Safety Decisions and Credibility on Foursquare

Foursquare is still my primary check-in tool when I’m moving around – despite Facebook Places. But I’d like to share with you how Foursquare influenced my safety decisions and how social media have had affected credibility during my last car service visit. Foursquare tips protected me I already had plugged in my laptop, connected my … Read more

SuveryMonkey Acquires Wufoo Forms

On April 25, SurveyMonkey announced in a press release they’ve acquired the form creator; Wufoo. What is SurveyMonkey? As the name partially describes it, without the monkey, it’s a web-based online survey creator. Some familiar brands using the service is Facebook, Autodesk, Campbell, Samsung and others. What is Wufoo? Because I use wufoo, I’m going … Read more

Google Offers Beta is Out

The group purchasing market opened by Groupon, with Living Social behind their tail are now both being pitted with newly launched Google Offers. Good news for them though is Google Offers is in real beta and only available in selected areas. Quick side note, why I say real beta is because some solutions prefer to … Read more

Votes are Open for Lowyat.Net T-Shirt Design Competition

It’s been about 1-2 years since Lowyat.Net organized a T-shirt design competition. Further supporting the community this year, they’re offering a generous RM5000 cash prize to the grand winner. Don’t play-play! Cast your vote now This year the rules were a little more flexible. They allowed modification of the mascots; red hair boy (no idea … Read more

Rich Interactive Drop Down Navigation Menus

Before there was CSS, I remember using Macromedia Dreamweaver to create dropdown menus and hover behaviors. Dreamweaver would include the necessary Javascript commands and the menus would just work. Then, with CSS and tools like Suckerfish dropdowns, code became cleaner and menu creation became easier. However, it was only ordinary dropdown menus until the trend … Read more

Do you need WordPress 3.1.1?

The answer is; Yes, if you want to strengthen your security and resolve the following issues: Some security hardening to media uploads Performance improvements Fixes for IIS6 support Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks Fixes for various query and taxonomy edge cases that caused some plugin compatibility issues Visual editor not displaying Themes experiencing … Read more