I just knew that Nokia tune was composed in 1902. This tune — also called Grande Valse — is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega. And, it’s estimated that this Nokia tune is heard 1.8 billion times per day, about 20,000 times per second. [Reference: Nokia tune on Wikipedia]
WordPress 3.0, code name “Thelonious” released.
3.0 is faster, stabler, and more secure, so you can focus on what matters (your audience) and let the rest fade to the background. Custom post types, MU merge, menu editor, Twenty Ten theme, over 1,200 bug fixes… there’s so much to enjoy in this new release, we’re really proud of it. It’s the best WordPress yet, and available for a limited time for only free ninety nine. ;)
Wikipedia now has a new design, and logo too. About the design, here are few things you should now (taken from the announcement):
I’m not sure whether I will use this tool called Unfollow All or not, but right now, I don’t have plan to unfollow Twitter users I’m following. But, if I — or an account I maintain — need to do this, this tool should help me do the dirty job.
What is Unfollow All?
This tool will automatically unfollow everybody you’re following. There will be no further confirmation. Please be patient as this may take some time, depending on how many people you are following. After completion, unfollows may take some time to take affect.
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In 2009, Indonesian batik is inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Type of batik reinforced as World Heritage is a type of “batik tulis” (hand-written batik) and not “batik cap” (printed batik). See more photos about batik from my photoblog.
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.
Few days ago, I joined a discussion on other site about i-teve. I thought, I need to respond some comments there. Why? OK, someone wrote this:
wahhh parah banget nih i-teve. Niru2 youtube banget. Malu gw sama bangsa Indonesia. Bikin yang baru gitu dong, apa kek
OK. What about this:
Iya, tapi menurut gw kurang aja nih i-teve kalo konsepnya bener2 njiplak youtube. Plagiat mungkin adalah kata-kata yang tepat, atau mungkin copy cat?
The question is: does he — who gave comments above — already understand what i-teve and YouTube are? But, thank you for your comments… :)
Related: my other posts about i-teve.
Flickr already supports HD Videos. Another good new for Flickr Pro users: Flickr raised the video filesize limit! We can now upload upto 500 MB of video file — previously, the limit was 150 MB). Yay!
I think, I’d better leave my blog without new entries rather than stealing articles brutally from other sites just to show that I update my blog.
After enabling media file preview in Google Mail, I decided to enable another Google Labs feature. It’s Undo Send. This email feature will give us 5 seconds to decide whether we want to send the email or cancel it. I think this feature is very useful. In 5 seconds? I think it’s enough. Or, not?
I did this few weeks ago. All my feeds under my Feedburner account had been integrated with my Google Account. I managed some feeds, not only for my blogs, but also some other blogs I maintain. It’s encouraged to move Feedburner into your Google Account. When did this, I had no problem. Google has some details about this.
The first maintenance release for WordPress 2.7 is ready to download. Using the auto-upgrade tool from the dashboard, it should not be painful. I’ve upgraded, and it only took few seconds. :)
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? :D
Yesterday, my Firefox browser applied an update. It’s now 3..0.6. Anyway, I set my Firefox to check for updates, just to make sure that I always have the updated version — including extensions. If you haven’t upgraded, you can do it.
Emastic is a CSS Framework with some great features: Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb, personalized width of the page in (em,px,%), use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid, elastic layout with “em”s.
Opera 9.63 is available now. This release addresses some security issues and it’s recommended to upgrade from the previous version. Download now. Changelogs for Windows, Mac and Linux are available.
If you need free mobile softwares, here is an alternative: Phoload.
Phoload is a new community website based on the idea that it should be simple, easy, and fun to discover and download free mobile phone games and applications. Users of the website can rate, review and recommend the software they download. We also aim to provide a great service for mobile software developers. Phoload is designed to make it easy for developers to distribute their software through the website, directly to users who have compatible phones. (source)
BeatMyPrice.com is a people-powered site to compare product prices found in the internet. If you like buying stuff online, this should be helpful. For example, you want to buy ipod touch 32gb; check the price comparison at BeatMyPrice.com.
Edna Parker, the world’s oldest person, died at age 115. She was 115 years, 220 days old. She was born on April 20, 1893 in Indiana and recognized as the world’s oldest person since 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa. She had five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren. (reference and image source)
Twitter Front End is a new look at Twitter.com and the web interface powering the message service’s social interactions today.
This website was built by Niall Kennedy using web standards best practices and optimized code design. Twitter FE is currently a read-only clone of the Twitter.com website rewritten for external development and rapid iteration.
Twitter FE is written in Python on Google App Engine. A few sprinkles of YUI JavaScript help delegate load times.
Go to Niall Kennedy’s post to read more details, or directly go to TwitterFE.
Michael Fincke (Expedition 18 commander) and Greg Chamitoff (flight engineer) will beam their vote from the International Space Station as they fly 220 miles (354 km) above Earth.
How they vote from the space?
The County Clerk’s office prepares a secure electronic ballot that is then relayed to the International Space Station via NASA’s Mission Control room at the Johnson Space Center. Meanwhile, the Clerk’s Office sends a separate e-mail to the astronaut with login information to access the ballot and vote.
But the school’s headmaster in Zalaegerszeg, western Hungary, has refused to sack the unnamed mistress despite pressure from parents and other teachers.
“I was forced to give the German teacher a warning, but I will not dismiss her because she is a valuable teacher for our institution,” said head Sandor Rozman.
He claimed she had shown no more flesh “than you would see on a beach.”
It was in the private beta, need invitation. I got one. Now, OpenX hosted solution (beta) is available for web publisher. Say good bye to invitation, sign up now. Again, it’s free up to 25 million of ad impression per month. If you’re a Twitter user like me, do not forget to follow @openx
A new security scanner being tested in Australia can see through clothing and is being described as a “virtual strip search.”
What’s what the news said (via BuzzFeed). It’s on trial in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide airports from this month.
From to AOL Australia:
“It does see through clothing, but it’s not a photographic image, it’s a low-energy X-ray that reflects off the skin,” said Cheryl Johnson, general manager of the Office of Transport Security.
“It will show the private parts of people, but what we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities. It is possible to see genitals and breasts while they’re going through the machine, though.”
“The faces are automatically blurred and … it’s only a chalk-style outline, it’s not as invasive as some of the other equipment that we’ve got,” she said.
If you have free time, take a look at these huge collection of online flash games. You will not find 30, or 50 flash games but 150! Screenshots, short overviews and links to play those games are also available.
Doug Beaver (Facebook engineer) writes that there are over 10 billion photos uploaded to Facebook! And, here are some statistics:
Wow!
Flock 2.0 released and it is built on the latest Firefox 3 technology from Mozilla. Download now.
The United States announced that North Korea has agreed to the Bush administration’s nuclear inspection demands and is being dropped from a U.S. terrorism blacklist. (Source: NYTimes.com)
Infrared and multispectral images reveal 9,000-square-mile structure. In this satellite image, the white arrows show the buried pyramid and the black arrows other structures which have yet to be investigated. (source)
You have heard many advices from the internet about password. About making a strong and good password, advice to change the password regularly, etc. About this password-thingy, I found an interesting note about password: Password is like a toothbrush — choose a good one and don’t share it. Anyway, found this on a post by Yodel Anecdotal about mail security tips.
I just knew about Marcell Siahaan’s blog from Benny Candra. Yes, he’s that Marcell, an Indonesian singer. If you’re his fans and want to know more about him, it’s time to visit his blog. This is what I like from a blog, it can bring individual closer to each other. Anyway, I just knew also that his full name is Marcellius Kirana Hamonangan Siahaan. :)
Remember Jason Calacanis? He said good bye to blogging few months ago. Now, he moves his blog to WordPress. Why? Because he does not want to be on the Blogsmith — Weblogs Inc.’s blog platform — anymore? (source)
Greasemetal is a userscript runtime for Google Chrome. The runtime hosts userscripts (tiny javascript files that modify the webpages being displayed) to be executed on Google Chrome, similar to what Greasemonkey does for Mozilla Firefox, or Greasekit does for Safari.
Eko Yuli Irawan, who will probably be a member of Indonesia’s Olympic weightlifting squad, won the gold medal in the men’s 56 kg division in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. (source)
There are some other diets for better eyesight. Not only carrots. Try also bell peppers, broccoli, brussels sprouts, ostrich, turkey, sweet potatoes, spinach, wild salmon and sardines. (source)
Flickr Toys is a set of utilities to do creative things with our photos. So far, my favorites are Flickr DNA (Orangescale’s FlickrDNA) and Jigsaw.
RapidShare — probably the biggest file hosters in the world — got a new design (news). Head to its page to see what’s new. It looks cleaner now (and better layout), and it’s said that there are some usability improvements. It’s not only about having a new layout. It has a new logo also. To celebrate its new design, they doubled the download volume for premium users. It’s 50 GB instead of 25 GB.
Okey, they have a new design — which is nice design. But, it seems that they haven’t got any blog yet. Is it on their next plan? Well, dunno.
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Dadio.TV is a videoblog I created with my friend. Most contents are about Indonesia.
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