…probably not available in the Guinness Book of World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Mwcollect and nepenthes have merged operations.
“New meta-portal at mwcollect.org will become top-level community covering malware collection efforts while nepenthes will become the official tool for malware collection.”
Helpful for web developer who need to test compatibility of their creation with major web browsers’ versions.
Great idea by Sunny Tan.
halimhazlin.com smells like Akmal Ariff’s dodgy tsunamiwang. My impression is that the website looks unprofessional, and too much emphasis on the money side of things (see “kejayaan kami“), rather than on the “love of the product”.
Probably the contents of his CD (on how to start a home-based mail order business) is already available elsewhere, under a different title, by a different author. Possibly C&P-ed content too.
A better deal is this, if it’s that good: let me see the CD, if I like it, I’ll pay for it, no questions asked, no need upfront payment.
at pcmag.com
https://ibank.barclays.co.uk/olb/q/LoginMember.do
and
http://ibank.barclaysco.com/olb/q/LoginMember.do
look similar.
The latter (phishers’ website) is still accessible at the time of writing.
Guidelines on smelling the fish (pun intended):
Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, if your browser is not updated.
To me personally, Zulkifli’s website does not look professional at all - too many fonts, unattractive layout, banal design etc.
Does that matter? Yes, it put me off totally.
http://www.rahsiapemasaran.com/
Like these 2 ladies are doing, plus my own comparison of the two:
So I suppose that if you want to go for it, you’d have to charge less than USD0.10 (about 40 sen) per word, and name your site cheaptranslation.com
Don’t do the same mistake as Norazman Abu Sahir at digital-reader.com with his book entitled “Rahsia pemasaran melalui Internet” (Internet marketing secrets). Do you think the book would’ve sold better had it contained the words “Jutawan” (Millionaire), like Irfan Khairi’s book.
Norazman’s book came out in 2003. Irfan’s book about 2 yrs later. Who’s more well-known now?
Saifulsham.com’s (some kind of internet business “school”) first graduate, cheapestcovers.com looks very similar to Irfan Khairi’s reputedly most profitable of his 10+ e-businesses, ideabubble.com
Both do bookcover designs.
Cheapestcovers.com’s price is USD27, ideabubble.com’s is USD149.
The first question I’d ask when enthusiastically recommended some product is: “what are its disadvantages?” or “what are its weak points?”
Hence, I almost never read marketing brochures/advertisements etc. Instead, I’d refer to independent reviewers, or even better, its competitor. It’s rather fun watching competing companies try to cut each other down.
So, how does Sen Ze’s ebook costing RM97 fare under skepticism?
According to this guy:
My cousin just bought Sen Ze’s Mini-Encyclopedia on set up your (sic) very own low-cost, high-profit Internet Business. After reading, I found its not worth buying. All the things mentioned you can easily get from online free articles.
One best part which I hate it is that he mention www.dogsworld.net owner making a living with thr site. I’ve studied the website dogsworld.net & I find it is rediculous. If this site can earn more than enough to make a living, then all folks here will be millioniare by end of the month. Check out the site on your own see to believe.
I’m not trying to be harsh but His book is not worth even trying. Its a junk.
Sorry only in BM.
From a discussion forum in putera.com. Original link is here, see post no.25 in thread. His comment on Sen Ze’s book and seminar is on the 4th para:
Ni just pendapat aku laa. Alu bukan nak provoke atau mempengaruhi minda sapa-sapa. Aku buat pendapat ni berdasarkan pengalaman aku yang dah dua tiga kali pergi seminar (berbayar dan free) pasal internet business dan beli buku pasal pasal benda ni.
Ok apa yang aku dapat buat rumusan memang betul ramai yang boleh dan dan jadi jutawan internet. But most of them jadi jutawan internet bukan disebabkan mereka menggunakan teknik yang unik tetapi mereka menjadi jutawan disebabkan menjual buku yang kononnya mengandungi maklumat RAHSIA untuk berjaya dalam internet. Sepanjang pengalaman aku dalam perniagaan internet sebenarnya TIADA RAHSIA. Sesiapa yang dah biasa dengan internet mungkin dah tahu apa-apa yang terkandung dalam buku-bulu / e-book pasal perniagaan internet.
Most of them yang buat pernigaan internet menjadi “kaya” adalah disebabkan menjual produk “know how / how to”. But kalau kita baca buku “know how / how to” 90% kita dah tahu even kalau kita ikut 100% satu persatu apa disarankan agak susah untuk berjaya.
Akuada beli buku dan pernah pergi seminar penulis terkenal Sen Ze pasal internet business. At the end of the day timbul persoalan kat kepala aku “Apa rahsia yang nak diceritakan???? apa yang ditulis semuanya common atau perkaa biasa dalam internet. Malahan hampir semua maklumat di dalam buku tersebut boleh di dapati secara MUDAH DAN PERCUMA di internet dengan menaip di google. So aku stuck kat situ .
Begitu juga dengan ebook tulisan jutawan internet terkenal Corey Rudl tak ada yang betul-betul dikatakan “magic” dalam bukunya most dah biasa kita dengar dan mungkin kita dah tahu. For sure kalau ada RAHSIA pun takkan diorang simply nak bagi tahu kat orang. ..Bukan rahsia lagi namanya… So aku stuck lagi kat situ.
OK dalam internet model perniagaan sentiasa berubah-berubah . memang betul di awal kemunculan internet dengan menjual produk “know how/how to” memang boleh jadi kaya raya. tetapi sekarang model business ini sudah diambang merudum. Ini kerana dah berjuta orang membuat benda yang sama sedangkan maklumat yang hendak disampaikan belum tentu memberi kesan paositif kepada pembaca. Most of them hanya TEORI but in real world….. Tapi kalau diimplemetasikan belum tentu sesuai dan boleh berjaya. Why macam aku cakap tadi model perniagaan sentiasa berubah. Malahan kandungan yang ada dalam buku-buku di kebanyakkanya “OUTDATED” dah tak berapa sesuai untuk di gunakan pada masa ni. That’s why kalau kita perhatikan kebanyak mereka beralih ke “offline model” dengan membuat buku berctak dan dijual di kedai buku dan membuat seminar (ini just pendapat aku)
Cuma yang aku repect penulis-penulis ni dia punya Sales letter memang power yang mana boleh convince orang ramai membeli buku tulisan mereka. Inilah RAHSIA sebenarnya. Once kita dapat buat Sale letter yang power ada kemungkinan kita boleh jual buku/produk kita dengan banyak. The rest semuanya common macam listing website kan major seacrch engine, directory, buat option untuk subcribe mailing list di website, iklan di google adsense, pay perclick, submit banner kat website lain dan yang lebih “ganas lagi” hantar bulk mail untuk dispamkan ke email.
Bagi mereka yang biasa dengan “money making opportunities” aku rasa mereka tentu tahu what kind of opportunities yang memang boleh buat duit di internet sekarang. Salah satu yang aku rasa popular sekarang macam “Autosurf program”. Even aku belum lagi involve dalam benda ni tapi banyak aku dengar dan baca diorang dah buat duit dengan benda ni. Ok sure benda ni pun akan merudum juga satu hari nanti sama macam jual produk know how/how to. Tapi kata orang “grab now before you loose”.
Yang betul true internet business model yang boleh sustain macam ebay, amazon dan di malaysia aku betul-betul repect lelong.com.my. Itu lah macam aku cakap tadi aku bukan nak provoke sapa-sapa ..tak salah kalau nak beli buku untuk menambah pengetahuan atau pergi keseminar semuanya baik untuk menambah ilmu. Cuma….don’t expect kita boleh run internet business right away after baca buku atau lepas balik dari seminar.banyak lagi yang kita kena tahu. Kekadang pengetahuan tu datang dari penglaman semasa membuat trial & error dan mungkin benda ni yang dipanggil magic. So itu jer aku nak cakap .BTW apa-apa pun rezeki diberi oleh tuhan berpandukan kepada apa yang kita buat..selamat berjaya
…by someone who actually paid RM700+ and attended it in November 2005.
As told by pakdi.com
putera.com is a portal for many things including forums. In the business forum section, as of writing time, the “Business” forum only has 1000+ posts, compared to “Career” with only 500+ posts which are both dwarfed by “e-duit (e-money)” with a whopping 6000+ posts, with warning some more.
“PayOnline is a one-stop bill payment service that enables you to pay your bills such as phone charges, utility bills, insurance premiums, subscription fees and charges by any other companies that sign on with PayOnline. PayOnline service is provided by United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd. ”
According to the faq, this service is FOC.
tsunamiwang.com sells an e-book and has an affiliate program. Costs RM50.
As expected, the e-book is available on the net as pirated copies…
Initially, it said 30 day money back guaranteed if not 100% satisfied. But in the FAQ section, it says:
Q: Boleh berikan maklumat yang lanjut mengenai jaminan wang di kembalikan?
[pls give more info about the money back guarantee]
A: Ya, saya ada tawarkan jaminan 30 hari duit di kembalikan. Pertamanya, anda perlu buktikan yang anda telah mencuba strategi yang saya ceritakan dan bagaimana dia telah gagal untuk diri anda. Kakitangan saya akan membantu hingga anda dapat mula buat duit. Duit tidak akan dikembalikan untuk apa-apa tujuan lain. Jika anda langsung tidak mahu mencuba, permintaan anda tidak akan dilayan.
[in essence, it says: if you cant prove to me that you at least tried to do what was described in the book, i will not refund your money]
Oo-er…alarm bells are ringing. For goodness sake, a money back guarantee is simply this: money returned to the customer, no questions asked!
Another exchange in the faq sounded very unprofessional to me:
Q: Saya ada jumpa bomoh yang boleh berikan saya nombor yang baik punya. Saya boleh bomohkan sesiapa untuk buat RM1 juta! [I've seen a witchdoctor/shaman who can guarantee that I will become a millionaire.]
A: tak berminat. [not interested]
I mean, it’s too obvious that that shouldn’t even be in the faq. And that is not the only one dodgy question in the faq. There’s more. Go on, read about it yourself.
More damning discussion points at putera.com’
tsunamiwang promotes other unethical methods like hijacking discussion threads at forums, mailing lists, blogs etc and bombarding others with your “message”
[indeed he did, see top of page 79]
According to a discussion thread at bincang.net:
tsunamiwang promotes spamming
[indeed it apparently does, on page 78 where it says "hantar email sebanyak-banyak mungkin" i.e. send as many emails as possible]
tsunamiwang promotes piracy
[indeed it apparently does, on page 57 on the para that saya "software submitters"]
And more daming points in a discussion thread at wangcyber.com.
An alternative view by Hafiz Ismail.
To me, the ideal proposition would be this:
“Here, read my book for free. If you make money, then only you pay me. If you dont make any money, you can throw my book away.”
Impossible to be done? Well, dont u think BSN’s Sijil Simpanan Premium works in a similar way? Put you money on the line, you might win something. If you dont, you take back you money, no questions asked. Of course, they’d have made some profit by investing your money will it’s in their account, but isn’t that what’s called a win-win situation?
After vociferously devouring every hifi magazine for a year, reading almost every page of them, and several audition trips, I finally purchased my first real hi-fi in a shop in Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.
It was chilly January 1989.
What was a skinny kampungan boy doing in a small, obscure and totally unknown part of Great Britain? Well, that’s a story for another day.
When I arrived home, in an even more obscure part of England, it was setup in the barn and the first thing played on it was Shakin’ Stevens’ “come see about me.”
Later i added a 2nd hand CD Player, from (now Dr) Danius Michaelides, a Marantz CD-40.
Still later, added a tuner and target speaker stands from cheap sales in and around London.
At the same time, i also had a sony walkman, bought a year earlier at Sungai Wang KL (i still remember that it cost me RM235 and the first tape played on it was a suspicious copy of Def Leppard’s Hysteria. That walkman was useful for dubbing tapes. There was no such thing as MDs, CD-R, Flash, PMP and of course DVDs at that time. Type I (and in crazier moments, Type II, and on ONE single occasion, Type IV) TDK tapes were all the rage then.
Incidentally, my first CD purchase was Bon Jovi’s New Jersey LP when it came out in 1988.
A Brunei friend gave me a literally Metal tape in the Summer of ‘89.
3 years later, in the summer of ‘92 I sold the set off component by component to finance my Eurorail adventure.
“Light Blue Optics Ltd. have developed a laser-based projector called the PVPro. It’s small enough to fit into a cellphone or PDA. Some specs: Supports resolutions up to 2048×1280; No moving parts; Infinite focus; Green monochrome, with a colour version expected late 2006; Max
consumption of 1.4W with an average of <350mW. Looks a like a good solution to the increasing problem of smaller devices trying to display more information."
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=3712
http://www.lightblueoptics.com/Light_Blue_Optics_PVPro.pdf
http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/laserprojectorscellphones.php
The most interesting league in Malaysia is not the football league.
“Sugar King” Robert Kuok Hock Nien is again the nation’s richest, for the third consecutive year, by twice as much as his closest rival, T. Ananda Krishnan.
The wealth of the top 40 individuals was assessed based on the value of their stakes in listed companies as at Jan 20.
According to Malaysian Business, on the whole, more tycoons see their paper wealth decline in 2006, due largely to the lacklustre performance on the KLSE.
The combined wealth of the 40 richest Malaysians increased marginally to RM79.42bil, compared with RM78.23bil a year earlier.
Comments:
Will Sabah’s construction/property tycoon Wong Kwok ever make the list?
As reported by thestar,
Malaysia’s women shuttlers created history last night, beating Indonesia for the first time in a team event and keeping alive their hopes of winning win a ticket to the Uber Cup Finals.
After a demoralising loss to Taiwan in the opening Group A tie on Wednesday, the spirited Malaysian girls rose to the occasion to defeat Indonesia 3-2 in the Asian Zone qualifiers.
The world number 12 Mew Choo notched a superb 21-11, 21-5 win over Fransisca Ratnasari.
Manila SEA Games champion Pei Tty-Eei Hui extended the lead with a 21-16, 21-17 win over 2001 SEA Games gold medallists Jo Novita-Lita Nurlita before youngster Norsyahliza carved a hard-fought 21-15, 10-21, 21-19 win against Maria Kristin Yulianti to seal the win.
National chief coach Yap Kim Hock was proud of the girls’ fighting spirit.
“Our strategy to move Norsyahliza to the second singles worked well.
“It was a great achievement, beating Indonesia in a team event for the first time,” he said.
I’ve been reading Irfan’s book for a few days now.
His first one is map-of-malaysia.com , selling maps of Malaysia for about RM92 - I wonder how much the same map is sold on the streets of KL. Go over the site and learn.
Another one is of course rahsiainternet.com, selling his RM40 book, sent by PosLaju (cost of book includes poslaju cost)
Another one is ideabubble, but I’m not sure if ideabubble.com is it.
btw, credit card processor worldpay.com costs RM2000 to reg (one time payment). Payments will be channelled direct to your bank a/c. No hassle going to the bank to bankin cheques.
Read what some people discuss about him at putera.com (in Malay).
Bob Rivers turned Aerosmith’s classic “Janie’s got a gun” into “Cheney’s got a gun“.
The lyrics are somewhat similar to this.
Now the guys at secondsphere.com has created a flash game about Mr Tamahori’s sexploits.
I got up to $400 before I got nabbed.
Scandalously fun.
At Superbowl XL on 5th Feb the Stones performed for 12 minutes during halftime.
You’ve heard the drill before: there are 4 Stones. The youngest Stone is 58. Lead singer/bandleader Mick is 62. Combined age is 246.
I find that extremely funny. Age limit for the 2000 participants allowed to dance on the field was initially set at 45! I mean, that’s only a bit younger than Mr Wood, or is that Mr Watts. Young men deemed less healthy than the haggard looking, 60 plus, grandfatherly-age, Keef?
I thought the Beatles had a more goody-goody image. But the Beatles broke up more than 30 years ago. Moreover, 2 of them are dead. But the Stones, with all the sex, drugs and rocknroll image, are still alive and kicking.
Then, of course, there’s the money.
Their 2006 tour of North America netted them RM615 MILLION worth of tickets. 42 concerts, 1.2 million people. Don’t tell me, yes, but that’s too much for a profession mostly associated with “playing”, rather than “working”.
Needless to say, it’s the most successful US concert tour of all time. Even giants like U2, Celine Dion are left behind.
Mind you, the average ticket price is RM216.
Extra tidbits
Apparently the Stones’ FREE concert on a beach in Brazil this Saturday will *only* attract 2 million people.
Check out the specs:
A daunting task for any Event Organiser.
“This is the biggest live show that has ever occurred in the world,” said Rio de Janeiro’s health secretary, Flavio Tanure.
Not so fast buster.
Rod Stewart ’s concert on the same beach 12 years ago drew an astonishing 3.5 million.
The Pope might not even attract that many people!
But one thing’s for sure, I’m gonna get da DVD.
Above: Milla Jovivich as Joan aka Jeanne D’Arc in the movie
Rib bone and some skin supposedly retrieved from the pyre on which she was burnt 3 times to be DNA tested.
She died of smoke inhalation at the stake in 1431 and was made a saint nearly 500 years later.
If this can happen to the vice president of the United States, of course it can also happen to obscure Sabahan villagers shooting each other with bakkakuks!
The card’s face is a deep red foil, with “For the One I Love” across the top in black script, a large picture of a red rose in the center, and a thick black ribbon cutting through the middle. Inside, it simply states: “Each time I see you, hold you, think of you, here’s what I do … I fall deeply, madly, happily in love with you. Happy Valentine’s Day.” Outsold the average card 5 times in 2004 and 2005. Designed by Marcia Muelengracht.
a letter took 20 years to arrive.
it only had to travel a few hundred kilometres.
Accoriding to The Star (Valentine’s Day edition)
HOW long does it take a letter from Ipoh to reach Petaling Jaya?
Well, Huang Jun Hui’s letter took almost 20 years to reach his childhood friend Chin Kon Shian.
Sin Chew Daily reported that Chin’s 62-year-old mother was shocked when she opened the letter dated Aug 12, 1986, with his permission.
The cover of the letter was torn when it reached Chin’s family.
According to the daily, Huang, who was then in Form Two, wrote the letter to invite Chin and his family to his parents’ birthday dinner at their house in Ipoh.
Huang, now 35, moved to Ipoh with his parents when he was eight years old.
Chin told Sin Chew that they had continued to write to each other but their correspondence never touched on the birthday party.
Good article, albeit in the Malay language, via shaifulsham.com
….have joined the ranks of successful Malaysian internet entrepreneurs.
And now, an interesting twist.
Apparently the cartoons were published in an Egyptian tabloid 5 months before the current controversy, but they did not cause any uproar at all.
According to Freedom For Egyptians blog entry,
[The timing of the outrage is] a sign that this violent response to the cartoons is politically-motivated by Muslim extremists in Europe and the so-called secular governments of the Middle East. I want also to mention that despite the fact that all editors who tried to reprint the cartoons in the Middle East nowadays were arrested, the Egyptian editors went unharmed.
Someone commented that the said Egyptian tabloid is a “lower level” tabloid, i.e. would also publish articles with titles like “the moon is going to crash into the earth”, hence people didnt take it seriously.
Another commented that:
What happened was that some Muslims fell into zionists and neocons trap. Because of the repetititive broadcast worldwide by ABC, BBC, CNN, Jazeera , etc on the cartoon issues succeeded in inciting the ‘ignorant’ muslims. The Egyptian Newspapers failed to incite because they were locally distributed and printed only once.
Worldwide Media (ABC, BBC, CNN, Jazeera, FOX etc) is one of the best propaganda machine that zionists have in their hand. The Zionist did not highlight the Egyptian newspapers but chose to highlight the other ‘westerns’ (zionists own) newspapers… nice way to bring about the ‘clash of civilizations’
That’s 3 billion persons.
Apparently it alters the minds of infected rats.
What effect does it have on humans?
Someone asked a profound question: “does it happen to alter the minds of 51% of Americans?”
I stopped playing computer/video games on a regular basis almost 10 years ago. My mantra was: “go out and play real games”
But after reading this, I might just change my mind.
Apparently it keeps the mind young.
tips picked up, use your own “risk”:
The reference standard is Steve Fossett for all-round success. As well as financial success, he holds many world records in sailing and flying. This man is truly amazing.
For mountaineering, it’s Tomaz Humar.
Update
6th Feb
Actress Julianne Moore is sticking by director Lee Tamahori. She’s set to work with him on new movie “Next” and insists she wouldn’t think about pulling out of the project because of Tamahori’s scandal. She says, “I feel bad for him. I think the experience was probably pretty upsetting and humiliating and he’s been very, very brave about it.”
“It’s James Bond’s sexiest adventure ever!”
Being in Malaysia, it’s interesting to read people’s reaction on the matter above in yahoo.com, in possibly the world’s most active forum. More than 48,000 comments after only 90 minutes of posting!
Of course some of the comments are childish, but some are worthy of insight.
One of them led me to Robert Spencer’s article entitled “Cartoon Rage vs. Freedom of Speech.”
Robert who? Mr Spencer is
…a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of five books, seven monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World’s Fastest Growing Faith and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). He is also an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation.
The LG-SD410, LG-KP4100 and LG-LP4100 has:
“a built-in Breathalyzer. Just blow on the sensor and the LCD will inform you of your alcohol level. The phone even comes with an advanced remote control for TVs, DVDs and karaoke players.” [1]
Apparently extremely popular in South Korea, sold 200,000 in only 4 months.
I know, I am like 4 months late in getting the news - only saw this mentioned in a local gadget mag today.
[1] LG Breathalyzer Cell Phone extremely popular [ubergizmo.com]
According to its manufacturer:
…a precision timepiece with a built in Geiger counter. It displays dose rate as well as cumulative dose. The GammaMaster alarms when user defined limits of dose rate or cumulative dose are reached.
…ideal for emergency personnel who may have to respond to accidents, incidents or terrorist attacks, which could involve radioactive material.
