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		<title>New Forum Calendar to be installed &#8212; if the installation fails, we may restore-to-backup</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/03/03/new-forum-calendar-to-be-installed-if-the-installation-fails-we-may-restore-to-backup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[calendar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[server-side backups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m planning to install a new forum calendar tonight. I plan to back up the entire forum tonight before attempting the modification. If the modification fails, I may have to restore-to-back, thereby wiping out any activity on the forums after the back up. Stay tuned for details.]]></description>
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		<title>New flags on Forumosa</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/02/26/new-flags-on-forumosa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<title>New Tapatalk Plugin installed!</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/02/26/new-tapatalk-plugin-installed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/02/26/new-tapatalk-plugin-installed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tapatalk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just upgraded to the latest Tapatalk plugin Latest version: 2.2.0]]></description>
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		<title>Backing up the server and upgrading phpBB</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/02/01/backing-up-the-server-and-upgrading-phpbb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/02/01/backing-up-the-server-and-upgrading-phpbb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[phpBB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server-side backups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, folks! We&#8217;re taking advantage of the holiday period to make some long needed upgrades to the forums. Expect things to get bumpy in the next few days. If you&#8217;re a regular Forumosan, you know the drill: we&#8217;ll starting off with a server-wide &#8220;major&#8221; backup. This will mean the entire site will go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too many connections error</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/01/04/too-many-connections-error/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2011/01/04/too-many-connections-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server down]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m checking with our webhost why we maxed out our SQL connections again. This happened over Christmas and we responded by raising the limit on the number of connections. When this occurred just now, I took a peek at our Google Analytics numbers and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I&#8217;m hoping to get clearer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Tapatalk Server-side Upgrade &#8211; that was fast!</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/12/28/another-tapatalk-server-side-upgrade-that-was-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/12/28/another-tapatalk-server-side-upgrade-that-was-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tapatalk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just updated the Tapatalk module again &#8212; second time in 3 weeks. Please post your thoughts in the feedback forum. We are evaluating both Tapatalk and ForumRunner as &#8220;official&#8221; Mobile Apps for Forumosa.]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Forumosa &#8211; embracing Tapatalk, decommissioning of Mobile style</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/12/14/mobile-forumosa-embracing-tapatalk-decommissioning-of-mobile-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/12/14/mobile-forumosa-embracing-tapatalk-decommissioning-of-mobile-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[styles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I upgraded the server-side plugin for Tapatalk for phpBB3. I have also removed the mobile style we have been developing since April 2010. Development on that style slowed over the fall and went essentially silent the past 2 months. We thought we were very close to making that happen, but it has proven to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Prosilver promoted to default style</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/09/12/new-prosilver-promoted-to-default-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/09/12/new-prosilver-promoted-to-default-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[styles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[themes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have promoted Prosilver-Forumosa to be the default theme on the forums, as originally announced here: http://flob.me/p1199834 You can switch back to the original Forumosa-theme from the User Control Panel (http://forumosa.com/taiwan/ucp.php) but do bear in mind, that Forumosa style will not be supported going forward. So, improvements and certain features will not be available there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now testing new Mobile Theme on Forumosa</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/08/26/now-testing-new-mobile-theme-on-forumosa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/08/26/now-testing-new-mobile-theme-on-forumosa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[styles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just activated a new Mobile Theme for Forumosa, developed by the friendly chaps at Native Tongues. I think you will quickly agree that it offers many advantages over our other methods to provide a Mobile Forumosa - Exclusively Forumosa - Large, clean, easy-to-read interface - No additional software required &#8211; just direct your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now working on Forum Upgrade</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/05/05/now-working-on-forum-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/05/05/now-working-on-forum-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[downtime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phpBB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wish us luck!]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Upgrade planned for Tue 4 May 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/05/02/forum-upgrade-planned-for-tue-4-may-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/05/02/forum-upgrade-planned-for-tue-4-may-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 10:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This Tue, 4 May, I am planning to upgrade the forum software to the current version of phpBB3. As in previous upgrades, you can expect: 1. us to backup the entire database the night before the upgrade &#8212; when the actual back up occurs, the site goes down for 5~10 min. If the upgrade fails, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps BBCode now in Forum postings</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/03/26/google-maps-bbcode-now-in-forum-postings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/03/26/google-maps-bbcode-now-in-forum-postings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can now add a Google Map into your post on the forums, assuming you can easily find the Geo Coordinates of a location on Google Maps, you use them inside a BBCode snippet. The rest of the coding is automatically added on Forum Stats: Total posts 960292 Total topics 58253 Total members 16605 In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Calendar updated</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/03/21/google-calendar-updated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/03/21/google-calendar-updated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modification]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have updated our Google calendar code and embedded it in a few more places on the forums: the front index page, the event sub-forums, and the main feedback forum If you have a Google calendar and would like your events to appear on ours, follow these steps: First, make the calendar public. To do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>flob.me short cut website now open</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/15/flob-me-short-cut-website-now-open/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/15/flob-me-short-cut-website-now-open/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[new function]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/15/flob-me-short-cut-website-now-open/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[www.flob.me is designed to help you find posts and topics on Forumosa. Visiting that site shows you a simple Forumosa search box &#8211; the results are presented on the forum itself. But the real purpose of the website is to provide a short web address (URL) to the forums posts and topic threads. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RSS Links added to Sitemap</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/rss-links-added-to-sitemap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/rss-links-added-to-sitemap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[RSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/2010/02/14/rss-links-added-to-sitemap/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the latest upgrade of the phpBB software came built-in RSS feeds for every forum. RSS Links that you can use in your RSS readers and RSS-friendly browsers now appear in the Sitemap at the bottom of the forums. Forum Stats: Total posts 945778 Total topics 57540 Total members 16614 In the past 24 hours: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading to the latest phpBB</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/21/upgrading-to-latest-phpbb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/21/upgrading-to-latest-phpbb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks I&#8217;m upgrading the forums to the latest version of phpBB3. If there are any major problems along the way, I may ask our web host to restore the latest 24 hour back up of our website. This means that anything posted on Forumosa after the last backup will be lost. Be well gus. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embed videos into Forumosa &#8211; new BBCodes added</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/13/embed-videos-into-forumosa-new-bbcodes-added/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2010/01/13/embed-videos-into-forumosa-new-bbcodes-added/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBcode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added 2 new BBCodes to the forum &#8211; one for showing YouTube videos and the other for showing Flash video from other websites. When you are at the video websites, they often have Embed Code, which is the web link (URL) to that specific video. Position this embed code between the new BBCodes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Stars?</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/23/seeing-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/23/seeing-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new feature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can now see stars in the posting ID area (next to your posts) on Forumosa &#8211; each star represents a year of your being a Forumosan. These also appear on your Forumosa profile! Forum Stats: Total posts 878043 Total topics 53822 Total members 13174 In the past 24 hours: New Posts 306 New Topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flags are back</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/21/flags-are-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/21/flags-are-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.forumosa.org/?p=367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flags, emblems, badges and logos can now be added to your profile. To add one to your posting ID area (next to your posts) and your Forumosa profile, visit the UCP (User Control Pane; shortcut: www.flob.tw/ucpprofile) &#8212; a &#8220;flag&#8221; option has been added If you would like add a flag to use on the site, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re back! Software upgraded at long last</title>
		<link>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/19/were-back-software-upgraded-at-long-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.forumosa.org/2009/08/19/were-back-software-upgraded-at-long-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Goose Egg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our upgrade is done! After 3 days of trying (and a week after my first attempt), I have succeeded in updating the database and files to the latest version of phpBB. This means that we have a more stable and more secure platform at forumosa. A bonus is all the stuff I learned (and had [...]]]></description>
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