Yahoo Web Messenger – online chat anywhere, anytime!

Are you getting tired of downloading new instant messenger releases every now and then and facing problems installing them on your computer? Well worry no more as Yahoo has just launched a new Web based messenger which you can access from anywhere with just a browser. No need to download hugh installation files, no need to go through the trouble installing it… it’s so much more convenient!

Yahoo web messenger

This web based version of Yahoo Messenger was built using Adobe’s Flex 2 on top of Flash Player 9.
What’s best is that it also supports adding MSN Live Messenger contacts just like a normal Yahoo Messenger does. So, you can now chat with your MSN Messenger friends without leaving your favorite Yahoo Messenger! I guess we don’t need Pidgin anymore? … maybe not yet if you have lots of contacts from different systems, because Pidgin supports them all which include AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ… the list is too long and frankly most of them I have not even heard of.

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WordPress stats plugin for WordPress.org blogs

I was delighted when I read that there is a new statistics plugin released for the hosted WordPress.org blogging system. Of course there are already too many statistics plugins available for WordPress.org but the problem is many of them slow down your site because they are writing tonnes of data to a DB or they show generic website stats that aren’t tailored for blogs.

Some such as Google Analytics provides an overwhelming depth of information which is too much and doesn’t really highlight what’s most interesting to me as a blog owner.

Once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.

… because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account.

Isn’t this dream come true? I wasted no time to download the plugin, uploaded it to my server and activated it. But the weird thing is that no matter how many times I clicked the API Key failed to work with this stats plugin. Just not ngam I think!

Wordpress stats

You see, actually the system successfully detected the API key which is being used for Akismet. So, there is no question about the validity of this key, but it still failed to work. My only excuse for this is the version of WordPress I am using, it’s older than 2.1.

How’s your luck with this plugin? Appreciate if you could share with us.

How to chat with friends in Yahoo Messenger from MSN Messenger?

Imagine this scenario, you have tonnes of friends who are happily chating away in Yahoo! Messenger. But you are using MSN Messenger, how can you chat with them? Of course you could always download Yahoo! Messenger and install it… it’s free anyway. But, you don’t fancy installing another software on your already crawling computer…

Pidgin

There’s a solution, look for Pidgin, which is an multi-platform instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and many other Unix variants. Pidgin was renamed from GAIM. The name change is the result of a painfully-achieved settlement with AOL which should also unblock the delayed 2.0 release of the software.

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Speed up Firefox

More and more Internet users are using Firefox each day, some of them just like myself may even have forgotten what is IE already. But, do you know of a nifty trick that will speed up Firefox, especially if you are on broadband (such as Streamyx)?

Sexy Firefox

What the trick basically does is you configure the Firefox browser to request more data that it usually does, thus speed up the page display. To configure it, you need to get to the hidden config settings and change some values.

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Which antivirus is the best?

If you still remember, we talked about AVG free antivirus software not too long ago; which is a very useful and free software to have on your computer to help you against antivirus threats. The other free antivirus software that I like is Avast.

These two are free antivirus software, but if you are willing to pay then I would usually suggest McAfee and Norton antivirus; which are two popular software in Malaysia. However, popular they are, but they may not be the best antivirus…

Virus.gr did some detailed tests some time ago on many of the widely used antivirus software to see how they stack up against each other. And the result is here:

1. Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 – 99.62%
2. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 – 99.62%
3. F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 – 96.86%
4. BitDefender Professional version 9 – 96.63%
5. CyberScrub version 1.0 – 95.98%
6. eScan version 8.0.671.1 – 95.82%
7. BitDefender freeware version 8.0.202 – 95.57%
8. BullGuard version 6.1 – 95.57%
9. AntiVir Premium version 7.01.01.02 – 95.45%
10. Nod32 version 2.51.30 – 95.14%
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Apple TV is in Malaysia

Apple first introduced the Apple TV last year when it was originally known under the code name “iTV”. Back then, very little information is available about the device except that it was Apple’s first foray into the home living room space.

Apple TV

But guess what, now this awesome looking television Apple TV is in Malaysia! I am not sure if this is available at other gadget stores, such as those at Low Yat, but at least CG Computers is retailing it at RM1,299.

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Better search results with customized Google search

Google is undeniably one of the most visited website in the world, and one of the most used search engine. Admit it, everyday you and I go to Google for countless number of times. I even believe that the world would be in a big chaos if Google went down for just a day!

But, I am sure not many of you have noticed the tiny Preferences link just beside the search box. Trust me, this is a very useful page to let power users to customize how Google searches for you or present results to you.

Interface Language
Try changing this to Greek and see if you can still recognize the lovely Google or not. 🙂

Search Language
This is useful if you wanted to search webpages or information written in a particular language. Try Chinese (Simplified) for example if you only want webpages in that language.

SafeSearch Filtering
This is an interesting setting and I believe most of you humsup fellas would definitely want to leave this at “Do not filter my search results”. I know you don’t want to filter out any nice photos, right? Haha… me too, we are in the same gang!

Google search girl
I have Moderate SafeSearch on, and I searched for “girl” Google images. Guess what, the second search result is a picture of a sexy girl in bikini with the title “Seductive Bikini Girl”…. from liewcf.com!

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Interesting 404 file not found error messages

The 404 or Not Found error message is a message indicating that the browser was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find the page that was requested. The annoying little message could be caused because you have entered a wrong URL, the webmaster has deleted the file you are looking for, or the net spirits are against you and will see to it you will never find the information you are looking for!

Getting the dreaded 404 error message can be frustrating at times, especially if you can’t seems to find what’s wrong with the URL. However some of these 404 error messages are really fun and creatively done.

Check out some examples below:

Sexy 404 error message
Sexy error message. (Source) Wow, this one is so sexy! I hope I can get this sort of 404 messages everyday!

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Cool Firefox trick, Firefox inside Firefox

I know you and I love Firefox so much these days… when did you last used that browser from Microsoft called Internet Explorer? Last year?… haha!

Firefox

Firefox is so cool, but it will be cooler if you play this nifty little Firefox trick on your friends. This fun trick is simple, it opens multiple Firefox windows inside of your main Firefox window! All you have to do is enter the following URL in your Firefox address bar:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

This will open up a new Firefox window inside the main window. Repeat the same with the inner Firefox window, and you will have a new Firefox window inside the main one…

Play this trick on your friends, and let them thought they have got a Firefox virus attack!