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1st Year Anniversary for My Blog 02.07.08

Ultimately, my blog will be 1 year old on July 6, 2008 next Tuesday. To celebrate this, I am giving away free Tux (the Linux penguin) stickers per person and I have total of 464 Tux stickers. You can stick it to your notebook or desktop.

This free Tux stickers is automatically goes to the all time top 10 commentators. These commentators are all from Malaysia as listed below. Each of them will get 16 free Tux stickers. I will contact the below commentators to send the Tux stickers to them by snail mail. Hopefully you will enjoy the Tux stickers.

  • Simon (131)
  • danny (117)
  • abi (44)
  • iCalvyn (42)
  • Jax (34)
  • Li Lian (26)
  • Kitkat (19)
  • Jayce (13)
  • Nicholas (12)
  • dicky (9)

That reduce the number of Tux stickers to 304. I will give the rest of the Tux stickers to the first 19 commentators of this post. To get the 16 free Tux stickers per commentator, the commentators need to fulfill the criteria below: -

  • Malaysian commentators only (I will verify the IP addresses)
  • Minimum 10 words per comment

However, I would like to apologize to the international readers and commentators because I can’t afford to send the free Tux stickers to you all. Lastly, below are the rankings from Google, Alexa and Technorati: -

Google PageRank: 4
Alexa Traffic Rank: 560,297
Technorati Rank: 193,898

Besides, I have to keep blogging to raise the rankings above. Again, thanks for all the support given by visiting and commenting in my blog, :)

UEFA Euro 2008 Final Prediction 30.06.08

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.

Start Increasing Your Website Traffic 29.06.08

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.

Safari Style Progress Bar in Firefox 28.06.08

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 Studio Laptops 27.06.08

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.

openSUSE 11.0 KDE 4.0 Installation Screenshots 26.06.08

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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Google Maps Identify My Location without GPS 22.06.08

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

My baby girl is 10 months 3 weeks 1 day old 22.06.08

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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Setup Relay Host Port and SMTP Authentication Client in Postfix 21.06.08

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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