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It’s pretty simple actually.
With the efforts of Facebook trying to prevent
the option to export your contacts to Google+
(deleting Apps and solution that do it, updating their
Terms of Use accordingly so no one would be able to export)

They left out one aspect, thanks to a partnership with Yahoo! Mail
You are able to export your Facebook contacts to your Yahoo! Mail.
In your Yahoo! Mail go to Contacts>Import Contacts and there
You’ll be able to import your Facebook contacts.
Afterwards simply export the contacts to your Gmail.
Because Google+ is integrated with your Gmail account,
It will simply allow you to add those people to your circles
(and invite them to Google+ if necessary)

It’s been a while since I wrote anything,

Today I wanted to pay attention to a recent move that Google made.
In a never-ending war with the major Social Networks (facebook…hmm, anyone else? really?),
Google makes another attempt (Orkut, Buzz…) for a Social Network.
This time it really seems that they’ve learned their lesson.
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The Internet is an unmatched way for us to get information
and communicate with the world.

For years it was without a doubt “The Messiah of Information Technology”.
It seems however, that in the last couple of years, the Internet
has been taking another direction, towards a more personalized
information stream, that might unable us to see the whole picture.

If you start a search in Google, and search for the exact same thing
from another computer, it is most likely that you’ll get different results.
This case has been show that extremely different results might arrive,
so that it might completely change a person’s perspective of that topic.

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It was interesting to find out that Facebook hired a company with
one soul purpose of smearing google, I guess if you can’t win in a fair contest…
and you can’t afford buying the competition, try to bury them under a pile of mud.

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It’s only when you start working on something new,
or re-work on something old with intense motivation,
that you really appreciate any new music coming your way.

Most importantly, it should be loud, wild, and jumping.
Them Crooked Vultures to the rescue!

A mega-band made of Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) on the drums,
Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin).
With a single album that would rock your socks off!
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I’ve been searching for a way to make a click function work
only on a certain element, excluding the element’s children..

After a short search, I’ve found this function

[js]
$(".example").click(function(){
$(this).fadeOut("fast");
}).children().click(function(e) {
return false;
});
[/js]

However it was disturbing some click functions I made for the child
elements, so, I built something a little better:

[js]
$(".example").click(function(data, handler){
if (data.target == this) {
//Do Stuff (only element clicked, not children)
}
});
[/js]

Not very complex.

Hello my fellow readers,

It’s been a while since I wrote something of meaning,
and sadly this post is not of great meaning as well.

I’ve been busy, having some projects laying around
and some DB structures to draw.

Today I would like to discuss Audio Capturing on the Browser.
For many years, if someone wanted to add Media Capturing capabilities
to his website, he had to use Flash.
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Firefox 4, the Fox shows who’s the king.

Today, March 22th, Mozilla have launched Firefox 4.
The new browser, supporting naturally HTML 5, is a lot
faster than it’s predecessor, as well as holding a new design,

similar to the Chrome design, but still maintaining the Firefox look.

Extensions
Many extensions are not yet supported,  this is
normally a matter of the developers of those extensions, to
update them and make them work on the new version.

Although when Firebug is working – all the rest can wait.
(actually TwitterBar, Greasemonkey and Adblock are working too)

the Add-ons Manager opens now on a tab, neat, looks like Chrome.

HTML 5
As far as I’ve seen, Parsing, Canvas (really important for some of my projects!),
Video

with the exception of Subtitle and the sacred H.264 [wtf]
Mozilla chose the WebM support instead, Google seems to be
going in that direction as well, that’s mainly because H.264 is
not an Open Codec.

Audio

Ogg and WebM support, intentionally living AAC and MP3
out of the game, it seems that Mozilla is planning to force the web
to be as Open as possible (hear, hear!)

Other than that, there’s a very partial form element support
(shouldn’t worry anyone, since I personally don’t see the idea of these
new form elements anyway).
Drag & Drop, Session History, and Application Cache
and Session Storage are supported!
(this should reduce the average JS file by 80%)

Web Workers support, allowing Threading of actions

Naturally, some of those things were supported in previous versions of Firefox.

The Small Things

You can now make Tab groups, which I don’t really understand why, but ok
as well as Tab App (which means that you can have your gmail always open for instance).
I liked the fact that if I type in an address and the tab is already open – it switches to it.

How To Install on Ubuntu?
I simply extracted the tar.gz file, copied it into my /opt/ folder
(you can copy it to your /home/ as well), and changed the symbolic link

sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

This way it replaces the current Firefox, you can also backup the old
Firefox link if you wish.

Surf’s Up!

Unbelievable mouse movement animation,
I see it, but I still can believe how easy it is to implement it.

Jparallax is a jQuery plugin that let’s you have many layers moving around
according to the mouse’s position
good example: http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax_demos.html
This plugin let’s you do some really awesome things, like this site
http://www.vektordesign.com/
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After trying to implement my Database models on Doctrine ORM for about 5 hours,
(I must mention that I do have experience with Doctrine 1.2, which is useless for Doctrine 2 since they change everything)
I decided to try Yii Framework, and surprisingly, it worked like magic!

After about 20-30 minutes while reading the unbelievably high quality documentation,
I was able to not only configure the models, but also the relationships were automatically identified. (whoa?? including Many to Many ?!)

So thanks Yii guys, you created a hell of a framework!