If you found yourself suddenly couldn’t send out emails from Outlook or any of your email clients today, don’t panic. Thanks to Tmnet for blocking port 25 for all out going emails.

What is ridiculous is Tmnet did this without any prior notice. I receive no notification from them other than lots of junk mails although I have been using Tmnet dial-up and Streamyx for so many years… My friend however did receive an email notification from them today. Yes, he received it today only when the block is in effect! If my friend didn’t forward the email he received from Tmnet, I would for sure have called up my web hosting company and started an argument. Lucky I didn’t do that and lucky my friend forwarded the notice from Tmnet to me!

Following is an excerpt from the email:

… many anti-spam organizations have blacklisted a large number of IP addresses from TM’s network. Due to this many customers have been unable to send emails from their mail server to companies who might be using database from the abovementioned anti-spam organizations.

These spamming activities by a small group have affected a large number of our customers, regardless of the nature of their Internet usage.

Therefore, TM is taking immediate action to address this issue. Effective 3 December 2007, TM will block OUTBOUND Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) traffic or port 25 for all out going e-mails from dynamic IP addresses. Only Outbound SMTP traffic from smtp.streamyx.com and smtp.tm.net.my will be allowed. …

With this implementation, we will not be able to send out emails if our dynamic IP address falls within the affected IP address range. We are thus forced to use Tmnet’s open relay server, at least until our web hosting provider configures an alternative SMTP port.

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What is the latest and hottest gadget in Malaysia? iPod? Microsoft Zune? No,… I don’t think so. I think it has to be Apple iPhone. Let me do a very quick and simple review of the Apple iPhone which I merely owned for 30 minutes. Haha, actually it belongs to my colleague and he only loaned me for 30 minutes to play with… but it’s enough to fall in love with this futuristic phone!

Overall, I would say the phone is not perfect. Nothing is. But it’s certainly far ahead of it’s competitors in many areas. Let me detail them below.

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You wish to appear on the top position in Google? That’s the magic question asked in an email from Exabytes (Malaysia’s largest web hosting company) which I received this morning. As usual their emails, or rather newsletters are nicely designed, but what caught my attention was the prove they show that they can make you top position in Google.

Go to Google.com.my and search for they keyword “hosting” and you can see that their website is in the number 1 position.

This is really good… although I am not sure how much you need to pay to Google AdWords in order to be number 1 on the keyword “hosting”. I guess it’s not cheap… considering there are so many web hosting companies in Malaysia bidding for that keyword.

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It doesn’t matter if you have missed the previous two rounds of PIKOM PC Fair, or you simply miss the PC Fair babes because a third round is coming to us real soon!

Yes, you saw it in the news. Malaysia’s largest ICT fair is back with even more irresistible gadgets and computer accessories… and of course with more beautiful babes! For your reference, below are the dates and venues of the third and final round of PC Fair this year.

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You watch YouTube vidoes? I am sure you do, who doesn’t these days? There are perhaps millions of videos on YouTube for free viewing 24 hours a day that some people have forgotten what is TV these days! You don’t have 18SX shows on Malaysian TV, but you can watch uncensored XXX clips on YouTube.

Let me introduce you a nice Web2.0 application to help you with your YouTube adventure. This Web2.0 application is none other than iDesktop.tv (formerly known as YouTube Desktop), which lets you browse, search, view, download and do a whole lot more with YouTube videos in a similar style to a desktop application. But the beauty of this is that you get to enjoy all these great features FREE from within your browser, without the need to download anything!

Look how I enjoyed watching these free bouncing boobies… totally amazed. I am sure you don’t want to miss out too.

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