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MSN’s Hotmail service, which has almost 200 million users worldwide, has dumped McAfee as its antivirus partner in favor of rival Trend Micro.

According to Microsoft, e-mails and attachments sent or received by any of Hotmail’s 187 million Web mail customers will be scanned in real time by Trend Micro’s antivirus software beginning Monday.

Hotmail’s antivirus service was previously provided by McAfee and the reason for the change is unclear. However, Martin Hoffman, chief executive of Ninemsn, which operates Hotmail in Australia and is half owned by Microsoft, said in a statement that Hotmail will be able to provide a “safer online experience” using Trend Micro’s products because they provide “deeper antivirus protection.”

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Thought:
It has been a long time since the last time I use McAfee. It was so popular last time but recently seems… not so good. I have dumped Norton Antivirus as well, due to its super heavy load. Currently I am using FREE antivirus software — AntiVir Personal Edition.

The beta offering, dubbed Blinkx TV, captures and indexes video and audio streams directly from television and radio broadcasters to make available news, sports and entertainment clips, the company said. The engine lets people group specific searches using “smart folders” that continuously collect multimedia content from sources including Fox News, HBO, ESPN, National Public Radio and the BBC World Service.

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Note: BlinkX is one of the free desktop search engine.

We all knew about the earthquake disaster… I am not going to repeat it here. If you want to know more, please follow the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake wiki link.

Today, I heard the radio ad and saw the TV ad on making donation to the victims. I am interested. However, they only accepts cheque donation. I do not have a cheque book. How I wish they give a bank account number so that I can transfer the money into it.

(Continued…)

Zaim Bakar wrote a PHP script, mt2blogger, that do something different. It exports Movable Type entries to Blogger.com. If you ever want to swich from MT to Blogspot, the script may help you.

Finally I’ve been able to export all of my MT entries into Blogger. How, you ask? Well, I wrote a somewhat small PHP script that does just that. It’s buggy and full of spaghetti code but at least it does it’s job (even though rather badly).

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He doesn’t have own webhosting for the moment, so I help him to host the interesting file.

Download mt2blogger.zip (20KB).

Note:

• The script is alpha version. Meaning, there might be some unknown bugs and issues. Use it at your own risk.
• Please read the included README file in the zip file before you begin.

*All credits belongs to Abu Zaim Abu Bakar

As easy as 1-2-3!

Thanks to Lilian for the pic.
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