The Sanlu Milk Scandal happened several thousand miles away in China and most of Malaysia's milk and milk-products manufacturers are not in the direct line-of-fire.

When the news broke some three weeks back, many were not even aware of the intensity of the fall-out only to find themselves hit smack in the face when governm

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There will come a time when you need to record sound or music which is playing off your computer.

The low-tech method is to play the sound or music and then activate your sound recorder, and play the mike near the speakers.

This is good when the quality of sound is not that important to you. Sometimes you get other feed

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If there is anything you can see as a direct result of the March 8 general elections, where the ruling coalition took a beating because it ignored the influence of online news alternatives (blogs and YouTube etc), it is this: the online news business in Malaysia is relatively unexplored and its market undertapped. Otherwise how

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IN December last year, I wrote about webserver on a stick and how useful it was for testers like myself. The mobilty and portability provided me with the ease of working on various Apache-server based softwares without having to lug a laptop around. Just plug and play from any already-running computer terminal.

I also mentio

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A Malaysian minister is riled because someone was poking fun at his blog through two blogs registered under Blogspot otherwise known as Blogger and has asked the Malaysian police to investigate what he claims as fake blogs.

The blogs, which carried the Minister's Blog taglines, were believed to have been posted by Malaysian

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Importance of Pointing To New Pages If Upgrading To New Site

One of the most bitter lessons anyone who owns a website or blog can learn is to lose visitors when upgrading to a new site or domain.

If proper planning is not done within the first week, the drop in visitors can get quite bad. In fact, within hours of moving,

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There are good news and there are excellent news.

This one below is definitely excellently good for web publishers:

Greetings from Google!

We're happy to announce that the Google content network nowaccepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors.During this initial release, only ads in English are eligi

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Importance Of The Contact Page - Tip For Newspaper Owners

If in the past, print and paper restricts putting in all your desks editors' names and their phone/fax numbers, web affords you much freedom.

However, I still find editors who frown on putting your contacts page despite web space be almost free. Why this is so be

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I was alerted to this: video comments for video blogs. Until now, it is almost impossible to stream video comments to blogs, and some video blogs - many of which use YouTube. However, I was informed of this plugin - disqus

Basically, the blogowner signs up with Disqus and installs the plugin. When video blogs are posted, oth

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FORMER Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed, 82, has started blogging at his own domain name, http://www.chedet.com, using the Blogger platform.

He has put to shame many so-called political bloggers who don't even know how to connect with their own domain name, let alone use and independent blogware.

Western policymak

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THE recent vote sway during the Malaysian Elections that caused the ruling coalition to lose many of its seats in Parliament and State Assemblies have been attributed to new media, specifically online news portals, and non traditional media

Several online news portals have been set up days before the election and have gained

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Blogger is experimenting with Blogger-In-Draft - an upgrade that equips the world famous blogging engine with a pre-publish feature that comes standard with Wordpress. On Blogger, this is known as Scheduled Publishing.

Prior to this, no matter what Post Options you pick, ie. the dates to publish, Blogger just goes ahead and

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One week before the Malaysian general elections on March 8, online alternative news portal Malaysiakini.com offered free access to its content. Prior to that, it was on subscription basis, RM15 per month. There are also various levels of subscription, including a package deal with Wall Street Journal subscription thrown in as w

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I just received this notification. If you are selling digitally delivered goods on eBay, you might want to reconsider another market place. But read on first:

Digitally Delivered Goods to be banned on eBay.com.my
April 09, 2008 | 09:31AM a MYT

eBay has decided to ban digitally delivered goods listed on eBay.com.my due t

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Wordpress 2.5 is out and once again, WP proves to be a blogware that has not only become an excellent content management system but also one that old-timers in the same field will have to contend with - namely Joomla and Drupal.

Why?

Well, for one, customisation gets easier. And if you are running a online news site, you

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