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Mayank Chandak — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:10:58 +0000

Hey everyone. Long time and no new post. Worry not, was a lil busy with college stuff. I’m back again right on track. To let you readers believe me there’s so much in store. I just upgraded the platform to “Wordpress 2.8″ and know what, blogging got even more awesome-er. Wordpress is a true super hero in the CMS sphere. So here’s whats new in 2.8 (from the site).

Major New Improvements

First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.

The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.

If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.

Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.

And Even More

You can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex. The list is exhausting!

Heres a quick video.

Wordle out your mind

Mayank Chandak — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:36:57 +0000

We all have seen tag cloud and then some good looking tag-cloud and even some ‘awesome’ tag clouds but a brilliant imagery of tags thats not necessarily made of tags. It can be made of words you like, a lovely story, a poem or anything for that matter. Thats exactly the thing that this nice site does. Enter a few words, a url or your del.icio.us username and see the magic unroll to a colorful cloud of text. Customization options include fonts, alignment, layout control, language options and much everything

P.S: You need Java Framework installed for it to work properly.

Go Wordle

TypeRacer.com. A useful time-waster.

Mayank Chandak — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:10:38 +0000

We see a lots of time-waster apps each day, but never before have we come across such amazing time-waster which doesn’t even feel like being called a time waster. Its rather a useful web app that lets you hone your typing skills alongside making it a fun game to spend time on. The good part of the app is that it lets you randomly race opponents. Or maybe you could invite few friends for a race. You need to translate the text as-is in the box, with all punctuations and capitals taken care of. What some people might not notice is that it even improves your vocabulary as a bonus, and not to mention a bit of concentration improvements also.

Go hit a game.