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Put some oomph into your blog with Zooomr and Lightbox
Use snazzy image loading effects in your blog with Lightbox JS and a Zooomr account (quick, they’re still offering free pro accounts to bloggers, get yours). Lightbox JS allows you to load larger versions of images on the same page via a cool overlay window. The rest of the page is dimmed with a grayish…
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Zooomr 2.0 now live
After days of being delayed by a denial of service attack, Zooomr finally launched version 2.0 of its service today. Apart from finally being able to try features the Zooomr team has added, I’m just relieved that I can finally use the service. I really like Zooomr, especially with the way it promoted its service…
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Newsforge: A lot to like in Serendipity but nothing compelling to switch
Open source news site Newsforge has published a review of the 1.0 version of Serendipity, the blog script that I used for previous versions of the Cybercafe Experiments. According to the article, installing Serendipity to manage your blog “is a breeze” and shouldn’t be a problem to someone who has experience installing web scripts like…
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Denial of service attack delays Zooomr 2.0 launch
Flickr competitor Zooomr was set to launch version 2.0 of its service last week and it created such a loud buzz with its free pro account offer for bloggers. That launch has been delayed by a denial of service attack. Zooomr said in its blog that the attack has been dealt with and they’re just…
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Running a newsroom intranet on Ubuntu, MediaWiki and a discarded PC
When the newsroom replaced aging computers used by reporters for word processing last year, I salvaged one central processing unit, a pair of RAM modules and the biggest hard disk of the lot with the intention of putting up a newsroom intranet server. I eventually built a newsroom intranet server using various open source PHP/MySQL…