tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158435732024-03-07T00:54:07.316-08:00Information, Internet & TechnologyAbout what's been happening in the Internet.. some cool websites, tech news, high-tech stuff, new web technologies will be introduced here, keep urself up with meKetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-59424338782698013592009-07-02T00:26:00.001-07:002009-07-02T00:28:00.956-07:00Spoon-feeding robot<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj71Scvyb1PW0evyKydiPHKwt4VuMgHIbsFUCR16mIyO0zAo53Dml4_DX5gtlptaDyhWmO5wJ5S_NM1FhBkb7-IFG7781wmmBhjjp5hrN6P8zifTOuDcyz4k7l8YrOZ3KvYcMD/s1600-h/Aero-Blue+robot+feeds+you.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj71Scvyb1PW0evyKydiPHKwt4VuMgHIbsFUCR16mIyO0zAo53Dml4_DX5gtlptaDyhWmO5wJ5S_NM1FhBkb7-IFG7781wmmBhjjp5hrN6P8zifTOuDcyz4k7l8YrOZ3KvYcMD/s400/Aero-Blue+robot+feeds+you.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353760945591334866" border="0" /></a>Robot spoon feeds you, hahahaha, This is what the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Japanese</span> doKetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-35326697669367202322009-03-20T01:49:00.000-07:002009-03-20T01:52:14.812-07:00iPod shuffle 4GB<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0njPdFeecgElz8RjwMzUpsGSIgaDNfwHTyvX3Vs3pjbu8Qy2IPHF3elz1AjwpYTK5vuYkNsTbWue2UmAz6eIDMAP-w4B4H-pdYPtOPJ7ENXHawrHBoqcRL-9pVi0LAE2FNnZK/s1600-h/4GB+iPod+Shuffle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0njPdFeecgElz8RjwMzUpsGSIgaDNfwHTyvX3Vs3pjbu8Qy2IPHF3elz1AjwpYTK5vuYkNsTbWue2UmAz6eIDMAP-w4B4H-pdYPtOPJ7ENXHawrHBoqcRL-9pVi0LAE2FNnZK/s400/4GB+iPod+Shuffle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315189476400622802" border="0" /></a>This is the new iPod Shuffle 4GB. More pictures<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsSs67ErqCi4LIg-RMcqGVPXAKNR8KzpsFEek-2Efazh2QUZ591MdSRX19-qqzQ6Wz6JOnikfoAUf44wP-owib2kORsgzU1oQUaaDzdkeZTyJqaGnqLAsJBNMPrT2_4FLNgrt9/s1600-h/iPod+shuffle+4Gb+new+one.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsSs67ErqCi4LIg-RMcqGVPXAKNR8KzpsFEek-2Efazh2QUZ591MdSRX19-qqzQ6Wz6JOnikfoAUf44wP-owib2kORsgzU1oQUaaDzdkeZTyJqaGnqLAsJBNMPrT2_4FLNgrt9/s400/iPod+shuffle+4Gb+new+one.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315189835769197506" border="0" /></a>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-46071332535153150142008-08-28T20:18:00.000-07:002008-08-28T20:55:31.814-07:00Test Hot Linking Image<img src="http://www.techchee.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/usb-black-monster-hub-270808.jpg" border="0"/> Yes, it now successfully blocks others from hot linking to my images. Add the following codes in your .htaccess if you ain't want those hot links to your images and steal your bandwidth...The following codes show how to block from websites or blogs on the four domains from hot linking to your images. <br /><font size=1><br />RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?myspace\.com/ [NC,OR]<br />RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?blogspot\.com/ [NC,OR]<br />RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?wordpress\.com/ [NC,OR]<br />RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?livejournal\.com/ [NC]<br />RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$</font>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-62198849066622653962008-08-28T20:44:00.000-07:002008-08-28T20:49:46.667-07:00Using Wp_Super_Cache to make your Wordpress blog to stand high traffic<p>Yeah, having super high traffic to your blog, running on wordpress but you ain't wanna upgrade to a dedicated server to handle the high traffic. You can consider installing the wordpress' plugin wp_super_cache. Enable the super_cache and compression. It speeds up your blog pages delivery. A frequently accessed blog page will be cached. Whenever the first user has accessed the following accesses will take from the cache, which serves as a static page instead of dynamic.</p><br /><p>Furthermore it helps reduce the mysql database query calls, which are major contribution to CPU usage to some shared hosting packages. It makes your blog more digg proof. The WP_Super_cache has now reached its latest version of <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">version 0.7.1</a> which can be downloaded from wordpress.com</p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1170910408143785932007-02-07T20:44:00.000-08:002007-02-07T21:15:26.481-08:00Facebook lets you send virtual Valentine's gift<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/203853/facebookgifts070207.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/799023/facebookgifts070207.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The test launch of virtual gifts by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Facebook</span></a>, the virtual society on the net, which is probably to coincide with the coming Valentine's day. The Internet now really enters our life, which brings virtual effect, which you can even find virtual lovers that gradually becomes real one day! Yeah, there were many cases like this before. Those hooked up with online chatting, emailing, collaborating via forum, blogs finally will end up with a real relationship.<br /><br />The virtual gift at FaceBook now is given as free <strike>right now</strike> at its testing period. It will charge $1 per gift later. How does this virtual gift work? It comes in small icons that you can pick and give to other Facebook members to be displayed on thier "wall" section as well as a new gift area. The test is carried out on college students!<br /><br />The gift icons were designed by Susan Kare, who was also the original designer of Mac icons. You can send gifts either privately or publically, which privately shows only the icon and publically shows the name of the giver.<br /><br />If you happened to have met someone at Facebook, and is getting intimate as your virtual gf or bf, pick up a nice gift icon and send her/him one as the coming Valentine's day gift. But I'm not too sure that you'll be considered stingy due to the gift is free and you then get banned by her/him! Perhaps, in the virtual would there would be another kind of virtual sense of romance! The generated money from the gifts sold in February will be donated to charity for supporting breast cancer, after this the money will be kept by FaceBook, which'll probably contribute some kind of revenue by end of this year!<br /><br />Via [<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/07/facebook-testing-virtual-gifts/">TechCrunch</a>]<br /><p style="font-size: 7pt;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/facebook" rel="tag">facebook</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/virtual+society" rel="tag">virtual society</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/web20" rel="tag">web20</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/web+2.0" rel="tag">web 2.0</a></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1170811282893922992007-02-06T17:08:00.000-08:002007-02-06T17:28:43.356-08:00A million penguins Wiki, fullfills your writer's dream<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/962383/amp_logo_302x103Penguin.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/187156/amp_logo_302x103Penguin.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />You've been longing to show off your novel writing talent, and dreaming that one day you would achieve as what the Harry Porter's author did, selling millions of copies of your novel around the world! Now, here is the chance for you to show off your talent. A <a href="http://www.amillionpenguins.com/">Wiki-based story or novel submission website</a> by the De MonFort University of Leicester, UK, is here to help you out showing your writing talent to the world through its collaborative novel writing website.<br /><br />Its main aim is to get talented writer into a collaborative manner, which story or short novel submitted will be getting fixed on <a href="http://www.amillionpenguins.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AMillionPenguins.com</span></a> till the stage of a final, complete and best appealing novel. It adopts the open source concept that open source software such as Linux, Tomcat, Apache etc were being fixed for bugs and defects and improved to the stage that can compete or outperform many commercial software today! For writers who wanna join this WiKi-based creative writing exercise, you really have to put down your ego! If you're the one getting yourself confined in your own room, then you better don't this. Lets keep an eye if any great novels be born in the following years from <a href="http://www.amillionpenguins.com/">AMillionPenguins.com</a><br /><br />The website was reported crashed due to too many hits on the first day of launch. It was getting around 10 uniques in a second!<br /><p style="font-size:7pt;">Technorati: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wiki" rel="tag">Wiki</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/writer" rel="tag">writer</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/novel" rel="tag">novel</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/novelist" rel="tag">novelist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/AMillionPenguins" rel="tag">AMillionPenguins</a></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1170772350953032412007-02-06T06:24:00.000-08:002007-02-06T06:56:10.766-08:00Time management made easy by Achive Planner<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/241729/WeeklyScheduleTab.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/428252/WeeklyScheduleTab.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>Time is precious! Having a solid knowledge of time management is important in our overly busy daily life, especially for me, as a corporate climber. Time management gives me the precision of proper work planning, productivity, meeting customers, balancing up my work and family, which serves as the best tool for me to climb up to the corporate ladder.<br /><br />There is no easy way to master the time management skill. I've tried this myself, I'd say you'd totally fail doing it without the help of a good <a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm">time management software</a>. Over the past few years, I've been searching around over the net, the software shop for a best time management that can suit my busy corporate life. Finally, I found <a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm">Achieve Planner</a>, which has been my best companion in my corporate climbing life.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm">Achieve Planner</a>, which is installable on Windows OS, is a <a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm">personal time management software</a> that provides a central location to keep track of everything you are working on and need to get done. This software comes with weekly planning wizard software tool helps you plan your week, or you can do it yourself using drag and drop. In terms of tasks and projects organization,<a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm"> Achieve Planner</a> uses <b>hierarchical</b> (multi-level) <b>outlines</b>, which lets you break up large items into smaller steps for making it more manageable. Additionally, <a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm">Achieve Planner</a> supports the <b>ABCD prioritization</b> system to help you spend more time on what is most important and valuable. Prioritizing your to-do list with our personal time management software helps you do less and accomplish more by using the 80/20 rule.<br /><br />For more information, please check out <a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm">Achieve Planner website.</a> If you're already convinced at this point, <a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/order.htm">order now for only $99.00.</a> Having <a href="http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm">Achieve Planner</a>, your wife will never be nagging you for coming home late!<br /><p style="font-size: 7pt;">Technorati: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/time+management" rel="tag">time management</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/personal+time+management" rel="tag">personal time management</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/time+management+software" rel="tag">time management software</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Archive+Planner" rel="tag">Archive Planner</a></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1170768347845505102007-02-06T05:14:00.000-08:002007-02-06T06:12:48.263-08:00Refinance your car at RateGenius<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/281595/rg-logo-sub.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/37483/rg-logo-sub.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Your existing car loan charges you an overly high interest rate? You've been thinking of refinancing your car or truck but you have no clue how to do it? No worry, <a href="http://www.rategenius.com/">Car Refinance, RateGenius</a> is here to help and provide you an easier, a much better rate or even an extended term for your car loan!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rategenius.com/">Car Refinance</a> provides you the best and prompt service for refinancing your car. The <a href="https://www.rategenius.com/Apply/Apply.php">application</a> takes you only a few minutes and within 24-48 hours, <a href="http://www.rategenius.com/">rateGenius</a> can put you on the road to saving thousands by refinancing your car, truck or SUV.<br /><br />Once your application submitted, <a href="http://www.rategenius.com/">Car Refinance</a> will need to go through a credit history check on you. This credit check is necessary, which is the way to find the best interest rate to refinance your auto. The credit check involved here is "soft inquiry", which will neither hurt your score nor expose your credit history to any other lenders.<br /><br />Additionally, <a href="http://www.rategenius.com/">Car Refinance</a> is flexible enough for you to add/remove a co-applicant (Your girlfriend, wife or mum etc) from your existing loan and also your new loan with RateGenius. Without any delay, click <a href="https://www.rategenius.com/Apply/Apply.php">here</a> to apply online now<br /><br /><p style="font-size: 7pt;">Technorati: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/car+loan" rel="tag">car loan</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/car+refinance" rel="tag">car refinance</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/car+refinancing" rel="tag">car refinancing</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/RateGenius" rel="tag">RateGenius</a></p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ml3ny"><img src="http://tinyurl.com/3x7swa" /></a>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1170643279887058732007-02-04T18:14:00.000-08:002007-02-04T20:29:02.996-08:00Norton Antivirus, get your PC protected now!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/422352/nav09292.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/69601/nav09292.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>If you're a Windows OS user, there is no escape that you need anti-virus on your PC. The best is once you just got a new PC, the first thing to do is to install an Anti-virus software to get your PC well-protected.<br /><br />There are tons of anti-virus software out there in the market. It's really hard to know which one works best for you, the one that makes your PC completely sealed from virus attack. Throughout my 7 years immersed in computer and software, I've found that <a href="http://www.antivirusdownload.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Norton Antivirus 2007</span></a> is the one that works best for me, which can help clean up all the latest viruses, trojans horses etc.<br /><br />No doubt <a href="http://www.antivirusdownload.com/">Norton Antivirus</a> is the best that you need to get your PC equiped with. But <a href="http://www.antivirusdownload.com/">Norton</a> itself also comes with different versions, you have to choose the best that suits your PC's performance. There are some cases that I've found that having a <a href="http://www.antivirusdownload.com/">Norton Antivirus</a> will cause slow performance on some PCs, therefore you gotta choose the right version that suits your PC. In order to find out which version of Norton Antivirus does best, I always hook on <a href="http://www.antivirusdownload.com/norton-antivirus/#Reviews">Norton Antivirus 2007 Reviews & other info</a> to help myself make the right choice. This <a href="http://www.antivirusdownload.com/norton-antivirus/#Reviews">site</a> serves in-depth information for what you need to choose the best version of Norton Anti Virus for your PC.<br /><br /><p style="font-size: 7pt;">Technorati: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/anti+virus" rel="tag">Anti virus</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Norton+anti+virus" rel="tag">Norton Anti virus</a></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1170640676198116992007-02-04T17:49:00.000-08:002007-02-04T17:59:18.573-08:00Useful multifuntional gadget from Brando<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/430341/BrandoAllInOne.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/689379/BrandoAllInOne.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This pen sure works great for corporate office workers. I've heard that corporate workers will need attending tons of meetings. This handy, all-in-one multifuntional gadget comes in place, which lets you blast your favorite tunes, take note, do voice recording in your boring meetings. One simple tip, if u wanna steal a nap in the meeting, turn on the mic and start voice recoding, if you're spiritual enough then you can take note using it in your long-winding meeting<br /><br />Via [<a href="http://techchee.com/?p=382">me TechChee.com</a>]<br /><p style="font-size: 7pt;">Technorati: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/useful+gadget" rel="tag">Useful gadget</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Multifuntional+gadget" rel="tag">Multifuntional gadget</a></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1170640109690970582007-02-04T17:39:00.000-08:002007-02-04T17:48:30.013-08:00VOIP phone gone wireless<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/201172/kensington_vo200010207.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/316761/kensington_vo200010207.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Great great great! VOIP phone with wireless connection, yup no hassle of dangling USB cables, it is the <strong>Kensington Vo200 BT Internet Phone</strong>. Wireless? I mean Bluetooth, there is no USB cable that you need to connect this VOIP phone to your PC. Instead of USB, your PC must be Bluetooth-enabled or having a Bluetooth dongle. Furthermore, this VOIP phone looks and works pretty much like a cellphone, it comes with a mousepiece that is flipable. Once flipped all the way around, then it can serve as the stand of the phone, which you can place it on your desk and use as a speakerphone, chat to your friends comfortably.<br /><br />It works with all the popular chat services, such as Skype, MSN, Yahoo or Google. It features advanced echo cancellation and noise suppression technology that give you clearer conversation. It can be folded into the size of a PC card, which you can then slide into the PCMCIA slot of your PC or laptop for storing and also charging. A full charge gives you over 3 hours of “serious” talk time and up to 30 hours of standby time<br /><br />Via [<a href="http://techchee.com/?p=369">Me, TechChee.com</a>]<br /><br /><p style="font-size: 7pt;">Technorati: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/voip" rel="tag">voip</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/voip+phone" rel="tag">voip phone</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kensington" rel="tag">Kensington</a></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1169126011988622222007-01-18T05:11:00.000-08:002007-01-18T05:13:32.596-08:00iCache represents all your cash cards<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/474185/icache170107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/380652/icache170107.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Instead of having to carry all sort of cash cards with you, isn’t it more convenient that you just bring along a device that represents all your credit cards or debit cards? That device is <strong>iCache</strong>, which contains the digital replica of “track data” of all your credit cards or debit cards. <p>How to do that? According to <a title="iCache.com" href="http://www.icache.com/"><strong>iCache</strong></a> website, it will be available to you from your financial institution or you buy it from <strong>iCache</strong> retail. Once you received the device, you just get onto <a title="iCache" href="http://www.icache.com/"><strong>iCache</strong> website</a>, self register your finger print and all your cards, just a simple process.</p> <p> <a href="http://techchee.com/?p=238#more-238">Read the rest of this entry »</a> </p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1169125670396100682007-01-18T05:05:00.000-08:002007-01-18T05:07:50.550-08:00PayPal’s Security Key Protects You From Phishers!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/816372/paypalsecurity.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/9444/paypalsecurity.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><strong><a title="PayPal!" href="http://paypal.com/">PayPal</a> </strong>is one of the most widely accepted payment methods by online stores, <a title="eBay" href="http://ebay.com/"><strong>eBay</strong></a> and for individuals to transfer cash. Due <strike>it</strike> to its popularity, it’s also one of those getting most phishing troubles! If you do not know what phishing means, here is a little explanation. <p>Phishing is by far the most common method used for online fraud. Phishing involves sending out legitimate-looking emails that seem to come from a trustworthy website or institution. Phishers normally would create a fake website, which looks like the homepage of a reputable company, e.g <strong>PayPal</strong>. Then they send out tons of emails to consumers to lure them to login to thier (<strong>PayPal</strong>) account, in order to capture thier login information for financial again. Phishing not only causes a big loss <strike>of</strike> to the consumers and also to the company!</p> <p>In order to overcome the phishing problem, <strong>PayPal</strong> has come out with a hardware solution, i.e the <strong>PayPal </strong>Security Key. This security key generates a unique one-time-use key code every 30 seconds, which you use along with your username and regular password to log into your account.</p> <p> <a href="http://techchee.com/?p=228#more-228">Read the rest of this entry »</a> </p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1169123954698192442007-01-18T04:20:00.000-08:002007-01-18T04:39:14.953-08:00Robotic cellphone! A personal ubiquitous companion!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/590106/cellrobot140107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/675207/cellrobot140107.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Do you want your cellphone to come to you by itself when someone calls you? Do you want your cellphone to know where to locate its own charger and then charge itself when battery runs out? The <strong>Cellular Phone Robot</strong> does all these for you. <p>The <strong>Cellular Phone Robot</strong> or <strong>CPR</strong> in short has wheels so that it can move. With <strong>RFID</strong> tags installed all around your house, it will be able to do the above-mentioned for you! Some more it has motors, used to express the emotions for you about the incoming calls. The <strong>CPR</strong> uses 3 types of senses to respond to you, they are by touch, smell and visual bahavior!</p> <p>By touch, the <strong>CPR</strong> vibrates in 3 distinct patterns to evoke your emotional response. The patterns were based on the rhythms of emotional music.</p> <p>By smell, it has 12 micronozzles to to emit just the right odor to identify the caller. Would it emit smell of rotton egg for undesirable callers? Of course tested biometrically.</p> <p>By visual, the <strong>CPR</strong> does a little dance when someone calls. Happy dance. Stalker dance. All biometrically determined.</p> <p>This is currently one of the research work produced by the engineers at <a href="http://hompy.sch.ac.kr/scheng/index.jsp">Soochunhyang University</a> in <strong>Korea</strong>. It has much much greater features than your <a title="iPhone" href="http://techchee.com/?p=175"><strong>iPhone</strong></a>.</p><p><a href="http://techchee.com/?p=217">Via me TechChee.com</a><br /></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1168265965836225772007-01-08T06:11:00.000-08:002007-01-08T06:19:26.113-08:00UMPC, what do u know about it?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/832624/asusUMPC010708.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/620389/asusUMPC010708.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">UMPC</span> or Ultra Mobile PC, which is currently hot! What do you know about it ? Well, just by its title, it shall be small and compact enough and it must fullfill the requirement i.e it’s able to run full Windows OS, i.e either <strong>Windows XP</strong> or <strong>Windows Vista</strong>. It means that any Windows applications can run on this small and compact personal computer. It’s a full computer with ultra compact size and you can do everything on it!<br /><br /><a href="http://techchee.com/?p=159"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Via Me TechChee.com</span></a>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1167910937840170112007-01-04T03:41:00.000-08:002007-01-04T03:42:19.296-08:003-in-1 useful gadget, it's a USB flash, a stylus and a ball pen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/810427/usb3in1prod1208051_HOL06.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/86571/usb3in1prod1208051_HOL06.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Lighten your pocket. There is no need to carry so many gadgets with you. A 3-in-1 comprises of <span style="font-weight: bold;">USB</span> 128MB flash storage, a PDA stylus and a traditional ballpoint pen.<br /><br /><a href="http://techchee.com/?p=136"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Via Me At TechChee.com</span><br /></a>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1167909674743592712007-01-04T02:54:00.000-08:002007-01-04T03:35:30.846-08:00Online tool for checking if your web server still alive<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/488149/oline.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/570113/oline.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>If you are having hard time to access your blog hosted overseas, it'd be hard to tell if it's the country's outgoing Internet backbone or any International backbone is down or your webserver is having problem. (E.g the recent <span style="font-weight: bold;">Taiwan</span>'s earthquake demaged some submarine cables and causing slow connection over the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Asia</span> region and even some websites unaccessible)<br /><br />I have my blog hosted in the States. My newly setup tech blog, <a href="http://techchee.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TechChee.com</span></a>, the blog that I've been telling myself that I wanna make it good and a success. When I found it's hard to access, the first thing in my mind is to lodge a report/ticket to the hosting company's support center, to complain about the server is down. Well, if you simply lodge a report like this, you will probably hit the wall and get kicked back by the support, if the website is found up and running and accessible from thier side.<br /><br />How do you find out by yourself first to ensure that your web server is running properly before lodging a report ? There are quite a number of the online tools out there, which allow you to trace if the hosting company network routing is up and thier web server is in good shape.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://centralops.net/co/">CentralOps.net</a> offers handful of FREE online tools, which you can do a traceroute to check for the network or and <a href="http://centralops.net/asp/samples/AspTcpQuery.asp">HTTP query</a> to check if your webserver is up. I'm currently unable to access my blog <a href="http://techchee.com">TechChee.com</a>, but I can at least pacify myself that my blog is still up and running, as I managed to get a response of status code 200, when I queried using <a href="http://centralops.net/asp/samples/AspTcpQuery.asp">CentralOps's HTTP</a> query tool.KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1167906945492806922007-01-04T02:27:00.000-08:002007-01-04T02:35:45.560-08:00BMW is fooling the world with mistery gadget<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/701103/BMW1030107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/6394/BMW1030107.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>On <a href="http://www.bmw.com/com/en/index_highend.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BMW's</span></a> website, a flash presentation is showing a mistery gadget. Could it be a digital music player, a multimedia-capable or a gadget meant for the car? It's puzzling the world!<br /><a href="http://techchee.com/?p=132"><br />Via TechChee.com</a>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1167449757183719922006-12-29T19:35:00.000-08:002006-12-29T19:39:07.800-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/301765/payperpost.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/386085/payperpost.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://payperpost.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PayPerPost</span></a> has acquired <a href="http://performancing.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">performancing</span></a>. I just got an email dropped into mailbox by <a href="http://payperpost.com">PayPerPost</a> this morning, about they have acquired <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://performancing.com">Performancing</a>. What's <a href="http://payperpost.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PayPerPost</span></a>? If you are newbie or beginner on blogging, well this is the website that allows you blog for dollars. As what it domain name tells, it pays you per post. You can sign up either as an advertiser or as blogger. For a blogger, if you wanna make some dollars and even further to make a living by blogging, <a href="http://payperpost.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PayPerPost</span></a> is the one that you should go for. Besides, if you run out of idea on what to write, get onto <a href="http://payperpost.com">PayPerPost</a>, there are so many advertisers out there offering some topics for you to write on and you will get paid for this!<br /><br />If you are rich enough and you already have a well-established website or blog or having great products or services to sell, you can even get on <a href="http://PayPerPost.com">PayPerPost</a> as an advertiser, getting some bloggers to post and make a buzz of your goods! And you pay them for doing so!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/742535/perf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/867489/perf.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>What about <a href="http://performancing.com">Performancing</a>? In short, it's a community for professional bloggers! It eases your blog publishing by providing FREE WYSIWYG blog editor, which works well with major blog softwares and supports Trackback, Technorati and Del.icio.us. Other than this, it helps you track by its statistics and even leads you to get paid for blogging. I'll cover more on <a href="http://performancing.com">Performancing</a> on my next post. I haven't even got my own <a href="http://performancing.com">Performancing</a> account, as <a href="http://techchee.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-to-bbbtechcheecom.html">I'm a part-time not a full-time yet</a>. I'm gonna sign up for one now, explore it, so I can tell you more in my next pos<a href="http://techchee.blogspot.com/2006/12/payperpost-in-news-they-have-acquired.html">t!<br /><br />Via my other blog :)</a>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1165109770247041092006-12-02T17:28:00.000-08:002006-12-02T18:15:47.900-08:00The Next Multi-million buzz from MillionDollarHomePage's creator<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/130453/d.jpg"></a><br /><br /><p><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/1600/534796/d2.jpg"><img title="A $1 million prize is giving away here" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="New idea of Alex Tew" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/589295/d2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Another multi-million venture by <strong>Alex Tew</strong>, who is gonna launch his multi-millions idea soon. This time, he is going to launch a site called, <a href="http://www.pixelotto.com">www.pixelotto.com</a> , which he is targeting for <strong>USD$2</strong> per pixel. Alex has been annoucing now over the Internet that he is going to give away <strong>USD$1 million</strong> for the prize for those who managed to click the right pixel ads<strong>.</strong> </p><p><br /><strong></strong><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2374/815/320/536352/d.jpg" border="0" />Just a little bit of history about <strong>Alex Tew,</strong> the young British entrepreneur, who managed to raise USD$1 million for paying back all his student loan by launching a pixel ads website, <a href="http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com">www.milliondollarhomepage.com</a>. It took him about 5 months plus only to have sold out all the pixel ads on his website and he even auctioned the last 1000 pixels on <a href="http://ebay.com"><strong>eBay</strong></a>, which was then lastly grabbed by <a href="http://www.milliondollarweightloss.com">www.milliondollarweightloss.com</a> for a price of USD$30K.<br /><br />The new venture by <strong>Alex</strong>, has triggered some buzz over the net and being debated over several hot forums and blog sites during its prelaunch, such as <strong>TechCrunch</strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=441616">SitePoint</a></strong>. A post by <strong><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/01/million-dollar-homepage-becomes-multi-million-dollar-home-page/">Techcrunch's Natali Del Conte</a></strong> , who claimed that <strong>Alex's</strong> idea was stupid as it is just a repeat of his first one. <strong>Natali</strong> even claimed that she was gonna eat her word, if <strong>Alex</strong> could succeed for the second time. The post by <strong>Natali</strong> so far has gathered more than 100 comments, which could be one of the hottest posts on <strong>TechCrunch!</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Since <strong>Alex</strong> is giving away <strong>USD$1 million</strong> for the prize, I bet that he will succeed, as it would trigger huge traffic and people out there will be passionately waiting for its launch and trying to click the right ads for winnng the $1 million. It's really interesting to know that how <strong>Alex</strong> is going to give the one who clicks the right ads the 1 million prize. There would be many out there just sit in front of thier PC and keep on trying to click the ads. Some programmers even claimed that they could simply program a <em>BOT</em>, which will click all the ads automatically.<br /><strong></strong><br />To avoid clicking fraud, <strong>Alex</strong> would need to put a lot of effort on his website, such as offering membership account, and only registered members can click the ads and there is a need for putting anti-spam and anti-bot feature for the website to prevent those software robots from clicking the right ads!<br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><strong></strong></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1164425689668315612006-11-24T19:32:00.000-08:002006-11-24T19:36:00.313-08:00Boo hoo! Boo maybe back in year 2007?<img style="width: 247px; height: 198px;" title="Boo.com" src="http://tkfiles.storage.msn.com/x1paDc_gADPsoJFqyU_9Fo_ED2Z2fExa6M67UI7hJStm1QOaw3FPTWRxaKk_mTU9c4ngMq4ah45AMAm1xDgD1bCHnP9zxJFbHWHoWszPhbJj0Rploq4c2QjuQ" align="left" border="0" /> Still remember <a href="http://boo.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo.com</span></a>? It was quite a buzz in Europe in 1999. I have no good memory, I was a bit too late and didn't manage to catch up and have a feel on how <a href="http://boo.com">Boo.com</a> website was. I only happened to find out when a friend of mine passed me a book titled "Boo Hoo". I guess this book is now still chucked in my old bookshelf at home.<br /><br />Well, just to refresh my memory, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo</span> was a website starting with a buzz and received lots of press in Europe of wanting to sell branded sportwear online before it collapsed. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo</span> was even equiped with online simulated figure, which allows buyers to add on sportwear items, such as shirt, shoes pants to the figure for a try and feel! This was really a very new idea at that time, I would consider it's almost one of the hot web 2.0 features of today, i.e animated figure on the web, but unfortunately, <a href="http://boo.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo</span></a> financially could NOT sustain through the expenses on technology, such as bandwidth and software development, which was really expensive during its time and finally it collapsed. It almost burnt through $120 millions for its six months of operation! If you now take a look of the Boo.com, it's got no content but only the homepage, but with a message telling that a new website on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo</span> is coming soon in 2006 but 2006 is almost ending soon. According to a post on <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/24/boocom-back-in-2007-maybe/">Techcrunch</a>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo</span> maybe back in year 2007, lets keep an eye on what <a href="http://boo.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boo </span></a>will offer us in year 2007!KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1163056605199195102006-11-08T23:10:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:48:05.736-08:00A summary of Web 2.0 , the new Internet standard<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/web2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/web2.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>What is the development of the Internet, it's really a virtual space that keeps on expanding. According to a <a href="http://netcraft.com/">Netcraft's</a> survey there are more than 100 millions of websites out there and <a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162465446434&call_pageid=968332188492">still on counting....</a> Well, if you are hooked up and keep yourself following up with some tech news, there have been a lots of talks about <span style="font-weight: bold;">web 2.0</span> , i.e the current hot issue, so-called a standard of the web.<br /><p><br />When the time Yahoo and Lycos were in dominance of the web, it was the era of web 1.0. But now, it belongs to <span style="font-weight: bold;">web 2.0</span>, with the dominance of Google, and other newly upcoming <span style="font-weight: bold;">web 2.0</span> websites, such as <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://youtube.com/">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://multiply.com/">Multiply</a> etc (Although some of these have been acquired by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yahoo!</span> or <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> or MSN etc).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web 2.0</span>, put it in short is the web standard having more emphasize on the users or the benefits to the users. Users will get thier own spaces, greater usability and sharing features on the web! The spaces here refer to blogging space, tagging (another way of bookmarking, categorizing web content in your own way), general storage spaces for videos, audios, documents (word processor doc, spreadsheet etc.). </p> <p>Here is a summary of spaces,sharing features and greater web usability that you can have over the Internet !<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Blog</span><br />The famous term that comes from "web log", which you can write your journal or diary on a web space, such as this blog. There are lots of free service providers out there, such as this <a href="http://ketyung.spaces.live.com/">blog</a>, live space on MSN, besides you can easily get the famous ones such as this <a href="http://ketyung.blogspot.com/">BlogSpot space</a> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> or <a href="http://ketyung.livejournal.com/">LiveJournal</a>.<br /><br />The above are service providers that allow you to have your "nick" as a sub-domain under thier domain, e.g <a href="http://ketyung.spaces.live.com">ketyung.spaces.live.com</a> . Other than that you wanna pay a little bit of money or if you are a techchies, and you know setting up of a web space, which you can get <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, which is free and host your own blog with your own preferred domain name.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Video/Audio/Picture spaces</span> The web even now is getting into "multimedia-loaded", i.e full of pictures, audio and videos. Even for users now you can quite a hand-full of service providers out there for you to create your multimedia contents such as YouTube, Multiply, <a href="http://vox.com/">Vox </a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">General documents spaces</span> Here are the spaces where you can create,store and share your general documents such as word, spreadsheet. The companies that are on the race for providing such a kind of services are <a href="http://writely.com/">Writely (which is now Google docs/spreadsheet)</a>, <a href="http://zoho.com/">Zoho</a> (<a href="http://zohowriter.com/">ZohoWriter</a>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">ZohoSheet</span> & <span style="font-weight: bold;">ZohoShow</span> for word processor, spreadsheet and presentation such as powerpoint), <a href="http://box.net/">BoxNet</a> (Online file storage for all sorts of files such as documents & multimedia contents) and others such as <a href="http://editgrid.com/">EditGrid</a>, <a href="http://irows.com/">IRows</a> are in the spreadsheet categories<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Tagging</span><br />What about tagging? Tagging is by means of adding any website URL to a common space by associating the URL with tags that you like! It's like a common bookmark space, which you can add your own "word" for the tag or category and you can also share it to your friends and family. Most web portal nowadays come with tagging feature, which you will see a big tag cloud, that comes with words in different font sizes, more popular tags having bigger font size! The most popular common tagging space is <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</a>, a very special domain name with the word delicious, basically it's a .US domain name. Some other portals such as blogger's search and ping services like <a href="http://technorati.com/">Technorati</a>, classifieds spaces also provide tag clouds!<br /><br /></p> <p><strong><u>Greater Usability </u></strong><br />Other than spaces & sharing features, <span style="font-weight: bold;">web 2.0</span> also puts emphasize on better usability of web interface i.e enhancing usability and friendliness, this is where <span style="font-weight: bold;">AJAX</span> web comes in, the hot term for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Asynchronous JavaScript And XML </span>among the web developers/programmers.</p> <p>What about this term "<span style="font-weight: bold;">AJAX</span>", what can it do ? It's a programming term, the final effect to the web, it brings greater usability of a website. In short, <span style="font-weight: bold;">AJAX</span> is the technique adopted for building websites that minimize "post back".<br /><br />If you have been a web surfer for quite some time, you would have noticed that navigating thru a website require many mouse clicks and the web pages will need to be sent to and fro the web server. Especially when filling up a form when signing up for an account on a web portal, once you have fully entered all your particulars and ready to submit it, after the submission, the page will come back giving you some errors, possibly claiming that a duplicated username or email, you will need then to change the email/username and submit again. What would happen if there is another error, e.g you forgot keying in your password? There would be another post-back! This normally gives some frustration to the users, which they will claim the Internet is so slow! As the web pages will need to travel to fro back to the web server which is far away, e.g you are accessing a website in US!<br /><br />The use of <span style="font-weight: bold;">AJAX</span> in developing web will minimize "post back". In short <span style="font-weight: bold;">AJAX</span> is a web technique by means of using JavaScript and XML, which verification such as above-mentioned process can be done without "post back", i.e the user will be prompted on the spot once there is a duplication of email or username before they submit the form (The mechanism behind is the web page uses <span style="font-weight: bold;">AJAX</span> to send back data to the web server "quietly" for verification and prompt the user if there is a duplication). Besides , AJAX is great , of course with some combination of programming technique such as DHTML (Dynamic HTML). The above-mentioned spreadsheet or docs creator, such as Zoho, EditGrid are done using AJAX+DHTML or flash for better usability, which will be as good as your normal Windows desktop apps! A similar post is <a href="http://ketyung.spaces.live.com/blog/cns%21EFDA7C68DD50040F%21124.entry">here</a><br /></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1162476789023300272006-11-02T05:48:00.000-08:002006-11-02T07:01:39.823-08:00New Ipod Shuffle, smallest digital music player, will be out tomorrow !<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/ipods.jpg" title="Matchbox&Shuffle!"><br /><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/ipods.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />What is the size of the smallest version of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Apple's Ipod Shuffle</span> ? It's only 1.62-inches long, just about the size of a matchbox ! The smallest digital music player by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Apple</span>, it's gonna be out in the market tomorrow (3rd/Nov/06). But this little matchbox-sized music player can hold up to 240 songs. The down side is it does NOT have a display to show what it's playing! I guess it will take another couple more years or earlier for computer chips to get even much tinier, then a matchbox-sized music player will also have a nice LCD display on it ?<br /><br />This new version of Shuffle is around half the size of the original that was introduced in January, last year (2005). It weighs 14 grams only, includes 1-gigabyte of storage, has a built-in clip for portability, with the battery that can last for around 12 hours! Vice president of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Apple</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="boxcontents">Greg Joswiak</span><span class="boxcontents"> claims that this Shuffle is the most wearable because of its ultra compact design and built-in clip</span>.<br /><br />Some other features of the small <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shuffle</span> are, you can have continous mix of favorite songs, have songs playing in random order <span class="boxcontents">or simply flip a switch to listen to songs in a particular order. </span><span class="boxcontents">The small <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shuffle</span> can be connected to a Mac or PC with included dock and iTunes' AutoFill feature that automatically syncs the correct number of songs from a user's music library.<br /><br />Meanwhile, it is priced at USD$79, comes with earbud phones (But according to this blog <a href="http://trenddiary.com/plasmadiary/2006/11/02/new-ipod-shuffles-come-with-old-ipod-earbuds/">here</a>, the first batch that has already reached the hands of those who hurried to order it, the earbud is the old type, which is NOT the new improved earbuds presented by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Job</span> on 12th/Sept</span></span>! Interesting!) and a dock, and will go on sale tomorrow, 3rd/Nov, through Apple retail stores, the online Apple Store, and Apple Authorized Resellers</span>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1162011458320861952006-10-27T21:22:00.000-07:002006-10-27T22:01:20.580-07:00Desktop anywhere, Desktop 2, a virtual Internet desktop<span style="font-weight: bold;">DesktopTwo</span>, a virtual Internet desktop software, which allows you to access your files, your blog, your emails and personal software application such as word, spreadsheet from any Internet connected PCs. <span style="font-weight: bold;">DesktopTwo</span>, a product of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sapotek</span>, a company started in Mexico in 2002. <span style="font-weight: bold;">DesktopTwo</span>, which is FREE for consumers, the english version of Sapotek's Spanish-language version of Flash-based webtop software, which was developed using open source tools.<br /><br />Here are some good features of <span style="font-weight: bold;">DesktopTwo</span> that I have just explored<br /><br />1. Storing of your files, which you get 1GB of harddisk space, this is great for those who's been traveling around, which you can access your file as long as you get to access an Internet-connected PC. Uploading files have options from Internet or your local PC, the uploading process has great speed..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/mydtope.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/mydtope.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/d2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/d2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />2. Email account, you get an email account @desktoptwo.com or you can add a POP3 account from your POP3 service provider<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/dsktop2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/dsktop2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/dsktop22.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/dsktop22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />3. Blogging tool, using the blogging tool at <span style="font-weight: bold;">DesktopTwo</span> allows you to create your own blogspace for a choice either on blinkinblog.com or myblogtwo.com. I've just created mine on ketyung.blinkinblog.com. Nice and easy posting of blog entry without the need to wait for post-back as using some other online blogging, such as Blogger :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/bb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/bb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/dskblog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/dskblog.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />4. Bookmark your URL, tag it such as you do with del.icio.us, but this lets you tag it to mysitestwo.com<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/1600/d222.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2374/815/320/d222.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Some more great features, such as MP3 playe, RSS reader, live chat using MSN, find out more from <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://DesktopTwo.com">http://DesktopTwo.com</a>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843573.post-1161914315498385092006-10-26T17:57:00.000-07:002006-10-26T19:00:53.156-07:00Warning! Threat on open source security<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rigacci.org/docs/biblio/online/w2l/10-04_6_2_redhat_logo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.rigacci.org/docs/biblio/online/w2l/10-04_6_2_redhat_logo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Open source such as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> is NO more secure? I do agree that open source software, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> platform has been more secure and stable than the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Windows</span> platform. In my experience when handling servers on both the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Windows</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> platforms, I prefer <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span>, as the fundamental is I do NOT have to worry about worm attack and virus infection!<br /><br />Being a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> user, I guess now is the time to be more alerted with the security of this platform. As told by well-known <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux </span>developer of UK, <b>Alan Cox, </b>who now works at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">RedHat</span> for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> kernel development, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> platform is the next target for hacking. According to Alan, when speaking to delegates at <a target="_blank" href="http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linuxworldexpo.co.uk%2F&siteId=3&amp;amp;oId=2100-1002-6129835&ontId=1009&lop=nl.ex">London's LinuxWorld</a> conference on Wednesday, he emphasized that considerable sums of money were being spent in attempting to hack into open-source systems. <p> And he cautioned that many open-source projects were far from secure.<br /></p>"There is a lot of money going into security, but the situation is worse, because there is a lot of money going into breaking security. People are being paid to work breaking down software systems,"<a href="http://news.com.com/The+open-source+programmer+who+means+business/2008-1082_3-6034101.html?tag=nl" title="The open-source programmer who means business -- Thursday, Feb 2, 2006"> Cox, who is employed by Linux seller Red Hat</a>, told delegates.<br /><p><br /></p>KetYunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02839473249886030211noreply@blogger.com0