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Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, this has made my life easier, and also made it as the best Twitter Apps for Android.

Twitter for Android

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, a Big Thanks

I believe people who do a lot of social network stuff has more than 1 twitter account. I have at least 2 Twitter Apps running on my Android one, one is Twitter Apps another is Twidroyd Apps to support my multiple twitter profile accounts.

Now I can just run one Twitter Apps in Android phone, which I believe will contribute to better battery life ;)

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, Benefits

New Twitter for Android also supports push notification for tweets, mentions and direct message, which can help to save more on your battery life on Android. Try the new Twitter for Android and share your battery life experience with us.

Convert EDT timezone to GMT timezone

Monday, July 11th, 2011

I am confused with several different timezones in the world. Planning to attend an online seminar but the date/time is stated in EDT, how do I convert into GMT+8, which is my country timezone?

I usually refer to the timezone conversion table at Eastern Time to GMT

For example let say the online seminar is happening at EDT 21:00, it will be 01:00, +8 which is 09:00 (the next day) in my country.

How to Check Paypal Pre-Approved Payment List

Friday, July 8th, 2011

How can I check my list of preapproved payment list with Paypal?

Here is the instruction of how to access to list of Preapproved Payment in your Paypal.

  • After login to Paypal, on top of the menu, click on “Profile”.
  • On the left menu, click on “My money”
  • You will see the option “My preapproved payments”

It actually took me quite sometime to figure how to access preapproved payments list ;)

How to Enable check_dns on Nagios Monitoring System

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Most user who are new to Nagios doesn’t know there is a hidden plug-in called check_dns in Nagios Monitoring system. On FreeBSD server, the binary can be found at /usr/local/libexec/nagios. List the directory and you should see check_dns.

check_dns usage is as below


$ ./check_dns -H host [-s server] [-a expected-address] [-A] [-t timeout] [-w warn] [-c crit]

Try to run the command as below and you will get the query result


$ ./check_dns -H systems.takizo.com -s 8.8.8.8
DNS OK: 0.012 seconds response time. systems.takizo.com returns 70.32.103.130|time=0.011703s;;;0.000000

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Free eBook: Alternative DNS Servers

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Grab this 747 pages DNS eBook for Free; Written by Jan-Piet Mens, titled “Alternative DNS Servers”. I glance through at the eBook and found several interesting topics for DNS deployments.

  • Bind DLZ – The Bind extension which can store your data in database MySQL, PostgreSQL and etc.
  • NSD – A lot people didn’t know about Name Server Daemon, find out more from the eBook.
  • DNS Planning – Name Server deployment planning, capacity planning and how to scale.
  • PowerDNS – Configure and master it.
  • LDAP DNS – Deploy DNS server with LDAP.

Alright, enough with the talks, where to download the eBook? It’s FREE for Download here