Just couple of hours ago Wordpress released the latest version 2.6, and what you seeing now is the upgraded version !! Yes, I cannot stand the previous two versions because of the slow load time. And I am pleased to tell you all that this version is FAST, with a lot of new features as [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on July 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Other than the Apple iPhone 3G, the launch of Google Lively is indeed one of the hottest news this week. So just three days after the launch of the beta version, how is it doing ? Here are some good and bad things I found so far.
I managed to download the Lively plug-in, installed it, [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on July 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I think most of us, Twitter users, are fed up with Twitter’s performance and reliability … but at least they show a good graphic with the error message. Is that the ROR performance issue again, or the Database, or just the architecture ?
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on June 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Couple of days ago, there was a blog post about how Gmail team improved the loading sequence, trimmed the 24 http requests down to just 4 requests. A few utilities and tips were covered in the post, but I think the key messages they sent across were “the need for speed” and “the obsession of [...]
Filed under: Technology on May 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Really wanted to find a solution to take GTD with me even outside office and with no access to computer. The solution shall be the stuff that carry with me or I can easily access to - i.e. PDA / smartphone / phone and its software, notepad, stack of index cards, or remote voice mailbox [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on April 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the mobile operators in town recently introduced a new service - “Wireless fixed-line service”. What that marketing gimic exactly do is beyond me, but it gonnna be a mix of wireless and internet based telephone services. I am sure one day this kind of service will replace our usual fixed-line phone and by [...]
Filed under: Ashes of Time, Music Video, Services & Products, Technology on April 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Wordpress released the latest version 2.5 for two weeks now. So I decided to give it try, after skipping 1 or 2 upgrades in the past few months. The upgrade process was simple as usual.
Deactivate all the plugins
Backup the database
Download the latest codebase, unzip and transfer to the server
Run the upgrade.php
Activate back the plugins
There are [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
Do you know your Wii remote can be hacked to create an interactive whiteboard, a multi-touch surface and even a Virtual Reality display head tracking device ? All these great ideas are from the brilliant graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University - Johnny Lee.
I think we will soon see the [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on April 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We all now have cameras with over 10 million pixels, but when you posted the resized version to the web you will lost all the details of the picture. One possible solution is to zoomify it, such that you can see all the details (pretty much like Google Map).
Following is the grand hall ceiling of [...]
Filed under: Photography, Services & Products, Technology on April 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What will you do to present Number of deaths for leading causes of death. Let’s say the meaningless data will be something like:
Heart disease: 652,091
Cancer: 559,312
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 143,579
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 130,933
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 117,809
Diabetes: 75,119
etc.
Here is probably the best way:
See, will that help you to rethink how to present your data ?
Filed under: Presentation, Technology on April 9th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
