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Investing In Another Domain

After my successful sale of ServerBuzz.com I’m very inspired to buy more domains with aftermarket potential. I’m sure those who’ve tried to find good unregistered .com domains for your online projects would sooner or later conclude that all the good names are taken. Although I generally agree with this conclusion, there are times when you do get lucky and actually found an unregistered name with decent potential.

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Upgraded To WordPress 2.5.1

The first bug fixing build of WP 2.5 has been released. Before upgrading, you might want to read more about WordPress 2.5.1. A list of all bugs fixed in this build is listed here.

I’m very disappointed that the improper 404 handling bug is still in WordPress 2.5.1. Apparently the situation regarding this bug has gotten more complicated since my last visit to the ticket.

Send Faxes To The USA And Canada For Free!

There are instances when you can’t avoid using faxes as a communication tool. Personally, I have a deep hatred of faxes. I find them outdated and costly, especially when I need to send them to an overseas number.

Thankfully though, there’s a low cost (free even, if you can tolerate ads in your faxes) method of sending faxes to the USA or Canada.

For $1.99 (USD), you can fax over a document to a US or Canadian number without needing a fax machine thanks to FaxZero. The document can be up to 15 pages (I’m assuming it’s for a standard A4 or letter size page) and should be in MS Word or PDF format in order to use this service.

If you’re really cheap, you can even fax a document using this service for free! However, the document is limited to three pages and a cover page containing advertisements will be included in your transmission.

If the fax is for business purposes, I suggest you invest in that $1.99 transmission fee to avoid your recipient having an ad-laced cover page. Surely you don’t want to be seen as cheap (or worse; unprofessional) to your prospects!

Have You Done Your Taxes?

I did my tax filing yesterday. It was the second time I filed my taxes online. Last year the experience was horrible! The stupid e-filing system forced me to use Internet Explorer to submit my income and expenses details. It used some weird IE-only security certificate which I find very troublesome.

This year though, LHDN (Malaysia’s Inland Revenue Board) has done some major improvements to the e-Hasil e-filing system. It now supports almost all modern browsers.

I performed my income tax submission without any problems and it was much easier than last year. The deadline to file your income tax submission is until the end of this month (April 2008). If you haven’t filed your income tax submission, I suggest that you do so as soon as possible.

Miranda: The Light Instant Messaging Client

How important is instant messaging (IM) in your online life? For me, I don’t spend much time at all on IM. However, it is an important communications medium for me as a lot of my colleagues, friends and clients use it as the main method of staying in contact.

There are many popular IM protocols; Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and Google Talk (which actually runs on the Jabber protocol) are among the more well-known. I have contacts on all these protocols, but running dedicated IM clients for each of them would be out of the question.

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