Upacara pelebon kali ini dibanjiri oleh ribuan warga dan bahkan beberapa artis ibukota turut juga hadir untuk menyaksikan secara langsung prosesi arak-arakan upacara tersebut. Jalanan dari puri Ubud sampai kuburan Dalem Puri Ubud dipadati oleh penonton yang sejak pagi sudah hadir, sehingga untuk lewatpun terasa sangat susah sekali. Bahkan saya sempat ditelepon oleh rekan saya Dexno yang rumahnya dekat dari lokasi upacara  untuk ditraktir makan siang, namun sangat sulit menemukannya dikerumunan orang yang sangat padat sekali hehehe….

all above photos are grabbed from flickr.com in my photo gallery captures and some from other great photographers work. thanks for the awesome photos!

WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data. Meta-data is handled with key/value pairs. The key is the name of the meta-data element. The value is the information that will appear in the meta-data list on each individual post that the information is associated with.

Itulah sedikit gambaran tentang custom fields yang saya temukan di sini

Langsung saja, berikut langkah-langkah yang perlu anda diikuti:

1. Bukalah file style.css yang ada di folder WordPress theme blog anda dengan dengan notepad,
dan tambahkan kode css berikut di dalam file style.css tersebut, lalu simpan:

img.kiri {
	margin: 0 10px 0 0;
	float: left; padding: 4px;
	border: 1px solid #b3d2fc;
	background: #fff;
	width:100px; height:100px;
}

2. Masih di folder theme WP anda, selanjutnya bukalah file index.php

Temukan baris dan code berikut:

<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>

Lalu gantilah dengan code berikut:

<?php
$values = get_post_custom_values("thumbnail");
if (isset($values[0])) {
?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<img class="kiri"
src="<?php $key="thumbnail"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>"
alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
<?php } ?>
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>

Setelah selesai simpanlah.

3. Terapkan langkah ke-2 ke file-file archive.php dan search.php jika perlu.

4. Selanjutnya upload file-file tersebut ke server hosting anda.

5. Saatnya menerapkannya pada postingan anda, cobalah buka salah satu postingan artikel blog anda, dan buatlah sebuah image (gambar) kecil, dalam contoh ini menggunakan ukuran 100pixel x 100pixel dan uploadlah seperti biasa, dalam hal ini anda hanya perlu mengetahui URL file gambar thumbnail tersebut.

6. Terakhir tambahkanlah URL thumbnail gambar tersebut di custom fields, dengan Key: thumbnail dan Value: URL dari gambar thumbnail tadi dengan cut and paste saja, lalu klik tombol “Add Custom Field”. Selanjutnya Save dan lihatlah hasilnya. Jika berhasil anda akan melihat postingan tersebut sudah berisi gambar kecil disebelah kirinya.

Selamat mencoba dan semoga berhasil!

p.s. Klik disini agar tampilan source code_nya lebih enak

How to install and use this theme:

• Download and extract it to your computer
• Make a customization to advertisements code in index.php, single.php, page.php, archive.php, search. php and sidebar.php
• Upload to your themes directory (wp-content/themes/) and activate this theme through your WP admin page.
• Create a category name “Featured“, if you did not have it yet.
  Use this Featured category if you want to featured your post in front page (above the regular post as well).
• You can also give a thumbnail picture for each post, just create a picture with dimension: 130pixel x 130pixel and upload it to your post. To insert the thumbnail in your listing post, you should add a custom fields in your post with;
  Key: thumbnail
  Value: your URL of thumbnail picture
  The below is an example:

Detailed of using the custom fields can found here.

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That’s all, you’re done !

1. I Gede Winasa - Alit Putra :19.46 %
2. Cok Budi Suryawan - Nyoman Gede Suweta : 25.81 %
3. Mangku Pastika - Puspayoga : 54.73 %

Hasil sementara 9 Juli 2008 s/d pukul 17.16 WITA

Hasil akhir penghitungan suara quick count Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI):

1. I Gede Winasa - Alit Putra :19.01 %
2. Cok Budi Suryawan - Nyoman Gede Suweta : 26.05 %
3. Mangku Pastika - Puspayoga : 54.94 %

Sumber : LSI

Berdasarkan hasil akhir penghitungan suara, pasangan cagub dan cawagub dari PDI Perjuangan yaitu Bapak I Made Mangku Pastika dan Bapak Anak Agung Puspayoga memenangkan Pilkada Bali versi quick count atau perhitungan cepat suara Lembaga Survei Indonesia.

Selamat dan sukses atas kemenangan BALI MANDARA, semoga Ida Hyang Widhi Wasa senantiasa melindungan kita semua sehingga terwujudnya Bali yang Mandara (Bali Maju, Aman, Damai dan Sejahtera)

Salah satunya adalah AVG Anti-Virus Versi 8.0 - pada AVG Ver. 8.0 free edition sudah dilengkapi dengan AVG Security Toolbar dan AVG Safe Search yang sudah cukup mampu dipakai untuk mendeteksi sebuah situs terkena malicious content atau tidak. Tapi sayangnya AVG Security Toolbar maupun AVG Safe Search ver 8.0 tidak kompatible dengan browser Firefox 3.0 - sepertinya harus menunggu update berikutnya, sebagai alternatif anda bisa menggunakan browser IE.

Apabila anda sudah menginstall AVG Anti-Virus Ver. 8.0, cara mendeteksinya sangat gampang  saja - bukalah  web browser IE atau Firefox anda terus bukalah Google.com lalu ketikkanlah site:domainanda.com lalu search. Maka search engine Google akan melakukan pencarian terhadap halaman-halaman situs web anda, dan AVG Safe Search pun bekerja secara langsung untuk mendeteksi halaman-halaman dari situs anda tersebut, dalam kasus berikut saya search menggunakan keyword “Bali Villas” dan hasilnya mungkin seperti berikut ini:

dan apabila anda hand/mouse over pada icon x dengan border merah akan muncul seperti dibawah;

selanjutnya setelah link situs yang terkena/mengandung “malicious content” tersebut diklik maka akan muncul pesan peringatan sbb;

Inilah salah satu yang menyebabkan pengunjung ke situs anda menjadi turun drastis. Kalau sudah begini apa yang harus anda perbuat? Maka cepat-cepatlah memeriksa kode HTML di halaman web site anda yang terkena injeksi, dan jika menemukan kode html yang aneh langsung saja perbaiki atau dibersihkan, dan setelah di edit upload ke web server anda seperti biasa. Hanya itu saja? tentu saja masih perlu langkah-langkah pencegahan lainnya yang dianggap perlu untuk menghindari terulangnya kembali situs anda di-injeksi oleh tangan-tangan jahil di dunia maya. Mungkin tips ca.com disini juga akan sangat membantu anda.

p.s. Saat ini AVG sudah mengupdate softwarenya (ke versi 8.0.135) dan pluginnya sudah kompatible dengan Firefox 3.0

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) provides a stable platform for software and hardware vendors, developers and users. With three years of support and maintenance on the desktop, 8.04 LTS is a great choice for large-scale deployment. A substantial and growing ecosystem of free and commercial software built for Ubuntu provides a rich set of choices for desktop users. This is the eighth desktop release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s track record in delivering - on a precise schedule every six months - a commercial operating system that is free, stable, secure and fully supported, remains unique.

Kubuntu 8.04

Kubuntu 8.04 now features two versions of the K Desktop Environment, a powerful graphical desktop environment which combines the ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Kubuntu operating system. The stable release of KDE in Kubuntu 8.04 is version 3.5.9. The edgier release of KDE in Kubuntu 8.04 is version 4.0.3.

Sistem komputer yang diperlukan untuk menjalankan Live CD adalah minimal memiliki RAM 384 MB. Jika anda menginstall langsung dari CD start-up di komputer anda, dibutuhkan komputer dengan minimal RAM 256MB dan kapasitas hardisk minimal 4GB.
Selamat mencoba!

What’s New in Firefox 3

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. This new platform includes more than 15,000 changes to improve performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 is built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

More Secure

• One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you’re connected to. (Try it here!)
• Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!)
• New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!)
• New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!)
• Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
• Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
• Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
• Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
• Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
• Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.

Easier to Use

• Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
• Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
• New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
• Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
• Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
• Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
• Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
• Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
• Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
• Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
• Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in “word-by-word” mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
• Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
• Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
• Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
• Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
• Integration with Linux: Firefox’s default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.

More Personal

• Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
• Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
• Smart Location Bar: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you’re looking for. Results are returned according to their a combination of frequency, and recency of visits to that page, ensuring that you’re seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
• Library: view, organize and search through your bookmarks, tags and browsing history using the new Library window. Create or restore full backups of this data whenever with a few clicks.
• Smart Bookmark Folders: quickly access your most visited bookmarks from the toolbar, or recently bookmarked and tagged pages from the bookmark menu. Create your own Smart Bookmark Folders by saving a search query in the Library.
• Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
• Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
• Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.

Improved Platform for Developers

• New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
• Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
• Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
• A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.

Improved Performance

• Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
• Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
• Reliability: A user’s bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.

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If you want to use this theme please install the flickrRss and WP-PageNavi plugins first!

ThemeBaru screenshot:

ThemeBaru UPDATE:
I have added a recent comments list on sidebar (left), gravatar icon on comment that it has been lost.

If you want to add a list of sponsor banner for 125×125 pixel in size, just uncomment the example html banner code in sidebar.php or just replace code below
<!– Start sponsor banner –>
with the html code like this:

<div class="Lolakspr">
<ul>
<li> URL and banner link code here! </li>
<li> URL and banner link code here! </li>
</ul>
</div>

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Click here to download ThemeBaru for WordPress (zip: 118kb)
Click here for DEMO

WP Plugins supported:
Almost all plugins are supported but you can consider the below plugins to use on your blog:

• All in One SEO Pack
• Commentluv
• flickrRss
• Google XML Sitemaps
• Lightview
• Social Dropdown or Sociable
• Wordpress Media Flickr
• WP-PageNavi

Themebaru is provide for free, so please keep links intact.

BTW, I have added Flickr Photostream page which is flash photo slideshow fulled directy from my photography work at Flickr photo sharing.

All photos taken with Nikon D40 digital SLR camera with its standard kit of 3.0x AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II lens, the D40 offers ease of use and split-second shutter response that eliminates the annoyance of shutter delay. For the extended zoom, I have added a Nikon AF-S DX VR 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED lens. The AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED is a compact and lightweight 3.6x zoom lens featuring a host of state-of-the-art optical technologies such as the Vibration Reduction (VR), Nikon ED glass element and SWM (Silent Wave Motor).