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You could actually customize your Firefox homepage with Google Search function. You have the option of uploading your very own picture or use their pre-made homepage. After choosing and aligning the search features, all you need to do is to set that page as your homepage (your start page when you start Firefox). I usually use my blogs or my websites as my homepage, but this would be a nice feature when friends are using your computer.

Homepagle way of having a customizable homepage is a very good idea indeed. I am sure a lot of cybercafes will start using this for advertisement purposes. WHile Homhttp://homepagle.com/epagle will benefit from all searches made through the homepage, portion of the advertisements will be awarded to them.

Don’t like Helly Berry? Maybe a Lamboghini then.

One of the thing I have learn in the past week is to spend time on things which I am potentially earning more money. The formula used is to divide your income for the past 1 year to hourly pay.

Lets say RM10k / 260 (working days) / 8 hours (working hours). You will get your hourly pay. Spend time doing things which would earn you more money than that and try delegating most of the daily repetitive job to someone else.

I could not delegate any of the posting as I do not think that anyone would wants to be guest post here. Anyhow, if you are interested, drop me a mail. It will be more than welcome and you could promote your blog here.

My daily 10 hours job have been pretty busy and I am actually doing another website using Joomla. I must say that I had fun trying out Joomla and it is actually a pretty good CMS and there is a lot of component and module to expand your Joomla function.

Joomla is not as easy to use as WordPress, but it is much more flexible with more features and plugin for different kind of needs out there. Take a peek at my latest invention http://www.malaysianfoodreview.com and let me have your opinion.

Funny that I found out that w00t is the word of the year 2007 when I did not even use it before. I have seen people using them in games and chat room, but have not actually use them. w00t! I have done it.

It seems that more and more of the Internet jargon is getting into dictionary these days. As you can see, Google is an official word. “Try Google the word”

The next thing going to be in dictionary is most probably the abbreviation that  most people use in their daily life to type sms to their friends.
Via Reuters

My usual way to download and convert YouTube video does not work anymore, I was kind of disappointed as it is web base service and it converts as you download it, which is fast.

But I really wanted to copy this Guy Sebastian & Paulini ‘s Receive the Power song. It is the theme song for World Youth Day 2008, in Sidney. You could download the original mp3 version of the World Youth Day 2008 theme song but not the video.

This technique is slightly different but it works.

1. First you will need this Firefox Plugin to Download YouTube video (flv).
2. Then you need a free converter to the format you need. Download Free flv to mp4 or Download free fly to avi/mpeg/wmv.
3. You are done! no more steps!

I must say that Gmail is one of the most useful tool online that I most probably could not live without. Previously Hotmail have been such a hit but even I did not use them back then. The reason is because my hotmail is Spam and Spammed everyday. If you know the history, Hotmail is not started by Microsoft and it survive pretty much be selling the contacts away. Which is why my email is always in the spam list.

Even until today, Hotmail spam filters can’t do anything to prevent this spammers. Only if I were to register a new account with a different username. Take a look at my hotmail from July 26th up until today (Oct 31st). I have a total of 139 emails and only 17 is filtered as junk. But the fact is that all of it is junk. I do not use this email neither read any of the emails.

Sad to say that I had 1GB in my hotmail but gmail is providing me 4.5GB already. Microsoft is really lagging in the Spam protection and the space (eventhough 1GB is already abundance).

New register hotmail does not have this problem, this only happen to those who register their hotmail account before Microsoft bought them over.