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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After WP-Premiums and WeLoveWP, now Robin Malau Dot Com featured at The Web Index, a webdesign gallery runs by few employees of Vast HTML. Please stop by and give Robin Malau Dot Com a good rate :-D.
Click here (or the picture) to go to The Web Index.

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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 [...]

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) [...]

I went to the site several days ago but never got the chance to try it out until earlier today. Given the buzz lately i visited the site with high expectation.
I am sorry for the title, but PluggedIn.com was cool until i found this:
The content is not licensed for distribution outside the US. We are [...]

I’ve been messing up with dozens of Wordpress Themes, either for my own blogs and lately for my client’s blogs. Lately i’ve been experimenting by converting a CSS template into Wordpress template. When i finished my first template, i was like, OMG i can make a wordpress template by my own, but then, i found [...]

I never realize that YouTube has been play a great part in my internet life until the site was stupidly blocked for the last 4 days by my ISP. Somehow, the condition developed as more and more people here realize that blocking the site is just overdoing a good idea on paper.
If you live in [...]

My ISP has yet to block YouTube which must be the stupidest act that an ISP can do. So i would like to take this opportunity to post another cool video uploaded at YouTube.
The video explain what is art from animal perspective. Art?

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After several hours effort moving this blog’s host, i was tempted (read: forced) to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 which was released earlier today. I wouldn’t get into details because you can always find it at many Wordpress dedicated blogs, but to quote from Wordpress Development Blog newest post:
WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of [...]

I do check my Yahoo! email to see how many spams i get, but this time i got ‘an important notice’ from Yahoo!:
We’re making some changes that will affect one of your Yahoo! profiles. After April 9, 2008, mature content will not be permitted within Yahoo! Profiles.
In accordance with this new policy, users will no [...]

This guest post was initiated when Aaron Wall asked his readers whether he can write a guest post on his reader’s blog. So i immediately asked him if he wouldn’t mind to write SEO for non tech as at topics like Football, Music or even Pranks. Below is what he wrote for me. Hope this [...]

I’ve been a fan of web design galleries. Everytime i got my RSS Reader open, my first folder i read is usually a folder name ‘blog design’ among others. This morning i’m stoked knowing that this blog is featured at WeLoveWP.com, a site that features Wordpress powered websites.
I knew WeLoveWP from another webdesign galleries and [...]

Nah. I am kidding with the title. But, i think these guys from Animoto.com has totally crazy (read: beyond smart) idea. I was in the music scene for so long i understand how hard to create a music video. And the guys at Animoto make video making is a kid’s toy. Well, not apparently, at [...]

Apparently, just suddenly, I found that several sites produced an error pop-up in my Firefox that said:
Warning : Unresponsive script”. The message continues: “A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
And it [...]