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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.

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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If you’re hosting your WordPress blog on a mod_rewrite-enabled Apache web server, you can use this feature to make your post URLs prettier.

By default, WordPress uses an ugly format like http://yoursite/?p=795 (this URL is for post #795, just in case you’re wondering). If your server has mod_rewrite enabled, you can also use more descriptive URLs as suggested by WordPress:

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Yahoo! Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulation tool. It can combine, filter and sort multiple feed data and spit out a single customized feed that you can use for yourself or share with others.

Before today, JSON has been the only way for you to obtain the output data of a Pipe. Now, Yahoo! has provided a second way to do this: serialized PHP.

I’m sure those who are more proficient with PHP will find this feature very useful. Thanks Yahoo!

If you’re into making money online, I’m sure you’ve been pimped a lot of ebooks, e-courses and other resources that claim to make you tons of money within a short time. If you have actually bought or subscribed to some of the resources mentioned above, I’m sure that you’d discover that some advice actually worked wonders while the rest are utter junk.

As they say, the best way to teach someone is to show them real working examples. This is exactly what I’m going to show you.

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