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  • Some glossaries related to webhosting

    When we jump in to the internet life, like or not, we deal with many new vocabularies. We get new words like email, attachment, domain, and also webhosting. If we deal with blogging world, sometime we see other complicated words to understand like webhosting, dedicated server, virtual private servers, etc. It’s a good thing if…

  • Telkom blocked more sites

    A sad news for people in Indonesia who use internet, including bloggers. Few days ago, some people reported that YouTube was blocked from their internet providers. Telkom Indonesia as the largest internet provider in Indonesia followed the action. According to the news release (in Bahasa Indonesia) Telkom blocked these following sites (including blogging service providers):…

  • Modifying WordPress custom database error connection page

    Reading what Derek Punsalan mentioned about custom error database connection page, his updated tutorial is very interesting. I mean, we (actually) can modify that error page into something better. In short, to have a custom page for database connection error page, just create a file called db-error.php and put it under your /wp-content/ directory. That’s…

  • Google Launched Google Ad Manager

    Last year April 2007, Google acquired Doubleclick for for $3.1 billion. This week, Google introduced another service — still in beta — called Google Ad Manager. What is Google Ad Manager, anyway?

  • TransJogja (unofficial) site

    This month, a new mass transportation system started to operate in Jogjakarta. It’s Trans Jogja. When I heard the news, I tried to get as much information as possible. But, I was unlucky. There were less information available (on the internet). Even when I checked the local goverment’s official website… I could not find any…

  • Those sites keep me busy!

    Social networking sites raise everyday — well, not everyday actually — but there are many (too many!) services there. I joined some like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Friendster. When I had my friends invited me, I ignored most invitations. Sorry. It does not mean that I do not appreciate — or do not want to be…

  • WordPress Yahoo! Shortcuts Plugin for Super Blog Post

    Yahoo! Shortcuts Team and Crowd Favorite released a WordPress plugin called Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress. It’s a plugin that intelligently enriches your blog post with great content from Yahoo! Maps, Finance, and beyond.

  • Fawnt: High Quality Font Collection

    Choosing right fonts during the design process — in some cases — can be tiring. The reasons may vary like lack of font collections, too many similar types, etc. Having numerous fonts installed probably a good thing. But, for some people, it’s probably frustrating having too many fonts. I myself do not have many fonts…

  • Longest Email Address

    I am not sure whether it’s useful or not, but there is free email service where you can have a very long (again, VERY long) email address. It’s under abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com domain name. Before registering, it’s better to read what it offers (because it’s so long): Some web forms are unable to read your email address…

  • Dot Earth by NYTimes.com

    NYTimes.com is known for its blogs. They just launched another blog called “Dot Earth”. This new blog is written by Andrew C. Revkin — a science reporter for The New York Times — and it’s dedicated to examining the growing human impact on the planet’s health. By 2050 or so, the world population is expected…

  • Bumble Bee with Paper

    “Chairman Mao had said that people can achieve everything he wants in case of his courage. Later I got an idea to make one by myself.” (hat tip: godote)

  • Send that Thunderbird to my email

    It seemed that his IT guy was not familiar with Thunderbird. When I mentioned about it, he said, “Thunderbird?” Errrr… At that time, I just wanted to solve the email problem as soon as possible. So, I had a short discussion with him