Do you know that our internet use Cable (fibre optic cable) plant underwater across countries and oceans? Yes mostly our internet traffic are flowing between countries travels through underwater cables. Thanks to Greg Mahlknecht for such a great mapping on internet cable all over the globe and make draw it on Google Map. He use all the resources that he got from online, mostly wikipedia. Even he state that mapping is not exactly where is it, but can give you enough picture how connected to the … Read more...
Facebook Thumbnail Image
July 14, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Here come a question from my Facebook fans regarding Facebook thumbnail image: [quote]How can i share my blog post with the right thumbnail on Facebook? Sometimes it show the wrong thumbnail and worst doesn't show any thumbnail.[/quote]Facebook Thumbnail Image ExplanationFirst we need to find out what cause the issue. Facebook script trying to parse your web page and looking for the right image for the thumbnail. But most of the time it is fail to give the right image and worst no image … Read more...
Facebook Now Have Video Call
July 7, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Not long after Google+ limited release to public and it's booming on the net. And everybody talk about the Hangout features which is a group video call chat and sharing. And now Facebook release their own video call and group chat in return to Google+ hangout. Here Facebook use Skype technologies, as Skype now integrate really well for Facebook chat. Facebook video call setup To get started you need to do this following steps:Go to this Facebook application page to start to enable … Read more...
WordPress 3.2 Review
July 6, 2011 • Leave a Comment
WordPress 3.2 was launched this 4th July 2011, this update have some new interesting features. After heavy testing on my testing environment of this blog, i decided to upgrade my blog to use WordPress 3.2. And the result i like the new UI style, probably i'm getting a little bored for the old style.Plugins CompatibilityI tested all my plugins such as db cache reloaded fix and it is working just fine. Hyper cache, ALl In One SEO, Google Analytic for WordPress, Google XML Sitemap, Livefyre … Read more...
Google+ Review and Facebook Comparison
July 3, 2011 • 7 Comments
Google+ (read: Google plus) is one of the Google product for social networking. Google+ was launched in June 28, 2011 and as i am writing this article, this service is not available for public yet, only the invited user could join Google+. And i got lucky to received the invitation from my friends. Google+ use many of Google existing technologies. For example: Google chat, Google voice, Google Buzz, Google Profile, Picasa, Youtube, Google map, and others. Beside connecting all dots, Google+ also … Read more...
Optimize Image Size With Photoshop
June 24, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Images have important role for web design, but in the other hand un-optimized images could be a nightmare for your bandwidth. We need to optimize image size for our web design. Please bear in mind that, your visitors love fast loading web page rather than fancy but take a long time just to see your home page. There are a lot of tools to optimize image size, but only some of them are good in keeping your image quality. We are not just reduce the image size, we need to optimize the image quality … Read more...
Firefox 5 Now Available For Download Via FTP
June 22, 2011 • 1 Comment
Update: Now Firefox 5 update is available from Firefox About page: Firefox menu > Help > About FirefoxFirefox 5 is now available for download, but only via FTP. Even it is says Firefox 5 or major update, but Firefox 5 look identical than its predecessor Firefox 4. The only major feature added is Tracking feature, you can find it in Firefox menu > Options > Privacy tab > select "Tell web sites I do not want to be tracked". And this Firefox 5 is the first Mozilla Firefox in … Read more...
Web Browser Benchmark Tools
June 20, 2011 • 1 Comment
Acid3 is a web browser benchmark tools to test whether the web browser meet the web standard compliance. This web browser benchmark tools is easy to use and very handy. Acid3 is developed by The Web Standards Project to test web browser standard compliance. The compliance criteria require that the test is run with a browser's default settings. Acid3 test range from 0-100. If the test is successful, the results of the Acid3 test will display a gradually increasing fraction counter with colored … Read more...
Voice Search and Search By Images Now Available at Google
June 15, 2011 • 1 Comment
Voice search and search by images is the new features by Google. It's like a dream come true. I was thinking this long time ago when i have image of unknown animal and i would like to know what is it. At the time i was ask it in forums and some people gave me the answer. So i thought just if someday Google have that kind of feature, and it comes true. Google Voice Search I was thinking back when Microsoft release their Vista, and i trained my laptop to do voice recognition. Even it still have … Read more...
Facebook Open Graph Meta For WordPress
June 10, 2011 • 11 Comments
Facebook open graph meta tags allow us to integrate our web pages into Facebook social graphs. To do so we need to add Facebook open graph meta tags such as og:title, og:image, og:url, etc. Those tahs allow us to specify out information to be read by Facebook system. This will of course will give us more opportunities to socialize our articles or websites to Facebook. As you know now Facebook has more than 700 millions users all around the world.[quote … Read more...
