I'm Knight - Part 1

Gallery listing missing for NextGen Gallery

By Knight | January 7, 2009

If you happen to just upgrade your NextGEN Gallery Plugin , you might have some problem when you try to insert an image on your new post. Your gallery listing appear blank !

Gallery listing missing for NextGen Gallery

Don’t panic, your gallery is still there, is just that it doesn’t show in the drop down menu, What you need to do for fixing this issue ? Visit your Gallery admin page -> Manage Gallery , edit all the gallery, you should see that the Title field is empty, just update the Title field with the proper name will fixed this issue.

Gallery listing missing for NextGen Gallery

Tags: nextgen, wordpress plugin

Some mac apps news

By Knight | January 6, 2009

It should be because of mac world event , it seem like there are quite a few mac application release/upgrade.

Picasa for Mac - lots of people waiting for this iPhoto killer.
Roxio introduce Toast 10 Titanium - never use this before i just did some burning through the leopard build in burning software and it working great.
The team of BusySync release their latest application - BusyCal which looks like a PIM to me.
Skype 2.8 for Mac going to release tomorrow.
TextSoap is going for 15% discount of their retail price , just use the code MACWORLD2009

I wonder any hardware related news going to announce ? among these rumor roundup , What i hope to see will be the Mac Touch.

Tags: mac apps, mac software

Summary of my gadget & web service 2008

By Knight | January 1, 2009

This going to be my self-review for 2008 part 3.

this is wha i write on my gadget page before, which is my “idealy” setup.

using iMac at home doing development
using N810 iphone/ipod touch as mobile device on the road
using a netbook for going around

Yes , i own all these now, sold my macbook pro this year and change it to iMac , getting a refurbished ipod touch as birthday present and bought a netbook recently, for 2009 the only thing i would like to change will be my mobile phone. G1 ? or iPhone ? or maybe the rumor iPhone nano ?

For web application/web service 2008, these are my favourite 12 service

Gmail - being my main mail client, i like all the label, filtering and IMAP feature.
Coogle Calendar - my major calendar servie, that let me plan my schedule, sync with my ical.
Google Analytics - using it to keep track my blog stat.
Google Reader - my favourite rss feed reader , now it sync with my ipod touch through byline for my daily morning travel.
Del.icio.us - still my favourite bookmark manager, can’t find any replacement.
Facebook - my favourite social network service 2008, help me in sync with my friend and know what happen to them.
Twitter - i post most of my thinking on plurk, twitter more like for me to see what other is talking.
Plurk - micro blogging , if facebook is for me to in sync with my real life friend, the Plurk is more like for me to in sync with my virtual friend.
Netvibes - it’s my start page for some time already, allow me to keep track a lots of thing inlcude my email, my blog comments and some tech news.
Buxfer - i blog about this recently , it keep track my income and expenses.
Remember The Milk - my GTD tools , todo list that remind me what i need to do
Evernote - my notes apps, currently fill with a lots of notes that i need read

Tags: 2008, gadget, self review 2008, self-review, web service, web2.0

Summary of my blog 2008

By Knight | January 1, 2009

This going to be my self-review for 2008 part 2.

It’s not really that happening on this blog for the past 1 year, i did twice major theme changes , which is the V8 and V9 , i try different combination of layout and because of v9 using some theme framework , i have migrate my ads to plugin control , in stead of need to hard coded everytime i changing theme.

Other thent this i have migrate my site from ahknight.net to imknight.net, which cause my page rank drop, currently on Page Rank 2, i don’t really have a proper keep track of my blog stat on 2007 , that’s why there are no stat to compare with, but i know the visit and page view is dropping like hell ( Yes i going to do something on it to save it!). Hosting wise , this blog has swap 3 host this year, knownhost, webfaction and now on media temple, the previous 2 host both are great host ,i moved it because of some other reason.I also launch my development blog not long ago which still need a lot of pump up.

Just check on my archives, i been blogging for 5 year and i really hope there are another 5 year for this blog.

These are my 2008 popular post - by popularity plugin ( include comment and trackback performance)

These are my 2008 popular post - by google analytics

Tags: 2008, blog review 2008, self review 2008, self-review

Summary of 2008 Resolutions

By Knight | January 1, 2009

This going to be my self-review for 2008 part 1.

No doubt 2008 is not my year,as i mention in my recent post , i know i will be upset when doing summary for my 2008 resolutions, but this still need to be done , as a lesson and as a reminder to myself to doing better in 2009. Checking on my 2008 resolutions post and compare to my 2007 resolutions summary , i really need to work harder on 2009.

for Life section - 0.5/3

Below 80KG - nope my weight never go down any more in fact it pump up a bit but lucky still maintain below 90KG.
Travel - my family having some problem and my dad’s health condition unstable , so nope we didn’t travel
Productivy and organize - not really on the productivity but i m more organize , using both todo list and calendar to organize my life.

For Finance section - 1/3

saving , target 5k - done, although some of the money stuck on share
get a insurans plan - nope , original thinking of Oct then lots of thing happen and now still pending
monthly blog income - nope, this year i only receive twice google cheque

For Tech section - 0.5/3

learn a php framework - nope
make a project by this framework - nope
upgrade my css and ajax - slightly upgrade on my ajax and css due to work

For Work section - 2/2

hope that getting a good reward for my performance
have a project that i m proud with it

in term of score i only getting 4 out of 11 , although some of the goal really affected by unexpected reason but after all i still think i m not doing good enough for this year. At the same time i really need to be more organize on my goal and split it with my time line, there are some goal i actually planning to do it on my very last long holidays but in the end i miss some.

Tags: 2008, resolutions, self review 2008, self-review

Buxfer is still my personal finance tracking tool

By Knight | December 31, 2008

I been using buxfer to track my personal finance for the past 1 year , it doesn’t have a lot of fantasitc feature but it does meet my need most of the time, but i m looking for new service/software to replace it. This is one of my major goal during my long holidays, but in the end i can’t find a replacement software/service.

At first ,I m thinking of give rudder or mint a try, since both are famous personal finance service and mint even have a iphone/ipod touch apps that can sync.

But in the end i give up on both after i complete the registration , because i have a big problem once i want to start using this 2. Both service need you to create an actual account, which mean you need to select your bank, fill in your bank login and there are some sync feature to sync your bill , there are no option for you to create an virtual account.I m still not comfortable to just give my bank login like this to a service, i rather create a virtual account and do import of my billing monthly and normally i will create a cash account to tracking my cash on hand, but nope i m unable to do this on both.

since online service unable to meet my need, i thinking of using what i purchase during machest bundle , cha-ching.

Buxfer is still my personal finance tracking tool

On the first look cha-ching just like a typical mac app software with the mac style interface but after i test it a while and import my data ( which backup from buxfer ) i find out one of the big problem, there are no option for sharing transaction, i having this type of transaction quite often, pay certain amount of money first for 2~3 people share, during end of the month calculate the total sum and getting back the money, it doesn’t seem like it can be done on Cha-Ching, not sure the_coming_soon cha-ching 2.0 having this feature ?

In the end, i still stick with buxfer , maybe with some new feature coming, i might really consider to subscribe buxfer pro ?

Tags: buxfer, cha-ching, mint, personal finance, rudder

3rd post in December

By Knight | December 29, 2008

My bad, the whole december until now then writing my 3rd post, lots of thing happen in this month, some of the these person issue did affect my blogging interest and at the same time i was spending a little too much time on WOW.

I started my long holidays around 20th Dec, but it seem like i have complete very little thing so far, of course some lesson learned and i think for 2008 , i have done quite badly for my 2008 resolutions.

Of course in stead of keep regret on what i have done, what i never complete, i m telling & remind myself to look forward for 2009, you can’t get back what you had lost , you can only move forward and do it better next time.

Tags: self

Ding! LV80 finally

By Knight | December 9, 2008

After a few week of leveling finally my mage became lv 80 during last saturday, which is currently the latest Wrath of the Lick King level cap. This explain why the blog seem like suddenly slow down, argh !

anyway when i reach lv 80 , i still got around 3~4 zone haven’t explore , this might be my next target, but if can i would try to reach this target more casually ( i m quite casual already ). My impression for this expansion is quite good, there are some of cool quest and there are some interesting story telling, i enjoy very much , i wonder when will my druid become lv 80 too ? maybe not so soon.

Tags: world of warcraft, wow

think about switch host

By Knight | December 2, 2008

As usual the chaging hosting company has become a habit to me, i m reading some of the my old post regarding known host and media temple, how i wish known host can be cheaper or media temple can be more stable.

Anyway i have just order geekstorage’s vps, initial impression not really good, it took around 4 day to get my vps ready and the experience of the vps not really that good, quite often i will have a “pause pause” situation , i wonder is it disk IO issue ?

I do think about using linode or slicehost and be my own server admin , but it seem like those are required more skill which i don’t really have time to polish it for now. argh

Tags: Hosting, vps, webhosting

My Sitex Hoot

By Knight | November 30, 2008

I m on leave last friday just for this event - Sitex 2008, because i know there are quite a few thing i need to buy which i don’t want to squeeze in weekend crowd. These are what i hoot on sitex 2008 @ expo

Omnia, finally my gal manage to get this phone at $488, she miss the xmas road show for $438 but lucky she didn’t miss this one, retail price is $599 with 2 year plan
Philips 19 inch Wide screen LCD for my gal, original she plan to get it for her mum , but i think now she going to use it and pass her old one 17 inch to her mum, any way Philips is having 3 pixel warranty, within 3 year on site support, the LCD cost below $200.
EEEBox - bought it for my parent to use, you won’t believe how many thing it squeeze in this tiny little box, hardware part which impress me is having wireless support, software part will be the splashtop feature , the slightly turn off will be using DVI port for monitor ( because i just pass my old 19inch CRT to my mum , CRT don’t have DVI port ), another plus point is free mouse and keyboard.
MSI Wind Black , i been struggle to choose a netbook for quite some time, finally i m settle down with MSI Wind - $729 for 6 cell , 2GB , 10 inch netbook , i think it’s quite a good deal
Belkin Slim Backpack - i m a bag lover and this baby is about $30 off from the retail price which i think quite worth it.
Cyber Clean - $15 for 4 which is quite cheap, thanks for @acidz intro , this little help me clean quite a lot of dirt from my keyboard.

p/s i m glad that i bought MSI Wind, my original choice - Lenovo S10 has drop from $799 to $699 during weekend, where the MSI Wind i bought only drop from $729 to $699, if i pay $100 more for 1 day different , i will be quite regret for my choice.

Tags: sitex