Milow

It is basically the mellow version of Justin Timberlake and Co.'s Ayo Technology.

Shortening with tinyurl.com or bit.ly

Either http://tinyurl.com/ and http://bit.ly/ are shortening your long URL address. Yet, I'd liked to see the name of the website before I enter the site. Yes they have "term of use", but I am used to identify the name of the website in advance then decide to go or not. For twitter it is necessary, but otherwise give me the whole full address please.

I am back

After more than a year taking a break from blogging, I am back. So many things happening last year that kept me away from blogging, but now I am hoping to blog more intensively with more interesting stuffs. Meanwhile, I twitt too and at a moment building CMS-based website. Gain new hobby, namely photography (very new and still craving for a Canon camera) and photoshopping (not so new, but new in relation to photography).

Video Clip Amy Winehouse

Video clip Amy Winehouse: Go back to black. Haven't seen the video before and i just like the music as much as i like the video. She must be a little bit weird to be able to sing and create music like that. Very exotic tho. If you read all about Amy Winehouse in Perezhilton.com, she is one of a kind.

I just say, keep up the good work. We love Amy Winehouse.

Here is the lyrics

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Steve's Keynote (Jan. 2008)

I am late for work today, because of Steve's keynote. Terrible!! but it's worthed to watch, although at some point it's kinda annoying the way audiences kept on praising at every single ends of Steve's sentence.

A quick summary to Steve's keynote (you can see the whole video by your self here or a summary here):

1. iPhone/iPod touch got new apps like map - still not GPS, sending SMS to more than 1 person at a time feature (WOW!!!), webclips, customise the home screen, languages and lyrics.
2. Great innovation for iTunes: rent a movie. Coming out internationally at the end of the year. 30 days after you downloaded it and 24 hours after you watched it. Rent price is dear. Hoping it will get cheaper.
3. Apple TV is improved. One of mac product i must have.
4. Here comes the blast: MacBook Air "World's thinnest notebook". This is insane. It's only 0,16 inch (0,41 cm) and 3lb (1,3 kg). The biggest disaster in this product which is at the same time also the most incredible feature is no CD/DVD player. The reasons Steve mentioned in the video are of course Apple oriented solutions, but one thing interested me: Installation. With MacBook Air, you can install apps wirelessly. Slide an installation CD into your PC/Mac CD driver, MacBook Air will find the driver and installation can start. Holy Moly!!!

The question i had in my head as i saw it: do i want it? The presentation was so commercial. Made you want to buy it immediately. Lucky i am not loaded, made me think twice getting 3 to 4 digit price products. So, yes i'd love to as much as i'd love to have iPhone and iPod touch, but only when i had extra money.

Here's my apple wish list sorted to priorities - this wish list is not based on sleeky style only, but also to appreciate the great apple innovative ideas:

1. iMac
2. Time capsule
3. Keyboard and mighty mouse
   
4. Apple TV
5. iPod touch/iPhone
6. MacBook Air

Hey, i am taking charity ;-) As a low budget student, it's far from being come true. Oh btw., i am in Germany, so you might want to check out the German apple website ;-)

My wanted wardrobe (part 1)

Chess mania

I hate chess, i love chess. A disease can not be cured.

Used to play in yahoo, but now more often in shredder computer chess. It's a PC chess program maker, but you can also play it online for free, no java, no flash, no rude players.

Good ways to learn more moves, tricks and to be careful on what you are guarding. Also available in google widget as daily puzzle, they call it.

For everybody all around the world i wish you...

Merry Xmas
fröhliche Weihnachten
selamat natal
Noël joyeux
Natale allegro
Feliz Navidad
vrolijke Kerstmis
christmas alegre
веселое рождество
メリークリスマス
Καλά Χριστούγεννα
즐거운 성탄
圣诞快乐

I got surved

FlauntR found out my review on their product and post it with another FlauntR blogger on their blog.

My personalised iGoogle

Look what my iGoogle says about the weather in Magdeburg today. It has been like this for days. I wish i were somewhere else warm and dry.

Lucu deh!!

Just found out this interesting blog called lucudeh.com. "Lucu deh" in English means "oh, it's so funny". It's interesting cos it only sells funny t-shirts, caps, etc - well, funny for Indonesians who live aboard. However, since this is a blog the administrator must be a hell one creative person to be able to fill the blog with entries. The entries are also funny if you could understand the whole thing. It's a mixed between Indonesian and English - i guess it's acceptable since the owner is a hasn't-been-back-to-Indonesia dude for 11 years and continuously having homesick.

Btw., I knew the founder of this blog from junior school. He was one of the most annoying guy in school and I mean extremely annoying. We used to make jokes to each other. This is actually the first time I show him some respect. Well done Sat, looking forward to more of your funny products.

It's FlauntR baby

Another excellent web based application. FlauntR offers a slick way to edit you pictures. It works astoundingly perfect with flickr and offers you to work on an apple-like GUI applications. An interesting feature is to be able to get the right size of your profile pictures on some of Network sites. It converts for example for Friendster, Blogger, Xing and many more. However, i am surprise that Facebook isn't there. I hope soon.

Check out my new profile picture for this blog. I edited just now by using FlauntR. It takes a very minimum skill of Photoshop. I also tried to be more creative and got to the picture of me on the Baltic see below.


Not too bad for unprofessional photoshoper, right. It reminds me of Picaso painting actually, although i can't find it on google what i have in my head. Anyway, once you edited a picture the option is then to save it on FlauntR, download it to your computer or save it directly in flickr.

Check it out and enjoy the advantages. It's really fun.

Radiohead: Revolution against piracy

What a great revolutionary idea to let your fans download the new Radiohead album, "In Rainbows", came out last week Wednesday for free, or not if you are willing to pay and only if you are willing to pay. No pressure, no string attach. A natural way to see what appreciation they get as one of the greatest band in the world. Music industry is finally not all about the money. I've been Radiohead's fan since i can remember and i am surely stay be a fan. Over here you can go download the album and also see the review of this idea in here. So i suggest to not wait for long and be fair.

Things to know about the enemy in your head before it hurts someone else

Your brain is not your friend:

It all seems rather hopeless, but I’m optimistic. Knowing how our minds get in their own way, we can catch these behaviors and put them right — or put them to work for us.

Screw social network websites

Yeah screw them. Look on how many of them i am registered: Friendster, Studivz, Xing/OpenBC, Facebook, Multiply, Linkedin, Pownce, Myspace, Tagged, Twitter, Unihelp and of course last but not least Blogger. Crazy hah!

Should not complain tho, but it's so time consuming and addicting. I feel like stalker sumtime. You know getting information of others secretly. It's not healthy, you know.

Anyway, as it's well known already, one should not give out too much information about himself on the internet. After the huge breakdown in the Facebook code and privacy concern in Studivz as well as in Friendster, you really need to think twice about publishing yourself.

An interesting article in wikipedia mentioned that social network websites can be used as investigation medium and could even be used against you in court. After all who would think to get sued because of the internet. Most of them think they are innocent, aren't they.

It's all a matter of good behavior and wise decision - on my opinion.

Ultraviolet

After The Ting Tings and Meiko, Ultraviolet now published their gorgeous musics in myspace. Damn good they are. "Dead on the dance floor" remains me of Elastica but better. Check out here.

Perez Hilton, not Paris Hilton

Referring to my post in Cash Flow Blogging, Perez Hilton the celebrity blogger gets up to 39,000 unique visitors in Dec. 2006. He doesn't have blood connection or whatsoever with Paris Hilton, but he certainly sells the name Hilton in the internet very well.

"He currently lists at number 21 on the Technorati list of 100 most linked-to blogs. (It's surprising he ranks this high, as others have pointed out.) Michelle Malkin comes in on that list at #11; her traffic, as per Sitemeter, is 4.5 million page views, with 3.6 million visitors last month. Boing Boing ranks at #2 on that list; that site's internal stats say that it got 2.8 million unique visitors and 24.5 million page views last month."

Interesting to see how people can have cash flow, by doing something stupid, fun, funny and/or pissing off others. Let see what else blogs can do in the future.

source: gawker.com

Free templates

Why bother to create your own website, when you can get it for free? The idea to "sell" website templates went directly to trash as i saw this website. They do not only have templates for websites, but also logos and flash websites. Damn cool. Check out: www.templatesbox.com.

The Ting Tings: Glastonbury2007

Another excellent group is born. The ting tings rocked Glastonbury festival 2007 without having any records before. "That's not my name" and the 2 other songs were only being published through myspace.com. Thumbs up for the ting tings.

Meiko Music

Finally a brand new singer with original look, fresh songs and sexy voice is born. Meiko's website is not ready yet, but you can enjoy more of her song in myspace. Below i just put 2 of them for you.

Piano Song:


Reason to love you: