Ivan Kristianto Blog

DB Cache Reloaded Fix v2.2.4 Released

Ivan Kristianto — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:27:12 +0000

I’m happily to announce DB Cache Reloaded Fix v2.2.4. For you who don’t know DB Cache Reloaded Fix, it’s a WordPress plugin to cache the queries made to the database whereas improve your WordPress blog performance. It’s not originally mine, but it is a fork from the old DB Cache Reloaded which not compatible since [...]

Google Nexus With Android Ice Cream

Ivan Kristianto — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:57:43 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_ke3rxopc Google together with Samsung launched the new Android Smartphone, so called Google Nexus. First launched in Hongkong Wednesday, 19 September 2011. This is the first smartphone using the new Google Android 4.0 “Ice Cream”. Using the same hardware technology as the Samsung Galaxy S2, but with the new OS. I haven’t use this smartphone [...]

iPhone 4s, High Features Low Cost

Ivan Kristianto — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:21:16 +0000

The Apple Inc, just announced iPhone 4s a couple days ago. Instead of releasing iPhone 5, they release the iPhone 4s instead. Even there are many speculations before that Apple would release the iPhone 5 this year. What is the reason behind that, i don’t know yet. But from my point of view that Apple [...]

Good Bye Steve Jobs, We will miss you

Ivan Kristianto — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:32:50 +0000

Today i hear a shocking sad news from the Facebook wall stream. Almost all my friends say condolences to Steve Jobs, and that soon i realize that Steve Jobs passed away. Steve Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011), is the man with vision and crazy idea, who invented countless technology in his [...]

TimThumb Zero Day Vulnerability

Ivan Kristianto — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:24:43 +0000

TimThumb, a small php script to resize and crop images on the fly which being use by many WordPress themes (usually premium WordPress themes such as elegantthemes) all over the net. This script has been compromised with zero day vulnerability. This blog and my other blog which using TimThumb also being hacked and injected with [...]

Internet Cable All Over The World

Ivan Kristianto — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:22:31 +0000

Do you know that our internet use Cable (fibre optic cable) plant underwater across countries and oceans? Yes mostly our internet traffic are flowing between countries travels through underwater cables. Thanks to Greg Mahlknecht for such a great mapping on internet cable all over the globe and make draw it on Google Map. He use [...]

Google+ Community Black Ads

Ivan Kristianto — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:15:08 +0000

Google+ release on June 28, 2011 and now as i’m writing this it is exceed 10 Millions users and growing fast. People maybe get bored for Facebook and need fresh air. Google+ is the come at the right time and also it is supported by the members. I gathered some of the community black ads [...]

Facebook Thumbnail Image

Ivan Kristianto — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:00:58 +0000

Here come a question from my Facebook fans regarding Facebook thumbnail image: Facebook Thumbnail Image Sample Facebook Thumbnail Image Explanation First we need to find out what cause the issue. Facebook script trying to parse your web page and looking for the right image for the thumbnail. But most of the time it is fail [...]

Facebook Now Have Video Call

Ivan Kristianto — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:20:04 +0000

Not long after Google+ limited release to public and it’s booming on the net. And everybody talk about the Hangout features which is a group video call chat and sharing. And now Facebook release their own video call and group chat in return to Google+ hangout. Here Facebook use Skype technologies, as Skype now integrate [...]

WordPress 3.2 Review

Ivan Kristianto — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:59:30 +0000

WordPress 3.2 was launched this 4th July 2011, this update have some new interesting features. After heavy testing on my testing environment of this blog, i decided to upgrade my blog to use WordPress 3.2. And the result i like the new UI style, probably i’m getting a little bored for the old style. Plugins [...]

Google+ Review and Facebook Comparison

Ivan Kristianto — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:54:09 +0000

Google+ (read: Google plus) is one of the Google product for social networking. Google+ was launched in June 28, 2011 and as i am writing this article, this service is not available for public yet, only the invited user could join Google+. And i got lucky to received the invitation from my friends. Google+ use [...]

Optimize Image Size With Photoshop

Ivan Kristianto — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:57:37 +0000

Images have important role for web design, but in the other hand unoptimized images could be a nightmare for your bandwidth. We need to optimize image size for our web design. Please bear in mind that, your visitors love fast loading web page rather than fancy but take a long time just to see your [...]

Firefox 5 Now Available For Download Via FTP

Ivan Kristianto — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:20:04 +0000

Firefox 5 is now available for download, but only via FTP. Even it is says Firefox 5 or major update, but Firefox 5 look identical than its predecessor Firefox 4. The only major feature added is Tracking feature, you can find it in Firefox menu > Options > Privacy tab > select “Tell web sites [...]

Web Browser Benchmark Tools

Ivan Kristianto — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:37:46 +0000

Acid3 is a web browser benchmark tools to test whether the web browser meet the web standard compliance. This web browser benchmark tools is easy to use and very handy. Acid3 is developed by The Web Standards Project to test web browser standard compliance. The compliance criteria require that the test is run with a [...]

Voice Search and Search By Images Now Available at Google

Ivan Kristianto — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:32:37 +0000

Voice search and search by images is the new features by Google. It’s like a dream come true. I was thinking this long time ago when i have image of unknown animal and i would like to know what is it. At the time i was ask it in forums and some people gave me [...]