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Wordpress 2.5 Released!

geeko — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:11:47 +0000

Yes, the title said it all, wordpress 2.5 has been released and there are plenty of updates offer. For those of you who used wordpress you need to upgrade as soon as possible.

For me, update went smooth without having any difficulties, and I love the new control panel page ^^

If you found any difficulties in upgrading you might refer to this page for more detail info on how to upgrade from previous wordpress version.

Mouse Cursor Round Up for Windows XP

geeko — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:48:40 +0000

Mouse is a device we actually can’t avoid to use. You definitely having difficulties operating your PC if your mouse is broken or unplug. In your monitor, you’ll see that moving object as Cursor. Each OS gives different cursor type and if you happen to use Windows XP and you get bored with your cursor, you’ll find this article suitable for you, because I’m gonna round up 9 different cursors that you can choose from. Here it is.

1. Aero Cursor (Vista like)

2. Mac OS Cursor (Mac OS like)

3. Fedora Cursor (Linux like)

4. MSN Charm Cursor

5. Aqua Cursor

6. Gant Cursor

7. Rough Around The Edge Cursor

8. Wii Cursor

9. Crystal Cursor

Some of the cursor already come with .INF file which you can directly install it (right click and choose Install), but others don’t. Just go to Control Panel >Mouse>Pointer.

Weekend Wallpapers

geeko — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:39:12 +0000

These are some wallpapers that I found on the net. Here are only some of them, you may download the rest of the files on the rar file (scroll down) that I include.

Wallpaper by Blurburger

And here is my favorite wallpaper

and here is the rar file for all the wallpapers above plus some others (29 in total). Hope you enjoy. Oh yeah, 1 more thing, the resolution of all wallpapers that I included is 1680×1050 which is the size of my monitor ^^

Will post another type of wallpaper, wait and see… ^^

Short Review IE8 Beta 1

geeko — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:31:04 +0000

Tonight, I got a chance to upgrade my IE7 to IE8 Beta 1. Since I’m a little bit curious on how IE8 Beta 1 perform. You need to go HERE if you wish to upgrade to IE8 Beta 1.
There are 2 main differences that I found, within second after I open IE8 Beta 1. Emulate IE7 and Developer Tools.
Emulate IE7 is the feature offer by Microsoft to browse the web like in IE7. While the other one is Developer Tools. This tools remembering me of Fire Bug in Firefox. But not as good and complete as Fire Bug.

I’m expecting a big changes in IE8 but I don’t think I found any change in interface or browsing method. Upon using for several minutes, I found IE8 Beta 1 not much different from IE7.

According to Microsoft this Beta 1 release is for web developers and designers, but you are free to use even though you’re not one of them

One more thing, on the default page you can find activities and web slices. If you check on the images below, you can guess that it is about bookmarking tools.

I’m not much of a designer nor developer, so I can’t really comment on features offer for both area. Why don’t you tryout for yourself

City Night View Wallpapers

geeko — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:00:21 +0000

Wallpapers, I found this thing is the only graphic images that can give my eyes a little relaxation when my eyes getting tired of long working hour in front of my computer.
Wallpaper below are those who I always used randomly. Check this out, might be suit your need too

Download

Amazing Photography

geeko — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:00:01 +0000

Photography is always an interesting topic to discuss. This morning, when I just arrive in my office, checking my mail, and I found this pictures. It is simply amazing. How can a photographer can take a shot of a moment like that precisely. Like my friend said, photography is not about the camera, but the person behind it.

So here, I present you with some of amazing photography shots

The pictures was taken from various sources. I don’t know yet whether it is fake or real, you decide, but it is still an amazing picture isn’t it?
How do you think about it, interesting in photography world already?

Transformation Pack Round up for Windows XP

geeko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:25:10 +0000

Transformation Pack let you change your Windows XP appearance dramatically. It almost change every aspect of your windows, from theme, wallpaper, login screen, boot screen, until your mouse pointer. There are various transformation pack that you can find. In this article I will try to round up almost all of the best pack that you possibly can find.

Vista Transformation Pack [Download]

Vista Inspirat Transformation Pack [Download]

Flyakite Transformation Pack [Download]

Leopard Transformation Pack [Download]

Ubuntu Transformation Pack [Download]

Fedora Transformation Pack [Download]

Crystal Clear Transformation Pack [Download]

CrystalXP Transformation Pack [Download]

Most of the transformation pack is quite easy to install, but some of the require you to read the instruction before installing, be sure to do so, or you Windows XP gonna screw up… no.. no I was just kidding ^^

[Free#3] Multimedia (Video)

geeko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:21 +0000

Now a days, video is becoming part of our life, it’s like we can’t live without video. Because of these need, more and more players has been created to accommodate video files.
In this article there are gonna be 4 Media Player I will compare, so that you will have clue, which one you should install.
They are: Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC, and Kantaris Media Player. All of this are free to use.

*I’m using Transformers 720p movie as an example.

Windows Media Player 11
CPU & Memory usage:

Sample Image:

Media Player Classic
CPU & Memory usage:

Sample Image:

VLC
CPU & Memory usage:

Sample Image:

Kantaris Media Player
CPU & Memory usage:

Sample Image:
I’m sorry I couldn’t provide sample as this player didn’t compatible with all my capturing softwares.

My personal favorite still goes to VLC and 2nd is Media Player Classic. VLC support many video format, including those movie trailer that usually .mov, other players can’t play it. VLC can play it without installing any other codec.
Windows Media Player in the other hands, offer so many enhancement in video or audio, but lack of format support, like 3gp from my phone, or mp4.
Kantaris is a new to me, my first experienced with this player, the pictures too bright, compare to other 3, I don’t even set the brightness yet.

I suggest you get your Media Player Classic program from free codec like K-Lite Codec, instead of downloading stand alone player, as it will not support many movie format. I’m experiencing difficulties even playing .avi format.

How To Rip your Favorite DVD Movie

geeko — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:33:50 +0000

On my last tutorial I’ve already wrote about rip your favorite audio CD to MP3. Now I’m going to write about ripping your favorite DVD Movie. It is not as hard as you might think it is.
You only need 2 software in order to accomplish this, AutoGK and DVD Shrink. Both softwares are free ware, so grab it without hesitate.

Outline of the step are, 1st you need extract your DVD movie and 2nd to rip that raw files (around 3-5gb) to avi files (around 700mb - 1.4gb)

Ok, without further ado, here is step by step explanation

1. Install all softwares you just download
2. Insert your favorite DVD, open DVD Shrink and choose your DVD drive where you put your DVD movie.
3. First go to Edit and Setting and choose Output Files tab. Set your setting like below. (don’t like to follow recomendation :p)

4. Press Re-author and you will see lots of file on the right side, don’t confuse, you just need Main Movie files, so double click on that files to make it go to the window on the left.

5. Go backup! and you will see something like below. On Backup target choose your Hard disk instead of your DVD burner drive. Wait around 5-10 minutes, depends on your DVDROM speed.

6. Extracting step done here ^^

7. Open AutoGK and 1st go to advance setting, and makes it look like picture below. My preferences is like this, but the only thing you only want to set is the resolution.

8. STEP1: Choose you input (where you save your raw file from DVD Shrink). Output is automaticaly set according to input.
STEP2: Audio track, I suggest stays with AC3 to reduce the size. And choose subtitle you want to include, in my case, my DVD don’t have any subtitle.
STEP3: Choose Predefined size and set it to 700MB if your movie is below 2hours, and 1.4gb, if your movie is 2hours+

9. Press add Job and Start. Wait… wait… and wait… this process took times depend on your PC spec. Mine took 1hour+ as you can see on the picture below. The quality of the ripped movie was very good ^^. You can always try the setting to match your needs.

iPhone Will be Available in Ireland

geeko — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:54:51 +0000

Ireland, I’m coming, said the iPhone :D, yes according to various sources, iPhone will be available in Ireland on March 14, and thanks to O2 who take responsibility to bring it to Ireland.
Prices will be set to €399 (including VAT) for 8G and €499 (including VAT) for 16G iPhone.

I wonder when it will be available in my country? hopefully if the rumors is right, it is will be available in Asia with 3G support errr, can’t wait