Mozilla foundation has released Firefox 3 Alpha with code name Gran Paradiso Alpha 4. This release version is for testing purposes and is built on the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. According to Mozilla Developer site there are no significant unser interface changes, however there are many core layout and rendering improvements.

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MySpace entered to China market, a beta verion of myspace china is released. Unlike other international myspace sites myspce china is managed with local partners. Texyt reported that discussion forums on sensitive topics like Politics and Religion are nowhere in chinese myspace.

Discussion forums on subjects like religion and politics are nowhere to be found on the new Chinese MySpace site, even though these are popular topics on other international MySpace sites. Instead, users are only offered safer topics for conversation, such as humor, sport and movies.

Myspace china will face tougher competition from established Chinese networking sites like WangYou.com, which has distinctive Chinese features and a 11 million user base.

Have you ever seen a yahoo clone, its here. AOL has given a web2.0 look to its portal, but it looks like they have redesigned their site based on yahoo home page. Found via Techcrunch

Scrapblog is a web based application to create photo slideshows, videos and presentations with your media. The user interface of the site is impressive with nice colors and graphics. This is flash application where users can drag and drop their images, videos to create slideshows, vidoes and presentations, these can be printed as a photobook or burned to a dvd.

Registration is not required, just start using the site by using your media collection. There is a large collection of themes, clip art, buttons etc are available to insert in your presentations. It can sync your photos from Flickr, webshots, photobucket, yahoo photos easily or you can upload from your computer. This is a nice tool to show your creativity, worth checking.

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Today my blog was down for some time due to a memory issue in php.ini file in my server. I have never seen this error before and i don’t know what went wrong. I quickly searched on Google and found that this error is caused by insufficient memory allocation in php.ini file. A standard server (linux box) setup comes with 8M memory and we need to increase this to avoid these types of errors.

Error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8192 bytes) in /home/teknobit/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 59

I managed to increase the memory in php.ini to overcome this, i will write here how i did it hoping that it may be useful for somebody.

For those of you who use shared hosting the quick solution would be to add a line in .htaccess file located at your root folder.
php_value memory_limit 24M
here 24M is an example and most of the times this is enough to get your site back, contact your host support if this doesnt work.

First step for this is to locate your php.ini file in the server and to see what is the memory limit (this is shown in the error message). Create a file with the below code and name it something like “test.php”
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Looking for a great striped background for your blog or site, then use Stripe Generator. Its a very easy to use tool with different customizable parameters like stripe color, stripes spacing, orientation, colors etc. After finishing download the background and use it on your blog. This is an amazing Web2.0 product for web designers.

Tired of pixel-by-pixel painting, trying to create seamless stripes textures?
Here we are!
Enjoy using stripe generator!
Unleash your personal style, experiment and download the tile. You can use it directly in your css file or as pattern in Photoshop®!

Clipmarks is a new way of bookmraking system, where you dont have bookmark the whole page instead you clip the portion you want to bookmark. with clipmarks you can clip text, images or video. After clipping you can make them private or public, email or post it to your blog.

Register to use the clipmarks and install the brower extension, now a small button appear beside the URL text area, click on that to enter clip mode. Browse any page it shows some orange lines around the paragraphs or images select those or select portion you want to clip and press the small icon above the selected area.

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Sony is entering in to japanese video sharing network with eyeVio, eyeVio will be go live from Friday. ZDNet reports that this may be a first step from Sony to challenge Google’s Youtube. Currently eyeVio is available to japanese users only, later they will introduce the service in other countries.

Unlike Youtube eyeVio videos can be downloaded to the Sony mobiles and iPods. Users can upload videos from their mobile phones also. Users can select who can view their video and for how long.

Sony said that it will monitor the content uploaded to the service closely to check the video piracy, it expects delas with companies who wants to distribut the video content online. The site is free for users and Sony will generate revenue through advertisements and partenering with media companies.