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Update: The problem has been fixed. Please see this post. A few weeks ago, Pidgin could not connect to the Yahoo! Messenger server because Yahoo! was changing its protocols. At the time, Pidgin was at version 2.5.5. Then that Yahoo! connection problem was fixed in version 2.5.7 and newer of Pidgin. Anyway, Pidgin is acting up again. This time I’m not sure what is going on, and it didn’t seem other people are experiencing the same problem – Protocol Unknown for all types of accounts. ...

It’s Saturday, what am I doing in front of the computer? I should be out and enjoy life. ^o^ A colleague asked to customize a theme for his blog using WordPress. Because I didn’t have any good plan this Saturday, learning PHP sound like a logical and useful choice. Well, I bribed myself with a bottle of Tui. Then, I found an interesting PHP related post by Chorn Sokun titled PHP date diff. The author was trying to calculate the number days between two give dates. At the end of the post, he asked “What would you do instead?” ...

So how do you transfer your photos from the iPhone 3G to your laptop running OS X if you don’t have iPhoto app? — Easy, just use the buit in app called Image Capture. The app can be run from: Finder -> Applications -> Image Capture Now, you can either download some or all photos by clicking on either one of the bottons as shown in the screenshot. Remember that you should have the iPhone connected to your copmuter, otherwise you would see the message saying the no device found or connected. ...

One of the advantages of using GNU/Linux operating system is that you hardly have to restart it. I have Debian on my laptop and it’s been running for months, until last night. It crashed and froze. Anyway, that’s not the main point this post was written. After restarting, I saw this new icon in the Gnome top panel (the third icon from the right): Well, for the start, I don’t know what it is and I don’t think I will have a need for it either. So I wanted to remove it, but right click on this icon would do nothing. Left clicked on it would give me some setting option, but nowhere does it mention how to remove it. ...

This is just a quick note to remind myself: <br /> Math.Round(4.4); //Returns 4.0.<br /> Math.Round(4.5); //Returns 4.0.<br /> Math.Round(4.6); //Returns 5.0. Credit: Math.Round Method