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It didn’t take long for our first video review. Long time customer Rainer Schmoll from ThinkReferrals snagged me to do a video review.

 

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While our neighbors to the south are firmly focused on the current battle between Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin, there is another race going on in our own country. Canada will be voting on its new prime minister later this month and all the candidates have kicked their campaigns into high gear. If you’ve been watching any Canadian television these past few weeks, there’s a good chance that you’ve caught one of Stephen Harper’s ads where he appears to be sitting at home, wearing a sweater, and having a heartfelt talk with some unseen audience.

Clearly, the goal of this ad campaign is to depict the Conservative leader as a warm and compassionate person. He may have a public image of being somewhat cold and impersonal, so these ads were meant to present the current prime minister in a softer and more human light. Unfortunately, it seems that the ad campaign has completely backfired.

A poll was conducted by Nanos Research and it reveals that Canadians actually have a worse impression of Harper since he started the ad campaign. All in all, 85% of Canadians polled said that their view of Harper either remained the same or worsened since the start of the campaign. More specifically, 55% still have the same view of Harper, 12% improved their view of Harper, and 29% developed a worse impression of Harper. The remaining 5% are unsure.

That’s right. The people who have developed a worse impression of Harper outnumber those who improved their view of Harper by more than a ratio of 2-to-1. Whether this can be attributed to the “warm and fuzzy” ad campaign is unclear, but you can see how it appears that it backfired. They don’t buy it. I think one of the problems with the ad campaign is that the actual content, the actual words being spoken by Harper, are not being emphasized at all. Instead, the focus was just on presenting a “soft” image of the prime minister.

In this way, do you feel that the issues are more important or just people’s overall perception of a candidate? Do you want a cold and calculating leader or do you prefer someone more personable and “soft”?

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Last night Netenberg updated Crafty Syntax Live Help, Gallery, Joomla, phpBB, phpCOIN, Soholaunch, TYPO3 and WordPress…

Updates:

- Crafty Syntax Live Help: 2.14.6 -> 2.15.0
- Gallery: 2.2.5 -> 2.2.6
- Geeklog: 1.4.1 -> 1.5.1
- Joomla 1.5: 1.5.6 -> 1.5.7
- phpBB: 3.0.1 -> 3.0.2|
- phpCOIN: 1.4.1 -> 1.4.4
- Soholaunch Pro Edition: 4.9.1 r10 -> 4.9.3 r14
- TYPO3: 4.1.5 -> 4.2.1
- WordPress: 2.6.1 -> 2.6.2

If you are using these software’s I suggest you upgrade.

What’s the point of having a nice large widescreen LCD monitor if you can’t make use of all that glorious on-screen real estate? Sure, people have a tendency to open multiple windows to fill out those 20, 24, or even 30-inches of screen space, but even then, you can feel restricted by the layouts of certain sites. Whitespace is nice, but it’s also a bit of wasted space.

When WordPress 2.5 made it into the primetime earlier this year, it brought along some rather significant changes to the dashboard or control panel. The layout is quite different than previous iterations of WordPress and one of the critical changes was the inclusion of a fixed width for the dashboard. For instance, when you go into the area to write a post, the text entry area is of a set width. Wouldn’t you prefer if it stretched all the way across the window?

Well, you’re not alone in that sentiment and someone has set out to provide a solution. The appropriately named Remove Max Width is a handy WordPress plug-in that — you guessed it — removes the maximum width restriction found in current installations of WordPress. In effect, everything in the dashboard now has a fluid width and can stretch all the way across the window.

Pretty neat. Check it out at dd32.id.au, where you’ll also find screenshots for your previewing enjoyment.