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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Travel Tips: Getting a cheap internet connection in Malaysia.

I'm currently out in Sarawak (Borneo) and spent some time searching for a cheap dial up ISP in Malaysia.

I couldn't find any obvious candidates that didn't involve some sort of dodgy download dialer.exe thing (that wouldn't work on a mac anyway).

So, when I got here I relied on stumbling across open wi-fi connections which seem fairly widespread, but this approach doesn't always guarantee you'll be able to connect.

Anyway, it turns out that Telekom Malaysia offer a dial-up ISP service that requires no registration. It costs 4 Sen per minute (less than 1 pence UK) and all you need to do is dial 1315 (no username or password required).

Of course, if you've got a recent-ish mac you'll need to buy/bring a USB modem as well :)

Friday, June 6, 2008

Enable hidden Skype (2.7 Beta) Emoticons in OS X

I discovered today that there are a bunch of hidden, amusing and animated emoticons in Skype 2.7 Beta (and possibly other versions) on OS X (and possibly other OSs).

They look like this :



So, being a geeky sort I knocked up a quick one liner to enable them all in OS X.

This bit of copypasta can be run in the Terminal and it assumes that you've installed Skype in the default location (/Applications)

perl -p -i -e 's/<true\/>/<false\/>/g' \
/Applications/Skype.app/Contents/Resources/Emoticons/\
Animated\ Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset/Emoticons.plist

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