Today, I’m rolling out the widgetized version of AdsMinded for both AdsMinded Original and AdsMinded Wide layouts. With this new version, you are now able to add advertisers’ codes into the ready-made widgets resides in sidebar, centerbar, squarebar & header. There is no need to mess with the template codes anymore! See picture below for better illustration.

You may download this widgetized version from links below :-

AdsMinded Original (Widgetized Version)

AdsMinded Wide (Widgetized Version)

Check out the introduction, features and installation of the 2 versions :-

• AdsMinded Original
• AdsMinded Wide

Change Log (Latest version is in bold)

• v2.0 (June 11, 2008)
  • Wordpress 2.5+ compatible
  • Widgetized the theme
  • Widgets are ready in sidebar, centerbar, squarebar and header.

Please feel free to drop me an email at or send a comment here should you have any feedback.
Cheers!

This 20^th June is World Refugee Day and in conjunction with it, UNHCR Malaysia wish to encourage people to understand more about refugees in our country. Refugees are different from migrants, refugees do not choose to leave their country, they do not have a choice but to do so because of difficult living conditions in their home land. We currently have over 39,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia.

A 90-second video clip named “Hands of Hope” was produced in Malaysia pro bono for UNHCR by the advertising agency EURO RSCG KL. Check it out :-

Honestly, this awesomely produced video is indeed very touching and it tells how difficult a refugee’s life can be. Kudos to the production team!

If you feel like blogging about it too, please feel free to lend them your helping hands. By the way, they are on Facebook too.

Well, other than earning from home we can also learn from home. Check out Lecture Fox for free lectures from various universities around the world, many from the famous MIT, Harvard, etc!

You get to read the notes of most the lectures, some you may even find lecture audio or video in it!

I think now I have 1 more reason to stay at home sitting in front of the PC despite I am too old to be a student.

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Well, I don’t have much to add to the interview published right now but I’m really happy for the Interview as I’m not forgotten even though I was away from this blog for so long. Below are some links related to the memories I mentioned in the interview :-

• Hair For Hospice
• #2 Most Influential Blog In Malaysia

This interview marks my return to blogging after 5 months of long break, which I dearly regretted as mentioned in the interview. I owe so much to the users of my Wordpress Theme - Adsminded and the blog readers too for the lack of blog update. A major update of Adsminded will be released in June and I will set up a forum dedicated for it as well.

You will definitely see me posting again very soon, till then see ya!

Corsair Flash Voyager is the latest product manufactured by Corsair and it’s the largest capacity USB 2.0 flash drive to date with a massive 32GB of storage. While Moore’s law is suggesting memory capacity would double its size approximately every 2 years, I think this 32GB flash drive is a bit beyond the projection, don’t you think so?

Anyway, obviously this USB flash drive is not a prototype but an end product selling on the shelves in many online computer stores right now, below are some sales I found :-

• US$154.99 at Amazon - Best value!
• US$159.99 at Newegg
• US$157.50 at MWave

Corsair is well known of its high quality and performance computer main memory (RAM), therefore they are confident with Corsair Flash Voyager by offering a 10 years limited warranty. Even though the durable rubber casing doesn’t make it one stylish flash drive, I suppose the capacity, reliability and its warranty are enough win our hearts.

Anyway, with such a huge capacity, you can practically store the entire Windows Vista operating system, all application programs, and a couples of DVD into it! Moving huge files from one PC to another PC outside a network and harddisk backup would never been easier using it too.

Well, the world’s first platinum Apple iPod Nano is soon to be launched by the UK’s Goldstriker. Unlike the conventional casing, the platinum plated iPod Nano uses the most precious metal and it sure look more glamorous and style.

Goldstriker have already received many requests and orders even before the official release of platinum iPod Nano 8GB in January 2008. Goldstriker will sell the unit at £399.95 each, which is equivalent to about US$825.

Well, now I’m expecting such problem will not occur again after this official news from Gmail blog. At the moment, Gmail storage is ever increasing as part of their “Infinity+1” storage plan. Now Gmail is going to speed up the counter and giving out more free storage as time passes by. In other words, it simply means you’ll be rewarded with more and more storage space in every second, every minute and everyday!

Hopefully, your Gmail account will not run out of space unless your rate of using the email storage is faster than the rate of Gmail increase their storage space.

Early this year, Nokia rolled out their mobile mapping service called Smart2go. I even have a post about the review of Smart2Go, which was done by a reader of mine, Hafiz Ismail.

“The navigation area is a fast-growing business, and with location-based services expanding rapidly into mobile communications devices, the industry is poised for even further growth,” Nokia said in a statement.

The news of Nokia is acquiring Navteq proves to be one of the key steps to strengthen their leadership in mapping service for mobile phone. If the acquisition is successful, it aligns perfectly with Nokia’s vision to enable everyone to find their way to people, places and opportunities on mobile communications devices, cars, desktop computers and in all the other places that are important to them.

I would say Microsoft Office Live Workspace is almost identical to Google Docs & Spreadsheets but with a number of limitations. There is only 250 megabytes of storage allocated for each account, or space to keep over 1,000 Office documents. The system requirement for Microsoft Office Live Workspace is as the following :-

• Internet Explorer 6.0 or later on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista
• Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista
• Firefox 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.2.x and later

No information on how it will run in a Unix system though.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is an extended piece of Microsoft Office, so users can easily connect to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook on their PC via the Internet.

If you want to be one of the beta testers, just sign up the pre-registration list then Microsoft will invite you in later.

Anyways, to me there are more companies converting desktop applications to Internet based as the online community is growing rapidly. It’s a phenomenon that I’m glad to see. All hail the power of Internet!

Out of a sudden, on September 27^th Palm Inc. announced its first entry level smartphone : Palm Centro. It is designed for individuals and traditional mobile phone users. Not to mention it’s using Palm OS 5.4.9, not Wiindows Mobile other smartphone in the market using.

Well, Palm Centro is the smallest and lightest Palm phone to date but the size doesn’t jeopardize the necessary features we need such as :-

• 2.2-inch touchscreen phone functionalities with full QWERTZY keyboard
• 64M of internal storage and a microSD slot for up to 4GB additional memory
• Email, sending SMS, Instant Messenging using MSN or Y!M, playing MP3, Internet browsing
• Speakerphone, Bluetooth, and a 1.3 megapixel video-capable camera
• View PDF file and Microsoft Office documents, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Contact and calendar capabilities
• 1150mAh removable battery for up to 3.5 hours talk and 3 days standby time
• Two colours : onyx black and ruby red

For more details you may want to download this Palm Centro brochure (PDF file).

All these for only US$99.99 if you sign up for 2 years with Sprint, one of the mobile service providers in the United States. Palm Centro will be available on the October 14^th, 2007 for US$199.99, with a US$100 rebate bringing the price down to only US$99.99! Sprint even have a teaser site for Palm Centro.

Not sure how soon will it hit the shelves in Malaysia but for sure I’m so anticipating to seeing its appearance here.