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about.me offers free email for its users. Do you use it?

September 12, 2011

I decided not to use it. I’m using about.me service to create my personal splash page. You can see mine at about.me/thomasarie. It looks good, and very useful to display multiple online profiles like Twitter, Facebook, or even Instagram. Everything works great. Few days ago, about.me users received an email informing about an offer to…
Instagram now received more than 150,000,000 photos!

August 4, 2011

Instagram announced another milestone yesterday on their blog: Today, we’re excited to announce that more than 150 million photos have been shared on Instagram and Instagrammers now share photos with one another at a rate of 15 photos per second. And, it only took less than a year to hit that impressive statistics! And, I…
Display more than 30 sets per page on Flickr

May 11, 2011

If you actively upload your photos to Flickr, you probably find that having lots of sets is a good idea. How many sets you have on your Flickr photostream right now? I have more than 200 sets. By default, if you browse sets in a photostream profile, you will only have 30 sets per page.…
Moving a WordPress-powered site to another domain: The Permalink

May 11, 2011

Yesterday, I needed to move a self-hosted WordPress site to another domain. The process was easy because it’s like copying all files, edit the configuration file and editing internal links in all posts. All process only took less than 15 minutes. But, that’s not the only thing. One of the important things needed is to…
Are you using WordPress' Post Formats feature?

April 1, 2011

If you have upgraded your WordPress installation to the latest version (right now, it’s Version 3.1), you can take advantage of its “Post Formats” feature. So, what is it anyway? WordPress Codex explains: A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a…
Nokia Funaholic Icon Search

December 13, 2010

Following Nokia Indonesia’s Eksismeter campaign, there is now Nokia Funaholic Icon Search. This is all about finding an icon for Nokia E5. This Funaholic Icon Search will find three real person that represents three characters: Antonio (the super exist), Daisy (the music lover) and Kareem (the super busy guy). The mechanism is similar with the…
How to Merge Two Blogs Using WordPress 3.0 Multi-Site Feature

July 11, 2010

Now, WordPress installation in this domain (orangescale.com) powers my other blog — in Bahasa Indonesia, using WordPress 3.0 Multi-Site feature. I decided to use this method so that I don’t have to manage two separated WordPress installation. In short: orangescale.com and thomas.or.id are now using a single WordPress installation, using orangescale.com as the primary blog.…
Some Notes About Enabling Multi-Site option in WordPress 3.0

July 10, 2010

After upgrading my blog using WordPress 3.0, I was thinking of taking the opportunity to have the multi-site option. Previously, I played with WordPress Multi User. So, I think it would something I’m familiar with. If you’re not familiar with WordPress 3.0 features, you can check WordPress Codex first. You can find lots of useful…
WordPress 3.0 Error: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance

June 29, 2010

I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 3.0 not long after it was available for download. Everything went without any major issues. I only use it without special hacks. One thing that makes this version a little bit different is that WordPress will bring your site offline if there is/are something not working. For example,…
Have You Checked Your Facebook Privacy Settings (One More Time)?

May 18, 2010

I’m using Facebook, and I really want to take my profile privacy settings seriously. I mean, this is my account and I want to have every settings (especially related to privacy) are correct. I know, it’s something personal. Some people also think that privacy is dead. You can have your own settings. I think more…
Wikipedia's New Look

May 15, 2010

Wikipedia now has a new design, and logo too. About the design, here are few things you should now (taken from the announcement): Look and feel: We’ve introduced a new theme we call “Vector” which makes essential functions easier to find. Navigation: We’ve improved the navigation for reading and editing pages. Now, the tabs at…
Automatic WordPress Backup (to Amazon S3)

January 3, 2010

Today, I tried another WordPress plugin called “Automatic WordPress Backup”. This plugin will help blog owners to create backup remotely to Amazon S3 service. Since I’m using it and pretty satisfied with the billing usage, I installed it at some WordPress-powered blogs I maintain. I use one of the available buckets under my account. For…
Amazon S3 Billing Statement Sample

December 28, 2009

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…
Capture and Share from Mobile Devices

December 19, 2009

Now, I want to introduce another Posterous-powered blog. This time, there are more than one author — well, only two anyway. It’s called Capture and Share. I created this blog as a place to put my — and Lala — mobile streams. All posts in this blog are created using mobile devices (Nokia N78 and…
Google Mail Labs: Inserting images

December 9, 2009

I just enabled one of Google Mail Labs features. It’s “Inserting images” feature. What is it? Allows you to insert images into a message body. You can upload and insert image files in your computer, or insert images by URLs. This lab will not work if you have offline enabled. If you’re using Google Mail…