These are the specs:

- 250MB space
- 10GB bandwidth
- Wordpress preinstalled (if requested)
- FTP access
- host your own domain or use a subdomain from us (username.blorc.com)

For more details, go on to BLORC.com or our forum.

After weeks of recurring problems with the old SARA, there’s now a new one with a slightly new look:

Check it out!

So what’s SARA for the uninitiated?

It’s a blog aggregator service that displays feeds from blogs around Southeast Asia in 1 page, something like PPS, but allows you to see them in terms of when they write them instead of when they ping the service. It can store up to a week of feeds, so you won’t miss any of them.

How to use it?

Just goto SARA. Click on the title of the post to see excerpts of the blog post, or click on the blog name which links to the url of the blog post.

For posts that are older than the default 8 hours timespan, you can use the 16 hours, 1 day or 1 week button

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Technorati Tags: sara, rss, malaysia, southeast asia

Designing webpages is always difficult ‘cos you have to think how it’ll look like in the different browsers. Windows/Linux users so far have always been able to test IE/Opera/Firefox but not Safari….but now’s the chance to do it w/o having to buy a Mac for it:

Some guy will render it on his system, send a snapshot of it and display it as a picture you can download.

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Technorati Tags: firefox, safari, opera, ie

KOREKK!!! is now upgraded to Wordpress 2.0! Writing this to check and see if everything works like normal or not =)

All plugins seem to be working ok so far I hope…so please tell us if you see any bugs appearing anyway.

Also lotsa Malaysian bloggers posted about their experience with the new Wordpress, so here are the links if you wanna see them:

Link - Szehau’s blog (announcing that he has upgraded and his Default Trackback plugin is not working)
Link - Start.com.my (just an announcement, nothing much to read)
Link - LiewCF.com (why you should upgrade & feature list)
Link - awesomeblogs.com (announcing it, otherwise nothing much)
Link - mossism.net (announcing and some personal comments)
Link - HTnet (why he’s not upgrading)
Link - Kamigoroshi (announcing it & a warning before upgrading)
Link - boredworkers has loads to say about WP 2.0

Writely is an online web word processor that provides simple & SECURE web document sharing. It is free and allows you to

a). Pick exactly who can access your documents.
b). Upload from Word/OpenOffice & save to your desktop.
c). Edit your documents anytime, from anywhere.

MalaysianOSS Magazine (MyOSS Magazine) is a free PDF magazine available for download. Current edition #6 discussed Linux Live CDs - Part 2, Libraries in GNU/Linux & Other Flavours and Podcasting in GNU/Linux

Considered as an old story for a tech news, but worth a mention.

What is interesting are new top new entries for this year. No.1 is ‘Myspace’ the latest online community portal. I can’t say that its wildly popular here with my friends, but apparently it is so in the US. Hmmm. Other interesting debutants are Ares (the P2P software), China upstart Baidu, and even wikipedia.

More information here:

Link - PPS Blog
Link - Google Zeitgeist

Finally, the truth about the shutdown of this infamous bittorrent portal.

A year ago, the popular torrent tracking site SuperNova.org was brought offline out of the blue.

And now, a year after it was shut down, the creator has finally decided to reveal what went wrong.

Link - Start.com.my
Link - Suprnova.org

Interesting giveaway by 2 fellow Malaysian bloggers: boringest and Andrew

-200MB space
-2GB bandwidth
-cPanel & Fantastico
-No ads required on your site at all!
-You can also host your own domain on our site or use our name: xyz.blorc.com
-Use any blogging software you like

Wow! Free hosting, amazing specs! What are you waiting for?

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Welcome people! KOREKK is a new blog aggregator which allows the Malaysian blogosphere to submit blog posts they like and let other users vote to see if they like it or not.

The creators likened it to Digg - what do you think?

3. Why is this website so much like digg.com?

KOREKK’s based on digg and has a voting mechanism similar to it. Also, ‘korek’ means dig in Malay and we decided to add another k to the end of it a la digg, but that’s where the similarity ends. The coding behind the website is entirely different and the success of KOREKK depends on the contributions of all users!

For more information on how to use it, read on:

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