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Archive for April, 2008


Exabytes Celebrates Super 7th Anniversary

Exa Bytes Network Sdn Bhd also known as Exabytes is celerating its “Super 7th Anniversary” in the year of 2008 which is also the year of Rat in Chinese calendar. I would like to take this oppurtunity to wish Exabytes a Happy Super 7th Anniversary. As you might not be aware, they are celebrating the 7th anniversary with 7 wonders. What is that all about?

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ServerFreak Launched Virtual Private Server Hosting

ServerFreak is proud to announce the launch of their new service Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting. ServerFreak VPS is designed mainly for customers who are not yet ready for dedicated server hosting and would like to have more control than a shared web hosting account. With ServerFreak VPS, you will get full root access, guaranteed resources, a full-featured control panel and a greater reliability. Your VPS is isolated in a private environment which unaffected by other users. Your VPS will be hosted on a dedicated IP address that gives you the ability to host your own website, mail, ftp and even a database.

ServerFreak VPS comes with the free state-of-the-art LxAdmin control panel. There are two other popular control panels such as cPanel and DirectAdmin which is optional. The Operating System supported currently are Linux which includes flavors like CentOS 5, Fedora Core 5, OpenSUSE 10, Debian 6 and Ubuntu 6. ServerFreak VPS service starts from as low as RM 95/month. Check it out here. To celebrate this launch, ServerFreak is giving out 30% off lifetime discount coupon as below: -

Coupon Code: vpsspecial30
Expires On: 15 May 2008

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Flash Based Tag Cloud Replacement

For those who familiar with tag cloud, do you think that displaying your tag cloud with different font size or color does attract your readers? You will have a different thinking now once I introduce you this coolest plugin, WP Culumus.

WP Culumus is a tag cloud plugin created by Roy Tanck using Flash that gives you an interactive 3D rotating tag cloud. You can control and click on the tag cloud using your mouse. You have the option to change the color, background, width and height to suite your WordPress theme. You will be surprise. You can see the WP Culumus tag cloud in action here to believe it.

Source: WP Cumulus

I Ate Golden Egg Dry Chilli Pan Mee

I was in Bandar Puchong Jaya, Puchong this afternoon with my wife. I remember the popular local 8TV show Ho Chak! did recommend a mouth-watering “Chilli Pan Mee” in this area. I can’t remember the name of the shop but we decided to give it a try to hunt it. Just a few minutes of driving, we managed to find the shop. The shop name is Golden Egg Noodle.

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Received fav.or.it Invitation

Yesterday, when I checked my personal email, I was surprised to received an invitation from fav.or.it to join as a beta user. Without any delay, I quickly proceed with the registration. The beta user registration is simple and easy. Within one minute, I am now a fav.or.it beta user.

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HP Upline Provides Unlimited Storage

Hewlett-Packard launched an unlimited online data storage called HP Upline. It is a service whereby you can put your data for backup purposes and sharing purposes. Your files will be accessible anywhere anytime using a web browser stored on multiple servers safely with HP Upline using latest encryption technology. Continue Reading →

Converting Image to ASCII Using ASCII-O-Matic


I found a web-based image to ascii converter from Typorganism. This service from Typorganism is free. I find it very cool because it was designed in Flash and you can simply change the color output from black & white to color or change the ASCII from letters to square blocks. You are allow to upload a JPEG only image file with 60 x 50 pixel only for the conversion. You will have the option to generate the output ASCII to HTML or you can do a screen shot yourself like me. This give me an idea to create a new favicon from the ASCII above.

Source: Typorganism ASCII-O-Matic

Spend Your 1 sen Coins Wisely

Do you know that the Malaysian Government has implemented the rounding mechanism to the nearest multiple of 5 sen in total bill amount? This has been effectively implemented on 1 April 2008. In this rounding mechanism exercise, if your total amount of a bill which ends in 1, 2, 6 and 7 sen, it will be rounded down while the total amount of a bill which ends in 3, 4, 8 and 9 sen, it will be rounded up. For example: -

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Setup Smart Relay Host Port in Sendmail

Does your ISP block outgoing SMTP port 25? Your mail hosting provider is giving you an alternative to relay email using a different port 2525 at their mail server and their mail server supports SMTP authentication. You may follow the simple Sendmail setup below: -

1. Find “DS” in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and add your mail server name as below: -

DSmail.example.com

2. Find “Mrelay” in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and add “2525″ to “A=TCP $h” as below: -

A=TCP $h 2525

3. Add the following line below in /etc/mail/access file in one line: -

AuthInfo:mail.example.com "U:user@example.com" "I:user@example.com" "P:password" "R:example.com" "M:LOGIN PLAIN"

4. Then, restart your Sendmail service as below: -

service sendmail restart

4. Finally, you can monitor your maillog using the command below: -

tail -f /var/log/maillog

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Create a Stand Out Favicon Using IcoFX

Do you notice that I have change my blog’s theme? Thanks to Nurudin Jauhari, the WordPress Theme designer. I am currently using one of his WordPress theme, Padangan. This theme works perfectly with WordPress 2.5 and version 1.3 is the latest stable version. I decided to change the default favicon for this theme. Thanks to the award winning freeware icon editor, IcoFX.

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