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Google Gmail launched 3 new features: canned responses, emoticons in Gmail, calendar and docs gadgets.

Canned responses

If you received a lot of emails everyday asking about some common questions, you will find Gmail “canned responses” very useful.

It allows you to compose your reply once and saved the message as “canned responses” then later you can open and send the same message again and again. You can also create Gmail filter to automatically reply incoming emails with your canned responses.

Emoticons for Gmail

After Gmail added group chat and emoticons in Gmail Chat, now Gmail added emoticons to email message. The emoticons sets are available when you are composing email messages on Gmail.

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Happy Deepavali 2008, or the “Festival of Lights”! I have made another batch of charity donations for this festival. Hopefully the small money will light up some lives.

The beneficiaries are all multiracial non-profit charity organizations in Malaysia:

• Malaysian Red Crescent Society
• Buddhist Tzu-Chi Meris Society
• National Kidney Foundation of Malaysia
• World Vision HOPE Fund

P.S. I have got my first cheque book from UOB after rejected by Maybank.

WordPress 2.6.3 has been released to fix a vulnerability in the Snoopy library. Also, WordPress is looking for icon designers for version 2.7.

Snoopy is used to fetch the feeds shown in the WordPress Dashboard. It is a low risk vulnerability. Users can download the new version right now.

If you do not want to download the whole installation package for the minor update, you can download wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and wp-includes/version.php and replace the existing files of your WordPress 2.6.2installation.

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Britney Spears, the most searched celebrity, is now officially twitting on Twitter.

Britney Spears on Twitter

Britney Spears’s twitter (@theRealBritney) was started at Oct 11th, 2008. Currently, the twitter account has 5,787 followers and following 1,560 twitter users.

Strictly speaking, it is not her OWN twitter account. The twitter updates were published by her team and website, beside Britney herself. So far, I only see 4 twits by Britney, out of 31 updates.

Follow @theRealBritney on Twitter. Or, follow my twitter at @liewcf

The newly launched Maybank2u 2.0 (M2U 2.0 review) online banking portal has been reverted back to the classic version due to some technical problems.

If you access Maybank2U website now, you can still see the new web design but there is a notice on the front page stated that users will log in via the classics Maybank2U website instead of the redesigned Maybank2U 2.0 site.

Maybank apologizes for any inconvenience M2U users may have experienced

It is not a surprise to most of us who had a preview of M2U 2.0. The new website had slow response time when we were testing.

Maybank2U 2.0 is SLOW

When Maybank2U 2.0 launched in public, Colin Charles compared the speed of the new website against the classic Maybank2U website.

The result? The new Maybank2U website is a lot slower than the classic version! M2U 2.0 has about 50% more HTTP requests and 95% slower!

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