WordPress is a very powerful content management system, which is specifically designed as a blogging platform. You can use WordPress as what it’s designed for, a blog, or customize it into a full fledge CMS website with the help of nothing but freely available plugins.

However what’s more common is perhaps you are installing WordPress in a sub-folder of an existing website, and after blogging for a while, you are thinking “Hey, how can I list my blog posts on my homepage?”

It’s really easy actually because WordPress has made life so much easier for us. In order to use any functions in WordPress (such as display latest blog posts, display latest comments, etc), you simply need to include the file “wp-blog-header.php”. For example, to display my latest 10 blog posts in my Flash Games page, I simply put the following few lines of code:

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Oh yes, you read me correct. We are on the homepage of Problogger.net, at the Job Board section. Kongtechnology.com is looking for Tech Bloggers to co-blog for the blog. Where else is better to advertise to get good co-bloggers if not Problogger.net’s Job Board?

This is the place where bloggers looking for jobs and companies looking for bloggers to hire meet.

No, not that we have too much money to spend, but we are serious in getting good Tech Bloggers to co-blog with us. We do not mind paying to get good people to contribute quality articles for the benefit of us all – the readers.

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There has been a lot of rumors that the all new 3G capable iPhone is due at next week’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference 2008). WWDC kicks off on 9th June 2008 with a keynote address by Steve Jobs.

Besides 3G support, the new iPhone also sports the following features:

• Lighter weight
• Available in Black and a few other colors
• Focus on Multimedia with video recording
• Video conferencing features
• GPS capable

There are also unconfirmed rumors that Apple is going to eliminate the US$399 8GB iPhone, keep the US$499 16GB and add a US$699 32GB model. However, alongside these, a low end iPhone that costs no more than US$200 might be available as Kevin Rose heard. Kevin Rose was the co-host of The Screen Savers on Tech TV and later founded Digg.com.

Watch Kevin Rose’s predictions:

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Wow, is this the future version of Windows… so called Windows 7? To me, it looks really revolutionary much like how Apple iPhone revolutionized how a mobile phone should look and work. Now, many mobile phone makers are producing iPhone competitors, especially HTC and LG models.

Earlier last week, at the D6 conference Ballmer demonstrated the multitouch interface of Windows 7 which will ship to customers in late 2009.

The demo showed an app for organizing photos, and a Windows Paint app that you can draw with all your fingers at once. Also, a digital globe app, where the two-handed interface makes good sense. What’s really amazing is a piano app, on which you can now play chords using your fingers on the multitouch screen!

Anyway, do you think Microsoft is copying Apple this time? Whatever it is, I truly hope Windows 7 will be better, not like Windows Vista which looks superb but performs badly.

How do you broadcast live streaming video on your own website, such as live video from your webcam? The answer is very simple, make use of Ustream.tv. Ustream.tv lets anyone with a webcam or a similar video capturing gear and some guts to put together a live video on the web. The video can be broadcast live to millions of other viewers. The video creator can create their own channels, complete with customized branding and show description.

Other than showing your video on Ustream itself, you can embed it on blogs, websites, and social-networking profiles. Let me show you how…

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