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 I think I have just found the ultimate lightbox. Light Window 2.0. I have already blogged 2 articles on this type of Light Box technology.. but I just cannot resist the urge to write a little bit more on the topic. The old articles are:
LiteBox OffSprings - Slimbox, ThickBox, GreyBox and LyteBox
Image Rendering with LiteBox
Well, in terms of physical appearance, it looks pretty similar to the good old-fashion ones and their deviants. What really rocks is that the Light Window supports a whole range of media from Quicktime Movie to SWF to PDFs… You just got to check it out LightWindow.
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 If you look at the picture on the left, you will realise that it has a white border with a shadow. Well, was digging around some of the open source tools when I realised that this effect can be generated via javascript alone!
If you are keen to check out how it is done, click here.
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Recently, I was given task to analyze all the available blog writers, and choose one that is appropriate for our users. So, I want to share with you all my findings. Let’s start one by one. The first question that came to my mind was why what actually is a blog writer for. Yeah, the answer is, we can’t be connected to Internet all the time. There are times when we are traveling, not connected to wires or web, so this software will help us to blog even off the Internet from our desk. Our thought will not be wasted, and we can stay connected anywhere, everywhere. A good blogger must have an easy to write interface, all features supporting extreme blogging and besides all this it needs to be user friendly. So, let’s see do we have a perfect match to our requirements.
 Let’s begin with the most powerful one. As I already had a soft corner for this one. I like it; this gives me most of the cool features and a lot of freedom. I can type, insert image with just paste key, and even add new category to my blog for posting without actually going there, what else I need. Ok, somebody told me I cannot insert tables in it by paste key, but my findings are different. Select the tables you want to insert, than come to the live editor, right click and select the option ‘special paste’ than check the ‘keep formatting’ option and that’s it. Your table will be pasted. From all the writers we just explored, I think I would give Windows Live Writer the best ratings.
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I was just raving about some very cool javascript gallery effects yesterday… and was about to work on a Joomla component to showcase such things… when I realized that it was already done. The company was JoomlaWorks and wanted to charge 12 Euros for their Simple Image Gallery which was an amalgamation of 5 Litebox like effects. Hehe… it was only then that I realised that LiteBox had 5 clones:
Anyway, if you are interested in finding out how they compare to Litebox, read on….
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 If you have read my previous article on video streaming, you will have noted that most of the popular video broadcasting sites broadcast in Flash flv format. Of course, there are some freeware on the net which allows you to convert different video formats to flv… but nothing beats server side conversion to SWF format….
I mean.. just take a peek at you tube. Surely, you dun see them asking you to convert your video to FLV format before uploading to their side?
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 Ever an easy way to showcase your images in an enlarged view? Need an easy way to programmatically come out with a photo gallery that looks cool, but absolutely suck in Flash skills?
Well, LiteBox is here to help! It is clean, easy to use, light weight and looks really good. Fantastic for rendering image based galleries. Feel free to check out their official link here.
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 Well, needed to find out how this video streaming actually works… so had to do some research. Well, as usual, I consulted one of my favorite weskits, How Stuff Works. Yeap.. it is one of my favorite as it explains to you things in lay man terms… and we all know how difficult it is… to explain geeky stuff in non-geeky language.
Anyway, for those of you who are wondering, here is the link:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/streaming-video-and-audio5.htm
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 Have you ever wondered how SPAM filters work? Well, to start off, let me explain that there are 2 type of SPAM filters. One type of SPAM filter resides on the client, while the second type resides on the server. Most hosting packages (including ours) provides you with a server based SPAM detection tool. The defacto tool provided on most servers is:
Yes.. you guess it… SpamAssassin.
So how does this SpamAssassin actually work?
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James faced a problem when he was using a flash gallery component in one of our Joomla Project. The problem is, after we change the image to be displayed in the gallery, via changing a .xml file. However the change is never reflected on the browser.
After some close examination on the browser cache, it is actually due to the cache of the control .xml file. To solve the problem I decide to use the .htaccess file to control the header of the returned files from apache server. After some googling, I found the following .htaccess file should be working:
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, mush-revalidate”
Header set Pragma “no-cache”
Header set Expires “0″
However, it didn’t work no matter how I change the parameters. Upon some examination, the file is still being cached! what happened is the apache configuration didn’t enable the use of .htaccess file. To enable that, need to change the AllowOverride derivative to “All“.
But still didn’t work!!!!!! i am so pissed, but just realized I didn’t restart apache after changing the configuration file. After the restart of apache, every thing worked like a charm.
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