Flash Player plugin for Chrome

 

You may have some problems with falsh in your Chrome. Here is the solution which I found from link below:

http://www.coderetard.com/2008/10/22/how-to-install-adobe-flash-plugin-for-google-chrome/

Anyway, you need download flashplayer-win.xpi from here first.  Then rename it as “flashplayer-win.xpi.zip” after downloading finish. Then extract files to Chrome plugins folder which should be located at:

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins

User should be the name you log in your xp. If you don’t have a plugins folder under Chrome Application, you can set up a new folder and name it such.

After extracting, restart your Chrome. You can enjoy flash in your chrome now.

The address for plugins folder in Vista should be

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins

CPA Australia website down

Today, it shows you ”404 error : Page Not found.”

for www.cpaaustralia.com.au website.  When I tried again, it says

Service Unavailable

Or it will direct you to the address below, which shows that 404 error.

http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/cpa/hs.xsl/index.html

Tried 3rd time, it works. This time I googled it and click the link below.

http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/cpa/hs.xsl/index.html

It is the same with the one above. Don’t know what happened.

Deep in the money

Below explanation is copied from http://www.investorglossary.com/deep-in-the-money.htm

A deep in the money option is one that is presently very profitable. An option is commonly said to be deep in the money when the exercise (strike) price of the option is extremely favorable relative to the current market price of the underlying security. The more profitable the position, the further deep in the money the option is said to be. When the option is close to expiration, it is said to be deep in the money when the spread between the strike price and the current underlying asset’s market price is sufficiently great that the chance the deep in the money option will no longer be in the money at expiration is very low. Deep in the money options tend to stay in the money, if not deep in the money. A call option is deep in the money when the strike price is well below the current market price of the underlying asset. A put option is deep in the money when the strike price is well above the current market price of the underlying asset.

WestPac email alert – hoax / scam

Today we received another hoax hoax email. See below. It was sent by “Usercorp@WestPac.com.au”!!! Normally it was very easy to know it is a hoax if someone just send from an email address which has an irrelevant domain / service provider. But this one, it is really confused that it was from westpac itself. There are three explanations. First, someone who has authority to use this email address try to cheat on WestPac customers. Second, WestPac email service has been accessed by external hacker.  Third, someone used a very good software to send fake email as they are from any other people’s email address. And as usual, there is a link to divert you to a 3rd party website which pretended as WestPac webpage, there you will be fooled if you really enter your bank details. This time the link pointing to “http://devbill.smartbill.co.kr/link/a.html” [PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THIS LINK], which is a Korean domain name.

WestPac Bank knows this kind of hoax, there is a “Latest scams” page in their website. You can report these issue to WestPac by email “spoof@westpac.com.au” or call them at 132 032.

Westpac Banking Corporation <usercorp@westpac.com.au>02/09/2009 10:20 AM Please respond to *****@*******.com.au

To *****@xxxxxxxx.com.au cc Subject You have 1 new ALERT message

Dear Westpac user,You have 1 new ALERT message

Please login to your Westpac Online

and visit the Message Center section in order to read the message.

To Login, please click the link below:

Go To Westpac Online

Copyright © 2009 Westpac Banking Corporation ABN 33 007 457 141

Zalman CNPS9500A LED CPU Cooler

This is the last upgrade for my old P4 desktop. Since my friend Forrest bought it in May 2004, it has been more than 5 years now.  Basically excepts for motherboard, all of parts inside have been replaced, harddrives, video card, memory, even CPU. Before it was a celeron, later last year I have bought from ebay a P4. It is much better than Celeron, and also much much hotter than Celeron. To cool it, the CPU fan just keeps a very high speed. As a result, it sounds like a grass mower when it is running (it was my mum-in-law’s opinion). Sometimes I need download something at night to take advantage of off-peak downloading quotes and my PC is right in my bedroom. You can imagine what a nightmare I have been through those days. Finally I decided to spend more money on it and it will be the last time!!! After doing research, I chose Zalman CNPS9500A LED, which is a Korean brand. Zalman has some patents to manufacture its fans and other products. Some people claim Zalman is the top level brand in this area.

As CNPS9500A is a little too old in this market, it is not very easy to find online with reasonable price. But I did find more than four sources, including one online shopper in my suburb. Eventually I have been to Shop 1, 89 York Street to buy it during my lunch break. After discount, it costed me $75, which my supervisor reckon I was wasting money. That was Thursday, we firstly went to Superbowl to play bowling rather than stay home fixing my desktop. After 4 games, we headed toward home.

Firstly I didn’t think it was so hard to put on a CPU fan. I read the manual thoughfully. Removed my old CPU fan, which is AN INTEL. When I tried to put it on I realised it was impossible as the heatsink of motherboard was too close to CPU so that it blocked the way of Zalman heatsink clip. There are two screws for this motherboard heatsink. To put my Zalman on, I had to take off that thing. After that it was pretty easy to clipped it. I was so happy to watch it shining with blue led lights when it was on. Before I closed my case side cover I was so upset to realise that the fan was put on in a wrong direction. Air flow supposed to blow to the rear hole of the case, but it was put on by me to blow opposite to my harddrives

Anyway, it was tested very good, very quiet, very efficient. It keeps my CPU temperature alwasy around 42 degrees even after running more than 3 hours (I used Speedfan 4.34 to monitor it, a very useful freeware. You can click this link to download it from my SkyDrive).

Google Maps cannot show properly on IE 8

It seems my IE 8 got some problem with Google Maps. The little buddy seems lost its direction. See below. Besides that, my IE 8 always crashed very easily. Sometimes really feel upset about this.

Google Maps does not show properly on IE 8

Paypal Foreign Currency Conversion process

Below is a letter (Source from http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=948864&page=3 accessed on 19 Aug 2009) regarding paypal conversion process. Really wonder if I should choose Paypal or choose my own credit card for the conversion options. A lot of people actually prefer use their own Credit Card. So I also chose my own CC.

The exchange rate will be calculated anytime funds are converted from one currency to another. The rate PayPal presents includes a small risk factor as well as a currency conversion fee.https://www.paypal.com/useragreement or copy and paste the entire link into the address bar.

The rate will be figured at the time of the conversion from one currency to another. For example:

· If funds are transferred from one balance to another in an account, the exchange rate will be calculated and presented during the conversion

· If a payment is sent in Pounds Sterling using a credit card denominated in U.S. Dollars, the exchange rate will be calculated in the Send Money flow

· If a payment is sent in Euros and the receiver accepts the payment and converts it to U.S. Dollars, the exchange rate will be calculated before the total amount is credited to the account balance. PayPal is not a currency dealer and therefore must purchase foreign currencies from its bank. PayPal receives a quoted wholesale rate from
its bank [twice a day], and adds a 2.5% spread above this rate to determine the retail foreign exchange rate that is applied to customers who make a transaction that involves a currency conversion (such as a payment in Euros from a U.S. dollar balance), or a withdrawal of dollars by a U.K. user to his local bank account (the dollars must be converted
to pounds sterling before withdrawal).

The 2.5% spread that PayPal charges is competitive with most multi-currency credit card transactions, in which Visa or MasterCard charge a 1% spread above their wholesale exchange rate, and the card-issuing bank typically charges an additional spread of 1-3%. Visa and MasterCard benefit from a lower wholesale rate than PayPal, but PayPal seeks to keep its foreign exchange rates competitive with credit card transactions and other on-line payment service providers such as Western Union. Because PayPal does not charge a high fixed fee for sending international payments, the total cost of sending an international payment through PayPal is still lower than many international multi-currency bank transfers.

Please keep in mind that some of the published rates only apply to large transactions that are valued at U.S. $1,000,000.00 or more. A more applicable comparison for consumers is the exchange rates quoted at airports or other consumer currency exchange shops.  PayPal allows its customers to transfer any amount that is U.S. $25.00 or more, with the same conversion rate, to the bank account and the funds are automatically converted into the local currency for approved bank accounts. For more detailed information on the exchange rate click

If you click the link “Conversion options” on the Review Your Payment page, you will get a page that explains that you have two options for being charged for a currency conversion. The two options are:

· The PayPal currency conversion process
· The MasterCard and Visa currency conversion process
You can select your option by choosing one of the following:

· Use PayPal’s conversion process to complete my transaction using my card’s currency.
Both the original transaction currency and the converted amount that I will be charged are disclosed for my convenience. I understand that MasterCard and Visa have a currency conversion process. I have chosen not to use the MasterCard and Visa currency conversion process, and I will have no recourse against MasterCard and Visa with respect to
any matter related to this conversion.
· Bill me in the currency listed on the seller’s invoice. I will not know which foreign exchange rate has been applied to this transaction until I receive my card statement from my card issuer. I acknowledge that by choosing this option, my card issuer will determine the foreign exchange rate to apply to this transaction, and that I will not be informed of the foreign exchange rate or any additional foreign exchange fees applied until I am billed by my card issuer. Once you make your selection, click “Submit.”

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.

Sincerely,
Arj
Consumer Support
PayPal, an eBay Company

No More Beta for Gmail and Google Apps

Noticed today there is no more the word “Beta” on Gmail and other Google Apps. Just wonder if they will charge any fee for google apps?

Hotmail Auto Forward 2009

Have not been using Hotmail for a while as Gmail now is my dominent email service provider. Just found that hotmail actually provide you with flexible storage now. Another surprise is that even if all free hotmail email cannot be set up as email auto forwarding to other email service provider except for hotmail itself, the premium service does have this function enabled, such as “Verizon Broadband with MSN Premium”.

P.S. Just realised that hotmail is so smart that when you set up email auto forwarding it will find out if it is the direct receiver and then decide if forward or not. For example, if other hotmail emails were set up to forward email to your Premium hotmail address, when other hotmail emails receive email it will forward all email to that premium hotmail email address. But premium hotmail won’t forward these “forwarded” emails.

About your e-mail storage

In early 2009, Windows Live Hotmail is introducing ever-growing storage (A feature of Windows Live Hotmail that increases the space available for your e-mail as you need it.) to provide you with as much storage space as you need, provided that you send and receive a normal amount of e-mail. Your inbox capacity will automatically increase as you need more space.

If your inbox surprises us by suddenly and abnormally skyrocketing in size, you may get an e-mail from Windows Live Hotmail asking you to slow down, move e-mails from Windows Live Hotmail to your desktop, or to delete some old e-mails. Please read these e-mails and follow the advice provided in them to continue to enjoy ever-growing storage, which should be plenty of storage for you so that you don’t have to worry about running out of space.

If your inbox grows too fast, you may not be able to receive any more messages. Here are some suggestions to help you manage your account so that it doesn’t become too large.

关于您的电子邮件存储空间

在 2009 年初，Windows Live Hotmail 推出了不断增长的存储空间 (Windows Live Hotmail 的一项功能，电子邮件的存储空间可根据需要不断增长。) ，以根据您的需要提供尽可能多的存储空间，满足您发送和接收邮件的正常需求。如果您需要更多的存储空间，您的收件箱会自动增长。

如果您的收件箱增长的太快，Windows Live Hotmail 可能会给您发送一封邮件，要求您减缓收件箱的增长速度，将电子邮件从 Windows Live Hotmail 转存到您的本机，或删除一些旧邮件。请阅读此邮件并考虑其中的建议，以继续享用不断增长的存储空间带给您的乐趣，而无须担心存储空间到达限制。

如果您的收件箱增长的太快，您可能无法接收新的邮件。下面有一些建议，可以防止您的收件箱过于庞大：

Google Little Window in search result – nav_logo6.png

It’s been a while. I use IE 8 Beta. Every time I search through google.com or google.com.au, there will be a little window on the top left corner of the webpage showing below picture. This won’t happen when use Google Chrome. Probably it is due to Google is the defaulted search provider for me?

Little Google Window