Internet Time Machine

Remember my post about Google and Yahoo From The Old Time? You didn't think that I made those screen capture from long time ago, did you? Well, in fact I didn't. Going back in time is surely not possible, at least not for now. Luckily, a website called Internet Archive WayBack Machine allows us to blast...

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New Blog Name and Domain

Today is quite a day for me and my blog. I decided to change my blog name from a programmer's thought into a computer geek's blog. The reason is because the old name is not so relevant with the content of my blog. Thus, instead of focusing in programming-related post, I can freely put anything as long...

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Modifying Google Translation Button to Open Translation in New Tab/Window

The translation button from Google has proved to be very useful in most situation (by me), especially since the language detection was introduced. However, I feel that there is something lacking. The problem is that the translation generated replaces the current active window/tab while sometimes I prefer to have another window/tab open. The translation button itself is a JavaScript, so we can play...

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ScribeFire: A Must Have Firefox Addon for Blogger

For the last two years I blog with mostly the same procedure. Open a word processor, write my article, find/create related pictures/videos, collect all required references, login to my blog account, copy-paste my article, format my article, upload/link images/videos, and publish it. Every blog-writing-cycle...

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Wireless Sensor Network and Intelligent Transportation System

This is the third article related to Intelligent Transportation System. You can see the first and second article first if you like to.It is widely known that knowing the position and speed of the vehicles on the road network in real-time is one of the major challenges that vehicle control and traffic management applications are facing [2]. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is considered as a potential...

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Firefox 3, Download it Tomorrow!

Mozilla announces that Firefox 3 will be available on Tuesday, 17 June 2008. Since Mozilla aims for record-breaking, we can help them by downloading Firefox 3, tomorrow... yes tomorrow! Don't forget it! ;Drelated post:Spread Firefox | Download day 2008 (external li...

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Google and Yahoo From The Old Time

Ever wonder how Google and Yahoo looks like years ago?Here they are:Google (1999)Yahoo (1997)Notice that Google has removed the "!" while Yahoo still keeps it. It also quite funny to see how Google feels that it is necessary to explain "Why use Google"...

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Creating Thumbnails from a Video

Usually when you want to share a video, people often ask for screenshots. Sometimes it is better to give several small thumbnails rather than just one big screenshot. This simple tutorial will tell you how to do such thing with ease.First, you will need the Media Player Classic (MPC). It is a free software...

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Why Linux? Why Not?

The Linux Operating System (or should I say GNU/Linux) obviously has become a quite popular alternative to Windows. This site describes 24 advantages of using Linux compared to Windows in a quite eye catching fashion. While some minor point such as "get a great music player" or "keep an eye on the weather"...

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Automated Highway System (AHS)

One of the most exciting part of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is Automated Highway System (AHS). AHS is a way to reduce the congestion in highways. The idea is improving traffic flow and safeties by applying intelligent and automation in driving system. Autonomous control of driving tasks...

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Brainstorming: Designing an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)

Growth in congestion, as well as the difficulties in constructing new infrastructures has lead into a research in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The advances in sensing technologies, computer hardware and software, etc are also become additional motivation in this field of research. Automatic Highway System (AHS) is one of the most interesting topic. Its main idea: platooning is believed...

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