Remember my previous post about Adbrite ads ? Now I notice something even more special and really a good way to trick users into clicking the ads. :P Sounds evil but this is beyond my control, it’s random ads from Adbrite. I just notice it when viewing my last post. Take a look at the picture below and tell me what do you think ?

The ads is a picture that looks like a video where visitors might think it’s a video that can play. Therefore, visitors might end up clicking the ads thinking it’s a video.

My previous previous post about Adbrite ads seems like to have quite a number of comments from visitors. So, what do you think about this one ? Share your thoughts!

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Have you ever run out of credits during emergency ? Don’t have internet access to recharge your phone at that time ? Don’t have any nearby Optus store selling recharge ? Now, you don’t have to worry because Optus is good to us :D We can get Pre-Paid mobile credit on IOU Credit service.

What will you get ?

• You’ll get $3 credit from Optus.
• $3 credit will deducted from your balance during next recharge.

So How Does It Work?

1. You have run out of credit and have less than $1.50 MyCredit in your balance
2. Text ‘IOU’ – this is a FREE text, to 468 (this spells IOU on your keypad, to make it easy to remember)
3. $3 credit will then be applied to your balance
4. You have 3 days to use the credit before it expires
5. On your next recharge we will deduct $3 from your MyCredit balance
6. You can then use this feature once every time you recharge!

Terms & Conditions

• IOU Credit can be used on any Optus or Boost Pre-Paid plan.
• Simply text “IOU” to 468 and Optus will provide you a $3 Rev-Up Bonus which can be used for standard local and national calls and text within Australia.
• Any unused portion expires in 3 days and is non-refundable.
• You must have less than $1.50 MyCredit balance to use this service.
• On your next recharge $3 will be deducted from your MyCredit balance.
• Only one Optus IOU Credit can be outstanding at a time.
• When taking over a plan from a third party it is your responsibility to ensure that no Optus IOU Credit is outstanding on the account as you will incur any outstanding Optus IOU Credit amount.

More Details » Visit Optus Website !

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The image below is the screen capture from my previous post, kahpeng@Ausralia - Family Vacation: Cuckoo Clock Centre and if you click on the post, Adbrite ads which will display randomly, you might end up looking at the ads like what you see below which is on your top right corner of the site.

Actually nothing so special about the ads but the ads kinda disturbing. No wonder Google is still the best advertising media because Adbrite will show unrelevant ads to your content. This is totally nothing related to my post. At least if something regarding “cuckoo clock” then I can  understand. Zzz… don’t run away from kahpeng.com, my site is NOT NAUGHTY :P

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When my family was in Australia visiting me, I brought them to visit Cuckoo Clock Centre where you can find lots of cuckoo clocks. Most of them are unique and nice. If you’re a fan of cuckoo clocks, you should not miss the chance to buy one back to put at your home :D Cheers.

Coming up next post will be my trip to Spring Bluff. Cya.

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Here’s some pictures from Australia Zoo which I took during my vacation with my parents between Sept 6 till Sept 13 2008. Not much because I don’t plan to upload all photos unlike some bloggers which can even blog for 2 to 3 post just only 1 place visited. Anyway, I am fixing my photo blog where I’ll change a new theme and upgrade to the latest Wordpress version.

This koala is cute :D

Kangaroos love me :P

My brothers & I with BIG 'Croco'. Hehe...

Check out for the next post which will be Cuckoo Clock Centre :D

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About 3 weeks ago, I blog about Betshopboy.net First Anniversary Blog Contest, today I receive email from Betshopboy saying that I won the Grand Prize which is a 2GB Creative Zen MP3 Player!

Actually, I’m feeling sad when I did not win anything for the 1st and 2nd weekly draw. However, I’m lucky to win the Grand Prize!

Checkout the video announcing the video from Betshopboy.net - We Have A Winner!

I am feeling happy when I received email from Betshopboy as what you can see in the image above :D

Take a look at my Grand Prize :D Can’t wait to receive from Betshopboy :P Oh ya, watch the video below for the Grand Prize winner announcing :D

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Have you ever been to any toys or comic convention? To be frank, I never been to any before. Anyway, after reading the post and watching the video by Betshopboy, which recently having his first anniversary contest, I think toys and comic convention is cool and I should visit it one day in future if I have the chance.

Watch the video below. Do you like the video?

(Singapore Toys And Comic Convention 2008 via Betshopboy)

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When I was reading other bloggers’ blogs, I find this interesting post from Betshopboy which recently having his first anniversary contest where it has a video of dress up car competition @ K1 grand finale. To be frank, I never seen before any dress up car competition from Singapore. All the while I saw only dress up car competition from Malaysia. What I can say is the cars Singaporeans used for dress up is cool and more expensive compare to those car dress up competitions in Malaysia. Anyway, take a look at the video below :P

(A Prelude To F1 Grand Prix via Betshopboy)

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Betshopboy.net is having his first anniversary blog contest where you can win great prizes such as 4GB Sandisk Micro Cruzer skin flash drive, 2GB Creative Zen MP3 player with 2.5? TFT LCD and also 125×125 pixel advertising on Betshopboy.net. Read more details below what you need to do.

Visit the contest page @ Betshopboy.net! OR read more details below ->

Prizes

Weekly prizes

Prizes for 17 August draw
1st prize – a 4GB Sandisk Micro Cruzer skin flash drive
2nd & 3rd – a 125×125 ad book for 7 days (from 18 – 24 Aug) with PerformancingAds on Betshopboy.net sidebar

Prizes for 24 August draw
1st prize - 4GB Sandisk Micro Cruzer skin flash drive
2nd & 3rd – a 125×125 ad book for 7 days (from 25 – 31 Aug) with PerformancingAds on Betshopboy.net  sidebar

Prizes for Grand draw on 31 August (one winner)

A 2GB Creative Zen MP3 player with 2.5? TFT LCD for videos & audios & SD card expansion slot. Click for specification.

A 125×125 ad book for entire month of September 2008 with PerformancingAds on Betshopboy.net sidebar

How To Join

• Registration and 1 point –> Subscribe to our RSS Feed via email (mandatory) and comment below that you are registered to win. You can use the subscribe option in the sidebar or at the end of this post.

• 1 point: Stumble or Stumble Review this contest

• 2 points –> Follow Betshopboy on Twitter and Twitt about this contest with link to this contest page.

• 5 points –> Make a *New* blog post on a publicly accessible blog (cannot be on a password protected page such as myspace or facebook) and link to this page and the homepage. Additional 5 points given if you embed the above video(found in this post) in your post.

Early Bird Bonus

The first 25 submissions with minimum of 20 points each will have their total points doubled!

Earn Bonus Points

15 points –> Make a *New* blog post (separate from above post) and embed anyone of my videos found in below posts with a short writeup and link to the respective posts. That’s 15 points for each new post with a video.

Video post #1: Singapore Toys & Comic Convention 2008

Video post #2: A Prelude To F1 Grand Prix

Rules

• This contest is all in good fun and is open to anywhere that snail mail goes.

• Participating blogs must be 90 days old and consist of at least 10 posts.

• Comment must contain link to twitter posts and blog posts, Twitter id and StumbleUpon id, so they can be verified.

• Winner must have an active subscription to Betshopboy.net when selected.

• Winners of ad spot must supply your own 125×125 image, which will run during the period stated above.

• Winners will be selected by random draw and will be contacted by email and you have 7 days to response. If there’s no response, a new winner will be drawn

• Contest ends on August 30th at 11.59pm (GMT +8).

• The organizer (that’s me!) reserve the right to reject any entries from websites that are generally offensive or pornographic, and any websites that can be classified as spam.

• The organizer (me again) reserves the right, at my sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this contest, e.g., depending on the participation rate, additional prizes and/or early bird bonus may be thrown in if my subscription target is hit.

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Yesterday, I just received newsletter from Exabytes they are now having great promotion to first 100 clients that are using Exabytes Ebiz Gold web hosting package. Why do I say this is very great deal ? What you have to do only renew your hosting with Exabytes for 3 years and you get 3 more years FREE! This means for total 6 years of hosting, you need to pay only for 3 years! You’ll save a lot!!

Mystery Gift

Yeah, you’ll get mystery gift from Exabytes after you successfully renew your hosting! Make sure you act fast before other people grab up this great 100 deals. Make sure you read the important notes below for the due date and terms & conditions.

Important Notes:-

• This promotion is only applicable for renewal of EBiz Gold.
• This promotion applies to existing clients only.
• This promotion applies to first 100 existing clients only.
• This promotion is not applicable for affiliate commission.
• Any amendments in the future does not include the free hosting cycle period eg. Any payment for package upgrades will be divided by 3 years instead of 6 years
• Free domain will be given for 6 years. In case of cancellation during the period, domain name fee is not refundable
• To get this promotion, renewal fee must be paid within 7 days.
• This promotion is valid until 25 August 2008
• Exabytes reserves the rights to cancel this promotion or make changes without prior notice.

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John Chow from the famous online money maker JohnChow.com recently share some loophole in Feedburner where you can easily increase your Feedburner subscribers overnight :D Sounds evil right ? Anyway, you can give it a try before Feedburner fix the loophole.

How To Increase My Feedburner Subscribers?

1. Make sure you have Netvibes account.
2. You just need to create a simple OPML file to be imported to Netvibes as widget.
3. Watch the video below how steps by steps to import.
4. I included a sample OMPL file below, copy and replace with your own feed url.

Video

How To Create OPML file ?

• Open Notepad or any text editor you prefer.
• Copy and paste the code into the text editor.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″ ?>
<opal version=”1.1″>
<head>
<title>Subscription</tile>
</head>
<body>
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
<outline text=”kahpeng.com” count=”100″ xmlUrl=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/kahpengblog” />
</body>
</opal>

• Replace the text in bold with your site name and your site feed url.
• The more lines your copy and paste, the more Feedburner subscribers you get, in this sample above, I only added 10. You can add as much as you like :D
• Save as filename.opml, for e.g. MySubscription.opml
• Okay, now you successfully created your opml file. Make sure you watch the video how to import the file to Netvibes. I already listed out the sample codes for opml file, I won’t show the rest of the steps to import to Netvibes. DIY :D

(How To Get Thousands Of Feedburner “Subscribers” Overnight via JohnChow)

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I have been using Dean’s Fluency v1.2 after my site upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and above. During early days, I read about the project Hahlo in Dean’s site and I know he’s really spending time and effort for this project. Now, Hahlo 3 goes live after running Beta 2 since last year.

Hahlo 3 is yet to date the best and most fully featured Twitter client for your iPhone or iTouch. What makes Hahlo 3 great is Dean implement the “Search” function which originally from Summize API which was acquired by Twitter.

Hi Kah Peng!

Welcome to Hahlo.com the best and most fully featured Twitter client for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

You can access almost everything by tapping the “Menu” button at the top.

To update your Twitter status, just tap the “Tweet” button and start typing.

As awesome as this landing page is, you can choose to set any of the available timelines as your Hahlo homepage. You can do this, among other things, on the settings screen. This message will disappear after settings are saved for the first time.

- quoted from Hahlo 3 after I login with my Twitter account :D

Features Highlights

These are just some of the new and improved features in Hahlo 3. For further information please visit the Hahlo project page where you’ll find detailed feature info, support and more. [http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/hahlo/]

• Restyled interface, introducing all-new ‘stack’ style menu, and tabbed navigation on some screens.
• Built-in search capabilities made possible by the API provided by Summize.com
• Customisable ‘home’ page
• Avatar and text size settings
• Inline replies and direct messages
• User profiles - just like the sidebar in twitter
• Improved auto-refresh for the friends timeline
• Refresh buttons on almost all timelines
• Added ability to add new friends, as well as follow/unfollow functions and ability to turn notifications on/off
• Hashtags are auto-linked in timelines
• New popup sub-menus when you tap on a users name or avatar
• Countless bug fixes and enhancements to make the overall Hahlo experience even better

(Hahlo 3 goes live! at deanjrobinson via DeanJrobinson)

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On 11th July, my friend Alex from genrya.com, immediately went to ‘yes’ Optus store located at Grand Central Shopping Centre to buy one for himself. However, maybe the place we’re staying is not a big city, there’s no stock for Apple iPhone 8GB or 16GB. Alex had to put down his name under waiting list.

To date, Alex still haven’t receive any calls from ‘yes’ Optus store regarding the stock availability for his Apple iPhone 16GB. Anyway, he explained to me that the main priority given to those buying Apple iPhone Postpaid from Optus will get the phone faster than those on waiting list for Optus Pre-Paid plan. If anyone wondering what is the price for Optus Pre-Paid Apple iPhone 3G price, here’s the price list:-

Optus Pre-Paid - Apple iPhone 3G Price

1. 8GB (Black) for  $729
2. 16GB (Black or White) for $849

Either you buying 8GB or 16GB version of Optus Pre-Paid Apple iPhone 3G, the basic Pre-Paid plan still apply where you $400 worth of credit and 1GB worth of data.

FAQ

• When the $400 credit will expire ?
  Your $400 credit that come along with your new iPhone 8GB or 16GB will expire after the 1st month. However, the credit can be carry forward to following months after you recharge and depend on which Pre-Paid Calling Rates (which I recommend “Every Now and Then” Pre-Paid Calling Plan for you because your credit will only expire after 186 days) before you reach your next expiry date for your Pre-Paid.
• I seldom make a lot of phone calls. How to use finish up my $400 credit if I keep on recharge to extend my Pre-Paid expiry date ?
  Okay, here’s some trick from me. However, this trick will only works if you got a few friends any friend that using Optus Pre-Paid. (Read about Optus Me2U »)

Optus Me2U

1. There’s a service by Optus which is Optus Me2U where you can transfer your credit to other Optus Pre-Paid user.
2. However Optus already know this trick and reduce the amount of credit you can transfer to your friends. Anyway, you still can transfer max of $30 credit per month to your friend if they want to recharge. Instead of buying a recharge, they pay you and you transfer to them the credit!
   [Notice: From 8 May 2008, the maximum amount per ME2U transaction will change from $100 per month to $30 per month per service but good news: Pre-Paid Turbo Cap customers will be able to use ME2U from this date!]
3. What are you waiting for ? Follow the steps to send your credit to your friend below:-

(The flash file above is copyright to Optus)

Optus Me2U Terms & Condition

Optus Me2u is available to Optus Mobile Digital customers and exclude MobileSat, Optus Service provide customers and Corporate customer transactions. The transfer can be made from Optus Pre-Paid to Optus Pre-Paid OR Optus Post-Paid to Optus Pre-Paid customers only. Credit transfers may be made as a scheduled transfer or a casual transfer with a minimum amount of $5 and a maximum amount of $100 per month per service for transfers done before May 8th 2008, and $30 per month per service for transfers from May 8th 2008.The credit transferred will expire on the same date as the credit on the Pre-Paid customer’s account. Me2U transactions count towards the $100 transaction limit in Zoo. The Credit Transfer cannot be reversed once it has been sent. Credit transferred to an Optus Pre-Paid customer is excluded from any specials applicable to the customer’s Optus Pre-Paid service. For full details see www.optus.com.au/sfoa

- (Source: Optus)

Optus Pre-Paid Terms & Condition

By using Optus Pre-Paid, you still have to follow the basic Pre-Paid Terms & Conditions where your iPhone still locked to Optus network unless:-

1. Your iPhone recharge is over $80
2. You have been using Optus Pre-Paid for more than 6 months

Read More » Optus iPhone Specs/Features

• Prepaid Mobile Optus iPhone

Hopefully Alex will get his iPhone soon because he’s waiting since the launch date on 11th July until today.

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Great news to bloggers out there. Are you one of Wordpress.com or self hosted Wordpress blog user ? Do you own either Apple iPhone or iTouch ? If your answer is Yes for both of it, then you’ll be happy because now you can blog from your Apple iPhone or iTouch.

Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds. Download it now!

- quoted from Wordpress for iPhone.

Screenshots

Take a look of the screenshots below or even an intro video at the end of this post.

*Click on the images above for a bigger view.

View Gallery

Watch The Wordpress iPhone Intro Video From Wordpress

FAQ / Support / Download / Read More »

• Go to Wordpress for iPhone

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Recently Google has added a new feature where you can choose how you want to access your GMail. You can choose either normal (http) connection or (https) secure connection.

How To Change?

1. Login to GMail.
2. Go to “Settings“.
3. Look for “Browser connection” and choose your setting either (http) or (https)

Viola, you’re done!

(A Safer Gmail With Https via Blogoscoped)

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