Articles posted on June 2007

We’ve recently received 2 emails seemingly from Bank of America and Paypal. The contents of the email is quite well crafted to resemble an authentic message. Upon closer inspection the sender is actually from new-service@yahoo.com. Both emails are posted below with the links sanitized. You can see it’s actually quite convincing and less technical users could be deceived if they’re careless.

Gmail actually moved the Paypal email to ‘Spam’ while the Bank of America email managed to slip past the system.

Pandora is an excellent music service bar none. When they decided to limit the service to United States only, we died a little inside. Just when we’ve almost gotten over our grief, a simple guide intervened and showed how to access Pandora’s service outside US.

In the past we’ve been through a number of non-working guides, fortunately this isn’t one of them. As this guide is being typed, our dear old friend Pandora is playing for us

Time does sure fly, it’s been a week since we last posted. We’ll make it up to you guys (and maybe girls) with this one. Promise

Over here at Zhongg Internet Digest, our primary topic of interest is the Internet; but did you know that about a third of the Internet downloads are pornographic in nature? While we don’t know where the figure comes from, it does make sense. If sex sells, then Internet is the largest marketplace.

To illustrate this, Avenue Q has composed a musical titled ‘The Internet is for Porn’ and that’s just half the cake. The other half comes in an anime (Chobits to be exact) music video edited especially for this song. Not Safe For Work, explicit lyrics and sexy images (no nudity) … you have been warned.

We’re on a mad testing spree, testing out all the paid to < insert something > services. This time, we’re getting paid as well - two birds with one stone. Onwards with the review.

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Bloggerwave is one of the lesser known paid to blog services in the blogging scene. Hailing from Denmark, Bloggerwave opened its doors early this year.

After registration and approval of Zhongg.com, we’re presented with 2 opportunities - each worth $10. Apparently, the opportunities given to you are based on your blogs’ Alexa score and Google PageRank.

A friend of ours wanted to remove certain personal information from Google’s cache of a website she registered with. It was located at her profile page. We helped search the procedures for removing data from their cache. Took quite awhile to sort through the various instructions but we finally obtained the steps and she successfully got the personal information removed.

Here we share all that we have learnt through the process which requires only 2 simple steps.

It’s time again for another linkfest episode. Since the previous linkfest - where we brought you 31 Malaysian Tech Blogs - was so well received, we’ll do it again. This time, it’s going to be about Malaysian Food Blogs.

As Malaysians, there are few things in life that are more important than food to us. It is no wonder that the number of Malaysian food bloggers around are far more than tech bloggers. How much more? We scoured the Internet for hours to find the answer. We found 65 ACTIVE FOOD BLOGS! That’s more than 2 times the amount of tech blogs we found earlier.

Due to the insane amount of blogs we had to go through, the list you see below is not ordered. Our selection was based on the activeness and scope of the blogs. Therefore, we had bypassed some blogs that haven’t been updated in a long time or not really focused on food. Some of the food blogs are more inclined to recipes so we grouped them under ‘Recipe Blogs’. We’re happy to report that the Malaysian food blogging scene is booming; with a lot of quality food blogs out there. Thanks to them, our stomachs were growling throughout the searching process .

Time to update your blogroll. We present you 65 Malaysian Food Blogs

We’ve finally gotten to implementing a DoFollow plugin on Zhongg.com.

For the less technical ones, comments are normally configured as NoFollow. Meaning google won’t include the link when calculating your PageRank (some silly ranking thing for websites ). Basically, you’re out of luck if you post comments just to get more links to your website.

Being the generous PageRank 1 (First!) website that we are, we’ve generously allowed everyone to leech off the little remaining self esteem that we have as a website. Just post a comment and Google will love you long time. Yahoo will kiss you and Microsoft will slip into a sexy lingerie just for you.

There’s a catch though, you need to post regularly - at least 3 comments - to enable the feature for your comments.

For those interested to implement the plugin, get Linklove here.

More plugins of this nature

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Today, we’re going to take a look at SwitchPlanet.com, a stuff trading service. With their mantra “use more … waste less!”, SwitchPlanet proudly proclaims,

SwitchPlanet is a social media trading website where members can switch their old DVDs, CDs, Games and Books with other members for free.

Social tools such as friends, groups and forums are available to help members communicate between trades.

Members also support various charities via our SwitchFunds program.

SP is a great way to enjoy media/entertainment for the cost of postage.

The Internet never cease to amaze us. Time and time again, we’ve encountered websites and web services beyond your imagination. With the dawn of the Web 2.0 age, social driven media is stronger than ever; with sites like Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, Lastfm, and the like, filling the headlines. Today we take an alternative route to see the negative aspect of social media, which really points to the nature of human itself. Complaints.

Let’s be honest, we complain on a regular basis. There’s just no end to it, people and things always seem to piss us off. Whether it be your day job as a cashier or people in cinemas with their freaking mobile phones on loud mode (You people suck!), complaints are everywhere. We need a place to let it all out, and what better place then the Internet where we can do it anonymously? We bring you 3 websites whose sole purpose is to share complaints.

TheFunded is a site about - you guessed it - getting funding for entrepreneurs. A considerable amount of entrepreneurs are bound to need funds for their business ventures. This is no easy task, what more if you’re just a young startup taking a first step into the unknown world of funding. Fret not, at TheFunded you get first hand experiences and advice from veterans.

The site says:

TheFunded.com is working to be the leading source of funding information for entrepreneurs. Help us to help you by reviewing and commenting on funds.

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