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How to Reply Tweet without Spamming Every Twitter Follower?

Published April 4, 2009 in Tips & Tricks and Web Applications. 1 Comment

If you’re like me, following a small but very active group of Twitter users, Twitter will soon be blended into part of life. Now, where ever I go, as long as I have a few minutes to sit down or wait for someone, then I will surely fire up my phone browser and nagivate to m.twitter.com. If I don’t read tweets I’m following for 1 day, I think I will easily miss out at least, at least 60 tweets.

At times, you might come into situation when, someone asked you a question on Twitter, and you don’t feel like exposing the responding answer to all your Twitter followers, for personal resaon, privacy concern or simply don’t want to spam every single reply to all followers.

The alternative option available in this case, is to send Direct Message. By sending Direct Message using Twitter, only the intended recipient will be able to read your tweet.

How to Send Twitter Direct Message?

  1. Login to your Twitter account, and go to Home page. You will see a menu link labeled “Direct Messages” on the right sidebar.
  2. In the Direct Messages page, you will be able to select a recipient from the list containing all your followers. Select a recipient, type in your message, press the Send button, and you’re done with it.

In TwitterFox, there’s a panel that shows all direct messages that you have received. You can also send direct message from TwitterFox using this format — d twitterUser yourMessage. Example: d google this is a direct message to google. Note that it doesn’t require the @ character

Which Levi’s Jeans suits You?

Published January 18, 2009 in Life Log and Web Applications. 0 Comments

Been telling myself to buy a new jeans, as I’ve not been buying one for years. And yes, this task was marked as “accomplished” this afternoon, bringing home a Levi’s Red Tab 505, with an additional RM249 in my upcoming credit card bill.

Out of so many varieties from the outlet, ranging from 501 to 505, 512, 550 and bla bla bla, I’ve picked a 505 (tight fit) and a 550 (relaxed fit). But, I’m just not standard-size enough la… relaxed fit doesn’t really look fitted on me haha, too loose for my liking. Very obviously, 505 is a lot better on me.

However, the tight fit is not labeled so for nothing. When I put on my typical size, W31, it was so fitted that I can’t even conveniently put in my SE P1 and wallet. So, tried an inch larger, and finally I satisfyingly settled for W32.

What Levi Thinks I Should Wear?

Fits suggested by whatsmylevis.com

Just out of curiosity, I went to whatsmylevis.com. This is a site solely dedicated to Levi’s fit guide. Simply put in some general information about yourself, and most importantly, your gender and vital stats - chest, waist & hips. Then, you will be presented with your body type, following by suggested fits.

Haha.. I was trying to find out what suits me best, and yet I’ve already bought :p

My body type is described as “lean and mean“:

With long arms, legs and torso, your trim shape means you can carry off those skinny jeans really well - good on you, because these are definitely the “it” jeans everyone wants to wear!

And…. dang dang dang dang~~~ I’ve got suggestion for Levi’s Red Tab 505 luxury heritage jeans. Bingo! I’ve bought an ideal one :p

How Do You Tweet to Twitter?

Published January 8, 2009 in Phones and Web Applications. 0 Comments

TweetStats - Interface Used

Using TweetStas to generate statistics graphs for my Twitter account, I’ve managed to find out analysis of interfaces that I’ve used to tweet.

Out of the 831 tweets updated since May 2008:

  1. 371 tweets from TwitterFox (Firefox plugin)
  2. 258 tweets from mobile web (m.twitter.com)
  3. 69 tweets from TwitPic

Of all the interfaces I used, mobile web, TwitPic, txt (SMS) and Fring are from mobile. I actually tweet using SMS when I’m not in Malaysia. Check out my previous post on how to tweet from mobile.

As shown, I have quite a lot of text tweets twitted from phone (31%) using the mobile web, and never the less, about 8.3% of pictures posted from phone via TwitPic.

Personally, Twitter is meant to be a mobile companion for me, such as for the following events:

  1. simply want to let my friends know where I am or what I’m doing
  2. want to hao lian (show-off) the food that I’m eating
  3. a different way to express “I’m bored”
  4. vent out bosong-ness (grumble la hehe)
  5. thank someone

Most of the time, time factor is important in sharing a message. At a particular moment, when I’m in the mood to tell something, then instant mobile twitting is definitely more shiok :p

Even when I have nothing to twit, I’m also used to accessing m.twitter.com every now and then, just to check out latest tweets received. The law of kepo-ness kicks in.

But as similar to all other social networking goodies, there ought to be a community of yours, in order to enjoy the usage. And yes, most of my followers are active Twitter users, especially from the mobile interface.

So, how do you tweet?

New Maybank2u.com 2.0 Online Banking Site

Published September 25, 2008 in Internet and Web Applications. 1 Comment

The current Maybank2u.com site which has made its presence since year 2001 will soon be replaced with a new facelift version – dubbed Maybank2u.com 2.0

Is the 2.0 suffix signifying a Web 2.0 goodie or simply means version 2 of the application release? Well, guess I’m not the right person to answer this question. Let’s walkthrough the changes spotted in the current beta release accessible at https://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbb/m2u/public/personalBanking.do

Public Site Facelift

The most significant change that a site needs, in order to present a new impression to users in quickest manner, is by revamping the UI design.

Old Maybank2u.com home page

Old Maybank2u.com - Home

New Maybank2u.com 2.0 home page

New Maybank2u.com 2.0 - Home

As claimed, the Maybank2u.com 2.0 is designed for 800px width. However, I’ve tested the new home page with 800×600 px resolution, but the layout in width doesn’t fit nicely without horizontal scroll bar.

Web 2.0 HTML Style

While the old Maybank2u.com site layout is written with plenty of <table> tags, the new Maybank2u.com 2.0 is rewritten with the Web 2.0 coding style – layout organized using <div>, buttons are written using <ul> and <li>.

The rounded-corner menu buttons at top are also created using Nifty Corners without using any image.

It also has style sheets written for mobile web browser and printer. I’ve tested Maybank2u.com 2.0 in my P1i. Though no significant mobile browser readability effort is spotted, but at least the whole site neatly flows down segment by segment without horizontal scroll bar. Continue reading ‘New Maybank2u.com 2.0 Online Banking Site’

Tweet to Twitter from Mobile

Published August 8, 2008 in Internet, Phones and Web Applications. 1 Comment

Twitter Bird by Darkmotion
by Darkmotion@flickr

This post is inspired by LiewCF’s “7 ways to tweet”.

Ever since I’ve started mini blogging (or more specifically mobile status broadcasting :p) with Twitter, the need for me to tweet from mobile has soon been realized. The need for mobile tweeting became significantly obvious, especially when I was traveling for Peninsula trip convoy.

In fact, mobile tweeting has made mobile blogging easy! Simply by showing the latest tweets in my blog, I can easily update my blog with short messages that describe my life, without the hustle of writing a comprehensive post with proper content structure and titles. Check out my Twitter updates at twitter.com/tiensoon

So what’s my most preferred way to achieve mobile tweeting with my Sony Ericsson P1i?

There are many apps out there that allow you to tweet from mobile phone. But hey… I’m not going to tell you all the options available; instead, sharing experience on approaches that I’m most comfortable with.

Twitter Mobile

To me, this (m.twitter.com) is the most convenient and least interruptive medium to follow my buddies’ tweets. When I feel like checking out my friends’ statuses when I’m on mobile, simply open my phone browser (provided I’m in a 3G, GPRS or WiFi zone) and I’ll be signed on to Twitter Mobile – a simplified light weight interface showing the latest 20 tweets, and a text field to post my tweet.

The interface is so light weight that, I don’t need to really matter much about the amount of data transferred. It wouldn’t burn my phone bill hahaha Continue reading ‘Tweet to Twitter from Mobile’

Tomcat Context File “Mysteriously” Disappeared or Deleted

Published June 26, 2008 in Web Applications. 1 Comment

If you’ve done any Java web project deployment on Tomcat which involves NFS or SAN, you might have encountered a scenario where the Tomcat context file (\jakarta-tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\context.xml) mysteriously disappeared, especially after server restart.

Looks like it’s a Tomcat bug, you may refer to the Bugzilla record for further information.

This issue will only happen if the physical location of the web folder is different from Tomcat. For example, the Tomcat context could be configured with docBase residing in remote storage such as SAN or NFS.

When Tomcat detected that the web folder specified in docBase is not reachable, such as during storage server restart or network disruption, then the context file will be automatically deleted. Some may call it a feature though :p

How to Resolve in Linux?

In Linux, you can issue the following command to make the context file immutable. It’s like giving it “power overwhelming” StarCraft cheat…. will never die hahahaha

chattr +i /opt/jakarta-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml

Please change the location path accordingly.

chattr +i is to make the file immutable, it can’t even be deleted by root user.

If you try rm /opt/jakarta-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml, you will get “Operation not permitted”… wah really never die

What if one day, you decided to remove its immutable status??

Instead of chattr +i, just use chattr -i will do

Sorry but I don’t have solution for Windows yet.

Anyone with better alternatives?

What Am I Doing?

Published May 24, 2008 in Life Log and Web Applications. 1 Comment

Most of us are using Google Talk custom message, MSN display message, Yahoo Messenger status message, Facebook status message, Friendster shout-out and alike for 1 common purpose – telling friends what am I doing, and what my mood is. Not surprisingly, many people are frequently checking out their friends’ display messages to “keh po” (a better word is “concern”) around, and stay updated with the status of people around us. Many times, you can derive all sorts of interesting facts from a person’s status message.

Before I left for east coast peninsula makan trip on last Saturday (24th May), I thought it would be interesting to publish short message updates in my blog, so that my family and friends could stay almost up-to-date with my itinerary. To achieve this, I need to be accessible to Internet via 3G or GPRS on my phone. Ideally, in order not to be charged for a hand and a leg to enjoy mobile blogging, the interface for posting should be as light-weight as possible, and I should also limit my updates to be short and precise, just like SMS text message.

Twitter

KC and Jack, being active users of Twitter, were trying to sell me Twitter ideas, convincing me to make use of the Twitter account which I’ve created more than 6 moths ago (that time Twitter doesn’t really look interesting to me :p).

So, I’ve decided to give Twitter a serious trial, due to its promising update-via-mobile-phone interface. My Twitter updates are viewable at http://twitter.com/tiensoon

Well, to the uninitiated ones, Twitter is a simple Web 2.0 app designed for us to tell the world “what am I doing?” By default, your Twitter updates are kept private and only viewable by users authorized to follow you. For example, I’ve approved Jack as one of my followers, and so he is authorized to view, spy, peek and keh-po at my Twitter updates.

However, if you don’t feel uneasy for your Twitter updates to be made public, you can alter the setting, and your Twitter updates can also be easily published on your blog, just like what I’m doing. Continue reading ‘What Am I Doing?’

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