Good Bye MSN IM SPAM!

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.

1. Open MSN Messenger main window.
2. Click Options… on Tools window.
3. Switch to Privacy tab.
4. 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.
5. 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

1. Go To Preferences (Right click tray icon, Preferences)
2. Scroll down to “Identities & Connections” and select MSN “connection”. Under the MSN option select Privacy
3. Hidden amongst your contacts is the “All other users” contact in your “My Allow List”, select it and click on the “Block>>” button
4. Hit OK and voila, no more spam.

Building A Cheap Fish Trap (DIY) For catching fish in the wild.

I had read books and websites on how to build a fish trap using soda bottle(s) with many different variations and I had personally tested a few designs and most works but not perfect. I am designing one just for those fishing in canal or just for fun. I will put those designs that does not work that well in a canal and those works.

This design works well in an aquarium tank and you can trap the fish safely without using the fish net and risk stressing out the fishes. However you cannot choose which fish that you want to trap and it does take some time for the fish to find it’s way into the bottle by using bait.

This design also not good enough for catching wild fishes in the sea or fresh water fishes as they will swim back out quickly.

I read the book on SAS Survival Guide on the fish trap section did show the above design but I soon realized it’s not good enough in catching fishes in the wild. I search deeper into the internet world and found Soda-Bottle-Fish-Trap at instructables.com but it’s basically the same concept but with different method of building it.

Here’s how I created my version of a relatively cheap fish trap using a bigger plastic bottle and a small stainless steel wire mesh for water drainage.

Firstly, I got a bigger plastic bottle from the supermarket. This is the bigger version then ordinary soda bottles for bigger fishes.

Then I use a scissors to poke an hole and cut around the bottle head, do not spoil the head as you need it for the trap to work.

This looks like the original design but it’s not complete yet! There are more things to add to this design to make it more effective to catch fishes in the wild!

The idea is to make a water drainage at the bottom side of the fish trap where the head is the inverted bottle neck and the bottom drains the water out when you pull the trap out of the water/Sea.

Now you can see more detailed instruction to build this trap at instructables.com

How to download more then the Firefox Download limit of two files at the same time

According to Lunarmedia Blog:

Firefox have this limitation of downloading only 2 files at one time and always have to wait for the available slots after one of them is completed before able to download again.

This limitation sometimes is a bit problem for me as I download lots of files everyday. So after seeking out the solution via the above mentioned blog, I finally found the answer!

To Unlock the limitation simply follow the steps below.

Step 1 : type “about:config” in the address bar without the quotes

Step 2: Then search for this: network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, double-click it and change the number 2 to e.g. 10.