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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

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.

7Apr/091

WordPress Plugin – Blogtal Trackback

Blogtal Trackback is a wordpress plugin that sends trackback to www.blogtal.com. It is enhanced version of my old Default Trackback. Unlike Default Trackback, Blogtal Trackback will send trackback to www.blogtal.com only.

[Updates 19-04-09: Release 1.1]

6Apr/090

System Architecture Analysis – Google Chrome vs Internet Explore 8

If you have read about the technology behind Google Chrome, you will know that each tab in Google Chrome is running on a separate process and why the Google Chrome programmers do it that way. If you are a software developer and don't know anything about Google Chrome, you may find interesting in reading the story behind Google Chrome.

Google Chrome

5Apr/090

Another free icon search engine – veryicon.com

Just found another useful website. Other than the iconfinder.net that I always use for my software projects, now I have another alternative - veryicon.com.

veryicon

 

5Apr/090

Iconfinder.net – New Logo New Features

I used to use icons from iconfinder.net for my software projects. It is good to see that iconfinder now comes with new features and more icon in their database. Thanks and keep up good work! iconfinder.net now has launched a new logo for its website and the new icon is designed by Turbomilk.

iconfinder.net

 

11Feb/090

WordPress 2.7.1

WordPress 2.7.1 is available, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is now available.

22Jan/093

Website value evaluation tool

The are a few website value evaluation tools available on the Internet to evaluate how much a website worth.

24Dec/080

“Invalid Update Control CTF File” When Updating AVG Anti-Virus 8.0

From the AVG forum:

You need to rename/remove the CTF temp files in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avg8\update\download…. Dont delete all the .bin files in there unless you want to re-run all updates since your original installation (reinstallation seems to cause a problem in IEs Link Scanner which causes IE to Crash). Only rename/remove the avginfo files that end with .ctf.

2Oct/080

Google Chrome Bug?

Have been using Google Chrome for few weeks, I found that it is quite fast and stable. One of the thing you might not notice is the title at the tab of Google has some minor problem.