Kaveh Jamali - A personal weblog about Creativity, Travel, Photography and GIS

I travel whether walking or driving

July 15, 2019 Kaveh Jamali daily log, Life Style, Travel Leave a comment

When I arrived in Australia, It took one week to adopt my mind with this truth that people drive in the correct direction, and they are not criminals. Here, the cars steering wheel is in the right, and the cars drive on the left side of the streets. When I ride a taxi for the first time, I was pushing the brake pedal. I expected to have a car crash anytime. Step by step, my mind adapted itself to new rules, and now, I think I am ready to drive again. It is the truth but funny that I should face an 18-year challenge in 44. I should take another driving license! Before coming to Australia, I read that I

Southern hemisphere and new experiences

July 3, 2019 Kaveh Jamali Birding, daily log, Life Style Leave a comment

We came to the southern hemisphere of the earth, where I was showing it on the geographical sphere in my childhood and was asking, “The people here do not fall?” Here, not only people don’t fall, but also the sun in the north in the noon isn’t an important issue. Here the steering wheel of the cars is in the right, and sometimes, as usual, when I want to pass the street I look at the left side, while the danger is on the right! Here is a paradise for birds, wherever you can find many birds. Many of these birds are new to me, so I am busy by bird watching and enjoying the city. Everything here runs slowly

I am happy with PHP

April 15, 2019 Kaveh Jamali Market, Web, Web Developing One comment

It was Feb 2018 that I decided to learn PHP. Because of the lovely W3Schools site, learning the PHP was easy to start. In the second week I tried to write some codes in Notepad++ and then I switched to Eclipse. After two months, I had a simple website (Gheimat.xyz [view it on the arichive.org], a Telegram robot (https://t.me/Gheimatxyz_bot) and a WordPress plugin (Warehouse updater from an external XML for Woocommerce). For ten months I was mostly busy with my sales sites in ASP Classic, help some companies to maintain their WP sites, taking photos, passing food and industrial photography courses, professional photo editing classes and … so I have no free time to start another project with PHP. In

English cafe

November 23, 2017 Kaveh Jamali Life Style Leave a comment

English Cafe is not a physical place; it is a monthly or weekly event that is hosted by a physical cafe. People who like to be in a friendly meeting and talk in English for 2 hours can join English Cafe’s events. Attendants’ English language skill is not important at all, but if they are intermediate or higher (advanced or native) will enjoy more. Attending this event (English Cafe) is entirely free (up to 31st March 2018). Attendants only pay the coffee, tea or any other things they eat or drink during the meeting to the host cafe or coffee shop. The next English Cafe event will be informed via social media and the English Cafe site: www.EnglishCafe.xyz

Non-Smoking Cafes

September 1, 2017 Kaveh Jamali Life Style, Maps Leave a comment

However smoking in cafes and restaurants is forbidden in Iran, but still, there are many coffee shops and cafes that you can find an ashtray on their tables. This means they let their customers smoke there! Some cafes have individual parts for smokers; smokers are allowed to smoke there. But I am talking about non-smoking cafes, the lovely places that you can enjoy coffee and cocoa smell instead of the annoying smell of cigarette. As some people use the lovely FourSquare software on their mobile phone, so I have created an editable list of non-smoking cafes in Iran there. Please, kindly visit it and add the non-smoking cafe. http://nonsmoking.cafe Your help will be appreciated with the pleasant smell of cakes,

This site needs your help

July 19, 2017 Kaveh Jamali photos, Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

Today, I published the above picture “this site needs your help” to my Instagram account to ask my followers to support my web site. As Instagram is an easy to use application and many people all around the world have it on their mobile phones, so each good picture will collect 10s or 100s even millions of likes in a few hours. Unfortunately adding links to Instagram posts is not possible! I am glad to inform you that this request has collected six likes in 30 minutes, I predict that this picture would raise more than 50 likes in next 24 hours (about 60% of the average number of likes on my photos posted on Instagram). Thank you, dear followers! Anyway,

Online Shop removed

July 15, 2017 Kaveh Jamali Web Leave a comment

It was a hard decision, but I had no cure except removing Online Shop from my site. Managing a multilingual site in WordPress is not as easy as I was thinking at first. More than two years, I had used qTranslateX for this purpose, and I have had many unexpected problems with it. Finally, I decided to use WPML, migrating to WPML was a tough process and after I thought that everything is OK, I found more than 6000 unwanted categories in my Woocommerce shop! Removing these unwanted categories was something possible, but I think handling a multilingual online shop with open source tools like WordPress and Woocommerce need someone to work full time on them. As I am too

Recording birds sounds

December 20, 2016 Kaveh Jamali Birding Leave a comment

Today I started to record birds sounds by my new portable recorder Zoom H6. Voice recording is not just a hobby for me, as I know birders can identify birds by sounds too. In my last birding trip, I saw expert bird watchers that we’re able to detect sounds easily and find birds by their sounds very fast. I am going to upload the sounds that I record to Xeno-Canta site [Sharing bird sounds from around the world]. Here is my public profile there http://www.xeno-canto.org/contributor/LVRQSWTJCZ It is my pleasure if you check it some time and put your comments there.

My first 360 picture test

October 1, 2016 Kaveh Jamali Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

The below image is my first 360 picture test; It works fine in Google Street View, Facebook 360 and my site. Please wait a moment to picture be loaded completely, then move it by mouse, If you are loading it on your tablet or phone, move it. You can see the map of the place I took the picture:

URL Shortener

September 24, 2016 Kaveh Jamali Internet Toolbox, Web Leave a comment

Sometime in Iran, we should re-invent the wheel! Unexpectedly I understood that none of my “bit.ly” Short URL doesn’t work because this site is blocked by Iran government. For a while, I used goo.gl, but bit.ly gives customers more professional services like a hosted domain name. Finally, I decided to set my URL Shortener. I chose sml.yt for the domain name and installed specified software for it. I hope everything is OK now. Why should we use an URL Shortener? There are five reasons on (http://sml.yt/o) 1. They make links more manageable 2. They can track and compile click data 3. They can be transformed into social media services 4. They can provide users useful features 5. They promote sharing

Team Photo Blog – MycamTalks

September 4, 2016 Kaveh Jamali Life Style, Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

Yesterday I installed WP on MyCamTalks.com (a team photo blog in English and Persian). I also uploaded some photos and their description for the test. Javaneh Azimi and I have created this photoblog to have better communication with people all around the world. We strongly believe that Instagram and other social media cannot cover our needs. However, we will continue to upload and share our contents on other apps, but complete contents and large size photos will be uploaded to this site only. We (current and future website members) will upload daily photos there, there is no limitation about the subjects and location of pictures, but the members will take pictures. So you should expect many original photos there.

Domains for Sale

August 7, 2016 Kaveh Jamali Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

I have 10s of active domains and some of my domains are ready to sale Please view the domains for sale domain list here https://flippa.com/domain-catalogs/45022 Please put your offers via flippa.com There are some other domains that are not listed there like: www.iranmap.asia Price: 150 USD

Online Multilingual Picture Dictionary

January 2, 2016 Kaveh Jamali Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

The “Online Multilingual Picture Dictionary” test site is available on www.picturedictionary.info. This picture dictionary contains some languages and is developing by a dynamic team of languages and cultures lovers. I have been on the consultant team, and now I try to introduce this test site by social media. Javaneh Azimi and I (the project owner and developer) idea for this project is: If people know more about other languages and culture, they will understand each other more, and this will cause a decrease in regional and international conflicts. Please keep your fingers crossed for this aim. Thank you

Liana Italian Restaurant

November 9, 2015 Kaveh Jamali Delicious, Market, Web, Web Developing One comment

Liana Italian Restaurant beta web site is active now. People who lives in eastern part of Tehran can order online via: http://www.lianarestaurant.com Site is active in Persian and English now and in coming week some other feature will be added to it.

1000 daily visitors up to march 2016

October 16, 2015 Kaveh Jamali Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

I know that having a real challenge will cause that I enjoy from my life, always should be something to fight for. I knew that I have not written on my weblog for a while, and unfortunately, recently, I just used social media to write and publish my notes and pictures. Recently I seldom write about my hobbies and job activities. As tomorrow is not promised to anyone, So I am going to publish at least three posts per week. I hope the new procedure helps me to have about 1000 daily visitors instead of current 10-15 visitors up to March 2016.

Silent Mode

September 20, 2015 Kaveh Jamali Life Style Leave a comment

There are some days and some time that you have many ideas in your mind and like to do them, but you are too busy with daily tasks and you can not. Maybe you find some free time, but your mind is not enough to calm to think. It seems that you are like a Formula One car in a race that even in checkpoints, you are not allowed to turn off your engine. BUT some time there is no way except to say “go to hell” and no matter what will be happened then! You need to silent I have some big ideas, and now I want to go on a trip and spend my time with my family

Made in Kaveh Suction Cup Mount for Virb Elite !!!

June 28, 2015 Kaveh Jamali GPS, GPS Devices Leave a comment

Kaveh Made, Suction Cup Mount for Virb Elite 🙂 Today I was looking for Original Garmin Virb Elite Standard Mount, but I did not found it in Iran market, so I Mixed it With Chinese One, seems it works fine 🙂

Advertisement system and search engine robots

June 26, 2015 Kaveh Jamali Web, Web Developing Leave a comment

Last week I re-activated my old advertisement system on one of our company high traffic sites. And after one day I understood that the number of views and clicks are not reasonable, I mean they were ten times higher than I expected. When I checked the raw site logs, unexpectedly I found about 80% of the site traffic belonged to search engine robots and crawlers!!! Not only famous American ones like Google, Bing and Yahoo but also Russian Yandex, Chinese Baidu and Iranian Yooz were very active on the site. There were two solutions to solving the problem: 1. Blocking search engines traffic and preventing their robots and crawlers to indexing my site, an expert knows this action means suicide