TechTarik.net http://www.techtarik.net Malaysia Tech and Entertainment Blog Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en TechTarik.net http://www.techtarik.net/feed-logo.png http://www.techtarik.net 180 105 TechTarik.net - http://www.techtarik.net Tahukah Anda??? - Waktu Imsak http://www.techtarik.net/2008/09/tahukah-anda-waktu-imsak/ http://www.techtarik.net/2008/09/tahukah-anda-waktu-imsak/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:15:19 +0000 e1d http://www.techtarik.net/?p=137 ShareThis

]]> Tahukah anda bahawa waktu imsak sebenarnya adalah waktu yang menandakan 10 minit sebelum terbit fajar?

Saya pun baru tahu.. huhu.. :P

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Create yours at Hotlink Rewards ClayCam NOW

Go to Hotlink Rewards Claycam website and request anything you want the claymoulder to mould using clay(of course). That ‘Beautiful Purple Rose’ was requested by me and it looked quite nice. Thank you miss/mr claymoulder!

I stumbled upon this Hotlink Rewards Claycam from some advertisement yesterday. I was very impressed because the video of the claymoulder doing his/her job is streaming live. So go to the website today and request yours! No need any registration and it is free of charge!

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]]> http://www.techtarik.net/2008/08/hotlink-rewards-claycam-beautiful-purple-rose/feed/ Pacai Reads My Blog! http://www.techtarik.net/2008/08/pacai-reads-my-blog/ http://www.techtarik.net/2008/08/pacai-reads-my-blog/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:58:39 +0000 e1d http://www.techtarik.net/?p=125 ShareThis

]]> Hehehe… I’m kinda proud because few weeks back when I checked out the comments made by the fellow readers, I found out that Pacai (he is responsible for music score in SEPI) also made a comments on this blog. On his recent comment, he said that the collection for SEPI was pretty disappointing.

I personally think that the reason behind the disappointing collection was the promotion. For me, the movie trailer that was released to be aired on TV was quite unimpressive and unattractive. I came to see the movie at the cinema not because I’m attracted by the promotion, but because of my personal interest with a quality movie made by Kabir Bhatia an his team.

Well, the least thing that SEPI can do now is to win big in FFM21. I hope so.

After pacai, I hope there will be more Malaysian celebrities to read my blog, and I wish someday everybody will read my blog. Who knows the likes of Tun Dr. Mahathir or Britney Spears or Song Hye-kyo or Alexis Bledel or Bea Alonzo will read this blog someday. :D

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]]> http://www.techtarik.net/2008/08/pacai-reads-my-blog/feed/ TechTarik.net is now PageRank 2!!! http://www.techtarik.net/2008/08/techtariknet-is-now-pagerank-2/ http://www.techtarik.net/2008/08/techtariknet-is-now-pagerank-2/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:26:47 +0000 e1d http://www.techtarik.net/?p=118 ShareThis

]]> The increment is not that high, but it is pretty impressive how TechTarik.net PageRank increased from 0 to 2 just after 3 months I started blogging.

The unique visitors and traffic for TechTarik.net has also increased steadily. On June 2008, there are 525 unique visitors came to this blog and a month after that the figure was increased to 1761.

Hopefully TechTarik.net will have a better PageRank in the future and gain even more traffic.

Thank you for supporting TechTarik.net! I’ll try my best to give a better and more regular posting from time to time.

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]]> http://www.techtarik.net/2008/08/techtariknet-is-now-pagerank-2/feed/ Entrecard Gave Me 350ec Credit For a Blog Post http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/entrecard-gave-me-350ec-credit-for-a-blog-post/ http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/entrecard-gave-me-350ec-credit-for-a-blog-post/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:58:04 +0000 e1d http://www.techtarik.net/?p=111 ShareThis

]]> I was surprised when I checked my Entrecard account just now. My Entrecard credit should be just around 200++, but now I got 638ec credit in my Entrecard account. I wonder why… and after checking the transaction history, I found out that Entrecard gave me 350ec credit for a blog post.

That was strange, because as far as I concern I never post any Entrecard related content to this blog… EXCEPT Twitter. I remember that I do Twitt something about Entrecard on Twitter few days ago and I also integrate Twitter plugin to my blog sidebar so that my Twitt post will be displayed on my blog as well.

Here’s my Entrecard related Twitt post :

OMG! I forgot something.. The theme is beautiful, all plugins working, added Twitter on the sidebar, but no place to put Entrecard??? hmm…

If that kind of post can give me 350ec credit, how many Entrecard credit will I earn if I ‘really’ blog about Entrecard??? :D

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]]> http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/entrecard-gave-me-350ec-credit-for-a-blog-post/feed/ I’m Annoyed With Malaysia Online Newspapers http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/im-annoyed-with-malaysia-online-newspapers/ http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/im-annoyed-with-malaysia-online-newspapers/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:04:19 +0000 e1d http://techtarik.net/?p=92 ShareThis

]]> Did you fellow Malaysians realized that Malaysia online newspapers such as The Star Online, Berita Harian Online, Utusan Online and myMetro are getting more annoying lately? It is not because of their news content, but their advertisement.

For example, yesterday when I tried to access myMetro online. Instead of supposedly displaying their main page, these advertisement came out:

Harian Metro online annoying ads

myMetro annoying advertisement No. 1 - This advertisement appeared before the main page.

After annoyingly clicked the close button, only then the real myMetro main page appeared. But the misery doesn’t ends there, because not long after the page finished loading, these appeared:

Harian Metro online annoying advertisement No. 2

myMetro annoying advertisement No. 2 - The Malaysia Airlines System (MAS) advertisement popped out and blocked the site contents.

Same thing happened when I browsed Berita Harian Online:

Berita Harian annoying advertisement - The Malaysia Airlines System (MAS) advertisement popped out and blocked the site contents.

Berita Harian annoying advertisement - The MAS advertisement popped out and blocked the site contents.

…and The Star Online:

The Star Online annoying advertisement - The U Mobile advertisement popped out, and then the MAS advertisement popped out on top of it.

The Star Online annoying advertisement - The U Mobile advertisement popped out, and then the MAS advertisement popped out on top of it.

Lastly, from Utusan Online. For me, this is the most annoying and ‘menyakitkan hati’ advertisement ever. It is a Nissan Slyphy advertisement. Why is it annoying? Because it is a video! AND it is auto-played! We are forced to watch the video and hear the shocking audio!

Utusan Online annoying advertisement - The video automatically play.

Utusan Online annoying advertisement - The video automagically plays.

Yes, we can close the popping out advertisement and stop the auto playing video. But, internet is not as same as television. In television, viewers doesn’t give input, they just watch whatever output broadcasted by the tv channel. While on internet, users gives input and choose whatever they want to do or see or listen, and hate it so much when they are forced to do or see or listen to something. Think about it, make internet a better place.. wahaha.. I’m just kidding about the last sentence.. Sounds like Bono U2 for internet :P

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As you can see, this blog is now running on Brancast theme.

It is not the same as the original braincast theme, I’ve made some modification on it to suit my taste. This theme is supposed to be a greenish looking theme, but I’ve decided to change it to a blueish looking theme. :D After modifying it for 3 weeks, here’s the result. I hope I can name this theme Blue Braincast or something else, but the theme owner might not allow it.

So what do you think? This theme looks great right? hehe..

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I just upgraded my TechTarik.net blog to Wordpress version 2.6 today. I don’t upgrade my blog right away after the release of Wordpress 2.6 simply because I want to make sure that Wordpress 2.6 is stable enough and not conflicting with my installed plugins and theme.

After testing it for a few days, I found out that Wordpress 2.6 has so many enhancements that really impress me. Plus, the new theme that this blog is using now (Braincast) and all of my blog plugins are compatible with it.

(Edit: It seems like this theme got some problem when previewing unpublished post. hmm… I wonder…)

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]]> http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/just-upgraded-to-wordpress-26/feed/ Kuching Star Cineplex Sucks! & Wanted (2008) Movie Review http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/kuching-star-cineplex-sucks-wanted-2008-movie-review/ http://www.techtarik.net/2008/07/kuching-star-cineplex-sucks-wanted-2008-movie-review/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:48:54 +0000 e1d http://techtarik.net/?p=34 ShareThis

]]> Wanted (2008) Movie Poster

After watching the movie trailer on YouTube, I cannot resist the temptation. So I finally went to Kuching Star Cineplex last night to see Wanted. The movie should start at 12.50 AM, but after 12.50 AM we’re still waiting to enter the cinema hall. My friends and I finished the jumbo sized popcorn and the soft drink that I bought earlier and we’re still waiting outside the Hall 2 of the cinema (that shows how long we have waited!).

We’re entered the cinema hall not long after we finished our popcorn and drinks. So I thought the torture ends there, but hell no!! After we enter the cinema hall, the time is 1.00 AM, I expect the movie to start soon, but they showed other movie trailers instead, and another, and another, plus KFC advertisement, plus some more movie trailer… They showed us at least 10 movie trailers before the real movie (Wanted) screening!! What the hell??? To Kuching Star Cineplex, if I want to watch a movie trailers I’ll just watch it on YouTube or TV. I don’t want to spend 30 minutes before the movie start just to watch movie trailers! I don’t want a movie that should start at 12.50 AM to start at 1.30 AM just because of tonnes of movie trailers!

Enough with the Kuching Star Cineplex. Here’s my movie review for Wanted (2008) :
Wanted Exclusive Trailer

  1. Great intros. A man jumped heroically from one building to another and killed every snipers on that other building while he’s in the air. You will see an introduction to a “Curving Shot” when that man killed one of the sniper with a curving shot.
  2. Great stunt. From start to the end of this movie you will be fascinated with a mind blowing stunts that will always make you say - “Wow!”.
  3. Cool weapons. Specially carved bullets and guns? How cool is that?
  4. Angelina Jolie. Do I need to explain? :P
  5. They got their wanted list from a sewing machine?? If that sewing machine is as cool looking as “Lord of The Rings” ring, I don’t mind. But that sewing machine looks like an ordinary sewing machine to me, too ordinary.
  6. Too many illogical facts. I don’t like the storyline, and I don’t want to explain further to prevent spoilers.

So, what’s good for me are the great intros, great stunts, cool weapons and Angelina Jolie. The bad parts are the sewing machine and too many illogical parts.

Just 7 out of 10 stars for Wanted.

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]]> After considering, budgeting, considering again, and budgeting again, and again.. I finally came out with a decision to change TechTarik.net current theme to this awesomely looking premium theme, it’s the Braincast Theme designed by Storelicious & InfectedFX :

TechTarik.net New Theme - Braincast Theme

Wow.. I can’t help it.. TechTarik.net looks awesome with Braincast theme. :P

But I’ll not change this blog theme to Braincast yet until I finish my personal customization and “bug hunting expedition” with the Braincast theme so that it will be compatible with any kind of web browsers out there starts from Internet Explorer 6.

I’ve found some bugs with the theme when viewed in IE6, posted it on their support forum and within 24 hours they provide me with the fix. Very-very impressive..

I expect TechTarik.net will start using this theme by the end of this month (July 2008).

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