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Spam Alert for All Domain Owners

May 20, 2010 Advice

I just receive the following email from a company who claims to represent the “Department of Registration Service in China”. It appears that the email was sent to individuals who owns domains and is attempt to scam the user into spending outrages prices for similar domains under different TLDs. We are the department of registration [...]

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Exodus of Facebook and What to Do About It

May 15, 2010 Advice

Other than the “Red Shirt Movement” in Thailand there is also a movement to stop using Facebook. This all started when Facebook announce their “Open Graph API” initiative. I am not going to explain the details of this API here, because there are extensive documentations on Facebook’s Developers web site. The reason for concern is [...]

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Visiting 2010 World Expo

May 3, 2010 Advice

The 2010 World Expo officially opened on China’s Labour Day, May 1st, in Shanghai’s New Pudong district along both sides of the Huangpu river, between the Lupu and Nanpu bridges. I visited the Expo on the 2nd day and 2nd day of China’s Labour Day holiday. It was a very hot 30C sunny Sunday in [...]

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Things to do Before Upgrading iPhone to 3.1.x

September 13, 2009 Advice

It appears that many who had jailbroked or unlocked their iPhone 3G[S] did not know what they are doing or had not ask the friend who knows, like myself, before upgrading their iPhone to version 3.1 of the firmware. It is very important that BEFORE anyone upgrade they save a copy of their unique iBEC [...]

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iPhone Firmware 3.1 Not for iPhone & iPod Touch

September 10, 2009 Advice

If you run the Software Updates on your Mac or Check Updates from within iTunes you will find that Apple had updated iTunes to 9.0. There are many discussion about iTunes 9.0 all over the Interweb so I will not do it again here. Along with the new iTunes Apple had released the iPhone firmware [...]

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RSSCloud in Your WordPress Blog

September 8, 2009 Advice

If you have a blog you will agree that RSS is one of the most important piece of technology to help disseminate your blog content through out the Interweb. Unfortunately this RSS (protocol) is a pull technology where subscriber to the feed must poll the source of the RSS feed for new content. Often this [...]

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Snow Leopard Now Installed

August 30, 2009 Advice

As many of you know Apple released the latest version of OS X, 10.6 (aka. Snow Leopard) on Friday, August 28, 2009. I had pre-ordered this version on Tuesday, when Apple began accepting orders on their online store for HKD238.00. Apple had originally told me that my order was going to ship on August 28 [...]

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PCCW Netvigator Broadband Interruption Compensations

August 18, 2009 Advice

Started about 14:00 yesterday (August 17, 2009) Hong Kong time access to majority of the Internet web services hosted outside of Asia was unreachable. This first happened at my home with Netvigator Home Broadband service. I Tweeted about this hoping to get confirmation from others in Hong Kong. I also left to tried to see [...]

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Smartone-Vodafone Tethering Now Exposed

August 17, 2009 Advice

Today all PCCW Home Netvigator (one of the largest Broadband ISP in Hong Kong) customer encountered problems accessing web sites outside of Hong Kong. It started for me some time around 14:00 and is still an issue. Fortunately, many people who has an iPhone was able to tether their computer to their iPhone’s HSDPA connection. [...]

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Getting Google Voice Working Outside of USA

August 13, 2009 Advice

I had Google Voice for almost a month now. I was so excited to receive the Google Voice invite, as I had been wanting to get an account ever since GrandCentral days; the company and service that Google purchased and rebranded it into Google Voice. For those who does not know, Google Voice is a [...]

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Wisely Using Twitter

August 6, 2009 Advice

Twitter has been around now for over 3 years and along the way there had been many 3rd party applications and web services. At the beginning years these 3rd party applications and web services had required the Twitter users to provide their Twitter credentials to use the service. This requirement of providing a 3rd party [...]

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