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I received an email from Google Analytics Support Team this morning about the release of a new version of the Google Analytics reporting interface. The new version is so much cleaner, faster and easier to use and I am loving it.

Product tour
The following is an excerpt from the email I [...]

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WordPress has just released WordPress 2.2 (Getz) today. I will be downloading and installing it for my blogs in the next few days.
According to the official announcement, WordPress 2.2 has many new features such as:

WordPress Widgets
Full Atom support
A new Blogger importer
Infinite comment stream
Smart plugin detection
Speed optimizations
WYSIWYG support in a future version [...]

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I stumbled upon TIOBE Programming Community Index website when researching about programming languages trends.
My two-cents
Java, C and C++ have been dominating the game for quite some time now, and I think it is going to remain the same for a while. PHP seems to be doing well and more so now with [...]

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5min.com is a very cool web 2.0 site which actually is useful for you. According to their about us page, 5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.
Videos are categorised into 19 main sections with each main section consisting [...]

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Question: How do I connect to mysql database server from command line such as PuTTY and ssh?
Answer: The syntax to connect to mysql from command line is as below:
mysql -uUSERNAME -hHOST -pPASSWORD
Replace USERNAME, HOST and PASSWORD with your actual username, host (database server) and password.

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Digg is currently looking for skilled professionals to join their team. The following positions are available for those interested:

Web Designer (/information architect/ux engineer/standardista/loads of other stuff too)
Database Administrator
Software Developers
Quality Assurance Manager
Quality Assurance Analyst

Technorati Tags: digg, jobs, career, web, designers, developers, database admin

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I am using WordPress as a CMS for one of my websites. For that website, instead of having a default category page, I wanted to have a customised category page which lists titles of all posts under that category. And I also wanted to display a category image if it exists in /wp-content/uploads/images [...]

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TWire has reported that the social networking website MySpace will be acquiring Photobucket, a popular photo sharing website which allow users use to store images to use on ebay, MySpace, Friendster and the likes. The deal is said to be worth about $US250-300 million.
In other news, ebay, the leader in online [...]

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Yahoo! has just released a Browser IM which is an Instant messenger on your web browser. With Yahoo! Browser IM, you no longer have to download a stand alone IM software to your computer.
By dispensing with the need to install and run a separate IM program, Yahoo is looking to reach [...]

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MIX07 seems to be talk of the town this week. What’s MIX07, you ask? It is an event hosted by Microsoft to discuss about latest web technologies, latest Microsoft products such as Windows Vista™, Xbox 360™, Windows Mobile® and Windows Live™, upcoming Microsoft technologies which they call “Technology X” and so on. [...]

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