What is RSS Feeds?

Really Simple Syndication or RSS is a XML based file used to broadcasting website content such as latest news, blog post and other kind of website updates. RSS feeds can be download and read by RSS reader application. There are many RSS reader around but the most popular is NewzCrawler, FeedDemon, and Feedreader.

What is MagpieRSS?

MagpieRSS or usually called Magpie is a PHP class that can be used to parse or read RSS and Atom feeds from PHP application. Its currently supports RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, Atom 0.3 and other most popular RSS format.

MagpieRSS works by fetching the content of RSS by specified url and saves the result to a file (called cache). The PHP programs then read the RSS content from the cache.

How can I use MagpieRSS with PHP and display it at my website?

In this post, I’ll explain two example scripts to read RSS feeds using PHP and and MagpieRSS. The first example is to read the latest news from http://www.reuters.com/ and the second example is to read the weather feed from http://weather.msn.com/.

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For about 20 years, most product store around the world is still using a single piece of paper to display their product price, weight or quantity. They used it because it was easy to use and affordable with cheap price. This is definitely not professional for the large store that has a big number of products and store owner needs extra labor for labeling purpose.

What is Electronic Shelf Labels?

Electronic Shelf Labels or ESL is a technology that is used to display price tags. It equipped with wireless technology allowing transfer the price and promotion information around the supermarket.

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Web Content Management System (Web CMS) is the best way to maximize your efforts. An effective Web CMS system will enable you to update the content in your site simply using admin panel. This means you have full control of your site and updating site can be completed in minutes.

What is FCKEditor?

FCKEditor is a web-based WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You GET) HTML text editor which enable you to edit your website content as much as like using Microsoft Word. Its easy to use and doesn’t need installation on client computer.

FCKEditor is distributed under GPL (General Public License), LGPL (Lesser General Public License), and MPL (Mozilla Public License) source licenses and currently supported ASP.NET, Active-FoxPro, ASP, Lasso, ColdFusion, Perl, PHP, Phyton and Java. FCKEditor is Multi Browser Compatibility, support file uploads and outputs XHTML 1.0. This editor is also customizable, easy to configure, integrated spell checker, and the most important is CSS Support so you can see the real preview of your site before the content is published.

I myself have used FCKEditor for a long time for my client projects in both PHP and ASP version. For me, FCKEditor is easy to use than TinyMCE, openWYSIWYG, TextArea Rich and the other WYSIWYG editor.
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For the price range at $120 - $230, Asus EN9600 GT is the faster than any other graphic card. With the core clock at 650Mhz and 512MB of memory, Asus EN9600 GT will enable you to play most games at average quality settings depending on your computer resolution settings. Asus EN9600 GT is also suited for home theatre personal computer and makes most new games playable.

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An external hard disk is a hard disk drive (a lot like the one in your computer) that is placed externally, exterior of the case. You can purchase them pre-made, or purchase a hard disk and an enclosure, and make your own. They came out several sizes, are comparatively cheap, and are well befitted to do several purposes. In this post, I will explain 3 particular purposes for your external hard disk.

For one reason or some other, you might have decided a computer whose storage capability you have overgrown. It perhaps full to capacity with files and software’s, and you require room to expand. So the first good example is to utilize your external hard disk to add expandability to your computer. This is true in case every of your personal computer hard disk bays are full, and particularly if you have a notebook which has only one hard disk bay.

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Intel’s latest processor technology, called Nehalem, or its official name Core i7, described in details at the Intel Developers Forum which is held in San Francisco.

The Core i7 will use in most notebooks, desktop computer and will be focused on its processing ability while use the effective power consumptions. The Core i7 chips will also improves the graphics processing.

Rajesh Kumar, the Intel fellow, said that the Nehalem architecture will be used as the backbone for Intel’s next processor for many incoming years.

As I described at the previous post, Intel Core i7 will deliver the higher processing performance while keeping lid of energy efficiency.

Core i7 has combined memory and processing functions into a single chip (normally two) and the this will result in as many 8 processing cores compared to existing Intel’s processor. The Core i7 processor also has ability to saves memory bandwidth 3 times than the previous Intel processor and doubling the performance of 3D animation.

The Core i7 is also has ability to turn off processing cores while its not in use. This is called “turbo mode”. The chip is also designed to boosts the speed at which data can be shunted from memory in the computer to the microprocessor.

With this characteristics, Intel has matched the capability of Opteron processor which has been used by their rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for the last five years.

The new sony Portable Media Players (PMP), named NWZ-E435, NWZ-E436, and NWZ-E438 all has a 2-inch QVGA LCD screen, FM radio, player support for MP3, AAC, WMA, and Linear PCM files, and sized in at a very small 8.5mm / 50g.

Battery life is also enhanced with 7h 10m at 384kbps video and 4h at 768kbps video.

This player is also compatible with Windows Media Player and iTunes.

This new Sony PMPs will be available in 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB editions, which have several colour choices for each model, except NWZ-E438 which come with only in black colour.

There is no information about the prices yet. But it should be similar to the existing model of the same storage capacity.