Month: October 2008

  • LOL Flickr Feed

    Here is my Flickr Feed in LOL format.

  • vBulletin Performance Optimization

    I have been dealing with vBulletin for almost a year now. I manage a vBulletin installation for my friend at Fashionese Daily forum. Anyway, Fashionese Daily forum have used other forum/discusion engines like punBB and MyBB. It’s now using vBulletin 3.7.3 Patch Level 1. It’s a pretty busy-traffic forum anyway. In average, there are 1,000…

  • 10 Billion Photos Uploaded to Facebook

    Doug Beaver (Facebook engineer) writes that there are over 10 billion photos uploaded to Facebook! And, here are some statistics: 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day Over one petabyte of photo storage Facebook serves over 15 billion photo images per day Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images…

  • Adobe Flash Player 10

    Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available. Get it now. According to the datasheet (PDF, 491KB): Engage users with highly innovative and cinematic experiences using custom effects and filters created with Adobe Pixel Bender and native 3D effects. Innovate with text to create new types of publications using an advanced text engine, typographic control, and…

  • Flock 2.0

    Flock 2.0 released and it is built on the latest Firefox 3 technology from Mozilla. Download now.

  • Blocking More Twitter Users

    Today, I blocked many Twitter users who followed me. I already did it before. I have some spammy followers. They just published some links to visit their websites or other sites. I don’t know. Searching using Come OR visit gives me lots of spammy tweets (hat tip @budip). Sometime I did not check every followers…

  • The 15 dumbest names for Web 2.0 startups

    The Next Web posted about opinions on Web 2.0 startup names. Some popular names are on the list like CrazyEgg, Adaptive Blue, and also Yoono. Read the complete list.

  • Username Check

    Username Check will check whether your favorite username is registered to popular services or not. This is also useful if you have plan to use your very unique username for those services.

  • Track Current Stock Information in Google Spreadsheet

    I am not a person who got affected when there are major stock changes in the market. But, for those who need to track the stock information growth — and also use Google Spreadsheet, this is probably useful. Anyway, this will retrieve data from Google Finance. There is a tutorial about tracking stocks in Google…

  • 9 Awesome Places to Have Sex

    Just in case you need inspiration. Here are 9 Awesome Places to Have Sex (And the Horrific Consequences).

  • Features for Developers (Firefox 3.1 beta 1)

    Okey, this should be a good news. Geolocation Geolocation is a JavaScript API that lets a web page query the browser’s location via JavaScript. It can be used to plot maps, give directions, attach location information to pictures, give a location for a weblog post and a pile of other things. More details about Geolocation…

  • WordPress Troubleshooting: WordPress Admin Area (Dashboard) Redirect Loop

    Yesterday, I helped one of my clients with her WordPress-powered blogs. When I tried to find the solution — using search engines — I could not find any exact solution. Problem overview Okey, here’s the problem: When I tried to login to WordPress dashboard — not WordPress.com, but self-hosted — I always got these errors:…

  • Skillr

    Skillr provides an easy way to display your skills. Your skills can be displayed as widget. Let’s call it “skill widget”.

  • Pixlr, Online Image Editor

    Here another alternative for online image editor. It’s called Pixlr. We can upload and image images directly from internet browser. To enjoy this service, we need to have Flash plugin installed. Learn more.

  • Pesta Blogger 2008

    Last year, I joined Pesta Blogger (Indonesian Bloggers Gathering — official site). It was a great event (Flickr photoset). More than 500 bloggers gathered at Blitz Megaplex. This year (2008), Pesta Blogger will be hold in Jakarta again. At first, it was scheduled on October 25th. The commitee announced that it will be hold in…