Month: July 2009
-
Telkom Speedy Review (first month)
It has been a month since I started using Telkom Speedy service. So far, I have nothing but positive service. I’m an active internet user and I use internet everyday. I haven’t experienced any connection problem. Few days after I had my internet connection, I had a phone call from Telkom Speedy representative. She asked…
-
Beware of those 'get more followers' services!
Recently, I see many updates in my Twitter timeline containing updates about that so called “get more free followers”. The idea is to encourage you to join a service that will boost your number of followers. Sounds familiar? A simple question: what does those number mean (for me)? What do I want to prove by…
-
Hey, Twitter will gain entry in dictionary?
Twitter‘s popularity increases very fast among the other microblogging application these days. You already know that in 2004, Merriam-Webster dictionary included the word “blog” as Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year for 2004. Blog is defined as: [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and…
-
14th Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival 2009
Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival (YGF) is an annual music event in Jogjakarta. This year, it’s the 14th festival and has “EVERYWHERE” as the event theme. Anyway, this event is organized by Gayam16. There are many agenda during this event including music performance, exhibition and also workshop from July 16-18. This event also invites musicians from some…
-
250 Million People Are using Facebook (July 2009)
Mark Zuckerberg (Wikipedia profile) announced that Facebook has more than 250 million users around the globe. It’s almost the same with the country population. According to a report, Facebook had 200 million users in last April. I’m amazed to see the growth. This is how “250 million users” in a world map. (click to enlarge,…
-
How to get your suspended Twitter account back?
Today, I got my Twitter account suspended. I’m still not sure why, but it seemed because Twitter mistakenly suspended my account. I was a little bit panic, but I believed that there was a solution for this situation. I just hoped that Twitter listened and did something on my issue. Of course, I was only…
-
My Twitter Account Was Suspended
Few minutes ago, Twitter got a problem. Not sure about the real problem, but when I opened Twiter website, it said something about “Over Capacity”. I waited. Probably this was the best thing I could do. Usually, Twitter heals its problem in minutes. And, Twitter was back. Was the problem solved? I thought so. But,…
-
YouTube is about to say goodbye to IE6
A good news! YouTube will stop its support for old browser — in this case, Internet Explrorer 6. Visitors who visit YouTube website using IE6 will have an alert like this (click to enlarge). Let’s bring IE6 down! (info via TechCrunch)
-
We Choose the Moon
We Choose the Moon — Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing. Flash plugin required. (via kottke)
-
Seesmic Web-Based Twitter Client
There are many tools and applications to work with Twitter, but right now, I use Twitterfox as my primary tool to interact with my Twitter account. I also have some applications installed like Seesmic desktop, DestroyTwitter, and TweetDeck. But, when I start working with my browsers, I rarely open other Twitter desktop client(s). Seesmic introduced…
-
Berkas Rekaman Audio Debat Capres dan Cawapres Pemilu 2009
Hari pemilihan presiden dan wakil presiden Pemilu 2009 sudah berlangsung beberapa hari yang lalu. Saya akhirnya memutuskan juga untuk menggunakan hak suara saya. Bagi saya, ini pertama kalinya saya menggunakan hak pilih saya. Yang pemilu legislatif kemarin saya putuskan untuk tidak ikut memilih. Karena tidak tahu siapa yang harus saya pilih. Nah, kebetulan dalam rangkaian…
-
VisualMelancholy
VisualMelancholy — a photoblog of Firman Firdaus; an editor, designer, and blogger at Daustralala. I love big pictures! :)