Destroy Flickr

Written by J Shamsul, Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | 0

DestroyFlickr is an interesting application that runs on the Adobe Air. The platform is designed to run application build with web technology on multiple OS platform, it is still in alpha but works just fine in Linux.

I’m already a Flickr junkie as it is, in certain days I spend hours just surfing on Flickr’s site looking at random photos. This app doesn’t help curing my addiction in anyway at all. It just makes it worst.

KLue Urbanscapes 2008

Written by J Shamsul, Saturday, June 21, 2008 | 3

KLue Urbanscapes, the city’s all-day creative arts festival sounds interesting. It will be held at KLPac (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center). They are labeling it as a “user-generated” creative arts festival where the organizer is taking a step back and letting the the city’s creative leaders run the show.

The organizer is working with various groups, collective and individuals letting them decide on what’s going to happen at Urbanscapes 2008. The general public can also votes to influence on which music acts to be featured.

Creative communities of different fields, music, arts, lifestyle and film will all be together at KLPAC for a whole day of awesome creative artsy fun. The festival will split into several different sections.
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Mass Exodus from Yahoo.

Written by J Shamsul, Friday, June 20, 2008 | 0

Abandon ship! Things are getting worst at Yahoo, many of their talented top exec are turning in their purple badge. Like the scene from Titanic, it’s crew are all jumping off, as the ship sinks together with its passengers.

At first, this doesn’t concern me much. I almost never go to the Yahoo homepage. I have not logged into my Yahoo Mail account in ages. I don’t get my news from Yahoo News.

However there are three Yahoo products which I use quite often, the Yahoo Messenger and two of them is a web service that Yahoo had just acquired, Flickr and Del.icio.us. Actually I use Adium, just that most of the people I know are on Yahoo Messenger.

Robot girlfriend for lonely men

Written by J Shamsul, Friday, June 20, 2008 | 0

Ema Meet Ema, she’s from Japan, big-busted, petite very friendly and runs on batteries. SEGA Toys produces this 15-inch tall female figured robot which, unlike your typical girlfriend, Ema will kiss on command.

E.M.A stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization. She puckers up for nearby human heads and gives out kisses, when she’s in “love mode”.

“She’s very lovable and though she’s not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend.”

She also hand out business cards, sing and dance, just like a real girlfriend, or not.

Media Temple introduced OSX Leopard Server on VPS

Written by J Shamsul, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 0

I do most of my work on Apple Mac OS X Leopard. Most of the time I’ll end up deploying it on some kind of Linux/Unix based server. I’ve always drooled looking at OS X Leopard Server and wonder how it would be like working on it.

To have a OS X Leopard Server running on a shiny Xserve is beyond my budget or any small businesses. Not to mention the cost of co-lo service on data centers.

Not anymore, Media Temple had announced the start of private-beta period for its latest line of hosting solution, the (xv) Xserve-Virtual. They are calling this “the world’s first VPS Leopard Server”.

The never ending war between I.T and Sales

Written by J Shamsul, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 1

Two department, both alike in dignity. In a multi-national corporation, where they lay their scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. Read more...

Yahoo! to use Google’s Ads

Written by J Shamsul, Friday, June 13, 2008 | 0

Yahoogoogle 1 The Microsoft and Yahoo! deal is off. It’s water under the bridge living Microsoft with a disappointing note and Yahoo’s stocks plunging down. Top Yahoo executives leaving the company.

All that aside Yahoo and Google had announced a non-exclusive advertising service agreement where Yahoo could use Google’s advertising services in Yahoo’s web assets in U.S. and Canada. This gives Yahoo access to use Google’s Adsense / Adwords services throughout their site. Aspect to see Google Adsense in Yahoo’s search result pages some time soon.

In addition to that, both Yahoo and Google will work on enable interoperability between instant messaging service of both companies. This will result on a better broader online communication services. GTalk isn’t doing that well so this is a good thing for Google. You might be able to chat on your YM buddies on your GMail account in the future.

Epic-FU and Wine Library TV joins Revision3

Written by J Shamsul, Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | 0

One of my favorite video podcast, Epic-FU (formally known as Jetset Show) had joined one of my favorite podcast network, Revision3. After a long hiatus, Epic-FU is back with the usual mix of content covering all aspect of tech, music, and other popular culture both online and offline.

Create by the beautiful Zadi Diaz and some guy, off camera, Epic-Fu is about the things that makes us geek out. Epic-Fu is your manual to the internet.

Epic-FU is a phenomenon by itself. It can live by its own with a strong growing community that they call MIX. By joining Revesion3 it makes both of these community much stronger. I think Revision3 gat the better end of this deal.

Apple World Wide Developer Conference 2008

Written by J Shamsul, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 | 2

It is that time of the year, again. Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, one of the few events where Steve Jobs with his rock star status presents, or should I say, perform his famous keynote.

Developer from all around the world gathered on this conference. This is when Apple showcase new upcoming technologies for its product.

Tokyo killings, help me understand this

Written by J Shamsul, Monday, June 9, 2008 | 0

I understand that innocent people die due to natural disaster. I understand that natural disaster happens due to the effect and consequences to the environment.

I understand that innocent people die as collateral damage in conflict zones and war. I understand that this happened when politics and diplomatics ways doesn’t work. I understand that a soldier under orders have to deploy bombs and other weapons to eliminate the threat of the other site, sometimes innocent bystanders are in its path.

I understand that innocent people die when being rob. I understand that some people due to the circumstances feels that they are less fortunate then others. In order for them to survive, they would do anything including hurting other people.

Rock on Rave: Day two report

Written by J Shamsul, Monday, June 9, 2008 | 0

This is a follow up on Rock on Rave, as posted yesterday. The second day of Rock on Rave was much better then the day before. This time they started on time but the crowd wasn’t. I thought I was early, there are more ‘security’ then fans. I wasn’t early because Bunkface was playing.

Apparently I bring my camera but not its battery. Silly, I know. Fortunately I live near by, so it was much of a problem. When back, had lunch at Little Penang, then back to the action.

New Gmail features with Gmail Labs

Written by J Shamsul, Sunday, June 8, 2008 | 2

Google likes to keep their project in ‘Beta’, forever is possible. Gmail is one of those forever ‘Beta’ products. If you notice, there is still the ‘Beta’ tag under the Gmail logo.

Up until recently nothing much had change with Gmail ever since the open it to public. It was an invite only deal in the early days, but most people got the invite.

The Gmail team takes good care of the look and feel of the whole app. Even adding a ‘delete’ button is a big deal for them. So to rollout new features they are taking a different approach.