iriver recently revealed the new ebook product, Cover Story. It's a wonderful and exact name. 'Coz this time the Story comes with a cover to protect the screen.

I got a real one in hand. It feels, especially the paging key on the left. As it shows on the photo, the long bar on the left is the paging key. It also takes the responsibility of going back to previous function view and going back home by clicking the bottom or top of it. There is a menu key on the top side of Cover Story and a power key at the bottom. Volume +/- key is placed on the left side of it. The best design should be the cover. If you think the cover is not convenient to take along, you are wrong. It can be attached to the backside with by magnetism. The long hole on the cover just leaves the speaker on the back of Cover Story in the air.

Touch screen, G-sensor, is the new feature. With G-sensor, you can use left or right hand to handle the ebook based on your habit. Memo function is enhanced too. Set the auto memo function to on, when you draw the stylus pen out, the meme pad pops up and is ready to draw any thing on.

Compare with Story I tried before, the Cover Story feels like lighter, which in fact is not true. But it's really very handy. Though iPad catches most people's eyes, this kind of ebook product is still attractive. Reasons?

• Lighter, smaller, handy
• Eye-protected e-ink screen
• Long battery life
• Cheaper

I would consider it if it's under $350.

Drew on iPhone a few weeks ago on the train. It could be more fun to draw with iPad.

Most people know the Great Wall. And some may know there is another one, especially, Geeks. The picture is the screenshot of login page of QQ mail. So I'm thinking, are the geeks in QQ making a joke of it?

“Sep 14th, 1987, 21:07, the first email of China, sent from Beijing to German, said, Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world."

And now may we say, How can we cross the Great F*ing Wall and reach... 

Here describes reasons and solution. But it doesn't work in my situation: Using XAMPP to set up the testing environment. Another solution were provided in comment 44 by Johan L. It works alright!

Do as follows:

To set up file ownership correctly:
In WP root directory
chown -R yourusername:apachegroupname *
In my case...
chown -R johan:apache *

find . -type d -exec chmod 770 {} ';'
find . -type f -exec chmod 660 {} ';'

WP 2.8: add
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
define('WP_TEMP_DIR', ABSPATH.'wp-content/tmp');
in wp-config.php
The function in file.php reads FS_METHOD and the tmp file creation test is never executed.
Make sure the wp-content/tmp directory exists and is writable by the apache user

Pre WP 2.8: well... you may need to patch the function in file.php by removing the if statement before $method='direct';
see comment #38 above
Only do this if you're sure you've setup file ownership correctly.

BTW the three numbers in chmod describe rights for "user", "group" and "others". read==4, write==2, execute==1. Sum of rights make up the number. Hence 777 means read, write and execute for user, group and others. 660 means read and write for user and group, no rights for others.

NEVER do a chmod 777 on any file or directory. NEVER recommend anyone to do it either!

Note that it's better to upgrade to 2.8 and above first.

The key is the two lines in wp-config.php.

Thanks Johan L.

Time 1:00am GMT+8. Apple reveal the iPhone OS 4 with many new features. So attractive cool ones are:

• Bluetooth keyboard. When being at home, typing with REAL keyboard is enjoyable. and my iPhone stand has the reason to take a place on the desk then.
• Multitasking! It makes a lot of features come true. And yes, Jobs played the trick again: Blamed multitasking in the very beginning and now makes it happen by Apple itself. 
• VOIP. Skype can run in background and receive calls. Not sure if it's available in 3G network as previous rumor said. Hope for the best.

Besides above, there are more like iBooks (No wonder why stanza has been forced to remove the USB transfer function).

Same as before, a lot of figures were used to prove the improvement of Apple products and the whole business. 

iAd, the fist of Apple on mobile advertising market. It really hurts to the other ad OPs. iAd shows off the ad in a different way (well, first of all, you have to make contents special). iPhone not just benefit from hardware for long, and now this new business adds new value to Apple stocks.

For multitasking, no need to use a task manager to close the applications, means system takes care of it by itself. If it's working well, really user friendly. 

OS 4 comes this summer. 

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Thanks Taylor reminds:
The little girl is actually a power ranger, not a transformer.