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Make short URL for Google+ profile with gplus.to

CypherHackz — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:52:01 +0000

I just have my Google+ profile account after got the invitation from Problogger and LiewCF. Currently Google+ is not open to public and new registration can only be made via invitation only. If you don’t have Google+ account, you can drop a comment below with your Gmail address and I will invite you to join into my circles.

However, Google+ does not provide friendly or short profile URL like Facebook. Instead it uses long URL with your unique Google+ ID which is really difficult to remember or share with your friends.

Luckily we have gplus.to that allows you to choose your own username with at least 3 characters to at most 25 characters long. With gplus.to, you can shortern your Google+ profile URL from this,

https://plus.google.com/101399354133518719784

to become like this,

http://gplus.to/cypherhackz

With the short URL, you can easily share your Google+ profile URL with your friends or put it on your blog. You don’t have to remember your profile ID as the shortend URL will redirect visitors to your Google+ profile page straight away.

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Approve Your Parents ‘Add as Friends’ Facebook Request Flowchart

CypherHackz — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:14:49 +0000

My parents send me a request to Add as Friends on Facebook, but I am not sure whether should I accept the request or not.

Well, you know I share a lot of things on Facebook, huha-huha with my friends and everything. So I should consider to approve their request.

Click on the image to enlarge…

Based on the Facebook flowchart above, I should approve my parents Add as Friends request. Hurm… Or should I redo the flowchart process again?

How about you? Will you approve your parents request if they want to add you in their friends list on Facebook?

Decision Flowchart: Friend Your Parents on Facebook, Or Not? [via LiewCF]

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Get CSS3 code from CSS3 Generator

CypherHackz — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:59:49 +0000

CSS3 Generator by Randy Jensen

CSS3 currently is the latest CSS version on the web and offers a huge variety of new ways to create an impact with your designs, with quite a few important changes. Most web developers have started using it in their web designs. However, not all web browsers support CSS level 3, like Internet Explorer 8. Even some of them interpret CSS3 code differently on each browser.

But if you are interested to do experiment and generate CSS3 codes for your blog, you can use CSS3 Generator by Randy Jensen. Just pick the style that you want and change the settings according to your own choice. It will show you the CSS3 code next to the Preview Area which you can copy and paste into your .css file.

CSS3 Generator by Eric Hoffman

I also found another CSS3 Generator made by Eric Hoffman. But the styles that you can choose are limited. Only 4 styles are available which is: border radius, shadow, background gradient and opacity.

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Looking for an Internship Company in Malaysia?

CypherHackz — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:30:49 +0000

Dear students,

Go to Intern.My website if you are looking for an internship company. They have list of companies that provide a place for university students to do their internship program.

Employers who are looking for internship students can also post their job vacancies on the website. It is just RM100 (30USD) for each job submission which I guess not that bad because the job will be listed permanently on the website.

But anyway dude, where’s my coffee? (lol~ nice tagline eh?)

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Use HTTPS When Login To Social Websites

CypherHackz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:57 +0000

Everyday, I will login into my Facebook account to check the updates from my friends and also to reply their comments. But at the Facebook login page, I always change the protocol from HTTP to HTTPS (also known as Hyper Text Transfer Protocol with Secure Socket Layer) before I login. This is to ensure when I clicked the submit button, my username and password transmitted across the network to the Facebook server are secured.

Use HTTPS instead of HTTP

Why is it important to login using HTTPS instead of HTTP? From what I know, when you browsing using HTTP, the data sending from your browser to the server is not encrypted. A hacker with his knowledge and skills will able to capture the packets and can read the data as plain text.

But when using HTTPS, the data will be encrypted with the server public key and only the server can decrypt back the data with its own private key. So, even though a hacker can captures your packets but he will not able to interpret the data because he don’t have the private key to decrypt it.

Facebook 1024 bits Public Key

Normally, online shopping and online banking websites such as Maybank2U using this protocol as default to ensure the security of their customer login information. Like Maybank2U, it using 1024 bits key length for the public key and private key same like with Facebook.

If you want to know more about how the public and private key work, how to generate public and private key, you can google for “public key infrastructure“. This was my project topic during my final year in UTM. It is very interesting and I really recommend you to read it.

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Down Or Is It Just Me? – Find Out Website Online Status

CypherHackz — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:38:35 +0000

Yesterday, CypherHackz.Net and all websites under its same server were not accessible. At first, I thought it was only me having the connection problem but actually other people also having the same problem. It cause by a network interruption at Atlanta when one of the cores connecting the server farms was down.

Based from a link given by Sam (the owner of ServerFreak), I found a website that will check websites online status. The website will help you to find out whether only you are having the website down problem or other people also having the same website inaccessibility like you.

Down Or Is It Just Me? is a useful web service to find out website online status. It will check whether the website URL you entered is online or down.

Some people might think the server is currently down when they cannot access to the website and get “unable to connect” error message. But actually, only he or she having the connection problem whereas other people can access the website as usual.

So, if you think that your website is down, please make sure to check with Down Or Is It Just Me? first before you make the assumption. Probably your website is really down or only you having the connection problem.

But for my case, it is true that the server was not accessible because of the network connecting Malaysia (using P1 Wimax) route to Atlanta was down.

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Cheap Domain Name – Only RM1 at ServerFreak

CypherHackz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:57:57 +0000

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Conficker Eye Chart – Has your PC been infected?

CypherHackz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:18:33 +0000

It looks like my PC is clean from Conficker worm.

How to find out if your PC has been infected by Conficker worm? By browsing to Conficker Eye Chart webpage, you will get the answer.

Conficker worm blocks access to over 100 security websites and the Conficker Eye Chart displays images from several of those websites. If your browser fails to load any one of the images, then there is a good chance that your computer has been infected by Conficker.

If your PC has been infected, there are several tools that you can use to fix the issue. Conficker Working Group has provided us nine tools that you can use to solve the problem. Pick the one that you like and run it in your system. Good luck!

FileHippo.com – My Source to Download Free Softwares

CypherHackz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:46:52 +0000

What is your favourite website when you want to download free softwares? For me, I will choose FileHippo.com.

In FileHippo.com, it has many freeware softwares that you can download directly from its server. No registration is needed. Just pick the software that you like, and click on the download link to download.

The softwares categorized in their particular categories for easier navigation such as Browsers and Plugins, Anti-Spyware, Firewalls and Security, Messaging and Chat, and many others. All softwares hosted at FileHippo.com is totally spyware and virus free. So you don’t have to worry about being infected by a virus.

FileHippo.com also keeps the old versions of the softwares in its server. Let say the current version of the software you installed is not compatible with your system. Just download the old version software from FileHippo.com and revert back to the old version at anytime you want.

FileHippo.com aims to provide us the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software- without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software. Personally I think, FileHippo.com has achieved its aim. Congratulations to the developer and the team.

Weblogs Centre is Back!

CypherHackz — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:04:26 +0000

At the early of my blogging journey, Weblogs Center (the domain has expired) is the one of the Malaysia bloggers forum that I always active. That forum has helped me a lot to learn about blogging and I can meet the other bloggers from Malaysia too.

But after the domain has expired and the owner leaves to Indonesia, Weblogs Center has been abandoned. It has been forgotten and new bloggers never know that Weblogs Center was once existed.

Because we (the former forum members) think that we still need Weblogs Center, we has discussed together and developed our new Malaysia bloggers forum.

Weblogs Centre (WBC) is our new weblog resources community in Malaysia. This forum is proudly sponsored by ServerFreak and the domain is sponsored by Amanz , one of the Malaysia popular technology blogger who is also the administrator of the forum.

Because of the forum is still new, so we need to promote and do marketing to attract more bloggers to come and participate in the discussions. We also encourage former forum members to come and register with us to share their knowledge about blogging together.

If you are a Malaysian blogger and would like to join another Malaysia bloggers forum, WBC is the place that you want to go. Register yourself and promote WBC in your blog. We hope that one day, WBC will be one of the Malaysia bloggers reference forum and community.