What’s the differences between cc: and bcc: in your e-mail client ?

If you’ve been using email clients for some time, you may already aware that you have the option of sending email to multiple recipient using to:, cc: and bcc:.

cc: means ‘carbon copy’ – is a copy given to another recipient beside the person you’re sending the email to. For example, if you are writing an email inquiring about the price of a particular product, naturally you’ll send it to [email protected], and then you might want to send a carbon copy to your supervisor – [email protected], telling him that you’re doing your job.

so when the sales department in the other company responded, your supervisor will be able to read the reply as well. So everybody in the cc list is able to know each other email address when they receive it.

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bcc: stands for blind carbon copy – basically is the same with cc: but with a little twist, the bcc: receiver just receive a copy of the email, and he can’t read other email addresses in the list. So in a nutshell, bcc offers more privacy than cc because the email address of the recipient is protected from each other.

hope that helps clears up some questions :)

[tags]email,emails,bcc,cc,email client,gmail[/tags]

Today is Friday the 13th

Today is Friday – 13 April 2007, some people call it the dreaded Friday the 13th as they believe weird things may happen during this day because they consider it is an unlucky day. The date has been use by malicious crackers to spread viruses to computers around the world as it is a synonymous with ‘grief’ and ‘bad luck’.

I don’t know about you but people around me are making so much fuss about the date. Personally I do not believe in such superstition as it is counter-productive to base our lives solely on mere dates and numbers.

The next occasion of Friday the 13th will happen on 13 July this year, it coincide with the release of Harry Potter film : Order of the Phoenix. Harry Potter films is a well known franchise raking millions of dollars throughout the world, will Friday the 13th bring bad luck to Harry Potter? I don’t think so…

[tags]friday,superstitions,harry potter,humour,humor,funny,2007,bad luck[/tags]

Masterseek – Business Search Engine


If you are searching for specific electrical and electronic equipments manufacturing companies or something way different like companies which are into creating custom or bespoke computer software, it is better to search in a vertical search engine like Masterseek

Now you must be wondering how a vertical search engine will help..Vertical search engines deliver to businesses what the big sites can’t without the use of complex keyword combinations: relevant and essential content versus an exhaustive return of information.

Business.com their competitors are just directories whereas Masterseek is a search engine plus directory

You can even list your company on Masterseek and get a good exposure based on keywords and additional listing of your products.The price ?? Only 199$ for 12 months..Good isnt it ?? It sure is and for the next three months any basic submission listing is free!!

Howto Check Future Google Pagerank Prediction

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Curious about your website’s current and future Google Pagerank? You can check it using any of these free tools :

Note that there are no guarantee that any of these tools are entirely accurate because PageRank is entirely dependent on Google’s proprietary algorithm.

PageRank is a page ranking-system employed by Google to determine the value of a webpage, it is the most popular metric for determining the popularity of a website beside Alexa Ranking system.

[tags]google,pagerank,page rank, seo, domain, alexa,pr[/tags]

Real Life “The Simpsons” Advertisement

Ever watched The Simpsons? Then I’m sure you’re familiar with the unique Simpsons opening sequence including the infamous couch gags.

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Here’s a real life “The Simpsons” opening sequence specially made by the British SkyTV

[coolplayer width="420" height="360"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6grHp7kOGMU

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Cool isn’t it?

[tags]cartoon,simpsons,bart,marge,the simpsons,fox network,homer[/tags]

Tipvista.com is now hosted on Dreamhost


Tired of downtime and other service interruption, I finally decided to move this blog to Dreamhost.

I’ve been a Dreamhost customers for more than 2 years and I’ve hosted several of my websites there with no problem.

The reason that I kept this blog on its original web hosting company is because of its legacy value (yes, I’m sentimental), but lately I’ve been experiencing several downtime problem in a month that really annoys the hell out of me that I finally decided to change switch it to my trusty Dreamhost account.

The transition was smooth, and I’m able to get “Journal Of Useful Tips” back online in mere minutes.

I don’t know what actually happened to the previous web hosting company, but It seems that they still haven’t manage to get their main website online by the time of this writing, boo hoo.

For what it worth, I will certainly recommend Dreamhost web hosting service to my friends because of its excellent service that exceeds my expectations.

Special :
You can get USD90 DISCOUNT if you enter any of these discount code = “FAKAPED”, “WANGCYBER” when you order a Dreamhost account.

ps: No, I will not disclose the name of my previous web hosting company publicly as I felt sorry for them for losing me. Besides, I’ve backed-up all my files so I’ve no trouble moving out to a better company.

[tags]web hosting,hosting,web,dreamhost,domain[/tags]

Windows Vista Cracked?


I’m not sure if this is a credible source for tech news, but I read this from news earlier today : Vista activation cracked by brute force from The Inquirer.

The said crack utilise brute-force attack which defeats the so-called unhackable Windows Vista Activation Code.

Although it might take several hours in order to get the correct through brute-force, the crack is said to work and can be downloaded from Keznews forum website .

Details about how to use the keygen can be obtained here : http://keznews.com/2431_Vista_Brute_Force_Keygen

It is important to note that, I haven’t personally this crack myself as all of my personal computers barely meet up with Windows Vista high system requirements.

So use it at your own risk! Otherwise, enjoy!

[tags]windows, windows vista, crack, keygen, computers[/tags]

Fix Dreamhost Stats problem in WordPress


Users who has installed WordPress blog application on Dreamhost may noticed that they can’t access the Dreamhost stats page on their blog (sub)domain.

This is caused by the way WordPress handle URL in its internal system. However you can fix this issue by adding a few lines in your WordPress .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stats|failed_auth\.html)/?(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]

Make sure you put the lines before the WordPress rewrite rule. Finally overwrite the .htaccess files on the server and the Dreamhost stats should be back working by now.

You can read the full text of the tutorial in Dreamhost Wiki page.

[tags]dreamhost,hosting,wordpress,htaccess,mod_rewrite,apache[/tags]

How to Make your RSS Feeds Pop in WordPress


I got this idea from reading Darren Rowse’s entry, How to Make Your RSS Feeds POP Using Images

The hack will add a nice graphic to accompany your RSS feeds to make it “POP”.

First open the wp-rss2.php file located in the root directory of your WordPress Installation.

Find a line that have something like this.

<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php bloginfo_rss('version'); ?> </generator>
<language><?php echo get_option('rss_language'); ?<

Then add these lines directly below it.

<image>
    <url>http://yourwebsite.com/img/feedpop.png</url>
    <title>Your website name  </title>
    <link>http://yourwebsite.com/</link>
</image>

upload the file back to the webserver, and you shall have an RSS feed with a nice graphic on it.
example : http://blog.fakap.net/rss.xml

Why dont you use WordPress Plugins
Using excessive plugins may slow down your WordPress blog installation, upgrades tends to be troublesome on plugins-ladden WordPress blog.

[tags]wordpress,blog,feeds,feedvertising,rss,atom,darren rowse[/tags]

WordPress Source Code Syntax Plugin

In order to enhance the user experience of Tipvista blog readers, I’ve installed Dean Lee’s Source Code syntax highlighting.

The plugin is pretty cool for coders and developers who like to share their codes with their readers. Among syntax it support are

  • Actionscript,Ada,Apache,asm,asp,bash
  • c,cfm,c++,csharp,css
  • delphi,div,freebasic,html4,idl
  • java5,javascript,lisp,lua
  • mathlab,mysql,nsis
  • oracle,pascal,perl,php,python
  • qbasic,ruby,smalltalk,sql
  • tcl,text,vb,vb.net,xml
  • and few others syntax

Here’s how the plugin look like in WordPress :

//
//print information about your php installation
//
phpinfo();

Pretty cool eh?

[tags]wordpress,plugins,syntax,code,php,programming[/tags]