip the Inbox'

This captures all your buzz updates in one nice place (accessible in your left sidebar filter list links) so you can still keep track of all your conversations with other google buzzers which is after all, the highlight and power behind google buzz!

Silly, yet very effective.

Linux Ubuntu & Adobe Flash Works for Me!

Linux Ubuntu Running 2 Complex Flash RIA’s, 2 Adobe HD Videos, PLUS this picture!!! (Flash Player 10.0)
On an 8 year old 2.2GHZ P4! Please Take Note of the CPU Data. Verdict: Flash works great on Linux!
Websites in the Screenshot : theturn.tv | g.ho.st | hulu | facebook | sumopaint | donkey

Mac OSX & Adobe Flash Works for Me!

Mac OSX Running 7 Complex Flash RIA’s, 2 Adobe HD Videos, & Google Street. My conclusion, It works great!
Websites in the Screenshot : sumopaint | aviary | prezi | splashup | soundation | hulu | hboimagine | googlestreet

So come on Apple users, Even though Apple won’t let Adobe use the GPU pipeline Flash still performs decent without skipping on all these sites with the new Macs. Update your boxes to the latest Flash Player or get a new Machine!

Interview with Steve Jobs..

Why Google is better than Bing

Take a simultaneous look at this search string in Google, Twitter and Bing (on search3) :

_mark

As you can see, the relevancy of the search results in Bing aren’t accurate at all. Why? Because apparently Bing thought it would be ok to toss out part of the search string (in this case the underscore). How dumb. A simple thing that M$ has failed at and the reason that the results I get in Bing are always irrelevant in my experience. This is why I’ve dubbed Bing as the ‘Old Lady Search Engine’.

Because in their effort to simplify the results, they’ve actually made it useless.

Google Chrome Portable (Standalone EXE)

UPDATER NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE. PLEASE USE PORTABLEAPPS.COM VERSION BELOW

Portable Chrome : Google Chrome Portable at PortableApps.com

Are you having problems updating your Chrome using the standard method? Do you want to update it to any available build (dev beta or release) on the fly? Download my Chrome Updater and simply place it in the same root directory (folder) as your Chrome.exe / ChromeLoader.exe and RUN IT!

NOTE: You cannot have Chrome running while you update it.

This works with the portable version of Chrome and should work on the standard installed version as well but is untested on the standard installed version. Feedback is welcome.

Portable Chrome : Google Chrome Portable at PortableApps.com

3 Steps: Place Updater in Chrome Dir, Run updater, Choose Version