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Mar 12, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Among various Twitter applications available, I only use Echofon. I also check Twitter’s website regularly when checking updates from my list, follow/unfollow other people and some other activities that can be done from the website. Of course, there some Twitter [...]
Jan 24, 2010 at 1:55 am
I tweeted a Twitter wishlist. I want to see a new feature called “Mute” on Twitter. So, why I want to have this, or how it should be useful for user (at least for me)? Here’s a situation: I follow some [...]
Jan 24, 2010 at 1:21 am
When I use Blogger service few years ago, one of my favorite feature was FTP Publishing. Using this feature, I had Blogger publish my post to my own web hosting account. The main reason was that I can use my [...]
Jan 3, 2010 at 4:13 am
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 [...]
Dec 28, 2009 at 7:11 am
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 [...]
Dec 19, 2009 at 7:36 am
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 — [...]
Dec 17, 2009 at 11:37 am
Two days ago, I gave Nokia Messaging for Social Networks Beta a try on my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. This application will help Nokia users to keep update with the social media services — in this case Facebook and Twitter. Of [...]
Dec 15, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I’m using Facebook, and found this useful post about privacy settings. In short: Understand your friend lists Remove yourself from Facebook search results Remove yourself from Google Avoid the infamous photo tag mistake Protect your albums Avoid the post-breakup Facebook effect Control what information applications can [...]
Dec 11, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I have been using Yahoo! Messenger for few years, and I got a problem using it yesterday. The error dialog box gave me message like this: There was a problem signing you in to Yahoo! Messenger. Your account has been locked. Please [...]
Dec 9, 2009 at 4:49 am
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 [...]
Nov 10, 2009 at 7:01 am
Right now, I only have an active Posterous-powered site. But, if you manage multiple posterous sites, you should love the improvements. Posterous introduced a new dashboard interface. This is a page where you can manage your Posterous sites easier. In [...]
Oct 14, 2009 at 1:42 am
After using Posterous in the last few weeks more frequenlty, I feel that I like it more than before. It feels right. These are 10 reasons why I like Posterous — and why you should love it, too. 1. Email-friendly, of [...]
Oct 10, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Few weeks ago, I posted a question about media/image sharing provider as Twitter companion. I asked about the better solution between TwitPic or TweetPhoto. Andre Siregar (@dregar) mentioned about using Posterous as the image sharing provider. Right now, I’m enjoying [...]
Sep 25, 2009 at 5:55 pm
This September, Posterous blogging service released some new features and improvements. If you’re not familiar with Posterous — or never heard about it before, it’s a service that will help you put something online. You can post text, photos, videos [...]
Sep 25, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Mozilla just released its new theme screenshots for Mozilla Firefox 3.7 and 4.0. Compared to the current version — I’m using Firefox 3.5.3 — I think the design is much better. I like it. But, it’s still a mockup and [...]
Sep 24, 2009 at 3:52 am
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 [...]
Sep 23, 2009 at 5:52 pm
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 [...]
Sep 16, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I just downloaded Opera Mini 5 beta for my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. This new version of Opera Mini offers many new features like Speed Dial, Tabbed browsing, Password Manager, and much more. I think, “Tabbed browsing” feature is a super [...]
Sep 16, 2009 at 3:22 am
Two months ago, I heard that Facebook had 250 millions users in the system. Today, they just announced that there are more than 300 millions users. So, it’s like 50M new users in two months? The numbers is debatable — [...]
Sep 14, 2009 at 9:24 pm
When I heard about Yahoo! Meme and looked its website, in brief I was thinking about tumblelog. Seriuosly, I couldn’t fine any new features, compared to similar service like Tumblr (my Tumblr) or Posterous (my Posterous page). That was before [...]
Sep 14, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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 [...]
Aug 27, 2009 at 2:27 am
I know some points about actions on Facebook related to friend requests. Facebook has some more detailed notes about this. Here are some points: Hitting the “Ignore” button will remove the request from our request list. Users who want to add [...]
Jul 19, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Twitter’s popularity increases very fast among the other microblogging application these days. You already know that in 2004, Merriam-Webster dictionary included the word “blog” as Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year for 2004. Blog is defined as: [short for Weblog] (1999) [...]
Jul 16, 2009 at 9:44 am
Mark Zuckerberg (Wikipedia profile) announced that Facebook has more than 250 million users around the globe. It’s almost the same with the country population. According to a report, Facebook had 200 million users in last April. I’m amazed to see [...]
Jul 16, 2009 at 7:51 am
Today, I got my Twitter account suspended. I’m still not sure why, but it seemed because Twitter mistakenly suspended my account. I was a little bit panic, but I believed that there was a solution for this situation. I just [...]
Jul 16, 2009 at 1:03 am
Few minutes ago, Twitter got a problem. Not sure about the real problem, but when I opened Twiter website, it said something about “Over Capacity”. I waited. Probably this was the best thing I could do. Usually, Twitter heals its [...]
Jul 16, 2009 at 12:20 am
A good news! YouTube will stop its support for old browser — in this case, Internet Explrorer 6. Visitors who visit YouTube website using IE6 will have an alert like this (click to enlarge). Let’s bring IE6 down! (info via TechCrunch)
Jul 15, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I think I like the concept behind new Automattic’s website. The products and descriptions are haiku-powered. This is how they explain about WordPress.com service: Hassle-free blogging Even with your own domain Freemium model About Akismet: Remember the days Innocent inboxes gleam Be spam-free again. For complele list, go [...]
Jul 12, 2009 at 2:30 am
There are many tools and applications to work with Twitter, but right now, I use Twitterfox as my primary tool to interact with my Twitter account. I also have some applications installed like Seesmic desktop, DestroyTwitter, and TweetDeck. But, when [...]
Jul 5, 2009 at 10:50 am
This is a list of Indonesia’s presidential debates in audio podcast format. I didn’t have the forth episode (vice-presidential debate) since I wasn’t at home. To download the files, just click on the podcast titles or use right-click menu and choose [...]
Jun 28, 2009 at 3:50 am
Today, I tried another Flickr feature. It’s similar to what they have right now — upload by email. The difference is that after the photo uploaded, it will send a notification to Twitter, send an update status. If you’re familiar [...]
Jun 25, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Few days ago, I installed a toolbar in this site (see footer). It’s a hosted toolbar service from Wibiya. I was not sure whether I really need that or not, but because I got invite to try the service — [...]
Jun 22, 2009 at 1:53 am
For the email service, I use Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. I almost never got any problem with them. Because they did great job filtering the email spams, I almost never checked my email spam folder. If they’re spams, why bother [...]
Jun 20, 2009 at 1:51 am
For the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3.5 release, Firefox will have its new logo. The current logo is designed by Jon Hicks (see article). And, this is the new Firefox 3.5 logo. The new logo and other variations are available to download.
Jun 13, 2009 at 11:07 am
Facebook introduces Facebook Usernames. And, now it’s available for public. Now, we can create a personalized and easier-to-remember web address for our Facebook profile page. For those who like ’shorter is better’ in URL, this should be interesting. Facebook explains: Your [...]
Jun 11, 2009 at 2:16 am
Found an interesting conversation between Gagah Putra — a blogger — and one of the political campaign team. It’s interesting because it’s done virtually, using Twitter. Also, because I’m curious about who the person/group of people behind @megabowo’s Twitter account. Let’s [...]
Jun 4, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Today, when I logged in to my Paypal account, I see a notification about the improved design for Account Overview and History pages. After reading the details, I went to my Account Overview page. On the landing page (after logging in), [...]
Jun 4, 2009 at 4:49 am
YouTube introduced a new way to enjoy videos. It’s called YouTube XL. Unlike the default design (web browser-based design), the interface is simple and straight forward: large text and simple navigation.
May 18, 2009 at 12:10 am
I just tried WordPress 2.8 Beta 1. The upcoming version will offers many new features. So far, the syntax highlighting is a great addition. It is available on theme and plugin editor pages.
May 15, 2009 at 2:56 am
Not following VIVAnews doesn’t make me stop reading people’s comments about it. There are some blogs brought this Twitter account into discussion. Today, I noticed that @vivanews_com account had been deleted by the account holder. Maybe, it’s because the Twitter [...]
May 13, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I think I forgot when I joined (got invitation) to try Topify and started using it. Until now, Topify is really useful. It’s a timesaver! Topify is a simple service that will send notification (by email), and it’s related to [...]
May 13, 2009 at 3:52 am
Not sure whether this application is right for me or not. It’s called FlickrSync. FlickrSync is a freeware photo synchronization application for flickr users. It displays your local folders and your flickr sets and it can establish synchronization rules between them. [...]
May 12, 2009 at 10:50 pm
If you’re using Twitter, you might get some new followers in the last few days. One of them might be VIVAnews. I had VIVAnews followed me, but I didn’t follow it back. Why? I do follow some bots on Twitter to [...]
May 8, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Brand Republic released a list of 100 most mentioned brands on popular microblogging service, Twitter. Here are the top ten (order by how many these brands were mentioned): Starbucks Google BBC Apple AIG Amazon Microsoft Guardian Dell Coca-Cola Do all of those brands — and the rest on the list — [...]
When I heard about White House Photostream page from Yan Arief Twitter status, I visited it right away. No waiting. I’m an Indonesian, and I love seeing the topic like this — related to my own country — but, it’s [...]
Apr 13, 2009 at 12:10 am
I think, this Google Image Search’s “filter by color” feature is very useful. I can filter image search results not only by size (extra large, large, medium, and small) and image type (news content, faces, clip art, line drawing and [...]
Apr 6, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I almost have no problems accessing Facebook site using many different browsers. But, I sometime I found problems when using Opera 10 browser. It says that I’m using incompatible web browser. But, it only happens randomly, even when I do [...]
Apr 5, 2009 at 11:31 pm
If you want to see — or, should I say “listen”? — your site with a screen reader, there is a free and open source screen reader called NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA). What is it? NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a [...]
Apr 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm
In 2007, Google acquired Jaiku. I have an account there, but I don’t use Jaiku actively. I don’t know why, but I just felt that this service is not for me. This month, JaikuEngine was released as an open source project. [...]
Mar 18, 2009 at 12:06 am
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 [...]
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