Have you ever wanted to put some interactive flash content into your PowerPoint presentation? This short tutorial will show you how to play a flash animation from within PowerPoint itself with no additional 3rd party plug-ins needed!

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Check out this awesome video!

Employees at Seagate created this amazing rap video with professional effects and edits during their work hours.

Now that’s what I call support of creativity!

Check out their official site!

As a forum webmaster and a phpBB User myself for quite a while now (a little bit over 2 years), I felt like sharing some of the most useful mods for phpBB3.

Note that “most useful” doesn’t necessary mean powerful. It can sometimes just be handy for you to manage your website or do some tweaks for a more user-friendly interface. Anyhow, here are my picks for the 5 most useful mods:

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If you have requested for the free Ubuntu DVD before Intrepid Ibex was launched, you should have got it delivered to your mail by now. This is the 3rd shipment from Ubuntu that I have received so far. If you have slow internet connection, or just want a free DVD to keep, just request for your free copy.

Here’s the content of the package. It even comes with free stickers!

My collection of ShipIt DVDs…

Grab you free copy now from Ubuntu ShipIt!

We all know that fake copies of DVD are everywhere in China, but we just didn’t know that fake copies of Blu-Ray Discs started to appear as well.

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Today, I will be teaching you how to upload and download files through the command line FTP client. This client should be available on most versions of Windows as well as on Linux.

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I believe you are just as excited as I am. This time, there are 160 changes being made, and let’s all hope WP 2.7 final will be out soon =)

You can download it here: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta3.zip, but of course, as always, we do not recommend you to use this in live production, but only for testing purposes only =)

Here is the original post of WP 2.7’s announcement: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-3/

The Wordpress team has just released yet another blog post about their developmoent on Wordpress 2.7. This time it is about a poll on the project icons. Just a little bit before, they have called for a competitions for all the icon designers to join and submit their iconset. And here they are the finalists, and the fate of these icons are on our hands.

I have quickly glanced through the poll and found some interesting icons. Vote for your favorite icons today!

The poster also mentioned that they will be getting close to Beta3, but still having some IE6 issues =(. Aww, well, wish them the best and hope 2.7 comes out soon!

Read the entire article here: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-project-icon/

“Dude, that’s some old news.” No, not for China. I am in the Shanghai International Airport Terminal 2 right now, and am surfing on the internet via free wi-fi.

“Wi-Fi” was something introduced to China just a few years ago. There might me Wi-Fi everywhere in countries such as America, Canada, but not China.

This summer, I was at KunMing, YunNan, China. It is a developing city at southwestern China, and there is only one (1) Wi-Fi HotSpot there. Nope, it is not in an Airport, but in a coffee shop opened by an American.

Cellphones that equip with Wi-Fi in other countries (such as Nokia N81, N95, etc.) has their Wi-Fi module took away, or disabled. That’s a very strange law, but that’s the way it works, don’t ask me why. If you want to buy a cellphone in China with Wi-Fi, you have to buy those that are imported directly from foreign countries (the so-called “water goods”)

The government is starting to set up hotspots all around the cities right now. In Beijng, there are hotspots inside “2Huan”, which is the city center area. In Shanghai, you can sometimes see “Free Public Wi-Fi” Networks as well.

It is just so good to see there is Wi-Fi available for the public. Let’s hope this growth continues and never stops =)

I spent some time today cleaning my keyboard, (actually, my mom was like “Dude, your keyboard is like very dirty” to me for the whole week now), and found that it was actually VERY disgusting.

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