Adverlets is one of the Asia’s first blog advertising network that is based in Malaysia. Do you put their ads in your blogs? If you do, you might notice that it takes up quite a lot of time to load up if you are using slow internet connection.

Every time the ads loads up, your browser needs to download some data from the Advertlets’ server. Crynobone asked me to check my site with Firebug Firefox extension to check on the load time. Both of us were surprised of the ads data load amount!

As you can see, in order to load up the ads, you need to download a few javascripts. What surprises us is that there are 3 javascripts – prototype, scriptaculous and effects, need to be downloaded TWICE every time the ads loads up! Strange? That’s not all. Look at the size of those javascripts, the total size of the 3 javascripts are 113KB, which total up to 113KB x 2 = 226KB of data to be downloaded every time the ads loads up!

What are they doing anyway? Showing off their powerful servers? I seriously think that the programmers from Advertlets should really look into this problem. A 72KB javascript is very heavy and will slow down the load time of a blog. Apart from that, loading TWICE the javascripts will take up quite a lot of time. Since they are targeting advertisements on blogs, I don’t think they want to slow down our blogs right?

I hope this problem will be solved soon, or else Malaysian blogs will be loading slower and slower! What’s your opinion on this? By the way, please fill in my Advertlets poll… I need a few more to get my status verified I think.

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Are you prohibited from using Msn Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger or any instant messenger in your office? Ninja IM offers you an alternative to IM your friends in the office even without installing any instant messenger in your computer.

Basically this is a web based Instant Messenger where you can chat with your friends in a browser. The best and creative part is that they created a “ninja mode” that once you click on the button, your browser view changed into Microsoft Words new document screen. Imagine your boss passing by and saw you are typing a new document instead of chatting.. Funny huh?

By clicking the “ninja mode” button, your browser view will change from the view above to as below..

A Microsoft Word in your browser! Mind you that it’s just a screenshot that won’t work ok?

The idea is creative though, but I really doubt the popularity of such IM. I don’t think many people will use it because it is not MSN or Yahoo! based and you have to ask your friend to join this site in order to chat with each other. But still, you can have a try at Ninja IM site.

Have you ever heard of OpenDNS? OpenDNS helps you navigate the Internet in a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable way. The service is free and requires nothing to download. OpenDNS doesn’t replace your existing Internet connection, it just makes it better.

OpenDNS provides you a safer, faster, and smarter way to surf the Internet. What’s the meaning of safer, faster and smarter anyway?

Safer

By using OpenDNS DNS servers, it can identify and stop sites trying to phish (steal) your personal information or money.The OpenDNS phishing protection works with all operating systems and browsers, complementing any other security measures already in use. You will be protected from surfing to these phishing sites as they are blocked from accessing them.

Faster

OpenDNS is so fast because they run some of the largest DNS caches around and do it on our own high-performance network. They caches almost all DNS servers around the world where you can access websites without going through a few DNS servers. That will make your surfing experience blazing fast.

Smarter

OpenDNS automatically connects you to the website even if you have spelling mistakes on the URL you typed in. For example, you typed m3nghua.cmo instead of m3nghua.com, your browser will still take you there.

Other than that, OpenDNS had just launched a new feature, which is the shortcut feature. You can create shortcuts that let you type something easy-to-remember into your address bar and leap straight where you want to go. Paul had written a post about the new feature on OpenDNS. To set these shortcuts, simply login to your account and setup them. This is an example of what you will get.

And yet, OpenDNS provides a reliable DNS server to provide you the connectivity and speed to the Internet. Thinking of using it? All you need to do, is to change your DNS server address to their address which are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. That’s it. Changing the DNS server address at your router or modem will make your whole network to use OpenDNS straight away. Confused? Read the tutorial here.

My Opinion

I’ve been using OpenDNS for quite some time and it seems that surfing the Internet is a bit faster than using TMnet DNS servers. But still, will our internet connection speed affected because of the DNS server located in the US? You know we had so much problem on the connection to international links, right?

Have you tried using it? Give us your opinion will ya?