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See Apple designs from changes of iPod

Rockia — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:00:30 +0000

On September 1st, 2010, Apple announced the whole newly-refreshed line of iPod family. To Rockia, this is really nothing impressively new. iPod Shuffle One thing really interests me is the control wheel is brought back to iPod Shuffle. Released on January 11, 2005, the first generation iPod Shuffle weighed 0.78 ounces (22 g) and was designed [...]

Make free calls to anyone with Gmail + Google Voice + VPN

Rockia — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:52:46 +0000

A couple days ago, Google pushed out “Phone Calls” function for Gmail. This service is currently free for calls made to US and Canada users. So Rockia came up with a thought that we can make use of Google’s awesome service and make phone calls to anyone with internet on earth. Google Voice is now [...]

Guide to decode based64 encrypted WordPress theme

Rockia — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:53:09 +0000

Why am I writing this guide? I really didn’t expect my post “Decode base64 encrypted PHP WordPress Theme files” will draw so much attention and it seems like more and more people want me to help them decode their WordPress themes. As everyone could see in the following comments at the end of the post, [...]

Apple Gift Certificate

Rockia — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:55:46 +0000

I received an Apple gift certificate last week as my birthday present. I don’t care how much is this gift card worth (and I still don’t know at this moment); a gift is a gift, right? I still vividly remember the first thing I got attracted by Apple was the elegant design from inside out. [...]

Have you got your .co domain yet?

Rockia — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:33:52 +0000

On July 20th, .CO domain was officially launched and Google also approves it as an international domain name. “We will rank .co domains appropriately if the content is globally targeted. Webmasters will soon have the functionality to be able to specify this by using the geotargeting options in Google Webmaster Tools,” said a Google spokesperson, [...]

SecondBar puts the OS X menu bar on both of Mac’s monitors

Rockia — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:48:18 +0000

Being a programmer, I enjoy using my Mac with dual screen. I put one vertically for better view of the websites as well as more lines of my program; the other one is set up horizontally for movie and other stuffs. Usually with Macintosh, you can set one monitor to primary monitor while the other [...]

Phone Disk — Mount Your iPhone as a Disk on Mac

Rockia — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:03:00 +0000

Rather saying iPhone is good for multimedia and entertainment, I solely use it as PDA, email and internet browsing device, and of course my phone (duh!). Right now at the moment of writing this post, my 16GB iPhone 3GS has 186 song, 17 videos and 8290 photos, yet, I still have more than half of [...]

Sweet Home 3D — Interior Design

Rockia — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:12:19 +0000

I used Google Sketchup to build simple 3D model before; it’s an awesome software to build a single 3D object with ease and efficiency. Nonetheless, if you are going to plan your room or even your house ahead before everything is settled, Google Sketchup might not be the hero for you. I am going to [...]

Visor — Shortcut to Terminal

Rockia — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:05:45 +0000

The utility software I am gonna introduce today is a bit special because it provides only one single function; that’s to help you open Terminal faster. You might want to ask, with the Exposé built in Mac along with shortcut keys “Command + Tab“, we can switch between applications very easily, why do we want [...]

New me.com interface

Rockia — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:14:58 +0000

Alone with the release of WordPress 3.0, even though there is absolutely no relations in between, Apple also pushed out the new MobileMe web interface. I would like to share more about the update of this online service with you all, however, for the past 20 minutes, I am not able to login to my [...]