Archive for: Geeky

May 30th, 2008

Social Media in Plain English

Commoncraft has done it again (i embed several of their explanation videos in the past). Their style of explanation is phenomenally simple and yet effective. As simple and effective as generating clones like this TV ad. This time they come up with Social Media in Plain English. This video focuses on basics of social media: new [...]

May 30th, 2008

Now Anyone can Read at Work

Read at Work is a fun geekery. The purpose of the website is to let people read at work and don’t let their boss know that they are actually reading and not working. When you visit www.readatwork.com, you’ll be welcome by a Window start page designed web page and an instruction: To Begin, click your user [...]

May 29th, 2008

Join Firefox Community to Break The World Records

Firefox is my default browser and have been using Firefox 3 release candidate since the day they launch and really in love with it. It has been said that there are 14,000 improvements since the version 2. I didn’t really dig it but from what i feel, the version 3 is so light and really [...]

May 25th, 2008

Emma Watson Plastic Surgery

This is fun. Emma Watson converted into truck driver using a.viary, an online image editing (and more) tool. A little description about the service: Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for people who create. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for artists of all genres. To [...]

May 24th, 2008

How to Integrate Amazon aStore to Wordpress Page

Amazon affiliate program is probably the oldest and the most successful internet affiliate program in the world. They provide a wide range of supporting tool for their affiliates. However, among those fancy and helpful tools, my favorite is always their aStore. aStore is a program for Amazon affiliates, that wishes to have their own niche online [...]

May 16th, 2008

Cool Tool : DNS Pinger

This tool come right on time when i decided to move another blog from Blogger to self-hosted Wordpress. When updating DNS (changing servers etc), most of the times it’s just painful to wait up to 72 hours just to see your DNS propagate to the internet. The thing is, it might happen anytime soon and [...]

May 14th, 2008

Using Blog Editor to Overcome Posting Constraints

For the last 2 weeks, i start to use another Blog Editor. I use it because i need to overcome these constraints on running and authoring self-hosted Wordpress blogs: I’m authoring multi blogs. I use hosting plans with its limited shared resources. At slow loading times, i can spend mostly an hour only to publish a single [...]

May 7th, 2008

Cool Blog, Twitter and Google Alerts Connection

Note: This is too much geeky if you don’t run your own Wordpress blog, an active Twitter account and setting up your name/aliases at Google Alerts. Somehow Twitter and Google Alerts can be very annoying if i get too much updates. But i found this interesting that connect the 2 services (and a Wordpress blog) [...]

Apr 29th, 2008

Worldometers – The Real Time World Statistics

I was stumbling around and found this interesting site, Worldometer, which is a site dedicated to world statistics that updated in real time. Worldometer is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around [...]

Apr 19th, 2008

Tetris is now a Wrestling Game

Tetris is the original time waster. It competes head to head with Solitaire in my PDA. These kind of games are also useful while wait my Firefox loads. However, i never thought this simple game could mixed nicely with Arm Wrestling (who would? I bet not even the creator!). Anyhow, Tresling is a machine that controlled [...]

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