Category: Web, Tech & Design

SPAM

This is one of the greatest and funniest spam emails ever, i just came across it on a website somewhere:
(Note: the urls have been removed)


Welcome to the site www.CENSORED.com, it’s us again, now we extended our offerings, here is a list:

1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form.
2. Rocket fuel and Tomohawk rockets (serious enquiries only).
3. Other rockets (Air-to-Air), orders in batches of 10.
4. New shipment of cocaine has arrived, buy 9 grams and get 10th for free.
5. We also offer gay-slaves for sale, we offer only such service on the NET,
you can choose the one you like, then get straight to business.
6. Fake currencies, such as Euros and US dollars, prices would match competition.
7. Also, as always, we offer widest range of child pornography and exclusive lolita galleries, to keep out clients busy.

Everyone is welcome, be it in States or any other place worldwide.

ATTENTION. Clearance offer. Buy 30 grams of heroin, get 5 free.
Prepay your batch of rockets (air-to-air) and recieve a portable rocket lacuncher for free.

www.BLEEP.com

This offer won’t last! Only until 20th of August all our clients will also recieve
a pack of 2 CDs, with best selection of child pornography.

It’s totally unbelievable what you can get in your email inbox these days, lol…

Skype

Was just surfing around when i came across this new software called Skype, it’s still in it’s beta phase but has already been downloaded 240,000 times 😉

It’s a P2P VoIP (Peer-to-Peer Voice over IP) application, which enables online telephony for free between users of this application.
It also incorporates an instant messenger as a supplementary feature.

It’s by the makers of KaZaA, and they keep bragging about the superior voice quality in Skype, so i’m downloading it for a test drive, and if it lives up to it’s expectations, then just maybe i can use it to cut down a bit of the international calls expenses on my telephone bill, lol…

Will review it on here as soon as i finish downloading it and get to try it…

For more info and to download it, go to: http://www.skype.com

Getting Connected

Well this is just a short little post to share this feeling i have right now…

It’s so amazing how we people take things for granted, i mean here we are, everyday getting online, doing whatever we have to do and then disconnecting and going on with our lives, but do we ever take the time to think about what we’re doing ? i mean, that little click on that “Connect” button actually opens a door for us to the world, to a network of people from all over the globe, and for those few moments that we’re online, we’re actually really connected, all of us connected together and in one single space, i think it’s marvellous and mind blowing.

I’m not new to the web, in fact i’m so far from that, i’ve been online for ages, and for someone who works in the domain of creating more and more websites and injecting them into the web, i should be so fed up of the internet, and well sometimes i am, but still the concept is amazing, and no one can deny that.

What’s even greater is that now we’re not restricted to getting connected just from behind our computer screens, we can actually do it from anywhere, on the move, through our mobile phones.

Just think about it for a while, and you’ll see how awesome all this is, even though now it’s just an ordinary little detail of our everyday lives.

It’s stuff like this that keeps me in the business, lol…

Dreamweaver MX 2004

I downloaded a Trial version of Dreamweaver MX 2004 last week, and have been playing around with it whenever i have time to at work, and i must say it’s really great, the best web editing tool just got a lot better.

The best added features i love in it are:
– The cleaner and neater interface. It’s eye candy.
– The Table/Cell information that is shown when you click inside a cell.
– The image editing features that were integrated in it for cropping and resizing and stuff.
– The better CSS support.

Of course it has a number of other great features, and still some other ones i haven’t discovered yet, but these are the ones that came off the top of my head right now.

My advice to anyone, this is the tool to have, the best version as yet.

Another software i’m dying to try is ColdFusion MX 6.1, so will be trying to download it soon.

Blasted, and now secured…

Yes, i was blasted, i have no idea how, but my pc had all the symptoms of the MS Blaster worm: shutting itself down and stuff.
Anyway, i was able to clean it up yesterday, and life is back to normal again 🙂

The key to fixing it i found was to not open Internet Explorer, so i used Opera to go to the Microsoft website and download the patch, and then everything went on great.
But with all the hatred between Opera and Microsoft, and how they both try to screw each other up, you can imagine what an experience it was surfing the Microsoft website using Opera 😛

I tested earthstation5 yesterday, and well it has all the functionalities of a P2P program, but it still needs more and more people to move to it and start using it and sharing stuff on it.

I’ve also been playing around with eMule, trying to find a substitute for KaZaA (which annoys me with all its ads and hidden spyware), and eMule seems to be quite cool. It also has an IRC client built in, which reminded me of the old days when i used to chat on mIRC.

NDC 2003

Just finished resting after 3 days of attending the first North Africa Developer Conference in Tunis/Tunisia. It was quite tiresome but very interesting.
It was held at the Renaissance hotel in Gammarth, overlooking a beautiful golden beach.

Most of the talk was about Web Services and how they’re the next big thing and how they’re going to blow all our worries away, and that asp.net is the best platform and easiest one to create Web Services in, and well believe it or not, the Microsoft guys almost got me convinced 😛

Anyway, Web Services are truly great, and i can’t wait to have more free time at home to play around with them and create some cool stuff. I’m also thinking of going a bit deeper into .NET and doing some development with it, it seems to be able to provide some nice capabilities.
I’ll post any stuff or ideas i work on here…