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I have a keypad problem with my old XPhoneII. So, I decide to change it with another smartphone device, Dopod c720w. A GSM smartphone with 320x240 landscape screen, running on Windows Mobile 5 operating system. For us, who familiar with phone flashing, of course, there is a forum to discuss about upgrading its OS to the new WM6. I, personally, don’t want to migrate to WM6 for the time being. Usually, higher WM version, faster CPU speed is needed. If not, we will get a slower OS running in our phone.

Buy from the largets Indonesian community, kaskus with a good price (at least in my opinion, because I did search in the mall, and found no shop is selling this device, and there are some online adv with higher price). My first impression when the real device is coming into my hand is : slim and elegant, which is very different from the feeling that I got when I see it in the web.

And of course, just like my previous mobile phone, what I want to do in the first time is hacking (or tweaking) it. To make it possible, we must : ‘unlock’ the device, so we can modify (or create) registry values with no restriction using this Smartphone Registry Unlock software. If we want to modify the registry throught a script (very useful for mass modification), we can use this RAPIConfig software.

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Finally, I finish my own photoblog gallery plugin for Wordpress MU. What will we get after installing this plugin? We will be able to display the page in a thumbnail format, just like photo gallery. The display will become normal in a single post condition or in admin mode. The advantage of this method is : we still can use all of available theme without any modification needed.

* This plugin is tested under WPMU 2.6.2 only *

Download this file (right click, Save As … rename it to photoblog_gallery.zip), and then extract it. Copy photob_gallery.php into your plugins directory, and plugopt.php into the mu-plugins directory. Yes, there are two plugins : one is the photoblog gallery and the other is plugin options. Plugin Options plugin (sorry for the name), will give us an additional [Plugins Options] sub-menu under Plugins menu. This submenu is usefull to change the plugins option. I make it customizable, so anyone who want to add their own plugin options part can do it very easily.

The plugin will add three option : Gallery Title, Display Format, and Image Type. (Read more details …)

Still about Wordpress MU plugin. I use Donncha’s Sitewide Tags Plugin to display all recent post from the whole users. The problem is, the comment count is displayed in the wrong way. It is always display 0 (zero), even there is a comment in the original post.

Search in the core code, and found this :

return apply_filters('get_comments_number', $count);

in the comment-template.php file. Voila, we can change how WP display the number of comment.

I add these lines into that plugin, and it works very well … Great WP !

function sitewide_tags_get_comments_num($count)
{
  global $blog_id,$wpdb,$post;
  $tags_blog_id = get_site_option('tags_blog_id');
  if (!$tags_blog_id || $blog_id!=$tags_blog_id) return $count;
  $base = $wpdb->base_prefix;
  list($post_blog_id,$post_id) = explode('.', $post->guid);
  $r = $wpdb->get_col(\"SELECT comment_count FROM $base{$post_blog_id}_posts WHERE ID=$post_id\");
  if (is_array($r)) return $r[0];
  return $count;
}
add_filter('get_comments_number', 'sitewide_tags_get_comments_num');

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Terkadang hal (informasi) yang kita anggap sepele buat kita, ternyata bermanfa’at juga bagi orang lain. Jadinya, saya memberanikan diri untuk share sedikit informasi yang mungkin agak basi buat beberapa orang, yaitu mengenai : Wireless MP3 Player untuk Audio di Mobil.

Sometimes, a simple information is still usefull for others. That’s why I like to share a simple information which is probably old for some others : Wireless MP3 Player for Car Audio.

Awalnya, perangkat audio yang ada di mobil yang saya pake, karena tergolong “tua” sama sekali tidak nyaman digunakan, karena tidak ada CD apalagi MP3. Yang ada hanya radio dan tape. Mau nyetel lagu pake tape? Kayaknya sekarang ini lebih susah nyari kaset daripada ngopy file MP3 dech … :p) Akhirnya, beli dech, seperangkat konverter yang bisa dipakai untuk memasukkan suara yang keluar dari MP3 player kecil ke tape mobil lewat kaset. Berbentuk kaset, tetapi ada kabel yang bisa disambung ke audio out perangkat lain.

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Hari Minggu kemaren ada acara di TV yang menjadi salah satu kegemaran saya dan anak saya, yaitu Siaran Langsung MotoGP. Sudah menjadi kebiasaan, setiap kali ada seri MotoGP di TV, saya selalu merekamnya menjadi file, supaya bisa ditonton lagi nantinya. Karena biasanya saya juga share file rekaman tersebut, ke beberapa temen, pernah suatu kali ada seorang temen yang bertanya, “Mas, gimana sih caranya merekam acara yang lagi disiarin ke TV?”.

There is a TV show on the last Sunday, which I and my son always watch, MotoGP Live Show. What I did on every MotoGP series is record the show, save it in the computer, and replay it next time. Some of my friends, who missed the live show, always ask me to share the file. Some of them then ask me, “How did you record a TV show?”.

Untuk merekam acara TV menjadi file, ada beberapa cara yang bisa kita lakukan, sesuai dengan perangkat yang kita miliki. Tetapi terlebih dulu harus dipastikan bahwa TV yang akan kita rekam, mempunyai saluran video OUT, kecuali jika kita menggunakan TV tuner secara langsung.

To record a TV show, there are some ways that we can do, depend on what device that we have. But, the most important thing is, the TV which we use has a Video OUT capability, unless we use a TV tuner directly.
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