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Ramadan Promotion 2009, Get Ready to Buka Puasa!

George — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:55:29 +0000

If you’re looking for Ramadan Restaurant Promotion for this year, look nowhere! Here’s the list of restaurants offering cool Ramadan Promotion, buffets, events!

Selamat Buka Puasa!

A little Talk on website Template and skin design

George — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:36:33 +0000

Over the time, I visited thousands of websites a month just like you (if you’re that crazy like me). I noticed that many websites are broken or not supporting standard web coding guideline as stated by w3c.

One of the reason of course if the laziness of the site designer and using outdated coding editor like FrontPage. While the root of the causes is the lack of knowledge and skill by the designer as more and more website require programming language like PHP and .NET.

Another phenomena is kinda wtf one which I found that those websites that offer free site template are very beautiful but offering lousy templates for you and no point they give you their own skin. Don’t believe? take a look at www.Jooma.org and www.wordpress.org. Why don’t they just include they own beautiful skin together like www.dotnetnuke.com (Brilliant!)?

While for those professional site template design companies, you will see how ugly their website is it but with a lot of amazing templates for sell or client profiles. The only reason I can think of is that they do not want their clients to have a website ugly than their company website (else they will demand a lot I guess).

Anyway, I’m making a nice skin, (I mean really nice skin) during my free time. It should be a DNN skin and container but with the power to convert it easily to any other platform. It will be free of course

While to reduce the hard time for site designer and for your IE6 users’ sake…. it would be cool to add a code to help eliminate IE6 users by adding a simple conditioned CSS to show something like:

1:

Full credited to:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IE6WarningStopLivingInThePastGetOffOfIE6.aspx

You should see a box floating on the site if your are using IE6 to view website with the above code. Yup, it is cool but it just annoys some IE6 users as they have no choice but the use IE6 due to their company do not upgrade their web browser as it will affect the work a lot and money of course. The other reasons may simply because the ignorance of Internet beginner/old people and may just because you are using Pirated Windows and not dare to validate your Windows and UPDATE IT! hehe…

Time Saving Tip: Open all project websites in 3 clicks.

Oracle9 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:46:21 +0000

If you have been using a lot of Google Products like I do, you probably need this tips. Imagine everyday I have to open Google Analytics, Adsense, Adwords, Webmaster Tools and 2 Google Apps accounts and 2 Gmail Accounts just to keep track on my production site?

Log in and out plus page loading all these things… some times drive me crazy as I’m like spending 15minutes a day just to open and reopen and login and re-login all these pages, and that is spending 3.8 days in a year just to logging in and out from/to my accounts! This hasn’t include other accounts like ebay, youtube, Facebook blar blar blar…

Really! I’ll shoot yooou! Ok, the first solution is simple. Most of the people just don’t categorized their browser bookmark (like me) or categorized the websites into its nature like blog, food portal, news etc…which ended up sometimes you don’t even know where did you put in last time and you never see the website again.

The first solution is simple, group all the websites that you use frequently rather than categorized it. So when you open your browser to do work, mouse over to the bookmark folder and click open All in Tabs! One more thing, you can bookmark the same website in other folder/category too! Thus, you can create another folder for leisure time which may has a gmail site inside too

The second method is to preserved on browser for work and another for browsing or shopping. As some of you may have notice that FireFox is not safe at all due to the fundamental framework problem, all lot of third parties extensions and getting more users which result in hackers’ second favorite target.

So far, the best browser for surfing around and reading is Opera 9. It has the best vision, graphic rendering and cool text font. The best thing is that it does not have third party extension that may have your security compromised.

For Shopping, I still think that Internet Explorer is safer than Firefox to some extend provided that your IE doesn’t not visit suspicious websites. Google Chrome will be a good options as well.

I’m testing few Password Manager too but I found that it is quite insecure to have the manager to store all of my password in my computer. Guess I still prefer a safer way which is never use cookie to remember my password and waste 3.8 in a year to log in and out….

The third thing is to use Google Apps’ domain Alias, POP3 and SMTP to merge all email accounts into one. I’ll put that into next post…if not I may not know what to write next as my mind is kinda in a mess recently.

Please share your secret ways to save time in the Internet, will ya?

Blogging Tips: No topic to write for today?

George — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:29:44 +0000

I know. Every writers nightmare:

ARRRRR I just want my content! Really, I’m not a full time blogger that have time to search whatever things to blog about. Maybe someday I will if the Advertising income can afford me to do so.

My friend used to work as a cell phone promoter. He told me that during peak season or somehow someday, the sales revenue will far beyond the set daily target while someday there will be none. Thus, keeping the bullets (Cash) in hand and to balance the unbalance of the week.

Well, same thing apply to blogging. You don’t blog out of a sudden all the time, it just wouldn’t take long for you to give up because one day you’ll just notice that your life isn’t full of surprises everyday.

In most of the time, you actually have a lot of ideas and things to write but they are all pieces that falling apart and you just can’t write a proper content with those pieces. But, most important thing is that you keep the pieces together and one day you may just found that you can use it in hand!

Another important thing is that never mixed all things together in one blog post. This is not only bad for the Search Engine but for the readers also. If the readers found it hard to digest your blog, then most of the time they will just scan it and leave it. There are so many other interesting posts elsewhere waiting for them to read!

There are actually many free tools to help you gather and keeping the pieces from the websites you visited. With the new Wordpress 2.7.1, you can simply login to Admin then go to Tools > Press this. All you need is to drag the link to your Firefox bookmark and whenever you see a good topic to write for, just click the “Press This” and it will store whatever information you needed to blog later.

For me, as I watch a lot of Anime and movie in my computer, I always screen capture a good scene like above image for blogging uses. Just save the images you never know when will you need it. Isn’t it better than you need it but you don’t have any?

You’re welcome to share on how would you do to prevent running out of content to blog.

Is there any way to get back in to my Google Account?

George — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:52:42 +0000

First, if you found this post because you found it in search engine, then I suppose you’ve gone into so many website and blogs, tested so many methods and ended up no where but the Google Login Page. I assumed that you’re just so desperate as I do because I’ve a very very very important thing and service stored with Google Account and can’t login too!

The final why to regain your Google Account Login and Password is through this Google Password Recovery Form. The fact is, if a person really forget the password, I don’t think the form will help much useless you have at least some solid records still in your hand. However if you really still have the requested information that Google need it, don’t you think you actually have a pretty good memory and probably won’t ended up searching solution to retrieve your password right? More over, don’t you think storing info related to your account actually means lowering your account security?

I actually left 2 options. The first one is to recover the password from my brain either by miracle or hypnotization. The second option is to boom Google, hack it or threaten their staff and so on which I none of it is within my capability. So here’s the secret option that I want to give you which I found it quite useful: If I can forgot the password for an important account, then I brain is actually getting retarded that I will soon forgot about this lame case that ever happened to me ACCEPT IT!

Anyway just some add on, Please at least save your verification code for Gmail Activation or set a secondary email account or you will ended up losing the account forever.

The are so many Gmail / Google Account Password retrieval software around the Internet. BEWARNED! Do not download or buy it! If you pay for it, most likely your credit card credential will be stolen for bad and your computer will full of other viruses or, the software retrieve other account password without letting you know. The next day, what you will find is that all your accounts has been compromised without you knowing it! The best hacker is not bring you down but LIVEWITH YOU!

Most of the email password retrieval work like this: It will scan all files including very sensitive and hidden one. Yes, your computer will block it and asking your decision but because you’re desperate to find back the password, you will just click yes and that is the beginning of your nightmare. Some even asking for permission to access to your other email accounts to search for password, it just don’t work that way seriously.

So be wise enough to know how to protect your Google Account because it is getting more and more important as…for me, I uses 23 Google products and some of the people that using Google Checkout will have their Credit Card linked to it too! Never review your Google Account to anyone! Including your computer, don’t store in pc! If you store in other email account, never it “invite your friends” from website (Like social website, facebook) to access to your email account!

If you have a retarded brain and your brain’s memory cache is not life long then all you need to do is write it on paper. Don’t laugh! at least no spyware and hacker and hack my paper offline!

Just some of the information in my Gmail account has to stay in the Internet forever, yes-forever unless Google Datacenter is completely destroyed. What a day….what a day…

Blog tips to make your life easier in 2009

George — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:19:57 +0000

Like every blogger, one has to share some useful knowledge in blogging and giving some blog tips to the readers. The reason is simple: To gain more visitors! Almost everyone is curious and exciting on any topic related to blogging nowadays. This will the super long post as I will cover pretty much everything and you may skip some parts if you find it boring.

Chapter 1: Blog on your expert field and do some research.

Based on my terrible experience, you must write the things that you are interested or expert in. If not, you will just ended up losing the interest and motivation to go on and you and your blog will just going nowhere. I’m not going to talk much on personal things but I believe most of the bloggers’ motivation come from the number of readership, feedback/comments, Fame and money.

If a person is highly motivated by money until building a lot of automated blog or being copycat, he/she is just a spammer.

After having a topic to focus and write, you need to do some keywords research. There are so many keywords research tools and I found that making good use of Google Adwords: Keyword Tool is more than enough. Other tools that seems so promising are actually more suitable for mass advertising proposes like publishing advertisement in Google, Yahoo and other major search engine and portals, those tools then will help you save a lot of time in comparing and adjusting the budget and do traffic estimation which I’m not intended to talk about it in this post.

So, lets say if your blog is more on “search engine optimization” which basically not geographically limited and written in English, you can set the “Results are tailored to English and All countries and territories” in Gogole Keywords Tool. Put in some keywords related to your topic or interest that you can think of and the tool will generate a list of similar keywords which people normally query in google.

Theoretically, you should aim for the keywords with most Search Volume. However due to competitiveness, you should look for keywords that are less traffic and best describe your topic i.e. selecting a niche of the niche. Now you’re ready to pick a good name for your domain.

Chapter 2: Select a Blog Domain.

If you have noticed, many domain names are full of keywords inside but this is not neccassry as it may give you a boost on SEO in the initial but eventually having a unique name that will create a “brand” for the blog and your identidy is far more crucial in long-term. The logic is simple: People use “Fedex” but not “Federal Express”; people use “Google” but not “Search”.

If you’re already kinda of famous already, using your own name or your works is essential to build up your name too. Examples: www.thelongtail.com (Book’s Name) and www.kennysia.com (Real Name).

There are .com .name .com.my .org, and I found that .com is still the best for blogging unless you’re targeting on specific country’s readership. For example, Google will prioritize your website weight for .com.my domain when the people is search from www.google.com.my. You can see this after you have subscribe to Google Webmaster Tools.

I would not suggest you to use free domain or sub domain like .co.cc and xxx.blogspot.com. If you’re using blogspot, you’re encourage to use your own domain in blogspot platform. Having an own primary domain may make you start slow at first but eventually it will save you a lot of time and trouble in long term. First, domain name is an asset which will increase in value over the time (depends on your blog quality). Secondly, you will gain your own control to do more things like Affiliate link cloaking and add one more subdomain for picture gallery for example.

Chapter 3: Select Blogging platform.

I’m not going to advice you to use blogger.com if you have the little budget. Even you do not have the money to pay for hosting, you shouldn’t giving up to have your own domain. Having a domain is fun to some extend and I pretty sure you can at least covers back the domain charge of USD 7.96 a year. (Use GoDaddy Coupon Code, google it and you will find plenty of it.)

However, some professionals will go for blog networks which probably a blog with sub domain. However, this kind of blog network normally is highly targeted on certain niche and visitors by grouping up all professionals in that niche. For example,

If you’re curious, this is the list of some famous blog platform available for free or charge. As you can see, Mylifebbs.com is powered by WordPress.org and Kennysia.com is using MovableType. Other Stand alone blog platforms that many use include PMachine, Greymatter, B2Evolution, TextPattern and Expression Engine.

The main difference between these platforms are Hosted Blog Platforms and Stand Alone Blog Platforms.

(Sub chapter will be added in)

Chapter 4: Adding useful plugins and widget.

Adding useful plugins or widgets will help you better interact with your readers. Below are some of the plugins that I found quite useful and being widely used in large blogs.

To Be Con’t…

Richest Blogger in Malaysia 2009.

Oracle9 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:05:00 +0000

Who is the richest blogger in Malaysia? Definitely not Kenny Sia, not LiewCF, JeffOii, etc etc.

Because non of them can make more than RM 3000 per day (UDS 850). So who is the richest blogger in Malaysia? It is our ex prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir. http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/advertise.htm

Sometimes, I wonder if blogging is a great tool to do money laundering.

Another funny think is, while he is asking the rakyat (citizen) to boycott United States and Israel Products…but his blog is hosted in United States. What a big 2 faces man. Shame on him!

Windows 7 Ultimate 32bits Laptop Reviews

George — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:31:00 +0000

Few days ago I was in Malaysia MSDN conference which held in KLCC.
There’s nothing much about the conference besides getting a lot of latest Microsoft products updates from their experts and free stuffs like Windows 7 DVD, MSSQL 2008 cds, dummy books, t-shirt, stickers etc.
(There’s not picture in this entry as my camera is not quite ready at this moment)

To be summarized, below are the major points in coming future:

The previous Microsoft Profession Certifications will expired on this March, new certification and exam will replace the old certification. If you’re going to be "MicroSofted", make sure you check this out: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/credential/default.mspx
On the data center and server technology, You shouldn’t missed out how the Visualization technology to save energy, management time, learning curve/cost and money of course.
The new development tools for developers like WPF TotSter, Silverlight, LinQ and so on.
New cool toys like Windows 7, M.bluehoo.com, gogopin.com etc.

Ok enough for the quick updates. Here the reviews of Windows 7 running of 32bits laptops. I’ve installed Windows 7 in two laptops with this specifications:
Dell INSPIRON 5150 (5 years old):
Pentium 4 3.02GHz Hyper Threading. (32bits)
768MB of RAM
64MB Nvidia Graphic Card (Forgot the model)
Installed on 9GB second partition.

Dell INSPIRON 6400 (2 years old):
Centrino Core 2 Duo T5300 1.73GHz x 2 (32bits)
1GB of RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 – 256MB
Installed on 15GB second partition.

Updated: My Laptop Performance Rating.

Reviews:
On the installation, both laptops took me about 1.5hours to installed (excluding the pre-installation manual clean up) and about 1 hours to do follow-up featured Windows 7 Online updates.

Although Microsoft suggest 1GB of RAM on the installation, I found that it is more than enough if you’re not using integrated Graphic Card in your laptop (Shared Memory). However, I couldn’t find the update for the old 64MB Nvidia graphic card. For the new laptop, it consume above 50MB of RAM from your graphic card, one good thing is that it is very clever to auto adjust your system specification so that it will not overused your laptop processing power.

Another part I would like to emphasize is virtualization in Windows 7. Many people actually worry about the software compatibility as I do but I found that most of the software running in XP are as good as in Windows 7. In the MSDN demonstrations, you can even run the software that are 10 years ago. To know more about Virtualization and Windows 7 try watch this: http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Virtualization-and-Windows-7/

However, you still need to do download some software and configuration is need to do virtualization. BUT, the simplest way of Virtualization: Install your Windows 7 in same machine but different partition, you then can run the programs installed in Windows XP and without changes/interfere with the Program setting/file in Windows XP. i.e. I can open Firefox, Media Player, files etc directly from the Windows XP partitions. You can even run programs from other machines is proper Virtualization Configuration is done!

On the networking speed, it has done a very good job and you no longer need to manually changed the hidden setting to ‘limit break’ the networking speed. Thus, even with same IE8 in Windows XP and 7 in same machine, I found that loading speed of IE8 in Windows 7 is 50% faster than in Windows XP!

On the security, it no longer like Windows Vista which has a lot of meaningless warning but still it manage to tighten up the security like vista. As I’m running in Windows 7 Ultimate, I doubt that Student/Home version will as flexible as Ultimate version. By the way, there are only 3 anti-virus companies which doing on going beta anti-virus programs for Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/windows-7.aspx
However, basic security is provided which is the Windows Defender.

I’ll write more in short future. Overall, I’m quite satisfy with Windows 7 Ultimate.

Wise Move? A Reason why Government should not use Windows! Blackout!

Delay of Post

George — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:02:00 +0000

I’ve been busying on some works that put aside for a long time. Now have to settle it all before new year.

JC’s PC need to be fixed due the network connection failure. It seems that after all, Ubuntu can’t achieve industry standard. It’s hard to use it in production or commercial usage. The network failure is due to the recent update that making old motherboard and some devices not supportable. Unlike Windows, the history of Ubuntu is short and changing fast, support is very minimum due limited fund and long learning cycle.

DotNetNuke team has incorporated a company called DotNetNuke Corp which gather certified third party developers and professionals to provide a better services and support that made DotNetNuke became One of the CMS that is up to enterprise level and able to capture the market share of commercial CMS that ranged from USD 1,000 to USD 50,000.
For full list of CMS, please visit Wiki list of content management system.

IMHO, no matter how ‘free’ is a product, it has to be charged eventually in order to provide a better services. However, by giving it for free, the product will receive more comments and market thus making it grow and improve faster. For a students or small company, open source seems to be life savior; but when you become a professional and big company, you will look for a reliable and easy system and you are willing to pay for better services as you have spending power already. And that is why Adobe is so successfully today, it is for pros.

Thus, if I have sufficient fund, I will go for commercial OS like redhat or Windows etc…Ubuntu is for student level only.

On the other hand, it cannot be doubt that the capability and expandability of Open Source projects is so huge (yet many projects dies). I’m so glad that with the support of Google in Python, Java and Android (All these generally known as Google Open Source Platform) , it will create a standard for major developers to follow and breaking the current messy standards and numerous low quality programs created without proper planning.

The above writing is very messy and unstructured. Forgive me as I have limited time to clean up my mind…I’ll keep on improve my writing skills.

Now my posts is one day behind the schedule…I’ll try to catch up the with delays…

How many things to learn for Web Programming? What to learn to be a so called Internet Guru?

George — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Since last post I ran away from what I intended to write…This post…back to the topic.

Figo told me that there are too much things to learn in the Internet. One might lost his direction in the wide wide world wide wide web….world wide web…There too much of things…and I found myself kind lost sometimes too, so I tried to categorized the things that I know as the following:

…I found that I can’t put it all in a page…I can write a whole chapter for it…Ok, I just write everyone favorite then: Money Making.
1. Develop a program, module, ’skin’, web template to sell it.
2. Consulting people – SEO, Life, Sex, etc.
3. Freelance – Copywriter, Programming, designs etc
4. Affiliate – Help to sell others products.
5. Pioneer – Invent totally new web application.
6. Arbitrator – Buy good domain name, website and sell it at high price.
7. Publisher – Publish advertisement for other to earn money.
8. Scammer – Build fake website to phlish, quick rich scheme etc.
9. Hacker – Hack for commercial war, political war or hack for yourself to gain money.
10. Pumper – Help advertisers to pump content, pump ranking, pump advertisements everywhere…
11. Tester – Game tester, website tester…
12. Writer – Write for money….
13. Forex – erm…basically you will only lose money or being scam…
14. Stupider – Click ads or PPS (Pay per sign up) for money. Fill survey…etc
15. Trader – sell goods online….
16. hooker – sell you naked photo, sex chat, sex video etc….
17. Gamer – ….play for other to gain money…
18. Die harder – Click Google Adsense yourself….
19. Sub-con – Help big scammer to con other money by selling rubbish making money online e-book, video etc…
20. Santa Claus – Help people to click ads, buy rubbish e-book, joining get rich program etc…
21. Hosting – sell server…hosting….by becoming a reseller…(you think really so many hosting providers mer….50% are resellers).
22. Translator – translate movie, etc to make money.
23. Admin – become forum / portal admin and get salary.
24. broker – broker lor.. get a dictionary!
25. …. .. .. . .. . .

That’s all…

You don't sell in MLM, you buy it.