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 Music/Radio / The "so Tempting" Track By D Diamonds (starquest's Winning Band) by tundewoods(m): 11:27pm On May 09, 2008 |
No doubt the track written and performed by Star Quest's winning band titled "So tempting" is certainly the best song ever written and performed by a Band in the Star Quest Reality Show. Originally i wasn't a fan of D'Diamonds when the show originally started but when eviction consumed both of my favourite bands,the B Sixz and NEXT.I had to automatically decamp to the obviously most talented band in the Show. Now take my word for it,the song "So tempting" performed by D Diamonds is a time bomb waiting to explode. Obviously the band will be crowned kings and winners of the Star Quest at the Grand Finale on Saturday at the Colisuem. The favourite part is that Star Quest has taken the reality show to the next level by shooting musical videos for a song each by the remaining 3 bands in Star Fameland.And the musical video shot for D Diamonds is for no other track than their "So Tempting" So keep your fingers crossed,who knows you may just come across it on TV soon and you will agree that the track is certainly the best song to be written,composed and performed by a band in Star Quest history. |
| Adverts / Re: Searching For A Pug Puppy To Buy In Nigeria by tundewoods(m): 10:04pm On May 08, 2008 |
I am still waiting  |
| Technology Market / Re: Cheap and Brand New Sony Vaio Laptops For Sale! by tundewoods(m): 1:21pm On May 08, 2008 |
Man your Sony Vaio Notebook is outrageously on the highside for N175,000,that is about $ 1,500.I got a brand new viao of the same spec except that the Hard drive siz is 160 GB going for $800 while the max cost of getting it to Nigeria cant exceed $200. |
| Webmasters / Re: Lucurative & Heavy Demand: Writing Facebook B2c Integration Apps by tundewoods(m): 5:18pm On May 07, 2008 |
georgen2u: @ georgen2u Honestly i think,you are the one wasting your time tryint to write a fresh new social networking website.The plain truth is that the success of social networking website goes beyond just design.I hear about tons and tons of new Nigerian social neworking websites everyday. And the pathetic this is most of them always rely on revenue form Google Adsense and other residual income oriented programs.Social networking in Nigeria is still a BIG JOKE. Legwork.com.ng seems to be the only Nigerian social network that seems to have broken the jinx.Well i wish you good luck but i can bet that i'll make more revenue writing facebook integration apps than you writing your own fresh social network website. |
| Webmasters / Re: Lucurative & Heavy Demand: Writing Facebook B2c Integration Apps by tundewoods(m): 12:12pm On May 07, 2008 |
According to Alexa, Facebook is one of the top 20 sites on the Web, and it has some impressive statistics: The site's growth is around 3% per week, which equates to 100,000 new users per day. 50% of registered users visit the site every day. The site attracts more traffic than eBay: 40 billion page views per month, which equates to an average of 50 pages per user, per day. Just looking at these statistics should start you thinking about the ways in which you can leverage this level of traffic to benefit your own web site. If you could tap into the Facebook userbase, you could very easily and quickly increase the audience's awareness of your brand, product, service, or web site. Let's consider a real-world example. I'm currently working on welovelocal.com, a UK directory that allows its users to find and review businesses. While this isn't necessarily a new idea, the site adds a social element whereby users can view reviews from their friends to find out about businesses that other users with similar interests are reviewing. And by leveraging Facebook, a site like this can significantly increase its exposure to a given user's network of friends. For example, if Stacy, a welovelocal user, writes a review about a restaurant, that review will be published to Stacy's Facebook news feed. All of Stacy's friends on Facebook will be able to see that she's written a new review, and can click through to welovelocal to read it. Can you see the potential? You can work with the Facebook Platform in many ways, including creating apps that exist just within Facebook itself. However, I feel that the greatest potential lies with integrating Facebook into an existing site, and that's what I'll cover in this article. The news feed is perhaps the most important element of the platform, as it adds a real viral element to any kind of notification you send out -- being able to reach the entire network of friends for any of your users is certainly a great feature. But there are many other avenues by which content can be communicated to users. For example, you can: Add a link to your own site from the left-hand menu bar of a user's Facebook profile page, as shown below. Add to a user's profile a content box that contains whatever content you like. With welovelocal, we use this to display the user's latest five reviews, complete with ratings and links back to the actual reviews on our site, as shown here. Send requests to users to perform certain actions. For example, you could retrieve a list of your users' friends, and send a request to all of them to add your app to their Facebook profiles. Upload photos, create albums, get photos, and manage photos within Facebook. One use for this might be to access the photos a user has added to their Facebook account and pull them into your site, or to push photos that have been uploaded to your site back to Facebook. How Do I Use It? In this article, we'll walk through the basics of using the Facebook platform using PHP 5. If you're interested in integrating your site with Facebook using another language, there is plenty of information on the Facebook developers' wiki: ASP.NET ASP(VBScript) ColdFusion C++ C# Java Perl PHP Python Ruby on Rails VB.NET I was fortunate (or unfortunate) to develop the welovelocal application prior to the official platform release in May. This meant that I had to write my own code to call the functions. There is an official PHP 5 library as well as an unofficial PHP 4 version (see the PHP link above) that you can probably use to get up and running more quickly and easily than I did. However, in order to gain a proper understanding of how the platform works, it's worth looking at the raw interactions that take place. First Steps You must register for an API key before you can access the Facebook Platform. To do this, you'll need to sign up for a Facebook account, then add the "Developer" application to your Facebook account. You can do so by following the very simple instructions at www.facebook.com/developers. Once it's added, you'll find that the Developer application is very much like a normal Facebook group, but it has an additional link near the top of the page called "My Applications" which, when clicked, will display a list of all the Facebook applications that you have registered. Once you've registered, you need to generate a key. Click the Apply for another key link and you'll be walked through the process of creating a Facebook application. There are a number of fields that you can provide optional information to, all of which are explained in the quick start guide on the Facebook Developers site. Your application is actually now ready to be used, although it won't do anything! Depending on what you want your application to do, your users may need to perform a number of steps to install your app into their Facebook accounts. The process usually consists of them clicking an Install link, then confirming the request, as shown here. Adding an application to a Facebook account (click to view image) Once the application is added, it will appear in the user's news feed and on their mini-feed, both of which are viewable by all their friends -- your first bit of free publicity! Authentication Your application is ready to be used, but of course you'll want to provide some content for your user. The two most important features for web site owners are: the ability to publish items to the news feed the ability to add a profile box Before you can use either of these pieces of functionality, you need to authenticate the current user with the Facebook platform. Each call to the Facebook Platform API requires a session key that identifies the user who's logged in and is using the system. To obtain this key, you must make a call to the Facebook API that redirects the user to log in to the Facebook web site and authorize the request. One hurdle here is that this authorization provides a session key that only lasts for a certain period of time -- around 24 hours. A key that didn't expire would be much more useful. Fortunately, we can obtain such a key by following these two steps, which I'll explain in more detail in a moment: First, ask the user to authorize your application so that it can access the user's account on Facebook. This returns auth token 1, which generates a session key that expires after 24 hours. Then, ask the user to generate auth token 2, which they should then paste into a form on your web site. With this token in place, you'll be able to generate a session key that never expires. Once you have the final token, you can request a permanent session key by calling the facebook.auth.getSession function. But first, allow me to elaborate on those two steps. Step 1 - Obtaining Auth Token 1 From your web site, direct your user to Facebook using a URL appended with your API key, like this: www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key=APIKEY (where APIKEY should be replaced with your own API key). If the user is not currently logged in, they'll be asked to do so. The user will then be asked to accept any terms of service you set, and will be redirected to the callback URL that you specified when creating the application. This can be changed by editing your application through the Developer link in Facebook's sidebar. With the redirect in place, Facebook will append ?auth_token=TOKEN to the URL, using an actual authentication token. You can use this token with the facebook.auth.getSession function; it's available as a GET variable in PHP. However, because we want to get an infinite session, that auth token is actually irrelevant -- we need to get another token that we can use to get a permanent session key. If we were not interested in an infinite session, this is where we would stop. We could use the auth token with the facebook.auth.getSession function below. Step 2 - Obtaining Auth Token 2 Once your user has returned to your site after logging into Facebook, you'll need to send them to www.facebook.com/code_gen.php?api_key=APIKEY. Back on the Facebook site, the user will be asked to generate a token that will be displayed to them. They must then copy and paste it into a form on your web site -- it's not passed through via GET/POST. It's up to you to create a form that accepts this token from your user. Once the user has submitted this second token to your site, you'll need to call the facebook.auth.getSession function, passing the token as a parameter. This will finally return a session key that you can use continuously to authenticate that user; this key could, for example, be stored in the database alongside the user's account for easy retrieval in the future. It's important to note that, should the user delete your application from their Facebook account, they'll need to repeat this authentication process in order to use your Facebook application. You should therefore provide the option for the user to reset their Facebook integration and set it up again. If you're storing the user's session key in the database, this task would simply involve deleting that session key and taking the user through the two-step authentication process above.
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| Webmasters / Lucurative & Heavy Demand: Writing Facebook B2c Integration Apps by tundewoods(m): 12:32pm On May 06, 2008 |
Now this is no longer news that facebook may be the most successful online social networking website ever in human history. But what may be new and news to you is that as a web developer you can make quick and lucurative income writing B2C(Business to Consumer)Integration applications for facebook. WIll be back to provide ya'all wit hthe details,right now i need a lunch break. |
| Adverts / Searching For A Pug Puppy To Buy In Nigeria by tundewoods(m): 11:27am On May 06, 2008 |
I am currently in search for a pug puppy of below 4 months to buy,here in Nigeria.I would have opted for getting one in South Africa or Europe but the faring and logistics stress of bringing it down here is quite stressful and that's what i am avoiding. Please the pug puppy's skin complexion must be of cream butter brown and look something like the photos i have attached below. Please i hope your prices will not scare me away oh !
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| Webmasters / Re: Your Website Design Office. by tundewoods(m): 5:02pm On May 05, 2008 |
Quite an interesting thread i must confess,Setting up of a web studio or office in Nigeria in most cases has to do mainly with the individuals level of experience and participation in previous projects as a freelance designer or team member. When i originally opted to have my own little web studio cum office back in 2003.One major factor that determined all i had an acquired was availability of capital and level of importance the basic devices and office furniture. Back then in early 2003,I rented a small office that was actually sub le to me by a senior colleague who ran a cyber cafe then at Maryland. My assets back then 1. 3 Swivle Chairs 2. 2 Compact imported computer desk 3. 1 extended imported computer desk 4. 5470 HP scanner 5. HP 3210c deskjet printer 6. HP 1220 c Industrial printer 7. 2.4 Megapixel HP digital camera 8. 2 Cloned desktop systems (Pentium 3 800Mhz and pentium 4 1.2) 9. A P4 Compaq Presario laptop 10. An external CD writer and Zip drive 11. A Metal cabinet. 12. Internet access courtesy my landlord's Cyber cafe. Well that was back in 2003 but now got lots more gadgets and more systems but i guess the main significant difference is that i got a bigger office and have an aluminium partition,wireless network via my wireless router and got internet via DOPC modem and an alternative internet access via starcomms aircard. The long and short of the matter is that you just dont jump into having an office you mst carefully plan and must have a history in web development that will require you to move up to the level of owning an office. Personally thats what differentiates us from the freelance work from home baby web designers |
| Music/Radio / Re: United In Moscow by tundewoods(m): 8:53am On May 01, 2008 |
It can be extremely hard to get the brain to think atimes,Such is a clear case and example of misguided post |
| Music/Radio / Re: New tracks :D Banj, Big Bamo, Khristlike & Sheyman :wetin-dey.com by tundewoods(m): 3:18am On Apr 28, 2008 |
A lonely man desperately seeking traffic for his website. |
| Webmasters / Re: Star Quest Official Website by tundewoods(m): 11:27pm On Apr 26, 2008 |
timmy: I'm sure you couldn't have done better. |
| Music/Radio / Re: Tuface Impregnates Another Lady by tundewoods(m): 11:04pm On Apr 26, 2008 |
So why are you guys making Tuface's personal life your personal head ache ? Learn to grow up and try to be as successful and relevant as Tuface. Like it or not,Tuface has acquired enough to take care of his children and their mothers. A popular wafi proverb says that "Na Only fool wey no get work na him go dey take panadol for another person headache. Thats exactly what most of dudes are doing,grow up and get a life. |
| Webmasters / Re: Www.wotszup.com by tundewoods(m): 2:38pm On Apr 26, 2008 |
batosai: @batosai First of all i am a point blank and frank person so take my critical views in good faith Personally the choice of the domain name is very very poor as the domain its self sounds rather confusing and un pronoucable but well i geuss your best choice for whatsup or better still available option was what you settled for. On visting the homepage,for christ sake your flash or animations on your homepage are giving me hypnotic fits and honestly the flash animations are damn too large and every where. |
| Music/Radio / Re: Have You Heard Jay Z Ft Rockboyz - Nigerian Gansta Remix? by tundewoods(m): 7:22pm On Apr 25, 2008 |
Akinz seems to be enjoying spreading the spamming gospel according his wetin-dey.com website. He kiddo,using cheap appraoch like this wont take ya far |
| Business / Re: Investment Of N8 Million( $48,000). by tundewoods(m): 12:40pm On Apr 24, 2008 |
Quite an interesting scam concept i must confess !I almost fell for it after reading the initial thread. |
| Music/Radio / Re: Gino Just Pulled It Off With Farabale.wats your Take On This? by tundewoods(m): 10:24pm On Apr 23, 2008 |
chronique: Are you sure you ain't Gino's PR specialist.  |
| Webmasters / Re: Star Quest Official Website by tundewoods(m): 9:52pm On Apr 22, 2008 |
LOL |
| Music/Radio / Re: Star Quest Lagbaja Wannabe by tundewoods(m): 3:04pm On Apr 22, 2008 |
The guy looked more like an african spider man wearing a costume made of Aso Oke . A |
| Music/Radio / Re: Gino Just Pulled It Off With Farabale.wats your Take On This? by tundewoods(m): 1:07am On Apr 22, 2008 |
It'a really hard to reclaim lost glory,if you doubt this go ask Idris Abdulkareem or Eddy Remedy. The truth be said,yea yea Gino's no be God was no doubt a block buster video back then when it came out and even uptil today but pleeeeeeeease,this new video by Gino "Farabale" has in no way proved any metal. so whats the hype ? Yea picture quality may be average but lack of creativity and cinematography exhibited in his previous "No be God" was lacking here. Go tell the marines that Farabale video is a blockbuster not us over here  |
| Webmasters / Star Quest Official Website by tundewoods(m): 12:44am On Apr 22, 2008 |
The yearly musical talent hunt reality show sponsored and hosted my Star lager beer is here again and must confess i'm one rather devoted observer of the show but what beat my imagination is the official website of the reality show which is http://www.star-nigeria.com . I cant still believe that at this point in time a big corporation that's got so much money to spend on the biggest musical band rality show can still pay little attention to their website. Visit it for yourself and withness the very best of website un-optimization need i say more ? Here is the point,Obviously Graphic artist certainly handled this project and its obvious that if you trace thier source or roots it'll certainly lead you to the AD agency handling the Star larger beer Account.The totally forgot that graphic design for web and print are two totally different ball games. |
| Music/Radio / Re: Rock Music Is Satanic? by tundewoods(m): 12:30am On Apr 22, 2008 |
Making generalizations like this one regarding Rock music being Satanic is quite narrow minded and dumb,need i say more.Accept that some Heavy metal bands are indeed weird but an out right generalization is just absolutely retarded. Gosh no wonder my people perish because of lack of understanding. |
| Music/Radio / Re: Starquest 2008 Screening A Hilarous Comedy To Behold. by tundewoods(m): 12:05am On Apr 21, 2008 |
You bet |
| Music/Radio / Starquest 2008 Screening A Hilarous Comedy To Behold. by tundewoods(m): 11:27pm On Apr 20, 2008 |
Goodness me i was fortunate to catch a glimpse of the screening of Star Quest 2008 screening on TV tonight,Honestly i first mistook the outside area venue for a jamb examination center,Gosh didn't know there sere so many "Jobless" yet "Ambitious" youths in this country. Funniest part of the screening exercise is the actual first round screening of contestants by the judges where they get to perform briefly infront of the judges,this immidiately reminds you of the humor and comedy of the screening exercise of Idols West Africa. Now believe you me that,the contestants this time around are even alot more hilarious and comical than that of the Idols Screening.To make matters worst the judges proved to be firm and enjoying the comic show.Judges were Rugged Man,Albert Kalu, Weird MC, Precious Joy and both KC Presh. I just wish i can lay my hands on a dvd of the screening exercise of Star Quest and even that of the Idols West Africa,Humor at its climax.Trust me,Even my wife's laughed her ribs out. |
| Music/Radio / Re: Your Best Nigerian Rapper by tundewoods(m): 9:30pm On Apr 20, 2008 |
quote author=tRoOE link=topic=128438.msg2169193#msg2169193 date=1208548669]
@ tRoOE Can you do us a favour,by stop feeling important.Never heard such random giberish in a while. |
| Family / Re: My Friend Consistently Beats Up Her Mum! by tundewoods(m): 11:10am On Apr 17, 2008 |
Quite a hilarous but sad story i must confess. But lets face it,i've got a hunch that this story may a bit over exaggerated or better still a hoax. But if in any case it is true contrary to my thoughts then i presume that there is more to the story that has been posted by the poster and next question is are we sure that both Mum and Daughter are not having bad blood because of Man Nairaland,thank you for feeding me humor that will keep me laughing and smiling for the rest of the day at work. Threads like this keep me going. Damn it,i love this game.  |
| TV/Movies / Re: Your Favorite Movie Duels? by tundewoods(m): 1:38am On Apr 16, 2008 |
Chris Ngige vs Chris Mba in the Movie titled "Anambra belongs to Chris Who ?" |
| Webmasters / Re: Setting Up Wamp Server To Run On Local Area Network by tundewoods(m): 12:16pm On Apr 13, 2008 |
@ uspry1 Thanks for the info regarding virtual host set up.I have actually attached a copy of my httpd.config file.can you kindly download it and see if you can locate where i need to modify.
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| Music/Radio / Jay Z And Roc Boys Sample Fela's "water No Get Enemy" by tundewoods(m): 12:24am On Apr 13, 2008 |
I just watched a music video by Jay-Z featuring Roc boys titled "And the Winner is" quite a very interesting track due to the fact that he actually sampled the late Afrobeat legend,Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's hit track "Water no get enemy" Even though if its about a year old Nice one i must confess,i did a little google research to read more about the production credit of that track. for the record this is the sample that was used and the production team dug deep to find it. For the whole of the song they essentially built off the sample and did some work on it, but left it completely unchanged at the riff that appears at the end of the track. Simply a smash sample if you ask me.Nice work Jay Z |
| Webmasters / Setting Up Wamp Server To Run On Local Area Network by tundewoods(m): 11:46pm On Apr 12, 2008 |
About a month ago i decided to set up a wireless area network in my office using a netgear wireless router basically to share my broadband internet access and some minor file sharing. However i also would love to have my WAMP server to run from a paricular system which is the server work station and be able to access it on other machines via my wireless network.I have done the basic stuff like creating a work group and assigning ip addresses like 192.168.1.1 and so on. However i notice that the HTTPS Config file in the apache of WAMP need to be configured to map the ip address of the particular work station as well the rights of the mysql database needs to granted to enable changes from other systems. Where i am kinda confused is the area of the ip address that will be used to access the local host across the network.On the local system i guess one can use http://127.0.0.1/ to access local host but in the case of a network whats the mapping parameters ? Really appreciate help on steps to guide me through just in case you have configured the latest WAMP 2.0 server across a network to enable other systems or machines to be able run websites locally on the network or intranet |
| Webmasters / Re: Web Developers, Why Aren't We Using Titles? by tundewoods(m): 5:18pm On Apr 07, 2008 |
Well to start with the basic recognized web developer certification which is CIW is quite not basically a prequisite to developing web applications or designing very well. By the way i believe real web developers are far busy handlng web projects that fluanting ancronyms of certifications just to show off. Reminds me of medical doctors in Nigeria,once you are a doctor here you will certainly see a stesthoscope hung on the front mirror on top of the dash board. typical of all doctors. So back to the issue of web developers,who the heck needs a title to massage his ego when we aint medical doctors or typical nigerian politicians that would die for just an ordinary traditional title. |
| Music/Radio / Re: Worst Video So Far by tundewoods(m): 5:25pm On Apr 06, 2008 |
@ Tattooboy Let's put it this way,seems you are simply a professional hater of Tuface Anyway it doesn't matter cos,no body cares. |
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