Archive for March, 2007
Digg Malaysia
Did you know that our Malaysian friends came up with their own digg? I salute them actually! Yes they copied digg but I really hope they will grow from just copying into something on their own.
Below is the screenshot from top popular section.
AdesClrPicker v2.0 out!
AdesClrPicker is a very nice tool for a webmaster. It helps you to identify the color code in various formats and have them memorized for future needs. No more taking screenshots and opening that in Photoshop!
- Improved Interface
- Hue, Saturation, Brightness sliders (HSB Sliders) for modifying the colors in Color Library
- Now it picks colors in HTML, RGB, Delphi, C++, VB codes
- Support for ACT and ACO formats for exporting colors to Adobe Photoshop
- Automatically add colors from Floating Menu to Color Library

Product URL: http://www.adesdesign.net/php/products_color_picker.php
Scalix – Enterprise Collaboration Platform
For mid-sized and larger companies keeping internal E-Mail Servers is critical.
- Internal communication goes faster
- Sending and receiving large files is easy
- Managing user accounts centrally
- Backup/Recovery/Failover/Down time transparent – no more bullshit stories from ISPs. What you see in your server room is what you get
- Confidentiality
- Security – it’s how you manage.
On top of above mentioned some features makes your office more productive:
- Calendaring
- Webmail Access
- Document Management
- CRM
- Project Management
- LDAP
Scalix has a solution for you! It is cheap, if not for free! You can compare Community, Small Business and Enterprise Editions here – http://www.scalix.com/enterprise/editions/compare.php
my new phone
Yes I am a happy owner of a new phone pda phone – HP iPAQ rw6828
And yes soft keypads sucks, but I am not a very much dependent on SMS writing so it’s kinda OK for me.
I like it a lot especially wifi connection! Wherever I go nowadays I can find wifi hotspots and surf. I am still exploring my new toy, a lot of things to get used to…
Meanwhile, here’s the list of softwares I installed additionally:
- Minimo – Mozilla Firefox for mobile
- Putty – Pocket PuTTY, yes I can connect to my linux servers and do my work with my phone!
- Opera – Opera for Mobile, trial version – I think it is much better the mobile IE and Firefox mobile. They have more experience in building browsers for such and other devices.
- Spb Shell – Screen customizer
- PocketIslam – This software contains Holy Quran in English, Hadith in English, Prayer table, Prayer schedule, Hijri Calendar and Hijri to Georgian conversion.
Here’s the list of softwares I would like to install:
- Linux (!) – yes I would love to try Linux on this device.
- Some sort of voice recording software. It needs to be saving recordings as mp3/wav
- A better E-Mail client
- FTP client – just basic needs, no GUI needed. Is it there already?
- Better music/media player
If you are a PDA phone user please do share your experiences and softwares used.
Exabytes and time
I was doing one freelance work where I had to use LAMP technology. So my client has ordered hosting from Exabytes. Interestingly I had some bugs on theirs servers. I digged some more and I find out that their PHP time is wrong. Here’s the screenshot:
As you can see from the screenshot the server shows a date with more then 1 day difference! Well, I’ve never bothered to check if the servers were from US or local, I was under impression that they were local. Well, seems like not! So that’s how I get a almost a day difference in dates!
I used very basic date functions to get the date shown on their servers. The code is taken from php.net and now I need to add the difference to get Malaysian time.
I will post my solutions here, stay tuned!
Update: I used very simple code:
$h = “-8″;// Hour for time zone goes here e.g. +7 or -4, just remove the + or -
$hm = $h * 60;
$ms = $hm * 60;
if (!$date) {
$date=date(”Y-m-d”);
$getdate = gmdate(”Y-m-d”, time()-($ms));
}
