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Experimenting new Windows Live

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Much has been talked about the new Windows Live. But is it worth your attention? It is common that Microsoft products & services garnered not very positive responds from blogsphere (you know why icon smile Experimenting new Windows Live ).

I spent some time play around with it over the weekend. Sharing here for fun and critics

Sign Up@live – It accepts all email addresses. Hotmail or live account holder can sign in using their account. This is how the Windows Live home looks like.

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Software bundles – Among the first that I tried once signed in. It consists of the following items.

  • Windos Live Messenger
  • WIndows Live Email – Email client, just like Outlook or LotusNotes. Didn’t go through, but I managed to download my gmail emails into it
  • Windows Live Writer – Text editor, where you can post an entry to your blog
  • Photo Gallery
  • Family safery for Windows Live OneCare
  • Toolbar

Hotmail – No need of any introduction, it is a web based email, in a more simplified look. Comes with 5GB space.

Personalized page This is just like  iGoogle or My Yahoo where you can personalize your Live pages.

Spaces – Don’t confuse space with Windows Live personalized page above. With Windows Live Space, you’re allocated a URL, just like a MySpace URL, where you can choose a lot of services/tools available ‘module’ here), share with your friend just like my experiment space.

http://zakifahmi.spaces.live.com/

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Apart from the default option shown above, there is a lot more you can do here. Customize the look (themes, template, layout) add more modules.

  • Windows Live Sky Drive – Of all the features offered, personally I admire this the most. Sky Drive allocates 5GB for each account. You can create folders, share it to your friend or even make it public.
  • Friends – Just like any other services, this is where you find, invite and add friends. At present, it only has 2 options, get invited by friends or your messenger contacts.
  • Photos – As the name says, this is where you can keep your photos. It is pretty slow to load photos here. I wish it has something like Flickr Uploader

Gallery

There are bunches of tools and gadgets here for your Vista, Messenger, internet browser toolbar, Space, personalized page. If you’re serious about getting your space or personalized space full with ‘useless’ gadgets and tools, this is where you should spend most of your time.

When I first opened ‘space’ and ‘personalized space’ menu, I paused awhile. Where is the gadget?? How can users make their spaces and personalized pages look crammed? The answer is here.

Once in awhile, I feel that it is the right move to put the gadgets here, and from here, put an option for users to drop these gadgets anywhere they want. It is like a ‘warehouse gadget’ for the whole Windows Live. I just wish that there is a link from ‘space’ or ‘personalized page’ linking to this, so first timer ‘gadget-lover’ users do not step out too soon when they realize there is not much gadget to offer.

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Office Live – The lite version of Microsoft Office on the net. Allows you to upload documents from your system, and create new documents online.

Conclusion

I’m not a fan with  ‘all-in-one’ portal like this or even iGoogle. But the new WindowsLive offer much more than what I thought. With single registration (except hotmail), you’ll get a bunch of applications that I had mentioned above.

Microsoft is not doing very well on its online application suite, and by putting every piece of its applications in a single place like this, I feel that Microsoft has put more effort and is serious about building a community-based business on the web. But it’s too early to conclude if Microsoft will succeed. After all, Microsoft should build its relation with blogsphere communities, so that whatever launched, bloggers would impatiently and voluntarily review the product,  just like its chief competitor, Google.

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WordPress Plugin – Comments Approval Notifier

This plugin comes in very handy if you’re moderating first time commentators plus Akismet’s flagged comments that need approval.

After gotten inquired couple of times about why comments do not show up immediately on blogjer, this plugin is my answer to this. Starting today, you’ll receive an email if your comment has been approved. Hope you don’t ‘mind’ icon smile Wordpress Plugin Comments Approval Notifier

As long as correct email addresses are supplied, you’ll know when your comment is approved. I occasionally compare your profile with ‘spam database‘ if you’re reported as spammers before.

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how electronic-waste recycling polluting other part of the world

If you haven’t seen or heard about this, please do so, but don’t let it change your mind about e-waste (electronic waste) recycling, even though the way it is being disposed is totally prohibited

We often heard about how the radioactive waste from developed countries being exported to 3rd world countries to be disposed (if I recall correctly, few years back there was a ship fully loaded with plutonium waste which wasn’t allowed to use Strait of Melaka on its way to 3rd world country for disposal). But in reality,  the same way goes to e-waste.

For whatever reason, such waste should be disposed upon where the waste is originated (usually developed countries), and are not sent to developing or 3rd world countries. Even though the rules and law exist to prevent this, but being greedy can overcome anything.

p/s: the video loads pretty slow and with ad

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Is there any job layoff in malaysia?

72451236 5ee59608f4 m Is there any job layoff in malaysia?Lay off and VSS are among the last few words that most employees would like to hear off, other than ‘you’re fired!!’. But this is the reality for those working in private sector must face today. Financial lost, missing profit target, merge and acquisition(M&A) are among good ‘excuses’ for that. And now, mother of all crisis, recession, has turned the situation even worse.

In Cyberjaya and Penang, the 2 IT and electronic hot spots in Malaysia, business seems booming as usual. There is almost no news about lay offs on mainstream newspapers. In fact, job recruitment continues as like nothing happened. The job advertisement can be found in online or offline mediums or even word-of-mouth.

But in reality, only small number of people are aware about what is happening. In the last few days also, I’ve received few emails regarding the possible layoffs, or operation shut down/time off on numbers of manufacturing companies in Penang plus few outsourcing companies in Cyberjaya. To avoid being seen as speculative, I won’t post it here  until I’m pretty much sure about the truth of this email.

If there is a person who should worry about it, one of them should be me. And that’s why I’m called upon to write this. I’ve been working in MNC for a few years in Penang & Cyberjaya. In that short period of time, I’ve seen VSS once, and another round off VSS recently, even though Asia Pacific region is excluded this time. Like other person who is in this position, it will put you in difficult situation to remain here, when the job safety can hardly be felt.

Even though the situation as a whole in Malaysia might not be as bad as other regions especially in the US, but that doesn’t mean our region is safe. Judging on the report layoff tracker from the TechCrunch and Cnet, the number is no longer to be taken for granted.

So are we free from this crisis? This article might say so. But if you go through the list of companies, there are a few common names which are operating in Malaysia. So it is not possible that part of the lay off workers will come from us.

While the whole picture looks darker ahead, there is still a positive aspect. The price of crude oil has consistently dropped to below $60 per-barrel recently. It was a relief for most motorists, but has very little impact on other commodity, food or electronic price.

If you’re worried about the safety of your job, why don’t spend your time reading this guide. It’ll educate you on your rights as employee, what you deserve to, including compensation package.

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critics for traffics

After reading this post, I chuckled, and thought about how ‘genius’ this guy is. Sean of GetClicky is using a different way to gain attention from somebody. Instead of ‘bodek‘@praise@compliment him, he  is criticizing Michael Arrington, accusing him of favoritism, so that in order to ‘defend’ himself of not being in favor, he’ll write about a new services offered by his company. Sean’s intention is ‘quite’ clear and yet he is successful. And he must be delighted now, hehe

Ooh Techcrunch…, what is the meaning of appearing there? It got hundreds of thousands of RSS subscribers, plus millions of visitors.. indirectly he simply got a free advertising, which if it is in a form of text link ad or banner ad, will probably cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. And it sticks there permanently even though not a single  link to GetClicky appears there (curios person like me will google it of course). Not sure if techcruch has impact like Digg effect though.

On the bottom of the post, the commentators were not too ‘generous’ in leaving their opinions know. I don’t read all the comments, but you can smell jealousy over there, right? Who wouldn’t want to appear on Techcrunch??

Personally I love the idea as well. But apart from the idea solely, Sean has a good product/service to show off too. And he does not unaffectedly criticizes Arrington, if you read the post carefully, he knows what he is doing (he put links to support his thought, and it seems like that he is indirectly challenging Arrington to be opposite from what he stands (i hope I got it right here)

So next time when you have a great product/service to offer, why not try this out, and wish your email would not be flagged as spams by the blog owner, or threw to the ‘trash’ right away.

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