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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

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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As some of you out there are aware, the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on google’s index page serves to redirect you the the first site of the results page. For example, if you’re googling ‘yahoo’, Google will redirect you to yahoo.com - skipping the results page. This is a great time saver for times when you are using rather specific keywords like domain names (’zhongg’ leads to this website, hurray!).

Today, we bring you a search engine extension for firefox for the above feature. Get it here. It may not be much but the saved seconds do add up

Once in a blue moon, something comes up that you can’t resist trying. We caught wind of such an application. Particls or PARTiCLS (with an italicized i) is a desktop application that churns news alert gathered from all of the Internet. News catered to your interests will be served by a news ticker-ish bar on top of your desktop. This is every news junkie’s dream come true - 24/7 updated news every single second!

The awesomeness of Particls is just too great to keep to ourselves. With some spare time to kill, only a multi segmented review about Particls would do it justice. Here’s PART 1 - The Basics.

We’re back. Problems have been plaguing our servers the past few days, so we didn’t get to post new articles. Meanwhile, our laboratory has been busy reworking our frankenstein creation, the feeds digest and giving it a new bride. Many thanks to those who have pitched in their suggestions which, we’ve taken into consideration when reworking the Zhongg Feeds Digest.

The feed url has been changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech. To those who have subscribed to the earlier feed, the old feed will redirect to the new one, no worries :). We’ve hooked up with feedburner to provide better compatibility and statistics. The rest of the fixes are rather minor, best that y’all give it a go to see them changes.

Following the 31 Malaysian Tech Blogs post, we wondered if there’s a way to view all the blogs’ feed as one instead of subscribing to 31 feeds. Long story short, here’s our Frankenstein creation :

Zhongg Feed Digest
URI is at: http://www.zhongg.com/scraper.php http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech

(subscribe to the feed to have a look)

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