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Two days ago, out of nowhere, a particular table in the WordPress in hongkiat.com went corrupted. The ‘wp_comments‘ table of the WordPress database just crashed without signs, warnings nor error messages. So how did I came to know? Here are the symptoms: If you try to back up your database, … Continue reading »

Touch systems have been long used in kiosks, ticketing systems or even amusement park game machines. These are not rocket science but somehow a year back when Apple launches iPhone, it gains popularity and also increases the interest of end users towards multi touch system/devices. Also a year ago, Microsoft … Continue reading »

By the name of the application, you might think it’s something Web 2.0 yet has got something to do with foods. Snackr, in fact is a RSS reed reading application developed with Adobe AIR. What makes Snackr so special is the way it display feeds. This feed reader displays feeds … Continue reading »

[Mac only] Apple Mac has just released their latest update for Mac OS X Leopard – the 10.5.3. Any version from 10.5* should really take up the time to do the update for the sake of compatibility, stability and security. Mac says the products affected on this 10.5.3 update are … Continue reading »

uFacebook is a uTorrent Facebook application. Think of it as a online torrent control; you get to do all sort of things via a Facebook app. For instance, initiate & pause any downloads, search for torrents all inside Facebook. uFacebook also has the ability to upload torrent from your local … Continue reading »

This is the bird you see on the Twitter.com notice page when the site is down. Some even has got arrows on them. I’m not sure if it’s real but the bird sure looks cute to me. Anyway, this somehow inspires me to do some design with it. Here’s 2 … Continue reading »

3 giveaways were done in the last few weeks, here comes the 4th also the last for this month of May. This week’s prizes is sponsored Exabytes, a local Malaysian web hosting company. Hosting more than 20,000 domains in more than 120 countries around the globe, they are one of … Continue reading »

Fear of change is probably the biggest reason holding PC users back from trying a Mac, but my observation after talking to few PC user friends, apparently cost seems to be another big factor too. In Malaysia, you’ll get a fairly good laptop at the price of RM $2000 (USD … Continue reading »

Earlier today, folks at Adobe released 3 applications of the Creative Suite 4 (CS4) line-up, respectively the Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. These applications are available for download and test drive over at Adobe Lab. For Dreamweaver and Fireworks, you can enjoy full version for at least 2 days, and for … Continue reading »

The USB flash di sks of today are a very efficient and excellent solution files sharing, carrying around or even backup. However, each coin has 2 sides Because USB Flash Drive are designed to be small in terms of size (and light too!), it is also easy to misplace or … Continue reading »

At the point this article was created, Adobe Photoshop CS3 still cost about USD $649 per copy. I think it’s safe to say that not everyone will afford to get a copy or willing to get a copy if all one need to do is just basic image editing stuff. … Continue reading »

If you love IronMan, chances are you’ll love the wallpapers too. And for those who owns a Sony Ericsson mobile phone, here’s something more. Folks at Furizu.net created some cool IronMan theme for your phone and it comes in 3 different screen sizes – 240×320, 176×220 and 126×100. The creator … Continue reading »

Video blogging (or vblogging) is definitely nothing new, but the chase towards this type of blogging has been significantly increasing. With the demands, there comes the supply; WordPress theme designers are beginning to develop themes specific for video bloggers and lately some among the top tiers are releasing nice premium … Continue reading »

We can reach the purpose of protecting some private files by hiding a certain folder. But what if we have 1000 confidential folders in a hard drive? It would probably take us a whole day to browse, select and hide it one by one. In order to get through with … Continue reading »