Preview: Skype Video Call via Fring for iPhone

Fring, another popular third party chatting application available today on various mobile platform including iPhone, Andriod based phones, Windows mobile, and Symbian based phones. You can chat through Fring using existing AIM, MSN, or Skype accounts. The interesting thing about Fring that is available recently is the capability of video chat via Skype.  However, as of now, this capability is only available on iPhone and selected Nokia Symbian devices. But for this post, I’ll be generally concentrating the Fring video call via Skype on the iPhone. Fring’s Commercial after the break.

Preview: Bangkok Traffic live on Google Maps

For those of you who doesn’t know what Google Maps is, it is a web-based service that includes all the maps around the world. This application can be accessed by going onto your favorite web browser and type in maps.google.com in your URL bar, search for Bangkok and click traffic button when available. The one cool thing about this service is that you can see traffic in various cities around the world! And as of this week, Google is introducing live feed traffic monitor of Bangkok, Thailand from the comfort of your own home or even your mobile devices with data plan.

Above, is the screenshot of Bangkok traffic from Google Maps on November 26, 2009 at 6pm (Local Time).

HOW TO: Install VirtualBox in your system with Windows XP as a host

Okay, this is my first post of explanation of something so if there are any mistakes in this explanation, I apologize.

First things first, what we are try to teach you here  is how to install “virtual machine” so that you can run other operating systems on your Microsoft Windows PCs (Windows XP in this case) without restarting or closing other applications.

INTRODUCTION: Gilang Andi

The last introduction comes from me, introducing world’s one-and-only Gilang Andi Pradana! *applause sound*. Am an 18-years old lad, the youngest of the three (musketeers?) . Born in the early November in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Started blogging since my junior high, when wordpress has not even exist yet! hahaha. Not making it any longer, my mates already told you about the blog so i will just briefly write about myself. Oh, and just call me Gil for short.

INTRODUCTION: Bird Rxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Person:

As you can see, my last name is long, and don’t even bother with my real name because you’re not gonna be able to remember it. So here it goes. The name you all will know me as is Bird, period. Born on January 2nd, 1989, along with UCLA’s 7th consecutive win in bowl game (via Brainy History). Hail from the southeast Asian nation, Thailand. Currently residing in Kusatsu, Japan, and studying at Ritsumeikan University (and here’s the Japanese in case you want to be fancy about it: “立命館大学”), pursuing a degree in Computer Science. I’m proficient in English and Thai. Getting better in Japanese. Forgot a lot of Chinese. So I guess I can say I got 4 weak languages at hand.

INTRODUCTION: Yuri Ardila

Emerging from the earth’s core is YURI ARDILA here, born 20 years ago on 12th of July in Indonesia. One of the three admins created this blog. Studying in Ritsumeikan University, Department of Information Science, College of Computer Science (Information System in Japanese), currently a 2nd year student, same as the other 2 admins, Gilang and Bird.

BYG’s Blog Logo

We would like to kick off this blog with a simple logo that’s easy to recognize. Once we get this going there will be some more design and colors added to it. The blog is slowly coming together and let’s hope it can create something great for the community!

Progress: November 2nd, 2009

The bits and pieces of this blog is coming together, and hope that we can start posting as soon as this week. Thank you for your patience as we are getting ready to blog. This is starting soon. Very soon!

Underconstruction

We are gathering ideas for our blog. Please be patient as we will start blogging informative posts right here as soon as possible.

See you soon!