You may have probably noticed that there is a new page – Surreal. Yup, it is a new theme of mine, with a colorful background, some blue accent, and [insert advertisements here]. Also, a new version of Dark Autumn has also been released. Compared to the last version, we have added a colorpicker this time for users to choose their own colors.

Both of these themes are now in the WP Themes Directory. How cool is that, you ask? Well, in WP 2.8, you can now search for “surreal” or “dark autumn” and install it directly from your admin panel. No FTP required.

Enjoy these themes, and check back regularly for more cool updates!

Here is 3 simple steps to get a $6.99 GoDaddy.com domain (valid as of date of writing, although I am pretty sure it is going to work for quite a while). While GoDaddy.com is surely not the best one (Slow backend interface, slow resolving, etc.), it is definitely one of the cheapest ones.

Step 1: Go on Google and search for “GoDaddy”… then click on it

You’re then going to see something like the image to the right. Click the link highlighted in light yellow. (Make sure it says $6.99 .COM Domains… if it doesn’t, search again until it does)

Step 2: Search for your desired domain and add to cart

Make sure that you see a yellow message just like the one in the image. If you don’t… go back to step 1 and try again

Step 3: Checkout

That’s it. You will notice that it will only cost you $6.99 (+$0.20 ICANN Fee) without any coupons. Checkout, and have fun!

By the way, it is strongly not recommended to get those “Free extras” as they do not provide that much of a benefit.

A new design of the Firefox addons page just went online. The new interface is much more beautiful to look at and somewhat easier to use. Addons can now be viewed in grids, instead of just lists – lets the users see more addons in one page.

Hmm… a new design makes me wonder… is Firefox 3.5 coming soon? Well, Beta 4 released not a long while ago… If Gold isn’t releasing soon, I suspect at least RC is. (Review on software development stage: Alpha –> Beta –> RC (Feature freeze, if no more bugs, release gold) –> Gold (Final))

Yes, I know, we are doing it again. But what exactly is keeping us busy? (Prepare for a bunch of excuses)

1. Schoolwork – Jonathan is working on a GCE A-Levels Project, while I am preparing for my finals, which are coming in 2 weeks.
2. More schoolwork
3. And of course, schoolwork…
4. Did I mention schoolwork?

But wait, don’t close the window so fast yet. In the midst of this insane schoolwork business, our interest to develop this site are not gone! (and will never be!)! We are actually planning some updates that will be implemented in the near future:

Feedburner RSS Feeds

We have recently switched from the default RSS to the ones powered by Feedburner. We believe that by using Feedburner’s feeds analysis tool, we can better serve you guys with some more updates! So, subscribe now!

New design

Have you gotten bored of this design yet? We have. Considering that, we are planning on a completely new design just to refresh the looks of TechCube. Any suggestions or things you would really want to see in the new design? Feel free to comment!

Twitter Account

In response to the recently REALLY popular micro-blogging service Twitter, we have launched our Twitter account too. Eh, you know what, I don’t feel like announcing it right now. How about this, the first person to guess the account and follows it gets a prize?

Surprises will come as we officially announce the account, so stay tuned!

Okay fine, we admit, we need help

These works are really heavy on us… especially when we are only two teenagers. We are now going to officially call for help in writing content for TechCube. If you think you can do it, please do email us, and we will tell you about all the details!

In addition, if you own a blog and wish to partner with us, please do not hesitate to let us know and affiliate with us!

What about CubePoints?

Like I just mentioned, we are pretty busy with the schoolwork up recently. However, I can ensure you that once we are out of this mess (which for me, in 2 weeks), we will continue developing CubePoints. We have really been reading all your feature requests in the CubePoints page, and we are trying our very best to squeeze time. But you know, it’s hard.

I can almost guarantee you, a new release will be made before June ends.

And oh, we won ThinkQuest!

Remember there were a time during March when we went absolutely silent? Yup, we were participating in the ThinkQuest Competition, and it turns out that we won the first place in the Age 19 and under division! Thanks to all who have supported us!

I have been searching for ThinkQuest-related blogposts recently, and I have found one that is absolutely inspiring. Thanks to this wonderful review, Ben! It is one of the best (as in, depth of analysis) reviews I have ever read on any one of my sites.

Lastly, any questions?

Please do not stop supporting us! I know it is going to sound extremely cliche to say this, but your support to TechCube is our biggest motivation. Here are a few things to show your support:

1. Subscribe to RSS
2. Help if you can
3. Check back regularly!
4. Ask us any questions you have

As a hardcore fan of Google for a long time, I have always supported their products – GMail, Google Calendar, Picasa… everything. Once again, they surprise us with a newest product – Google Wave, something that might just intensely revolutionize, if not take over, the whole internet.

According to Google and their description, “Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”

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Wow! Truly an unexpected release! I woke up this morning and found a link linking to a blog post in Wordpress.org blog saying that WP2.8 Beta 1 is realeased. Unlike WP 2.7 release, there are no polls this time, but completely based on the suggestions made in forum, IRC and Trac. Seems like a great improvement, keep the good work up!

An innovative “answering machine”, namely Wolfram|Alpha has just been launched last night. To sum up the whole site, you can type in just about any questions, and it will return an appropriate answer. Join us in a short trip of this wonderful site.

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Recently, a few friends and I are asked to film a promotional video for our school. In return, our school is willing to provide us with some equipments. One of the equipments we asked is Steadycam, and I just got it today!

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Wow, it has been FAST! Beta was released in around December, and only after 5 months its RC is out. Microsoft has just sent the beta program participants an email announcing that Windows 7 RC is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers already.

“Psh, I am not a MSDN nor a TechNet subscriber. Are you teasing us with your subscription?” Don’t worry, I am not a subscriber either, and so here comes the cool part:

On Tuesday, May 5 (PST), the RC will be available to everyone via our Customer Preview Program.

Yes. 2 more days and you will be able to see a RC version of Windows 7. A lot of different builds were made between 7000 (Beta 1) and this version (which I believe is to be above 7100). Expect a ton of bugfix, improvements, and heck, even new features!

Don’t forget to obtain a copy for yourself at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353271.aspx on May 5!

(Note that you will have to do a fresh install over your Windows installation (yes, even Windows 7) to install the RC. I think it’s worth it though)

This post briefly show you how to created a DIV which centers itself on the page.
It relies on pure CSS and does not require any JavaScript.

To center it vertically, you would need to set a fixed height for your page.

HTML:

<div id="centered">Your centered DIV</div>

CSS:

#centered{
width:700px;
height:400px;
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin-left:-350px;
margin-top: -200px;
}

Preview