Let’s face it - going anywhere in Malaysia is like walking around in a maze with your eyes closed. The cities and towns are poorly planned and the roads are redirected at whim. Worse if you’re traveling to somewhere you haven’t been before. Maps are good, but it doesn’t show less prominent places like your favorite roadside stalls.

Thankfully, now there’s a website to go to for directions. Dromoz.com (a striking similarity to dmoz.com) indexes real places in Malaysia. Dromoz explains itself:

Dromoz is a user-contributed and user-maintained directory of real, physical places in Malaysia. It is NOT about websites and it is NOT a search engine. Instead, Dromoz is an experimental project to test the usefulness of a web resource on actual places; its content is built and maintained entirely by volunteers.

Noticed something different when we arrived at Flickr for our daily dose of interestingness. The home page has been completely revamped! At first we thought it was our eyes playing tricks, but looking through google’s cache (indexed 12 June) shows that Flickr has indeed gotten a major makeover. Oddly, the revamp was not mentioned at all on their blog which last posted the introduction of 7 new languages to Flickr (French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.)

New home page

Old home page

Flickr now sports a much cleaner interface. Instead of the old layout which catered to 800×600 resolution, it is now limited to a minimum of 1024×768 resolution. The set of rotating images at the homepage has been added to. Gone are the weird quotes that accompanies each image. Options to “Share & stay in touch”, “Upload & organize” and “Make stuff!” are made available besides the ole’ “Explore Flickr” (renamed “Explore…”). Each of the options actually links to the particular section of their tour.

Basically, the information presented is a lot more readable and accessible, compared with the old interface. Nothing else on Flickr seems to change though.

Flickr homepage
Google cache of Flickr

Didn’t take long for Safari to take the headlines again. Yesterday, Safari generated a fair amount of press by releasing a Windows beta version. For better or for worse, this brought about the close scrutiny of many people. Naysayers were quick to respond, telling that even Mac users don’t use Safari.

To make matters worse, security experts tested and subsequently released information of its vulnerabilities - for both OSX and Windows beta. Porting to Windows represent a double edged sword, you’ll get a slice of the market share while security exploiters will pay more attention as well. Were it not for the decision to port Safari to Windows, we believe that Safari would’ve remain relatively more secure (in the ’security by obscurity’ sense).

Sources:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=283
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9728500-7.html
http://larholm.com/2007/06/12/safari-for-windows-0day-exploit-in-2-hours/
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.html

Open Source Salary (OSS) is actually the website’s name. In a nutshell, OSS lists salaries across IT-based occupations and locations. Note that OSS only caters to the IT field. There, you can add your salary or view a list of salaries.

According to the site:

Open Source Salaries introduces simplicity, honesty and the concept of open source into salary information across the globe for us in IT.

In its Google like simplicity, OSS has no registration or advertising hoops to jump through. OSS has been designed to be simple and fast but also in being open, OSS has something unavailable anywhere else—you can download all the salaries to prove your point.

Open Source Salaries aims to make the playing field a lot fairer for everyone.

Adding your salary is pretty painless as it doesn’t require registration. Just fill in the data and you’re done. You can then view the list of salaries in your region. Currently there aren’t many entries from Malaysia.

At this point, there isn’t much to OSS besides adding and viewing. It doesn’t even have list sorting yet. However, we expect the database to grow as the site becomes more well-known.

http://www.opensourcesalary.com

You read it right - we never thought it would happen but it did. Safari now supports Windows (XP & Vista). It is released under public beta 3 so expect a some bugs here and there. With this latest move, Apple has up the browser wars a notch.

Our experience with it has been quite good overall. Take note that we’ve never used Safari before so there might be a few things that we’ve missed.

We’ve redesigned zhongg.com to be more reader friendly. Generally, everything except the content has changed. Well, have a look see and tell us what you think

If you’re reading this through a feed reader, we sincerely hope that you’ll drop by for this special occasion.

Now everyone can see PLUS traffic condition before setting out for work. PLUS has recently introduced this service which shows you live feeds from their many traffic cameras. The feeds (static images) are updated every few seconds and the viewable locations are as follows

Central
DAMANSARA
SG. BULOH
BKT LANJAN
SUBANG IC
FHR2
SHAM ALAM IC
SHAH ALAM KM 0.50
EBOR
USJ

While browsing DivX’s website, we’ve noticed a posting on their ‘DivX Labs’ section along the lines of “Want to beta test some super-secret DivX stuff?”. The post was accompanied by a blurred logo … playing hard to get are we? Never one to turn down an indirect challenge of intellect, we put on our cyber-detective hats and hacked into their system and obtained the unblurred logo. By hacking, we mean checking the source code, and noticing:

No joke, DivX is secretly giving away their DivX Pro version (worth $19.99 USD) for free - but only for a
limited time of 1 day on 8th June apparently. Can’t find any mention of it on the official main page. Go get it now, Windows and Mac version available. Install it and enter your email, they will then send you an email with the serial number. Too good to be true

The pro version comes with
DivX Converter
DivX Pro Codec
DivX Player
DivX Web Player

why are you still here?
get it before it’s gone

Dubbing itself “The free website monitoring service that doesn’t suck”, it does what it claims. No fancy hi-tech stuff, just plain simple website monitoring. Don’t get us wrong, in this case, simple is good.

Signing up takes a minute or less. Log in, add your site and you’re done - seriously, there isn’t anything else to do. Basically, the system will email you if your site is down; additional alert options such as RSS feed and Yahoo Widget are also available. No statistics whatsoever. We just love the down to earth approach and this is one of the sites that even your grandparents can use

Websites to monitor : 100
Monitoring frequency: every 10 minutes
Alert options: Email, RSS and Yahoo Widget

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