Steady positioning of Ipod Earphones in your Ear using Facial Cotton
Posted on May 14, 2007
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Do you ever have a problem with iPod’s stock earphones? I mean for you who has big ear holes surely know what I’m talking about. Yup, those teeny-weenie small earphones seems does not fit with your ear holes. You got this huge ear holes yet they only produce small earphones for iPods.
Well, the default workaround is to use the stock black ear buds that comes with iPods. This will make the diameter of the earphones a bit larger so it can fit your big ass ear holes. But you know the problem with those black ear buds? It isn’t as firm as you think. When you covered your earphones with it, it tends to loose itself at times. And most of the times you won’t notice until it gone. Well you can replace it of course, Apple always give you two sets of spare ear buds. But it only a matter of time until the case above resolute again.
There is another method. When you can’t (or won’t) use an ear bud, you can use a facial cotton to fill-in the gap between your ear holes and the earphones. What? Facial cotton? Are you serious? Yup! In fact I am.
Just put your earphones in your ear. Plug it as firm as necessary then scrap a little cotton and put it where the gaps between your ear hole and earphone are. Don’t put to much cotton or you’ll end up like some guy/girl who has an ear problems or something.
Yes, it might look weird and it probably won’t be comfortable when you’re the kind of people who like to plug and unplug the earphones all the time. However, when it comes to steady positioning of earphones it sure does a good job. In addition, you will get a secluded sound environment when you enjoying music from your iPod.
Will CakePHP Bring Back My Soul?
Posted on May 10, 2007
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I remember once wrote a network music crawler using PHP. Made it online and used by some goverment office to search music from their internal networks. They seem to like it, just for an entertainment purpose (or so they say). I missed my coding days. Yes, I’m debugging and hacking someone else’s codes daily (joomla, wordpress, vBulletin, other sort of stuff), but the glorious feeling of being a creator of something useful is far more exciting.
Yesterday, I decided to revisit CakePHP. The PHP’s RoR clone framework. I was once try it in it’s beta stages, I was dissapointed. Now, in it’s Stable-1.1.14.4797 version, it seems had matured enough to develop some large scale application. It use a standard MVC architecture, build-in validation, scaffolding, ACL’s, and some other neat stuff.
Finally, I get my hand dirty again, dealing with bugs again (my own stupid bugs that is). Turn my head upside down to deploy a feature, and other time-wasting-activities, just to fulfill that long-time feeling, being a coder.
Let’s see now, hmm what should I develop? how about a blog application of my own? Now that’s sounds interesting! Okay then, I’ll continue to update about this project in the upcoming posts.
That Old Nintendo Feeling
Posted on May 9, 2007
Filed Under Hardware, Games, Daily Notes | 3 Comments
Last year, I started collecting Nintendo Entertainment System (or what we preferred in the old days just “Nintendo”) ROM’s. I occasionaly got this retro feeling to try stuff from the days of yore.
These days, you could download anything from the net. Started with ROM’s, emulators, 8-bit music, and of course the back end of a NES system, I became a NES junkie. But one thing missing there. I did not own a NES box. I mean, I once owned it, but I gave it to one of my nephews a couple years ago. One decision that would make me regret for the rest of time.
On Sunday, after having a conversation with my cousin, I accidentaly found out that he owns a NES box (damn, why I haven’t asked him before?). So we search it in his closet, Tested it, works fine. Bring it up to my room.Connect the audio/video cable (not surprisingly, it had only two kind of cable), the power adapter, and voila!
He owns two catridges consist of a couple of games (one of it was that infamous ‘n-in-one’ catridge, where they put n number of games, which actually an extraction from some level of games in there, lame yet funny)
“Thank you for saving me, Mario. But our princess is in another castle“
CHIP Forum Down
Posted on May 4, 2007
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Early in the morning, yesterday. I had an extremely bad headache for the lack of sleep that I did in the past several days. The reason? UEFA Champions League 2nd Leg Semifinal. Yeah, what a bummer, Man United did not go through to Athens. Well, at least Liverpool stopped Chelsea for seeing their first Champions League Final.
Okay, so that morning I went to the office just to notice that the forum is down.
Now that’s new…
Made some phone calls, talk to some guys, and the news that I received was quite shocking. It seems the hosting center had a power failure for about 40 minutes the night before. The reason that my server was down was because it doesn’t automatically reboot after the power loss in that hosting center.
Well I know this technical error regarding to the server was somehow unsustainable by my team. But a power failure in one of the biggest data center in Indonesia for that long? that was beyond me. What is the problem guys? don’t you have some sort of back up powers, you surely had it, right? But why was it not working as it suppose to?
I’m not complaining to anybody here, I’m just that curious….
Big sorry for the all the forum members. Really, I am so regretful for this unprecedented events.
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