Author: steve

Just installed a plugin by
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/other-posts-from-cat-plugin-for-wordpress/.

What it does is display most recent posts from the same category under a
post. This might help your website visitors to find related posts easily.

Easy installation, like all others wordpress plugins. Download plug,
upload to plugin directory and activate it. Take few minutes and your
site will be more user friend. Highly recommended!

Here are the steps:

First you need to download Youtube video to local file. I use
VideoDownloader Firefox Extension http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

After install this plugin, every time I want to grab, I just
left-click the VideoDownloader icon and a pop up window will show me the URL where I can download the video directly. Save the video as .FLV file

So we got the FLV file. We need to convert it to 3GP/AVI file.

I use IMTOO 3GP Video Converter (www.Imtoo.com). Basically it can convert FLV file to 3GP, AAC, AVI, DIVX, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, RA, WAVE, WMA, WMV, XVID.

Sometimes we need to edit the video. Still looking for a way to do that.

Purpose: able to edit, copy, cut, trim the FLV or 3GP, remove
watermark or simply over emboss it with larger text/block of colors.

Note to self: testing Video Edit Magic  http://dl.deskshare.com/download/Vem/videoeditmagic.exe

Some random stuff:
xiaowu.net
11371167118711971247D451-0BFC-A749-4CBE

As of 7 Feb 2007, DiGI Malaysia website is not accessible.

This is the error message given..

“Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.

Reason: Error reading from remote server”

502 error… hmm. i wonder whether it is Streamyx error or DiGi error, but all other sites are accessible…

Exabytes is the current web hosting company that I used to host my network of websites (current total is 7).It have been a wonderful experience for my (compared to my previous “cheap” hosting company) because of few advantages that Exabytes provides.

Something important in choosing a good webhosting company. Let me tell you, it is nothing more frustrated than find out your sites are down for whole day (which means NO INCOMES!) and your hosting company didn’t inform you of the downtime.

That was what happened to me on my first webhosting company.

Since I switched to Exabytes on June 2006, not once, did my sites facing any major downtimes. Few scheduled server maintainance downtime (few minutes) and I have never lose any income due to unscheduled downtimes.

The packages that I am using currently is Exabytes EBiz3. It is one of the most suitable plan for me:

Top up with 30days money back guarantee.. I found that it is one of the better deals you can get. Believe me, I did my research.

Now, come to another important factor, price:

And don’t take my word for it. Here are what other people think of Exabytes webhosting plan.

Today I went to Old Town White Coffee to have lunch with my friend.

The food was so-so but the environment is very clean and comfortable.

Information Alert

Status : 504 Gateway Time-Out

Description : Lost connection to origin server.

This is what I got when doing a simple site search using Celcom’ website.

Lost connectionto the origin server? Guess I am being connected to an
alien server instead. Moron Celcom

Why the hell Nokia PCSuite is such a buggy piece of shit? I dont under
stand.. Even 3rd party software (logomananer, MOBIMB)is better than that..

I just want to transfer few midi files to my phone, and the whole
process is disaster.. Can see the phone is Microsoft explorer but once i
click on it.. “Connection to the phone lost”.. OMG, this is really BAD!

Nokia, please make your software more user-friendly, after all, your
business is “Connection People”, the last time I heard..

Went to a wedding dinner yesterday. Was talking to a friend of mine. She
was talking about how to get free wifi internet access by using Milo
tin. Hmm. thats a good idea, means I can save RM77 every month for the
stupid TMNuts Streamyx….

So I plan to do some testing using information I found on the internet.
Some nerds are using Pringles can, some use canned food tin. I found one
that looks better, using parabolic shaped chinese cooking ware, USB WIFI
adapter and some tripod thing…

Will update on the free wifi stuff once I get them up and running…
stay tune

A note to myself: check http://www.wotif.com for lower hotel rates next
time when planning for vacations 😉

Wotif is quite a user-friendly site to check for discounted hotel rates.
Highly recommended.

Found a good info of using external USB memory thumbdrive as Windows
Virtual Memory.

From tomshardware.com
”
Adding more memory to your laptop saves power by reducing Windows’
reliance on the virtual memory swap file on your hard disk. In Vista,
plugging in a USB memory stick that you can use for ReadyBoost
(supplementing system memory) can give you longer battery life – we’ve
seen up to 15-20 minutes longer life on a Toshiba tablet PC using a 2GB
USB stick.
”

Now thats another reason for me to try out Vista (minus all the fancy
graphic effects) when it comes out later…