The dashboard of Wordpress’ previous version wasn’t really an attraction even if it boasted a new and improved user interface design. Version 2.7 however, is I think a huge leap forward. With the dashboard’s 2-column layout, a drag-n-drop functionality, Ajax-driven menus, and a simpler color palette, I would say that the user interface Wordpress has today is much easier to use. A classic left navigation menu, combined with a nifty set of icons allowed for the Dashboard to be compressed so as to be usable on small screens.

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This day marks the release of the latest version of Firefox, 3.0. Help Firefox set a Guiness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours by clicking on the Firefox 3 Download Day 2008 icon below.

I just did! I’m sure you’d like to join too. What are you waiting for? Download Firefox 3.0 now!

Today, Jalbum.net launches a new site for sharing of photo albums. The new site will enable the extensive Jalbum community to share their created albums, connect with others and explore thousands of album appearances.

Albums can have any look
The endless customization possibilities of Jalbum’s web album software has attracted millions of users who enjoy the control of the output of their online photo presentations. Since Jalbum albums can have any look, the new site will be a place to browse both great photos and the multitude of presentations that users produce with the software.

Photo albums can be placed on any site
With Jalbum, the photo albums can be entire web sites by themselves. Once an album is created, users may publish them to Jalbum’s free hosting alternative or any other site. The new community site will display albums that are hosted anywhere. Jalbum users will always have control of their content which includes the ability to move albums from one site to another. Jalbum will never copyright user images.

The Jalbum community is passionate about the presentation of photos. With the release of our new site, we are providing a better way of sharing albums created with our software. As our users often express an interest via images, this site will make it easier for them to connect with likeminded said David Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.

PRESS RELEASE
Stockholm, November 7th, 2007

JAlbum introduces Blurb photo books
Today, photo sharing site JAlbum.net introduces a new strategic
partnership with Blurb, a creative publishing service and innovator
in social print media. The partnership with Blurb allows JAlbum users
to create, publish, share, market, and sell bookstore-quality photo
books.

The endless customization possibilities of JAlbum’s web album
software has attracted an extensive community of users who enjoy the
control of the output of their online photo presentations. Partnering
with Blurb enables JAlbum’s growing user base in the USA and Canada
to make their own custom photo books.

Blurb’s software lets anyone create bookstore-quality books by
dragging and dropping images and adding text into hundreds of
professionally-designed page layouts. Users start by downloading
Blurb’s free BookSmart software straight from JAlbums partner page.
(More info: www.jalbum.net/printing). Once made, users can keep their books private, announce them to friends and family, or include them
in Blurb’s public bookstore for others to see and purchase.

“The JAlbum community is passionate about the presentation of their
photos. Blurb’s devotion to quality and creative expression in books
is therefore a great fit for us. Enabling our users to make real
books opens up even more creativity in sharing images,” said David
Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.

About JAlbum:
Stockholm based JAlbum AB was founded in the fall of 2006. The first
version of JAlbum was released as a hobby project by founder David
Ekholm in 2002. The JAlbum software is started every 4,5 seconds
somewhere around the world and has been granted numerous awards from respectable companies like Softpedia, About.com, Download.com and Tucows.

About Blurb:
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the
power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. Blurb’s
creative publishing service is simple and smart enough to make anyone
an author – every blogger, artist, marketer, photographer, traveler,
entrepreneur, poet, everyone. Additionally, Blurb’s bookstore and
online marketing tools let Blurb authors sell and promote their
books, and keep 100% of the author’s markup. Blurb’s community
features – designed to encourage collaboration and communication –
are defining social print media. Founded by Eileen Gittins in 2004
and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners, Blurb is
bringing book publishing to the masses. Blurb BookSmart™ software is
free for Mac or PC; users pay only when they publish their books.

To commemorate the spirit of Halloween as well as Project Afterlight’s updated PageRank, we have a new look! Hallow House is the latest theme of Project Afterlight. Inspired by the use of contrast in Timo Virtanen’s Icicle Outback, Hallow House seeks to achieve the same effect with the help of some tricks shown in Photoshop Top Secret.

Underneath the design is XHTML and CSS well taken cared of. The default XHTML code was adequately modified to comply to Web standards and Web accessibility. In addition, the CSS code was implemented well which resulted to similar displays across several platforms and Web browsers including Firefox 2, Opera 9.2, Safari 3 Beta for Windows, Netscape 9, Konqueror, Internet Explorer 6, and Internet Explorer 7.

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JAlbum, a free, cross-platform Web photo album software and photo gallery software is now offering a free album hosting service. Registering for a free account will give you 30 MB of storage, 2 GB of bandwidth per month, and your own URL (yourname.myjalbum.net). For a price of €20 per year, you’d get a premium account with 1 GB of storage, 10 GB of bandwidth per month, and your own URL. If you’re the power user type, €100 per year would entitle you to a whopping 10 GB of storage, 100 GB of bandwidth per month, and your own URL.

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THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced Company of Heroes™: Opposing Fronts™, developed by award-winning Real-Time Strategy (RTS) developer Relic Entertainment, has shipped for the Windows PC platform. Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the next installment in the highest-rated RTS franchises of all time, building on the success of the original Company of Heroes™ with two new armies and vastly enhanced multiplayer options. The game is now available at major retail outlets worldwide. -Planet Company of Heroes

For more details, visit the official Web site- Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts.