I am currently a team member, support team member to be exact, for the open-source phpBB project. Last week, Computerworld Australia asked us several questions about version 3.0 that we released 2 months ago. I was glad to be a part of answering some of these questions.
You can check out the article, entitled phpBB3 takes giant strides from predecessor from Computerworld’s Australia site, located here.
I started laughing while attempting to register my Zune a few minutes ago. The process seemed simple enough: login with your Windows Live account, put in your name/address information, and the device’s serial number and click “Register this Device.” However, I quickly discovered that, well gosh darn, Florida isn’t listed in the drop down box as a state.
Neither is Georgia and Maryland apparently. I called Zune support and had the device registered less than 2 minutes later and had a laugh with the guy on the phone about it.
It pays to check and double check those arrays, folks! What I don’t understand is that if they used ASP for the site, why didn’t they just use the built in classes which provide this functionality? Who knows…
I’ve known about Zamzar.com for a few months at this point, but it has taken awhile for me to really see the true convenience of it.
Zamzar.com, for those of you who don’t know, is a 100% free online file converter. Seriously, you can convert files, virtually any type of media or document up to 100MB, on the fly. All you need to do is simply upload the file and provide an email address where the link for the converted file can be sent. No emails addresses are harvested, you’re not put on any spam lists, and no software is required to be downloaded to use the service.
I find myself using Zamzar.com every day for something or another. All I’m hoping for is a bit more file support for other things besides media or documents, such as address book archives (vCard, LDIV to CSV, etc). Developer and producers file conversion would also be useful, such as DSLR Camera RAW or even things like PSD (Photoshop) conversion.
If you need any type of media file or document conversion, you owe it to yourself to check out Zamzar.com
What do you think? Do you have any suggestions for online file format converters? Leave a comment.
Today we officially launch the phpBB Podcast featuring, Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal), Brian Rose (Heimidal), David Smith (smithy_dll), and Edward Lang (Anon), and, of course, yours truely, myself, Adam Reyher.
Please NOTE: This podcast is unofficial. It is simply done by phpBB Team Members. It is not officially endorced by The phpBB Group.
The purpose of the podcast is for you to hear directly from us on the phpBB teams and hear news in the phpBB world, discussions about phpBB, support issues, MODs, styles, ect. Pretty much anything in the phpBB world.
So check out the podcast, and spread it around! Let’s make it popular!
Join us in the chatroom!
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