Month: February 2009
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blip.tv Basic Features and Notes You Might Want to Know
When Budi Putra visited Jogjakarta last weekend, I was involved in a discussion about a video provider called blip.tv. I’m using it now effectively for my videoblog. We learned about the service, features, and other aspects that we need to know
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Moving Feedburner Feeds to Google Account
I did this few weeks ago. All my feeds under my Feedburner account had been integrated with my Google Account. I managed some feeds, not only for my blogs, but also some other blogs I maintain. It’s encouraged to move Feedburner into your Google Account. When did this, I had no problem. Google has some…
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Yahoo! Rolls Out Its New Design?
I just logged out from my Yahoo! email address, and I see Yahoo!’s new homepage design. Last year, some people had noticed this. The address is http://m.www.yahoo.com/ I tried using Mozilla Firefox. When I typed www.yahoo.com, my browser redirected me to that address. I switched to another browser (Opera), it did not redirect me like…
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WordPress Automatic Upgrade and Default Theme
Last few weeks, I worked on a WordPress theme design. But, it was the first time I used “default” as its theme folder. If you use WordPress, you might know how WordPress will deal with default theme folder. It will be used if something goes wrong with the theme.
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Follow and follow back on Twitter
On Twitter, I have some personal preferences about who I follow. When someone follows me, I usually do not follow them back directly for some reasons, mostly it’s because of spammy users. If someone starts following me, I usually check his/her profile first. I tried not to follow people back without reading about their profile…
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Flickr Pro Renewal
In the next few days, Flickr Pro account I have with Lala will be expired (see our Flickr Photostream). I haven’t decided whether I renew it before or after the expiry date. I am curious about this. About this renewal, Flickr explains: If your Pro account expires, don’t panic! None of your photos or videos…
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Twitbin
Twitbin is a firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar. Send messages, receive messages, share links, and more from Twitbin, the best twitter addon for firefox out there.
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WordPress Plugins Search and Comment Threading
Finally, WordPress now offers a better search engine for its plugin directory. It is using Sphinx right now. But, it does not search plugins by authors and tags. It only reads all information from readme.txt file which is delivered in every plugins uploaded to directory. Another improvement — well, I think I should call it…
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Good Bye and Hello Videoblogging!
If you read my blog, you might know that I have started my videoblog few months ago. If you follow me via Twitter, yo might heard about my video-related website: orangebox.tv. So, it is time to say “good bye” and “hello”. “Good bye“… because I want to discontinue my videoblog at video.orangescale.com. I will stop…
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Opera Turbo
Opera Turbo is a cross-platform solution, available for desktop computers, mobile phones, and other Internet-enabled devices. By compressing network traffic by up to 80%, Opera Turbo helps to enable the sustainability and scalability of networks in order to meet traffic demands and ensure a superior browsing experience.
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Troubleshooting: Can't Login After WordPress Upgrade
Today, I was helping my client upgrading her WordPress-powered blog. He was using WordPress 2.6.x series. I upgraded using the standard procedur, and I thought the whole process was painless. But, it was not. I could not access its “Dashboard”. The login screen was there, but when I entered the username and password — I…
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Tumblr New Features
I’m using Tumblr for Blog Pemilu and my other collaborative tumblelog, Orangescale Tumblelog. So, if you don’t get updates from this blog, I might posts in those two tumbleogs. Recently, Tumblr added some new features. Some of them are few things that I really like, because I find them useful. Here they are: Save posts…
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Blogpemilu.com
Last year, I bought a domain. It was blogpemilu.com. I wanted to build a site related to General Election in Indonesia. But, I haven’t figured out what to make.