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After several times of server outrage and we’ve created indexes on several major mysql tables of the Wordpress

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Happy New Year 2008 and a quick excerpt of 2007’s posts

Happy New Year 2008 to all TechChee readers. Wish everybody to have a much better year in 2008. Some parts of the world may have already turned 2008 now. But the time of this blog still remains on the last day of 2007. Before stepping into the first post of 2008, lets have a very quick excerpt of some of my favorite posts and most commented posts, as follows:

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Merry Christmas to all TechChee readers

To all TechChee readers, wishing you a merry and blessed Christmas! Hope Santa brings you all some nice gadgets!

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For the robot geeks, a robot calculator.

Yeah, I know you’re the robot geek who wishes everything surrounding you to be robotic. Even a basic gadget such as a calculator, you wish that it could be like a robot, stand on its own feet. ThinkGeek has got a robot calculator, which is definitely the one that you have been looking for. The calculator is built to look like a retro robot, which it’s got its own hands and feet.

Its difference from ordinary calculators is you can make it stand up and have its hands to hold things for you, such as pencil, cable and also the included white LED. Its head is also useful too, which there is memo holder at the back that you can insert little note into it. The back of this robot calculator is magnetic, which you can make use of it to hold metal things. The downside is its brain isn’t any brainier than the ordinary calculators. What it can do are also those common tasks such as adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing only.

Buy online, $15, ThinkGeek

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Thank God! TechChee is back online

The server where TechChee is on was down for several hours. Anyone of you should have noticed TechChee was unaccessible for the past several hours. I was going little bit frustrated of this. I contacted the BlueHost helpdesk at first using their online support ticketing system. I submitted a few tickets but noticed that those tickets seemed to have disappeared. And only afterwards I realized that there were a few emails happened to drop in my Spam box at GMail instead of the usual inbox telling me that I need to use LiveChat instead of the tickets for server down time issue.

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Standing lamp doubles up as a sweeper

This is what we’re quite used to recently, multiple functions crammed into one gadget. But this sounds a little bit weird to me. It’s a standing lamp, which is called “Spruce”. As shown in the picture, this lamp shall give best illumination while standing in your living room or bed room.

But there is additional function integrated into its base, i.e a sweeper. Anytime, you feel uneasy with little dirtiness with your living room or bed room, then you can pick up this standing lamp and make use of its base to give you a quick cleaning of any dirty spot. So, it’s pretty handy, right? It’s the best way to keep your homes and rooms clean always.

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Annoucement - two more categories for TechChee , web development and opensource tips

I was a trainer giving quite a number of training on those open source and web app development based on open source technolgy before I started devoting my time into blogging. I got a group of students, who are currently working on quite a number of web app development projects and they’ve requested many times that they’d like me to have another blog that include tips and tutorial on web app development, which shall include the topics such as PHP, Java, MySQL, Apache and Linux etc.

Other than TechChee, I did start another development blog earlier on, which is supposed to be under a sub-domain of TechChee, i.e dev.TechChee.com. Due to my overly busy schedule, this blog didn’t get frequently updated. In order to fulfill this overdue request, I’ve decided not to continue on the development blog, but to include two more categories on TechChee here, they are “Web Development” and also “Opensource Tips”. In such a case, it’ll be less taxing and very much easier for the maintainance for me, who is handling this blog single-handedly both for the posts and design. This decision shouldn’t be too much affecting the current theme of TechChee, which still makes it topics center around “technology” and “gadgets”. The main topics of TechChee still remain the same, i.e shop online and gadgets. The posts for these two new categories will only be in the ratio of one out of five of those gadgetry posts as usual. Which means, if I post about 5-6 posts about gadgetry a day, then, perhaps, I’ll write one post either in the category of web development or opensource tips. So, TechChee’s readers, hope you won’t get too surprised if you’re seeing posts about more technical stuff such as programming and web development in the coming blog posts. The topics that will be covered under the two new categories, “web development” and “opensource”, will be as follows:

1. Linux or General opensource stuff

2. PHP

3. Java

4. AJAX/DHTML/JavaScript

5. Apache

6. MySQL

7. Oracle or more to be decided later.

There will be no sub-categories for the time being to differentiate further which of the above for any posts that fall under the two new categories. I’ll only tag them to differentiate it.

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Boost your Technorati’s ranking : Another Technorati’s favorite exchange experiment

There has been a pretty hot wind blowing over the blogosphere, i.e Technorati’s favorite exchange. Doing this will surely give you a big step ahead for pushing your blog’s Technorati ranking. I’ve seen quite a number of blogs doing it before but I never bothered to take part in it. Anyway, due to the invitation by TechLivez.com, another nice tech blog, then I’ve also decided to join the group and followed the trend here. Of course, there is nothing to lose to join this trend. For more info on this, read the followings and this would be much more effective than doing it using John Chow’s method:

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Integration with Digg for TechChee is in my wish list!

Digg has officially released its public API (Application Programming Interface). Which means we can create web pages to interact with Digg programmatically. The API is available free of charge for everyone. Similar to other web 2.0 or web service API, the API accepts REST requests and will return Digg data in the form of either XML or JSON or Javascript or serialized PHP, which can be easily parsed and integrated into an web site or application. Other than this it also offers as a PHP PEAR module.

As I have the intention to expand TechChee along the way, one of the options will be looking into what Digg API can help to turn TechChee into a stickier and more useful sites other than just a blog.

Anyway, according to TechCrunch, Digg is having a massive party tonight in San Francisco to celebrate their one million registered user milestone and they are now at 1.2 million registered users.

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TechChee.com now with new look and feel, feel free to comment

Hi guys, I’ve just switched TechChee loaded with a new 3-column template. So what do you think? The older 2 column template better or this one better. Feel free to drop me some comments here. Anyway, I like this 3 column template better as I’m the one who designed it with the help for a professional logo by a friend. Furthermore,a 3-column template makes it easier for me to expand TechChee along the way. If you are simply too forgetful, the old TechChee screenshot is attached as follows:

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