Just be careful

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I received a mail yesterday in my SPAM box and my itchy fingers were waiting to click on the link shown above (NO:1). How exciting !

However, my eyes caught the link at the bottom of the window (NO :2) and it certainly wasn't heading to YOUTUBE. Ladies and gentleman, please be careful when clicking on any link or when you receive any attachments. Always check and if a pop-up appears and warns you, please DO NOT ignore.

p/s : Boss is in the conference room, so decided to curi curi and post something. Haish, the perils of working too near to your boss.

Ever heard of a 32Gb thumbdrive

Two of my ex-housemates went to China almost a month back for holidays. They decided to buy something for us (their lovely housemates). They were walking around in a market when they spotted someone selling 32Gb thumbdrive. You would have heard 1Gb or even 2Gb. The more tech savy would have heard about the 16Gb hitting our shores around the 2nd Quarter this year. Being sceptical at first, they decided to buy it anyway. Why ? Have you ever heard of SONY being phony ?

Packed neatly with the label clearly stating SONY and 32G was a bargain. It wasn't that expensive so they bought 4 pieces ! I was pretty happy getting the 32Gb. Imagine the amount of porn data I could ferry around. Holly !

I start copying data and tried reading them. Error ! I shifted my thumbdrive to the back of the CPU thinking that my front USB was not compatible. God DAMM error again ! I tried it on someone elses PC, thinking my windows could not detect a 32Gb thumbdrive. Shieeeett !

Then I checked the net and found out that a maximum of 32MB could be read. MEANING : If I copy more than 32MB, the most recent data would be readable and not the previous ones. Nice. Chinaman, was pretty smart to convert a 32Mb to a 32Gb. Heck, even windows detected it as 32Gb. I wonder how it's done.

How to clean your registry

I removed my avast and AVG and installed Bitdefender. I didn't feel to happy just having one anti-virus, so I tried reinstalling AVG. It just refused to update the definitions. I thought it was Bitdefender trying to be mean by not allowing users to intall another anti-virus program.

Wrong.

My registry is screwed thanks to AVG. Similar traits to Norton. Humm. Thinking I could outsmart Windows, I starting download Registry Cleaners. What exactly are registry cleaner ?
Well.....they clean registries. Stuffs you don't need but it's there. Stuffs that you never thought you had, but it's there. Stuff you DON't want , but it's there. All those unwanted items makes the registry bloated and screwed. After trying multiple programs, I can safely suggest the following (Both are FREE !!)

- CCleaners
- Free Windows Registry Repair

CCleaners even cleans your start up, thus improving your startup speed. More on that in the next post. Both comes with good clean interface with simple navigation menus. Both allows users to create backups before messing with the registry.

The beauty of free stuffs. Aaaahhh

What's the best free ANTI-VIRUS software ?

Everybody knows Mcafee and Norton.They are like the Microsoft and Apple of the antivirus world. One main problem is Norton takes up to much of my precious memory. Ever tried uninstalling Norton ? It will take you more than just a click of a button. Apparently, they have no idea why THEIR software does that. Now, they have a link on the Norton website allowing you to download a NORTON remover. Isn't that convenient. Detering people from even uninstalling your product. Imagine Microsoft coming up with such tactics.

As for me, I've been using both Avast and AVG for sometime. I've realised that both are taking up a little more memory than I expected. I'm planning to switch to Bitdefender 8. The thing is since it's free, the package isn't complete.

AVG - Does not scan properly
Bitdefender 8 - Does not have REAL-TIME scanning
Avast - The interface sucks and it takes hours to scan files.

Having all three isn't an option. Time to experiment. If interested, just head over to download.com to get your free version.

Links :
Yahoo says
Helpero
Download.com
Download.com top downloads

Want to start a blog ?

Get your free beautiful templates here and here only for blogspots.

Over the years, I've met people who wanted to blog but just never knew where to start and how to go about it. Don't worry, I'm not going to give out tutorials. Not yet at least. However I'm just going to point out some tips which I feel could come in handy.

1. I have an idol in the bloggersphere - Kenny Sia. The reasons ? I love the way he presents his jokes, his ideas and he's famous. Who doesn't want to be famous ?

2. Keep it your style. When I first started, I was writing in short forms and many dots.......just like that with 'u' and 'ppl' spilling all over. I changed because I felt I needed a more professional outlook. It's just me.

3. The content is your's to decide and don't let other condemn you into writing something you're not interested in.

4. Keep the desire & passion burning. At times, blogging get too boring or rather you're just too lazy to type it all out. If you are going to do something, give it a 110%.

5. If it's suppose to be private, do not even bother telling people you have a blog. Not cool.

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How to use Wordpress ? Click here

How to make your blog stand out ?

Enhance your Blogs Appearance and Performance ? Get it here

RSS - An insight

What exactly is RSS ?

Well I knew it existed but never really knew how to create / use it. I then decided to start reading up and started learning bits and pieces about RSS. RSS is like notifiers when a site is updated. RSS saves us time from clicking the FAVOURITES tab and then selecting the website we visit almost daily only to find out it is exactly the same as it was the last time you checked it. Now you have wasted about 5 minutes (assuming you are using StreamyX. If it's dial up, god bless you). Not much time lost right ? WRONG. Now picture yourself clicking about 20 websites and you realised, it is no different compared to the first website you clicked.

Catastrophic indeed.

This is where the orange image that you seen on the top right hand side of my page comes handy. To utilise RSS, you need a RSS reader. Not a problem if you have the latest IE7 or Firefox. Just click on the 'Suscribe Now' . Next click View XML feed.

Click Suscribe to this feedThe above will pop up. Go ahead and click Suscribe

There are multiple settings you can adjust to suit your preferance

The same can be applied to anywebsite that spots the similar coloured images or anything that states RSS or XML feed. Feel Free to browse the links below and get more information. I'm still pretty blur.

Links
Blogger Help regarding Feeds here
A website to create feedlinks here
What is RSS and How Do You Use It? - here
All about RSS - here
How to:Read RSS feeds - here
RSS Quickstart Guide - here

earthquake - thanks to our fuckin neighbour !!

Where do i start....umm..let me start from my previous mysteriously missin post (PC fair)

- when to pc fair on Sat by bas to serdang then followed by commuter to Putra ( Rm4.70 - cheap). When shopping around for printer , dvdrom and cdrw for my fren (raja). Selected the shop and started q-ing up at the ATM in PWTC. The line was freaking long. Got the money and bought the stuff.Decided to go to midvalley to watch Mayavi at 5.15. left Pwtc and moved towards MVM with commuter and reached at 5.15.Shits.Ran all de way to south mall ..or is it north.....no idea !! Reached there onli to find out the linea was reaching McD. Fuck !! Had our lunch/tea/dinner (nasi ayam - Rm4.50 -cheap) and all the while we were doing the shoppin and running to MVM it was raining cats and dogs. The things we carried were not light either. Came back and fixed everything and watched Robots.Not so funny like ice age or even shark tale. Entertaining ? Maybe..i had my share of fun too.

- Today's news was EARTHQUAKE. I was not on hand to experience Cyberia shaking but when I came back from my fren's short film contest, many of the occupants of cyberia were seen loitering around. Many were busy getting their cars out of the garage/car park. Many were seeing heading towards Hassan and Dengkil mamak. Never have I seen such large gathering or never had I seen such parade of whores and towel-gurls. Nah ...kidding..all were dressed well and smelled sweet despite the earthquake. Many had found time to dress up, put sum perfume and look good !! Humans - they never fail to impress. By the time I was back from dengkil , the crowd had subsided and all went back home happily ever after. As usual, as soon as i switched the monitor on, yahoo messages swamped me. Nowdays' I'm well informed thanks to the internet and messaging services.

Time to sleep. Too tired. Tomorrow library again. Life is just about studies for the next 3 weeks. God bless !!