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Under Construction Wordpress Theme

Posted by Adi Wong On October - 23 - 20095 COMMENTS

This is an unique theme that you may not seen before. It is a Wordpress theme that give you visitor a pleasant feel by telling them that you are changing. While doing that, it also ask if visitor would like to subscribe to your feeds or update via emails. It is quite a simple clean design but the idea is just great.

As you can see from the screenshot below, the theme, Changing Room is a free wordpress theme.

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[Demo] [Download][Theme Website]

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ServerFreak Malaysia Webhosting Review

Posted by Adi Wong On October - 13 - 200921 COMMENTS

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I do not have a long experience with ServerFreak but had quite a few encounter with them and their service is simply great. Only a month ago I have move some of my important websites to their semi-dedicated hosting. But I did enquire about their service various time through msn regarding different aspect of their server.

The main reason why I did move to their service is due to their great review, and these review are coming from blogs which are well known. Second reason is because of their packages that suites my requirements. Thirdly, they are base in Malaysia but my server is located in United States, I could call them in their 24/7 line, MSN or submit a ticket when I encounter any problem at all.

So here are my experience, last week, I wanted to clean up my database on my old hosting at Exabytes, but accidentally clean up my existing hosting db [yes, pretty dumb of me]. I lost 10 DBs, not one, called them and everything is back in normal within 1 hours. Moreover, this was on Friday, close to midnight.

I do have other great experience is that their uptime is definitely better than Exabytes, but is a little slow due to location of the server. It was down once for around 5 minutes during the early morning for a month plus with them. Other services like setting up my account, facilitating my migration of my scripts and tickets response if doing great so far.

If you are looking for a Malaysia Webhosting service, ServerFreak should definitely be considered. Hope that this ServerFreak review is helpful as I was worried like hell after confirming the deletion of my database.

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Remote Connection – Firewall Bypass (LogMeIn)

Posted by Adi Wong On October - 8 - 20092 COMMENTS

I know there is other software out there whereby you could do remote connection but one software whereby you can bypass your  firewall is pretty hard to find. With this Remote connection, you can basically surf, ftp, telnet, or do any other connection that is limited by the firewall. I think that LogMeIn is using a java connection therefore the port used in this connection is only port 80 whereby it is usually open for surfing purposes.

It is a free software whereby the server (your home PC) will need to be on while the client only require a standard browser and some ActiveX will be installed. Plus, the connection is also encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption. Browsing speed is decent depending on your download & upload internet speed.

The only disadvantage is that you will need to keep your home PC connected and on when you need to do this. Unless you have someone at home to call when you need to start your computer. Nevertheless, this is a way you can bypass your company firewall, or solve netbook unable to run heavy duty software, or unable to download certain files, or would simply need to remote as your file is always stored in once place.

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New Top 100 Malaysia Blog Ranking

Posted by Adi Wong On October - 3 - 200916 COMMENTS

I have updated the list of Top 100 Malaysia Blog, I am so sorry for the delay as I was busy, especially trying to move my hosting to which took tones of time and planing to do so. Here is some of the obvious changes I have seen from today updates:-

  • My own ranking dropped from #15 to #38, for obvious reasons.
  • Top 10 movement – KennySia has dropped (I think a lot of people will not like this) and a newcomer at #10 EmilaYusof.
  • Added some new qualifying blogs that have requested through my email.
  • Removed Hemmy.net as previously voted to remove idle blog, making some one extra space on the top 10 list

Dr. Mahathir (http://www.Chedet.co.cc) is still not there due to no technorati ranking, and it will be bias if I were use an approximate value for its technorati ranking. Maybe someone should tell the webmaster to register itself to Technorati.

How is the rank calculated?

I have been receiving emails, forum discussion, and comments on how is this rank calculated. It is not my personal opinion but I put a weight more on alexa ranking compare to technorati ranking. So if you ranking gets higher (drop in rank) in alexa or numbers gets higher in technorati as well, do expect that you ranking slip as well. But there are occasion that ones goes up and another goes down, this will depend on the changes.

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Malaysia Blog Contest

Posted by Adi Wong On September - 30 - 20092 COMMENTS

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Blog for FT or Blog for Federal Territories of Malaysia is a contest to promote the Federal Territories of Malaysia that will include Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan. Not quite sure who organize this and what are the prizes by reading their whole 4 pages website but it definitely seems to be professionally designed website. Anyhow, I don’t think there is much to lose for people who are already blogging about photo shots of Malaysia, or people who blog about Malaysian food or even people who blog about their daily lifestyle. Contest will start next week on the 5th of October until the 5th of January 2010.

This is a great way to promote the Federal Territories by organizing a Malaysia Blog Contest.

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About Me

Adi Wong is a Malaysian with a passion in Internet Marketing, Photography, and Programming.