How Bloggers Get Some People Mad

Prominent liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas ZĂșniga, who runs one of the most popular liberal and progressive blogs in the world, says Google News is becoming unusable. “They need some serious soul-searching about what they are and what their mission is.” “A news operation needs to present news, and credible news at that. That means get …

Yet Another TextTwist Solver

So, couple days ago, i found this nice Perl script to solve TextTwist games in Priyadi’s blog. And i said to myself, “hmm, i think i can make it too in PHP”. So here you go, <?php function yatts($words) { $pspell_link = pspell_new(“en”); $aword=str_split($words); $length = count($aword); $res=array(); for ( $sublength=3;$sublength<$length;$sublength++ ) { for ( …

Paypal now available in Indonesia

Good news for Indonesia, Paypal now available here,

PayPal has added support for a further 10 currencies to its internet payment system.

The latest currencies to be added are the Czech koruna, Danish krona, Hong Kong dollar, Hungarian forint, New Zealand dollar, Norwegian krona, Polish zloty, Singapore dollar, Swedish krona and Swiss franc.

The currencies add to the seven already available to PayPal customers, including US dollar, Australian dollar, euro, UK pound, Canadian dollar, Japanese yen and Chinese RMB.

PayPal also announced that residents in 48 countries can now use PayPal in their local markets to send money online. The new markets include Indonesia, the Philippines, Croatia, Fiji, Vietnam and Jordan.

“International expansion is a key part of PayPal’s growth strategy,” said Dana Stalder, senior vice president at PayPal.

The company claims 14 million accounts globally, and total transactions of $8.9bn in the second quarter of 2006.

Source: Vnunet.com

How to Access Blogger using PHP and GData Format

If you were like me, you wanted to be able to access Blogger using your own interface. Unfortunately, many Blogger API’s out there still using Atom API, which will be deprecated soon. Google plans to change it using Blogger GData API. What is Blogger GData API? This is what the guidelines said, The Blogger data …