Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Best Christmas Jokes

Today is sunny and warm Christmas in Indonesia. I'm at Mozes Kilangin Airport Timika (TIM) on the way to Denpasar Bali (DPS) with Garuda Indonesia GA-653 to celebrate Christmas with my family from Yogyakarta (JOG). But no Christmas is complete without some terrible cracker jokes, and this one is my favourite.

It's a romantic full moon in Bali, Indonesia, when Slamet said, "Hey Sri, let's do Weeweechu."

"Oh no, not now, let's look at the moon!" said Rosita.

"Oh, c'mon baby, let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it's the perfect time," Slamet begged.

"But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon." replied Sri.

"Please, darling, just once, do Weeweechu with me."

Sri looked at Slamet and said, "OK, one time, we'll do Weeweechu."

Slamet grabbed his guitar and they both sang...

"Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year."

I wish you happy holidays full of warmth. To the moments of reflection for a moment to stop and see what you can not see the go - a simple joy because Jesus was born for us.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Missing hccutils.dll and igfxtray.exe Windows 8.1 Pro Samsung Series 9

After upgraded to Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro, my Samsung Series 9 got error missing hccutils.dll and igfxtray.exe and then the VGA driver software rollback to Windows basic driver. I tried to find Intel HD Graphics 4000 driver for Samsung Series 9 and there is no new driver in Samsung that already support Windows 8.1. So I downloaded the latest driver for Windows 8.1 from Intel Download Center and extract the ZIP version because the EXE version won’t install the driver to my Samsung Series 9. The EXE version always ask me to download from manufacturer website (Samsung) and there is no new version of driver in Samsung website like I wrote before.
From This PC in Windows Explorer, right click and select Properties.
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Go to Device Manager
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Select Display Adapters: Intel ® HD Graphics 4000 then right click and select Update Driver Software.
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Select Browse my computer for driver software and select folder where the extracted version of Intel HD Graphics 4000 located.
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Then the new version of driver successfully installed and the error gone.

Windows 8.1 BSOD DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (ndis.sys)

After upgrade my Samsung Series 9 with Windows 8.1, I got blue screen error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (ndis.sys). I suppose that the problem was in network driver. After tried to reinstall network driver, the same problem was still there.

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Then I tried to uninstall Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and everything going normal. Then I upgrade old KIS 2013 to KIS 2014 and my Windows 8.1 work like a charm.

Do you have similar problem with me?

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Minimum Number of Pages Required for Google Adsense

How many pages required by Google for Adsense? I'm not Adsense expert but sometimes my friends who learn to create a web page ask me about Adsense to earn money for ads placement in their websites.

Google don't give the minimum amount of pages required to join Adsense, but it is important that Google need pages with high quality content. The website must contains plenty of rich information that includes relevant keywords, used appropriately, that indicate the subject matter of the content.

The website that may will be banned from Google Adsense include:

Autogenerated content
Automatically generated content is content that’s been generated by computer program or script. Often this will consist of paragraphs of random text that makes no sense to the reader but which may contain search keywords.

Doorway pages
Doorway pages are typically large sets of poor-quality pages where each page is optimized for a specific keyword or phrase. In many cases, doorway pages are written to rank for a particular phrase and then funnel users to a single destination.

  • Having multiple domain names targeted at specific regions or cities that funnel users to one page
  • Templated pages made solely for affiliate linking
  • Multiple pages on your site with similar content designed to rank for specific queries like city or state names

Scraped content and thin affiliate sites
Scaped content is content taken from other sites to increase the volume of pages on a website. Example of thin affiliate sites:

  • Sites that copy and republish content from other sites without adding any original content or value
  • Sites that copy content from other sites, modify it slightly (e.g.: by substituting synonyms or using automated system), and republish it
  • Sites that reproduce content feeds from other sites without providing some type of unique organization or benefit to the user
  • Sites dedicated to embedding content such as video, images, or other media from other sites without substantial added value to the user

It is important for a site displaying AdSense to offer significant value to the user by providing unique and relevant content, and not to place ads on auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content.  Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through your pages and find the information they are seeking.

So, it's not a question of the number of pages, it's the content that is contained within them. If you still ask me about how many pages required for Google Adsense, maybe in my humble opinion, I can say that 6 month worth of daily posts with original content is good for the start.

Source:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66361

How to Add a XML Sitemap to Blogger (Blogspot) Blog

A site map is a list of pages of a web site accessible to users or crawlers. An XML Sitemap is a structured format to tells the search engine about the pages in your site, their relative importance to each other, and how often they are updated. The default XML sitemap file hosted on Blogger will have only the 26 most recent blog posts. There’s however a simple solution to fix the problem.

You don’t need to use sitemap generator. Just use this as your Blogger sitemap.

http://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=50000

Change BLOGNAME with your Blogspot subdomain name. Or, if you use your own domain on Blogger, just change whole domain “BLOGNAME.blogspot.com” with yours. I assume that maximum sitemap size in your Blogger is 50,000 posts, since maximum pages allowed in 1 sitemap file in Google is 50,000 pages, but you can change the limit with your own. But, if you are single poster with original content, it will be very hard to reach that amount of posts.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Air Traffic Jam in Jakarta Indonesia

Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Jakarta (Tangerang, Banten) is busiest airport in Indonesia with more (or almost?) than 1000 take-off landing everyday. I just got picture posted by my friend Michael Sambur in his Facebook account when (maybe) he ready to take-off to somewhere.

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Air traffic jam not only happen in Indonesia. Changi Airport SIngapore as one of busiest hub in South East Asia also got air traffic jam. I ever fly from Kuala Lumpur (KUL) to Singapore (SIN) with Jetstar and when approaching SIngapore, pilot said that we will go around about 10 minutes waiting for landing queue. I was on the flight From Jakarta (CGK) to Yogyakarta (JOG) this year by Garuda Indonesia when we go around for about 30 minutes on the air and pilot said that it was because no parking slot available at the airport, so we wait for another aircraft to take-off. I ever on the taxiway for more than 40 minuter just wait to take-off for 50 minutes flight. That’s not included with traffic jam on the way to Jakarta airport that make me spend more than 3 hours on the road for just 40 km distance.

That was a lot of fuel burn. With fuel consumption is about 50 litres per minute for narrow body aircraft like Boeing 737-800 or Airbus A-320, 10 minutes delay on air will make airline spend more than USD 500 just to burn fuel. This is just for 1 aircraft with mid size. What happen if it’s more than 100 aircraft and with bigger size?

With risk of flight delays and cancellations are at an all-time high, I think the airport authority need to have more runway and more terminal building to serve more aircraft. Or maybe we just need more airport?

What Are the Limitations of a Blogger Account

I just convert my old blog from self-hosted Wordress to Blogger because it easier to maintenance and also free and I can use my own domain. After use Blogger for a while, I were wondering about about what a single Blogger / Blogspot account will hold. From their website, I got the following information.

Number of Blogs
Users can have multiple blogs in their account, but the limit is the user can have maximum up to 100 blogs per account.

Number of Posts
Blogger don't give limit on the number of posts on one blog. So you can write everything without fear that you will reach maximum posts. Anyway, blog posting that considered spam usually can make your website banned.

Size of Posts
Individual posts do not have a specific size limit, but very large posts may run you up against the page size limit. (See the next item.)

Size of Pages
Individual pages (the main page of your blog, or your archive pages) are limited to 1 MB in size. This will allow for a few hundred pages of text, but it may be a problem if you are listing hundreds of posts on the front page of your blog. If you hit this limit, you will see an error message saying "006 Please contact Blogger Support." You can get around this error by lowering the number of posts on your main page, which will have the added benefit of making your page load faster as well.

Number of Comments
A post can have any number of comments. As with archived posts, if you choose to hide comments on your blog, all pre-existing comments will remain saved on your account.

Number of Pictures
Up to 1 GB of total storage, shared with Picasa Web. You can get more space by buy addedd storage from Google.

Size of Pictures
I got no problem when tried to post with big images that more than 1 MB. But they said if you are posting pictures through Blogger Mobile there is a limit of 250K per picture.

Team Members
There is a limit of 100 members per blog.

Number of Labels
Up to 2000 unique labels per blog and 20 per post.

I just convert my old blog from self-hosted Wordress to Blogger because it easier to maintenance and also free and I can use my own domain. After use Blogger for a while, I were wondering about about what a single Blogger/Blogspot account will hold. From their website, I got the following information.

Number of Blogs
Users can have multiple blogs in their account, but the limit is the user can have maximum up to 100 blogs per account.

Number of Posts
Blogger don't give limit on the number of posts on one blog. So you can write everything without fear that you will reach maximum posts. Anyway, blog posting that considered spam usually can make your website banned.

Size of Posts
Individual posts do not have a specific size limit, but very large posts may run you up against the page size limit. (See the next item.)

Size of Pages
Individual pages (the main page of your blog, or your archive pages) are limited to 1 MB in size. This will allow for a few hundred pages of text, but it may be a problem if you are listing hundreds of posts on the front page of your blog. If you hit this limit, you will see an error message saying "006 Please contact Blogger Support." You can get around this error by lowering the number of posts on your main page, which will have the added benefit of making your page load faster as well.

Number of Comments
A post can have any number of comments. As with archived posts, if you choose to hide comments on your blog, all pre-existing comments will remain saved on your account.

Number of Pictures
Up to 1 GB of total storage, shared with Picasa Web. You can get more space by buy additional storage from Google.

Size of Pictures
I got no problem when tried to post with big images that more than 1 MB. But they said if you are posting pictures through Blogger Mobile there is a limit of 250K per picture.

Team Members
There is a limit of 100 members per blog.

Number of Labels
Up to 2000 unique labels per blog and 20 per post.

Blog Description
Limited to 500 characters, with no HTML. Adding additional characters or HTML may cause it to revert to a previous setting.

"About Me" Profile Information
Maximum of 1,200 characters.

Profile Interests and Favorites
Maximum of 2,000 characters in each field.

The conclusion, I don't too worry with the limitation, because from the history of my posts, since year 2005 I never reach more than 1000 blog posts.

Source:
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/42348?hl=en

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

How to Add Multiple Blogs to Windows Live Writer 2011

Windows Live Writer is easy tool to post blog content. It support almost all of blog system. It can manage multiple blog accounts, so blog owner can manage more than one blog in Windows Live Writer. I got Windows Live Writer by default in the installation of Windows 8, so I don’t need to install again.

To add blog, just go to File > Options > Accounts, or you can get the shortcut menu like in the picture bellow.

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Next, I think the menu is intuitive. You can follow the next direction on Windows Live Writer. Happy blogging!

How to Change Profile Picture in WhatsApp for Blackberry z10

I use WhatsApp to connect with my friends using Blackberry Z10. After few month using the device, I realized that I need to change my personal profile picture in my WhatsApp account.

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In WhatsApp the steps is very simple, just swept down from the top of Blackberry Z10 screen.

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Then go to Settings, select Profile Info, select Profile Photo to take a new profile picture or upload a photo from media gallery. You also can select Name to change the name that is visible to your contacts.