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Clean Breast Bid – Facebook Lambasted As Insensitive

Facebook has apologised after it banned images of a British woman's mastectomy scars, published on the social networking site to raise awareness of breast cancer. The company initially rejected the images of Sharon Adams, 45, as "sexual and abusive" but, after a major outcry among users, it reversed the decision, saying it had made a "mistake" in removing the photos. A Facebook group set up in protest, "Get Sharon Adams Picture Back on Facebook for Breast Cancer", attracted more than 2000...

Hacked & Defaced

My TransMY site was hacked and defaced today, thanks to a Turkish coward. I was pretty surprised of how it can happen when the CMS that I was using (Joomla) was supposed to be quite robust in dealing with security compromise like this. I was wrong to conclude that Joomla was littered with exploits and backdoors in it’s coding that has resulted to this attack when I was enlightened by the official Joomla forum that announces a possible compromise that was caused by 3rd party add-ons. In my...

Freed-lance

I have just accomplished a freelance web project for a restaurant by upgrading its site from a traditional HTML based site to a database driven site with a database as the backend powered by PHP. The site endorses strict XHTML rules, SEO-able and more information centric than ever as it was delivered as a portal like running on a CMS (Content Management System). The site contains information of what a restaurant should have - bit of background, location of where to find it, their business...

Embed Clips in Joomblog

Ayer..so taik one.. i came across this Joombot that says it supports all clip playin from YouTube, Google, iFilm, Metacafe & Vimeo. This Joombot was known as AllVideo Bot. I have been dyin, like dyin to find a plugin/bot to enable clip embedding & linking. I got clip embedding working thanks to this JCE editor that supports Flash, QT & WMV. the good thing is it is user friendly & straight forward but the shit thing is, you gotta upload your clips to your webserver to play em!...

Downloading Youtube Videos

Whoa, today is fun cos what? I got some tips from some TransMYian to download clips from Youtube.com. The site is called Keepvid.com. It is very easy to use as the site itself is a multi platform site that supports many sites besides Youtube.com such as Google, iFilm, PutFile, Free Video Blog etc. the download process is easy as all you need to do is copy the clip link from Youtube, paste it in Keepvid, select the source from a drop down selector, press the button - it will generate a link...