<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico" />

since i using firefox as my major development browser and this code display the favicon perfectly ok on firefox , i thought this is the correct way to using it ( ya i know by right i should check this againts  cross browser )  until the users file a bug on this , the favicon is not showing on IE 7.

after some research on the web and doing some testing on the site , finally i found the solution , there are 2 thing i have miss out

• IE7 have a bug to recognize favicon on relative path, that why the path for the icon must be aboslute path , which mean the ico image file with full domain.
• there is a need to declare the mime type for favicon , which is the  type="image/x-icon".

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://domain/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

after this you might still not seeing the favicon appear on your IE , you need to clear your cache first and reload the site, the first time be slightly slower but it should be display the favicon after a while. Below is the image what favicon is , in case some of the reader don’t know.

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I been using Remember The Milk on and off for the past 4 years, i did subscribe the pro account for 1 year before but cancel it, i been trying a lot of replacement service , yet i still come back to RTM , i wrote a number of post on RTM before on this blog and most likely once i change my mobile phone from windows mobile to either iPhone or Android , i will be subscribe back to RTM, it seem like running on this 2 platform really help RTM gaining more users .

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(Credit: techcrunch)

This answer one of the question that i been asking my friends which playing lots of Facebook game, will you pay anything for these Facebook game ? almost all my friends give me a big “NO” (although there are one female friend that actually want to pay to buy a cow in country story) , this make me wonder if there are not many user willing to pay, how come some of these company actually earn $250 million a year ?

after reading through all the scamville info, now i understand how some of these social gaming company earning money and this is quite disturbing. If you still remember Facebook recently release Facebook developer roadmap , one of the major changes is allow application developer to gain permission for accessing user’s email address, which is another primary source of scam/spam. I believe this scamville issue most likely will be generate a lot of discussions and i just wonder will Facebook actually delay this email permission changes or will Facebook actually put in more control on this?

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I m not a Yahoo Fan, this might be the main reason i hate to see this merge, my current yahoo id is use for YIM ( company using this as official communication tools ) and for my flickr account only, both delicious and flickr founder leaving Yahoo make me feel even more disappoint. I still remember during the period where Flickr account merging with Yahoo account,lots of issue happen and there are complaints everywhere, there are even user refuse to merge and leave the service. I m not sure after this few year, the same kind of merging will be causing any issue or not , but if can i really prefer to have stand alone account for both service, in stead of having a yahoo account.

Maybe i should consider pinboard ?

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1. There are 2 type of feeds available on news feed page now , News Feed and Live Feed. News Feed  is showing you interesting things base on a combination of criteria , which mean the info that display to you is those mostly you will feel interested ( this feed by right should be display yesterday info only but it seem like currently display some of the latest info too , not sure is the feature broken or what ). Live Feed is displaying what happen right now, you are able to see all the activity real time. Choose which type of feed is more suitable your reading habit and stick on it.

2. Moving the Status Updates filter to top , what this does is to show your friend status update as default and give you a very twitter style page. If there are enough feed for certain application , there will be a application filter too , which display you and your friend activity on the application.

3. Hide those quiz,games,spam news, advertisement that annoy you from news feed , you can either hide the person or the application, there are new feature added which allow you to hide the parent application too , which is very good to block those custom quiz.

4. configure the Live Feed Setting ( i wonder why it still call news feed settings ) , this allow you to show more news feed from some of the friend and hide the person from your live feed, another important setting for those facebook user that have a lot of friends , is to control how many friends’s feed should be showing.

5. the last complaint will be please remove who added who as friend message from news feed, you can’t really control your friend to hide this , but at least you can start from your own , hide your own adding friend activity from your friend on privacy setting.

If these 5 tips still can’t help you to survive from Facebook latest news feed , you might join the We Hate The New Facebook Design group for release your  anger on the new design.

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If you watch the intro video before , you should know that it is very easy to use Balsamiq Mockups to draft out a layout , you can even use the commands to select the UI you need and place it on you mockup really quick.I m using the desktop version which run on adobe air , which mean it can run on different OS platform , combine with the power of dropbox , i can mofidy my wireframe at any place.

Overall i really happy with Balsamiq Mockups performance, the only things that i don’t really like is how the application handle grouping. Example if you suddenly need to ungroup one of the object within groups of object, you must ungroup all the objects, you can’t ungroup the object that you need to edit only. That’s my only complaint so far.

One of the important website that you can’t miss – Mockups To Go , this blog collecting some of the mockups which done by Balsamiq Mockups , some time there will be special created UI Library release too. If you have some $$ to spend , there are this tool – Napkee that export your  mockup to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3.

The below image is my quick mockup base on nettutsplus website.

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Personally i like this idea , the rest is really depends on how they marketing this product,base on compete’s data it seem like after the techcrunch’s post , their traffic is going back to normal, we will see how they going to hit the sweet spot again.

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I found a solution on evernote user forum that combine the best of this 2 , what it does is change the evernote web clipper javascript and combine with Readbility javascript, when you press the web clipping , the website will be turn into Readbility mode and keep in your evernote account.

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Now with this new application organize feature, everything is just drag and drop, as you can see on the screen shot, i have lots of application across different pages, i just need to drag the application that i would like to move and drop it on the page , which is very straight forward.Although i m quite happy with this new feature, but i think movement is much more better in organize applications, watch the youtube demo video and you will agree with me.

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As you can see the dashboard interface, you are allow to post 4 type of media , there are follow feature for social purpose and repost feature for reblogging, one of the important feature that tumblr is missing will be the comment feature. Yahoo meme weakness will be the permalink of post, currently the url strucuture is not really SEO friendly. There are no option for you to customize your meme currently, but  there are some very clean looking theme available for you to change.

That’s all for my short review, you can visit my yahoo meme or leave your comment here to request a meme invite , i still have 6 more invite to send.

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