Random Interesting Stuff

Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Previously known as MSN) has a fresh new look & is available to download for free!

Get connected
Instantly connect to the people who matter the most—via text, voice, or video. Even if they’re offline, you can leave a message or send a note.

Take control
Choose from a variety of status messages for any occasion. Use Windows Live Contacts to control your personal information—who sees it and what they see.

Share yourself
Share your personal files, photos, and videos of any size. Just drag and drop into a Shared Folder.

Make a difference
i’m™ is a new initiative from Windows Live Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We’ve set no cap on the amount we’ll donate to each organization. The sky’s the limit. There’s no charge, so join now and put our money where your mouth is.

Interested? Download it here

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 My email inbox has always been full with spam but this time it has a slight difference compare with others, it comes from Microsoft Award Team & Microsoft AOL saying that I have won lottery worth £1,000,000.000…….! Well, if it’s how THAT easy to earn money then I would be happy, to bad it’s only a SCAM… It seems like the spammers only target Gmail users, anyone using other accounts who received the same thing?

*If you have ever received emails similar to above one it’s a SCAM, do not provide any personal details to that email*

As a Friendster user myself I am quite frustrated of seeing ads on my profile page, luckily I have found the CSS code in which you can insert to your profile & remove those annoying ads from your sight. Here’s what you need to do :

Remove Friendster Ads

1. Login to your Friendster account
2. Click customize page
3. Remove any templates that you are using
4. Insert this code
5. Preview your page to see the results!

*This technique is still effective by the day of this post was written*

Source : Friendster Tweaker

If you have a long Friendster URL don’t worry as you can personalize it to be your own URL, all you need to is :

Friendster Personal URL

1. Log in to your Friendster account
2. Click “Personalize your URL”
3. Type in any keywords that you would like to use as your personal URL
4. Voila, it’s done!

Be careful when you want to withdraw cash from any ATM Cash Machine & look around you before you do so because there’s always someone behind you! This guy has just showed the whole world How to Steal Money From ATM Cash Machine Manual Hacking. Just look at these pictures and you will know what I mean :

So here’s a man who looks like he’s repairing the ATM machine but the fact is that he is inserting something into the machine. After that he just wait & wait & wait ……..

Finally a victim came! So he inserted his card into the machine but it just won’t come out! Hmm… Is there anything wrong? He started to panic & look around for help~~ And here he is

The “Nice Guy” pretended to help him by telling the victim to type his PIN Code, but no matter how many times he tried, he still failed…

He thought his card got stuck in the machine, so he will ask from the bank tomorrow, however his card can be easily taken out from the machine with just a few simple hacks, and this guy took the card TOGETHER with the PIN Code, so he just withdrew all the $$$ from the victim’s saving account…

So guys, remember to stay alert and always ask someone to go out with you to avoid people to steal money from your ATM Cash Machine!

Let’s take an example : If you key in the query in any search engines there will be sites which offer Javascript documents to be inserted to an Orkut profile. However this is not true ; The person who created the script will insert some sort of code inside which actually steal your personal info and as a results, they are the one who actually hack your Orkut account! The consequence? If light they may just send anonymous messages to your contacts, if serious they may upload unwanted files to your profile and you might just get banned from using Orkut anymore!

So guys, please do not believe in any of those tricks because most of them are SCAMS, even if they aren’t, that is just because there’s technical loop hole which allows them to take advantage of it. Few more hours later and the system engineer will fix the problem, so there’s actually no use in doing that

The title tag is a really important, yet often overlooked aspect of good web design. I think it gets overlooked so often because it hides up there at the top of the page with all that meta, xmlns, http & charset gobbledegook.

Or, sometimes your good intentions to ‘fix those title tags’ after all your pages are built gets forgotten in the joy of finally finishing the web site.

Poor little title tags.

• They are what search engines see as a good indicator of your web pages content
• They are what people see in the results list of their search queries
• They are what people see in thier bookmarks folder

How should you use the title tag?

Opinions vary, as do the search engines importance on them. But, it seems a good web design practice to use them for every possible advantage they may hold.

1. Make them precise and indicitive of your most important keywords
2. Don’t waste space with ‘Welcome’ or ‘Homepage’ or stop words like ‘as, the, a, or, and’
3. Make your title about 40 to 60 characters (including spaces) long
4. Company name? Nope. Use descriptive, searchable keywords instead
5. Put your most important keywords in the first part of the title

How often do you think the title tag is overlooked? Try this google search for ‘untitled document‘ (the default title tag in Dreamweaver). There are over 97 million results.

Check out how many sites have ‘Welcome to‘ in their title tag. Wow, over 200 million.

By making the title tag a simple focus in your web design practices, you can make a giant leap over your online competition.

Why You Need Separate Profiles in Google Chrome

Google Chrome makes it very easy for you to access your web search history including the search queries that you may have typed in the past. Now this may sometimes lead to an slightly embarrassing situation if someone else use your browser because all your past interactions are exposed the moment he or she begins to type in the address bar.

To prevent yourself from getting into this ‘not so comfortable’ situation, what you can do is create a separate user profile in Google Chrome. Thus all your browser history, bookmarks, cookies, search terms, etc. are not shared with anyone else in the family.

How to Create Profiles in Google Chrome Browser

Unlike Firefox that ships with a Profile Manager, the only way to create multiple profiles in Google Chrome browser is manually. Here’s how:

Step 1: Load Chrome and choose “Clear Browsing History” from the Tools menu. This will clear all your private data.

Step 2. Open your Google Chrome installation folder that is available at:

For Windows Vista - C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome
For Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local
                     Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome

Step 3: Open Windows Explorer and switch to the “User Data” folder available inside Chrome installation folder.

Then select the subfolder caleld “default” and make a copy of it in the “User Data” folder itself. Give that copy a name, say, Your_Name. (See screenshot).

Step 4 (Optional): We will now initialize this new “Your_Name” profile to the factory default settings.

Open “Command Prompt”, switch to the Chrome Application folder and run the following command:

chrome.exe –user-data-dir=”..\User Data\Your_Name” -first-run

Step 5: So our new user profile is ready. To run Google Chrome using this profile instead of the default profile, just create a shortcut on your desktop, Quick launch bar or your Windows Start Menu. Right click anywhere on the desktop, choose New -> Shortcut and type the following for location:For Windows Vista:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe  –user-data-dir=”..\User Data\Your_Name”

For Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –user-data-dir=”..\User Data\Your_Name”

Give this shortcut a name and you’re done.

This is the tool to check if your redirect method is Search Engine Friendly

How it Works

A lot of us lose out on valuable search engine traffic due to incorrectly configuring our redirects.
It is very import that when a search engine comes to crawl your website it is able to follow any redirects you have set up.

Suppose you have a website http://www.foo.com and you create a redirect such that whenever any visitor types in the URL http://www.foo.com he is automatically redirected to http://www.foo.com/widgets/, If the Search Engine is not able to follow the redirect it would think that http://www.foo.com has NO contents, http://www.foo.com would end up ranking very badly in search engines.

This tools help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.

Click to check it http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php

301 Redirect

301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It’s not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it’s the safest option. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”.

Below are a Couple of methods to implement URL Redirection

IIS Redirect

• In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect
• Select the radio titled “a redirection to a URL”.
• Enter the redirection page
• Check “The exact url entered above” and the “A permanent redirection for this resource”
• Click on ‘Apply’

ColdFusion Redirect

PHP Redirect

ASP Redirect

ASP .NET Redirect

JSP (Java) Redirect

CGI PERL Redirect

Ruby on Rails Redirect

Redirect Old domain to New domain

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.

In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

Redirect to www

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to domain.com will get redirected to www.domain.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please REPLACE domain.com and www.newdomain.com with your actual domain name.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

How to Redirect HTML

Please refer to section titled ‘How to Redirect with htaccess’, if your site is hosted on a Linux Server and ‘IIS Redirect’, if your site is hosted on a Windows Server.

Install Netscape 9.0 and install the add on Megaupload SX.3.2

And you can active the add on each time you want to download on MegaUpload. No Slots Limit !!!

easy, huh ?

Saw an interesting article about how you can save the environment by eating bugs & insects“Americans have no idea how wasteful these large mammals are,” Gracer says. “If you want to feed a lot of people, insects are the best choice in terms of getting the biggest bang for your buck.” Insects, he claims, are nutritious.

Above was words said by David Gracer, one of the members of the New York Gastronauts. According to him, eating live animals such as cows & chickens will heavily affect the environment.

Hmm… So will you eat any bugs or insects to save the earth?

Source : Discover Magazine

If you are one of those people who always use your USB pendrive outside (Cybercafe, school, workplace) Then most probably your USB pendrive may have been infected by virus, spyware or trojan. Here are some tips on how to remove those sneaky virus, spyware or trojan from USB pendrive.

In command prompt type attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files. Now just delete the files using the command del filename (e.g. : del Example.exe) Delete all suspicious files

Note : If you still worry of whether they are any malwares in the USB pendrive, just format it for safety reason.

What if I want to prevent such things from happening?

Well, you can do the two things below :
1. Restart the pc BEFORE you plug in your USB pendrive.
2. Install anti virus , spyware or trojan program. You can find a list of the software for free at www.download.com.
3. Always update your anti malware programs to the latest version.
4. Scan the pendrive before you plug it into your pc

Hope you guys can benefit from the tips provided above. Anymore tips/questions are welcome - Please post in the end of this page

As a Friendster user myself I am quite frustrated of seeing ads on my profile page, luckily I have found the CSS code in which you can insert to your profile & remove those annoying ads from your sight. Here’s what you need to do :

Remove Friendster Ads

1. Login to your Friendster account
2. Click customize page
3. Remove any templates that you are using
4. Insert this code
5. Preview your page to see the results!

*This technique is still effective by the day of this post was written*

Let’s take an example : If you key in the query in any search engines there will be sites which offer Javascript documents to be inserted to an Orkut profile. However this is not true ; The person who created the script will insert some sort of code inside which actually steal your personal info and as a results, they are the one who actually hack your Orkut account! The consequence? If light they may just send anonymous messages to your contacts, if serious they may upload unwanted files to your profile and you might just get banned from using Orkut anymore!

So guys, please do not believe in any of those tricks because most of them are SCAMS, even if they aren’t, that is just because there’s technical loop hole which allows them to take advantage of it. Few more hours later and the system engineer will fix the problem, so there’s actually no use in doing that