See? This is the Z-List.

What is Z-List? According to TienSoonism, Z-List is a way to increase PR(PageRank), by adding the link in blog post. PageRank is quite, no, I think it is very important for me, as currently my 1 and half month old blog is scoring "ZERO"! I had to increase it so my blog can be more flexible in linking ads and writing higher paid sponsored post by PayPerPost! You may ask: if I add others, their blogs' PR will increase, how about mine? Relax, in this game, one had to add the link from where you first see the list. Nice?

Here is the simple instruction, I just simply copy from Tiensoon's blog, here is it:

1) Create a new post on your blog.
2) Copy and paste the entire list of blog links below
3) Add any blogs that you want to include near the top of the list.
4) Include the blog where you first got the list from, on the list in your post.
5) Do not include your own blog links on the list in your post.
6) Make sure that all links are copied intact.
7) Publish the post.
8) Do not use nofollow attribute in your links please.

This is the blog that I add:
Jimmy
LCS
evefrynn
Wei Ying 
TienSoon

This is the link I add from TienSoon's site:
Jason Mumbles
LiewCF
Run, Bunny. Run!
Maverick on The Loose
DigiSniper
Amazing Melaka
Digital Photography School
關於電腦

A Hermit's Muse
RyeUrn - A Blog Kegful of Rye
StevBlogs... On Life
Not so complicated
Oh for the love of me!

Quaint Melody
Fatty Poh's Kopi Tiam
Andy's Anything Goes
Beng Beng
A Hermit's Muse

Che-Cheh
Paris Beaverbanks
Rojaks
Melting Wok
Rasa Malaysia

Organic Income
My Mothering Corner
Mummy In Vain
Lovely Mummy
Desperate Mummy

Judy
Home Office Women
Shoppingmum
Cyberpartygal
Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food

Blueapron
Make$ Money$
Owen of Ugh
Jules is Utterly Geek
Internet. Serious Business

The Sabahan
Critical Thoughts
Blog-Op
Carols Vault
Blog About Your Blog

Monetize Your Blog
Cosmin PTR
Make Money On The Net
Successful Online Money Making
Turn One Pound Into One Million$

Work at Home Blog
Blogging For Beginners
How to earn money online?
Dosh Dosh
Money Money Money

Money Making Quest
Connected Internet
Mike’s Money Making MissionTime to Budget
Can I Make Big Money Online
BlogtrepreneurFlee the Cube

Blogging Secret
Blogging to Fame
Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under
Quest to make money on the internet
Kumiko’s Cash Quest

Calico Monkey
Internet Bazaar
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus

Customers Rock!Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes!
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0

Two Hat Marketing
darrenbarefoot.com
The Emerging Brand
The Branding BlogCrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute

Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas

Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing

Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses

On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup

Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice

CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces

Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton

¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly

I feel this is quite like spamming.... Who cares?! Just Search engine read it!

 

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What happen to FeedBurner.com?

Do you all face the same problem? I am a Feedburner user, and I use it to record my site stat. But since last month, I always face difficulty to login into the system.

Most of the times, I successfully login into it, but when I click on other links, it will ask me to sign in again...

What is that?!

Microsoft Windows Vista Ice House in Toronto, Canada

Microsoft just set up a Vista and Office 2007 showroom in Toronto, Canada. Guess how is it? A tip: it's snowing at there. Yes! It's an Ice-House!

The ice house is cool(perhaps, cold?), and it used 270,000 pounds of ice to build it. The digital ice house is awesome, all the furniture in the house was in real size, include ice-book, ice-toilet bowl, ice-microwave oven, beds, ice-study room, ice-kitchen, all in real size. Of course, the toilet bowl and microwave oven can't function, just a model, but very detail. The temperature was stable at 5 degree Celsius to prevent the ice house collapse.

pictures taken from time_one, thanks!

I like the last picture, it make me feel like using Vista! The Aero Interface that look a little bit transparent and blur make me feel exciting!

This won't gonna happen in this hot Malaysia. Lucky the heat that generated by the desktop and laptop didn't melt the house. The cold climax helps a lot.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft - Ice House - Toronto - Vista - Office 2007

The War of Operators: The Battle of Digi and Hotlink

After the war of HD-DVD and BluRay, the war of Microsoft and Apple, and now the latest local war: Hotlink and Digi.

Digi
I think most of us watch TV, right? And I assume that all must have watched the latest Digi commercial show, its about 6 yellow ducks swim together, but at the back there follow by 1 blue duck and 1 red duck. This is the Digi latest package, Friends and Family Plus. The main feature of this package is to add another non Digi operators contact into Friends and Family Plus, and they all have the same calling rate: 15cent per minutes.

Hotlink
But yesterday night, as I came back from Melaka to Penang to celebrate Chinese New Year, I heard this Hotlink commercial on Hitz.fm: A guy show off to his friend that he is using the Operator that allows him to add 2 other operators' numbers into his family plan, but his friend reply said that Hotlink allow him to make 50% call rate to ALL operators(include Hotlink), and not just 2.... the guy suddenly became quiet.

Dumb Consumer's view
From dumb consumer's view, Hotlink is better, but who know the real things? I went online to search for the rates of each operator, and it were complicated. Too many factors to take in mind, included call time, peak and off-peak, packages... These make consumers confused and they won't really care about the rate. What they really considered was the people around, like best friends, families, girlfriends and boyfriends...

The real thing
~Hotlink
What 50% that Maxis said sound like a huge discount, but if you analyze it well, after discount 50%, you still need to pay 25 cents for local call and 60 cents for adjacent and non-adjacent call (to non-Maxis operator) and you need to spent more than RM6 on that day to get the discount, for me, I don't think I can get it. I am not a 'pro' phone talker... haha. But this discount is not just limited to 2 numbers, but to all operators, include Hotlink and Maxis themselves. See this. I believe most readers start to confuse by the rate... it's complicate.

~Digi
Compared with Digi, they just charge 15 cents per minutes for the 2 non-Digi operators that registered under Friends and Family Plan, but SMS rate is still 15 cents per SMS, not same as other Friends and Family Digi numbers' rate that only charge 1 cent per SMS. See this.

For Celcom, it still stand aside and watch this war, and maybe it started to figure out any plan that similar and effective than these 2 operators. With it current Lite Plan, Mid Plan and Max Plan, let us consumers sit and see Celcom move the chess.

This post is just to talk about inter operators rate, as there are too many things to say if I write all the rate, moreover, I am not using Digi nor Hotlink, and actually I am using Maxis Postpaid, but if I use prepaid, I may choose Hotlink, as most of my friends are using it, so I can get cheaper rate when I call them; but for the concept, I prefer Digi's one, more simple, not promoting rubbish life like what Hotlink using in it's advertisement.

 

Technorati Tags: Digi - maxis - Hotlink - operators - 50% - friends and family - plus

Vista Campus Launch, only in MMU.

Microsoft Malaysia will hold a Vista Campus Launch in MMU Melaka, and, I am one of the small committee in the event, yeas!(Just a low rank working committee la....) but really excited to be it!

For your information, this event for me is not just a Vista Launch, I get the chance to get a FREE genuine CD key from Microsoft, but the edition I may get is not yet confirm. Besides, all committees will get a certificate from Microsoft, and also a free T-shirt, plus handsome SAPS point (co-curriculum point in MMU).

Beside us, MMU Cyberjaya Branch will also hold the event, see their blog.

For this event, I will set up a website soon, please subscribe to my blog to get further information. Thank you!

Technorati Tags: vista - campus - launch - mmu

Something wrong on The Star In-Tech.

This morning, I saw my watch, it's 13 Feb! I quickly wore a jacket and took my pass card and keys, ran to U-Center (a retail shop) to buy a copy of The Star. Huh, lucky still has stock... Why I so interested with today's The Star? Heh heh, because today Star In-Tech will review about Windows Vista!!

These days, I almost get addicted to Windows Vista news, chasing it from morning till night, write blogs about it continuously, search for the lowest price. Ok, back to the title, while I read the review, I found something strange:

(a snapshot from The Star In-Tech 13 Feb 2007)

It stated that only Ultimate Edition has the Aero interface, and only Ultimate Edition has the 'Easier business networking connectivity' feature, even Business Edition also don't has this feature, how can it be possible?! It also stated that Business Edition has some multimedia and entertainment features, like 'Easily make DVDs', 'Have more fun on your PC', and 'Create high definition movies', which is not included as Microsoft stated.

It's not true, must be.
I quickly check online, check Microsoft Vista website, and I found that it's not true. It must be The Star's mistake. The truth is, only Home Basic don't has the Aero Interface feature, and both Business and Ultimate Edition have 'Easier business networking connectivity' feature. The multimedia and entertainment feature is not that important for Business Edition. If they want those features, they can get it easily from third party software.

This news shocked me for a while, as I planned to buy myself a Home Premium Edition. Let me ask you all: if a Vista don't has Aero Interface, will it call Vista? That's why Home Basic is the most lousy Edition, don't buy it. It just RM100 cheaper than Home Premium.

 

Technorati Tags: Vista - The Star - mistake - home premium - business

Which PC Vendor should you buy from?

IT market giant, Microsoft, not only push their own latest OS, Windows Vista, but it also move all the IT market, and they all grow together. With the superior graphic of Vista, consumers need more powerful graphic card, faster processor, and some other hardware. So now, assume you want to buy a new PC, and you don't plan to build it yourself or buy it from other not-so-famous PC builder, which PC vendor should you buy from?

Dell
Dell, once the largest PC vendor in the world, is my favorite PC OEM(original equipment manufacturer), as the design is nice, and the price is the cheapest I can get in the OEM market. I like to spent my time customizing PC in www.dell.com.my , to see the price of the PC falling. (but no money to buy, haiz) Dell PC is cheap, because you don't need to pay for the center person, because the only way to buy it is through phone call and online, and the warranty coverage is wide.

HP
HP, just beat Dell in 3rd quarter last year to be the world largest PC manufacturer, and still remain. What I like for HP is the laptop. There are 2 laptop lines in HP, one is Presario, one is Pavilion. It has a business and entertainment feeling together on the laptop design, but the price is a little bit higher than Dell. Our local HP website, www.hp.com.my is quite simple, no price list, no customization, very lousy, if you really like HP, buy it from PC shop like House of Notebook. My personal experience tell me, don't buy it from SEC, as their service very very sucks! What other OEM can't provide is the after sales service, really fast, especially Penang center, 3 days promise, no matter how serious the problem.

Lenovo
China largest PC manufacturer, since bought IBM PC line, it jump to world no.3 PC manufacturer. After 2 years of hardwork and publicity, people start to pick up their guts to try Lenovo PC, as all people know that "made in China"'s quality is very low. The design is quite copycat, you can see a lot of similarity on Lenovo's desktop with HP's desktop. What worth to buy is still the IBM ThinkPad business machine. Call it machine in this way is absolutely correct, as ThinkPad can support heavy drop, high temperature, in water, strong pressure force, but not mean the laptop can survive in all these condition, at least it can protect the hard disk very very well, see the Legend of ThinkPad. The price is higher than HP, of course.

(Lenovo and HP desktop, look same huh?)

Acer
I really HATE this brand!! How can it be the world no.4 manufacturer! Deduct low price, it is nothing! The blog you all reading is typed by this brand! Sucks after sales service, low quality parts, lousy design, and failure rate in the first year can achieve 99%!! I strongly advice you all, not to support Acer anymore! Try to Google around, you can find how sucks is it! I simplify my comment for this brand:
price                  : cheap
quality                : low
after sales service:
1. need 1 and half month just to change a Combo  Drive(my experience)
2. need 1 and half month to get a second battery.(my experience)
3. not to mention about all Acer's users' problems.

Conclusion
After I finished this post, I realize that all the info that I gave is on laptop... Ok, for me, I prefer the first 3 brands, especially Dell, as I can customize it all by myself, and pay only what I want. For HP, although the design is nice, but spec always come first before design. Lenovo may be my future choice when I step into working world, hehe.

Laptop or Desktop?

Nowadays, computer becoming more and more important in our daily life, from morning till night, from lunch to dinner. Of course, students also need computer. But, the problem is, which type of computer is suitable for student? Is laptop that mobile, less powerful, and expensive? Or desktop that bulky, more powerful, and cheaper? You decide.

Vote it at my sidebar, thank you. Please forward or link this page to your friends, especially students, to vote for this simple question, thank you! The poll will expire on 10 Mar 2007, subscript or bookmark my page to see the result.