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It’s glad to know that WordPress 2.0.5 has just released. I’m not planning to upgrade now (I’m using 2.0.4) because some of my plugins might not work. I might wait until all or at least most of my plugins are confirmed to be compatible with WordPress 2.0.5.

Recently, I’ve switched to Yahoo! Mail Beta. Since I have email accounts at Yahoo! and Gmail, so I would like to compare these two webmail services.

The first time I logged in into Yahoo! Mail Beta, I discovered that the login process is quite slow. Not only the login process, loading of emails are also slow. If not mistaken, Yahoo! Mail Beta uses Ajax as one of the developing technique. But it’s quite sad to say that this didn’t improve the speed of loading.

For Gmail, logging in and loading of emails are extremely fast. Maybe it is because of the simplicity of the interface design.

Yahoo! Mail Beta provides tab browsing for emails, composing emails, RSS feeds, etc. This means that you can do multiple tasks on a single page. Oh yes, RSS feeds. You can use the built-in function of Yahoo! Mail Beta to view your subscribed RSS.

Another issue that makes me think Gmail better than Yahoo! Mail Beta (actually since previous Yahoo! Mail) is spam capture. Everytime I check emails on Yahoo! Mail, I have to mark few emails as spam. I think the SpamGuard feature of Yahoo! Mail is not efficient enough. But for Gmail, it can identify spam very efficient.

Apart from that, Gmail allows users to check their emails using POP Mail Client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird etc) whereas Yahoo! Mail needs users to pay fees to upgrade the account in order to enjoy this feature.

Although Gmail is a lot better than Yahoo! Mail Beta, I’ll continue to use Yahoo! Mail because I use this account since 17 years old (the first year I used the Internet).

To view all new features of Yahoo! Mail, click here.

How about you? Which webmail services are you using? Would you like to share your experience?

For WordPress bloggers, you can customized your permalink structures for how your URI look like. But it’s recommended to use your post titles as your page title because of these few reasons:

1. You’ll get better rank on search engines.
2. Readers will mostly likely click on your page to view when they search on certain keywords that are related on your page. Consider if you searched “The Sims 2″ on search engines, would you click on a link that showed something like: http://some.domain.com/12345.php?

Apart from the above reasons, I think as bloggers, you could manage your posts more easy. To customize your permalink structure, go to Options tab on your WordPress Admin page. Next, click on Permalinks. Under the common options, select “Date and name based” or specify your custom structure.

Source: Make Post Titles Page Titles

Author: Darren Rowse

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originally uploaded by Regina Foo.

Just uploaded these photos from my husband’s phone (Nokia 6270). The photos were taken on 15 October 2006 at “somebody’s wedding. This is my first time attending wedding dinner at hotel’s ballroom which I can wear dinner dress. To view more photos, visit here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/reginabally/

I found this interesting article on BloggerTalk which I think I should recommend to you especially bloggers.

The summary of 10 tips are:

1. Stay on topic.
2. Stay informative.
3. Old news is not news.
4. Adhere to a schedule.
5. Clarity and simplicity.
6. Keyword-rich.
7. Quantity matters.
8. Frequency.
9. Spell checking and proof-reading.
10. RSS.

The author of this article is Sharon Housley. She manages marketing for FeedForAll software for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds and NotePage a wireless text messaging software.

For full article, please view here.

One of the tips that I couldn’t follow might be tips number 8 (Frequency) as I seldom blog because I’m lazy. :p Anyway, I’ll work hard to find more interesting topics to post here.