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Worldcup update Via Twitter

Posted by Adi Wong On June - 12 - 2010

Twitter Worldcup is a page created by twitter to accomodate all the tweets about those 32 countries that will be playing in South Africa. There are also individual page on different matches that will playing whereby you will track tweets of both countries.

50% off purchase and renewal of all .my domains

Posted by Adi Wong On May - 31 - 2010


If you are renewing or planing to purchase a Malaysia domains, you should take a look at this news officially announce by MYNIC. They release a public announce that all domain renewal and purchase of .my domains will enjoy 50% off. Most domain provider does not publish this so you will have to contact them, I personally tried this with exabytes and immediately I got the 50% off, it is simple and can save you some money.

Here are the deals:-

  • .my domains – RM120/year now is RM60/year
  • .com.my, .net.my, .org.my, .edu.my, .gov.my, .mil.my – RM80/year now is RM40/year
  • .name.my – RM32/year now RM16/year

So happen that my domain expiring this month, I am not sure if you can do that with domain expiring next year or end of this year. But check with your domain provider. If you own a lot of .my domain, this is quite some huge discount for domains.

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Google TV – Replacing our Astro?

Posted by Adi Wong On May - 21 - 2010

Will Google TV or Internet TV replace our Astro soon? It would always depends, not on what is available or if youtube video is good enought for bigger screen LDC/Plasma/3D TV, but strictly depend on our Internet Speed provided by TMNet since they are holding the backbone of our phone network. While mobile speed has it limitation at 14mpbs for 3G (yet, we are so far away from this) until it reaches the 4th generation cellular wireless standard.

Cakap.my – My fail Malaysia Microblogging Site

Posted by Adi Wong On March - 6 - 2010

Cakap.my was bought a year ago hoping that Status.net (previously laconi.ca) script will actually do better. It actually did better but forgot to address the one most important issue, SPAM. I kinda like this domain and have spend time installing this microblogging script 3 times at different host.

FYI, Status.net is a free twitter script. It is a pretty nice script with the plugin for Facebook Apps and Twitter Apps integration. So you can automatically update both from one micro-blogging site. I manage to setup everything in few hours time but when I brought it live for testing and posted a link at their WiKi, spam started to come one by one. Then I activated Re-Captcha, but it did not keep them out for long. Everytime I got some spam from the user, I had to go phpMyAdmin to execute few lines of SQL as there is no control panel.

This was the same problem with Pligg that uses Re-Captcha I had installed for one of my website. After migrating to Wordpress, it works like a charm.

I got the domain for another year, hopefully I could do another great install or find some other ussage for this.

Going back to Exabytes

Posted by Adi Wong On January - 22 - 2010

Yes, I am back with Exabytes Hosting. A few months ago I ended my hosting with Exabytes because I am getting quite frequent downtime with Exabytes, thenĀ I was offered a free hosting by Exabytes just a week ago. They had given me this hosting for free, to prove that their move to AIMS datacenter will improve their server uptime, previously their servers with TM Net. I did not need any extra hosting but since they are free (I already had 2), I think that it is great to give them a try.

I have transfered one of my website back to Exabytes, it is at Mart.com.my. Although Serverfreak uptime has been great so far, I still miss the Exabytes load speed for Malaysian and it is still the same with AIMS datacenter.

Submit a ticket for SSH in order for me to transfer my domain quickly, and within 2 minutes it is activated. It was pretty much the same as previously.