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Today is last day of February 2008. It was already 1 month since I do an increase RSS subscribers experiment. Have you tried that experiment on your blog?

I have showed my rss feed status throughout the whole month of February. So you want to know the outcome?

RSS Subscribers Experiment Result

January08 VS February08 RSS Feed Status

As you can see the screenshot above, I got 56 average RSS subscribers after I showed my RSS feed status. The highest is 74 RSS subscribers. There are 15 more average subscribers after I showed my RSS feed status, which is 36% increament! (more…)

Popularity: 11% [?]

If you are Open Source supporter, I am sure you familiar with the name of Open Source Office Suite such as Open Office (by Sun Microsystems) and Star Office in Google Pack. Now, you can have another Free Office Suite named IBM Lotus Symphony (by IBM).

Why use IBM Lotus Symphony?

Lotus Symphony won in the Office Productivity Software category beating out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. hence no worries on its friendliness and features. Since Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF (Open Document Format) standard, so it is Free of Charge.

There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations. In my opinion, Lotus Symphony is perfect for business users. It meet office operation requirements yet it is Free! (more…)

Popularity: 14% [?]

Are boring with your mobile phone shape? There are only few type of shape nowadays: flip, block, twist and slide. How about wear your phone like bracelet? Or make it like a square clock stand on your table?

Nokia and University of Cambridge show off the new device concept named Morph. Morph is made using nanotechnology, it could be stretched and bent into different shapes. It allowing you to “morph” their devices into whatever shape they want.

This new concept not only change the way of using mobile phone. It also help to reduce the manufacturing cost. Nokia believes that certain elements of the device could be used in high-end Nokia devices within the next seven years. This clue us the price of this Morph! Should be expensive. (more…)

Popularity: 11% [?]

Last week, I upgrade the third party tools in my iPod Touch. Categories is one of the software to re-organize iPod Touch software into simpler interface. It warned me not to change my iPod password by using passwd. I did not change it during that time. But once I re-organize my icons using Categories, my iPod crashed! Whole spring board hung and can do nothing even I tried to reset.

Oh no…all my songs, videos, photos, contacts are gone! But after calm down for a while, I decide to upgrade my iPod firmware to the latest 1.1.3. It took me hours to download the 165MB firmware, due to slow internet connection on that day. Once download finish, I restart my iPod to recovery mode and update it to 1.1.3 firmware using iTunes. It work perfect! All data still there without losing any data.

Now, I take the opportunity to backup my songs, videos, etc into my computer. Huh..sweating. When I sync my contacts for the first time, it ask me whether to replace or merge the contacts with outlook. My first respond was replace the outlook contacts. Once I have clicked that “replace” button, it make me cry More than 20 over contacts has been replace by my empty outlook contacts! Means it replace the other way round. It was so terrible experience. Now I lost all my important contacts I keyed in manually. So, do not forget to backup your contacts too by using “merge” option.

After all, I decided to wipe out my iPod Touch and reinstall from sketch. Since the latest firmware 1.1.3 has been hacked, I followed the most complete instructions by Rupert Gee. It is not as easy as 1.1.1 firmware jailbreak hacking methods. This whole process include hacking from firmware 1.1.1 to firmware 1.1.3. It was so long processes and steps but it is worth my time.

Why I update and hack iPod Touch 1.1.3? (more…)

Popularity: 100% [?]