Month: November 2007
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721 claps per minute!
How many claps you can make in one minute? 60? 80? 100? What about 721 claps in one minute? I had to admit that I was amazed by this world record. Kent “Toast” French holds a record for The World’s Fastest Clapper. You can see the video on Youtube, Metacafe, or ifilm. 721 claps in…
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Spread Firefox Gets a Face Lift
If you’re a Mozilla Firefox user, you probably have heard about Spread Firefox. It’s a community movement to spread Mozilla Firefox browser. Recently, its website introduced a new design. Check: http://newsfx.spreadfirefox.com/. Anyway, this site is made on Drupal.
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Saatnya ganti mouse dan keyboard
Wah, mouse sudah usang. Kemarin, setelah pulang mengantar Lala balik ke Ngawi, berkutat dengan komputer lagi. Yah, seperti biasa, menyempatkan untuk mengerjakan sedikit pekerjaan yang menumpuk (duh!). Nah, ternyata mouse-nya bermasalah. Mouse tidak responsif. Kadang-kadang tidak terdeteksi. Wah, sepertinya sudah ngaco banget. Dan jelas ini sangat mengganggu. Kalau cuma melakukan hal-hal sederhana, tanpa mouse (jika…
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2000000000
Look at the photo below: It’s a shot of a gum tree taken in front of Market City in Chinatown Haymarket in Sydney. This wonderful photo was taken by yukesmooks. And you know what, this is two billionth photo uploaded to Flickr. Lala and I only contribute less than 200 photos for Flickr so far.…
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Yusril Ihza Mahendra's New Blog
Yusril Ihza Mahendra, the former State Secretary, starts blogging using a new blog address. His blog — made using WordPress — is located at http://yusril.ihzamahendra.com. So, if you’re know his very first blogs at Blogspot (http://mahendra-ihza-yusril.blogspot.com/), it’s time to change your bookmark to the new address. All posts (except the last one) have been imported…
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WPhone: Admin Interface for Your Phone
WPhone is a plugin that gives you an option to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone. There are two versions of the mobile admin interface.
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DivCounter: Webpage Tag Scanner
How many HTML tags are there in your web page? How many opened and closed tags? If you’re curious to get that information, you can use a handy tool called DivCounter. Using this tool you can scan a web page to get the number of opened and closed data. Not all HTML tags are scanned…
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Longest Email Address
I am not sure whether it’s useful or not, but there is free email service where you can have a very long (again, VERY long) email address. It’s under abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com domain name. Before registering, it’s better to read what it offers (because it’s so long): Some web forms are unable to read your email address…
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Windows Live ID for Everyone
Some of you probably have heard that you can have Windows Live ID. Yes, it’s open for public now. It means that everyone can register. The registration process is very simple, you only need to fill in some registration form fields.
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Opera Mini 4
It’s official. Opera Software just release the latest version of Opera Mini after three beta releases. It’s Opera Mini 4. In this release, there are many improvement as the entire codes were rewritten. Its rendering is also based on Opera 9.5 desktop browser.
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WordPress MU 1.3
Few days ago, WordPress MU 1.3 was released for public. This latest release is a sync of WordPress 2.3.1. So, many new features offered by WordPress 2.3.1 will be also available in WordPress MU environment. Great!
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Dot Earth by NYTimes.com
NYTimes.com is known for its blogs. They just launched another blog called “Dot Earth”. This new blog is written by Andrew C. Revkin — a science reporter for The New York Times — and it’s dedicated to examining the growing human impact on the planet’s health. By 2050 or so, the world population is expected…
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Rainy Season and Electricity Problem
It’s raining now. It’s a good thing to have rain here. In the last few months, it was hot, really hot in Jogjakarta. At least I can get more friendly weather. The problem is, I live in an unlucky area. I do not know the real problem, but I think it’s because the electricity network…