Wordpress 2.8.4 Security Issued Fixed

There has been an outbreak on WordPress community throught the weekend… Many wordpress blogs were hacked by a worm due to a security loophole.

Upgrade WordPress to 2.8.4 NOW

What is the security issue? Frankly, I do not know and I could not bother to find out too… as I could not understand it anyway. As a user, I have just completed upgrading my wordpress to 2.8.4… just to make sure I can now sleep with peace at night… ;-)

To know more about the WordPress loophole, check out the following post:

• Old WordPress Versions Under Attack
• How to Keep WordPress Secure

Setup WordPress for Both English & Chinese Languages

1. Open phpMyAdmin in CPanel

In order to type chinese on your blog, you will need to change some settings inside the SQL database. Firstly, you will need to login to your CPanel, then open phpMyAdmin as followed:

phpMyAdmin in CPanel

2. Select Database & Table of Your Blog

After launching the phpMyAdmin screen, you will need to select the database of your blog on the pull down menu. Once you have selected the database, you will be able to see all the existing tables of the database showing right below the pull down menu.

Select Database & Table in phpMyAdmin

3. Set Collation to utf8_unicode_ci

Click on the database table, you will see the table structure appearing on the right hand side of the screen. In order to store chinese in the database, you need to change the collation setting from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_unicode_ci.

To change the collation setting, click on the pencil button and you will be a pop up window appearing. Scroll on the pull down menu to select utf8_unicode_ci and save the setting.

You need to go through this steps for all the fields that has existing setting of latin1_swedish_ci. You also need to repeat this step for all tables in the database as well.

Set utf8_unicode_ci in phpMyAdmin

You are Done… Good Luck to You!

After completing the above mentioned steps, you should be able to type and store chinese text (中文） like I do. I suppose you should be able to do this for all other asian language as well. But I have never tried that. Maybe you can share with me if you do have some success on that.

All the best and enjoy blogging in your asian language…

KokPinLab now Upgraded to WordPress 2.8

After a few hours of hard work, I have finally upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.8.

I was running on wordpress 2.5 for the last one year. I was hesitated to upgrade because my older theme does not work with wordpress 2.8.

Finally, I decided to spend few hours today to do something about it. I have heard lots of new features on new wordpress and I really do not want to miss that.

I re-edited the images, re-configured the theme files and now, KokPinLab.com has Gone LIVE!!! This is just a new little milestone for myself.

My iPhone 3G

After getting the Apple iPhone 3G for about a month, I have been searching for iPhone App on the iTunes store or on the internet to beef up the capability of my iPhone.

Apple has included some app as the basic function in the iPhone. They are Stocks, Weather, Maps, YouTubes, Safari Web Browser and Mail.

Among the built in App, I will rate Safari and Mail app as the best built in apps that I like most.

Best iPhone Built in App – Safari & Mail

The mail set up is extremely easy and it allows me to link to my Gmail and Yahoo Mail without any difficulty. I simply need to enter my username and password, and that’s it. I will have access to my mail on the iPhone. Reading and replying email become so easy now even if I am on the move.

Safari allow me to quick access to check update on news. I simply do not need to power on and boot up my PC to surf the net now. Though the screen seem small but it does offer me a great convenient compared to spending minutes to boot up and power down the PC.

Free Bloomberg News on the Go

Besides Safari & Mail, Bloomberg News is the next app that I like best too. Simply touch the app and I can have the latest news update appearing on my iPhone. There are many news categories you can select to fit your interest. You can also have access to the latest stock market indices and commodity prices as well. Cool app, plus, it is Free, you will like Bloomberg News.

Facebook iPhone App is the coolest

I have just started playing on Facebook on long ago. Facebook also have a cool iPhone app to give you quick access to your Facebook, check out what’s the latest update among your friends, to update your own latest activites or even chat with Facebook members. You can do this with easy in the living room, on your bed or even while you are having a hot coffee at a wireless hotspot.

WordPress iPhone App is Simply Amazing

Finally, I also like the wordpress app too. It gives me quick and instant access to my wordpress blog. I can post new articles or I can also edit my old posts on the iPhone now. Plus, as my chinese HanYu PinYin input is very slow, writing chinese give me an easy alternative on the iPhone, I can also use iPhone to write some chinese post now.

Why do I say that?

Apple bleed the technology so well that you can play anytime anywhere and post your event immediately on your blog. For example, you are travelling and you took some photos with your iPhone, then you can immediately upload the photo to your blog and write your journal down.

Great toy that breaks the boundary … That’s Apple iPhone, so cool.

Here’s a photo my wife took on iPhone, and I am posting this using my iPhone.