Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Nov 3, 2011, 5:17 am
I got Nokia N9 in my hand this week. You probably have heard about this new Nokia N9 from some sources and I will share a little bit about my first impression about this “All it takes is a swipe” phone. This new phone is available in three different colors: black, cyan, and magenta. I got the bl...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Nov 2, 2011, 1:51 am
Finally, Google Apps users now can have the full access to Google+ service. Previously, if you’re using Google App for your domain, you need to migrate to other Google account to get the service. I did that already. But now, Google made it available for Google Apps user. Quoting from Google Enter...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 31, 2011, 10:21 pm
If you read this blog, or meet me in person, you probably know me as Flickr fan. Yes, among services owned by Yahoo!, Flickr is one of my favorite. I have friends who love to use Flickr and also bring some people to Flickr. So far, they’re enjoying it. Well, at least I heard some positive feedback...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 30, 2011, 9:12 pm
“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.” ~ A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs Related posts:Nice words from class -In my study, I have a favorite subject. It is... Steve Irwin… no more ‘Crikey!’ -William just told...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 30, 2011, 11:41 am
I have been using WordPress Stats plugin for long time. And when Jetpack  was introduced, I had it installed right away. Everything works great. What I like about WordPress statistics data — from this plugin — is that it can give me some useful insight about my blog traffic. It’s not as detai...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 30, 2011, 2:13 am
“If your website were a person, who would it be? Is it serious, buttoned up, all business, yet trustworthy and capable? Is it a wise-cracking buddy that makes even mundane tasks fun?” Aarron Walter: Personality in Design Related posts:Mug Design -There are six different designs. There is a Word...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 18, 2011, 7:22 am
Related posts:How Google Street View Works -... Sample Photos: Here are picplz filters in action -Instagram got its popularity these days. It’s exclussively available only... Google Launched Google Ad Manager -Last year April 2007, Google acquired Doubleclick for for $3.1... Moving Feedburner Feed...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 18, 2011, 12:25 am
At Web 2.0 Summit 2011 in San Fransisco, Dick Costolo (Twitter CEO) revealed some latest statistics about Twitter. Here are some facts: Twitter now received almost 250 million tweets every day. Last July, it was announced that Twitter got 200 million tweets per day. Is the statistic affected by mor...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 17, 2011, 2:10 pm
Related posts:New Planets in Milky Way Galaxy - ... Final test -This week, I have my final exam. The weblog has... The Global Test - ... Future test - ... Hello iPhone 4! -Two weeks ago, I bought myself a black iPhone 4. ...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 15, 2011, 2:16 am
Instagram got its popularity these days. It’s exclussively available only for Phone, iPad, and iPod touch users. Just to remind you, Instagram got its 150,000,000 photos uploaded to the service last August. Also, Klout made Instagram as one of the Klout score factors. There are some similar servi...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 12, 2011, 12:42 pm
I am not sure when this kind of problem appeared for the first time. Not exactly a big problem, but something that does not work well. I’m now using Flickr for iPhone Version 1.4.2 on iPhone 4 (Software Version: 4.3.5), and so far the primary feature — I consider photo upload feature as primary ...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 12, 2011, 1:20 am
I’m waiting for iOS 5! It should be arrived today and I can’t wait to download it. When I watched Apple Special Event (October 2011) last week, there were many information about iOS features that I want to have. It is said that there are more than 200 new features in this release. From the vide...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Oct 11, 2011, 3:24 pm
Not exactly a Twitter client, but tool to manage social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and more. When I created my first Twitter account in 2006, there weren’t any applications for desktop or mobile. But, it’s 2011 and the service grows so fast. It’s around one billi...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Sep 12, 2011, 1:32 am
I decided not to use it. I’m using about.me service to create my personal splash page. You can see mine at about.me/thomasarie. It looks good, and very useful to display multiple online profiles like Twitter, Facebook, or even Instagram. Everything works great. Few days ago, about.me users recei...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Sep 1, 2011, 1:53 pm
I don’t use Foursqure on daily basis. If you want to have Foursquare in Bahasa Indonesia, it’s now available in Bahasa Indonesia. Foursquare team announced about some new languages for the application interface: Today, with the launch of five more languages (Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portugues...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 31, 2011, 1:44 pm
I like taking photos using my iPhone 4 and send them to Instagram. At the same time, I also like Flickr. iPhone 4, Nokia N8, and Flickr should be a great combination. Both Instagram and Flickr have their good and bad. And, I think both services can not be compared. Each service has its own medium an...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 29, 2011, 12:46 am
Yes, I’m joining Instagram under @thomasarie username. Having a desired username for Instagram username is easy and should be painless. But, that didn’t happen to me at first. I wanted to have @thomasarie as my username, but I was a little bit unlucky. I contacted Instagram support team after do...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 23, 2011, 2:57 pm
Two weeks ago, I bought myself a black iPhone 4.  So did Lala. She bought the white one. I decided to buy it after I searched for reviews, looking up what I can do with it, and also how people work with this gadget. I was lucky because there was a great deal I didn’t want to miss. For those who ...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 16, 2011, 5:31 pm
If you like to analyze influence using a service called Klout — or, you like to analyze your own Klout score — this might be a good news. Klout just added five new services to build (hopefully) better scoring. You can now add services like Tumblr, Instagram, Blogger.com, Flickr and Last.fm. The...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 16, 2011, 5:13 pm
Last year, YouTube introduced its new video player design, and I decided to use it before it was released for public. Now, YouTube has another new player design. This time, it’s dark. The next question is: Do you like it? Do I like it? The dark element can add more contrast, but when I want to in...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 4, 2011, 2:33 am
Instagram announced another milestone yesterday on their blog: Today, we’re excited to announce that more than 150 million photos have been shared on Instagram and Instagrammers now share photos with one another at a rate of 15 photos per second. And, it only took less than a year to hit that im...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 3, 2011, 9:46 pm
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 example of cr...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 1, 2011, 9:32 pm
CNNGo.com released an article of 50 World’s most delicious food, and put Rendang (from Indonesia) on the 11th most delicious food! That’s right, rendang from Indonesia! CNNGo.com described Rendang as: Beef is slowly simmered with coconut milk and a mixture of lemongrass, galangal, garlic, turme...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Aug 1, 2011, 5:15 pm
Finally, Twitter users are now able to have Twitter’s interface in Bahasa Indonesia! Indonesia is available as the 11th languages options. I think this is  a good move since Twitter is getting more popular in Indonesia. According to the statistics last year, Indonesia was the top contributing cou...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 29, 2011, 10:05 am
I’m not a frequent flyer, but I sometime visited multiple Indonesia airlines websites just to get some information, especially for the ticket prices. I sometime try the navigation, or test the website features. By this, I want to learn how those websites are designed. So, here are some screenshot...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 26, 2011, 2:43 am
From Ovi blog: You can see where you are on the map, thanks to HTML5 support for positioning You can find addresses, businesses and other places of interest, anywhere in the world You can get to know the places: all the essential information about a place are presented on one page (pictures, user r...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 23, 2011, 4:05 pm
I currently involve in a website project that put videos as its primary contents. My involvement is not primary on the design. I’m just helping a little. What I like from the process is to find solution. One of the problem is on the navigation menu. It’s very common to have navigation with sub-m...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 22, 2011, 4:37 am
When Mac OS X Lion was available at App Store, I decided to download it right away. After purchasing it, I continued with the installation process. I upgraded from Snow Leopard. Anyway, I usually download the updates available from Software Update menu when there are new updates available. With the...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 20, 2011, 12:58 am
Got this piece of information from Deon Sukma’s tweet this morning. It’s about Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Mac OS X Lion will be released this Wednesday (today?). I checked the update from Software Update menu, and found it. It says: This update addresses an issue with...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 18, 2011, 7:02 pm
After upgrading to WordPress 3.2.1, I didn’t work with it right away. I found that the Dashboard had a new look, and I was fine with that. When I logged in to my WordPress Dashboard few days ago, I experienced some problems. Few key features — especially on the post editing screen — were broke...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 4, 2011, 3:08 am
Pujiono shared a wishlist to have Google Plus‘ header displayed in sticky style. Since Google does not offer this feature, can we have this feature using a simple trick? The answer is: yes. There is a small extension of User Styles called ‘Google Plus Sticky Common Header’. I have applied thi...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jul 1, 2011, 2:32 am
Twitter just announced another milestone. According to the statistics, Twitter users are sending 200 millions tweets per day. Yes, it’s bigger than some country populations like Japan, Russia, or even Brazil! Halfway through 2011, users on Twitter are now sending 200 million Tweets per day. For ...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jun 17, 2011, 4:31 am
This news was sent by Google in April 2011. But, I think I have to keep this info also for myself. In short: There are only ten accounts created under a single Google Apps Free account (previously, we can have up to 50 accounts). In last April, Google Apps account holder should received an email fro...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jun 17, 2011, 3:06 am
I think I want these books. And, all books in collection including: A Practical Guide to Designing Grid Systems for the Web by Mark Boulton A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible by Robert Mills A Practical Guide to Strategic User Experience by Leisa Reichelt Creating Web Content by Relly An...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jun 17, 2011, 2:17 am
Lately, I need to deal with more login combinations. And, most of them are about logging in to server via SSH. I decided to create a simple mechanism rather than having some login combinations written somewhere. Why not remember those logins? Well, too many things to remember. So, I tried to create...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Jun 16, 2011, 11:20 am
Last few weeks ago, I went to my relative’s house in Karanganyar. I had a chance to visit Solo City for about two hours before leaving this city to Jogjakarta. Wihout any plans, I stopped at Klewer Market (one of the biggest traditional markets in Solo City) and tried Serabi Solo. Solo is famous f...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - May 27, 2011, 12:22 am
I just got a notification from Ovi Mail — it’s an email service provided by Nokia — telling that Ovi Mail is now using Yahoo! Mail technology. The email said: Ovi Mail is now officially “Powered by Yahoo!”. Users have access to significant improvements, including better social integration...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - May 18, 2011, 6:06 am
When did the last time you visit Yahoo! Flickr homepage? If you visit flickr.com, it has a new look and I think it displays more information. The new landing page will be visible only for non-logged in users. Compared to the previous one, here are few things I noticed: You will see bigger rotating...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - May 10, 2011, 10:55 pm
If you actively upload your photos to Flickr, you probably find that having lots of sets is a good idea. How many sets you have on your Flickr photostream right now? I have more than 200 sets. By default, if you browse sets in a photostream profile, you will only have 30 sets per page. Flickr does ...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - May 10, 2011, 9:41 pm
Yesterday, I needed to move a self-hosted WordPress site to another domain. The process was easy because it’s like copying all files, edit the configuration file and editing internal links in all posts. All process only took less than 15 minutes. But, that’s not the only thing. One of the import...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - May 9, 2011, 10:50 pm
… and I was on the stage sharing a little bit about Yahoo! Flickr. Last week, I got an opportunity to join Yahoo! Community Town Hall event at @atamerica, Pacific Place, Jakarta. I had visited the venue for few times, but this time, I went there from Jogjakarta — I live in Jogjakarta (again) no...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Apr 30, 2011, 1:30 pm
But, it seems that something is broken. Today, a friend contacted me to help him getting a Flickr Pro by activating a Flickr gift. This is not the first time for me purchasing Flickr gifts. Everything worked. Just worked. But, not today. So, I wanted to buy my 11th Flickr gift — yes, 11th!. I we...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Apr 20, 2011, 1:29 am
Twitter just got its homepage redesigned (again). Here’s its new look. It’s wider now and display less elements. Previously, there was a scrolling trending topics and some tweet stream. We can’t find them anymore now. I think the new designs tries to attract more people to join (increasing re...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Apr 12, 2011, 2:34 pm
I like watching TED Talks videos. And, I have downloaded lots of videos from TED website. Actually, it’s okey if I watch them without subtitles. But, with subtitles I think it’s much better. The question is: is it easy to get the subtitles? The answer is: not that difficult to get it. But of cou...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Apr 1, 2011, 1:06 pm
Got this news from Ivan Lanin’s tweet. Finally, YouTube is now available in Bahasa Indonesia. Yes, Bahasa Indonesia! Last December, Flickr also introduced its Bahasa Indonesia language interface. When I checked YouTube’s blog, I didn’t see any announcements about this, but if you go to http:/...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Mar 31, 2011, 1:57 pm
If you have upgraded your WordPress installation to the latest version (right now, it’s Version 3.1), you can take advantage of its “Post Formats” feature. So, what is it anyway? WordPress Codex explains: A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize it...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Mar 31, 2011, 10:38 am
The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong is the tallest hotel in the world and was opened on March 29, 2011. This hotel is located at the very top of the International Commerce Centre (ICC) in Hong Kong, occupying floors 102 to 118. It has 312 rooms and about the rates: starting at $750 US per night (for a delux...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Mar 26, 2011, 2:02 pm
Yesterday, I joined Earth Hour 2011 at Bunderan Hotel Indonesia, Jakarta. Took some photos and will publish a video episode about this event. Met lots of people. About the event itself, I think I’ll write about it later. In the meantime, enjoy some photos from my camera phone. Video will be publis...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Mar 25, 2011, 2:46 am
I have some blog posts about Yahoo!’s MyBlogLog service. In December 2007, MyBlogLog introduced an integration with Yahoo! ID. In July 2008, MyBlogLog introduced its new design. But, I think I don’t have any “real” advantage having MyBlogLog installed on my blog. I can’t remember when I ha...
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Thomas A. posted an article on Orangescale.NET - Mar 23, 2011, 1:35 pm
Yesterday, Firefox 4 was launched and lots of people — including me — are happy now. I heard about Firefox 4 features during last year Pesta Blogger in Jakarta. At that time, Mozilla Indonesia brought some people from the team (including the developer) to share some knowledge what could be expec...
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