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SingTel Huawei E169 USB Modem with Fedora Core 8

Jul-24-2008 By miketeo

This rattle records my experience in getting the SingTel Huawei E169 USB modem to work on my laptop running Fedora Core 8 (2.6.25.10-47.fc8). The process is straightforward and the Vodafone Mobile Connect application eliminates the need for complex pppd configurations.

You will need root and internet access to your machine and some basic skills at running commands on a shell. Before attempting the following procedures, you should ensure that your modem and your SingTel BroadBand on Mobile account is working on Windows XP or Vista first.

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HSBC Gadget

May-16-2008 By miketeo

HSBC Hong Kong has recently launched a HSBC gadget for Windows Vista, Yahoo and iGoogle. For people who dab into Hong Kong stock market, you should find this tool useful as it allows you to search and monitor stock prices easily via the dockable application.

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Firebug: My New Favourite for Web Development

Dec-28-2007 By miketeo

If you have not heard of Firebug, you are missing out a great new tool for web development. Ever wonder why your HTML elements are not lining up properly? Need to peek at the traffic between the server and the browser, but didn’t want to go through the hassle of installing a suite of traffic analyzing software? Javascript not working? Want a tool that can solve all these without burning your wallet? Just install Firebug and see for yourself what kind of amazing features this tool has to offer.

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Avoiding Being Tricked by Phlishing Sites by Checking the Mail Route

Dec-22-2007 By miketeo

There has been a significant increase in the amount of spams for this week (probably due to Christmas). Phlishing scams have also been on the rise. My thunderbird has this Mail Route Display add-on which can display the route (countries) at which the emails have been relayed through. It’s not 100% accurate due to the difficulties in pin-pointing certain IPs to countries. However, to a certain extent, it can throw up some warning signs on your emails, especially for those phlishing scams which seem like real. If you are a thunderbird user, you may want to look into adding this add-on to your extensions list.

 

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Where is Gallery2 ?

Dec-13-2007 By miketeo

If you are planning to install the WordPress Gallery (WPG2), you might get lost on finding the Gallery2 web application. The URL for Gallery2 is at http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Download. Be sure to download the Full installation.

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