ikmalThink : do you know what am i doing?

If only I have friends on twitter.. I'll maybe write a great recommendation. Oh well, it's great by the way. It makes you connected between your readers. It's like blog version of Myspace. But, come on. There are actually too many of this already. Make something cooler, like chatting with pornstar. (they done it already? damn.)

PleaseAddMeOnTwitter.com

Told you. I'm upset because I don't have any friends. I've been posting sad faces and being pathetic all day. Literally speaking. Are you on twitter? Add me so I figure out why I want to know what you're doing (as advertise by Twitter). :)

I've been getting all the rave review besides always crashing part. I just want to try it. I want to.

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ikmalReview : heroes - tv series

Rated :

This is awesome! Not very original though. But awesome. I know you do sometimes pretend have superpower when you are alone. Like turning on your computer just by looking at it. Or sometimes, when you pretend you are invisible and lying naked on the beach (no ? it's intentional ? wow). Anyway, this movie make all your imagination became true.

A group of 'special' people realizing they are not like others and began looking for answers (why ?! go rob a bank or something). This series are entering the peak of broadcasting their latest season, Season 3. Their 1st Season runs 23 episodes. For 2nd Season they only broadcast 11 episodes due to the 100-day strikes on mid February this year. Their 3rd Season will be starting next month on 22nd September 2008.

A quick view on "Heroes" storyline. It first start when the brother of soon-to-be president, Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) realize he's somehow special and became true. After a while he realizes that everyone around him is too. Soon, the quest started to find the answer; and saving humanity from a disaster known to be happening. The journey begins to gather other 'special' people with superhuman abilities and help each other. Each season has a different objective.

What I think is, this movie even though has a great twist in between; it's just another ordinary superhero series. After seeing both seasons available, the 1st one is better. If you planning on watching. Start from the top. Because the 2nd one does not explain much and you just can't feel the excitement from there. But, if you started from the beginning, I'm sure you will be stuck on the next few days in front of your screen. That's why I hate TV series. It's addictive.

Anyway, if you are missing one or both season, you can try finding it on the following link

SideReel.com

Or you might interest in getting their full season DVD. I want to buy the DVD.

* Remarks on star rating given (3.5) : Even though you can really expect what you are getting when watching this type of movie, that not the main attraction in this. If you are aiming to see flying guy, super strong lady, you'll be getting that. But it's the graphics features that make this series out stand. You can see the power orb that looks realistic in this series. Ikmalsays this : watch this rather than swimming in a pool full of fat blokes. Following my review criteria.

• storyline (1)
  
• graphics (1)
  
• soundtrack (0.5)
  
• genre element - science fiction, action (1)
  
• originality (0)

That's all. Thank you and happy dreaming.

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ikmalMusic : embed music on blogger

If you really browse this page, you will notice that there's a feature in ikmalMusic that shows latest charts. This charts are updated twice a month (any changes are prior to notice). Music charts stated are for the following :

• English Most Download Mp3
• Malaysian Most Download Mp3
  

This post is updated twice a month on 1st and the 3rd week. However, this service is no longer updated because of music hosting site. Before this, the charts are based on text and video will played on Youtube. However, after finding the non-practicality of this feature. I decided to embed the music on this site. There is a way to embed audio on blogger platform. But the player need a plug-in to play which everyone might not have and will not try to install them (OR maybe I'll be using this, depends).

I already tried using XSPF (spiff) player and not to accomplish anything because blogger could not store files on its directory. If you know how to do this, please email me. I will be very pleased (and link to you).
There are few other sites that promote the same service and I have tried them all. And I find one that is quite practical. So starting on next week this feature will be fully functional.

This is the list of free music hosting that I mentioned before. They provide widget to embed on your site.

• ProjectPlaylist.com - fast, nice player interface, easy to add music, good music collection
  
• Hypster.com - fastest, player interface with advertisement, good music collection
  
• StreamPad.com - sites under maintenance, average
  
• FineTune.com - slow loading website, average
• Imeem.com - cannot play full song only, good for promotional purpose
  

Results are varying from others. The list are actually rank from prefer to less preferable. Keep on visiting for more content. Please leave a comment on comment box below to recommend better music player service.

That's all. Thank you and happy searching.

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ikmalTips : website directory and rss submission

This is the following post from "free website submission service" I post before. Flashback. We are trying to achieve higher visibility for our blog.
Our goals :

• Website Submission
• RSS and Directory Submission
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This post is going to discuss 2nd steps. What is RSS? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (or Rich Site Summary). You can subscribe RSS feed from any sites that own one. Simply said, it's a news reader. Instead of using social bookmark, which needs the user to check preferred sites regularly. RSS feed will update itself and you will be updated with post headline and summary (according to sites preferences). Hence, you don't need to check on your favorite sites for new content. Try it.

Subscribe to ikmalSays RSS feed.

You can view sites RSS using RSS reader. There are two types of reader, which is desktop-based or web-based. Check out these readers. These are top ranked.

Bloglines | go to site
- fast and reliable (web-based)

Newzcrawler | go to site
- lots of features (desktop-based)

Firefox Live Bookmark | go to site
- useful for Firefox user. Use browser itself. (web-based)

FeedDemon | go to site
- easy to use and reliable. Hardly crash. (desktop-based)

GoogleReader | go to site
- fast and flexible (web-based)

Use this reader to find the latest content on your favorite sites in a jiffy. But actually, what we, bloggers, need to do is submit our feed to the blog directory so that our feed can be read by the readers.

Blog Directory
Blog directory utilize a concept than when your surf other blog and gain a point which will be use to promote yours. This service is traffic service. What does it do? Just provide traffic. Unless your site can attract visitors that past by; this is a temporary traffic. Read my previous post. But blog directory only listed blog. Blog Directory will list our blog and categorized in its own directory, so to speak. So people will surf on its category and may find common. And creates interest. I actually planned to post a list of RSS and Blog Directory submission sites. But there's another great post already on the net that list all the sites. And lots of it. And it's free!
Go visit :

MasterNewMedia.org

How to?
What you need to do is submit your feed (if you are using blogger) through the site listed.
Replace green portion with your own blog name. Only one needed.

If you are using classic blogger :

• http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml
• http://blogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml
  

If you are using new blogger :

• http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
• http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

It maybe took between 2-7 working days for your feed to be reviewed and approve. Send your feed now. Share with other.

That's all. Thank you and happy feeding.

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ikmalTips : free website submission service

Every bloggers want their work to be shared. Bloggers, like me, always want our work to be appreciated. Therefore, we need to get as many visitors as we can to browse through the post. But you as a newbie, we cannot figure out how.
Actually, two of the most important thing to do is :

• Website Submission
• RSS and Directory Submission
  
• Search Engine Submission (SEO)
  

I’m going to discuss the first step in this post. This website submission is what you need to do for your blog to be recognized by search engine. In order to achieve this you need to submit your sites to them, so they can crawl your site content and make it search-able. There is tons of this type of service provider. But usually they expect you to pay more that 20 bucks for their service (which is worth it in a way).

This is the list of website that provides the same service but charge you for nothing. Everyone loves free stuff. Yeay!

Free Website Submission Service Provider
- submit your site to more than 20+ search engine without needing to install their widget first.

FreeWebSubmission.com

- sites listed below need you to install their widget and then use their free service. *you can install and delete later on.

• SubmitExpress.com | Go to site
  
• TopTrafficWholeSaler. com| Go to site
  
• INeedHits.com | Go to site
  
• AddPro.com | Go to site
• AddMe.com | Go to site
• DreamSubmit.com | Go to site
  

Do not get trick by the variety of provider though, most of them send your site to the same search engine (only few added). But it's worth the effort. If you are planning for more, you can always apply for premium (paid version).

But there are other ways to promote your sites or blog by participating in major sites such as eBay, Youtube or Yahoo Answer. Participate and promote yourself in a civilized way. Don't spam because all links are no-follow so don't bother.

That`s all. Thank you and happy submitting.

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ikmalThink : show off your blogger template

You've been blogging actively for past several months. At first, you use default blogger template for a start. After a while, you discovered that you already have the knowledge to customize your blogger template. Now, your blog appearance is totally unique and you like to show off to others.

Now is the time. Check out survey poll below and vote which template you originally used. And tell everybody about your site on the comment box below. I'm using tictac template and ikmalsays.blogspot is the result. I showed mine. Now, show us yours.

Support blogger community and share with everyone.
That's all. Thank you and happy voting.

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ikmalTips : increase blog traffic using free services

I`m a blog newbie, and maybe you are too. Then you should find this post useful. The purpose of I started blogging purely because I like to talk and sharing but alongside, maybe, I could earn some money. You often read about this on every other blog. Most of this blogger can achieve some great rank. And mostly can gain up to 10,000 visitors daily.

I can only reach half the figure per month! Honestly, I`m not good at this. Instead of giving up, I search out all over the net and compile it to a single list on my blog post. Which I hope you find it useful. I guess maybe the desire to improve in me is too great to resist.

So here we go. I will not deceive you in any way. The list given are for informational use. But if you want to try out their service you can click on given link so I will be your referrer and gain point when you does. Help me to help you. Let`s get on with it.

This is the list. There are more unlisted. This are the top rated.

EntreCard
- introduces yourself to others by using your personal business card and gain point when you do. The accumulated point (ec point) can be used to buy Adspace on others EntreCard widget so your blog/sites can be view on their sites. You need to install their widget for this.

I want to use EntreCard Service

LinkReferral
- each day you need to spend on average 20 min to view and review other site and your rank will climb up on your category and gain visual attention. When each of users need to do so, your page will also be reviewed and getting unique visitors each day. I gain 40+.

I want to use LinkReferral Service

TrafficSwarm
- this service is harder to use because the timer are faulty and hard to browse to pages. And mainly the sites that you will see is advertisement ads sites, money making stuff. Good if you are trying to introduce one (need to outrun other competitor). Need to navigate page by page to get surf credit.

I want to use TrafficSwarm Service

TrafficBurst
- this service is identical to TrafficSwarm but better than TrafficSwarm because on the top of browser are buttons that easy to navigate to other website and respond well to timer. But the sites seems new and still need to fixing. I need to sign in a few times during session. I'll sure they will perform better after a while.

I want to use TrafficSwarm Service

Youtube
- provide free video content. And acknowledge by everyone. Could be done by posting a great video with your link attach to it. This will invite visitors for more.

I want to use Youtube

There are more of services like this you could get on the internet. But you are required to install their widget. Sucks. But if you still insist on using their services. Check out these.

• BlogRush
• Spottt - same as entrecard, higher ranking but having problem at this time
• Blog Directory Service - topic will be post soon
  

Or maybe if you have more to share, do leave a comment and I`ll be gladly reply to you.

That`s all. Thank you and happy publicizing.

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ikmalTips : custom search bar for blogger

A simple search bar function. That`s all that you need (and me too). You don`t need option that can be check to search on major search engine. You just want a search bar that can find post on your blog using specific keywords. Many of widget providers gladly provide you with their creation and embed them with link to their promotional sites. This ruins everything.
You just want the simple look. But yet, you still want to tweak it yourself. Maybe just a bit, like the color or something. Maybe simplicity is the best policy are quite overrated for simple search bar and giving them dull looks.

Then this just might be the solution for you.
Credit to the creator of this widget is given to Amanda Fazani from BloggerBuster. Visit her site for informational tips on blogger and easy-to-follow tutorial. Show me BloggerBuster.

Let`s get on to it.
Simple Search Bar for Blogger

Step 1 : Add a new HTML/JavaScript Element

• Navigate yourself to Layout > Page Element > Add A Gadget (to the place where you want the widget to be shown) > HTML/JavaScript

Step 2 : Add the following codes

<form id="searchthis" action="/search" style="display:inline;" method="get">
<input id="search-box" name="q" size="25" type="text"/>
<input id="search-btn" value="Search" type="submit"/>
</form>

• When preview, it will look something like this

• If this effect is what you want to achieved then discontinue reading. If you might change the border or search tab color, read on.
  

Step 3 : Styling the search bar
Let me preview to you which version can you achieved with this simple code.

- Changing the search tab colors and tag

• By adding this code and change codes in purple for the length of the search bar form, change codes in red for form color and codes in blue for form border color. For search tab, change to codes in grey for tab color and codes in orange for tab border color and in green for text in search bar tab
  

<form id="searchthis" action="/search" style="display:inline;" method="get">
<input id="search-box" name="q" size="25" type="text" style="background: #999999; border: 2px solid #ff3333"/>
<input id="search-btn" value="Search" type="submit" style="background: #000000; border: 2px outset #414141; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold;"/>
</form>

• You will get this

- Adding visible text within search bar form

• By adding the text in green
  

<form id="searchthis" action="/search" style="display:inline;" method="get">
<input id="search-box" name="q" size="25" type="text" value="Enter search terms"/>
<input id="search-btn" value="Search" type="submit"/>
</form>

• You will get this
• You can also insert onclick="this.focus();
  this.value='';" within these area so the value will be empty/clear when the form is clicked.
  

- Changing the text in search bar tab

• Change the text in purple

<form id="searchthis" action="/search" style="display:inline;" method="get">
<input id="search-box" name="q" size="25" type="text" value="Enter search terms"/>
<input id="search-btn" value="go find !" type="submit"/>
</form>

Experiment to suite your taste and your blog color scheme, leave a comment for how to change the tab into icon.

That`s all. Thank you and happy customizing.

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ikmalReview : step brothers

Rated :

This is a story about 2 adult male whom suffering from super fags disease which makes them becomes childish and wussies. The story starts when their both single parents get married and started living in the same house. Ends up as their adult-children, Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly) don`t want to share their parents happy ending.

Soon, their started attacking each other privacy and wieners but soon realize they have a lot in common. Not the same old step brother-sisters material. Because the characters played, are by an adult. A 40 year-old adult male and still begs his mom for building bunk beds. And have hilarious outcome. If you ever familiar with Will Ferrell`s work. Then I`m assure you, you going to love this.

The rude and surprising humor are really a weapon to this movie. Which brings up all the act together. "A picture a worth more than a thousand word" idiom doesn`t apply to this movie poster. The content is really funny than it seems.

Don`t ever lose your dinosaurs

- quote from their fathers

This gives meaning that everyone should have a child in them once in a while. See the movie and know how meaningful it was. I`m not going to discuss further more and spoiled everything, so you should go and see for yourself.

If you are to cheap to go see a quality movie (if you enjoy Will Ferrell though). You can always watch it with your PC via movie streaming. Read my post on movie streaming for how to.

Go watch it here :

MoviesOnDemand.com

* Remarks on star rating given (4) : I`ve seen a lot of movies which uses step brother-sister material which makes it commonly used, but an adult as a dumb-ass step brother . It`s rare. The comedian act by both strong actor and actress really brings the theme to life. It`s one of the movie when you smile at the end of it. But the jokes will never work twice, so try see it on cinema near you.

• storyline (0.5)
• graphics - video content (1)
  
• soundtrack (1)
  
• genre element (1)
  
• originality (0.5)

That`s all. Thank you and happy cursing.

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ikmalMusic : today`s dancing scenery

I love to dance. Do you ? Guess everyone dance their ass off once in a while just to prove their happy and excited. It`s when music runs through your blood veins and simply transform to a weird movement of excitement. That`s why people dance on parties and wedding and not on funeral.
Now, they do make dancing as a career and such as. This makes people compete each other and makes it more fun. But they no longer respect and realize the fact that people dance to "express and not to impress". Whether it`s pop, rhythm and blues, hip-hop, trance, techno, electro, salsa. You name it. But well, if you got the skills, go brag about it.

Enough talking and let`s see some move.I embedded few videos from Youtube that shows types of dancing that can be seen today (most of it) on various music event. These are not to be applied as ballroom dancing. Those are for rich folks.

• Tecktonic, Shuffle, Tekstyle and C - Walk

• Breakdance
  

• Liquid and Popping

There`s are countless skills of dancing which can be seen most on music event nowadays. If you never been into one. Go ahead. Treasure your life and join the music culture society. And develop your skills and brag proudly to others. So that smirk can stay permanent on your face (damn, I hate these people).

That`s all. Thank you and happy dancing.

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ikmalSells : crazy wednesday at lelong.com

As stated on ikmalSells, I was a liaison for Lelong.com which is like an eBay for Malaysian. From time to time I will promote item that I sell on that particular internet merchant to be posted here on, ikmalsays.blogspot.
But since the item that needed to be stock and sell are still under process and administrative issue. New post for this section are halted till further notice. Until then, I will advertise interesting promotion with a burst temptation to your wallet.

Internet marketing affiliates have come to offer great deals on great item for its user. Promotion such as this not actually cheated you. But more likely to be like "you are not having a loss but they do create a benefit". On this topic of post, I will announce to you that one of the favorite's internet merchant besides Mudah.com.my, which is Lelong.com created a very tempted advertising scheme.

They called it Superbid. Promotion starts on every Wednesday from 12PM - 1PM only. On that individual hour, all the items that need bidding will start from RM 1 (only $0.29 USD). Item listed will be preview 5 days before the countdown. And user can start bidding for Superbid on that time. Told you, this was really tempting. Go on check out the Superbid promotion. But be sure to sign in as Lelong.com member first.

If you want something to bid, you can check out iWant page which allow you to shout to webmaster, what did you want on the upcoming bidding process. Only the first 100 user will be granted their wishes.

That`s all. Thank you and happy bidding.

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ikmalTips : speedbit video accelerator

Often spending time on the net? Always have numerous list of download. Then you should be familiar with great software created by Speedbit. Which claim by the company to have 160 million of user using their downloading product called Download Accelerator Plus (DAP). This popular software can speed up downloading process by 400% and can also resume broken download automatically. This speeding process are achievable by :

• having multi-connections
• mirror search to find fastest download

Having this installed in your PC will make downloading easier than ever. If that`s a fact for you and you are feeling tempted. Then, head over to their download sites to download for free or get premium. I want to download DAP.

But, actually this post was not about DAP, it`s about another product called Speedbit Video Accelerator which created by the same company. And use the same concept as their downloading software. This video accelerating software also uses multi-link connection for speeding up video buffering or video 'hiccups' during streaming videos. This is a great factor on streaming video and movie content on the internet. Read on my post on movie streaming guide.

Speedbit Video Accelerator has been approved by more than 100 sites (updated over time). And of them was Youtube. From my experience buffering on Youtube can be describe as none. The video does not stop playing at all ! This is really a great recommendation from me. If this software are approved by all the sites, movie streaming would be pleasurable. But since, movie streaming sites tends to have conflict with copyright material, hence, could not be authorized to use this great invention.

With my positive experience, there`s only one downside at the moment which is having trouble to work with Mozilla Firefox 3. Which I accidentally installed on purpose (:P).But, I`m really sure this will be sort in a month or so.

Firefox 3. This browser is really outrun others by making browsing and streaming faster. Besides the fact that Firefox is not fully compatible with others, I really like it. It might not be more user-friendly than its predecessor Firefox 2 but it`s worth the upgrade. And also webmaster often uses their sites to be optimized on upgraded browser instead of the default, Internet Explorer. Like this ikmalsays.blogspot site as well. For know the question is this. If you spends more time on Youtube, don`t get Firefox 3. Yet. Get Speedbit Video Accelerator instead.

Go visit :

VideoAccelerator.com

If both product can work together perfectly. Then, ikmalSays this : Get both of them. They free, extremely awesome and .. just get it !

* UPDATED : Both are working perfectly now! (7th September 2008). Get them!

That`s all. Thank you and happy buffer-free.

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ikmalReview : you don`t mess with zohan

Rated :

I'm a big fan of Adam Sandler's act. Which you might think this review might not well judge. But who cares. He can act and he`s a comedian. But on 'You Don`t Mess With Zohan', not so much. He could done better. This time he acts as an Israeli elite soldier who`s no longer interested in bashing people`s head over time. He just want to be normal. Just like other hairstylist. He quit shooting and killing endlessly for cutting 'silky smooth hair' career. Well the storyline is quite original.

It just poses as how nonsense the end would be. Not like Scary Movie type but more digestive way. People easily get bored on constant ridiculous jokes. They used Israeli-Palestinian conflict as source of laugh. They do promote a point. Enough the endless war already. This movie is funny but far from a masterpiece.

While the title 'You Don`t Mess with Zohan' might not interest you. The content also might not pleasure you much. If you have ten bucks to either spend it on lunch, a pack of ciggs or this movie. I would say this movie would be the last resort. It`s not that this movie does not have a great content but it is lack of the 'wow' factor which means "it`s just another Sandler`s movie".

But you should see this film over time. After all, you will experience laughter or a giggle at least with this fine line-up of actors. This movie cast by John Torturro, Schneider and gorgeous Emmanuelle Chriquil. This includes Mariah Carey (huh?). And Sandler`s are one of the writers.

If you might taking my recommendation as a consideration, you might as well look around for this movie streaming. Watch my post on movie streaming. Or, visit this site.

OnlineVideoGuide.com

* Remarks on star rating given (3.5) : They have various of experienced actors (not including Mariah), which make the story plot strong. And it might tickle you even how serious you might be. If you like sexual humor, you should watch this. What did I think ? I like it. But I do need to think twice before paying.

• storyline (0.5)
  
• graphics - video content (0.5)
  
• soundtrack (1)
  
• genre element (0.7)
  
• originality (0.8)

That`s all. Thanks and happy giggling.

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ikmalTips : summarize blog post on blogspot ( II )

Earlier I post a topic about how to summarize blog post on the main page. This is the extension for the post title summarize blog post on blogspot (I). In this version of post I`m going to post how to summarize post using expand/collapse method.
This are however NOT my creations, instead it`s a creation by a great developer named Ramani from Hackosphere. Visit his site for more hacks and iPhone application created by himself. Don`t have an iPhone ? Get one, it`s cool !

This version of post summarizing called Peekaboo View. One the code was correctly implemented on your template. Your blog post will no longer shows all your written post. Instead it provide link at the bottom of summarize post and will expand/collapse on the same page.
If you prefer the links direct you to the post page, check out my post mentioned earlier. Okay. Let`s get on with the editing.

Peekaboo View (expand/collapse post)

Step 1 - Back up your original template

• Whenever your tries to customize your blog template ALWAYS save the original template into your computer. In case of anything goes wrong either with the code or the after-effect are worse, you can always revert back to the original template before you applied the editing.
• To back-up your Blogger template, go to Layout > Edit HTML and click on the "Download Full Template" link near the top of the page. You will be prompted to save a copy of your blog template as an XML file to your computer. Be sure to save this to a location where you can easily find it if required.
• To restore to the original setting (before editing), simply upload the template using the upload form located on the same page.
• Or, a quick method I always use. Check Expand Widget Template option and copy all the text (Ctrl + A) in the scroll bar box and save it onto any simple text application (Notepad, Wordpad, etc). In case of mishap, simply reverse the process. - useful when you are going to restore in between editing time.

Step 2 - Start adding the codes

• Find the </head> tag (use Ctrl + F on Firefox for quick find), and paste the following code BEFORE the tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<script type="text/javascript">

var fade = false;
function showFull(id) {
var post = document.getElementById(id);
var spans = post.getElementsByTagName('span');
for (var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
if (spans[i].id == "fullpost") {
if (fade) {
spans[i].style.background = peekaboo_bgcolor;
Effect.Appear(spans[i]);
} else spans[i].style.display = 'inline';
}
if (spans[i].id == "showlink")
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
if (spans[i].id == "hidelink")
spans[i].style.display = 'inline';
}
}


function hideFull(id) {
var post = document.getElementById(id);
var spans = post.getElementsByTagName('span');
for (var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
if (spans[i].id == "fullpost") {
if (fade) {
spans[i].style.background = peekaboo_bgcolor;
Effect.Fade(spans[i]);
} else spans[i].style.display = 'none';
}
if (spans[i].id == "showlink")
spans[i].style.display = 'inline';
if (spans[i].id == "hidelink")
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
}
post.scrollIntoView(true);
}

function checkFull(id) {
var post = document.getElementById(id);
var spans = post.getElementsByTagName('span');
var found = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
if (spans[i].id == "fullpost") {
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
found = 1;
}
if ((spans[i].id == "showlink") &&  (found == 0))
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
}
}

</script>
</b:if>

• OR, If adding this code failed for some reason (incorrect line breaks, etc). I`m sorry and use the code from this site (- link from the original post on Hackosphere).

Step 3 - Find this section of code and add following

• Find this particular div for post-body and add the codes in orange. Check Expand Widget Template to find the section mentioned. Please note that there may not be uncustomized-post-template word on your template. It will just work fine.
  

<b:includable id='post' var='post'>
<div class='post uncustomized-post-template' expr:id=' "post-" + data:post.id'>
<a expr:name='data:post.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</h3>
</b:if>

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

<div class='post-body'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<p><data:post.body/></p>

<b:else/>
<style>#fullpost {display:none;}</style>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<span id='showlink'>
<p><a href='javascript:void(0);' expr:onclick='"javascript:showFull(\"post-" + data:post.id + "\");"'>Read More...</a></p>
</span>
<span id='hidelink' style='display:none'>
<p><a href='javascript:void(0);' expr:onclick='"javascript:hideFull(\"post-" + data:post.id + "\");"'>Summary only...</a></p>
</span>
<script type='text/javascript'>
checkFull("post-" + "<data:post.id/>");
</script>
</b:if>

<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

• Change Read More... and Summary only... section for your desired text on link that expand/collapse the post.
• Preview your template (nothing will happen but if error occur when editing the codes, you will unable to preview your page. If so, please repeat steps or comment below). Save upon completion.

Step 4 - Format the post template

• Go to Setting > Formatting on your blogger Dashboard menu and look for post template form on the page. Copy and paste the following code below.

Type your summary here
<span id="fullpost">
Type rest of the post here
</span>

• Save upon completion.
• The next time you write a new post replace purple portion with summarize post and replace green portion for the rest.
• You can also edit previous post using the same method.
• Done !
  

Kindly leave comment below for any question/difficulty occur.

That`s all. Thank you and happy peeking.

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ikmalThink : stumble upon experience

Stumbleupon is a great social bookmarking experience! I really vouch for it (i`m not getting paid for this). Since i`m using the service I might as well spread the words. It`s not like Digg or Del.icio.us bookmarking which more to the rate method (high page rate, higher page rankings). Stumbleupon is more like randomly web surfing any site that has been rated and accordingly to your preferred favorites. I do not dislike others, just I prefer using this one.

There`s a lot more to surfing website than just watch off pornographic content (me. i suppose). This is my advice to you. Get your Stumbleupon account and check humor on favorites. I'm really surprise by all the jokes and humor posted on some of the website. It is really funny. Go ahead.

I want to be stumble.

You can also browse pages by user, check your friends (added from contact list) stumble item. Not mine of course, I have been marked for R-rated stumbler :-). But you might also try other social bookmarking services.

• Del.icio.us | show me this
• Digg | show me this
• Technorati | show me this
  

Using this service, you can help web author`s to advertise their great content and share with the whole world. Tag their photos, videos, content and sites. They (web author`s) did their job, it`s time to do yours.

Have a look at what have I found on stumble.

Humor
- Copied from a site called That`s A Bloke.

Sheep or Pig

• A guy walks into his bedroom with a sheep under his arm and says "Darling, this is the pig I have sex with when you have a headache".
  His wife is lying in bed and replies "I think you'll find that's a sheep, you idiot".
  The man says "I think you'll find I wasn't talking to you".
  

- Copied from a site called Rinkworks.

Things People Said in Courtyard

• Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
  Witness: "No."
  Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
  Witness: "No."
  Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
  Witness: "No."
  Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
  Witness: "No."
  Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
  Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
  Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
  Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."

• Lawyer: "Do you know how far pregnant you are now?"
  Witness: "I'll be three months on November 8."
  Lawyer: "Apparently, then, the date of conception was August 8?"
  Witness: "Yes."
  Lawyer: "What were you doing at that time?"
  

These are only few of them. I should have more of this often to cheer me up. I`ve also stumble some funny picture of adult picture. Guess I don`t have to preview it here then. Go on and explore the world of internet.

That's all. Thank you and happy stumbling.

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ikmalTips : summarize blog post on blogspot ( I )

As a daily-based internet user, I surf on more and more sites everyday. There`s one thing I hate upon stumbling (stumble upon?) a sites are the one that uses very confusing layout and hard-to-read font (am I one of them?) but post a very well written content. This annoys me that halt down my intention of reading the content.

The widget I`m about to introduce here solve none of the problem above. But. It does make a certain post easier to read by summarizing the header of the post and provide certain link either to expand/collapse the post or to be brought onto a new page featured only the post selected.
The overall layout would be neat and your long written post will not overshadowed the shorter one. Should I have this option on every sites I visit, I be well please because the mouse scroll are getting loose already. There are two option for this widget as stated earlier :

• Selective Expandable Post (provide link to the post page - single post on page of selected topic)
• Peekaboo View (expand/collapse post on the same page)

Credit are given to the creator of this amazing widget, Ramani from Hackosphere. Visit his sites for excellent tutorial on blogger and some iPhone applications he added on his site. Show me Hackosphere.

Well, let`s get along with it.

Selective Expandable Post (the ones I`m using).

Step 1 - Back up your original template

• Whenever your tries to customize your blog template ALWAYS save the original template into your computer. In case of anything goes wrong either with the code or the after-effect are worse, you can always revert back to the original template before you applied the editing.
• To back-up your Blogger template, go to Layout > Edit HTML and click on the "Download Full Template" link near the top of the page. You will be prompted to save a copy of your blog template as an XML file to your computer. Be sure to save this to a location where you can easily find it if required.
  
• To restore to the original setting (before editing), simply upload the template using the upload form located on the same page.
• Or, a quick method I always use. Check Expand Widget Template option and copy all the text (Ctrl + A) in the scroll bar box and save it onto any simple text application (Notepad, Wordpad, etc). In case of mishap, simply reverse the process. - useful when you are going to restore in between editing time.

Step 2 - Start adding the codes

• Find the </head> tag (use Ctrl + F on Firefox for quick find), and paste the following code BEFORE the tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<script type="text/javascript">

var fade = false;
function showFull(id) {
var post = document.getElementById(id);
var spans = post.getElementsByTagName('span');
for (var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
if (spans[i].id == "fullpost") {
if (fade) {
spans[i].style.background = peekaboo_bgcolor;
Effect.Appear(spans[i]);
} else spans[i].style.display = 'inline';
}
if (spans[i].id == "showlink")
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
if (spans[i].id == "hidelink")
spans[i].style.display = 'inline';
}
}


function hideFull(id) {
var post = document.getElementById(id);
var spans = post.getElementsByTagName('span');
for (var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
if (spans[i].id == "fullpost") {
if (fade) {
spans[i].style.background = peekaboo_bgcolor;
Effect.Fade(spans[i]);
} else spans[i].style.display = 'none';
}
if (spans[i].id == "showlink")
spans[i].style.display = 'inline';
if (spans[i].id == "hidelink")
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
}
post.scrollIntoView(true);
}

function checkFull(id) {
var post = document.getElementById(id);
var spans = post.getElementsByTagName('span');
var found = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
if (spans[i].id == "fullpost") {
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
found = 1;
}
if ((spans[i].id == "showlink") && (found == 0))
spans[i].style.display = 'none';
}
}

</script>
</b:if>

• OR, If adding this code failed for some reason (incorrect line breaks, etc). I`m sorry and use the code from this site (- link from the original post on Hackosphere).
  

Step 3 - Find this section of code and add following

• Find this particular div for post-body and add the codes in orange. Check Expand Widget Template to find the section mentioned.
  

  <div class='post-body'  expr:id='"post-" + data:post.id' >

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
        <style>#fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
        <p><data:post.body/></p>
     <b:else/>
        <style>#fullpost{display:none;}</style>

<p><data:post.body/></p>

<span id='showlink'>
        <a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read More......</a>
       </span>
       <script type='text/javascript'>
         checkFull("post-" + "<data:post.id/>");
       </script>
     </b:if>

<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

• Change Read More...... section for your desired text on link that brings you to the post page.
  
• Preview your template (nothing will happen but if error occur when editing the codes, you will unable to preview your page. If so, please repeat steps or comment below). Save upon completion.

Step 4 - Format the post template

• Go to Setting > Formatting on your blogger Dashboard menu and look for post template form on the page. Copy and paste the following code below.

Type your summary here
<span id="fullpost">
Type rest of the post here
</span>

• Save upon completion.
  
• The next time you write a new post replace purple portion with summarize post and replace green portion for the rest.
• You can also edit previous post using the same method.
• Voila!
  

This hack provided will make you post summarize on your main page and will bring you to the post pages upon clicking the read more link. I chose this because it will make visitors to leave a comment easier.
Thanks again to Ramani from Hackosphere for this great hack. If you like to apply the another method of summarizing post mentioned earlier which make the post expand/collapse on the same page, use Peekaboo version. Show me this hack.

That`s all. Thank you and happy customizing.

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ikmalMusic : summer sensation 2008 (cancelled)

Event Location : Malaysia

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SORRY FOR THE LATE NOTICE.

- this event has been cancelled due to the conflict with a certain special day. And people don't seem to aware of this event. No hype no sponsors. That's all.
Next upcoming event :

GLOBAL GATHERING 2008, A'FAMOSA, MELAKA, MALAYSIA

Sunway Lagoon done it again. Its on! The tickets are up for sale. The promotion has begun. This year. On Merdeka`s Eve, we gonna celebrate it with g-strings and sandy beaches. Ladies get ready to be wild again and again.
The lineup are great as well without comparing to the awaited event, Recharge Revelation. As always, there will be progressive house, techno, dance and indies. The genre`s are there. The location`s are great and so will the ladies. What are you waiting for get ready to get wild.

Available info on 10th August 2008 :

• Date : Saturday, 30 August 2008
• Location : Surf Beach, Sunway Lagoon, Selangor, Malaysia
• Time : 6 PM onwards
• Ticket Pricing : ( pre-sale ) : RM 78+drink ( door-sale ) : RM 108+drink ( VIP ) : RM 161
• Featured DJ / Artist : - Michael Myers, Nigel Richards, Joyce Mercedes, Pianka, Desire, Hujan

Get your tickets at all Axcess Outlet or book online.
Visit this site for more:

Axcess.com.my

* Pre-sale tickets are selling fast. Any changes regarding to the event will be posted on updated version of topic.

That`s all. Thanks and please be note that this event are not for minors (18+).

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ikmalTips : free malware removal tools

Malware is a term used by advanced computer user instead of term uses by normal, which is computer virus. Malware or also known as malicious software. The expression is general terms used for hostile, intrusive of unwanted program running silently in the background.
As its useless for the computer user, it`s also really annoying. The term of malware includes of computer virus, computer worm, trojan horse, spyware and dishonest adware. It is also called computer contaminant in a law terms.

Besides than normal solution chosen, which is easy but tiring hard disk formatting. I will provide some really useful and yet free malware removal tools. Proper used of these following tools will avoid useless (lazy) effort of hard disk formatting.
These software are free to used (read product disclaimer), but there are better software out there but requires payment. Which I know many people hate the fact that it may not guaranteed solutions for the problems had.

Instead of spending hard-earned money for unsure problem, try this first.

Antivirus and Internet Security Tools
- protects against virus and spyware

• AVG Free - download
• Avast! Home - download

* recommended Antivirus and Internet Security software to buy (free to try with limitation and time limit)

• PC Cillin Internet Security - download
• Kaspersky Anti Virus - download
  

Malware Removal Tools
- detect known threats and remove

• Malwarebytes Anti - Malware - download
• Spybot Search & Destroy - download
  

Firewall Tools
- prevent unauthorized access between network

• ZoneAlarm Firewall - download
• PC Tools Firewall Plus - download

Registry Cleaning Tools
- cleans registry caused by malware and boost performance

• CCleaner - download

Advance Tools (*recommended)
- free to try software (trialware).

• Security Task Manager - reads task running on background and quarantine unwanted products.
  
• TrueSword - Cure most malware problem instantly. 10 fix free for trying purpose (reinstall to fix others).
• HijackThis - analyze all possible threat and list them.
  

That`s all. Thank you and happy cleansing.

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offTopic : happy birthday iris natasya

It`s my beloved girlfriend birthday! She`s officially 20 years old today! Time passes by and I`ve not even prepared for a non-physical gift. Here`s to you my birthday girl.

happy birthday to you,
i will always love you,
happy birthday to iris,
dont ask for the present yet please.

Here`s something about her that I would like to share. I will try to avoid flattering her.

• she`s born in 5th of August '88
• she`s studying tourism
• she`s blur, naive and likes to play dumb
• she`s supportive in every way possible

Truth to be told, I could not even list 5 bad things about her. Unless that she`s fat. She`s arrogant. She always seems like hiding something. She loves giving excuses. She`s annoying and irritating. And a snake in sexy lady form.
But yes, I love her, I like her, I adore her and I hate her. She`s everything I`m not and everything I need. Thanks for everything and happy 20th birthday.

Happy Birthday Iris.
Love you and always do !

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