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If you have a Twitter account, you can customize the design of your twitter profile here. Twitter provided 12 ready made themes.

You can get more free twitter backgrounds and themes at Twitter backgrounds. Currently, there are a total of 166 themes in 14 different categories.

What’s great about Twitter backgrounds is that it could automatically install your selected twitter theme for you! Just select the twitter theme you like, then key in your twitter ID and password and click “Install”.

While the automatic installation is great idea but somehow it didn’t work for me — “complaining file size is too big”. I had to opt for the manual installation — download background image, manually set the CSS colors.

Custom Twitter background

If you would like to have a unique, custom made twitter background, you can order it for $49 USD. If you have the skills, you can refer here to read more about custom twitter background.

P.S. Follow me at @liewcf

It’s my honor to be invited by Maxis to the BlackBerry Storm Preview. I got a chance to play BlackBerry Storm in my hands and it’s the 1st time I touched a BlackBerry phone. Is BlackBerry Storm for you?

Review BlackBerry Storm

The BlackBerry Storm has a big display like Apple iPhone. The size is just nice to fit in my palm. It is heavier (155 grams) than my Nokia N95 but I like the sturdy-feeling of the phone. The display automatically changes to landscape when you rotate it.

The touch screen of Storm is “clickable”. You “touch” to select a menu on the display, then “press” to confirm/execute it. This is the world’s first “clickable” touch screen, which you can’t get on other touch screen phone.

I like the display clicking but it also means I will leave more noticeable fingerprints on it.

The video playback on Storm is smooth. Volume is loud enough. It has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack for your own headset.

Somehow, I crashed the media player while testing it. The media player buttons just refused to get away from the bottom of the screen. The crew had to reset the device to get it work properly again.

BlackBerry Storm has 3.5G, bluetooth, GPS but does NOT support WiFi. That surprised me and feeling disappointed.

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Every website in the world today is hosted on their web servers. Have you ever curious about what does the world’s first web server look like? What is the first web browser software? Who created it? Your questions are answered here.

The World’s First web server

(image by sbisson)

The world’s first web server and web browser are created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 using a NeXT Computer at CERN.

The label on the computer read “This machine is a server, DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!”

For your information, NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after his forced resignation from Apple. NeXTSTEP, the operating system on NeXT computer, was the mother of Apple’s Mac OS X today. Click Here to Continue Reading »

Adi Wong compiled a list of Top 100 Malaysian Blogs based on Alexa and Technorati rankings.

Here are the top 10 Malaysian blogs:

1. Hong Kiat — Design & Tech
2. Kenny Sia — Lifestyle
3. Paul Tan — Automotive
4. Raymond.CC — Tech
5. Anwar Ibrahim — Politics
6. Lim Kit Siang — Politics
7. Hemmy.net — Mixed
8. Jeff Ooi — Politics
9. LiewCF (me) — Tech & Lifestyle
10. Cheeserland.com — Lifestyle

What does it mean to you, a blog reader?

If you want to read some interesting Malaysian blogs, it is a good list to start with. Visit every one of them to discover the one you like.

What does it mean to you, a blogger?

Why are they Top 100 and you are not in the list? Why are they popular and your blog has no readers?

It is a good list for you to study the reasons that other blogs are more popular than you, and how you can improve your blog.

Check the blog designs. Check what topics are popular. Check their writing styles. Check their ads placements. Etc.

I am sure you can learn alot from the top Malaysian blogs and improve yours to be one of them.

By the way, if you think your blog deserved to be listed in the Top 100 Malaysian Blogs, feel free to contact Adi Wong to add yours.

P.S. I wonder who in the top 100 bloggers attended the recent Bloggers’ Universe Malaysia Gathering 2009 (BUM 2009)?

Book Recommendation: Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers

These few days, I have received many spam messages from my windows live messenger contacts. The message contains a hyperlink (appears to link to an image).

The link goes to a page showing a “DATE MY IM” form, asking your msn email and password.

Well, it looks almost exactly the same as “Pics for MSN Friends“, which I previously wrote about.

Same trick, but never fails to work. *sigh*

If your friend is sending you the similar message, please ask them to change windows live password.

“Never give your password to anyone. No one from Windows Live Mail will ever ask you for your password.” (via http://help.live.com/)