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This is probably the easiest way to read RSS feed in PHP, you use simplexml_load_file. It returns a SimpleXMLElement object. The snippet below grabs my blog’s feed and outputs in SimpleXMLElement assigned to the variable $blog. The rest is rather self explanatory.$blog = simplexml_load_file( "http://feeds.feedburner.com/ijustrealized", …
No, and maybe you shouldn’t.The Yahoo! way is about rejecting a business deals and have many shareholders upset and then watch executives start exiting the company. It’s a sad state. Today, Yahoo! trades at around 21USD.
Okay time to use your blain, I mean brain. Albert Einstein explaining the equivalence of energy and matter. E=mc²: Einstein explains his famous formulaAt first I thought it was German or s …
Each text message costs 20 cents without subscription.However, their unlimited plan is pretty attractive if you’re a huge texting fan. In Singapore, text messages costs .5 Singapore cents, pay per use. Unlimited plans are almost strictly available for students. In Japan, they probably don’t use SMS, they email instead which is really cool by the ...
Speaking of Internet Explorer, AVG has been disguising as Internet Explorer to visit websites. Web developers and webmasters aren’t too pleased. AVG’s LinkScanner is estimated having to be downloaded by more than 20 million people. The LinkScanner attempts to disguise itself as a real live human click claiming itself to be Internet Explorer 6. It ...
Hooray, CNET announces a redesign and gives a preview. A screenshot depicts a million characters:Begone yellow. Or gold, whatever you call that color. To me, that color, that yellowy CNET color looks old and tiring. It did not portray well what CNET has to show - new technologies. The new colors are much better, softer ...
A month back, I talked to a friend I shall call Joel since his name is really Joel anyway. We had a short geek talk and he asked me if I have any knowledge on open-source projects.“I only know how to use them, I don’t code for them,” I answered.He continues, “but do you know ...
Take a look at the preferences:I wish they come out with Acrobat Reader Lite or something. Acrobat Reader is just filled with crap I don’t want at all.Adobe Reader actually feels slower and slower these days. I just want something to read my documents with, I don’t want to fill in form, don’t want 3D, ...
How Stuff Works explains how a gasoline pump at a filling station know when the tank is full.How does a gasoline pump at a filling station know when the tank is full?Near the tip of the nozzle is a small hole, and a small pipe leads back from the hole into the handle. Suction is ...
Crashes faster. Five minutes is all it took. [Thanks Wynn.](Google Chrome is faster than Mozilla Firefox.)I like the Incognito icon at the top left. That’s the porn mode right?(Google Chrome Incognito mode.)All in all, Google Chrome looks pretty, responsive and has auto-resurrection in its skill sets. A few more experience points toward a level gain.
I wasn’t really confident before the test with my falling eye lids and my sucky memory. The questions turned out to be easier than I thought.The rules are:Be super nicey to pedestrians and your driving peersHorn? We love our neighbors. If there is an option that says you supposed to wind down your window and ...
In a not-to-surprising move, Jerry Yang steps down as CEO.Yahoo to replace Yang as CEO, ending rocky reignSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. co-foundr Jerry Yang is stepping down as chief exe …
He’s actually listen to the song that plagued the airwaves back when I was secondary school. The same song that got me irritated for reasons too personal to name. How the hell did that surface again. It should’ve been dead and still six feet under.Dr. Bombay - Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi)The (ever) infectious song is ...
My friends have been MSN-ing me saying how the new Facebook design sucks. I just want to say that it rocks and I love the white spaces a lot a lot a lot.We are just beginning the process of moving people over to the new Facebook and saying goodbye to the old Facebook. The new ...
First you need a balloon filled with dense air such as sulfur hexafluoride. Adam Savage demonstrates how (and explains why) helium turns you into Donald Duck, and sulfur hexafluoride into Satan. Mythbusters - Fun With Gas
Clips from a BBC documentary explaining the arguments from the 1920’s until now as to whether electrons are particles, waves or both.It outlines Einstein’s distaste at Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and is a good starting point in realising that the universe is far, far stranger than can be imagined.Quantum Mechanics for Dummies - Electrons Are …
Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after the night at a business function. He forces himself to open his eyes and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a single red rose!Jack sees his clothing in front ...
It’s actually very well explained. Some people ask me what are cookies but I don’t really know how to explain that. I just tell people that it is basically information from the website that is stored in your computer and you can’t eat them.Google does the explanation much better here:Google Privacy: A Look at CookiesBy ...
MarketVisual shows only Windows Internet Explorer love.Only Internet Explorer browsers running on Windows OS and are supported at this time.Please paste this page’s URL into a supported browser and try again.I’m afraid there’re still quite a handful of these web sites around. I’m using Firefox 3 more these days. Switched from Opera and Safari. Yeah, ...
Previously I wanted to achieve an Alexa rank of something lower than 3,000,000 before end of July but it seems that somehow it’s achieved already. It now ranks at 2,855,235. It puzzles me how Alexa works.But from ads… I still earn $0.01 this month. It’s real, it’s just a miserable $0.01. And it’s from impressions ...
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