Hey everyone, I thought that I should inform you all that I am back from my honeymoon because I’ve got some emails that are very concerned of what happened to me and also a few “weird” comments pretending to be written by me which of course is deleted. Actually I got back on Sunday night, 11th October and was way too tired that I slept till 12 in the noon. Had a lot of clothes to wash, bags to unpack and my work stuff accumulated for a month to deal with.

For the past month I traveled to Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany (Only for Oktoberfest) and Austria. I like Switzerland the best because everything there is so systematic and clean. The whole trip was nice as we saw a lot of things, went to a lot of places especially churches and ate the local food there. It was tiring though because there was a lot of walking and we were moving from one place to another dragging our big luggage.

We are very thankful that we did not get mugged or anything stolen. However there was once when I was helping my wife carrying her slingbag while we were in a shop selling clothes and noticed it opened when I felt someone pushed me. They were really fast and luckily nothing was stolen from the bag.

There was a case when we took the tram and forgot to validate our new tickets. When we about to get down the train in Duomo, Milan, an official asked for our tickets and found them not validated. He cannot speak English at all and all he can say is “Ticket no validate, FINE. 34 euros (pointing at me), 34 euros (pointing at my wife)”. I had no idea if he was a real official or not because I heard of fake police in Malaysia so I took a photo of him. He noticed that and shouted “NO PHOTO!”. If you ever take a tram or public bus in Milan, make sure your ticket gets VALIDATED or just RUN away from this guy if you see him!

I am still trying my very best to get back into your normal routines. Going to sleep before midnight is really tough for me nowadays and of course waking up early is impossible if I can’t sleep early. I should have some articles coming up tomorrow or day after tomorrow.

Ah, after a month of voting, finally the time has come for Chapeau to announce the 2009 industry winners and also most brilliant blog. Yesterday I read in a comment that this site has won the Chapeau 2009′s Best Technology Blog and I immediately went to Chapeau’s website to check it out which was true! Then I tried to view the flash video to see who won the 2009′s most brilliant blog but it was terribly slow maybe due to a lot of people were hitting hard on the site trying to find that out as well.

1. God for everything

2. My wife for supporting and being there for me whenever I felt like giving up

3. Chapeau for organizing this award contest

4. Voters for voting for me

5. Forum members for helping me by helping other people

6. Near 70,000 subscribers for accepting my articles every day

7. YOU, for your support and time in visiting this site whenever you can

Once again, thanks Chapeau and everyone who voted for me! Winning this award really gives a huge boost to continue working harder on this blog. Do stay tune as I have some really good tips and a huge giveaway coming very soon!

Note: Every finalist is required to give an acceptance speech but you know me, I prefer to stay anonymous so they did it for me ;)

You have a super fast computer which you’ve paid thousands of dollars for it. You think that since you have a powerful computer, you can install hundreds of software and let it autostart in your Windows tray. Weirdly, your computer is still taking a long time to completely boot up to Windows. That is normal because every startup programs requires a few seconds to launch. If you have 10 autostart programs and each program takes an average 6 seconds to startup, that means your computer will take an extra minute to completely boot up Windows. If you’re unlucky and there is a program that is corrupted or has conflicts with other software, most likely your computer will hang for a while or you cannot get in Windows at all until it is removed from autostartup.

Here is is a powerful yet easy to understand software that is able to trace the the time the process is started and also duration taken to completely start a process. This way you can know straight away know which is the culprit that is causing the slow startup without guessing.

I usually post an article everyday at 3AM central time and you might have noticed why aren’t there any today.

Here’s why…

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! No computer tips or tutorials today as I’d like to take a day off. However, for those who don’t celebrate Christmas, and feel bored because many sites are also not updating today, why not play some cool and fun Christmas game?

Freeze your enemies with your water gun and stop the bad guys from ruining Christmas. This game is fun because you get to collect points and power ups.
[ Play Deep Freeze ]

As I’ve promised, I’ll be giving out a free 1 year RapidShare Premium account worth EUR$54.99 when Raymond.CC Blog turns 2 years old.

After a little thinking, I’ve decided to change my mind. Don’t worry, I am still giving out the free 1 year RapidShare Premium account except there is a small requirement for you to be in the winner’s list.

Other than the previous requirement of subscribing Raymond.CC’s Blog, there is one more thing you need to do which is:
1. Use the email that you subscribed to Raymond.CC Blog and email to:
[ Contest Ended. Here is the WINNER ]
2. With the Subject: RapidShare

That’s all!

This is for you to tell me that you’re participating in the lucky draw. The reason I am doing this is because I still remembered the previous time when I gave away the 1 year RapidShare Premium account away, I had to randomly select the winner 3 times because the first two lucky winner didn’t claim the prize. It’s better because the lists will get smaller and the chances to get picked is higher. Also, the person who wants to win RapidShare Premium account will appreciate the prize more because he/she already knows the benefit of it.

ONE WEEK will be given for you to email me. I will announce the lucky winner on the 11th October 2007. Good luck everyone!

As for the other prize which I haven’t reveal, all I can say is… SOON!

NOTE: STOP sending me email more than ONCE! It will NOT increase your chance in winning but only lowering your chance because I consider that as CHEATING!

Note 2: I’ve also noticed that some of you even use different email address to increase your chance in winning. I’ve already identified a few person doing that and I also consider that as CHEATING!

2 months ago I posted a website that I found containing more than 800 daily tips and tricks. If you think that the tips in that website is not enough, this another website which I am going to tell you is going to blow you away!

tipstrs, containing a lot, i mean really a lot of tips, tricks, advice and hints on categorized subjects. You can search for tips, view newly submitted tips, view hot tips and also all-time best tips.