Showing posts with label solutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solutions. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Saving time: Keeping my earphones tangle free

I was a real mess. Still am. And trying not to be. Family, friends, colleagues, ex-colleagues are prefectly aware of my mess, from what they see on my desk and room. "It's my creative mess", I used to like to think and say, but nah, what rubbish was I sprouting back then? *FACEPALM*

A definite messy place would be my bag. Or bags. What you'll find: Handphone, jangling keys, letters, notebooks, magazine, the random sweet/tidbit wrapper, some book that I'll read halfway, and of course, the MP3 Player. The MP3 Player that is accompanied by pesky wires that tangle up one too many times: I've spent many minutes of my life on public transport, untangling those damn wires.

In the attempts of saving some time: I thought of buying those fish bones cord-keeper that they sell around some music shops. The design's nice, but forking out SGD$7-9 a teeny-weeny piece of plastic is kinda silly.

The wonders of the Internet has provided cheaper alternatives of tangle-free wires.
Lifehacker has tips of coiling the wires in Figure of 8. I preferred the one featured on Instructables: fashioning a cord-keeper out of an old credit card.

There was no old credit card lying around the house: I found a cardboard piece instead, as seen in the picture above. Of course it looked damn un-pro, after I've done scissors works on it. It was meant to be a keychain which I didn't use in the end: a purchase made around 4-5 years ago while I was still in school. The artist actually drew the DAMN CUTE octopus caricature on the small cardboard piece, so it's the one and only in the world. Heehee special siah.

My earphones quality are of the average. Bohemia Bunny would pay SGD$150++ for her powderful earphones, but I only paid below SGD$25 for mine. I've already damaged the previous one that came along with the MP3 Player, and someone who kills / loses thing easily should never posses earphones that cost more than some MP3 players.
Coiled up properly. The artwork now hides behind those wires. Artist must be sad.
All tucked nicely, and ready to go! Praise thee, Internet, for wonderful tips.
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P/S: Audrey saw this entry, and told me to make one for her. Ah. Good. A cheap birthday gift, she will get.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Saturday, April 5, 2008

How to solve this pesky MSN "Virus" - partytimez.info - Illustrated!

The Problem
There is a MSN "Virus" going around, which automatically sends messages to the rest of your MSN contacts with the following: http://your_email.partytimez.info, and I have fallen victim to it, very much thanks to a friend.

It is not a virus, really.
I wouldn't call it a virus, because it doesn't affect your computer system, doesn't affect your registry at all: it simply irritates the hell out of your friends (and the rest of the beings you have bothered to keep on your MSN contact list even when you hardly speak to them).

Should I uninstall MSN Messenger?
Some people would advice you to uninstall MSN Messenger from your computer, and reinstall it again. NO WAI (LOLSpeak), ignore them, that wouldn't work, I can tell you. I've tried troubleshooting the problem by using a Web-based Messenger service (Meebo) being one of the better ones out there ). After awhile on the Web Messenger, I was logged out from it automatically once again, mass-sending my contacts the same irritating message. From then I knew that it wasn't a glitch occuring in my computer.

So, what's the problem, then?
It took me awhile to resolve this problem: a friend fell victim to this "virus" as well, and he was whining to me so much about it, which was really unattractive because whining isn't exactly something a guy is entitled to do. Instead of joining him in the whining, I googled for the solution, and found somebody's suggestion on Yahoo! Answers.

The scenario, illustrated.
There are really a lack of articles around to explain to you, and help you resolve this "virus" problem. Since I'm a really helpful person, I've (literally) illustrate the matter further. here's what really happens, painstakingly illustrated.







Apparently it's a phishing attempt by the web page to get your login ID and password. That is why even when you are offline, the 'virus' is able to your log into your MSN account and sends everyone in your contact list the same message containing the partytimez.info URL over and over again.


Solution:
Solving the problem to the partytimez.info problem is pretty easy: simply change the password to the email you use for your MSN account. Because your new password wouldn't tally with the old one which the website managed to 'phish' from you, the 'robot' they have built wouldn't be able to log in automatically to your MSN Messenger anymore.

Apparently there are other bots that does the same thing as what the fellas at partytimez.info do, so you can try the same method to solve the problem.


I figured I'll have to write a blog entry about it, because alot of people will be affected by this. Leave a message, if this helps!

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Addendum: Additions of Links
Last updated:
26th June 2008

Some people might be affected by these other URL(s) too: http://youremail.very.coooolstuff.info
http://www.vvkoxhno.info
http://www.shortlinks.org
http://www.shortifynow.com
http://www.fbcqnj.info
http://youremail.down.l0ader.info
http://youremail.imageorange.info