Archive for the ‘Tips & Tricks’ Category

Set Gmail as Default Email Client in Firefox

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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I believe most of blogger here own a Gmail account. You might using email client to access Gmail with IMAP. How about if we want to receive and send Gmail in the latest Firefox 3?

Did you experienced computer open up Outlook Express when you click on email address? I’m sure you did. All the above can be resolve by apply few simple steps:

1) Login to Gmail.
2) In Gmail, copy and paste the following javascript codes into your browser’s address bar and hit enter. (more…)

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Hack Feedburner: Show the Hidden Feed Subscribers

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

hack feed countSome blogger like me want to hide our feed subscribers status. There are several reasons why people hide their feed subscribers status. Maybe they do not want the low subscribers status to affect their subscription rates. They might want to save some space from Webpage by remove out the feed subscribers status. Or they want to experiment something like me. :)

No matter what reason is it, sometime we still curious to know their actual feed subscribers! Don’t you? ;)

Show the Hidden Feed Subscribers

There is a trick, so call hack the Feedburner subscriber status trick. It is so easy to hack. Before we start the hack, must make sure it is a Feedburner’s syndication URL. It mean this trick ONLY work for Feedburner enabled blog. In my opinion, it should work for all since I don’t see anyone not using Feedburner service. (more…)

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Poor Man Cheapest Wifi Router

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

wifi hotspotHave you setup a Wifi router at home? I like the freedom of wireless internet connection. Since I already installed broadband at home, I can setup an in house Wifi hotspot too. So that I can online via my iPod touch anywhere in or near to my house. I can online in living room, watch youtube on bed, tweet in garden, read feed in washroom. ;) Any situation you might think of is possible.

The best to implement Wifi hotspot is using a wifi router. But a good brand wifi router might cost nearly $200, which is quite expensive for me to support an iPod touch. Hence, I have setup a so called “poor man wifi router”. It has almost the same feature as normal wifi router!

Setup Poor Man Wifi Router

If you have read through how I transfer files to iPod touch wirelessly, the method is almost the same. You just need a wifi adapter to act as a wifi router. In the setup guide below, I use Gateway computer (such as a PC that connected to Internet, act as wifi router) and Mobile computer (such as iPod touch or laptop) to illustrate. (more…)

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3 Ways to Save Petrol Money

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Nowadays everything is inflating. The breaking news of new petrol price on yesterday evening make car owners crazy. It is more than 40% increase! I can fill up my fuel tank with 60 bucks before yesterday, but now have to spend more than 80 bucks for a full tank. :(

I’m afraid how will the effect for the next 2 weeks. Also, how we going to survive when the real floating petrol price on this coming August?

How to Save Petrol?

I suggest to become a save money blogger before enter into full time blogger or make money blogger. Because prevention is better than cure. :)

After some research, I have some interesting idea to save your petrol that you might not know!

1. Timing of Pump in Petrol

Timing of pump in petrol is one of the important factor to save petrol. Pump in petrol in early morning when the temperature is still cold. So that your liter is an exact liter. When the ground get warmer, the petrol gas expand and you get lesser than real capacity.

When filling up the petrol, do not squeeze the trigger to fast mode. The slower the more petrol you get. Also, do not wait until your fuel tank empty to top up. Most ideal timing is add petrol once reach half tank. The more air occupying in fuel tank, the faster your petrol get evaporates! (more…)

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