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Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony

My wife and I reached PWTC at around 10.45am, we thought we were late, but luckily the event hasn’t started yet. So after registering, me moved around from one booth to another, waiting for the event to get started, but it was not up until around 11.30am. Frankly speaking, I’m not really concentrating on what Joel and Dato’ Kong Cho Ha said (busy snapping pictures and reading the goodies).

There are quite a number of crowd who had turned up to that event, and the response is also quite overwhelming.

I couldn’t stay longer and have a more chats with other bloggers since I had to rush back home to catch up on Friday Prayers and go to work as well. But I’m glad with myself, I’m finally attending this kind of event/gathering after missing a couple of bloggers/webmasters gathering before. But whatever it is, I finally made it. Minus another 1 of my 2008 resolution.

Check out the pictures that I managed to snap with my old Olympus, not that great, but okla, for your view only maa

stage Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony
The stage

crowd Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony
Crowd

speaker Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony
The speaker

cheque Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony
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winner Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony
The winner with 20k, WOW

mediaconf Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony
Media conference with the winner

jobattack Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search ceremony
One of the exhibitors

Admin 18 January 2008 socialize & media 9 Comments

Don’t forget to remove your Adsense referral unit ads

adsensereferral Dont forget to remove your Adsense referral unit ads

If you haven’t removed your Adsense referral unit ads on your website, please do so immediately. Google will end this program for publishers outside North America (US and Canada), Latin America and Japan by end of the last week of January due to low performance of the program on this region.
 
If you do check your earning frequently like I do, you might stumble upon this message above, a reminder from Mr G.
 
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Admin 18 January 2008 Adsense 9 Comments

I’m going to Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Awards Ceremony

Going to Youth Malaysia

I’m going to Youth Seach event this morning. I’ll be going by car, there’s no public
transport available except buses. Hopefully the traffic is not bad, so I can reach
there on time. I would like to see how the
events are going on and who’s the contest winners. Even though their image was a little bit
tarnished by SPAM email accident a few days ago, I don’t
think it will have an impact to the event itself.

I would like to meet local pro
bloggers such as Paul Tan and LiewCF if they happen to be there and if there’s not many
people asking their signatures. Ok guys, see you there!!

I applaud their effort to gather local bloggers in such event.


Event: The Malaysian Dotcom
Youth Search Awards Ceremony
Date: 18th January 2008

Time: 11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Venue: Main Stage, Hall 4, Putra World Trade Centre

10.30am – Registration (Outside Hall 4)

11.00am – Arrival of Guest of Honour YB Dato’ Kong Cho Ha

11.05am – Opening Remarks by Master of Ceremony

11.10am – Welcoming address by Mr. Joel Neoh Eu-Jin

(Organizing Chairman of YOUTH’08 cum Project Director of YouthMalaysia.com)

11.15am – Keynote by YB Dato’ Kong Cho Ha
(Deputy Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation cum

MCA New Technology & Innovation Bureau Chairman)

11.35am – Presentation of The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Award 2008

11.40am – Souvenir Presentation

11.45am – Lunch

Admin 18 January 2008 Event 5 Comments

Do not display image from spam emails

Looks familiar with the email below? Yes, this is one of the emails caught by Gmail filter. Ok, if you happen to receive spam emails with image inserted (it looks like the image below), do not open them. Why?? See the explanation below.

image spam Do not display image from spam emails

Why you can’t

According to Wikipedia –

Web bugs are used by e-mail marketers, spammers, Cyberstalkers and phishers, to verify that e-mail addresses are valid, that the content of e-mails has made it past the spam filters, and that the e-mail is actually viewed by users. When the user reads the e-mail, the e-mail client requests the image, letting the sender know that the e-mail address is valid and that e-mail was viewed. The e-mail need not contain an advertisement or anything else related to the commercial activity of the spammer. This makes detection of such e-mails harder for mail filters and users.

So if you have opened this kind of email before, the sender will know that your email is valid, and that you’ve been reading his email. So he knows that you’re one of his ‘loyal readers’, and you’ll get a higher chance to receive this email again in near future.

Don’t worry too much, if you’re using email client such as MS Outlook or online email client such as Yahoo Mail or Google Gmail, this shouldn’t be a big problem, since the embedded URL or images will not be downloaded automatically. BUT, the spam filter does not really work properly, yeah nothing is perfect in this world. How to identify your email client is protecting you well??? Btw, I’m only covering on email clients that I frequently use.

Yahoo Mail

By default, the settings should be there. However, it seems that Yahoo Spam filter does not work well sometimes (worse than Gmail). To modify it,

1. From your top right menu, click ‘Option’ -> ‘mail option’
2. On your left bar menu, choose ‘Spam’ It will display menu like below. Choose them according to your needs

yahoospamguard Do not display image from spam emails

Gmail

I don’t see this setting on Gmail Setting menu. By default Gmail won’t display images, and there are options for each emails on whether to download the images or not (I’m sure you’re familiar with this).

gmail setting Do not display image from spam emails


MS Outlook

By default, the setting works fine. You’ll see this message below on each email containing images

MSOutlook filter Do not display image from spam emails

To edit the settings, from the top menu bar, choose ‘Tools’ – ‘Option’ – ‘Security’ tab – ‘Change Automatic Download Settings

outlookoption Do not display image from spam emails

Finally, don’t let your email crowded by spam emails.

update 18-Jan-2008

Yahoo Mail has updated their anti spam filter

Admin 17 January 2008 spam 10 Comments

be the top commentator and get yourself a free t-shirt

be the top commentator and get yourself a free t shirt

Remember that I had won myself a set of pod cast gear last year? Yeah, that is the first contest I had ever won (and the most lucrative). Eventually, I had just received the ‘prize’ yesterday after winning it 5 months ago. Even though I fully understand the reason of the delay, but I felt a little bit disappointed since I couldn’t get the podcast gear that I really want to kick off my podcasting lesson.

The good news is, they ‘paypal’ed me USD175 instead!! A good deal, since it is translated to over MYR500. I can still get hold of a podcast gear here, but perhaps I should be looking for a cheaper set. I’m thinking to allocate half of the sum for that purpose.

And… the other half, I would like to use it to organize blogjer first ever contest!! Yeah, my first contest. So what is the contest? Pretty simple, be a top commentator each month until June, and you ‘ll get richer by 1 t-shirt from me. There are 6 t-shirts up for grab for 6 months.

Some basic rules to follow

The rules
1. To win, be the top commentator at the end of the months

2. Please, subscribe to my RSS content. You’re encouraged to subscribe to RSS comment as well, so you know what others has commented

3. What kind of t-shirt?

  • Maybe lowyat.net t-shirt, or from someone who sells t-shirt in lowyat.net. If you happen to know other website selling t-shirt online ( saw a banner on Adlina blog) , do let me know, as long as the prize is MYR40 and below including postage (or slightly higher)
  • I was thinking to design and print my own t-shirt but the plan is still in a very early stage. If you know how to design and print t-shirt, do contact me. Let’s talk about it offline

4. 1 blogger are entitled to win only 3 t-shirts during the contest. So if the person becomes the top commentator on the 4th month, the t-shirt will go to the 2nd top commentator
update: 17-Feb-2008- 1 blogger are entitled to win only 1 t-shirts during the contest.

5. T-shirts will be delivered within 2 weeks. If no t-shirt is available or I’m unable to provide you with the t-shirt, cash will be provided instead.

6. The decision is final

So what are you waiting for. Lets get started icon smile be the top commentator and get yourself a free t shirt

Admin 16 January 2008 contest 25 Comments
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