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Getting a design converted from PSD to Wordpress tedious work if you do not know what you are up to. There are services out there that charges for conversion. Devine Project is actually a free tool where you can convert PSD to Wordpress Theme for free, yup, you can download and make your own theme for free. Of course, there is limitation but it is more than sufficient for you to make a theme with the free software provided by them.

I tried, it is not that simple, but they have some great step-by-step tutorial where you can follow to create the theme of your imagination.

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.

This is quite irritating, as youtube advertisements are actually playing before and after the video you would like to play. This new YouTube ads have no skip buttong, you will have to watch the whole 30 seconds ads.

But this would be a new channel for Internet markerter to buy some advertisements slots, and this would be limited to those who could make video advertisements.

I got this phone 2 weeks already, it is a great phone as I have upgraded from a pretty lousy phone that I have used for almost 2 years. With the high expectation of getting a phone which could keep up with my online updates, I quickly install some great applications, but come to know that most of the resource hungry application or resource hungry websites actually make my new Nokia E72 restart. This happens without fail, so there is no chance at all for me to log into Nimbuzz, or even Meebo url will cause it to restart. Not to mention website like Facebook (non mobile) will do the same. I can’t tell you how many times my phone restarted….

Overall, I think that the qwerty keyboard and touch scrolling feature is simply great. Makes it look and feel like a blackberry. For a RM1,550, you are getting WiFi, qwerty keyboard, 3G with HSDPA connection speed, GPS (Garmin if you have the map), 5.2mp camera + second camera for 3G, and the mail application is such a great deal.

But the constant restarting of the phone is getting into my nerf, while I tried my friend E71 and they had no such problem. They are discussion about this E72 restarting issue at Nokia forum too.

Looking forward for firmware upgrade, which I heard European version is out, hopefully they fix this problem, or I am getting myself to the Nokia Service Center to bug them for a fix.

It seems that we will be seeing twitter search result when we do a search on Google. Although I would admit that I do not actually search for anything in Twitter before, and including them in Google seems to clutter up the information for me. Also, the twitter search result will update from time to time to get the latest updates.

Yea, I am also taking a look at the latest iPad! Would like to see and feel an actual unit. I believe it is a nice unit to do some reading.