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GetKDE.org – the workspace, and what’s going on.

Some updates. Both for newcomers to GetKDE.org and those who have seen this project before, see the homepage, the explore page, and then finally, the page I’m writing about. Homepage has been updated too: And explore page updated too. Hope you like it. I have to apologise for only having the time to work on [...]

I love whiteboards.

Although it might seem like an awkward title (perhaps even shit-worthy), but I have felt the need to profess how amazing they are. A long time back when I was still in Malaysia, I owned a little corkboard panel which I used to pin up those important forms I would always lose, and occasionally use [...]

Testdriving Skydrive

For those unfamiliar with Microsoft’s answer to cloud storage, [Microsoft Windows Live] SkyDrive offers a website accessible online file manager for free. When I first tested Skydrive many years back, it only offered 5GB storage and had a clunky interface that was a horror to work with. Imagine my reaction when I heard the bozos [...]

Another year awaits.

Well, it’s been another month since my last post but my online slumbering isn’t the result of laziness, but rather the shifting of focus towards more of real life and less of the fantastical world wide web. Since then, I had returned to Shanghai to continue studying Mandarin. Upon my return, my ever-faithful Acer Aspire 4530 [...]

Best background music ever.

From Orisinal: Morning Sunshine: wget http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/carrot.swf emerge -av swftools swfextract -s 31 carrot.swf -o carrot.mp3 mplayer -loop 0 carrot.mp3 Or replace with any other Orisinal song :) Note: -s 31 depends on the sound index number, which may be different – do swfextract foo.swf to check.

Back in Malaysia, and other things I have dabbled in.

Blog posting has been slow lately. This is mostly due to real life and connectivity issues, but despite this I have had some time to dabble in the various public projects I juggle. The pace is not rapid enough to be able to keep up a alternate-day post like I used to, but is suitable [...]

Migration from GoDaddy

No doubt anybody with a domain name online has heard of the infamous GoDaddy. Whilst I’ve been dutifully spending time away from the computer this holiday, I’ve kept a close eye on the SOPA act as well as registrars’ reactions towards it. GoDaddy already has horrible customer service, horrible products, horrible interface, horrible advertising … [...]

The aftermath of Failnation.com

A while back I sold Failnation.com to the Cheezburger Inc Network of sites. I recently checked it and found it had been rerouted to a subsection of FAILBlog – currently housing “classic” fails. An appropriate new function, I think. The humour isn’t quite my cup of tea, but this is the Internet, after all.

Hello, Shanghai! Happy holidays, everyone!

As you might’ve guessed from the title of this post, I am now in Shanghai and I have been for almost a month now. Apart from socialising with relatives, most of my time is spent on my job, with the free time I have soaked up by learning how to speak Mandarin. This has effectively [...]

Tech Tip #10: merge PDFs into 2 per page, 3 per page, etc (n per page)

This post is mostly just a reminder to myself, but it may be useful to others. I was recently asked to convert a .ppt, or Powerpoint slideshow document, into a three slides per page, horizontally centered, one on top of another, with frames around each slide. Powerpoint itself offers several printing options, including a 2n [...]

Tech Tip #9: use Klipper to automatically post to a Pastebin.

I haven’t done a tech tip in a while, but here’s a nice, simple one which I am finding very useful. Pastebins are a really useful way to share snippets of text. However it’s sometimes a bit cumbersome to have to open a browser window, type in the URL, paste it in, click submit, then [...]

GetKDE.org progress – Discover KDE!

For the impatient, here is a link to the new page, and for those who missed the last post, here is a link to the GetKDE.org homepage. Finally, here is a screenshot of the newly added Explore page: The homepage of GetKDE is essentially a hub with a teaser. The site structure itself is split [...]

WIPUP 11.11.11 released!

WIPUP.org is an open-source web application built for one reason: to show the world what you’re working on. If you’re impatient, click here to check out the fresh WIPUP.org. I’m very happy to announce version 11.11.11 being released today. It’s the first non-alpha/beta release, which means that I’m confident that it does what it’s meant [...]

What’s up with KDE.org & Hello GetKDE.org

It’s been a while since I last posted about KDE.org, aka the KDE-www war series. It talked about the current KDE.org design, and how to improve it. The series started with target audiences and conversion goals, picked apart and restructured the sitemap, revealed an initial design proposal with clear-cut priorities, and finally analysed the effectiveness [...]

Getting things done.

I was quite amused when my parents asked me how do you get all this stuff done? I was even more amused (and actually initially disregarded it as a joke) when they asked me to write a short document explaining my methods. Apparently there’s secret to how I juggle my activities, and people want to hear [...]

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