Edit: Celcom Broadband 3.6Mbps package is now RM98 monthly. Really cheap, isn’t it?

I just subscribed Celcom broadband last week and that is why you can see that my site has regain it’s health. Because my hostel does not get wireless coverage so I decided to subscribe Celcom broadband so I can get connected to the Internet anywhere I want as long as the area got the network coverage.

Celcom broadband uses 3G network to connect to the Internet. If the area does not have 3G network, don’t worry, you are still be able to connect to the Internet but the speed is slower than you are in the 3G area.

If you subscribe the RM68 package, you will get limited speed which is 384kbps only. But if you have more money to spend for each month, you can subscribe the RM120 package and you will get up to 3.6Mbps speed. But take note, you only will get the speed if you are in the HSDPA area. I’m not sure which area got the HSDPA network because Celcom does not put the covered map on their website. So I don’t have any clue whether my place is in the HSDPA area.

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If you are Malaysian and use Wordpress as your blog engine, I want to invite you to join our community at www.wpmalaysia.com/forum/. There you can ask for supports, give opinions and help other members to solve their Wordpress problems.

I know many of Malaysian Wordpress users are afraid to ask at Wordpress support forum because they need to use English to communicate. But here at WP Malaysia, you no need to afraid because we use Malay language to communicate to each others.

But, if you prefer to speak in English, you are still being invited. We, the community members still will give you supports and entertain you with our helps as long as we could.

What are you waiting for? Let’s register and keep posting!

After my site was removed from Google SERP (only index page effected), everything has changed. The recent Google PR update gives me PR0. I heard that many of other bloggers facing the same problem because they sell link ads on their website. Google has changed their PR algorithm and the changes have effect many blog sand websites who do the link selling. It is kind of a penalty for those who use the advantages of their high PR.

PR drop will affect my website revenue. Link selling is my second incomes after Adsense. But because Google has dropped my PR, so my earning will decrease too. That’s mean, I need to find other way to increase back my earnings. But the question is how?

Not only PR, my Alexa ranking also dropped. Before this, my site was around 50K but now it is 90K. Maybe because I removed the Alexa ranking code from my new theme but does Alexa rank is important for your site? If your main money income is from Text Link Ads, for sure it is important. Because Text Link Ads use many criteria to set the prices for each links sold on your website. Some of it is, Alexa rank.

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There is a report saying that recent virus attacks regarding the email containing malicious PDF files are coming from servers in Malaysia and Sweden.

“The emails, sent in bulk, looked like credit-card statements, and contained an attachment called ‘report.pdf’,” chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said in a statement.

When such PDF files are viewed on vulnerable machines, they start downloading software from servers in Malaysia or Sweden, which are now being cleaned, he said. “There will be more such attacks.”

-Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure Chief Research Officer)

To prevent your PC from being infected, a new security update for Adobe Acrobat Reader has been released a few days ago. But there is a question that I want to ask, what should we do to the company who hosted the server in Malaysia? Maybe we might need to ban the provider. Because of them, Malaysia get bad reputation in security and IT field.

PDF files used to attack computers [via Colbert Low]

It is time for you to upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version, Wordpress 2.3.1. This new version has over twenty bug fixes. Some of the fixes are:

• Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
• Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address
• Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
• Link importer fixes

You can see all the changed files at the Wordpress Trac. Get the latest version from Wordpress download page or you can use my compiled version which only has the changed files.

Download Wordpress 2.3.1 (changed files only) - open until 27th November 2007.

I’m not the expert in Adsense but I would like to share my experience and knowledge about how you can increase your Adsense earnings. I’m sure many of you already know what is Adsense. Adsense is a way for you as the publishers to earn money from your site. As for the advertisers, you can get more traffics to your website by using the advertising programme from Adsense. It is a win-win situation. Ok, let’s go to the main point of this article, 5 tips to increase Adsense earnings .

The first time I got accepted into Google Adsense programme, I was so excited because I know that I can start making big money from it. But I was wrong. By get accepted into Adsense does not mean you can earn the money easily. The money that I got for the first five months were very low. It was about $2 or $3 per month. But after I read articles, do some experiments, asked opinions from Adsense experts other Adsense users, I end with these tips. And these tips have increase my Adsense earnings.

1. Use large ad size - First what I did to my site was, I use large ad size. The theory is simple. The bigger the size, the higher chances the visitors will click the ads. Large ad size serves more ads (3 or 4 ads per ad unit) and it gives more choices for visitors to click.

2. Place above the article - Next, put the ad unit above the article. As you can see on my website, the ad is placed above the article, below the title. So far, this is the best place if you want to place your Adsense ad. My CTR has increased since I put the large rectangle ad on that place.

3. Choose same colour - Third, make sure that your ad scheme colour is same with your website scheme. The ad background colour should be the same with your website background colour. This implies to the link and the text. Some readers might thought that they are links from your site and not ads. So your chance to earn more money will increase.

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I’m not sure whether this video is true or not because it was done without showing who is the demonstrator. Meaning, it might be a fake demonstration. Peoples can create any video as they like as long as it looks real to people who watch it.

The video that you will see here is about a demonstration to make a water burn. The trick is done by using two batteries and sink them in a cup of water for 30 minutes. Then take out the batteries and light the water with fire. And the water is really burn!

After I watched the video, my assumption is, the batteries react with the water and release chemical reaction and produce ions. These ions is flamable and thats why the water is burning when lit up with fire. But, can we drink the water? I guess not.

I actually want to use this theme on 19th December 2007 because on that day, it will be the 2nd year CypherHackz.Net and I exist in the world of blogging. But because I am so excited, after I finished code this new theme, I then uploaded it and use it for my CypherHackz.Net.

This theme is called CypherFS-DarkSide . Why DarkSide? Because the main colour is dark but I still maintain using the orange colour because it is the trademark for my logo. Other than that, I have removed all unnecessary things such plugins, ads, external scripts and so on to reduce the page load time.

What are the differences between this theme and the previous one? Firstly, this theme has two sidebars on the right. I decided to use two sidebars because I want to put everything on the top. This can ensure that my visitors (you!) no needs to scroll way down if they want to see what the things I put on the sidebar are.

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Before this, I use Nod32 antivirus (now I’m using Kaspersky 7) to protect my PC from viruses. Although Nod32 is good but my PC was once got infected by a virus and it had remove my Folder Options from the menu. Other than that, it also had disabled my Task Manager.

I thought I can get the Folder Options and the Task Manager back by using Regedit, but this virus is way too smart and it also disabled the Regedit. There is nothing I can do and lastly I format my PC.

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Get your chance to save 15% for all orders that you made in October. Just enter “holidays” into the coupon code at the checkout and you will save 15% of the price.

What is Text Link Ads? Text Link Ads or TLA in short is a service that gives good benefits to publishers and advertisers. For the publishers, they can earn money from their website by selling text link ads. The price is depends on the PR, Alexa rank, the link placement and some other criteria. Beside than that, you also can earn more money by asking other peoples or your friends to join TLA.

For advertisers, they can buy links directly from TLA. TLA listed down websites that sell links and advertisers can choose which websites that they want to advertise. By buying links, the advertisers can increase their PR and even can increase the visitors. That is why they don’t mind to cash out some money to buy links. But don’t forget if you want to buy links in this month, enter “holidays” into the coupon code to get 15% discount.