Month: March 2009
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quietube
quietube: YouTube without the distractions — It’s a bookmarklet to remove all comments and other visual elements from YouTube video. In short: display the video only.
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Douglas Bowman's Farewell Post
I like reading Douglas Bowman’s farewell post. He left Google after three years. Here’s a paragraph: Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3,…
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Undo a sent email in Google Mail
After enabling media file preview in Google Mail, I decided to enable another Google Labs feature. It’s Undo Send. This email feature will give us 5 seconds to decide whether we want to send the email or cancel it. I think this feature is very useful. In 5 seconds? I think it’s enough. Or, not?
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vBulletin Database Backup
I’m maintaining a pretty big forum. It has a great amount of traffic, AND huge database size. Right now, it has a remote backup server. The optimization is always challenging. Anyway, vBulletin upgrade process was easy. The forum I maintain used vBulletin 3.6.x when it was firstly installed. Right now, it’s using the latest stable…
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Twouble with Twitters
SuperNews! Twouble with Twitters — A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away
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Internet Explorer 8 Released
Internet Explorer 8 is available in 25 languages. It’s said that there are some improvements — faster, easier and safer — compared to the previous versions. Check the feature overview.
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Suara sah dalam Pemilu Legislatif 2009
Kemarin sore, dihalaman rumah (lebih tepatnya di teras dan halaman sih), ada sosialisasi pemilu. Selain itu, ada pula kampanye dari salah satu calon anggota legislatif yang berasal dari kampung saya. Karena diadakan dirumah, jadi ya sekalian saja nimbrung ikut mendengarkan. Salah satu poin yang menarik bagi saya adalah tentang suara yang dianggap sah. Caleg tersebut…
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Zeldman on IE 6
IE6 is the new Netscape 4. The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web. Jeffrey Zeldman
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Bring Down IE 6
Bring Down IE 6 campaign — A campaign to encourage using more modern browsers and bring Internet Explorer 6 down.
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Web Browsers' Homepage Designs
I only visit web browsers’ sites when I want to download — sometime, I don’t even have to go to their sites to get updates — or, only when someone/something refers me to an address in those sites. Those are some possibilities. Their websites have beautiful designs, and sometime can be a great inspiration. :)…
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Online Journalism Handbook
The Bighow Online Journalism Handbook A free online resource for journalists, bloggers, citizen journalists and anyone else interested in publishing. The handbook covers the basics of online reporting, writing for the web and social web, citizen journalism, professional blogging, how to use Facebook and Twitter, how to deal with censorship, list of citizen journalism websites…
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Blog and Your Business
How a Blog Can Grow Your Business — a presentation by Chris Garrett. Slides and PDF are available.
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Dear Google, where is Risu city?
I went to Google Trend site to check some statistics. When I choose Indonesia as the location search, Google Trend will give more spesific results based on subregions. I also saw: Risu, Indonesia (see picture). OK, I’m probably not good in Geography subject. But, I never heard about a city named Risu. May be, it’s…