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Self-hosted WordPress bloggers can install a WordPress plugin to enable playing of music/song on their blog, but WordPress.com and non-WordPress bloggers may not able to do it easily.

Fortunately, there is Blogcastone, which allows every blogger/webmaster embed audio player and play mp3 music/audio on blogs/websites, as long as they can edit HTML code.

The way to embed the audio player is very easy, just fill in the URL of mp3 file and generate the HTML codes to put on your blog.

This is an example:

As a blogger who concern about your blog's traffic, you need to check the backlinks to your blog.

Building backlinks is important because search engine like Google consider backlinks as one of the most important factors in their ranking algorithms. That's why you need to improve your link popularity and check out the backlinks.

The following services allow you to check the backlinks to your blog and website.

• Google Blog Search: Search for «link:website address», example: link:www.kfblog.com
• Technorati: Search for your website address, example: www.kfblog.com
• Google Web Search: Search for «link:website address», example: link:www.kfblog.com
• Yahoo Site Explorer: Search for your website address, example: http://www.kfblog.com
• Windows Live Search: Search for «+link:website address», example: +link:www.kfblog.com
• SEO Book
• SEOmoz
• iWEBTOOL
• Backlink Watch
• Build-Reciprocal-Links.com
• Toolurl.com
• Xinu
• seo-consulting
• Domain-Pop.com
• We Build Pages
• SearchBliss
• Checkbacklink.com

One of the most powerful anti-spyware and firewall, ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware is available for free now, you can download it for free and getting one year of free updates.

ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware is not only a anti-spyware that protects your computer from spyware or adware, it has built-in a well known and powerful firewall, ZoneAlarm Firewall.

I have been using ZoneAlarm Firewall for years and turned to ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware when it came out, both of them have keeping my computer out of malicious software and hackers for many years.

Hurry, download ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware for free now, it is only available before 14th November 2007 5pm PST or 15th 9am in Malaysia time.

The creator of K-Lite Mega Codec Pack releases K-Lite Video Conversion Pack, a software pack that contains a video editor, a DVD burning software and a DVD menu creator.

You have to do only one installation but getting three powerful software that enable you to edit video, burning the video to VCD or DVD and creating DVD menu, three of the software in the pack are the most popular software in their respective fields.

Three software in K-Lite Video Conversion Pack are Avidemux, ImgBurn and DVDStyler.

Avidemux is a powerful video editing software which supports almost all of the video formats, it can do many video editing action like cutting, remuxing, converting and more. The only disadvantage is, Avidemux does not support rmvb video.

ImgBurn is a small application but it is more than enough to write image files and burning VCD/DVD. We can burn the CD image created by Avidemux to DVD using ImgBurn.

DVDStyler is a simple software that helps you to create menu for your DVD.

Visit K-Lite Video Conversion to download it for free, the current version is 1.0.0, consists of the following software.

• Avidemux 2.4 r3579
• ImgBurn 2.3.2.0
• DVDStyler 1.5.1

In recent days, my Streamyx connection has a lot of problems, many websites including Google homepage and Google Reader have very slow response and sometimes cannot be accessed. Does anyone has the similar problem?

It got worse starting from yesterday night and I couldn't opened Google's websites at all. I was impatient and tried to improve it with my own way.

I wanted to improve my connection with proxy server, hence I searched for available proxy server. Surprisingly, I found three proxy server by Jaring, the second largest ISP in Malaysia.

These are the best proxy server for my Streamyx connection because Jaring has the second most international bandwidth and they are some of the nearest server to TMnet.

I made no attempt to keep them myself but share three of the Jaring proxy server to my readers.

• bkj-station2.jaring.my:80
• bkj-station3.jaring.my:80
• bkj-station4.jaring.my:80

However, I suggest anyone who use the proxy servers don't share them with other people, because the servers will go offline most of the time when users are too much.

If you do not know how to setup the proxy server, please tell me by leaving a comment.

Sony announced new edition of PlayStation 2 (PS2), it will be first release in Japan's retail stores with selling price 16,000 yen (about RM475) on 22nd November.

The initial release of new PS2 has three colors, charcoal black, ceramic white and satin grey. The differences between new and old PS2 are, the built-in PSU in new PS2 and it is ligther weight.

This is Sony Japan's press release about new PS2, currently there is no information on launching date in places other than Japan.

Windows Live Translator has an add-in for blogger and webmaster, it translates your blog or website into the language that visitors can read.

Blogger can install the add-in on blog to translates blog content and welcome readers that cannot read the same language.

Installation of the add-in is very easy, first go to http://translator.live.com/AddIn.aspx.

Select the language of your blog or website and paste the HTML code to your website, that's all.

The following is Windows Live Translator for KF Blog:

Translated from English to Chinese Simplified:

Most of us have once or more downloaded some movies or videos from Internet, most of the videos are not the normal video format that can play on Windows's default player, Windows Media Player.

You may downloaded and installed many software or media player to play each type of video, everytime you want to open a video, you have to find the corresponding player, this way creates a lot of inconvenience.

A great solution is K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, it gives your computer all the codecs which decode every type or format of video, you would able to play almost all video format with Media Player Classic and codecs inside the package.

Download the codec pack and free media player: K-Lite Mega Codec Pack

Windows Live Messenger rolls out a new feature for webmaster and blogger, Windows Live Messenger IM Control, it allows you to install a web based Windows Live Messenger and showing your online status on webpage or blog.

My current online status of MSN:

The web based Windows Live Messenger which allows any visitors to chat with me:

(Feed readers are required to visit website to view it)

Two of the features is implemented through installation of HTML code from Windows Live Messenger IM Control.

To get the HTML code for Windows Live Messenger IM Control, login to http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/websettings.aspx with your Windows Live ID.

In «Create HTML» page, you can either get the HTML code for web based messenger or showing your online status.

After choosing «Status icon» or «Messenger», copy the HTML code at the bottom and paste it to your webpage or blog.

We always put less consideration on Apple Mac when we are buying a new computer, because we thought its price is much higher than normal PC, other than the factor of compatibility. As a result, we are forced to give up the fantastic Apple Mac and buy a normal PC.

In fact, the statement that Apple Mac cost you more is wrong, Farhad Manjoo at Machinist proofs that Macs are cheaper than PCs.

No more worry on the price when you are going to choose a Mac as your new computer in the future.