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My prediction for UEFA Euro 2008 final winner will be Spain. The score will be Germany 1 and Spain 2. However, I will not watch the live telecast on Astro. Good night. I am going to bed now.

Well, most of the web designers nowadays will design a Web 2.0 look and feel website for the World Wide Web (WWW). Somehow, they also need to think of how to get the website ranked in popular search engines. No matter you are developing a small, medium or corporate website, bringing in more traffic by attracting your visitor is the key to achievement. Website traffic can be coming from direct traffic, search engines and referring sites. So, how can you generate more traffic to your website? The answer to this question is Search Engine Optimization Services. Just outsource your website optimization to ThinkBIGsites.com (TBS), a Search Engine Optimization Company.

In TBS, they specialized in providing SEO service as well as other services like web design, blog marketing, custom web programming, web hosting, link building and newsletters. The team in TBS has vast experience in bringing More Web Site Traffic to increase your ranking in popular search engines using high level professional web site optimization techniques. Besides, TBS provides the most competitive, effective and affordable rates to enable your website traffic grow faster.

Bear in mind that TBS is very concern in providing business to the customers and they always maintain high level of ethics by not using other ways to spam or simply fooling the search engines to generate traffic to your website.

You can have Safari style progress bar in your favorite Firefox web browser. With Fission, your Firefox progress bar is more visible and outstanding. Get Fission from Firefox Add-ons to extend your Firefox web browsing experience. To get the same blue 3D look Safari progress bar above, you can download the image here created by me. Fission works with from Firefox 2.0 to 3.0.

Source: Firefox Add-ons - Fission

Dell launches new Studio laptops on Thursday June 26, 2008. These two new laptops, Studio 15 and Studio 17 cases consist of seven colors and a unique pattern with 4 trim color options. Picture shown above is Studio 15 (left) and Studio 17 (right). With the introduction starting price of $799 for Studio 15 and $999 for Studio 17, these two laptops is categorized between Inspiron and XPS.

Studio 15 comes with a glossy 15.4 inch widescreen display and Studio 17 comes with a glossy 17.0 inch widescreen display. Both Studio laptops processor support up to Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB) and memory support up to 4GB Dual Channel 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Besides, Studio 15 storage supports up to 320GB 5400 RPM SATA hard drive and Studio 17 storage supports up to 640GB 5400 RPM SATA hard drive. Both the wireless 802.11b/g and 802.11n is available separately for the Studio laptops. You have the option to choose a built-in cellular mobile broadband installed into the Studio laptops.

Perhaps, both Studio 15 and Studio 17 come with either Vista Home Premium SP1 or Vista Ultimate SP1 as your operating system and no Linux support at the moment. The Studio laptop comes with either a slot load CD/DVD burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)) or a slot load Bluray combo drive (Bluray Read Only Drive). You can select an Intel integrated graphics card or a dedicated ATI graphics card.

The Studio laptops comes with 15-pin VGA connector, HDMI connector, USB 2.0 port, IEEE 1394 port, integrated network connector (10/100/1000Mbps), 54mm ExpressCard slot and consumer IR. The starting weight of Studio 15 is 6.11 pounds (2.77 kilograms) and Studio 17 weight starts at 7.87 pounds (3.57 kilograms). The Studio laptops will be available through Dell online website or retail stores worldwide. I can’t wait to see Studio laptops unveil in Malaysia market.

Below are the openSUSE 11.0 KDE 4.0 installation screenshots. Please note that all the screenshots below are capture during an installation perform in XenServer Express Edition using ISO file and not copied from other sources.

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Few days ago, I was playing around with the Google Maps installed in my Nokia E61i. Apparently the version installed in my mobile phone was too old (version 1) and it required an upgrade to version 2. Well, the upgrade was successful.

Perhaps, I was surprised that after I launched the Google Maps, it showed a blue dot and the best part is the satellite view is showing where I am. Unfortunately, I didn’t capture the screen shot. Later, I found out that this feature is called My Location.

Isn’t this cool? My Nokia E61i doesn’t equipped with a GPS and Google Maps My Location will tells you where approximately you are using the mobile tower you are connected to (within 1800 meters). This feature still in beta but they are constantly working to improve the accuracy and coverage. The above screen shot shows a satellite view and the below screen shot shows a map view.

Below are the Google Maps supported phones: -

• BlackBerry devices
• Some recent Motorola devices
• Some recent Sony Ericsson devices
• Many Windows Mobile devices
• Nokia Series 60 3rd Edition devices

She is 10 months 3 weeks 1 day old today. Check out the photos. Teeth haven’t grow but she is having fun with her baby walker.

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This setup will help you to route all outgoing email through your ISP SMTP server and that SMTP server requires you to authenticate before relaying. For this scenario, the ISP SMTP server is Exim.

1. Edit this file /etc/postfix/main.cf and add relayhost to point to your ISP SMTP server with port number as below: -

relayhost = mail.example.com:2525

2. Add the next parameter to allow Postfix to authenticate before relaying outgoing email as below: -

smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes

3. Add the following line below to map authentication information as below: -

smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

4. Then, add the next parameter to force Postfix to use AUTH LOGIN as below: -

smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = login

5. Create a file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and put the authentication information as below: -

mail.example.com username@example.com:password

6. Next, run the following command below to create the lookup table: -

postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

7. Then, restart your Postfix service as below: -

service postfix restart

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

tail -f /var/log/maillog

Note: The above was tested on Postfix 2.2.10-1 in CentOS 4.4

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Firefox 3 is finally here on my notebook. I had successfully download it this morning at 0215 MYT. The total downloads hit 5 million copies and keeps growing. Firefox 3 gives new features on user experience such as: -

• Easier password management
• Simplified add-on installation
• New download manager
• Resumable downloads
• Full page zoom
• Tab scrolling and quickmenu
• Save what you were doing
• Optimized open in tabs behavior
• Easier to resize location and search bars
• Text selection improvements
• Find toolbar
• Plugin management
• Integration with Windows Vista
• Integration with Mac OS X
• Star button
• Tags
• Location bar and auto-complete
• Smart bookmarks folder
• Bookmarks and history organizer
• Web-based protocol handlers
• Easy to use Download Actions
• Improved look and feel
• Color management support
• Offline support

To learn more on the user experience features above and other feature like performance, security and privacy, you can discover it here. Besides, to reward myself, I get a personalized copy of Firefox 3 Download Day certificate shown below in Portable Document Format (PDF).

So, flaunt it now.

Finally, the much awaited RSS reader and aggregator, fav.or.it opens registration to everyone. Unfortunately, adding new feeds is still prohibited and only feeds available in fav.or.it can be subscribed which I find it very inconvenient at the moment. I hope this feature will be enabled after the fav.or.it beta testing is complete. If you haven’t get an invitation like me, please register an account to try fav.or.it yourself.