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Can't sign in to Yahoo Messenger, error 81003002

Today suddently I have problem signing in to Yahoo Messenger, I get error as below:

The password you entered is incorrect. Click "Try again" to re-enter it, or click "Sign-in Problems?" if you have forgotten your ID or password. (81003002)

I know very well that my id & password are correct, and I have no problem in using them to log in to my Yahoo Mail. I even tried uninstall and reinstall Yahoo Messenger but it didn't help.

After some searches and testing, finally I found where the problem is. The error only happens if I have proxy server setting in IE's or Google Chrome's Internet Options. It seems IE and Google Chrome is sharing the same proxy server settings.

Funny thing is in my Yahoo Messenger, I specify 'Connect directly to the Internet', and not via proxy server, not sure why it still try to get the proxy setting from IE.

Anyway when I taken out the proxy server settings from IE, I was able to sign in to Yahoo Messenger again.

Tea

To have succeeded

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

XnView - photo viewer, converter, organizer

Recently I tried a program for enhancing the digital photographs called XnView. This program actually comes with many features.
It becomes a program I used frequently now for a few features which I'll mentioned below:

1) It has many filters that I can make used of to further enhance my photos




2) Click on Image pull down menu, and I can have features to Resize, Add Text, Add Watermark. Previously I have been using different program for doing these, and now save me trouble in bringing up more than 1 programs.


For more details and to download the program, please go here:
http://www.xnview.com

This program is provided as Freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organization.

Fridge Magnets from all over

New Zealand


Australia


Korea


Vietnam


Turkey


Mongolia



USA


2008 Beijing Olympics


1992 Barcelona Olympics

2009 Chinese New Year red packets

This one is from McDonalds:


From Purple Cane (紫藤）when purchasing chinese tea.


From Astro, for their 小太阳program:


This is given out from Golden Screen Cinema, the packets shows the characters in the Cantonese Chinese New Year movie [All's well Ends Well 2009].


This is from a packet I received：

Google Chinese Pinyin IME

Most of users are using the IME (input method editor) provided by Windows XP & Vista for entering Chinese characters. I have been using that for a long time too. When Google has its Chinese Pinyin IME available, I tried it. I find that it's quite user friendly and with many good features, but one of the best feature it has is that it also provides key stroke input option. This is definately one of the feature I have been longing for a long time. For I can use the pinyin method alright but if I can't pronouce the Chinese character I need to input I would run into trouble. Hence I have started using this Google Chinese IME tool a lot.

For anyone who may like to take a look, you can download it from link provided below. As usual as with many other Google tool, it's free!http://tools.google.com/pinyin/

The Google page for the above is in Chinese. There are also lots of information and discussion of the tool when you do a search in Google search page, using keywords such as 'Google pinyin IME'.

For using the stroke input option, you first enter 'u' to get into the correct mode, then use the following characters for the different stroke types:
h - 横
s - 竖
p - 撇
n - 捺
z - 折
d - 点

yummy breakfast at Petaling Street on a Sunday morning

Discover life by living it

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

--- Soren Kierkegaard

Lembah Kiara Recreational Park

This park situated at Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, a residential area. This park is well maintained, and lots of monkeys can be seen when you walk around the park.