Pidgin - Multi-protocol Instant Messaging client

http://www.pidgin.im/

What is Pidgin?

Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

Pidgin can work with:

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ

• IRC
• MSN
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC

• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it, but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modified source code as well.

Main Menu

Email notification


File Transfer

More features on right click menu

My two cents

Well, I am quite satisfy with Pidgin since my MSN Messenger having a lot of hard time for me.

Somtimes, MSN is hard to sign in or sign out after login and all my friend blocking me :S

Pidgin will not allow to sign in or out frequently ( check out with my second image above).

Besides, It support on different platform like windows, linux and CentOS /RHEL.

It is open source and developer can get the source from http://www.pidgin.im/download/source

Visual Studio 2008 - Technical Preview & Movie Screening ( Microsoft Malaysia)

How ?
Click here for registration


Where?

17 January 2008 09:00 - 17 January 2008 19:00 Kuala Lumpur
Welcome Time: 08:30

GSC 1 Utama

E- 403 , 4th Floor
1 Utama Shopping Centre (New Wing) Lebuh Bandar Utama, Bandar Utama Petaling Jaya Selangor 47800
Malaysia

Language(s):	English.
Product(s):	Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System.
Audience(s):	Developer and Technology Decision Maker.

What ?

1.Silverlight
A way to deliver media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web.

2. ALM (Applicaiton Lifecycle Management)
An intergrated approach to overcome application development challenges.

3. c#3.0 and VB9
Tips and Triks

4. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
New features and best practices

much more...


All attendees will receive:
Complimentary movie pass & popcorn, a FREE ONECARD,
included FREE parking for the event day.


My two cents
I registered, how about you?

Previous meeting was TechED 2007 SEA, really help me a lot on my current works (with .NET )
Personally, I like those events very much Microsoft based, Java, SAP, open source conference as well as gathering for bloggers, web developers or even web designers.

Please inform me have any functions as above again!

By the way, just get to know that AMBP ( All Malaysian Bloggers Project ) will have their 1st gathering on Jan 2008.
Click to read more info from LiewCF.com
Publish Post

Introducing My Medium Budget Desktop PC

08 Dec 2007, I got my new AMD machine assembled. Hoooray!
( of cause, my wallet shrink-ed too )

This few weeks trying to play around with it, test its performance and tweaking it.

Actually it is just a medium budget machine. ( no $$ le )

My aim is to get me back to 3D work, multimedia work, and able to use VS2008 & Vista Aero.
Besides, able to play 3D games (hope I still got time for it ) and just be my musice juke box.

Oooo ya.. one more challenge for my machine is to able run P2P over 24 hours if needed.
( so pity for my machine).
Because Multimedia Rendering might need to on it over the night.

Yes, here we go! Introducing my processor.


( only afford to buy a mid-range processor >_<)



( RAM 1 Gig 667mhz X2 - Kingston)



( PSU Cooler Master 460Watt - The sales guy says able to support for 24 hours, sure?)





( MSI, Taiwan. Midrange Motherboard K9N able to support AMD+ processor for future
http://www.msi.com.tw )



( Yahoo0! Nice 19" Samsung LCD 961bw wide screen )



(Purchased Genuine Version of Kaspersky Antivirus Suite for bundle and is RM20 only!)


( Inside my new CPU )




( Midrange budget Graphic Card - China Brand Colorful GF8600GT )
( With Fan one.. but still not so noisy, may be still new ha ha ha )
( Heard some of the friends say, using AMD better combination is ATI,is it true ? But mine is...)


( ATX cheap cheap casing lor - got 6 usb and front panel jet ( I like !) )

So... Come to the end. The most wanted question?

How much it cost me ?

Answer: RM 1400 ( only machine ) + RM 675 ( LCD )
Aiks... need to earn more $ , anyway, this new machine will helps me on my blog and multimedia venture.. Hope it is able to stay and 'survive' longer.. ha ha..
You know I am a 'serious' developer ma!

Display XML Tag on HTML

Sometimes you need to show the < & > Tag

You can use:

&lt; xmp &gt; my node &lt; / xmp &gt;

You will get a similiar and valid xml tag.
else you will not get < > tag in the output.

Photoshop Frequent Used Shortcut Key

Get my Wacom Graphie3 TableTopia installed back! Currently working on new AMD machine.

Will continue back my multimedia venture :)

Photoshop Shortcut Tips (version CS3):

Brush Control
1. Opacity
Num Pad numbering represent the % of opacity
2. Hardness / Flow Control
{ less; } greater
3. Brush Size
[ less; ] greater
4. Brush Selection
, Previous; . Next


Common Tools
1. Brush (B)
2. Move Tool(V)
3. Zoom (Z)
4. Marquee Tool (M)
5. Lasso (L)
6. Crop (C)
7. Slice (K)
8. Healing Brush (J)
9. Clone Stamp (S)
10. Eraser (E)


Selection
1. De-Select ( Ctrl + D)

Zoom
1. Greater ( Ctrl + +)
2. Lesser ( Ctrl + -)
3. Fit On Screen ( Ctrl + 0 zero)
4. Actual Pixel ( Ctrl + Alt + 0 zero)
5.


Extra Tools
1. Extract ( Alt + Ctrl + X )
2. Liquify ( Shift + Crtl + X)

Display
1. Extras Slice Guide ( Ctrl + H )
2. Ruler ( Ctrl + R )
3. Snap ( Ctrl + Shift + ;)

Image
1. Level ( Ctrl + L )
2. Curves ( Ctrl + M)
3. Hue ( Ctrl + U)


Save / Export
1. Save Web ( Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S)

Other
1. Show Shortcut Tips (Ctrl + Alt + Shift + K )

MSN Messenger Error Code 8100378

You can try solution in below:

Open windows host file with Notepad: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\ho­sts

Add these 2 lines to the bottom:

65.54.239.80 messenger.hotmail.com
65.54.239.80 dp.msnmessenger.akadns.net

Save it and restart msn

Please do remember to remove these lines when the msn service gets back to normal.

MSN Connection Key Port Issue (Error 80048820)

Summary of solution I gathered:

Solution 1
In my case I reinstalled the network card and strangely that seemed to do the trick! If it doesn’t work for you, give the below solutions a try.

Solution 2
Try removing any proxy settings, you can do this by following these steps.
1) Open up Internet explorer
2) Click the tools menu, then Internet options
3) Select the connections tab
4) Click the “LAN Settings” button
5) Ensure “Automatically Detect Settings” checkbox is ticked
6) Untick “Use a proxy server for your LAN …” if checked
7) Click ok, then ok
8) Start up MSN and give it a whirl!

Solution 3
Check your windows System clock and ensure it’s set to the correct time and date.

Solution 4
Has your Norton subscription run out? Some people have reported this will stop MSN from working. (Not sure why … so don’t ask)

Solution 5
You can try resetting your Internet Security properties to defaults.
1) Open up Internet explorer
2) Click the tools menu, then Internet options
3) Select the security tab
4) Click the Restricted sites icon
5) Ensure MSN.com or hotmail.com isn’t on that list. If so, remove it. Click ok.
6) Select the Internet Icon and click the “Default Level” button. This will return your Security settings to the default level.
7) Click ok, close down IE and MSN and then try launching MSN.

Solution 6
Try and isolate the problem, find out whats causing the the error. If you have norton, turn it off. Does the problem still appear? If not, it looks like Norton is blocking it. Read the Norton manual and find out how to allow programs to access the Internet. This applies to Zonealarm, and other firewall programs.

Solution 7
Try to register softpub.dll using regsvr32.exe.

1. Press the Start menu then select Run
2. Type: regsvr32 softpub.dll
3. Press Enter & Restart Messenger.

Solution 8
1. If you have Norton installed, run LiveUpdate, make sure you have most current version.
2. Delete your Quaruntine and Backup files in Norton.
3. Reboot computer

For my self, I tried solution 7, and sometimes it works very well.