I’m about to introduce you a neat website I found from Digg. A website that has a the police records of all the incidents filed by Walmarts across the nation. Since I’ve been to Stony Brook, I’ve visited Walmart here at Center Reach quite frequently. Walmart, by statistics is 400% more dangerous than the compared giant Target.

Crimes such as purse snatching, car thefts, armed robberies, assaults to shootings has been on the rise at Walmart locations. So I might have to give up that $2 Capri-Sun drinks and Kellogg’s Rice Crispies all together. At the Walmart I go to, there’s been 449 reports filed costing $34,797 in tax payers cash!

Want to know how much money crimes at your local Walmart is costing tax payers? Find out here!

I found a “loophole” around never using your cellphone minutes again PLUS you can call most of the world [international] for FREE. This method will work for your T-Mobile myFaves plans. This might work for the meantime but T-Mobile might disable this “Hack” if they find out or this gets popular!

So check this out, I posted an entry last week about calling select countries for free. Well, theoretically, if you add that free international calling number as one of your myFaves number, you can get unlimited free calls to anywhere in the US and to most other countries! This does not come without hassle though, you have to jot down numbers or remember them to use this service.

Three (3) Easy Steps For Setup:

1. Have a T-Mobile myFaves Plan, they start at $39.99.
2. Add 712-858-8094 to your myFaves Plan. You can add 5 numbers.
3. Call the number and listen and dial any number you want to call.

It’s that easy to do! This method is a hassle but can help when you have no minutes!

For a list of countries you can call for free, see my previous post here!

Yet another use for your hand helds! A new service offered by Perooz.com allows you to download videos, music and HOT magazines straight to your Apple iPod’s, Sony PSP’s, Microsoft Zune’s, Palm Treo’s and Blackberry’s, Creative Zen’s and MORE!. So whats the big jiffy? Well these devices can play music and videos but none of them are able to view full colored magazines optimized for their devices until now.

No software or new installations are required for this service. This is basically some image scans of the magazines and using your devices image viewer, you can view them. So who needs a periodical on the train when you have your cool hand held devices. The site looks to be HOT and well maintained!

Start downloading today from HOT magazine sources here!

Web 2.0, a term coined in 2004 by Tim O’Reily [O'Reily Media] but what does it really mean? Does it mean flashy graphics and cool logo’s, does it mean user interaction, social bookmarking, programmable applications via browser [AJAX]? In fact it’s all of those and more. Some of the CEO’s of the biggest Web 2.0 companies don’t have an exact definition of it because Web 2.0 keeps changing and growing. This comes after the 2001 dot com bubble burst which changed how the world interacts on the internet.

How is from “Web 1.0″? A Simple Chart Shows You

How The CEO’s of Big Web 2.0 Companies See It: (TechCrunch)

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Is there a Bubble for Web 2.0?

I personally as a experienced blogger don’t think so, programming on the web is as good as it gets. Any newer technologies are years from now. Web 1.0 lasted 7 years but with Web 2.0, the possibilities are endless and if anything theres 7 more years till it bursts. Web 2.0 just began! Muhaha.

Take a look at Web 2.0 companies here!

How about a New York song for the I LOVE NY fans!
[audio:http://litstudies.org/newyork.mp3]

So as I previously blogged about media not being on CD’s anymore, refer to my post about installing Windows Vista without using any CD disc media. The world of technology is changing fast, as we know bandwidth are getting larger and that allows us to download a vast number of things easily and quickly. Especially with competition and services like Verizon FiOS [Fiber to the Premises] and Optimum Boost, Americans are getting a lot faster connections for a more affordable price. I still can’t say it compares to the broadband services like the UK or Japan offers but we’re slowly getting there.

Now back to my original topic, YES!, Netflix is going IPTV, soon [as in this week] you can rent movies online by downloading them, however, this isn’t UNLIMITED downloads as long as you pay a subscription fee like the snail mail service that Netflix provides, wouldn’t that be great! LOL. But you pay by the number of hours of video you download. The quality of the downloads are going to be close to DVD quality, Netflix has setup the service for up to 6 million subscribers as of now but is expecting 250,000 initial subscribes in their first month.

Snail Mail NetFlix:

NetFlix IPTV:

Since people stopped renting video cassettes from stores and started to switch to CD media, Blockbuster had lost a lot of business. In the past few years, Blockbuster has been struggling to keep up with NetFlix’s Snail Mail service, because we Americans are just too damn lazy to go out to the store. Will Blockbuster provide a similar service soon? We’ll wait and see!

As of now, unfortunately, it’s only available to PC users with the IE browser. We, Mac and Linux users are always being discriminated against, but we’ll show them who’s boss in a few more years!!

Refer to my previous posting about NO CD’s:
http://www.tonycai.com/2007/01/08/ahh-screw-the-cds/

WordPress 2.07 just came out 2 hours ago and I have grabbed the script and upgraded it from WordPress 2.06, there aren’t any surprises to the upgrade, everything went smoothly. They fixed a Feedburner bug as well as other smaller details.

When upgrading your WordPress engine, be sure never to delete these files:

• wp-config.php file;
• wp-content folder; Special Exception: the wp-content/cache folder should be deleted.
• wp-images folder;
• wp-includes/languages/ folder–if you are using a language file do not delete that folder;
• .htaccess file–if you have added custom rules to your .htaccess, do not delete it;
• robots.txt file–if your blog lives in the root of your site (ie. the blog is the site) and you have created such a file, do not delete it.

At the time of this post, they have not released the change log:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions

Affected files from WordPress 2.06:

• wp-admin/inline-uploading.php
• wp-admin/post.php
• wp-includes/classes.php
• wp-includes/functions.php
• wp-settings.php
• wp-includes/version.php

Things they fixed in this release:

• Security fix for wp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5 versions less than 5.1.4 with register_globals set to “On.”
• Feeds now properly serve 304 Not Modified headers instead of mismatched 200/304 headers (a.k.a. the FeedBurner bug).
• Backport of another 304 Not Modified fix from WordPress 2.1
• Deleting WordPress Pages no longer gives an “Are You Sure?” prompt.
• After deleting a WordPress Page, you are now properly redirected to the Edit Pages screen.
• Sending an image at original size in Internet Explorer no longer adds an incorrect “height” attribute.

Good luck on upgrading your copy of WordPress, remember to backup your database and your wp-content files before beginning! You shouldn’t see any problems.

Song of the day for the new fix! YAY!
[audio:http://litstudies.org/proofs.mp3]

Yes this is true, for those of you who were waiting for a Nintendo Wii and could not find it this Christmas, Toys-R-Us just received shipments of it today, it will sell out by today if not early tomorrow. Go out of there and get it! My good friend Richard just went to Times Square 42nd Street and got his, he just called me to got out to get one!

If you don’t want to play with it, you can also resell it on eBay and make a good $60 bucks. It’s up to you but I’m thinking about it because I’m off to college soon and I won’t be able to play it so I probably won’t get it. My loss is your gain because I’m 1 less person buying it and theres 1 more out there for you! LOL!

Yep, it’s that time again, time to return for another semester at Stony Brook. One thing I learned in previous semesters is to buy the teachers edition of text books instead of the regular student text books. Why? You can usually get them at a cheaper price believe it or not and the teachers text books have answers in them [this can help if you suck at math like i do]. It can really help when it comes to homework and when your professor is strict about getting answers right! But, please do you research before jumping in and buying it because sometimes it may be so different from the students text book, that, it’s worthless for studying.

Always: Don’t purchase books from the school’s bookstore if you don’t have to, they friggin overcharge [damn Barns and Nobles and fuck Stony Books]. Use services like eBay or Half.com or just buy it though a friend.

Buy books Web 2.0 Style here!

This is so ironic, he master of it all! MySpace Tom, out of all people to get hacked and his bulletin used for SPAM! Hilarious! You all know that annoying thing when someone hacks you and steals your password and posts bulletins by you. It happened to him, he must of clicked a fake link somewhere along the way. To protect yourself from getting hacked like Tom, learn never to click on other people’s bulletin if they say their selling a phone or something else that you know the person has no interest in. MySpace goers aren’t always the brightest when it comes to knowing the shady parts of the World Wide Web.

I was on Digg today and this is the most stupidest thing I’ve seen Apple do. Threaten bloggers who post information about using iPhone’s interface on their PocketPC’s! Someone made a skin for the PocketPC to look like the iPhone’s buttons. Apple says it’s copyrighted material, their ones to speak! The icon package has also been taken off the forums. This isn’t the first time Apple pursued something like this, previously, they were throwing lawsuits around to bloggers who mention iPhone’s design. LOL
Heres a picture of the comparason:

Oh and if you find the download good luck and let me know. We’ll put it on RapidShare for everyone!* The author says that there were over 500 downloads of the mod but was forced to take it down because of the lawsuit letter received from Apple lawyers.

* LOL I’m gonna get sued for saying that. Lame Apple!