In early 2006 I began learning Mandarin Chinese, my main reason was for being in a multi-cultural relationship. Out of respect to my partners family I wanted to learn how to speak their language, her parents could speak very little English.

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So I have been playing with the idea of posting a creepy pic every week, cause yeah you guessed it TheOpenSurgery is a pretty creepy place to visit. Seeing its a cold day here in “Sunny South Africa”, I found this pic that will definitely add to the chill, enjoy!

*Bwhhaaaa hahaha* <—- Evil laugh!

Robin at NoboxMedia.com has released the Springleap web based image manipulation bundle. Seeing as I have released a few image related scripts, I thought readers may be interested in this article. There are some really cool scripts that can be used to add some cool functionality to my image upload scripts.

Go check it out! 

Hi everyone,

If you are a regular to my site you will have noticed this past week it has had a total make over! This was done, with much thanks, by Robin Pietersen from NoboxMedia. Robin has done a great job and I think TheOpenSurgery is looking awesome! So Big thanks to him!

I have created this script, that allows users to upload multiple files in PHP (find it attached at the end of this article). It is great for anyone that needs to add any sort of upload functionality, and would be a good base to make an upload service with.

Some features:

• Dynamic amount of uploads.
• Limit to only certain file types.
• Size limit on uploads.
• Avoids over writing due to duplicate file names.

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Ok, lets say you have stored a file as a blob in a database (maybe its something important) and you would like to print the size of the blob file to screen. This can be done quite easily by doing a query making use of the MySQL function OCTET_LENGTH()

For example:

SELECT OCTET_LENGTH(blob) FROM table

Blob being the column and table being the table in the database. The number returned is the size of the blob in bytes

There you go, quite easy to do but hard to find!

All these requirements and features are available on the Ubuntu mobile fact sheet, which can be found here. What is Ubuntu mobile? It provides a rich Internet experience for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), it is based on Ubuntu, GNOME Mobile, and Intel’s Moblin.org project delivered via an application framework.

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CNet reported yesterday that Google is funding the guys at CodeWeavers to increase compatibility of Adobe’s Photoshop under their Linux based Wine application. Photoshop CS2 is currently on Wines gold list (applications that run flawlessly with some special configuration), it is suggested that time will now be spent to get Photoshop on the platinum list meaning it will run out the box after installation on Wine.

Being able to run Photoshop on Linux is attractive as current Linux based Photoshop applications are “just not Photoshop” to many designers.

For more information, please visit:
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/digitalcameras/0,39001469,62037989,00.htm
http://www.winehq.org/ 
http://appdb.winehq.org/ 

Most readers will be familiar with the concept of tagging. A tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (a picture, a geographic map, a blog entry, a video clip etc.), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification and search of information.

This tutorial talks you through this concept of adding tags to content, both the coding and database aspects.

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