If Time magazine believed “You” are the person of the year 2006, PC World has a different view. Here’s what they said: We considered hundreds of the Web’s most noteworthy power brokers, bloggers, brainiacs, and entrepreneurs to figure out whose contributions are shaping the way we use the Web. In fact, they listed top 50 most important people on the web this year.

From the list, I’m glad to see:

• Steve Job (CEO, Apple) at #2
• Matt Mullenweg (the WordPress founder) at #16
• Tila Tequila or Tila Nguyen (the famous porn star) at #50 – my website listed her MySpace personal blog as one of the favorite blogroll indeed

Read the full article here. Also try to follow their hint: Get a little more traffic on your Web site, and you may show up on the list next year

Tomorrow – Friday, February 09 – will be a special one-day-only New Year shopping event featuring big savings on dozens of Mac and iPod products. And your cart will be shipped free as usual.

So make sure you check back Apple Store (Singapore) tomorrow for great deals. I’m looking to buy another iPod shuffle, probably in Green color, before I’m back to Vietnam for celebrating Lunar New Year 2007

And if you’re looking for Valentine’s gifts, tomorrow will be the best time for shopping Apple products. “Make it a prosperous New Year right from the start”

Sometimes ago, it was:

And today, it is:

Visit Apple iPod Shuffle website to get your Valentine gifts And also check out iLounge article about 5 key facts of the new iPod shuffle color.

This post is about some goodies that I think would be essential for bloggers including WordPress fans. I used them all over my pages and posts for which they contributed a lot to enhance my lovely humble corner

1. Flash-like Image Viewer
As you can see in browsers with Javascripts enabled, when you click to an image, instead of jumping into a new windows for that image, a smooth popup comes out and overlay image on the current page. Click below for an example:

That gorgeous effect is done using Lightbox JS 2 by Lokesh Dhakar. You can make the script showing a collection of images so you can navigate by keyboard. Download that free script and follow the simple instructions, you can have it in your blog in any platform

WordPress 2.1 codename “Ella” was rolled out yesterday as a major update for WordPress since version 2.0 (Download the new version). Considering about 550 bug fixes and bunch of new things, bloggers should feel excited to update their blogs soon.

Amongst the what’s new list of WP 2.1, I found those following features are more than welcome :

• Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
• New tabbed editor allows users to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
• Completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking
• Ability to set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a CMS
• Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions
• More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster
• Pages can now be drafts, or private
• The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio
• A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled