Nov 30

Dilemma: SmugMug or Flickr?

Posted in: Candid Photography, Event Photography, Gathering with Friends, Global Warming / Save Our Earth, Inspiring Websites, Photo-Sharing, Web 2.0

I just degraded my server from a $5/month Small Orange plan by AsmallOrange.com (400MB space, 10GB bandwidth) to a $25/year Tiny Orange plan (75MB space, 3GB bandwidth). I bought the Small Orange plan (which I don’t need) at first due to my wrong valuation of space/bandwidth usage. Until today, I haven’t even break the 50MB barrier on space usage, and barely hits 2GB on bandwidth usage.

P.S: Notable customer service from ASmallOrage.Com. The guy degrade my account instantly (after he confirms my need/want) and they refund me all the price differences between the two plans for this month.

Since I saved (when I decided to buy something, I allocate budgets, if I get that particular thing at a cheaper price, I’ll assume I ’saved’ some money, just my own policy) $35 per year now, I decided to get myself a paid photo-hosting account. For all this time, Flickr is my first and only choice. I was impressed by Flickr for long, but I found Smugmug.Com recently. Continue Reading…

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Sep 30

Fun Photoshop Development Kits by Bartelme Design

Posted in: Inspiring Websites, Photoshop (web and gfx designing)

I was wandering around the web design community and blogs, looking for new Wordpress theme since I decided to give my blog a re-design after AS level (partly due to the Wordpress 2.3). I didn’t get to spend enough time on my blog last time (due to exams and etc), and I hope I do have enough time to learn to develop my own Wordpress theme (TeddY help!). =D

P.S: And there’s still re-design of Vrien-Den.Com. xD

Anyway, I came across these fun devkit (development kit) created by Bartelme Design. It’s basically a .psd (photoshop) file, which you can easily customize it to our own liking. They create a couple devkits, and my favourite is the flag button devkit and Smiley devkit.

Here’s what I did with ‘em:

Brunei blogger button created using Bartelme Design flag button devkit. Continue Reading…

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Sep 21

Facebook Applications (FSX, CS & etc) Addiction & Mock Exams AKA Doom’s Day

Posted in: Facebook, Inspiring Websites, Web 2.0

This is going to be my last post before my mock exam (some started yesterday, mine starts on Saturday - Thinking Skills paper 1). =) Well, had been spending most of my time on Facebook (damn it!) and doing documentation for my computing project. Finished 80% of my Computing project documentation, around 50 pages (some of my classmates hit 100 pages, freak). It’s a very tedious work, I printscreen more than a hundred times, and half of the time I need to paste it in Microsoft Paint, and crop it, =S

What I hate even more is that I always tend to be distracted by Facebook when I am doing it! What to do? I am working on a laptop, and there’s espeed… Facebook is just a single couple clicks away! Continue Reading…

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Sep 08

Quit Friendster! All Hail Facebook!

Posted in: Inspiring Websites, Photo-Sharing, Web 2.0, Web Development

Hello fellow blog-ders (blog readers, according to XiaXue), sorry for being on a hiatus for the past 2 weeks, I think I photoblog too much that I am a bit lazy to do some typing, hehe. And life had been quite busy with all the homeworks, ECAs and computing project (urgh!). =(

Anyway, I am very happy now because I tried Facebook just now, and I am totally in love with it! I am an internet-geek because I fall in love with (good) websites as much as I do with (pretty) girls! =) You can see my previous ‘crush’ - Flickr , NinjaWords, Google Analytics, Flock (not a website, a web browser) and etc. =D

P.S: Maybe, I think I should update my list of “25(1213) Site (we)I Can’t Live Without”, hehe.

Ok, let’s get straight to the point. Well, Facebook is one of the most popular social networking website. According to Alexa ranking, it’s the 10th most visited website, while MySpace, the most popular social networking site on Earth sits at 6th place, and Orkut, the invitation-based social networking site by Google ends up at 7th place.

Facebook is highly recommended by a lot of people over the web (in blogs, forums and etc), and there’s a lot of good reviews about it, but it’s not very popular in Asia (not yet) because it’s specifically geared for colleges and universities students(particularly in US, Europe, Australia and etc) at first. However, it’s now available for high school students and everyone too! =) Continue Reading…

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