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The Best Place In The World To Work For
2007-07-05 10:18:00 Some even have more fun at work than they do at home. Find out why it’s so great to work for Google. More About: World , Work , The World , Place , Lace
Top 40 Most Useful, Free Mac OS X Softwares
2007-07-04 11:51:00 Here are a list of 40 freewares that I dug up from all around the web, tested and reviewed. All that are listed here are pretty useful if you ask me. Each of the listed are free to download and use. If you see something you like, just download it and try it out yourself. Apple Boot Camp Boot Camp is a new technology that lets you install and run Windows on your Mac. If you have an Intel-based Mac computer and would like to try Boot Camp, you can download the public beta today. AppleJack AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can’t load the GUI, or don’t have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use. Burn Burn is an application to burn most common disks: data disks, audio disks (mp3, audio cd), video disks (VCD, SVCD, DVD-Video, DivX), images and disk copy. Butler Designed to make it easier for users to perform different pot... More About: Free , Softwares , Useful , Mac os , MAC OS X
Why You Shouldn’t Buy A New Laptop Battery
2007-06-29 14:26:00 Here’s an excellent video description on why you shouldn’t buy a new laptop battery. If I didn’t come across this video, I would’ve bought myself a new battery. Now that I know, I can save myself some of that cash for a new handphone. =P More About: Laptop , Battery
14 Of The Coolest PC Casings That Everyone Should Know About
2007-06-28 13:11:00 Zalman fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Zalman is a Korean company that is formed in 1999 specializing in aftermarket cooling products. On the other hand, Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel is the world’s best known PC gamer. When you mix the 2 of them together, you’ll get the Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 PC Casing . Here are several of the cool features that comes with the cool design. The entire enclosure is covered with firm 5mm thick anodized pure aluminium panels that prevent intensifying vibrations Even 130 watts of heat is easily handled by the two 92mm front intake fans and a 120mm rear exhaust fan. Easily slot in hard disk drives into the hard disk chassis. The anchored spinning bars with cylindrical rubber wheels allows the user to install and remove the hard disk simply by rolling the hard disk in and out of the chassis without having to use any tools. Easily slide off the side panel of the casing like a door with one push of the latch. Antec Nine Hundred The guys at ... More About: Everyone , Sings
Types Of Pop-Up Ads
2007-06-25 08:22:00 Pop ups. The annoying advertisement method that disrupts your browsing activities. If you are browsing the web with Firefox, Opera, Safari or IE7, most pop-ups are blocked automatically. Below are the 12 pop-up methods that are used by amateurs all over the world wide web to gain traffic and capture email addresses. The link at the end of the post will take you to a pop up tester website. Multi Pop-Up The website will launch multiple pop ups upon entering. Different techniques are used. Come And Go Pop-up s are launched upon entering and exiting. Timed Pop-Up Pop-ups are programmed to launch after a certain amount of time. Normally, 5 seconds. Mouseover Pop-Up Just hovering your mouse over a picture or text will trigger the pop-up. No clicks required, just movement. Floating Pop-Up This is a pretty annoying type of pop-up. It doesn’t go away until a certain action is accomplished. Channel Opener Doesn’t affect Firefox users. This type opens a full-screen chan... More About: Types
Guess My Age
2007-06-25 07:27:00 Here’s a pretty cool site that lets you guess ages of randomly selected users. Test how well you can judge a book by its cover. Click here to start guessing with my profile. =) More About: Guess
Experience Is The New Reality
2007-06-22 13:05:00 Prosumers. Users who consume and produce at the same time. It’s amazing how media has evolved from physical to digital. Watch videos for free, read news for free, chat for free, hold conferences for free, etc. Virtual life will become the biggest market on the planet. Start investing. I have, have you? =) More About: Reality , Experience , Peri , Erie , Ality
Internet Service Providers Around The World That Throttles Bittorrent / P2P
2007-06-21 15:32:00 I live in a part of the world where many things are monopolized by the government. One of it is ISP. Most of the people living in Malaysia have no choice but to use ScreamyX. Of course there are also good ISPs, but their reach is limited at the moment. I realized that P2P throttling is an activity practiced by a lot of other internet service providers all around the world. Below is the list of bad internet service providers (ISP) by country. If your ISP is listed here and you have a choice to switch, then switch. The monthly fees that you pay is better off in the hands of ISPs who treat their customers right. Argentina Telefonica de Argentina prevents .torrent downloads. Telecentro limits bittorrent bandwidth. Fibertel limits bittorrent bandwidth. Australia Unwired limits bittorrent bandwidth. iburst limits bittorrent bandwidth. exetel limits bittorrent bandwidth. Belgium Telenet limits bandwidth during certain times of the day. Br... More About: Internet , World , Service , Around the world , The World
12 Hottest Bittorrent Sites of 2007
2007-06-18 10:35:00 General The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay is the 305th most visited internet site as of May 30th, according to Alexa. The Pirate Bay was raided by Swedish police on May 31st, went offline till June 3rd where it came back with new a new hosting location in Netherlands. Plans to setup backup servers included Belgium and Russia. Since reopening the visitor count doubled and The Pirate Bay became more popular than ever thanks to the media coverage. Directly after the raid, advertisement revenue on the site shot up to a speculated $75, 000 by Swedish newspaper SvD. Reports indicated bandwidth usage of The Pirate Bay to be at 2,000 HTTP requests per second across all 4 of it’s servers. Mininova Started in January 2005 as a successor to the then very popular SuprNova that was taken down in 2004 due to legal issues. Anyone can upload any torrent to the site, tracked by any Bittorrent tracker. Mininova does not log visitor IP addresses Mininova is porn free. ‘mininova’... More About: Sites , Rent
My Top 10 Firefox 2.0 Add Ons
2007-06-13 07:17:00 What started as a fork of the Navigator browser component of the Mozilla Application Suite has since replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship product of the Mozilla project. Yes, I’m talking about Firefox , the coolest web browser atm. Free, cross platform and open source. Around the same time 4 years ago, Firefox had only 1.6% usage of the total market share for web browsers. As of 31st May 2007, Firefox’s estimated global usage is at 24.55%. What I like most about Firefox is the ability to tweak and add on plugins to it. Check out the 13 ways that you can further accelerate your Firefox 2 performance, if you haven’t. Firefox 2.0 is a huge improvement from version 1.0. I used to have a long list of Firefox extensions but now it’s been sliced down. Anyways, below are 9 of my favourite Firefox 2 add ons. Adsense Notifier I am the author of 3 blogs that are part of adsense’s advertising program. I like this plugin because it helps me keep track of 6 ...
Top 10 Anime Torrent And Direct Download Sites
2007-06-04 03:33:00 The first anime title that I ever saw was Doraemon. I was a kid and I loved it so much that I’ll sit in front of the tv and wait for it every weekday before 5pm. Later on, came Dragonball Z and the series blew me away. I even have a collection of DBZ manga on one of my shelves. Then came Naruto. Then came Bleach. Then came Death Note. Sometimes when I’m free, I’ll check out other anime titles from around the web and watch them. Along the way, I found many, many useful sites which I think some of you anime fans are also familiar with. Below are 10 of the best sites to find, watch and download anime. Check out the ones you have not checked out before. May you be an anime addict by the end of the post. =) CrunchyRoll Tons of animes. Either watch it online or download directly. Registration required. Find not only anime but also games, music and Japanese dramas. Feels a bit youtube-like to me. Neat and screenshots are provided for each and every anime series. Ver... More About: Download , Anime , Torrent , Sites , Direct
8 Preparation Methods That Everyone Should Know About For The Next Digg / S
2007-05-29 03:59:00 And so it was my first time getting into the frontpage of digg, experiencing the sudden spike of traffic exceeding 60,000 users in 2 days. What a phenomenon. So much that I got a notice on my website looking like this : I had mix reactions actually. Good in the sense of exposure, bad in the sense of forking out additional cash to buy extra bandwidth. I wasn’t really prepared for the wrath, but nevertheless it’s an eye opening experience. Over the hours, I scoured the web for all the information I can find about preparing myself for the next digg effect. Some of the methods suggested seemed complicated but anyhow, all are useful. Anyways, here are 8 simple things that everyone should know about preparing for the next digg / slashdot effect. What’s The Host’s Reaction? I for one, am a client of a shared hosting account. If you are like me, you don’t have much control of the situation when a spike occurs. When it happened to me, I thought that i could... More About: Digg , That , Methods , Everyone , Preparation
Top 8 Linux Games Of 2007
2007-05-25 13:52:00 Below are 8 addictive 3d games for linux users to fill their time with. These games are really good and some have won awards or have been featured on magazines. Most of it is cross platform and free. You don’t have to use ‘Wine’ to be able to play as they come with Linux installers. Battle For Wesnoth David White who started Wesnoth back in 2003, had a vision of a free open source strategy game that had very simple rules, uses a strong artificial intelligence, challenging and fun. Wesnoth has already passed the 1 million mark for downloads. As of March 2007, the game is available in 35 different languages. A normal Wesnoth player has 200+ unit types 16 different races 6 major factions to choose from. Actually, you can even make your own custom units, design your own map, scenarios or even campaigns. It’s all up to your creativity. The most interesting part of any game is the ability to multiplay. You can challenge up to a total of 8 friends in multipla... More About: Games , X Games , Ames
Top 10 Windows XP Themes And Visual Styles
2007-05-23 13:22:00 Sick of blue and green? Wanna change your XP themes and visual styles to something cooler? Well here are 10 of the COOLEST visual styles around the web. All you need is WindowBlinds and walla~ you can use any one of the highly rated themes below. Heck, you can even use all 10 themes! Have fun! (Click on the link at the lower right of the pictures for a bigger screenshot) Vienna XP Click here for a BIGGER picture Download Now! High contrast wallpapers go well with this skin as it blends in well with the transparency features. It’s just so cool! Vista Perfection X4 Click here for a BIGGER picture Download Now! One of the most beautiful Vista skins for XP. Assembled by Kayeirene. MoonFlower 3.0 Click here for a BIGGER picture Download Now! This one looks a lot like the second one. Also put together by Kayeirene. Jadaero 1.2 Click here for a BIGGER picture Download Now! This nice, clean theme is made possible by Flahorn. Eminence Click here for a BIGGER pi... More About: Windows , Themes , Visual , Styles , Indo
Direct Download Windows Vista
2007-05-22 05:29:00 Anyone can easily find pirated copies of Vista . You can too. Just google for ‘download windows vista torrent’ and you will find pirated Vista torrents within the top 10 results returned. If your torrent is slow, or you don’t understand what bittorrent is and you want to get Vista FAST, here’s the ultimate solution. Microsoft themselves leaked the retail version of Vista Ultimate upgrade directly from Microsoft. This is how it works. Microsoft provides an option to purchase Vista online. After payment, the customer is given a download link which enables them to directly download Windows Vista from a verified Microsoft server. Most of the time Microsoft uses a 3rd party software distributor to host the file. In this case, it’s DigitalRiver. All you need to do is copy and paste the links into your download manager and walla! You’ll start direct downloading Windows Vista almost immediately. There are 4 files required for download: install boot X13-49... More About: Download , Direct
Direct Download YouTube Videos
2007-05-21 12:48:00 You might not have a good connection. You also might not use the super powerful firefox. Or you simply can’t view flash videos online at the workplace. What to do? Well, here’s YouTube Download er. The super simple, ad-free site by Takashi Ohida that lets anyone download youtube videos in just 2 steps. Enter the URL into the textbox. Wait for the ‘Get Download URL‘ link to apperar and click. Viola! You’re done. Get a flash video player to play the video. If you experience slowness in your IE browser all the time, then you should try Direct Download YouTube Videos Play YouTube videos from your PC! More About: Youtube , Load
Firefox Or Internet Explorer?
2007-05-18 10:22:00 Hitting the streets for an answer. More About: Internet , Firefox , Internet Explorer , Explorer , Intern
10 Easy Tweaks For Laptop / Notebook Users
2007-05-17 07:03:00 Notebooks are pretty common nowadays. As the years go by, laptop prices have gone to about $600 per piece. If the job requires traveling, you’d most probably have a laptop too. But no matter what brand the notebook may be, everyone faces the same issues. It may not be as efficient as a desktop and there is a limit to usage when there is no power plug nearby. Relax, cause here are 10 tips and tricks that you can easily follow to make it faster, save more battery and be more useful than you ever thought it would. Make notebook batteries last longer A notebook battery has to handle the OS, hard drive, accessories, cooling system, sound, screen and external devices. It’s a huge load and it can’t go more than 1 or 2 hours. If you wanna stretch it for another extra 30 min or so, you can. Set brightness as low as you can tolerate. Most notebooks have a shortcut key to adjust the brightness, which you can easily switch back and forth when you are plugged in. Use the t... More About: Laptop , Notebook , Easy , Users , Tweak
Making Unlimited Calls From USA
2007-05-15 09:18:00 Remember allfreecalls.net? If you recall, AllFreeCall s .net was closed due to extreme pressure from AT&T and co. Now Pat Phelan, the creator, has come up with a new website called Yak4Ever.com. I guess the website is Pat’s new approach to his new idea. To use Yak4Ever, you have to be either a resident of USA, UK or Ireland. The only drawback is that you can only register up to 10 people at the moment. It takes only 3 steps to register and start using the service. The 6 key benefits are enough to attract anyone to sign up with them. All users get No hidden charges Free Registration Privacy Guaranteed Unlimited Calls No Limit On Call Length Call from Anywhere, Anytime Currently they have support for 48 countries, from Estonia to Malaysia. So if you have relatives in the USA, just have them signed up to the website and started talking peacefully. Make Unlimited Calls For lucky Americans, British and Irish More About: King , Mite
News About Web Hosting
2007-05-15 06:00:00 Web hosting. You can’t have your own website without a host. To start off, you gotta know the web hosting market before choosing one. It is important to know which is good and which is not. You gotta at least know the 7 important factors of choosing a webhost. There are also news sites out there dedicated to help people look for a webhost, like TheHosting News .com. They provide daily hosting news about dedicated web hosting server reviews hosting automations hosting billing private label resellers reseller webhosting hosting service addons priave label exchange blog web hosting co-location servers datacenters I believe that the site will help people who are new to the web hosting scene. If I were a beginner, I would take the time and check out what sites like thehostingnews.com has to offer. The effort taken by the author to compare hosting plans is very much appreciated. It helps reduce time. One can also find hosting interviews done by the author. Every piece of work that ... More About: Web Hosting , Sting
News About Web Hosting
2007-05-15 06:00:00 Web hosting. You can’t have your own website without a host. To start off, you gotta know the web hosting market before choosing one. It is important to know which is good and which is not. You gotta at least know the 7 important factors of choosing a webhost. There are also news sites out there dedicated to help people look for a webhost, like TheHosting News .com. They provide daily hosting news about dedicated web hosting server reviews hosting automations hosting billing private label resellers reseller webhosting hosting service addons priave label exchange blog web hosting co-location servers datacenters I believe that the site will help people who are new to the web hosting scene. If I were a beginner, I would take the time and check out what sites like thehostingnews.com has to offer. The effort taken by the author to compare hosting plans is very much appreciated. It helps reduce time. One can also find hosting interviews done by the author. Every piece of work that b... More About: Web Hosting
Who Else Wants To Know More About Processes In The Task Manager?
2007-05-14 15:26:00 Truth be told, I have been a Windows user since the days of Windows 95, which is roughly about 10 years ago. I had no interest in understanding what Windows is all about until I went to university. My classmates had been the influence in making a more technology-conscious me. I cared more about how to fully utilize my PC, setup routers, use anti spywares-virus-adware, bittorrent and much more. I know that there are many Windows XP users out there who don’t really understand the processes running on their PCs. Some of the processes may be spywares, collecting every keystroke that you make, just so that ‘they’ can steal your money from your accounts. So it is very important to understand common processes in the task manager’s list. Let’s look at mine. Press Ctrl-Shift-Escape. Click on the ‘Processes’ tab. That’s how a typical list look like. By looking at some of the process’s name, you may guess out the application. That’s... More About: Manager , Esse , Know , More , Want
How To Fix Stuck Pixels On LCD Monitors
2007-05-11 10:09:00 If you have a problem with pixels on a LCD monitor, look no further as I have found a solution! JScreen Fix has developed a nifty application in Java which is cross platform compatible. It means whether if you’re a UNIX, Linux or Mac user, you can fix your monitor’s stuck pixels. Firstly, let’s get things clear. A stuck pixel is when the LCD displays the colour wrongly. Like this example A dead pixel means that the pixel is not responding at all. It should be black. Not lighted at all. Like this. Today’s post will be focusing on stuck pixels. No harm trying if there are dead pixels.Who knows, it may work. Anyways, you can repair your stuck pixels easily by using the applet by JScreen Fix. Just leave it at the dead pixel spot and you will see the difference after 20 minutes. If the problem is a screen burn (persistent images after a long time), it could take up to 6 hours to fix. But rest assured, stuck pixels WILL be fixed. You can further check out the we... More About: Pixel , Monitors , Pixels
51 Most Outstanding Windows Vista Wallpapers
2007-05-07 10:30:00 Brajeshwar, a guy from India who is pretty passionate about Adobe stuff, especially Flash, has uploaded tons of beautiful, high resolution free vista wallpapers on his flickr site. I believe that they will fit nicely into Ubuntu dekstops and common laptops. Here are 51 of my personal favourites. Pick one for yourself. They are all free. Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a size Pick a ... More About: Windows , Wallpapers , Windows Vista , Vista , Paper
Free Automatic Blog Backup Online
2007-05-04 11:16:00 Now here’s a cool online based blog backup system by Techrigy. Blog backup is very important because in the event your content is lost, having the ability to restore it is critical. Furthermore, being able to store your blog backup anywhere, export it, and transfer it to any platform provides security and convenience. The project is currently in beta testing and have several limitations like : 50 MB limit I have just fully backed up 3 of my blogs and they take up only 1.63MB of space. The total number of articles are less than 300. Don’t panic if you hit 50MB. To get more space allocation, all you need to do is just send them an email at morespace@techrigy.com. The famous 10 If you use any of the below blog platform, you qualify for free backups. Blogger WordPress TypePad Friendster LiveJournal Serendipity Windows Live Space Movable Type Terapad Vox Multiply Switch Blog Platforms Want to move to a better blog platform? Do it easily using the ‘Restore&rsquo... More About: Backup , Free , Automatic , Online
11 Methods To Keep Website Logins Safe And Secure Using PHP
2007-05-03 10:03:00 Web based designers who develop login applications should keep these basic security measures in mind. Know that nothing in this world is unbreakable. With enough brain juice and time from God, anything can be broken into. The only thing that any security system can do is to slow down the attacker long enough to capture them and fix the flaws. A good security system is one that is able to protect and recover from assaults. PHP together with MySQL are in the top 5 most popular web language today. Many web design companies use them cause they are free and have supportive user groups that are helpful. The following methods should be in place in any system as a minimum. Username and Passwords Passwords are stronger at 8 characters, so keep that as a minimum. These are 4 simple methods that anyone can follow to create easy to remember strong passwords. Never be specific Even student developers are smart enough to just put up a unsuccessful login sign like ‘Incorrect password ... More About: Website , Keep , Sing , Methods , Safe
The Mac Is Not Really That Safe Too
2007-05-02 10:33:00 Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher who took home $10,000 in a highly-publicized MacBook Pro hijack on April 20, has been at the center of a week’s worth of controversy about the security of Apple’s operating system. Dai Zovi mentions that the Windows Vista’s security is much better than the Mac OSX 10.4. Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle actually does its job in reducing exploits and vulnerabilities by releasing patches every now and then. Mac Security Experts Are Not Surprised Mac is as vulnerable as any other operating system More About: Real , That , Safe , Really , Ally
How To Setup A Router
2007-05-01 04:42:00 A router is a device that connects multiple networks together and forwards packets of data between them. In my house I have a D-Link DI-524 Wireless Route r connected to the DSL modem. It has 4 wired LAN ports and a wireless antenna. Which means that I can connect to it using 2 ways, either wired or wireless. My PC uses the wired connection whereas the other 2 laptops around the house are using wireless. Before setting up any router, you’ll need to know these 2 information. Router IP The 3 most common router IP addresses are : 192.168.0.1 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.1 Know that you can also check it out from the PC’s Local Area Connection Status. Default Router Passwords Get your default passwords easily over at routerpasswords. My router has 4 outgoing ports for the PCs and 1 incoming port for the internet connection. If I had an always-on internet connection, I’ll just need to plug the internet cable in. However, I had to setup the router’s web configura... More About: Setup
15 Commonly Used Programs That Come With Spyware
2007-04-25 10:35:00 Know that spyware has overtaken viruses as the largest online threat, infecting 90% of internet connected PCs. It’s important to be aware of the risks that spyware poses. Spyware can be classifies into 3 different groups. Severe Threat – Spywares from this group is the most dangerous of all. They log user keystrokes, which means everything that the person types is gathered. Imagine yourself typing ‘paypal.com’. Surely the next thing that is logged would be the username and password. Imagine the pain for losing all the money in paypal. 15 out of 100 computers infected belong here. Moderate Threat – Installed programs, internal IP address, OS version, the existence and versions of service packs and security updates and TCP ports the spyware is listening to are some of the data sent across. Though it is less risky that the severe threat group, it’s still bad. It’s like having spycams around the house. 25 out of 100 computers infected are in this group... More About: Programs , Prog , Common , Come
Unproductive Internet Usage And The Most Threatened IM In The World
More articles from this author:2007-04-24 05:27:00 That is according to ScanSafe’s Global Threat Report on February 2007. Unproductive simply means that the sites visited are not in line with the work of the company. Unproductive sites include : online chat gambling music porn dating & relationships webmail During sporting events like the Super Bowl and World Cup, gambling and sporting sites will top the list. ScanSafe saw a traffic increase of 77% in US based request to gambling and sporting sites during the week before Super Bowl. The highly unnecessary internet usage risks the company to exposure of : legal liability disclosure of confidential information breaches of compliance requirements unnecessary bandwidth consumption Did you know that MSN is the most threatened IM in the world? and it has been the No.1 since February 2006. A total of 54% of unique threats were blocked for MSN while 21% went to Yahoo. ScanSafe Web security as a service More About: Internet , The World , Most , Usage 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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