Today, I’m going to put in my own plug for Digsby, an application I use every day, by showing you six things Digsby can do that will save you time, energy, and RAM space.

Digsby has come to replace my use of several other applications – no longer do I need a Gmail window, Twitter window, Facebook window, and IM window open all at the same time. Instead, I just use Digsby!

Here are five features that make Digsby the only application you’ll want to always be open, besides just being the best multi-IM client out there:

Email Checking

Got a POP or IMAP email? Of course you do. That means you can use your email with Digsby. Setting up Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo with Digsby is incredibly easy; others are a little harder, but still entirely possible.

Once you set it up (under “Digsby” and then “My Accounts”), Digsby lets you check, read, and respond to your email without ever leaving your IM window. Mark emails as read, write them, or just head over to your Inbox to check them out- all using Digsby. I used to always have a Gmail window open to make sure I never missed critical email – now all I need is Digsby.

Twitter

After spending forever looking for the perfect Twitter client, I’ll tell you this- it’s not Digsby. But what Digsby is perfect for is reading Tweets. It’s a great way to stay on top of your replies and direct messages, as well as write tweets quickly. Digsby’s not the solution for power Twitter users, but it’s a great way to stay on top of all the Tweeting you do on a daily basis.

Facebookery

Just for the record, I love the new Facebook layout. But that’s beside the point. Using Digsby, you can do just about anything you would on Facebook, from right within the Digsby interface. You’ll be alerted when you have a new message, wall post, alert or notification. One click in Digsby, and you can see all the things waiting for you on Facebook. One more, and you’re sent right to a Facebook window within the Digsby application. Update your status easily, answer your wall posts, and stay on top of your social networking, all from within Digsby.

One of Digsby’s newest features is the addition of Facebook Chat. Now, you can chat with all your online Facebook friends from within Digsby. I love the idea of Facebook Chat (being able to connect in real-time with your friends on Facebook, which I have more of than IM buddies), more than I like the execution on the Facebook site itself. Digsby does a great job of using your friends list, and integrating it into its fantastic IM client to make chatting with your Facebook friends better and easier.

Socializing

Digsby’s options for social networking go far beyond Facebook. You can use Digsby to check your LinkedIn or MySpace account, and receive notifications, send messages, and interact with your network right from within Digsby. Each account gets an icon in your Windows system tray, and one click brings up a pop-up window letting you manage your social networks just as you would in a browser.

Got a new message? Digsby tells you about it, then lets you respond to it all without leaving the Digsby interface. It’s simple to use, not a memory hog, and an awesome way to manage multiple online identities from one place.

The Little Things

My favorite thing about Digsby is that its team pays such close attention to the little things: the small features that you never noticed before, but can’t live without once you start using Digsby.

My personal favorite is the pop-up notification box: when you get an IM, a pop-up comes up. Not exactly revolutionary, but what IS awesome is that you can respond from within the popup. No switching back and forth between IM windows and other applications – just type in the popup, and it goes away once it has been idle for a few seconds.

There are tons of features like this within Digsby: mass-changing of your status and away message, easy hiding and showing of the application, and endless customization of how it looks. I spent a while getting my Digsby to look exactly how I want it to, and big props to Digsby for giving you so many options.

What’s your IM client of choice? Why?

Photo: BigBlue

A little about my family members, we have teacher, Investment Assistant Manager, Pharmacist, Broker/Trader (Sort of), Accountant, Web Designer (me) and a future Offshore Banker.

The convocation will be held at Sabah. This time, my parents and my 4th sister will go together. It is a little bit unfair and I am quite disappointing. Last time, when it was my convocation. No body has attend expect my parents and my youngest sister, and my girlfriend. That is one of the sadness experience in my life… I still can remember I just started my career as internship. I have RM 600 in my saving account. No money for accommodation, no money for air tickets. Then, I had to beg my other sisters to sponsor the trip.

Before I step into the society, I tell myself money isn’t everything. We need to help each other, especially to family member. After I start working for few years, I realize that the situation isn’t like what I was thinking. You got money, you have the power. This is very true not only in a company but also in a family. Maybe you disagree with me but this is true, at least in my family. I never see the richest sister respect my eldest sister, or anyone of us. She even gossip my brother in law in front of us. This really pissed me off.

Now, what I really concern is my career and my parents. I wish they can always be healthy, happy and cheerful.

Personally, I don’t like to use large image within the post. Because it may slow down the page loading. I prefer to leave it to the users to decide whether they want to browse to the orignal sizes of the photo.

However, I won’t give up just like this. I will try to find another way to sell some high quality themes to those who like my design style. I think magazine style premium wordpress themes are too much. There is no room for it already. Most of us enjoy using wordpress to blog. And blogging is already like a meal in our daily life. We do it everyday, read rss feeds, blogging, meet new bloggers, sharing. So, I think that is the initial idea for wordpress.

What I am going to do now is to create high quality wordpress themes mostly for bloggers. What make it so special. I will try to make it more individual. Maybe sometimes the target will female, maybe for guy, single, couple, group of friends, blog for money and etc. Since it is personal used blog. The price will not go high. But still, I won’t go for USD5. That isn’t a reasonable price for the time I consumed. The range will be from 29 USD – 49 USD. Do this make sense?

I don’t know. I only wish that I can survive by designing new themes. So, I can resign from my daily job and pay 100% attention to serve you better. God Bless me ….

My friend ffk me, so I’m left there all by myself. I’m the type (dying breed) who honors appointment and make the effort to be early, so that I don risk being late. That’s how I was left all alone in Ss2 at 11.15a.m

Worst part? They stop serving breakfast meals at 11a.m SHARP.

So, there I was sitting at the first floor, chomping down fries and McChicken, looking out the window…

staring at the people who are walking alone, walking with family, walking with friends… cars driving by, cars getting into parking, getting out of parking…

my thoughts just went *deep deep into the ocean* ala Chinese phrase…

Then, I looked at the time.

1 hour had passed.

My unbitten parts of McChicken was cold.

Threw every food on the table in my mouth and washed my hands before I headed for exit.

–If only I could do the same with the things that went through my head…

In the following picture. I think it was way back during our first/second year in Uni. That makes it around year 2004.

The Duo

In case you are wondering. The red shirt guy is KaiLoon and the blue shirt is Yours Truly.

The End

Sekian, Terima Kasih.

And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there – dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket,

the wife said: “Wait just a moment!”

She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away.

So her friend said: “Girl, I know you were not fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband.”

The loyal wife replied: “Listen, I’m a Christian; I cannot go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money into the casket with him.”

“You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?”

“I sure did,” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account, and wrote him a cheque.. If he can cash it, then he can spend it.”

Yes, quite the copier I am. =p

Anyway, this is not JUST any video.

This is the rarest of ALL videos there are.

A video of Yours Truly trying to block Kai Loon from making the 3 point shoot.

We actually make quite a team together with another unimate of ours, Fei Yiu. =p

Here’s the video clip.