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Tips For Choosing Car Seats

Dagu — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:30:53 +0000

Parents often ask which of the many car seats is the best car seat on the market. The truth is, the best car seat is the one that fits your vehicle, your budget, your baby and that you will use properly each time your baby rides in the car.

There are several criteria to help you decide your car seat for your lovely babies and toddlers.

Safety first
Some car seats may have extra features that make them easier to install correctly, such as built-in locking clips or non-twisting straps. Because proper installation is key in car seat safety, these installation helpers may add safety for some people.

Car seats must fit the baby
Use your baby’s height, weight and age to choose the type of car seat to use. Rear-facing-only infant car seats are used through about 20 lbs. Convertible car seats are used rear-facing until baby is at least 1 year old and weighs at least 20 lbs., and forward-facing through the weight limit listed on the car seat. Height-wise, baby’s head should be one inch or more below the top of the car seat when rear-facing. For front-facing seats, the tops of baby’s ears should be below the seat top.

Easy installation
Check the car seat manual to be sure you can install and use the car seat as it is intended. Can you adjust the harness to secure baby in the car seat? Choose a car seat that you will use according to the instructions.

Are Used Car Seats Safe?
Steer clear of used car seats if you cannot get an accurate history of the car seat’s use. You must know a car seat’s crash history to determine safety. Car crashes can cause hidden damage to car seats, and the car seat could fail in a second crash, putting your child at risk of injury.

If you aren’t careful, you could end up needing to buy an infant only seat, a convertible car seat, and a booster seat as your child passes the weight or height limits of the car seats that you buy.

For older kids, choose a car seat with high weight and height limits that is easy to use and will last your child as long as possible. Remember the states that “no one seat is the “best” or the “safest,” so choose a seat that fits in your car, meets your child’s height and weight requirements and is easy to install.

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WordPress 2.8 Review

Dagu — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:04:07 +0000

After releasing Beta and RC, now wordpress.org releases a stable version. They claimed version 2.8 is way faster to use. They change the way WordPress style and scripting. Is that right? Umm I don’t know what software is used to benchmark it.

In previous version, wordpress 2.7, we can install/upgrade plugin automatically with one-click. In version 2.8, they do to the themes too. Now we can search themes, based on color, number of columns, features, width and subject. No need to access web hosting and copy your themes there. It sucks. If you have a .zip file, then you can install it just like you install plugin.

Install WordPress Themes

Another feature is CodePress. CodePress is a new code editor for WordPress. Now we can see syntax highlighting in WordPress, not only a black and white editor. It makes coding more fun.

CodePress

For those who confuse to arrange widgets, now you can smile. You can move your widget among your sidebars easily. You can also have copy of your widget.

WordPress Widget

The last but not the least, a new feature in version 2.7, Screen Options, can be found in dashboard only. In version 2.8, you can find it in every page. There is column setting too. It makes you page more personal.

There are a lot more features in WordPress 2.8. I can’t tell them one-by-one. The full features can be found at http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8.

To make your day perfect, here it is the video overview of WordPress 2.8:

Download WordPress 2.8

Joomla! Runner-up Packt Publishing Award

Dagu — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:11:24 +0000

Every year, Packt Publishing awards best CMS chosen by the Internet user. A year ago, Joomla achieved “Best PHP Open Source Content Management System”. Unfortunately, this year Joomla can’t defend their position after having the first place twice. For this year Joomla developer should be satisfied with the second position for “Best Overall Open Source CMS” and “Best PHP Open Source CMS”. For the first place in category “Best Overall Open Source CMS” was achieved by Drupal. Total prize won by Joomla project is $3500.

Besides CMS award, there’s a new category, that is “Open Source MVP 2008″. This category was won by one of Joomla developer, Johan Janssens. He achieved this award because of his outstanding contribution for Joomla development.

Tobacamp Studio

Dagu — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:59:58 +0000

Tobacamp Studio (http://tobacamp.com), one of thousands web that provide extensions and templates for Joomla 1.5. Although this web using English as it’s default language, but the name “Tobacamp” reflecting that this company comes from Indonesia, especially Medan. Yes, that’s right, Tobacamp is one of the IT company in Medan that has vision to satisfy the client’s requirements. Tobacamp succeed to convince the clients to entrust web or desktop application development to them, because Tobacamp is supported by the finest designer and programmer in Medan.

Like I said before, we can see in Tobacamp website, their specialization are providing Joomla extensions and templates. May be that can be true, but the extensions and templates are the masterpieces from their programmer. They want to share their work to everyone on the Internet, especially for Joomla 1.5 users. That’s why much of their extensions and templates can be downloaded without a penny!

If you one of the Joomla 1.5 users, you should try their free extensions and templates.

Joomla! Won "Best CMS Award" (Again)

Dagu — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:46:00 +0000

On 31st October 2007, Packt Publishing announced Joomla as winner of “Best PHP Open Source Content Management System” for year 2007. This is second winning for Joomla. For this year, int the second position is Drupal, then e107 in the third position. Joomla first release is on September 2005. Since that release, Joomla is the most downloaded CMS.

A few factor that make Joomla win the competition is nice and simple front-end administrator. Besides, community responses to problems about Joomla is very fast. Joomla is in the big five for Overal Award, which will be announced on Friday, 2nd November 2007.

Congratulation Joomla!