ICQ’s Christmas Special


Now, ICQ put up some Christmas Special which is exactly like their recent Thanksgiving Special, except a different forum link and a link to different Christmas ecards.

However, the ecards are the same from year 2001-2004! *yawn” and the related link from Santa Deer II to Santa Deer I does not work but shows the main ICQ Friendship Cards page instead!

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visual studio & winxp64bit = crash


I actually saw on the beconfused blog, here, that Microsoft released some free Visual Studios. I thought “Great, let’s install it”. As you can see on above’s screenshot, it detects that it’s a 64bit Windows but after downloading, during the installation, the installer causes a blue screen, LOL! Microsoft’s own software doesn’t run on their own OS! 😀

The world went so dark and sad on this day…

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spyware that isn’t?

I think I found an error in the system startup list of spybot. It says this:

“Current filename: D:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe

Database status: Not required – virus, spyware, malware or other resource hog
Value: CTFMON.EXE
Filename: ctfmon32.exe

Description
_CoolWebSearch_ parasite related – hijacking to Slawsearch.com

Source: Paul Collins Startup list”

which is however – so I think- _wrong! Infact according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q282599/ it’s no virus but

“What Is the Ctfmon.exe (Ctfmon.exe) File?
Ctfmon.exe activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Microsoft Office Language Bar.”

I sent an email to spybot and hope that they will give me a statement regarding this!

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Weird spam – Send A Letter From Santa Claus!

Things are getting weirder and weirder!

Normally, I don’t pay attention on spam emails, but I received spam from Santa this time, hehe.

On www.SentBySanta.com he sends your child letters!

I found it weird how some people try to make money this way. Especially despite the fact that some people like those guys offered the same some years ago FOR FREE! 😎

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ICQ 5 & System Notice


There is one feature, many people miss in ICQ5; That is the Systen Notice Container ICQ2003b had. It stored any system notice and one could check who added you, etc.

Did you know that ICQ5 stores some of those System Notice events in the message history folder? I found it out by accident, and you can see above the history of my system notice events of November. 🙂

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Still didn’t receive the replacement CPU

Seems I have a lot of bad luck with hardware lately! 🙁
 
I still didn’t receive the replacement CPU. The CPU in question seems to be getting hard to get now, which is a pain, since the CPU only kept working for 14 days and after over 1 month, the mailtrader still cannot send a new CPU! (The new motherboard I got since weeks already!).
 
I decided to call them and to request my money back by sending me a crossed cheque!
 
There are only a handful of mailtraders here that still can send it and after intensive searching yesterday, I decided to order it here. The availbility check says it’s in stock, so I hope it’s here by next Thursday! 🙂 Damned, I want my PC back working!!! 🙁
 
 
 
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Qumana

Sometimes, I think emails are spam, which aren’t. Well, at least according to http://www.opera.com/m2, it was no spam email, so here is what I received:

 

Hi Nafcom,

I just thought I’d let you know I really enjoy reading posts on your blog
and have bookmarked your blog! Do check out my blog at
www.chelsea4life.blogspot.com if you are into football. Nafcom I thought
I’d ask you to try this new blogging software called Qumana, it lets you
post right from your desktop, so you don’t have to sign into Blogger every
time, its got some other amazing features too. It’s a free software which
you could download from www.qumana.com. Do let me know if you like it.
Cheers!
Neil

(inserting HTML tags doesn’t work for me! 🙁 – i.e. the “blockquote” function seems to be not supported!)

 
So, here is my review:
 
The software works very good, it is quite self-explaining and incase of that questions arise, the online help is very simple and easy to understand! 🙂
 
I was amazed, that they even didn’t forget to support Technorati tags.
One simply does enter the tags and presses the “Technorati” button .
 
The GUI looks like a 1:1 copy of MS Office 2003! 🙂
 
 
There are a few things however I miss or don’t understand:
 
The image upload requires to install an API – Why?
Especially since Blogger has native photo upload function!
I seriously hope that a newer version will fix this!
 
I also do not like that it’s impossible to tag technorati tags consisting of more than two words! 🙁
 
But apart from that, I am glad, thank you, Neil! 🙂
 
 
 
 
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New ICQ 5 Xtra: Instant Match!


A new ICQ 5 Xtra is out! It’s Instant Match.

The thing works like, that you rate all your love to all your ICQ contacts, they do the same and suddenly you have an instant match! More info about this (works in MSIE): Here! 🙂

You can send presents to your new admire also, by the way… So it’s some new way for them to get some money! 😉

As one can see in the above screenshot, I have tried it with a friend! 🙂

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