I'm moving to new website

Hello All,

This blog will be discontinued.. Sorry. But I'm moving to new location here -> http://samfch.com.

I hope you'll be there to..

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Test post from Android

Just a test post

posted from Bloggeroid

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Opera mail an alternative to mail client for GMail

This is new stuff I used recently, after some failure using some other mail client apps. It's little bit complicated to configure them to used in my gmail account. Then when I explore the Opera website I found this opera mail. Actually Opera mail is built in Opera 10 browser so the good thing is that you don't have to download additional applications to use it. When finished install the Opera browser you can access this opera mail client through mail menu. To configure opera mail to access your gmail account see here. My Gmail account is POP based (I don't know is gmail has IMAP..). First you need to create an account in Opera mail through menu Tools >> Mail and Chat account, then add an email account. After completing the wizard you will be able to use opera mail as Gmail mail client. Here is screenshot sample of my account preference...


well, this application works fine for me.. try it and give me you experiences, feel free for comment..see you on the next post..

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Amazing Blender 3D.. nice new UI... first time experience..

It's been a while since my last used in version 2.49, now Blender 2.5 alpha 0 has released, so many changes, and my first word was "woow".. nice looking UI.. much more like professional 3D suite app. At first used, it's so much confusing me, so much different layout..what great is nice new icon and appearance of whole application. I haven't try all it's features and new features, but mostly some changes have added. For this time, with short used experience, I'll give thumbs up for Blender. Can't wait for 2.6 release... :D. Try Blender..!!!

check out the screenshot :

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Instant Messaging in multiple account with Palringo

Finally I got something to write..haha.. I think this is quite useful information for you who is a chat addict.. This day when I surf and looking for new applications to use in multiple chat account like Y! Messenger, GTalk, and Facebook which is becoming more popular nowadays in my country... I found something interesting, an application I' ve never heard before (or I'm just to late.. :D).. called Palringo. The reason I search for this kind of applications is that for late few days, I've been annoying by Facebook chat taskbar I'm using all this time, which is slow to load and had some delay when messages come almost in the same time. I've used Y! Messenge client installed, but you know, sometime one application for multiple job is better than many applicatons, isn't it. One thing I love from this Palringo is that it has a mobile version to..
Well, I won't too much write here, just try it your self.. You can find Palringo here http://www.palringo.com/en/gb/download/

and here is some screenshots

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Thanks to SUN Microsystems and Google too..

Few days ago during my holiday in my hometown, I got two shipments from Google and Netbeans.org (SUN Microsystems). Google has sent me an account information about activating my Google Adsense payment, and from SUN Microsystems, I got a Netbeans DVD which I've requested about couple weeks ago. Thanks to Netbeans.org for allowing DVD request again. It was litle bit suprising because they came almost in the same time. Yeah.. I'm glad..specially for SUN Microsystems, and within this post I would say Thank You very much for sending me a DVD and giving me one more good stuff to learn java, Thanks a lot... And for Google, I hope I can reach the minimum payment amount for my Adsense, then I will be so glad if you (my blog readers) can help me achieving my goal..hahaha..by clicking one (just once) of my blog adsense..haha..that's all and fell free for comment...

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Wish : Bring AMFPHP Back to Life!!!!

Well, this day I got an interesting article here that compare AMFPHP and Zend_AMF, and what I'm thinking after reading it, is that maybe not a good choice to abandon AMFPHP, but this only my personal opinion, I don't know if you had yours. Personally, I got a good result in using AMFPHP, better than Zend_AMF. The first thing that make AMFPHP better is that no such complex configuration to use it, just copy + paste (or upload) and done... And the service browser is kind of amazing tool. In Zend_AMF, I had a "contrary" experiences, more things to do to get it works fine. And one of the most disturbing thing for me is that I have to access php.ini to install Zend, well, in some of my case I can't just accessing that php.ini file, and until today I got no idea how to install zend without changing the php.ini, or if you know please comment.

AMFPHP, for me, as a newbie in Flex and PHP is a great tool to use. Simple to install and quite small... BTW, I appreciate what Mr. Wade Arnold had chosen, and maybe such a great thing for Zend_AMF development. But as a newbie, I have a wish, please Bring AMFPHP Back to Life!!!! or make Zend_AMF as simple as AMFPHP, thats all...

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Screenshot PDFCollector

In my previous post, I haven't included the screenshot of my app and some of my friends ask me.. how it looks like.. so here it is... my PDFCollector screenshot. For Information, this app haven't tested in mac yet so unfortunately you can only install this app n windows... and I'm preparing the source for download later... hope I can share more to you all... enjoy and don't forget to give you opinions... feel free to comment... learning by coding...:D

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My First Adobe AIR App...(PDFCollector)

Well, it's been long..long time since my last post. This time I got another time to write on this blog, still with my experiences using new technology or as result of my learning process. Like this one, result of my short month learning the Adobe Flex and AIR. This two technology is quite exiting me because I just love Flash, which is used as the base of this two technology. Well for now, I'm sharing this app. due to my willing to share with others. Although I'm not sure if this application is useful enough. I called this app. PDFCollector, it is a basic implementation of adobe AIR file manipulation function. Not to sophisticated but. I think useful enough for managing you PDF files. Finally, please try this app. then I appreciate if you like to give some suggestion of maybe some thing useful for me about Flex and AIR.

Download PDFCollector here through Download box in sidebar

this app. require Adobe AIR

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Dual Boot Vista and Mac using Vista bootloader

There is some good video tutorial about dual boot mac and vista in Intel/AMD PC. But some are really hard to watch. I'm doing a little experiment on my friends notebook which is fujitsu (I don't know what series..) installing Vista and Mac on it. And it just work well dual booting them. So, here is the condition : I have 4 partition : 1st partition is vista installed, 2nd and 3rd for data files. And the last partition (4th) I use to install Mac (kalyway 10.5.2). Well this is what I do (after read some tutorial and watch some videos) :

1. boot up with your vista DVD, then choose repair computer
2. select Command Promt from the dialog appear
3. type this : diskpart (then press Enter)
select disk 0
select partition 1 (where vista installed)
active (set it to active partition)
exit

4. the type this : bootrec /rebuildbcd
y (press y, mean "yes" for the question)

5. set the Mac partition to active, type this : diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 4 (where Mac installed)
active
exit

is everything run well, you should now select which OS to use... that's it..

note: this notebook keyboard is not working (I'm using an external usb keyboard) cause of different layout or not supported, I haven't know yet..

hope this help... fell free for comment or correct me if I'm wrong...

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Dual Boot Mac (Kalyway 10.5.2) and Windows XP using Darwin Bootloader

Ahh... finnaly I got another time to post... and here is My new experience..
Well, since Apple decide to use Intel proc. Mac / OSX can be installed on a regular PC (like mine) both Intel and AMD (read the OSX HCL here). And since I got a new Motherboard after my older MB crash, I bought a new one which is fortunately listed in OSX HCL in wiki. Seems like my ambition nearly come, and yes it came to me. And this is how I dual booting my computer an OSX and a Windows XP.
First, here is my computer specs..:
- Motherboard ASUS P5KPL-AM
- 2 Gb ram (visipro)
- 160 Gb SATA HD (seagate)
- 1 DVD-RW (Pioneer)
- Geforce 7200GS 256Mb VGA (digital alliance)
- regular 15" monitor (samsung)
- common  USB mouse and keyboard (PS2 not recommended)
that's mine...


OK, I have condition like this :
My harddisk have 4 patitions (in Windows) : C (40Gb NTFS), D (60Gb NTFS), E (40Gb NTFS), and F(20Gb Empty). C used as windows partition, which have Windows XP installed, D and E already contain data and files. So, I have only partiton no.4 (F) left and this partition will be my Mac partition.
Let's do the fun part.... Set your BIOS to boot from CD/DVD ROM first then insert your Kalyway DVD. After Darwin loading press Enter for default boot or press F8 to give some boot options. Some PC Hardware need options for installing Mac.In My PC I used this option : -v -x cpus=1. If you have Dual Core Processor, sometimes the option cpus=1 needed. For more explaination about options please refer to some OSX Forums or just Google it. For now, you can use options like mine.
Wait for a while, if anything running well, you should now face the installer GUI. Select Tools > Disk Utility and the Disk Utility will appear. Now select partition no. 4 (F). Select Erase tab, then erase the disk, format with the default Mac file system (Mac Extended (Journaled)). Click erase, when it done, close the Disk Utility.
Now you can select the partition you just created as the destination disk. You may customize the installated package or just go with the default package. In My PC I select NVinject and NVinject 256Mb for my graphic driver. Now press Install if you ready.
Wait till the installation complete. Restart your computer and remove the Kalyway DVD, if it cannot be removed then set the boot sequence to Harddisk first.
Normally you can now boot with the installed Mac /OSx. You will be ask to fill some informations. But in My case, I have the "HFS+ Partition error" after my second boot to OSX. This kind of error in My case, due to the Mac patition is fail to recognized as the active partition, so the solution is set it to active partition.

Ok now for dual boot. Now we have two OS in the same PC but only one (which is Mac) can be loaded by darwin bootloader (Mac bootloader). But in mine, no one can booted and what I have to do is set the partitions which have OS installed to active one.
Here is what I do, put the Kalyway DVD in CD/DVD ROM, restart and set first boot sequence to CD/DVD ROM again. Boot with Kalyway DVD, then after Darwin loaded press F8. Write -s and press Enter to boot into single user mode. Now after you are in the single user mode here is what to do :
to activate Windows partition (in partition 1 / C) run :

fdisk -e dev/rdisk0
flag 1
write
update
reboot

After reboot you can now boot Windows Xp. Then to activate Mac partition which is partition no 4 restart you computer, enter single user mode again and run :

fdisk -e dev/rdisk0
flag 4
write
update
reboot

"flag 4" used to set patition no.4 to active, so if you installed Mac at partition no.2 (for example) then use flag 2. Or in the other word use "flag n" which n refer to partition number of your installed Mac.
If anything running well, now you can select which partition to boot. Press any key when darwin booting then you can select which partition to boot. To boot windows select first partition, and to boot whic Mac select partition no. 4. That's all I do to dual boot XP and MAc in PC. Please note that this only works with Windows XP, and some PC hardware will have different results.

And also note that this article is for learning purpose only and I'm not suggest you to do piracy with Mac. If you love Mac then buy the real Mac if you can.

OK that's all for now and Good Luck. Fell free for comment....

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Happy 2009

this my first post in new year..
and by the way this blog is not dead, I'm still alive, I'm just busy with my final assignment and some task.
Well, I hope this year will be better and more colorful..
Happy 2009...!!!!

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Simple Java Encryptor and Decryptor

Well, glad to be here again, posting again, and sharing again. This time I want to share a simple java encrypt and decrypt application. Well, I'm not the one who write the code from scratch. This application was a modification of javaencryptor from sourceforge.org, I designed the UI in Netbeans,which I think better then the original one (but, I'm sure You can do better). This application use DES algorithm to encrypt and decrypt, and this is one of Password Based Encryption (PBE) application. Perfect for encrypt (almost, maybe) all type of files. It's suitable for beginner java programmer (like me, of course) to learn more about java cryptography. You can get it here PBEDes or in Download box.
Well, I think that's all I can write this time, and maybe this blog will be left fo a while, because I'm concentrating on my final assignment now, for my graduation.
So if any comments or suggestions, just write in comments...
feel free to be creative..

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Happy Independence Day Indonesia

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New Dashboard Appearance

This is surprising, after few weeks doesn't post anything and today I got a chance, I was a little surprised when logging in to my Blogger dashboard. A new interface appear. Well I thing this is better than before (I'm sure you're also thinking like that). I hope this new looks will be one of my reason to be more often logging and posting. But I think this will be (a lot) more interesting if we can change the color theme of our dashboard, isn't it?

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Third prize on My First Posters Competition

I know being the third winner is not the best one, but this is kind of great experience for me. Actually this posters competition is not part of my plan. I become a participant on that competition because of my proposal of PKMK (Progam Kreativitas Mahasiswa Kewirausahaan - Student Creativity Program of Bussiness) was accepted and I have to do that program. This poster I made, was part of the program. But then my university held a competition for those posters (many posters was follow the competition) before the real competition held by DIKTI (Dirjen Perguruan Tinggi- Director General of High Education) on PIMNAS (Pekan Ilmiah Nasional- National Science Week) on July 14.
I have no idea, what is the criteria for the best poster (but being third place is not bad, isn't it?). I think my poster design is not too good, because I'm a beginner in Illustrator (I made that poster using Illustrator). The design is so simple, no advance technique at all. You can see it below.



Well, I'm not hope too much, but that 3rd prize give me spirit for learning more about graphic design. I hope you can see my next work, and fell free for comment..

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How to remove new (local) virus called JoniEzz.exe

Yesterday my friend came to my room, he complaint about virus on his computer, then ask me to clean it. He bring his usb memory with full infected documents in it. With no suspicious, I plugged in it on My lovely computer. I'm no worries at all, because I have scan it with Norton antivirus (with virus def. update on 13/6/08) before. No malware found so I'm sure that it is clean and save. Well until lastnight, I didn't realize that I am infected too. major change in my computer make me distrustful, so I began to use Ice Sword to monitor what processes were running. I use it because usually the virus proceses do not appear on the list. Then I found it, the process called smss.exe but with Word icon. This is weird, cause the real smss process is not with word icon. Until this, I realize that I've been infected.


So I wanna to share my experience, how to remove the virus and get back your hidden documents. First we need this tools :

1. Ice Sword, to monitor the processes, the virus won't recognize it, cause the title was randomly change.
3. Toggle hidden explorer stuff, a vbscript, good tool to show system files with super hidden attribute or You can set the DWORD value to 1 of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\ShowSuperHidden in registry. Note, some antivirus will block this script, just allow it.
2. Attribute Changer, great tool to change files attribute, even with super hidden attribute. You need to install this tool first.

thats it all we need, you can get them on my blog Download box (on right sidebar) or just google them.
Now lets do the best thing,
- Fire up Ice sword, find processes called smss with word icon and kill them. Remember only processes with word icon!
- after that, use the toggle show super hidden file script to show all the system file. Go to C:\Windows\System32 and find folder named LoLOxz (or some thing like that). Inside the folder is smss.exe and msvbm60.dll. Just delete the folder. Now You have removed the virus procesess.
- to get back your hidden documents, just find out the documents, select all hidden documents and right click. Select Change Attributes from menu appear, uncheck the Hidden and System. Now you document back to normal.


- This virus also create the msvbm60.dll in same folder with the infected files, and autorun.inf in every drive which command the JoniEzz.exe in every drive. Remove both files too.
Just for information, this virus only infected files in first level directory. So if you files located deep in directory, You dont have to be worry. Maybe this is only remove the main virus and the processes, I really have no idea how much the virus create other files in Windows directory or somewhere else. I think it is wiser for you to back up all your important data and update your antivirus definition file right now. If you have any information about this virus, fell free for comment.. thats all. I hope this is useful..

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Many post delayed..

Well, for this several days, looks like I can't satisfied my passion for posting. This because of my project in INAICTA (Indonesian ICT Awards) 2008. My project is like a sequel of my Interactive Map of Semarang Tourism. I can't tell you more for now, but I hope later I will post some basic tutorial in creating that in Flash. wait for my next post...be patient.

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Header and title changed

It's been a few weeks that I'm planning to change my blog header and title. I'm thinking for suitable title and represented header for my blog, this because I think the title "It's all about creativity" is no more suitable with the content of my blog. This blog content is containing more experiences then result of my work or study (although it will still here / posted).
I decided to change my blog title become "My Explorations :: A Geek Experiences" which is more represent this blog content. I think this title clear enough to what it is mean.
For the header background, I use part of a wallpaper called chroma wallpaper, which I found somewhere in ndesign-studio.com links..(I forgot where exactly I found it...you can google it).There is lot of resource and tutorial in graphic design there. For you who new in Illustrator or PS I suggest to visit it. And I added my little artwork I call Gunungan (modified), which is part of Wayang Kulit. Thats all... Feel free for comment...Enjoy..

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First experience use MacOS.. but cannot install on my real computer

I've been dreaming on using MacOS for long time. Now I got chance to run it, altough it only using Virtual Machine. Yesterday I finished download OSx-86 image for VMware. It works fine, but run slowly, even when I increase the memory size. Actually, I'm planning to install MacOS on my real computer. I already have the Kalway 10.5.2 and iAtkos 2.0i DVDs, and also read some installation tutorials, but until now I still cannot install Mac on my real computer. It seems like I have unsupported nforce chipset on my Mobo. I got no idea how can I install it well. Somebody can help me? for information, I'm using the nforce 610 chipshet, gforce 7 series (7050) onboard graphic card on my Mobo, Intel Dual core Processor (D-920, it is supported well on some tutorial I've read), 2Gb of RAM, 160Gb SATA disk, IDE DVD drive.

Well for now, I'm glad enough using MacOS on Virtual machine, and what I need now is keep trying to install on my real computer, asking on some forums, read more tutorials and of course.. keep blogging... If you have any informations about installing Mac on general PC please comment...

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