Watch World Cup 2006 Matches Free From your Computer

For all those world cups fans who do not have access to tv or cable subscriptions, you can still watch world cup matches live from your pc for free, all you need is a fast internet connection.

Goto TVAnts website to download the p2p tv client , TVantsSetup, install it. Then, go to http://mirror.tvants.com/detail.asp?id=239834 (CCTV5) to watch your World Cup Live Match straight from your pc, there will be a dialog box asking for your username and password, ignore it and you should be fine. The catch is, the commentary is served in Chinese language.

Alternatively if you are really in low budget and only lives in console environment, then you can try ascii-wm. Follow the instruction at the website (you need a telnet client) and you should be able to watch world cup live on your computer console (in ASCII !!).

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Download Free Classic DOS Games

Fans of DOS games? Do you know where to get your favorite classics? Here’s the list of website that offers free download of classic DOS games a.k.a ‘abandonware’, in no particular order :

Please refer to my previous post on how to play these DOS games on Microsoft Windows XP

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How to Send and Receive Fax using US phone numbers


If you want to get US fax numbers then why don’t you try Faxmicro? But then again, you might wonder why do you need a US fax number in the first place. One of the primary reason of having a US fax number is because you want to do business easily in US.

Let’s say that you’ve a company in Singapore or Malaysia, and want to do (prefereably online) business in US without opening an office there, then having a US fax number might a low-cost solution for your client to send fax to you.

You can also send fax with Faxmicro service at the cost of 5cent per page in US, and up to 20cent per page internationally. With Faxmicro, you can have your own US fax number for only USD4.95 per month!

Sending and receiving fax is easy and you don’t have to own a fax machine to do it, what you need is only a computer with the internet. Sending fax is as easy as uploading your *.doc or pdf file to their server and you will be notified whether the fax has been succesfully sent or not.

For receiving fax, your client/sender will have to fax in their documents to your US fax number and you will receive them via email attachment in pdf or tiff format (at your option).

Faxmicro provide an affordable solution to receive and send fax in the US and its solution is attractive to small company which want to do business abroad.

[Faxmicro website]

What about phone call? Stay tune for another post that explain a way to get US phone number even if you never been to US.

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How to play DOS games with DOSBox in Windows XP

Maybe some of you wonders how to play classic DOS games in Windows XP, since newer operating system can’t play old DOS games anymore.

Now, here’s a howto that teaches you how to play your old DOS games back in your Windows XP machine. This tutorial assume that you have a DOS game ready in hand named M1 Tank Platoon.

Download DOSBox

Download DOSBox from DOSBox website.

Install DOSBox

Install DOSBox, of course.

Prepare your DOS games

Copy your DOS game folder at C: drive for easy access.

Start DOSBox

Start DOSBox and mount C drive

Start the DOS game

Change directory to the DOS game dir.

Execute the DOS game binary

Congratulations!

And watch the DOS game flies in your computer, you can change it to full screen by pressing ALT+ key.

If the game run too fast or too slow, you can change the speed by editing the dosbox.conf file (available in the Start Menu). The setting you need to change is “cycles=3000″, adjust the number to suit your DOS games.

Happy gaming!

p/s: bookmark or digg this website if you find it useful!

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Mozilla Firefox Shortcut Tips

firefox logo

I’m sure that many of you are familiar with Firefox browser, the main Internet Explorer rival. But do you know some of it’s keyboard shortcuts? Well here it is

Bookmark Page – Ctrl+D

Back/Forward – Alt+Left/Alt+Right

Copy/Cut – Ctrl+C/Ctrl+X

Decrease/Increase Text size – Ctrl+/ Ctrl+

Fullscreen – F11

History – Ctrl+H

Home Page – Alt+Home

New Tab – Ctrl+T

Next Tab – Ctrl+Tab

New Window – Ctrl+N

Page Info – Ctrl+I

Print – Ctrl+P

Reload – Ctrl+F5

Restore Text Size – Ctrl+O

Web Search – Ctrl+K

Hope that help you speed up your daily browsing !

Yahoo Search World Cup feature

Following my Google “world cup” search feature coverage, now i present you with the Yahoo “world cup” feature that you can use while accessing Yahoo search.

Just type the words in the hyperlink at the Yahoo search box.

  1. fifa portugal - Result of your team, for example “Portugal”
  2. fifa group a – Group A standing
  3. fifa scores – Get latest scores
  4. fifa schedule – Latest match schedule

Hope you folks will enjoy World Cup, I know I will!

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Beggr – can I beg some of your money?

If you’re not already familiar with beggr, then allow me to introduce you to it.

Beggr is somekind of a unique website that it doesn’t contain any other information besides a link to donate money (via paypal), and a random quote.

What’s interesting is that the random quote is preloaded with a technorati-style graphic loading gif and people seems to extend their donation despite the author reasoning is ” Pay me so I don’t have to work”

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Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Tattoo

Annoyed by Windows Genuine Advantage Tattoo? Remove it using wgafakap, a crack created specially to remove those annoying popup from your Windows XP.


Be sure that you change the Automatic Update settings to “Notify me but don’t automatically download or install them” after you execute the crack.

Here’s the download link for the tattoo remover : Download wgafakap.zip

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