After I got my first android phone, I was looking for any ringtone maker which is easy to use. Many ringtone makers provide some basic music instruments and require me to arrange them into a nice melody in ears. The problem is: I’m not a composer nor musician.

After looking around  on Android Market, I found a little app that fit my need from Mobile 17. With this software I just need to select a music file from my phone and “crop” it. Some seconds later it become my ringtone. Very easy to use, even for novice like me.

Here’s step by step to create ringtone using this app.  I’ve captured the to show you how easy the process is:

After I select a song, this app will try to find some kind of ‘preset’ –or they say “popular edit”– that match with selected song. Later, I can crop the song easily by choosing start point and also end point.

To listen the result, I can click play button. I can also adjust the ringtone length in an easy way.

After everything is as I wanted, I just clicked on “Create Ringtone” button.

And voila! I have a new, personalized, and free ringtones from mobile 17 just in seconds!

Well, it may took some minutes if you’re creating your ringtone while cooking

Today someone ask me to check his Moodle installation in his website. He used to add resource(s) easily in any course he made and lately he’s unable to add any resource. In the resource page, Moodle just displays blank page. No error message at all.

After googling around, I found that the problem is (likely) caused by PHP upgrade from 5.2.x to 5.3.x. And thanks to Andrey who posted a script for a quick hack.

The trick is by adding a new function inside HTML_QuickForm_element class in moodle/lib/pear/HTML/QuickForm/element.php.

< ?php
public function __call($name, $args) {
    $name = str_replace('MoodleQuickForm_', '', $name);
    if ($name == 'passwordunmask') {
        $name = 'password';
    }
    return call_user_func_array(array($this, 'HTML_QuickForm_'.$name), $args);
}
?>

It works like a magic!

Just found a video of five girls practicing their dancing and singing skill of a song that sounds like dangdut to my ears.

The video title itself says “Foxy Girl Band (pre-debut)”, and from their Twitter account, FOXYgirls_, they said that this video is a teaser for their future music video.

I won’t let you imagining, so let’s just hit the play button.

A nice teaser, can’t wait for their official music video.

There are a lot of jQuery plugins out there for various purposes. I have seen some plugins for the same purpose, for example is creating sliding page/object. Among other them, for me Slidedeck is the easiest one to use.

On its feature page on their website, said that this jQuery plugin can be customized, has API support, custom skins, SEO ready, mouse control, gallery support, and many more.

If you’re looking for wordpress jquery slider, Slidedeck also suits for that purpose because it has two type of package: as jQuery plugin and WordPress plugin.  As WordPress plugin, we can easily add sliding image to a post or page using easy-to-use (WYSIWYG) editor.

Both plugin (jQuery and WordPress) are available in two kind of license. For basic usage, free version is more than enough to beautify our web pages. But if you’re a bad-ass code writer, you can purchase paid version to get more features to build your super-dupper web pages.

Here are some examples, you can see that it’s awesome. Even for free version.

• Basic example
• Autoplay
• Spineless

And one thing that will make you, web developers, happy is that this plugin will work at any major browsers you currently have.

Choosing a hosting provider is not a big deal when you have money. But if you’re on a low budget, you should make a list of candidates and have them compared.

Fortunately, there’s a website that provide web hosting review so we can compare packages of each hosting provider. With this website, we can choose which one is cheapest or who has biggest disk space/bandwidth for certain price.

Not only that, we can use hosting coupons to get more discounts. It’s mean a cheaper price.

Yes, Dexter Morgan is back.

This fall he’ll make you a believer

And meet all new characters for this season:

Can’t wait to see!

Yesterday I read a kind of ridiculous news from my beloved country, Indonesia.

A Harvard’s student named Bryan went to Banda Aceh for a research and learning Aceh culture. But he got a big surprise at his first night on the city that was swept by tsunami at 2005.

In the middle of night, a group of shariah police, cops, officials, and  reporters were banging the door and broke into his room. They later investigate the room, perhaps looking for any girl(s) that might be there.

The hotel manager said that “the raid” was performed to welcome the holly Ramadhan month, a month where mosleem fasting from dawn until evening.

Here’s the news: They shouldn’t harass foreign tourist.

It’s funny because they do this  inconvenience thing while Banda Aceh goverment is proclaiming  “Visit Banda Aceh Year 2011″ movement.

Wait, I think I see a female officer there..

Was her husband with her at that middle of the night?

Okay, just forget my last question.

My Drupal installation was fine until I uploaded it into my web hosting. It always returned error 404 page (not found) every time I clicked on any admin section (i.e http://domain.com/admin/build, http://domain.com/admin/settings, etc).

I have tried bypassing clean URLs by using http://domain.com/?q=admin, renamed .htaccess file and so on. But all of my efforts still bring me the same error page.

Huft..

After many minutes, I figured out that the problem was caused by the update module that always loaded every time I open admin section. Thus I decided to disable this module.

Just open PHPMyAdmin, click my database and run this query:

update system set status=0 where name='update'

And…… it works! All my admin sections are now working fine with this little trick.

Sometimes I’m thinking that I might need a credit card for paying my online subscriptions/purchasing. I know that PayPal will help, but some –online– stores only receive payment using those plastic cards.

I know that they only accept credit card because this card will “show” buyer’s age. Credit card owner should be above 17 years old, so they’re allowed to purchase goods which are not available for kids under 17. Make sense, right?

I have learned how credit card works and now looking for the best credit card provider, although I’m still uncertain. Moreover after this incident, it was a big case because the victim was a member of popular political party in Indonesia.

Back to topic. I have applied once and rejected by the bank a couple of years ago. I think I should make another applications in the near future. I’m sure with a good financial plan it will bring more benefit than disadvantages.

There’s a secured credit card application in the Net but I think I’m gonna use the traditional way. Visiting the bank and asking for more information from its customer service officer.

Other than that, bank officers (especially the lady teller) are alwasy lovely to see.  Neat hair do, good looking uniform, and nice smile

On a sunny morning, my motorbike’s tire was flatten.

Fortunatelly, in Indonesia, you don’t have to replace your flat tire with a new one. Just look for a place on the road side with a sign as below:

Written “Tambal Ban”, or “Tire Patch”.

Another sign, look at any place with air compressor as below:

Well, I know that air compressor above is fake, but it represents an air compressor.

Some places will have both signs, some other just an air compressor or just a board sign.

At that place, the mechanic will patch the hole(s) on your tire so you can re-use your tire again. It’s cheaper than replace the tire and more eco-friendly.

How is he done that?

First, he will open your tire and get inner tube out of your tire. He will pump some air into inner tube.

Then he sinks inner tube into water to see if there is any hole(s). Hole(s) will be detected by air bubbles that freed out from inner tube.

After he found hole(s),  he will mark them and apply some glue onto the hole(s). The glue is home made, I don’t know what the ingredients are.

After the glue, he will put a small latex patch. This latex patch will cover the hole.

After glue and patch applied, he will put your inner tube tire into special pressure machine..

And set the fire!

Don’t worry, it won’t burn your tire. Instead,  fire will melt the latex patch and pressure from that little machine will make that latex  patch bond to inner tube very well.

He will “bake” your inner tube for about 5 to 10 minutes. And yes,  picture above is my motorbike. A 125 cc Suzuki underbone.

After the baking is done, he will sink inner tire into water again to check his work. If there’s any air bubble, he will repeat his work. Otherwise, tire patching is succeeded.

It’s done. He will put inner tube back  into the tire and I have to pay for his service.

Last thing before he put inner tube back into the tire, he will check throughly to see if there’s any nail (or any sharpies) left  stuck in the tire.

For his service, he charged me USD 0.5 per hole. It’s a lot cheaper than buying new tire, about USD 3-4.