First of all, I've never been to New Zealand, and currently I am in Malaysia.

So my sis is now currently having her holiday in New Zealand - she wanted to find a honey shop that she forgot the name. Her only tips for me:

1) It's opposite Wellington city library
2) It sells manuka honey fudge
3) It's at the corner

She wants me to find out the shop name + street name for her.

With every 10 minutes asking me whether I'm able to find.

That 3 tips only manage to find me the street name, not the shop name.

So, for the first time, I tried out Street View.

I 'strolled' along the street, found the corner - and I found the shop name.

So, it's certified, I'm the living Siri, and my sister liked it.

Although Firefox is the third fastest browser now (in terms of page rendering speed) - but who cares, it is still my favorite browsers in terms of ability to customize, and lots of interesting third party plugins that improve the browsing experience.

Here you go, Firefox 3.6, a faster (in terms of page rendering speed + memory usage) and better browser than its predecessor Firefox 3.5.

Click here to download

Ronnie first coined it.
I'm tempted to use it.
Colleen knows why.
But would that be a blasphemy?

It's an upgraded term of DSK.

Imagine you have a forum, a sites that publishes the articles, but their search engine isn't that great.

Good news is, Google will most likely have indexed those (popular) sites.

So how to search?

Challenge: I want to search for "That's not my name" (by Ting Tings, and for 24 hours demo listen purpose).

But Google results gave me crap - with mostly results from "rapidlibrary.com" that doesn't provide full link

However: I do know some collection sites such as taringa.net, freshwap.net, rlslog.net. But some needs registration which I'm pretty lazy to do so (then probably you should remain lazy)

Solution:

Use Google site search.

Use the following keywords in Google:

i) site:taringa.net "that's not my name"
ii) site:freshwap.net "that's not my name"
iii) site:rlslog.net "that's not my name"

Of course, if you wanna fine-tune the search, with download provider such as mediafire, megaupload or rapidshare, consider the following keywords:

i) site:taringa.net "that's not my name" mediafire
ii) site:taringa.net "that's not my name" megaupload

Last tip:
Consider the Google "Cache" result if the post has been removed

Finally, FireFox 3.5 is released!

All FireFox users and all Internet Explorer users are highly recommended to use this browser!

You can grab a copy here

At the same time, you may also want to revisit the add-ons for FireFox, which I blogged earlier:

Some Useful Plugins/Functions for Firefox

and

Filtering Add-Ons for Firefox

This guide is for the two ladies, who're gonna be Vienna.

I hope this guide helps. Though I'm not sure if it's too late.

viel Spaß!

DSK will prevail!

Two years ago, I had posted a post on how to search for a song (without knowing its title) in internet and download (to have a 24 hours demo listening), here

Now, I'm gonna enhance the method - yes, still, the DSK way.

1) Search and Download a Song
Supposed you need to find a song called

強 by Aaron Kwok

Keyword to search in Google: "Aaron Kwok" 強 filehosting company name

E.g.
i) "Aaron Kwok" 強 rapidshare
ii) "Aaron Kwok" 強 mediafire
iii) "Aaron Kwok" 強 megaupload

Try each and every link for the luck.

2) Search and Download an Album
Same goes for album, for example Lily Allen's "It's Not Me, It's You"

So keyword to search in Google will be

i) "Lily Allen" "It's Not Me, It's You" rapidshare
ii) "Lily Allen" "It's Not Me, It's You" mediafire
iii) "Lily Allen" "It's Not Me, It's You" megaupload

Other tips:
1) When you look at the Google result, chances are you'll be seeing blog posts, forum posts that lead to the download link

If you found that the forum need password, sometimes you can try your luck with the Google cache

Click on the "Cached", sometimes you may see the removed link/password protected link.

2) There are other filehosting company such as letitbit, depositfiles, sendspace. But I chose not to include because some of them provide slow download or fast expiring link (such as sendspace)

3) If your selected filehosting company is Rapidshare, unfortunately, lately they are a lot of spam website that host the truncated link (that doesn't give you the full download link) just to earn advertisement $.

This means that your first choice could be mediafire or megaupload - it really depends on your experience.

4) If you look at my search keyword, I tend to put quote for, say, Lily Allen.

I'd put "Lily Allen" instead of Lily Allen.

Reason being this will effectively reduce the returned result.

5) Laziest way to download song without Google-ing - go get software such as Frostwire to download.

But I've gotta remind you, a lot of downloads on Frostwire/Limewire are actually virus, so you'd better have an antivirus installed.

Disclaimer: This post is purely for educational purpose (for online searching excellence) please delete the illegal copy of music, 24 hours after you download - or buy the original.

Sometimes, thinking of making music (one of my hobby)... professionally

But i guess first of all, there's this fear

fear of facing the failure (hence unable to earn a cent from it)
fear of unable to pay the loan
fear of the lacking the talent (without that, how to make music?)
fear of lacking the discipline (how to keep the momentum consistant)
fear of the skill level I have (since, it's only a hobby)
so end up

"Wake up, get back to your work and stop whining, DSK"

After more than half year of beta testing, it is official now: Google Pinyin 2.0

It is even smarter now - with more accurate prediction, richer dictionary, better compatibility, better interface etc

I've already mentioned some kick-ass examples in my previous post about version 1, so I think it's kinda justifiable for me to be lazy in this post.

Highly recommended :)

To download, just click on the button below

I've tweaked a bit on the Greasemonkey so that it works on my FireFox 3.5 beta 4 :)

If you need it -

1) Download here
2) Unzip it
3) Drag the .xpi file into FireFox 3.5 Beta 4 to install

OR

Download the XPI directly from FileFactory, HERE

I'm currently using it. :-)

The reason why I introduce Firefox 3.5 even at the beta version is because it has a lot of improvement over version 3.0.

For instance, speed. You'll get faster loading speed with web application such as Facebook or Gmail.

Note that Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is the successor of Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 - reason being version 3.5 is to show the significant changes have been made on browser.

It's quite a stable browser so far - which I believe the benchmark results will be published soon, telling how fast it is, comparing with Google Chrome & Apple Safari.

Please note that, FireFox 3.5 Beta 4 is not available so far as a full download - only update is available.
Update: Full download is now available here

If you have Firefox 3.1 beta, just follow the steps below to update:



And note that, by installing this update, the following plugins are not working:

1) Greasemonkey (the engine behind my favorite Facebook Purity)
2) Downthemall (my favorite download manager)

which i'm sure the updates will be coming soon.

Meanwhile, I'll enjoy this latest Firefox with Adblock Plus...

Lately I found two more useful plug-ins for FireFox 3.x

1) Facebook Purity
The recent Facebook interface change will definitely flood you a lot of information on what quiz your friends had taken - I don't quite give a damn actually.

Luckily, thanks to my colleague, I was introduced with this great gift, which gives me a faster Facebook loading speed + cleaner outlook:


So it blocked 12 alerts on what quiz my friends had taken... yawn...

To install it:
1) First you'll need to have Firefox 3.x, if you don't, get it here
2) Install greasemonkey
3) Then, click here to install the Facebook Purity plugin


2) AdBlock Plus
This Firefox add on rocks!

Two things main things it can do:
i) It auto-sync a latest list of sites/ads to be blocked
ii) It blocks the images/ads you want to block (to do it, right click on the image, and select as pictured below)


And what's the outcome? My blog is now ad free (with 3 objects blocked)


Bloggers who wants $$ from blog won't like it.

But my blog doesn't generate great revenue... so..

To install it, click here

Enjoy! :-)

I've been a Firefox user since year 2004.

For one big reason, ability to customise.

1) Search


This is the main reason I use internet - to search for information.

As you can see, there are numbers of quick search engine that I can manage, for my convenience to search using the search box.

To get some of those search engine for Firefox:
Yahoo Dictionary click here
Wikipedia English click here
Wikipedia Chinese click here
Filehippo click here

Or, search the plugin you want here


2) Add-ons

Firefox' Extensions section provides the ability to enhance its basic feature.

One of the most useful plugin I found so far is DownThemAll! plugin.
It is a download manager that is free (!!!) - you can resume or prioritise your download, best of all, it can speed up the download (by opening new connection/trunk of download) - it is really useful for country like Malaysia (thanks to its slow internet connection)

You can get DownThemAll! here

Or, search for the add-ons you want here


3) Private Browsing
Last but not least, starting with version 3.1, Firefox comes with Private Browsing (or better known as porn browsing) function



With this function, the browser won't remember the link you've visited, nor it will store any information regarding to the sites you visit, under this mode.

While you are surfing, Chrome is also recording the frequency of the website that you are surfing to.

Therefore, the next time you open a new tab - you'll see the speed dial function (initially featured in Opera) which you can select the favorite website that you immediately want to go.


Feeling intruded that way? To me it's a nice feature that Google Chrome offers - but if you dislike this feature, you can always use the Incognito feature (by pressing CTRL + Shift + N). This is a private browsing (as I know, initially featured in Apple Safari) that can help to protect your privacy - your browsing history, search history, cached image etc won't appear in Chrome after you close it :-)


Another feature that I like is the "Google cached page" link.

When the website that normally works, but fails to, at the exact moment that you are surfing, Chrome will suggest you to use Google's cached page, which can show you the page that was last captured by Google.


Pop up blocker has been good also. I've done several test and it's as good as Firefox's :)


Should you want to see the blocked page, just press on the "Blocked Pop-up" bar and you'll see the blocked page.



Download manager is a thing that other browser should learn too. The download manager will show as a toolbar at the bottom of the page, rather than the pop-up (make sense too, who would really wanna glare at the progress bar while it downloads?)

But in case you want to see the detail of progress as well as other downloads, you can always click "Show all downloads..."


And the download manager appears.

I'm gonna stop here cos I need time to explore this web browser.

So far, it has been stable and I love the interface and features offered.

I shall write the final conclusion after a couple of days.

Till then, install yourself a copy, try and feel it. It's definitely worth the try.

Verdict: The browser that's getting the best from both Firefox and Safari (er, who cares about IE?) that is display friendly (of cos) with Google's product (Gmail, Blogspot, Google Doc, Web Picasa etc)


Highly recommended to Google product user, strongly recommended for user who loves to use IE and recommended to users who loves IE alternative.

This is a possible DSK tool in the future - a web browser from Google.

But at the moment, i don't know.

From the comic, it looks really interesting and quite innovative.

But again, that's the usual American way of advertising (yup, even though it's free and open source)

Let's see.

Feel free to read the comic, it's an interesting way to advertise the product. I like it, to be frank :)

P/S: Seems like Google is poised to be the next Microsoft, conquering every IT market as possible

e-Open Light is a session initially requested by Ron.

There's a procedure to follow, and it's a joint effort.

1) Requester to discuss on what electronics they're gonna buy
2) Joint effort in finding the right product with reference to reviews.
3) Buy the product
4) Research on obtaining the latest firmware and see if it's worth the upgrade - then upgrade
5) Open light session

The step 5 is pretty easy to do:

Just place the electronic in front of the monitor screen, with the picture below loaded.



Et voila! e-Open light session is done!

Your electronic should be good to use.

P/S: This is still at testing stage. We'll need to further improve the process to make it a better one. If you are interested, feel free to buzz me on my MSN. :)

The µTorrent/uTorrent version 1.8 final is released!

I do notice the speed improvement (easy to your computer resources) over the version 1.7 - hence I'd recommend it to everybody.

On another note, to improve the bittorrent speed (thanks to the throttling done by the ISP), there's an open secret - to encrypt the connection.

Initially you may find the connection started slow. But after a it's established - it's worth it :-)

Figure below shows how-to:


Get yourself a copy HERE