Goldenhope.com.my hacked by 1919turk

I was shocked and I just couldn’t believe it when my colleague told me this morning that Goldenhope.com.my has been hacked. If you are not aware of it, Golden Hope is a very big and well known estate and plantations company in Malaysia.

Anyway, below is a screen shot of the website after it’s hacked. Now, if you went to the site, it shows “Forbidden: You don’t have permission to access / on this server”. I believe the webmaster is trying hard to harden the server, and updating patches and all that to make the server more secure.

Hacked website

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Top earning bloggers

It’s really amazing how blogging can bring in tonnes of money, even several times more than a full time job. This is no joke. Some famous blogs such as BoingBoing.com and TechCrunch record revenue of more than 1 million dollar a year according to a report by Business Week: Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks.

Go Fug Yourself

Below is a summary of the top bloggers and their estimated revenue:
BoingBoing – Over 1 million a year
I Can Has Cheezburger? – Estimated $5,600 a month
ShoeMoney – Estimated $12,000 a month
Overheard in New York – Estimated $8,100 a month
TalkingPointsMemo – Estimated $45,000
Kottke.org – $5,300 a month

Wow $$$. It’s really amazing how these blogs can reap in so much money… they are doing better than most small businesses! Let’s take gasp for some air before continuing….

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Google pagerank prediction, check if your PR is going up or down

You have done the hard work, optimized your website by including tonnes of keywords and also make sure all the content and pages are search engine optimized. Of course you have also written some very good content and you are sure there are more websites linking back to yours. Now, you are excited to wait for the next Google PageRank update… but when it is? Some say it’s around the corner… but you just can’t wait! You want to see your website jump to PR6!

Pagerank prediction

Worry not. Use this Google pagerank prediction tool from iWebTool.com which has a number of other webmaster and SEO tools. This pagerank prediction tool can check up to 5 domain names at any time. It will display the current PR of the website, the predicted PR of the immediate future, the number of backlinks and even an accuracy value for your reference.

A quick check using www.kongtechnology.com reveals some pretty good news. This blog will have PR4 soon! Google, please fast fast update the pagerank, I can’t wait to see if this prediction tool is correct or not! 🙂

PIKOM PC Fair 2007

Good news for those of you who are thinking of buying a new computer, a new laptop, or any related gadgets. PIKOM PC Fair (II) 2007 is coming to town very soon! Yes, notice the (II) in the event’s name? These days they have so many times of PC Fair in a year, in fact that’s the 2nd PC Fair this year with another one lining up towards the end of the year.

Although I am not thinking of buying any new gadgets this time because I have already bought a new laptop just last month… I love my new Compaq Presario laptop! But I think I will still drop by the KL venue to support the PC Fair babes. Yeah, check out these beautiful babes. 🙂

PC Fair babes

Sweet and lovely. Trust me, they are well trained and know the products they are selling. Try test them next time you see them.

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Transformers shoes

There days there are so many blogs talk about Transformers. Some went to the movie and give a review about it in their blog. Some say it’s a very nice and must watch movie, and of course there are a few who say it’s a lousy one. But, I bet you will like what I am going to show you next: Transformers Shoes!

Nike shoes

Does the shoe above look like a Transformer to you? No? Nothing like Optimus Prime, Jazz, Ironhide, or Ratchet?… wait till you twist and turn that thing!

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I went to see a doctor

Let’s take a break from the boring tech posts today, because I have something more exciting to share with you. Yesterday, I was down with a fever and had to go visit a doctor. You say this is more exciting than tech tips or not? 🙂

Anyway, because it’s late evening and no other patients other than myself, the doctor was not in his office. I think he was outside at a nearby coffee shop enjoying his evening coffee or something like that. So, I had some time to practice my photo taking with my camera phone.

Consultation

That’s the doctor’s consultation room. Nice or not? If you had studied hard enough last time, you could then sit in an air-con room like this and earn big money!

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Hidden boot screen in Windows Vista

You are expecting a beautiful, polished and 3D animated boot screen in Windows Vista, but what you get is a dull screen like the following. Don’t you think it’s even uglier than what’s in Windows XP?

Windows Vista bootscreen

However, fear not. One of the weird things Microsoft do to Windows Vista is they hide the more advanced boot screen for the more adventurous users to find! How tricky are they?! Let me share you the screen to unlock the advanced boot screen.

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Hidden 3D animations in Windows Vista

Since I got my Windows Vista laptop, I have been tweaking and playing with it like a new babe. The Windows Vista operating system is so lovely although sometimes I find the added security features quite annoying. Recently, I found that there is this Windows Vista utility which is meant for benchmarking your system called the Windows System Assessment Tool.

Usually, you would run it through the Control Panel. Go:
Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Performance Information and Tools

Check out my laptop’s performance. Not very good right… all because of the poor graphics capabilities.

Windows performance

OK, this may sound like boring and useless. But, you may not know that you can actually get this tool to display some really cool 3D animations. To do this, you need to get to the command prompt and run the following commands. If you have problem running them, most likely you need to elevate your privileges.

Let me show you screen shots of these 3D animations. The commands to run them are below of the screen shots.

3D Aurora
winsat aurora

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Customizable keyboard from Fujitsu

When I first saw this keyboard, I fell in love with it immediately although I don’t use a full sized keyboard much as I work on my laptop most of the time.

Customizable keyboard

With this cool keyboard, typing on a keyboard that you are not comfortable with will soon become a thing of the past. The LiberTouch keyboard allows you to customize the key-layout by easily removing and rearranging them. Yes, you are right, you can rearrange them into anything they like!

Keyboard

No info on pricing or availability though, but I will make sure I let you know first when it’s announced.

The requested operation requires elevation

You might run into this message “The requested operation requires elevation” when you are trying some naughty commands in Windows Vista. Refer to the screen shot below which comes up if you ran the ipconfig /flushdns command.

The requested operation requires elevation

Well, you get this message because you do not have enough privilege or permission to run the command, even if you were the administrator of the computer. Yes, Windows Vista is that stubborn; or has high security as Bill Gates says.

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