Generate Icons Easily with Icon Generator
General, Internet, Technology October 25th, 2010
I’ve found a website that lets you generate professionally looking glossy icons which can be used in your own work, Icon Generator.
It lets you generate Adobe-style Icon or Star-shaped Icon complete with shadow, reflective and glossy effects which can be considered staple in the current Web 2.0 era.
The wizard’s UI is extremely easy to use and you can generate your icons for website, applications or print material instantly!
Visit Icon Generator, today!
Tags: generator, glossy, graphic, icon, Internet, template, web 2.0, web2.0, website
The New RapidShare Premium points system (RapidPro) explained!
Computers, Random Facts September 10th, 2010
This post is aimed for those of you that used Rapidshare.com Premium service account.
As some of you who might notice, Rapidshare has introduced a new plan called RapidPro that uses a point-system as opposed to the monthly subscription based scheme previously. This has caused confusion to the previous Rapidshare Premium account holders and potential users.
Unlike previous system that allow you to download as many files of any size in a given month, the new system instead tracks your downloads based on your data transfer (aka traffic) in a given month. In order to use RapidShare Premium for a period of 30 days with 30GB data transfer, you will need 99 Rapids (points).
What is Rapids (points)?
Rapids is your credits/points used in the new RapidShare Premium account. It costs 14 Rapids per 5GB downloads. So if you have 400 Rapids, it will allow you to download : (400/14)*5 = 28.57 * 5 = 147.85GB!
What if my Rapids runs out before my month is due?
You simply can’t download! You will need to ‘charge’ up your account to resume downloading at the rate of 14 Rapids per 5GB or 2.8 Rapids for 1GB.
What if I don’t exceed 99 Rapids (download <30GB), and my month is up?
Easy, you need to extend your account just like previously, for 99 Rapids per renewal. The remaining Rapids will be carried over to the next month. So it’s easy.
The new RapidShare system works just like ordinary {Hotlink, Xpax, DiGi} Prepaids plan! Your will have to top-up in order to talk, and if your months is up before you’ve got the chance to finish up the credit, just simply top up another RM10 to gain another month, with the previous balance carried over!
See? It’s easy! Go and get RapidShare Premium now!
Tags: download, downloads, Internet, premium, premium account, rapidshare, rs, tips
Beware of the new Yahoo Messenger Malware/Adware Bots
Computers, Technology September 9th, 2010
A day before Hari Raya Aidifitri 1431, I receive a message from a fellow amateur radio operator in my Yahoo Messenger client (I use Pidgin). The message was seemingly genuine from him asking if I’m receiving his message, after answering his questions, he proceeds to ask me to wait for a moment ask he wants me to try something. It turns out that he asks me to visit an online quiz website.
The exchange seems almost fluid and being done by a human being, except that my friend and I never had conversation in English! This seems all too fishy when he didn’t response to my conclusion that his computer is infected by a malware/virus. Here are the screenshot of the exchange, (warning: the transcripts contain expletives)
Beware, these kind of viruses can compromise the security of your computer and may be used to harvest your password and other personal information for criminal intent. A seemingly innocent Online Quiz website may be used by phishers in order to commit fraudulent activity.
Verify whether it is really your friend is communicating with you and not somebody else or a program pretending to be him/her, and most importantly do not fell victim to Yahoo Messenger viruses, the result can be devastating.
Tags: alert, computer, Internet, malware, phishers, phishing, pidgin, security, virus, warning, worm, yahoo messenger
SIRIM Malaysia is spreading Malwares throughout its website
Computers, Funny, Internet, Technology May 30th, 2008
I was searching for some information when I encountered these warning from Google. Apparently our SIRIM website security has been compromised and was spreading malwares to viewers around the world. Upon closer inspection, SIRIM seems to have taken down its website as of May 30,2008.
Probably SIRIM should perform a thorough checking on its website before publishing it to the internet, there must be a “Standard” for website security I assume?
Tags: Internet, malaysia, security, sirim, standard, standards, website
Friendster’s Stupidity – Why I rarely logged in
Computers December 1st, 2007
Some of my friends were wondering why I did not log in my Friendster account for a long period of time considering that I worked in front of a PC all the time.
Well, I leave it up to these screenshots to answer those questions
FYI, most of these people have at least completed college-level education and are supposed to understand that forwading junk messages could disrupt any sort of communication network.
Oh well I might as well redirect people who questioned my long absence from Friendster account to this page next time. Boohoo social networking, I’ll be screening my FaceBook contact to avoid this sort of problem.
Tags: friendster, Internet, myspace, social networking, spam
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