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22Jul/090

Develope a Mortgage Calculator and Win Up to $10000

If you are a programmer, a creative programmer, I have a good news for you. Mortgage Loan Place is having a programming contest - The "Super Sexy" Mortgage Calculator Contest. You can have a chance to win $10,000 of extra pocket money by developing a mortgage calculator. The winner's calculator will become the centerpiece of the tools section on Mortgage Loan Place.

Mortgage Calculator Contest

10Jul/090

WordPress: 2.8.1

WordPress 2.8.1 is now available for download. The main changes in WordPress 2.8.1 is mainly to tightens security for plugin administration pages and also to fix many other bugs.

The upgrade is not a compulsory and it is recommended as some admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked.

WordPress Version 2.8

2Jul/090

Gmail: Drag and Drop, Hiding and More

Gmail developers make more enhancement to the Gmail labeling. Previously, Gmail has the new label menu added with shortcut keys, now it comes with drag and drop, hiding and more features.

Gmail Labels

12Jun/090

WordPress: Version 2.8

WordPress.org has released its latest WordPress Version 2.8, named for noted trumpeter and vocalist "Chet Baker". WordPress Version 2.8 is now available for download.

WordPress Version 2.8

10Jun/090

Wolfram|Alpha: A Computational Knowledge Engine

Wolfram|Alpha is a computational knowledge engine. Unlike regular search engines (Google, Yahoo and Live) which return a list of relevant websites on queries, Wolfram|Alpha processes the queries to return an actual answer.

3Jun/090

Bing: A New Search Engine from Microsoft

Bing or the "Google Killer" as said by some of the bloggers is a new powerful search engine from Microsoft. The search engine is still under beta testing but is running live as beta.

bing

22May/093

Windows Live Messenger: Beware of Unsolicited Messages Sent From Your Friends’ Live Account

Recently (Starting from the beginning of the year), I received quite a lot of messages with links from my friends' Live account on Windows Live Messenger. The messages were sent by my friends' intention and some of the messages were sent as offline messages.

As discover by a few other bloggers (LiewCf and CyberHQ), the links in the messages will redirect you to a MSN phishing site and ask you to key your Live account's username and password. The phishing site tries to trick you by showing you "your images" that have been uploaded to Live website if you login into your Live account.

MSN/Live Phishing Site

6May/090

Google Adsense: Integrate Your Adsense Account with Google Analytics

For the past few months, Google Adsense has been gradually inviting publishers to integrate their AdSense accounts with Google Analytics. On April 29, 2009, Google has announced that this feature is now available to all publishers on its Adsense blog and Analytics blog.

Google Analytics and Google Adsense Integration 

4May/090

Gmail: Google Search in Gmail

New in Gmail Lab. You can now search the web just right in your Gmail and you can add the search result into your email and chat.

Google Search in Gmail 

20Apr/091

WordPress Plugin – Default Trackbacks

Default Trackbacks is a wordpress plugin that sends trackback to a list of preset URLs. It is enhanced version of my old Default Trackback. The old Default Trackbacks plugin store a list of predefiend URLs in text file while the new one store the list of URLs in WordPress database.