Prepaid SIM cards are convenient, and there is no doubt that a lot of people in this planet have gained great benefit from them. Some countries have imposed a law that all prepaid SIM cards must be registered to the telco so that they (the authorities) can track down criminals and people who are misusing [...]

As a technical person in the office, and as a person who maintains (not own) more than 20 blogs my friends at work will usually ask me advice on their hosting requirements. The most important concern they have is usually the cost, and speed is usually second. I often ask them to use a portion [...]

It has been a while since I last heard anything about WiMAX plans for Malaysia. Well, from the news in The Star I gather that this problem is not specific to Malaysia. The WiMAX Forum who provide standards and certification is now focusing on the US roll out. While some expert argues that the number [...]

I am currently in love and coding some personal projects using Eclipse PDT with the Zend Framework as foundation. Unit testing is accomplished using PHPUnit. I love the ability of Eclipse to be extended with plugins so that I can have intelligent code completion and integrated subversion client. To my surprise, Eclipse runs very well [...]

I was casually cruising at a friend’s blog when I saw his post about the Shutdown Day. It’s just a simple experiment to see how many people in this world can live a day without their PC. I joined the site, and will definitely turn off all of my notebooks on that day. My servers [...]

Hey hey hey… looks like MacBook Air’s price has been released in Malaysia. However when I took a glance at Machines Sunway Pyramid last weekend I didn’t see any hint (not even a flier) about MacBook Air. The least expensive model is priced at RM6,299.00 (~US$1,949.25) – which is actually logical for an Apple notebook. [...]

I can’t believe my eyes when I saw this notebook. It’s as thin as air hence the perfect name is given. At 1.94cm, it is as thick as two foolscap binders stacked on top of each other. The weight of 1.36kg is simply acceptable. It looks like I made the right decision not to get [...]

I wish I had found the site “Joel on Software” by Joel Spolsky earlier in my life. It contains a lot of precious insights and good points in the area of software development. Being a partial developer myself, I would have never thought of doing programming as a full day job anymore in this lifetime. [...]

This morning when I logged on to GMail, it was still the same. However about half an hour ago I was surprised with some weird boxes around the label list. Clicking on them gave me the option to do only one thing: change the colors of my labels. Yay! As an email organizing freak, I [...]

When I log on to my Gmail today, I received an error bounded by a red box that says “Firebug is known to make Gmail slow unless it is configured correctly”. I didn’t know that! And as always, Gmail is nice enough to provide a simple workaround. Firebug is an excellent add-on normally used by [...]

Everyday I receive a massive number of emails from many sources and half of them are valid (i.e. not spams). And at certain times I receive huge attachments from friends with pictures or other things. With a normal Streamyx ADSL connection this is fine, but when it gets hiccups my email retrieval process normally gets [...]

MP3 players today are as common as a discman or walkman used to be. Back then we have to carry a bigger pouch to pack in our CDs or cassettes, and each of them usually can carry only about 17 songs – and that was already considered many. Today, with a device the size of [...]

The official Pidgin 2.1.1 has been released, and the official Pidgin Portable 2.1.0 Released. So since John T. Haller of PortableApps has packaged this, I will stop packaging Pidgin Portable for the public. This is the end of My Version of Pidgin Portable. Hope all who have used it found it useful. I guess the [...]

Today the site loads very slow, and as I was about to blame the network when I saw this: It seems that Nuffnang may be currently experiencing some difficulties. Since the ad block loads inline, the whole site waits for it. Oh by the way visitors from outside of Malaysia & Singapore will not see [...]

Okay, I know I cheated by going directly from 2.0.1 to 2.1.0 – I just have not enough time when 2.0.2 was released. Pidgin 2.1.0 has finally been released with lots of improvements. For my Portable Pidgin users, you’ll be happy to know that it’s ready. Please let me know if you find any problem.