Tag: record

Global Smartphone Vendor Shipments (October 2011)

October 30, 2011

According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung is now the biggest smartphone dealer in the world. “Global smartphone shipments grew 44 percent annually to reach a record 117 million units in Q3 2011. Samsung shipped 28 million smartphones and overtook Apple to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume with 24 percent market share. Samsung’s rise…
Nokia Gulp: The World's Largest Stop-Motion Animation Set using Nokia N8

August 4, 2011

I’m happy with my Nokia N8. For photo and video features, I don’t use many advanced techniques. And, I have some videos published at Dadio.TV using Nokia N8, so far I’m happy with the result. You can see more than 700 photos I took using Nokia N8 at Flickr. If you want to see an…
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.…
Using CloudBerry Explorer to Manage Amazon S3 Account

September 24, 2009

In my previous post, I mentioned an Amazon S3 tool called CloudBerry S3 Explorer. I also have S3Fox organizer addon installed. I use them both, and I feel that I’m more comfortable with CloudBerry Explorer. CloudBerry Explorer makes managing files in Amazon S3 storage EASY. By providing a user interface to Amazon S3 accounts, files,…
Mediacorp and Malaysian firm

August 25, 2009

Mediacorp sues Malaysian firm for copyright, trademark infringements. Singapore media company MediaCorp has taken a Malaysian company to court for selling content recorded off its radio and television channels. The Malaysian company, MediaBanc, is alleged to have compiled, sold and distributed MediaCorp news and radio programmes, without licence. The acts were discovered in 2006. Full…
Google Chrome's Incognito Mode

March 18, 2009

Google Chrome offers another type of window/browsing mode called “incognito mode”. When we’re using Google Chrome in incognito mode page information (website addresses, downloaded files will not be stored/logged in our browsing and download histories. And, when we close the “incognito window”, all new cookies will be deleted right away. Read mode details about incognito…
Indonesia: A band from Russia

February 9, 2009

If you think that Indonesia is only being used as a country name, it’s not. There is a Russian band named Indonesia also. (Hat tip: fisto). Since its website is not in English, MySpace described it as: Indonesia – band was founded in St-Petersburg in autumn 2007.The musicians’ main aim is to play high-quality rock-music…
Cisco Human Network Photo and Video Contest

February 9, 2009

Just a reminder if you like photography and videoblogging. Cisco’s Human Network blog — hosted by Asia Blogging Network — has a contest. Submit your photos or videos and win some great prizes (digital SLR camera, digital video recorder, and wireless router Linksys by Cisco. For details, read the contest entry page. Can I Join?…
Vimeo Plus is Available for International Users

January 15, 2009

Vimeo, my favorite video sharing provider, offers its Vimeo Plus for international users. Right now, Vimeo offers two types of account: free and Plus. I’m using the free account, and it’s more than enough for me. With Vimeo Plus, we can get these features: 5GB of upload space per week 5000 free HD embed plays…
Trojan for Firefox: Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A

December 6, 2008

Here are a news about trojan from Greasemonkey — a Firefox addon. It is identified by BitDefender. BitDefender has identified this new bit of holiday cheer as Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A” (the ChromeInject suffix refers to the Chrome component of Firefox). The trojan installs itself into Firefox’s add-on directory, registers itself as Greasemonkey, and begins searching your hard…
Firefox 3 Download Day

June 12, 2008

Just a reminder. Firefox 3 will be released on June 17, 2008, and it has mission to set a Guiness World Record for the most software downloded in 24 hours. Want to be part of this history?
San Alfonso Del Mar, World's Largest Swimming Pool

January 25, 2008

Okey, here is an info for you who like swimming. I know, some of you probably have heard about this. If you want to know about the largest swimming pool in the world, the answer will be clear now. It’s in the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile. The Guinness Book of Records…
721 claps per minute!

November 27, 2007

How many claps you can make in one minute? 60? 80? 100? What about 721 claps in one minute? I had to admit that I was amazed by this world record. Kent “Toast” French holds a record for The World’s Fastest Clapper. You can see the video on Youtube, Metacafe, or ifilm. 721 claps in…
Welcome back Avianto!

September 3, 2007

Today, I would like to greet Boy Avianto. He continues blogging again by breaking his “two years without new posts” record. Personally, I like his posts, especially when he writes about technology, design and web standards.