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Digg Malaysia

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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.

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Written by Arstan

March 31st, 2007 at 11:18 am

Posted in Site Reviews

AdesClrPicker v2.0 out!

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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
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Product URL: http://www.adesdesign.net/php/products_color_picker.php

Written by Arstan

March 31st, 2007 at 10:19 am

Posted in Software reviews

Scalix – Enterprise Collaboration Platform

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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

Written by Arstan

March 31st, 2007 at 8:17 am

Posted in Linux, internet

my new phone

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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
  • PuttyPocket 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.

Written by Arstan

March 31st, 2007 at 5:57 am

Exabytes and time

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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:

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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));

}

Written by Arstan

March 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pm

Posted in Programming, freelance