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Edit Your Profile and Avatar with A Single Click

Posted: April 15th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | 3 Comments »

Yes, we called it the magic of AJAX. We know that thousand of web developers have implemented this technique and absolutely not something new. However, this slight improvement intended to help increase your experience in using Doocu’s app as it reduce the load for users to open a new page when editing their profile.

So, go and give it a shot. As soon as you’re logged in, the Edit menu and Edit Profile is located just below your profile info.

AJAX Edit Profile

AJAX Edit Avatar


Travel Health Fact Sheet You Need to Know

Posted: April 7th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

Europe Traveling Health Fact Sheet

A Europe vacation could be a fun and comfortable journey since Europe itself is an established area, where you should not worry about the transportation or the lodging. Transportation modes are commonly easy in Europe thus you can even explore different countries in one day. The accommodations are also spans from the most economy to the most luxurious one, depending on your budget.

However, above all the matters that have been stated above, a common issue you need to think of is the health fact in Europe. Each country or area has its own characteristic, as well as there are several health don’t s you need to be aware with, like never drink water from a tap since they might improperly sanitized.

As a reference, you can read a couple of these Travel Health Fact Sheet docs in Europe.


World Cup 2010 Match Schedule

Posted: April 6th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

2010 World Cup South Africa Logo

The next month of June and July will be the most awaited moment for billions of audience around the world, as the World Cup tournament will be held in South Africa. 30 countries will give their best performance to fight for the pride of being the number one.

So, are you ready yet to catch up all the world cup matches? Download all the schedule for World Cup matches in Doocu, and go for your favorite country.


Sample Menu Plan for Diabetics

Posted: April 1st, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

One of the most important thing in the to-do-list for diabetics is planning a proper diet menu for everyday meals. The diabetic menu should be arranged by calculating the meal’s total calories so that it would not exceed the limit of calories of a diabetic should consume.

Diabetics Meal Plan

One example, it’s good to have small meals in the due course of time rather than having 3 larger meals per day. Some dairy products are high in carbs, so it is better to limit for 8 oz consumption at a time.

Carbohydrate products usually contains natural sugars, so it’s encouraged to be careful with the intake. Combining them with protein products at snack time or before exercise is a good practice.

Limiting yourself to a tight diet menu can be frustrating and boring at one time. However, you can try to experiment and create another menu to cope with it. The following sample menus in Doocu could help you work with this.


Vacation Guides to Phuket, Thailand

Posted: March 31st, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

If you ever watched Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The Beach” movie, than you should have noticed and amazed the white sand and blue sky scenery on the entire scenes. Some of you might also know that the scene was located on one of the most beautiful paradise in the world: Phuket.

Phuket is one of Thailand’s best tourism spot, located at south of country, which is also called as the Jewel of the Andaman. For beach lovers and sun worshippers , Phuket is the best place they could get with spread across islands Similan, Pha Nga Bay, the Phi Phi archipelago and Krabi. Obviously the most gorgeous beach areas are well facilitated and normally most visited, though not overcrowded. Hiring a motorcycle and go searching for one of the smaller beaches tucked away on Phuket might be a rewarding experience.

Phuket’s beaches offer plenty of tourist amenities with large umbrellas and sun lounges for hire and plentiful vendors wandering around the beaches selling cold beverages, fruits, ice cream and tasty snacks. It’s absolutely rewarding if you plan to visit Phuket this summer. You can read some guides and references about Thailand especially Phuket on Doocu’s directory.


Guides on How to Live with Diabetes

Posted: March 30th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | 1 Comment »

In about a decade ago, the name diabetes should be associated with the disease that only occurred on elderly people. Nowadays, diabetes is also potentially occurred for young people. I’m a little bit surprised when I read about Halle Berry who is a type 1 diabetics. People like her, does not turn out any insulin or it makes less insulin to regulate the extent of blood glucose in the body. Thus, they cannot help their glucose to be absorbed by blood cells.

Diabetes Cure and Healthy Lifestyle

On another diabetes type (Type II), insulin is produced normally, but the cells has become resistant to it. This diabetics usually caused by someone’s lifestyle who is lack of physical exercise or physical activities, and obesity.

A diabetics should change their lifestyle in order to reduce and cure their diabetes. One thing which is surely important is by keeping a healthy daily activities. Workout or having physical activities is of the ways that to keep up a healthy lifestyle; movement frequently burns and uses energy thus utilizing one’s blood glucose.

Completing the healthy exercise, diabetics should also perform a balanced diet. With a healthy nutritional diet, a diabetics should not worry about the prospect of being sick. They could also complement other cures that can be used to fight diabetes. From herbal medicines to home remedies, there are also prescribed injections and medicines.

Diabetes has a lot of way to cure. One vital thing to do is getting informations about how to live and fight with it. These list of documents related with diabetes can be read as resource. Of course, you should always consult with your physician to have the most proper cure.


Doocu on Bancakan 2.0 Meetup

Posted: March 27th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

Last night might be one of our greatest opportunities to share the passion and knowledge among the web apps enthusiasts. Bancakan 2.0 event was successfully held for the second time in order to appreciate community of web programmers/developers in Jogjakarta.

Doocu Presentation on Bancakan Meetup

Being given 20 minutes of presentation, our founder Dwi Hermawanto (a.k.a Wawan) explained a little about Doocu, the history, technologies behind, future monetization options, etc. While still in Alpha stage, Doocu has the ability to serve basic tasks of a social PDF sharing site, like upload, share, download, and read the documents online.

Wawan also shared about the future development of Doocu which should be expanded to serve more user needs as well as client platforms such as mobile phones and desktop applications. Above all, Doocu’s determination is to show the world that Indonesia can build quality and useful web apps despite the Indonesian issues on internet black hat practices.

Bancakan meetup last night also attended by Danny Oei Wirianto who is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Kaskus, the largest community website in Indonesia. He gave a light and inspirational presentation about Kaskus’ history and development which is now becoming one of the most influencing website in this country.

By the way, we like your quote last night: “Indonesia is not a developing country, but a progressing country“. Yeah.. That rocks!


Treadmill Manuals to Prolong the Life of Your Treadmill

Posted: March 25th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

Among the numerous exercise equipment offered for sale on the market, treadmill can contribute the best value for your money. It is proven that treadmill has more advantage and exercise capability which is not able on other exercise machines.

Dog Treadmill

The good value about treadmill can also be optimized by maintaining it with proper methods. Treadmill maintenance includes periodic dusting and infrequent belt lubrication. To keep the treadmill running smoothly and efficiently, treadmill maintenance schedule should be followed frequently.

Instead of basic periodic dusting and lubrication, each treadmill has specific maintenance methods which needs to be addressed which can be found on its respective manual. If you need some manual regarding the treadmill you owned, you can search in Doocu’s directory. Some of these can be examples.


Dreamweaver and the Missing Manuals

Posted: March 24th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

Among seasoned web developers, the name Dreamweaver should be a familiar word for a handy and user friendly web developing software or known as IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Dreamweaver once created and developed by Macromedia, which were then acquired few years ago by Adobe. Dreamweaver is know called as Adobe Dreamweaver and currently integrated to the their Creative Suite product lines.

Macromedia Dreamweaver Logo

The recent Adobe Dreamweaver release has reached version 8. Many improved features are offered on this latest Dreamweaver 8 like:

  • Paste Special menu that will get rid the work of cleaning up the word processsor’s crazy text markup
  • One click for Comment/Uncomment blocks of code
  • Handy little widgets that facilitate code collapsing, tag wrapping, comment inserting, select parent tag, etc
  • Unified CSS panel which makes designing easier and more handy

Lots of stuff can be found on the latest Dreamweaver release, but if you’re still using the previous version of Dreamweaver, these following “Missing Manuals” could help you reap more features from your Dreamweaver IDE which just you might never realized before. Check it out.


A Bunch of Knitting Instructions and Tutorials to Share

Posted: March 20th, 2010 | Author: Murdani Eko | | No Comments »

Knitting somehow heard like for middle-aged woman who has less activity to fill up their wonderful afternoon. Don’t blame me because that’s what the stereotype I’ve been given back then from the cartoons and old television shows. But, my mind seemed like to change after I discover the reality that knitting activity does not apply for my grandmother.

knitting instructions manuals and tutorials

There are some of Doocu users are so fond about knitting so they share everything about it: knitting manuals, knitting instructions, knitting tutorials. The amount of the knitting documents shared also can’t be said as some or little. Maybe I just said it a bunch. But, we hope that number would increase so that everyone who loves knitting can have and share their knitting experience in this site.

I also found on many sites that talked about knitting. Even one of them whom I discovered through her writings, admitted that she was a true passionate knitter and knit addicted. Hmm, I’ve just recognized that there are some positive thing about addiction. Addiction that brings good to everyone.

So, why don’t you figure out some of these knitting instructions?

Happy knitting!