Tag: Cloud
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Let's bring this blog back!
This blog goes nowhere. It’ still here, still up and running, but I realized that there is no single post in the last… (almost) two months. Not to make any excuses, but I think I was busy. I’m still updating my other blog, though. Few days ago, when I was working on some WordPress-powered blogs,…
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Wyoming saves $1 million and Virgin America saves system costs by about half
This is one benefit of having Google Apps for Business for big companies (or when a service involving big numbers of users). Wyoming will save Wyoming taxpayers $1 million annually by moving all state government employees to Google Apps for Government. The decision to go Google was the result of a transparent and competitive evaluation…
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Taking Photos using Nokia N8 (Personal Experience)
The first thing I did after having Nokia N8 (product details in Bahasa Indonesia) in my hands last week was taking photos. I have been following this phone for months, and feel so lucky because I now have chance to try it myself. First impression: Love it! Nokia N8 offers a great improvements on its…
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Goodbye Nokia E72!
No, not that I hate my E72. I lost it. Last Monday, I reached my hometown for holiday. I liked the fact that I finally got home without loosing anything. A perfect situation. :) On the evening, I had plan to have dinner with my girl. That should be a nice dinner. But, it turned…
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Amazon CloudFront has an edge location in Singapore
Today, I got an email from Amazon informing about new location of Amazon CloudFront. Now, it has a new location in Singapore. Previously, Amazon only has its CloudFront server located in Tokyo and Hongkong. Here’s the news delivered in the email: Starting immediately, Amazon CloudFront will begin using the Singapore edge location for requests for…
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Amazon S3 Billing Statement Sample
In last September, I started to use Amazon S3 for some experimental purposes. And, it’s not that difficult — of course, I only use some basic action. CloudBerry Explorer and S3Fox are really helpful. Now, if you want to know the billing calculation — just in case you’re interested to try Amazon S3 (also with…
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Getting Started with Amazon S3
After I signed up for Amazon S3 and CloudFront last week, I started to use it right away. Before that, I tried to get as many information as possible. It seemed easy. I had to deal with some new words like “bucket“, “Access Key ID“, and also “Secret Access Key“. Amazon S3 — just like…
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WordPress, Amazon S3 and CloudFront
In the last two days, I was working on an experiment to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon CloudFront together with WordPress. It’s not primary for my blog, but for my friend. There are many tutorials and good recommendation on this. Since my friend using WordPress as the publishing platform, and it is…
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Plugin Installation in WordPress 2.7
In the coming WordPress 2.7, it’s not getting easier for users, but also for developers. There will be a page called “Install Plugins” (the name might change). Here, we have a page displaying many related sub-menus about plugins like: Search Plugins, Upload a Plugin, Featured Plugins, Popular Plugins, Newest Plugins, Recently Updated Plugins.