There’s no more separate version of WordPress, starting with WordPress 3.0, the former WordPress MU that hosts multi-user blogs on one site is merged with the streamline version of WordPress. To promise faster update and easy integration, the merger is a welcomed addition to vanilla WordPress.

The latest version of BuddyPress, WordPress’ Social Networking plugin has already reached 1.2.5.2 and can be downloaded here:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.2.5.2.zip

with the Indonesian language file here:
http://i18n.svn.buddypress.org/id_ID/branches/1.2/buddypress-id_ID.mo

Have fun!

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Version 1.2.4.1 is ready for download, go to buddypress.org now and grab a copy!

The BP 1.2.4.1 Indonesian localization can be downloaded at id.buddypress.org.

Enjoy!

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1. BuddyPress version 1.2 Version 1.2 is ready for download, go to buddypress.org now...

Version 1.2 is ready for download, go to buddypress.org now and grab a copy!

We now have a BuddyPress Indonesia local blog at id.buddypress.org.

More Info on BuddyPress 1.2 please visit BP Indonesia blog:

• http://id.buddypress.org/2010/02/17/buddypress-versi-1-2/
• Locale MO & PO Files: http://i18n.svn.buddypress.org/id_ID/branches/1.2/

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Okay, for some of us, computer geeks, techies or whatever else they call us, some of our daily chores are installing new applications and of course updating them.

Well, fear no more, this task is like taking a trip to the local park. You don’t have to personally visit the author’s website and download the applications one by one.

For example if you need web browsers like Firefox and Opera, IM Yahoo Messenger, Music player WinAmp, and OpenOffice for your PC. You can use “Ninite” to do the task.

All you have to do is visit ninite’s website at www.ninite.com and choose which applications that you want to include to your ninite installer.
And then what you need to do next is run the ninite installer on the designated PC. That’s it. Quite simple, eh?

To prevent redownloading the same application components over and over again when you’re using ninite to install several PCs, you can use this small config file. Just create a file called “ninite.ini” on your ninite folder (the place you save the ninite exectuable) with the following:

[Cache]
path=<your ninite.exe folder, you can use a writeable network path for this>

Omit the “<” and “>”.’

Okay, hope that helps.

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Our sister site, buzzdsign.com, has undergone a major makeover, please take a look.

Buzz provides user-friendly web design and development, so if you’d ever need a website or need to redesign your site, feel free to contact them.

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Meet the “Fail Whale”…

The Fail Whale, originally entitled "Lifting up a Dreamer" by Yiying Lu

the image that is shown when the infamous micro-blogging site, Twitter, is overloaded.
For those of you who are not familiar with Twitter, it is a social networking site where users can post a 140-character long of sentences, to express and announce anything from the party they’re gonna attend or about the movie that they just watched, pretty much like your facebook.com‘s status updates or the karma-driven plurk entries at plurk.com.

Twitter is currently down for unplanned maintenance *doh*?

Most sites show a relatively boring and annoying “not found” and “site currently down” page to their users during down time or when their user stumble upon a broken link.

Twitter, however, chose to express empathy to their users during down time. Biz Stone, a Twitter founder, chose an illustration, that best illustrates the teamwork at Twitter working to resolve the problem, on iStockPhoto a while back.

The Fail Whale Artist, Yiying Lu, photo by Nick Cubbin

The image is an image of a flock of birds (associated with the Twitter bird) are lifting a smiling whale from the ocean. The effect was found so effective and so touching. The users are entertained by the cute smiling whale being lifted by the flock of birds, instead. Some users suggested that they give the whale a name. Later the whale finally got a name: “Fail Whale”, a name coined by one of the fans and twitter users.

The Fail Whale

The “fail whale” became so popular, that it spawned lots of fans, fan sites, fan pages and groups. One fan, even contacted the original creator of the “fail whale”, Ms. Yiying Lu to inform her of her work that is now popular among twitter users world-wide. Ms. Lu, who at first is unaware of Twitter when she first created and uploaded the illustration to iStockPhoto, suddenly has gained a lot of supporters and fans of her artwork. I can only imagined the surprise and the excitement she felt when she found out that her work is used on a very famous micro-blogging site.

Soon, fans found out the real back story of the “fail whale”, which was originally named “Lifting Up a Dreamer” and was intended as an e-card for her friend overseas. Ms. Lu suddenly became as famous as her friendly smiling whale.

You can find many articles about her and her whales all over the news and the internet:

• How Fail Whale Became a Hit @ Sydney Morning Herald
• Twitter, Twitter, little Star @ Australia’s Sunday Life
• ‘FailWhale’ Gives Frustrated Twitterers Something to Smile About @ Wired
• A Successful Failure, Fail Whale @ The New York Times

Fans fell in love with the whale and instead of frowns, the cute whale made people smile during down time. So you can really call it a failure, can’t you? Because it really served its purpose and grew into a global icon. Not only that, many “fail whale” t-shirts and mugs have been sold to numerous of fans.

Lessons Learned

So, you have to remember that being famous and successful is perhaps only a click away in this era. Just remember the fail whale. “Success” is only a swim or a lift away from “failure”, just keep smiling.

Check out some of the sites about the “Fail Whale”:

• “What is Fail Whale?” by Yiying Lu
• The Fail Whale Fan Club
• Fail Whale Facebook Fan Page
• Fail Whale Twitter Page

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Your crying for help has been heard. Here’s the solution you need

Those who just transferred their work from previous version of Photoshop into newest CS4 might have been confused that there are several plug-ins and preset that have gone missing. Prominently the function of extract under filters menu that has disappeared along transition from predecessor CS3 to present CS4. Fear no more, these missing plug-ins and presets can be downloaded and installed individually or you may find them in your Goodies folder on your DVD install disc. If you don’t have any, here is the link to download the file:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4048

This download includes 32-bit and 64-bit plug-ins for Photoshop CS4 English, Spanish and French versions. The following plug-ins and associated files are included in this package:

• Bigger Tiles
• Picture Package (ContactSheetII)
• ExtractPlus
• PatternMaker
• PhotomergeUI
• Web Photo Gallery (WebContactSheetII) plus presets
• script for Layer Comps to Web Photo Gallery
• Texture presets for Texturizer

Also included is the Optional Plug-Ins ReadMe.

After extracting the file, be sure to copy and paste individual item into its destination folder in your hard disk as need arises.

For example: You will find ExtractPlus under folder:

Adobe CS4 > Photoshop Content > English > Goodies > Optional Plug-ins > Plug-ins 32bit > Filters

Copy and paste the file into:

Program Files > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Plug-ins > Filters

You may copy and paste both ExtractPlus.8BF and PatternPlus.8BF which located in the same source and destination folder. In this example, I work under 32bit and English interface. For fear of redundancy, there is an assumption though that those files that haven’t been included in CS4 original package are candidates for removal in next coming up version. Let see what happen next.

Cheers!

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Celebrating World Environment Day,

an UN (United Nations) programme to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. A 90-minute film beautifully shot and made by filmmakers Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Luc Besson. You’ll see the wonders of Earth (the shots were beautiful and breath-taking, I thought I was looking at a painting, wow!) and the damage made on Earth by humanity. It is a reminder and a “soft” wake up call for us living on Earth, especially with the apparent global-warming and climate change we are up against now. Official Site: http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html

You can view the movie on YouTube FREE in HD format until June 14, 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=related

Trailer:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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