The English version of Expo 2010 Shanghai Online was launched on Jan. 1st, 2010.

The URL – http://en.expo.cn/

Expo 2010 Shanghai Official Website -http://en.expo2010.cn/

BuddyPress 1.1.3 has been released.
This release fixes a number of issues with the 1.1 release of BuddyPress.

BuddyPress bringes social networking to WordPress MU sites and has features like extended profile`s, private messaging, friendslist, groups, activity streams (lifestream), personal blogs, status updates and photoalbums.

Changelog

• Fixed bug where joining a group via AJAX would fail to record in activity streams.
• Fixed bug with activation email when a site admin adds a user through the WordPress dashboard.
• Fixed bug where some plugins would break the activity stream formatting.
• Fixed bug where demotion of a member in a group would fail.
• Fixed bug where non-working delete links for activity stream items would show on friends activity stream.
• Fixed bug where some users could not delete their accounts, even if a site admin had turned the setting on.
• Fixed display issue with RSS feed link on user profiles.
• Fixed issues with duplicate CSS ID’s on activity stream items.

Download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.1.3.zip

VirtualBox is a x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use and is available under the GPL license.

The following major new features were added:

• Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one host to another (see the manual for more information)
• VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well (“branched snapshots”; see the manual for more information)
• 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion (see the manual for more information)
• More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to an arbitrary IDE controller, and there can be more than one such drive (the manual for more information)
• The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
• Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher
• Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
• Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface; see the manual for more information)
• Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net; see the manual for more information)

Downloads can be found at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Windows 8 will be with us in 2012, according to Microsoft roadmaps apparently revealed at last week’s Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC).

Although Microsoft has yet to officially discuss plans for Windows 8, a 2012 release would be consistent with previous Microsoft pledges to release a new desktop operating system every three years. Windows 7 was released a month ago.

The latest speculation suggesting a 2012 release has been credited to Microsoft Kitchen, a blog with the tagline “Serving up some seriously tasty Microsoft.”

Despite showing roadmaps apparently picked up at PDC, the blog has little else to reveal about Windows 8.

However, a Microsoft employee may have inadvertently spilled the beans on one key Windows 8 feature last month.

Microsoft employee Robert Morgan appeared to detail the software giant’s plans to make a 128-bit version of Windows 8, and even Windows 9, on LinkedIn, where he listed his job as ‘senior research and development’. His profile, which has now been removed from the business networking site, said Morgan was “working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects”.

It went on to reveal that his R&D projects included: “128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan”. He’s also responsible for “forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM”.

Microsoft is also looking for employees to help shape Windows 8, according to reports online. Neowin.net spotted the vacancy for a Windows 7 software engineer on Microsoft’s site.

“We just finished up work on Windows 7, and are pushing forth on Windows 8 planning and preparation,” said the blurb in the job ad, which was replicated on the CodenameWindows website.

“As part of this team, you will help shape Windows 8. Components of our code include a core agent that runs as an NT service, an API layer and a UI application,” added the advert. (Via PC Advisor)

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.

PHPB2B is a set of PHP Development with B2B e-commerce system applications, free download, code open source, you can provide Internet users, business teams to quickly build B2B classified information systems, business website, e-commerce sites and other forms of e-commerce sites platform, this system is based on PHP + Mysql development, using good MVC framework for thinking as well as the system uses the popular Smarty template technology, static templates and dynamic process completely separated, the system comes with a dozen content-rich call labels, while expansion of freedom in a variety of plug-ins or other features, adhering to open source, open principle is to build the best B2B website PHP applications .

PHPB2B 2.5 Standard Edition is developed in the framework of PHPB2B the latest version of program, amendments to the previous version of the existence of some of the BUG, while improving the program performance and the implementation of the template interface to optimize the database structure, in the process, the re-reference from the traditional The B2B e-commerce to some outstanding B2B website, in terms of security, an increase of a number of the authentication method.
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It’s easy to forget that sometimes that WordPress can be used for more than just a blogging platform. Due to its open nature, and thanks to many theme builders, it can easily be turned into a gallery to show off your latest work. Why should you take time away from working on paying jobs to work on your own gallery? There are a slew of themes for WordPress that can do the job for you, and many offer easy customization so it isn’t too obvious that your gallery is an off-the-shelf solution.

We’ve gathered up a nice selection of free and paid solutions, so you can get that gallery working for you right away — no matter what your budget!

Free WordPress Portfolio Themes

Ascari: A very artistic theme, with a unique “top” button that follows you as you scroll down the page so that the user can quickly return to the point from which they began. This one is definitely more about just showing off your work, but it does it in a beautiful manner.

CSS Gallery: CSS Gallery is built with web designers in mind. Each image on the front page can rated by site visitors, but when they click on the examples, they are taken to the live version of that work. Theme also features spots for GoogleAdSense and 125X125 ads, and, best of all, it’s free.

f8: f8 allows you to customize colors, fonts, front page categories, contact info, slideshow height and other options all from the theme options page in the admin section so that you may change it to your heart’s content. All thumbnails link to full blog posts where you can then provide your users with as much information as you like about the work you did.

Gallery: Built on the Thematic Theme framework, this dark gallery theme is quite the eye catcher. The top row is all 125×125 ad spots, but after that each image is a separate gallery link that when you hover over it, the image slides up to show you the name. The individual post pages will give you more information about the work, who designed it, and where it can be found, as well as allow users to rate it and to leave comments.

iQ2: iQ2 is a fully skinnable, widget-ready, WordPress theme directed at photographers wanting to show off their work, but is easily usable for anyone wanting to show off their works or designs. It does require you download and install the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin as this is what powers the theme. No charge is associated with this theme, but donations are welcomed.

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Mac OS X is renowned for its simplicity, its reliability, and its ease of use. So when it came to designing Snow Leopard ($29 upgrade), Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a great thing even better. They searched for areas to refine, further simplify, and speed up — from little things like ejecting external drives to big things like installing the OS. In many cases, they elevated great to amazing.

Opanda IExif is a professional Exif viewer in Windows / IE /  Firefox, From a photographer’s eye, It displays the image taken from digital camera and every item of EXIF data in the image from beginning to end. The user can learn about how and where to take the photo, what the camera’s model is, the detail of photographer and more in IExif. You can know more information and some unbeknown story. It is not only the good assistant to study photography, but also the best choice to view EXIF for photographer, shutterbug, photo editor and so on…

Now digital camera is very popular, more and more people begin to use dc taking photo. It’s an important thing that reviewing and learning about the photographic technology via EXIF data in digital image. Opanda IExif is just a professional software browsing Exif / GPS / IPTC data in digital image. It’s powerful and easy-use, and it’s one of the best tool for every shutterbug and photographer.

Features:

*Support all of EXIF 2.21 standard
*Support IPTC/NAA news image record
*Support GPS information record
*Support of Location satellite map by GPS data
*Support TIPP6 and popular software’s extend EXIF tag
*Support some special company’s tag, for example Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Sigma etc.
*Support Internet Explorer
*Support Mozilla Firefox
*Support to display thumbnail and its information
*offer information of camera model and manufacturer

Download Opanda IExif, It’s freeware