Dec 6th, 2008
Adobe TV
I really enjoy Adobe Media Player in my desktop now i also enjoy their TV channel. You can also subscribe to the channel via the media player.
Nov 14th, 2008
Google Office in New York
If pingpong is one of important skills to get a work in Google, then i probably have the chance.
Oct 5th, 2008
Firefox 3 Proxy Server Refused Connection Problem
If you playing around with proxy stuffs without knowing wtf proxy is, you might end up to a problem like me. Suddenly, my Firefox rejecting to connect to the internet. What a frustration seconds. However, i found out that a proxy app i tried out earlier set my Firefox’s proxy to ‘manual’. To fix it out, [...]
Aug 22nd, 2008
How to Delete a Yahoo! Account
I just did, it was a super old account that was filled with anything but spam emails. Preparation: Make sure that no email that you need to keep in the account and backup your address book. Now the process, which is as simple as this: Go to https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user and login use the account that you want to delete. Fill [...]
Aug 20th, 2008
Free Book for Students
The President of RI has launched online book program for students. The government acquired the copyrights of those books from the writers and publishers, and it will continue to acquire the copyrights of more books next year. However by the time i wrote this, the link to the download site is broken (i posted a comment [...]
Aug 16th, 2008
CoverItLive Offers SEO Friendly Live Blogging Result
I’ve used CoverItLive twice to liveblogged 2 events back in February. One was a Saresehan (it’s like a small seminar with small audiences) and a live music. I will highlight the Saresehan event, as it was a success in terms of the Live Blogging introduction to the local music community. Knowing that less Indonesian music community [...]
Aug 9th, 2008
DNS Cache Poisoning Attack
Saw this at BBC Click yesterday which has posted at their website today. This might be too techie to let common internet users understand about the recent flaw in the internet’s addressing system known as cache poisoning attack (other example: explain why internet user should better not using Internet Explorer, their default internet browser). So perhaps this [...]
Aug 3rd, 2008
Delicious New Design Look Awesome
Delicious new design looks awesome. They also delete the dots in their domain and moved to Delicious.com. The old del.icio.us domain was my all time smart domaining favorite but last time i checked by typing manually i still lost to a similar (parked domain). So it might still confusing for people. However, the new design is not [...]
Jul 28th, 2008
Cuil Index My Name
Cuil is a new search engine formed by ex-Googlers that gets so much attention this morning from the blogosphere. As an early adapter, i took myself immediately to Cuil.com and tested the newly launch search machine. My first search was my own name, and it returned a 88,236 results compare to Google who gets 15,200. Other interesting [...]
Jul 24th, 2008
MediaWiki 1.13 Release Candidate is now available
I’m running 2 MediaWiki sites and have been impressed with the results (read: collaborating idea). Sometimes i feel it is too big for my niche’s wiki but why start small anyway… Main problem is, MediaWiki is by far is feel very much techie and non-techie niche will find it hard to master the software. Question is, why [...]
Jul 7th, 2008
Why SlideShare.net Sucks
I posted this rambling at my Posterous posts (anyway i love Posterous!) but i think it’s not fair if i don’t post it here in my blog and at my own domain. So why SlideShare.net suck? I use to love SlideShare, i think they have the best embedable slide widget among all. So as usual i went [...]
Jul 4th, 2008
Installing a Firefox Theme
Guess i’m just excited but i installed a Firefox theme! Not sure whether this will stay long in my machine but right now i really like it. Now the world wide web looks black. Awesome!
Jul 3rd, 2008
How to Prevent Firefox 3 From Crashes
Well ok, as Fred suggest from my last post the best thing to start using Firefox 3 after installing is by having a clean profile. I did some google search and find this tip on how to create a new profile in Windows XP. Close your Firefox. On your START tab, klik Run then paste this firefox.exe [...]
Jul 3rd, 2008
I Didn’t Know LinkedIn
I didn’t know, that’s why i don’t use my LinkedIn account that much. Well, i just have an account just like any other ’social networking site’ out there. And, use it as another networking site without making many friends Thanks to this video by the CommonCraft. Now i understand LinkedIn more.
Jul 3rd, 2008
Twitter Ebook Free Download
As a Twitter evangelist (follow me here), i always need to find a way to let me friends know about the site. You know, so i can connect with them. But, everytime, well almost everytime i ask my friends whether they tweet, they’re like, twit what? Then mostly it ends like, i’m too busy for [...]
Jun 27th, 2008
Obtain Your Internet Diploma
The fun guys at My Internet Diploma has approved my Professional Internet Surfer Diploma picture below. Here’s the link to my Diploma online, and badges to put on blogs or websites to make it more fun
Jun 27th, 2008
Do You Claim .co.cc Domains?
I just did. This free domain provider (read: subdomain) is very popular in Indonesia. I’ve seen many people use this domain and i believe the reason is because it’s free. People like free things (I do love free things but mostly i pay to get more free things!). Anyhow since the nature of .co.cc [...]
Jun 20th, 2008
How To Weaken Firefox Smart Location Bar
At first, i was amazed how Firefox 3’s new ability to capture my browsing habit by suggesting past URL browsed. Until, most of outdated addons are starting to be updated to match the new version. Now my favorite browser is back to its habit, slow loaded. So today i decide to give it a tiny [...]
Jun 20th, 2008
What You Should Afraid in 2008? Weird Laws!
I’ve been trying to understand what are these guys doing for several days until this one. The 4th episode, which is not too geeky. It’s understandably funny. From Laughing Squid i understand that it’s actually a daily show program called Good Morning Internet which broadcast every morning for 15 episodes, which will run daily for three [...]
Jun 19th, 2008
Cool Pligg Sites
I am struggling to customize Pligg templates because the theme structure is a bit more complicated. Unlike other CMS like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla or even MediaWiki, Pligg theme is not the easiest to customize. I run 2 Pligg powered sites, one of them started with a paid theme from the Pligg Pro Store. But even [...]
Jun 18th, 2008
Print Your Firefox Download Day Guiness World Record
It’s Firefox Download Day. When i check the download site, i saw the number of downloading is 6.069.208. That’s certainly a Guiness Book of Records because noone has ever done this before. However, Firefox has celebrating the day by allowing users to print their certificate of the record breaking attempt, even if it’s not approved yet [...]
May 30th, 2008
Experimenting with an On-Stage Telepresence Experience
Below video is Cisco CEO John Chambers interact with Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President of Emerging Technology Group. Yeah… so what’s new about it? Well, what’s new is, Mr. John Chambers was in India while Mr. Martin De Beer was in Los Angeles. How on earth this guys can do it? Find out here.
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 18th, 2008
Test How Your Website Look Like in Various Browsers
I installed most major browsers in my computer. The main objective is to check how web layouts work in other browsers (Firefox is my default browser).But testing the site in different browser is impractical, and also i can’t test websites in different Operating Systems. However, the nice people in Browsershots can help me to overcome [...]
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 [...]
