For years, yes years! I had been plagued with spam bots that send me instant messaging messages via MSN and it’s driving me CRAZY!!
I should had seek for the solutions way earlier!
Currently I’m on a mac and running Adium IM that can connect to MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk & more and I always look into the preference to see if there is any privacy setting but fail to find but at last! I found the solutions from a MacRumors Forum!
It’s right there!!
Adium Menu Bar
Click the Privacy Settings instead of Preferences
Then you will find this
Select the “Allow only Contacts on my contact list”
Close it and you can only get messages from people in your contact list! NO MORE SPAM!
For people running MSN on Windows
The solution is simple.
- Open MSN Messenger main window.
- Click Options… on Tools window.
- Switch to Privacy tab.
- Select “All Other Users” in the My Allow List and click “Block>>” button. The “All Other Users” groups will appear in the My Block List list box.
- Click OK to save your settings.
Now, only those who are on your contact list can send message to you and you are free of such spam now.
Works in Trillian also
- Go To Preferences (Right click tray icon, Preferences)
- Scroll down to “Identities & Connections” and select MSN “connection”. Under the MSN option select Privacy
- Hidden amongst your contacts is the “All other users” contact in your “My Allow List”, select it and click on the “Block>>” button
- Hit OK and voila, no more spam.
This is one of the coolest tool ever! I haven’t create this yet but it’s one of the most innovative way to create a 3D world in google earth!!
Excellent Google! 
I bet looking behind a window of application will be revolutionized by looking behind that application!! WOOHOO!!
I researched a bit more and found out that he is the famous JOHNNY LEE that created many nice hacks and got head hunted into Microsoft X-Box development WOHOO
Check this video out!
Yesterday night, I had a revelation about switching my telco from Singtel to M1 and wrote an email to Singtel about my intentions.
I wrote about how the new telco plans are so much cheaper and the potential savings I can get if I ever switch over and get a new iPhone 3Gs Plus higher data usage of 10GB vs my 512MB limit.
This morning I get an SMS from my telco Singtel as shown below.
I was like, OMG Singtel response really quick! It’s like they had set up a war room to reply all inquiries and emails with immediate counter offer!
Well, I am not sure if you have the same SMS on your iPhone 3G but this means I do not need to terminate my existing plans on my iPhone 3G that potentially cost me SGD$856 early termination fees quoted from Singtel website.
For new customers who terminate within the three month minimum subscription period, three months’ list price on the respective price plans plus an $856 equipment penalty will still apply.
For terminations after the minimum three months subscription period, the $856 equipment penalty will apply. For existing customers who terminate at anytime within the contract period, the $856 equipment penalty will apply.
However that means I won’t be able to upgrade my iPhone 3G to a more advanced iPhone 3Gs with video recording capabilities & faster processors to run bigger applications.
Now, it’s a tough decision time…maybe I need to ask more questions about possibility of upgrading my iPhone 3G to 3Gs hardware TOGETHER with the FREE iPhone Plan upgrade!
Of course by paying for a new hardware minus the cost of the old iPhone 3G trade in.
Am I asking for too much?
Description:“A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome.”
I believe this is one of the most fascinating company other then Twitter & Facebook, their successes with each milestone are not without failures of many small experimental projects that did not do well but they stick with their never say die attitude and focus on their core business of providing a elegant way to use the internet by providing the users a nice & clean search database that makes a lot of sense.
Their development from initially a small search engine to a major competitor against other search engines, email services, video sharing services, blogging, advertising, mobile OS to future cloud computing with Chrome OS in the future may means one day Google will be everywhere in your everyday life.
I do wish they can stick to their “Do no evil” mantra so that we can continue to support this great company while Google give us the users the benefits for supporting them.
All in all I wish Google best of luck & continue to be successful in the future in cooperation with other successful companies or up and coming mini explosive company such as Twitter.
Last few days one of my client claimed that he did not receive my emails even after repeated tries. Later he msn IM me directly and I send him to both his company email & a personal email and found out that his company email got delayed in receiving all emails which is very very weird.
He is in a American company and I do believe there is something to do with email scanning going on in the network where it will delay the emails but I am clueless to what is the real cause of the delay.
In twitter, I found out it’s not just one incident of delay email receiving as one of my twitter friends joked about being monitored by someone and hence the email got delayed…as it’s manually read by human before sending to the person.
LOL it’s OMG scary if it’s real but realistically I think it’s some kind of bottleneck happening in the email server and maybe the server got overwhelmed by too many people downloading “stuff”…LOL
That points to a moment in the future where we might go back to snail mail with stamp! OMG! Gasp!
Hope it’s a one off affair otherwise productivity will nosedive and the economy might get hit!
Now to send the next finished graphic photograph via email again…haiz..someone please give us cloud servers for high resolution photographs storage free via twitter with multiple uploads
This is a google wave blog post about the available Google Wave Extensions List much like those add-on for firefox browsers, Extensions are developed by developers and shared for testing purposes and the below are the ones for developer’s references. (Mostly my reference)
If you had just requested for a google wave account, wait for them to approve it before you can read the following google wave.
I just received an exciting email just now from Google and found out that my application for a developer account for Google Wave Sandbox had been approved and ready for me to test it out immediately!
It’s so exciting!!
I got 2 sandbox account one main and one test account to test out the functions & develop new widgets for Google Wave.
My main sandbox email account is simontay78@wavesandbox.com
If you have a wavesandbox email account kindly add your email to this google document so that you can connect with other developers that you want to test your widgets & programs with instead of with yourself
For those still in the dark about Google Wave watch the following youtube video to “catch the wave”!
LATEST UPDATES! I had embedded a Google Sandbox Wave in this blog! Check it Out!!
Anyone who wants to sign up for google wave register at here for non-developers & here for developers.
Google had annonced in their official google blog that they are coming out with a brand new OS call Google Chrome OS!
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly.
We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends.
However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.
So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.
Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
- So, does this google Chrome OS be a serious threat against Microsoft’s Windows & Apple’s MacOs or even Open source’s Linux?
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