Not long ago my good friend's MSN sent across some unusual messages. It looked normal, particularly from a friend - only to untrained eyes. MSN (and others like Yahoo) is a common favourite tool for worms (something like virus but not the same - for computer dummies benefit) as a launching pad to infect another host (YOU!).
I was cranky, sticky and desperate for an air condition room.
I have been tempted to write something about Firefox web browser for a long time.
For those of you who do not know much about web browser - in order to surf the net (view the internet) like reading your news, checking your webmail ie hotmail or enjoying the porn privately, you need a web browser. There are a few browsers in the market and the leading players are Microsoft Internet Explorer IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and the latest one Apple Safari 3.
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Yesterday I signed up with 3 Network for mobile internet connection. I have 2 choices, to either go wifi or hsdpa. Wifi are being serve by several companies reselling technologies from iBurst, ie spins, chilli & greetreefrogs. Spin and green tree frog have the best deal.
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As most of you know that I've been to Korea, I was absolutely blown out of the water by their internet speed. I was at the rural area of Gangneung, and the speed they are 'complaining' for being slow was around appx 24Mbps. I heard it is common in Soeul that internet speed whizzing at 100Mbps.
Depending on your carrier and the type of plan you're hooked, shooting a sms to your friend could cost a hefty 25c. Now imagine you are in a sms-tennis, if you are not Federer and didn't go for that down-the-line with your forehand, you ended up doing a 5 setter. And thats not ideal, isn't it?.
Last September, I had a conversation with one of the Google staff in Sydney when she mentioned Pandora. It is a web based juke box that belts out almost any genre, song title and artist that you would like to listen. You do need to register, and experience one of the coolest thing that ever happened in the Internet beside Spam Emails. (Note: To all Hongkie fans, No Jackie Cheung, Alan Tam and to all Malay song fans : No Siti ... and certainly No P. Ramlee and no classical/opera genre yet)
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