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Category: Software tips/tricks

  • Secure Your Wireless Connection

    Walking down to the busy street in Kuala Lumpur, you can connect to several wireless access point which offer by TMNet, Time, Maxis, Airzed and etc. But do you know that your connection packet can be sniffed by hacker who sitting next to you and grab your username password that access to webmail, blog and etc(if it’s without https/smtps/pop3 connection).

    I will provide you some basic knowledege setting up secure wireless connection with SSH tunneling; The requirements are;

    • a server access connection
    • putty ssh software
    • laptop with wireless card (dumbass, of course you need one)

    In putty setup, fill in Host Name, Port, Protocol and assign a Saved Sessions name for the particular connection. Next, navigate to Connection > SSH > Tunnel. Fill in source port as a random no from 1-65547, may be 3313, you can leave Destination blank, select Dynamic and Auto for IP protocol. Save the session again, and you done for the setup.

    Now, connect to your server and change your browser connection setting to Sock, 127.0.0.1 port 3313. Surf the internet! and your connection is partially secured now.

    Download PuTTY here.

  • Windows XP Chinese Input

    Beside using Chinese Star type chinese character “吊你”, you also can use Windows XP Chinese Input, but the configuration required Windows XP installation CD.

    Follow the step below..

    Go to Control Panel, and select Regional and Languages Options.

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  • Microsoft Outlook SMTP Setting

    Step by step how to enable your SMTP authenticated on Microsoft Outlook.

    Go to Tools > Email Accounts

    Select View or Change existing email address

    Select your email account and click on Change

    Click on More Setting

    Tick/Check/Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication

  • BiTorrent Client – BitComet

    BT BT BT BT BiTorrent has become very popular P2P software nowaday. To do software, music, video, e-book downloading. But do you know how to BT BT BT??

    Here is some info, BiTorrenting with BitComet!

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  • Adding email account in Outlook Express

    If you have a pop/imap/smtp support email account, you can download your emailsss into outlook express. But it must support either pop3/imap/smtp.

    Here is the step by step info;

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  • How to get .my domain name?

    Nowaday, a lot of people interested to get a .my domain.

    .my is stand for Malaysia, we have .com.my, .org.my, .net.my, .gov.my, .edu.my and more. If you are interested on business domain name like listing.com.my, please let me know, these domain names is for sales and price is negotiable!

    Where to get a .my domain name?

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  • Avast Anti Virus Software

    I am getting virus email all the time when I downloaded my emails into Outlook Express/Microsoft Outlook/Thunderbird or some other email client…

    I am wondering how those farkers got my email address and spam the virus to me, not only 1 email account, I think most of the email accounts also come with viruses, it hints me is time to install some anti virus scanner on my server.

    Some of my friends asked me how to avoid getting those virus, you can’t stop them 😛 but you can use good anti virus software to delete them!

    What can you use? I recommend Avast Anti Virus software, why? It’s really good and futhermore… It’s FREEEEEEE!! and it didn’t suck up a lot resources or memories! You can download Avast Anti Virus software here for free, register an account with your email address(they won’t spam you) and get the _HOME_ license key!

    Lets have a look at Avast anti virus,

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  • Create a FreeBSD bootable CD

    Here is simple tutorial on how to create Unix FreeBSD bootable CD with Nero or any bootable disk with an ISO/IMAGE file.

    First, select Recorder > Burn Image… as figure shown below

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