Blog Day 31 August

I receive an email once in a while from Nuffnang and this one is about 6th Blog Day that Nuffnang will be celebrating. Thanks for the email and now I knew that there is such a day dedicated to Blog.
As requested
1. BLUE LADYBLOG
I came to know about this blog and blogger when I attended the  Blogfest Asia 2010 in Penang organised by Bloggercon. The blogger behind this is Kounila Keo, a Cambodian Lady and she’s a AFP Reporter,  who had the opportunity travelling in performing her job. Being a Cambodian and as we knew how English were spoken, I found out that this lady speaks English quite fluently. That goes also to her writings. Being a journalist in Cambodia, a once war torn nation, she speaks out her mind, “ Cambodia seems much worse, and as I said among them all, Cambodian media are only into politics and stuff. Not a day goes by without journalists writing up political pieces just to satisfy a certain politician”.
This blog’s tagline is “It’s not just another Cambodian blog and if you want to read about Cambodian Politics, lifestyle and mind of a Cambodian women, don’t miss this blog. Being a journalist, her posts were written in a journalistic style.

This blogger with Kounila and an Indonesian blogger at Blogfest Asia 2010

2. THE WORLD IS WONDERFUL
This blog is managed by a blogger from France by the name of Alexandre from Aix en Provence, South of France.He changed his life from a network engineer and parted with all his belongings to travel around the world. This blog is written from his perspective. He is also a photographer and that helps him a lot in making his postings more understandable. If you likes travelling, this blog can be one of the thousands of travel blog that can give you ideas and inspirations.
3. VERNON GO
This is a blog from the Philippines moderated by Vernon Joseph Go an Industrial Engineer, Blogger, Content Marketer, Social Media Specialist, and Frustrated Entrepreneur exploring both the business and internet world with big plans and great enthusiasm. Freelance web consultant and software engieer.Being involded in social development and youth programs for nation building, he actively promote the use of the nee media for community-building in Mindanao. Hence, Vernon go is geared towards that objectives.
In this blog readers can read about food, travel, social media, events, financial journey etc. If you wan to read something away from Manila, visit Vernon Go.
4. AETHEN
This blog is from The Philippines. He was also one of the participants at Blogfest Asia 2010.The blogger is Mark Aethen Agana. If Vernon Go writes from the Island of Cebu, Mark is stationed in Metro Manila.Aethen is a testimony of his daily experience and views.

 

5. HEATHER ON HER TRAVEL
This is travel blog written by a lady, Heather who record her travel experience. Her blog description “Travel inspiration and destination information with travel tales, photos, videos and podcasts from around the world”. made me choose to post it here is that it contains different medium of presentation: writings, photography, video and podcasting. She blended all the different medium under one blog and visitor can experience all these just under ‘one roof’. At the time of writing this post, this blog is ranked 35th under Top 150 General Travel Blogs at blogranks. 1,292,772 unique monthly visitors.
6. LIFECRUISER
This is again another travel blog that is in the Top 150 General Travel Blogs at blogranks. Eventhough it is ranked 65th, this blog has 1,456,384 unique visitors monthly just three ranks above Kyspeaks, a Malaysian blogger.  This blog is about a Swedish couple who is passionate about travelling, writing and photography.They share their experience travelling to more than 20 countries in Europe, North and South America.Their posts are accompanied with beautiful photos and wonderful information worth reading if you are just an armchair travelogue or looking for ideas to go and see those places yourself.

WEBSITE SAFETY

In today's virus attack age of the internet, it is good to have some tools to check the safety of your website. Besides your antivirus software installed in your C, we might need something else to boost our confidence of visiting certain website besides letting your visitor know that your website is safe.  

I found a website that helps check the safety of any website and as far as I have used it, its FREE. It is 

and the URL IS

It is an online project in helping keeping the World Wide Web as a safe place for Internet users. The site helps to check websites for malware, phishing, privacy concerns, overall trust and reliability levels, famili-friendliness, and several other important factors and come up with a summary. It's easy to use for you just fill in the URL of the website and SURF SAFELY will do the rest for you. As a test, I tried a porn URL and the results shows "family-friendly content percentage is LOW, which means NOT suitable for minors and even adults. "wink" The higher the percentage the better for the site. However some sites I tried return a "restricted summary" and I don't know why. 

I tried with one of my blog and this is the summary displayed.

Web Intrusion

I received a message from Google regarding an intrusion into my email account. Google warned me that an unknown person tried to access my Gmail. Google advised me to change my password and I heed the advice.

I did not expect that my there is someone interested in my email and tried to open it.

With today’s advancement in software technology, such intrusion will become a normal activity especially when one is not well protected.

Lately there is some weird activity on Facebook chat function. A few time I received chat request from known friends which turn out to be something suspicious after a few times. The chat box pops up and it is from someone you know with a greeting. Once answered he/she will ask with this question, do you wanna laugh? With your response your ‘friend’ will send you a link. Luckily I did not click on any link. At first I thought it’s a genuine ‘hi’ from my friend. After a few times receiving the same operation, I guess its some sort of malware or phishing activities. 

What Is This Foursquare Message About?

Image via CrunchBase

Found out some changes on Foursquare but it seems that there is no information about it. What it is all about. You can't get information about foursuqare badges if you search it on www.foursquare.com. The information is only available on other websites such as Wikipedia. Why Foursquare so stingy about information of the application to users? Another example is if you look at the screen print page I attached to this posting, you can see some blue dots scattered around the map.  One might ask what is this blue dot all about? My guess is location of users in the area. Well, anybody has some information?     That is only one of the guessing users have to make on 4square.

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Twitter Being Hacked?

Image via CrunchBaseYahoo! News report that popular microblogging website has been attacked


NEW YORK – A new way to cause mischief is spreading through short-messaging service Twitter as mysterious "tweets" of blocked-out text propagate themselves and cause popup windows to open.


It affects twits on tweeter.com. Well, thats for the time being. So if you are tweeting from your mobile, tweetdeck or other applications, you might be safe for the time being. 


It is getting more mischievous. More and more websites has been attacked. I think many online newspaper readers has experience the message warning visitors not to visit such website because of Malware. 

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G String...Ooppsss.... Read It as Geostring

At a glance I read it as G string, the scantily sexy  panties worn by sexy ladies. This is actually Geostring and International advertisement company

What is a Geostring?

GeoString is an online marketing company. Its simply a string of your contacts and their contacts all strung together to build an incredible cash generator for the length of the string. You'll be amazed at how far your string reaches, both in numbers, and geographically! ( So, if the longer the string gets, the more $s you will get.) 

Upon registration, one will be deposited with $10.00 to his/her account and registration is FREE. 

It’s unbelievable how fast FREE money adds up!

GeoString pays you for each person you refer, and each person they refer!

This trend takes place through 10 full levels of referrals with unlimited width.

Your FREE income potential with GeoString is unlimited and with no costs to you!

The minimum cash out limit is $100

How It Works?

Sponsors pay to put their message in front of their members. In turn, Geostring pays you for becoming an opt in member of their program. The advertising revenues from their sponsors make it possible to pay their membership base for doing nothing more than creating a free account, referring others, and opening the once weekly email from their company.

When they said that I will earn from reading the sponsors ads, I remember sometimes ago I was doing the same. I had registered with a few online Pay To Read websites and all those are FREE too. However when I had reached the eligibility to withdraw my accumulated FREE money, I found out only PAID members can request for payout. I sent a few emails to the websites and received a message "We will respond to your email soon". How soon is their "SOON?". Until today, 6 months later, I still did not receive any email from the website. Luckily I did not pay any single cent to the website to withdraw my more than $36,000 in my account. 

That was a $10,000 minimum limit for Payout. Now this Geostring is just $100. Since I get $10.00 for registration, I have to find another $90.00 to be eligible for cashout. I am giving this a try. After all its FREE and I don't have (and will NOT PAY) any money to cashout. If after I reached the minimum cashout  limit and did not get any money from them, then thats it. I'll cut the strings.

Are you going to join me to prove something about FREE online money making websites. After all you will only loose your time while waiting for something to get downloaded. 

Mobile Blogging On Wordpress

After all effort failed to register my mobile gadget to Blogger, I switched to Wordpress for my mobile blogging and live blogging. Now I have to learn how to manage Wordpress. It is not quite user friendly as compared to Blogger.

How Can I Mobile Blog?

After reading some blogs that says they post from their mobile, it crossed my mind that I want to go mobile blogging too. With Blackberry in hand I want to make full use of its features or else why own one it you don't stretch it to the limit. 

I browse the internet for mobile blogging applications and the best I could find might be go.blogger (Blog On The Go) since I have been using Blogger all this while. Before I can post anything, I have to register first and registration can be done by MMS, SMS or email. I tried all the three options and this is the reply from blogger.

From: postgateway@blogger.com

Device not registered. To create a blog now, send the word REGISTER in an MMS or email to go@blogger.com. By sending REGISTER you agree to the Blogger TOS

I just don't know how to register my device after all the three options have been used and still unsuccessful. 

Anybody here in Malaysia has been using go blogger to mobile blog? I need your help. 

Longest Annular Eclipse Of The Century

Today most of us had waited to witness the annular eclipse of the sun.
An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the outline of the Moon.


However in Malaysia we are only able to see partial eclipse because the sun is in the northern hemispehere. I watched what happen in Bangalore, India HERE. See path of the eclipse HERE. 


I picked this from HERE. Today is the day you will witness the longest solar eclipse of this century take place. The annular solar eclipse would be visible in most parts of India but only the southern fringes of the country will see it as an Annular eclipse. For the rest of the country, it would be a partial solar eclipse.

The best places to see the eclipse in its annular from would be Dhanuskodi town near Rameshwaram. If you are already there, wait for the show to begin! The eclipse will last for over 10 minutes in mainland India and can go up to a maximum of 11 minutes 8 seconds in parts of the Indian ocean thus making it the longest solar eclipse of this century. The eclipse starts a at 10:44 am IST and will end at 2:29 PM (IST). This is not the total duration of the eclipse but the range of time different places would see the eclipse happen.


I am sure most of us were disappointed because during the time the eclipse occur, heavy rain clouds shroud the area around the sun (in Kuala Lumpur). I and a few friends was quite lucky today because was able to see the shadow of the moon encroaching into the sun for a few minutes before being covered by the clouds. 


I felt lucky to see it even for a short while because I might not be able to witness another annular eclipse because the next annulus solar eclipse will come again in 1028 years. Check dates for next solar eclipse HERE. 


As reported in The Straits Times, Singapore- The duration of 'annularity' - the time the moon is in front of the sun - was 11 minutes, eight seconds at 0706 GMT, making it 'the longest annular eclipse of the 3rd Millennium,' according to Nasa. Only on Dec 23, 3043 will this record be beaten. The lunar umbra, or shadow was set to expire in the Shandong peninsula in China at 0859 GMT. -- AFP

This Annoying Pop Up

I use to receive this annoying pop-ups for an on-line university degree. This happens often happens when I wanted to view my blog after being posted. Today I receive this pop-up again everytime I click to view my blog after posting. I enable pop-up blocker on my netbook and maybe that's the reason it appears on the main page.

Then I found out that the problem is with the FREE Geobytes addin. Worse it this statement "Earn-your-degree.com has no control over that or any other pop-up advertising. "

So. now the question is do I have to delete my Geobyte addin? I am not ready to be a Premium member because there is not much benefit from upgrading.

Need Help With My Paypal

My Paypal account has been put in Limited Access for sometimes already.

When the status is limited it means....... and I need to supply proof address to PayPal.

To confirm my address I have to send a copy of ............

I have tried to send a copy of my credit card statement but to no avail.
How and where do I send it to?
Readers well verse with Paypal, please help me.
Thank you

Get Paid To Click -2

For the past few days since 1 November, I spend more of my time on the email and clicking advertisements. Its the get paid to click activity. If you check at the top and bottom of this blog you can see some advertisement banners. Thats the my get paid to click accounts that I have registered to.

The website send links for me to click into my email box. When I click the link it will direct me to another website. As soon as the website is displayed there is a message  on top 'Thank you for supporting our sponsors!. You will receive XXXX cents(s), once you have visited this sponsor's site for at least XX seconds.'After leaving the site for the required time duration the message change to "Your account has been credited. Thank you."

I was discussing with a friend this morning just to clear our curiosity. How and where these companies get the money to pay members. As a free member I do not have to pay a single cent to them and yet they are paying members between $50 - $ 100 for having the advertiser's website running on my computer for the given time duration. On top of that they even pay sign-up bonus between $200 -$500 per member besides $20 -$50 for referrals.

If all goes well and the company do honour their pledge, I might be able to request for payout by the end of November and receive my check by end of 2009. After 10 days of registering on one of the site, I had already  accumulated $9,300.00 in my account. It will be another $15,700 before I can request for payout from this site:

The big question is, am I going to get the money? Is this legal? This company is based in the US. I just don't know the answer until I actually receive and clear my check or get nothing at all. If I did not receive any money after being eligible for payout, I will loose that $25,000. in numbers but not in physical money. In fact I do not loose any money but just a few minutes a day checking my email and click the advertisers website. So I have nothing to loose. Even though I did not spend my time clicking and let the website run on my laptop, I will waste my time on something else too.

Now I can only dream what I am going to do with the money (LOL). Buy paintball e-marker (which will be the top priority for now), Go for holidays? Buy  new car? The dream will not end. BUT if only the money really comes.

So if you think you want a good dream like me, you too can join by clicking the banner provided. You get the sign-up bonus, I get the referral bonus.

Paid To Click

I have registered myself for the Paid To Click Program on the internet. The program will pay subscribers or called affiliate for reading links that is being sent. Subscribers have to read the link between 20 seconds and 60 seconds before the money is being credited into his/her account.

This morning I registered with this website and after reading a few advertisement I already have $45.00 in my account. This amount will be credited into my Paypal account and now Paypal transactions can be made in Malaysia. The statement below is for sweetptr.com

One Paid To Read program that I join is the Sweet PTR. This program gives you a $25 sign-up bonus. So, it means if you sign-up you will be given that bonus not including the links that you read.

I join PROmail pay to read website last night. PORmail gives a higher commission to read mails and today I already have $500 cahs balance in my account. This money will be deposited into members Paypal account upon request. However FREE member will only be able to cash out after having $ 10,000 in the account. I think members have nothing to loose since he is not paying any subscription to open and maintain an account. Promails.org is world's first Online Paid To Read Program in the Web that obtained ISO 27001 Information Security System certifications to ensure maximum customer satisfaction, security and safe online earning for users.

If you wish to give a try just click the banner below and read the information from PROmail.

October 2009, I Am On A Winning Streak

October this year seems to be a very lucky month this year for me. I've been on a winning streak and this evening when I checked my email I found out that I won another prize again for the Nuffnang Project Alpha contest. This time I wrote a posting about Redmummy and that post won me the 10th prize for week three. It's just a real motivation for me. For the tenth prize I will collect these :

• Adidas A3/ Rimmel London/ Montagne Jeuneese Pack worth RM150
• 5 tickets to Pyramid Ice worth RM100
• 2 tickets to all Sunway Theme Parks for a day worth RM180

to my collection. 

What a lucky October 2009 to me. That is what I call 'rezeki' and syukur Alhamdulillah. My winning streak for October are:

• 4th Prize for Project Alpha Blog contest week 1
• 4th placing in the Malaysian Super Lite Paintball  tournament.
• 10th prize for Project Alpha Blog contest week 3

Now I am keeping my finger crossed on two of my blog entered for the Blog4FT contest for this month that was launched on the 5th of October 2009. 

The blogs are :

Look!! HOHO...the bus

KLCC Through My Lens

Please help your friend by voting the above blogs. Thank you in advance.

Collection of Red Mummy

THIS BLOG ENTRY WON TENTH PRIZE FOR NUFFNANG PROJECT ALPHA BLOG WRITING CONTEST.

Back in the 60s when I was a kid and television images are still in black and white, there is a TV program called "Days". The program exhibits a day in the life of selected individuals. From the program viewers can learn the different lifestyles of different individuals that come from different walks of life. From my perception  it is a good program because of its educational and down to earth lifestyles as compared to what is being projected in movies and drama serials.

Today when Nuffnang come out with its Project Alpha(PA), I can see it as some sort of revival of the same program but in a different set up and different platform to reach the audience. Besides the selective idea of projecting lifestyles of well known bloggers coincide with todays in thing - blogging. More and more individuals has been jumping onto the blogging bandwagon writing about anything on earth, positively and/ or  negatively.

Project Alpha is a production targeted to the blogging community and using the internet as a platform to spread its wing. Audience might be small since the (broadband) penetration rate is 24.8 per 100 household as at second quarter of 2009.  However as far as Malaysia is concerned, Project Alpha is a posivite  start when in the years to come there will be more and more people depending on the internet for source of information. The inception and rising popularity of mobile broadband will one day leave out the traditional electronic media. It will be entertainment on the go and this is where program such as Project Alpha will benefit. Project Alpha can be viewed on You Tube and with the popularity of the website, it can reach a much wider internet audience even on top of Everest (provided if there is availability of satellite enable communication gadgets).

I first came to know about this project when I drop by into Nicolekiss blog, one that I enjoy reading. For those who just came to know what Project Alpha is all about, and lazy to read watch the Season 1 trailer.

  

PA is a Kynite production and partnered with  Nuffnang, a internet advertisement generator, as the official blog partner. The project is sponsored by Adidas Action3 (official main sponsor), Rimmel of London (official make-up), Sunway (official location), Hitz.fm (official media partner), Ministry of Sound (official venue sponsor -Not a government agency).

This posting, I am going to blog about one of my favourite blogger redmummy. Visitors to her blog will definitely see red once the page starts loading. That's because she choose the colour red as her identity. Nuffnang has made the right choice in choosing her as one of the participant to represent a wife and mother to two lovely kids.

Redmummy who even write in Bahasa Malaysia do attract thousands of readers dna has her GBM or Geng Blog Merah comprising of her faithful readers. I collect and post all the seven episodes about her in one place for the benefit of her fans. I decided to do this after finding out that some of the episode were not found on You Tube or placed somewhere else. I have to combine from the two sources - You Tube and Nuffnang's Project Alpha website. Now with this posting, I hope her fans can just visit The xperienceoflife.blogspot.com (this blog of course......) as the alternative to her official blog to view all her episodes.

Redmummy promo episode

Redmummy Episode 1

Episode 2 - In this episode Jojo Stuys visited redmummy's red house.

Episode 3 - Redmummy talk about her kids and a brief introduction of her husband, cum her blog manager popularly known as Sirman to redmummy's blog.

Episode 4 - Redmummy eats worms on Fear factor Malaysia and buy Louis Vuitton handbags from blogging money.

Episode 5 - Redmummy talk about her Geng Blog Merah

Episode 6 - Abang get ready for school

Episode 7

Latest news about redmummy is that her blog has been nominated and selected as the finalist of Nuffnang's Asia Pacific Blog Awards for Best Parenting Blog category.

What Happens To My Stats?

I found out a few days ago that the figure on my visitors stats was decreased from more than a 100k that I achieved on 31 July 2009 at 11.31 a.m. Now the figure shows I only have 13,695 visitors only and wondering    why. If its on my car dashboard I know the meter cable might have snapped.

Luckily I have another site meter which at this moment of writing this posting shows 47,169 visitors. This second site meter was added way later that the one from Kennedy Western University's site meter.

Now I have actually lost count of my actual visitors.

Store Your Document In Cyberspace

Where do you store your old documents? In your hard disk? Or your thumb drive? Or external storage? Yes, thats there we use to store all our documents. The trouble is, all those storage gadgets has a lifetime. It will one day crash with all your documents and whatever else you store in them. Besides being susceptible to crash, most people do not carry the bulky equipment wherever they go. But sometimes you still have to refer to the documents but you don't have access to those storage equipment.

Some people store their documents online. Gmail have the facilities where subsrciber can store words or spreadsheet documents in cyberspace and can access and retrieve them from anywhere in the world on any computer that have access to the internet or mobile sets with internet connectivity.

Today at the office while searching on the internet how to create Desk Files I came across awebsite that is quite convenient to be a place to store your documents. Immediately I sign up. The website can link you to Twitter and even have desktop uploading facilities.

Scribd supports these documents

Microsoft Office: doc, docx ppt, pptx, pps xls, xlsx

PDF: pdf, ps

Open Office: odt, odp, sxw, sxi, etc.

Text: txt, rtf

Your stored documents even have embedded HTML codes and you can even link it to your blog or facebook, twitter and digg. Or you can email the document to your friends.

Great Reasons to Upload

• Tens of millions of people visit Scribd every month; your work could bediscovered by the world!
• Every document on Scribd gets frequently indexed by Google, which means better audience targeting for your work.
• Your document will be viewed the way it was meant to be - with its unique fonts, graphics and other details.
• Check out detailed stats on viewers, ratings, downloads and more
• Take your document anywhere; just copy the embed code and insert it into a blog or other website.

SEX

I purposely put the tittle that way.

I know most people will be interested. Its basic needs after all but talking about it is taboo in our soceity.

Are you interested in sex after all?

Don't bullshit me and say no.

I decided to write this posting after surfing The Sun UK to find the news of Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan wanting to buy Newcastle United.

Want to read more about sex? Go HERE. Read for yourself. I was reading this page and therefore linked to it. But wait!. Don't read it as a pervert but be an adult and look at the educational side of sex.

Web Forgery = Phishing

This warning notice came from Firefox. Firefox 3 has built-in Phishing and Malware protection to help keep online surfing secure.

The warning came after I clicked a link from twitter.

I open Google Chrome browser and test the same link sent from the same twitterite and this is the warning given.However I did not block the twitterite from my twitter because a few other link given seems to be genuine. But as personal security reason, I'll not give out any personal information to this twitterite.

FREE Car Sticker

Do you love stickers on your car? It can be some sort of decoration for your car or maybe a sunshade to replace the not so legal tinted on your windshields. I found this one blog informing of this sticker below.

It is an innovative idea from a The Business Station, BFM 89.9. I already requested for the sticker to be mailed to me and you too can ask for one. Visit BFM website HERE and request for one. Let us all do our bit to help the campaign for a good cause.

You might also want to visit THIS website to see about Malaysia in the eyes of the world.