Jim Carrey - Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi

Test Entry Using Blog Entry Poster (Linux)

I downloaded this app on my Linux machine. Testing out to see if it works.

The Beauty of a Mechanical Watch

Cool video of how your mechanical watches works.

Regulating a Mechanical/Automatic Watch

IF your your automatic or mechanical is running fast (or slow), this is a great videon on how to get it back to running normally.

Unitas 6497 in action

Interesting video of the Unitas 6497 movement. This movement is used in many Panny Homage and panny replicas.

My Watch Forum - Installing SMF Mods

Over the weekend I finally had the chance to install some add-ons to My Watch Forum. It is really easy to install add-ons or Mods to the forum. I have not tried other forums so I cannot say that only SMF has this feature or it is the easiest compared to other forums.

Firstly, go to the SMF Modification Site and search for the mods you want or need and download it. Next go to your ADMIN page, under ADMINISTRATION CENTER, just go to packages and upload it. After uploading, apply the mod to your site. SMF will check if the mod is compatible with your version of the forum so be sure to make sure you download the correct version for your forum.

My Watch Forum

I have just started my own watch forum called My Watch Forum. This is the first time I have tried my hands on running a forum. I am member of several watch forums and I noticed many of them do not employ good forum softwares or tools and it made them look really messy and disorganized.

Getting a domain name was kind of a challenge. A lot of the domain names I want were already taken. My Watch Forum came to me quite easily not because I was thinking of "myspace" because literally it is "my" watch forum. Anyway the domain name was AVAILABLE, which was the reason why I chose it. GoDaddy has great deals on domain names as well as hosting plans. I went with them because I have several websites with them and it is much easier to have them all under one provider.

The most commonly used forum software is from vBulletin. It is a great software with many cool features but it does cost $85/year to lease and $160 to own the license. Since I do not know if this forum will work out, I do not want to put too much money into it. I found this cool website ForumMatrix that allows you to compare various forum softwares - ranging from license to Free and Open Source. I used vBulletin as the base comparison and the closest I found was SimpleMachineForum.

At this point, I got all I needed to start my forum - registered domain name, hosting plan and a forum software.

I will post more about setting up my forum using SMF.