You being using Google Search everyday, why not spend 7 minutes to learn from the Pros how to use the Google Search. I promise your 7 minutes time will save you many times in the future. The interview: Patrick Norton (DL.TV) vs. Matt Cutts (Google).
You being using Google Search everyday, why not spend 7 minutes to learn from the Pros how to use the Google Search. I promise your 7 minutes time will save you many times in the future. The interview: Patrick Norton (DL.TV) vs. Matt Cutts (Google).
Interesting piece of toy… based on the car models this must be inspired by the Initial D manga or anime. Saw the promo video in Parkson, KLCC but not able to find it in the store. Will go check out other outlet.
Models available;
AE86, Nissan 180SX, RX-7, Skyline GTR
For official site check out below;
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/drift_pkg/
Below is the promo video.
Incase you don’t know, Heroes season 3 is back on air (22 Sept 2008). 2 episods is release plus a season premier count down. Going to catch it in 720p ;-) can’t wait.
Since it release yesterday, was playing with it for many hours. Impression was pretty good. Load pages very fast and but occasionally found errors on certain pages. The very first issue was;
Java Applet not working. Got this solve by installing the latest beta build of Java SE http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/6u10/6u10RC.jsp
Some applications in Facebook not working.
Not Google Toolbar [arggggg…..]
High memory usage, with 5 tabs open below is what I got in my Task Manager.
Chinese web pages are not handle well :-(
I will still stick to FireFox ;-)
Need to convert file from one format to another? ZamZar a web services which provide you these features. Files format which can be converted cover followings category;
Some of favourites format are DOC to PDF, PDF to DOC, AVI to MP4 and many others. the Need to know the full details of file format supported check the link below;
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php
Did I mention that the basic services are free of charge? (FOC)? With free service you can convert up to 100MB file per size, basically unless you are converting video files there is no reason your file should exceed 100MB in size.
Last week decided to flash my HTC Touch to Touch ESSentiaL v1.8. After using it for few days was pretty happy. Speed was very fast, now using my Touch without overclock and the response was crisp. At the same time I also upgraded the IPL and SPL. With this ROM it gives me Windows Mobile 6.1 and the build number was 20275.1.3.3
Below link are where you can find the ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=415880
New version of Google Android released…. If you interested head to the download page. The download size is about 90MB. Below are the screenshot of the new SDK emulator.
If you need to remove the “My Sharing Folders” by Live Messenger, perform followings command will do.
regsvr32 -u fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll
If you need to backup / split your DVD video these freeware is pretty good.
http://www.dvdshrink.org
IMO as good as DVDFab Platinum which cost you US49.99
Need an interactive guide? link below;
http://www.dvdshrink.info/guides.php
Another beta products from Microsoft Office Labs, basically this is a web site which allow user record their own tutorial video and upload to shared with others. All tutorial topics are restricted to Microsoft Products (what you expect). Screen cast recorder is provided to help you create the video.
Below a quick review on Community Clip v1; After you had installed the application, it start and stay in the system tray. It only provide 3 recording option as shown below.
After recording ended, what you can do was Save, Upload or Email. No post recording process allowed.
The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - http://en.beijing2008.cn/
My favourites application launch tools had released a new version, in case you not aware of this tools I highly recommend your download and install, it will save you time. Below is what’s new in this version;
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
Latest Changes:
- Added Linux support! (KDE and Gnome both work, possibly others)
- Added Google Calculator plugin (gcalc)
- Added configurable default search to weby (all searches with no results default to google)
- “/” and “\” now tab complete while file browsing
- Added rescue mode to recover lost windows or forgotten hotkeys (in Linux run “launchy rescue” or use the start menu in windows)
- Minimum transparency set to 15%
- Searches are even faster and the catalog uses slightly less memory
- Fixed the database update timer
- Fixed centering problem when multiple monitors in use
- Fixed the url encoding problem, e.g. googling for “c#” now works
A new plug in for Outlook which I recommended your give it a try. Some of the features I like about it are;
Lighting Fast Email Search – lots more faster as compare to the default search in Outlook 2007.
Threaded Conversation – If you already get used to GMail threaded conversation this is a pretty good.
Quick attachment discovery – provide you a historical list of attachments for the selected contact.
Other features which I think is nice to have are;
Click this link for a product tour and decide you want to give this software(currently in beta) a try.
If you want to give the new version of FinePrint a try, you may want to skip. After installed I found it slow and not much enhancement which worth me to pay US20 for the upgrade. I am still happy with the v5.85 which I am currently using. Just my 2 cents.
Today my WSS not working and it complain that the Client Certificate was not valid. After checked and confirm the client certificate I used was the correct one, which one the only possible was the cert are revoked. Without access to the server which issue the cert, I opt for alternative way of solving this. After some searching below is what can be done to disable the checking for Revoked Certificate for your IIS.
This is a registry hack, used it at your own risk.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\
HTTP\Parameters\SslBindingInfo\0.0.0.0:443
DefaultSslCertCheckMode = 1
To further secure your SharePoint server, you can implement client site certificate. With client certificate, you end user must install the certificate manually before they grant access to your server. How the cert should be distributed will not cover here. Below are simple steps on how to implement client certificate.
You need to prepare the Client Certificate before you start the configuration.
For Client Certificate mapping, you can do it in two way.
Do you know that you can increase your GMail security by always communicate in HTTPS? To do this login into your GMail, select Settings, scroll to the bottom, select Always use https under Browser connection.
Source: ZDNet Blog
After upgrading to Firefox 3, being waiting for the Paste and Go 2 to update it’s installation files to support the final version, no luck. Decided to hack and get it installed myself. Below is how to do it.
1. Download the xpi installation file from the official web site.
2. Unzip using 7-Zip
3. Use notepad and edit the file install.rdf
4. Change following text from <em:maxVersion>3.0a1</em:maxVersion> to <em:maxVersion>3.0</em:maxVersion>
5. Now copy the updated install.rdf files back to the xpi file. You can use drag and drop. i.e. Open the xpi file in 7-Zip then drag and drop the file.
6. In FF3 click File->Open File… then select the Paste and Go 2 xpi file.
P/S: If you had Paste and Go 2 previously installed, make sure you uninstall before you proceed with the installation.
Yup, you can had a translation bot added to your GTalk. For example if you need a English to French translation bot, add a contact called en2fr@bot.talk.google.com, click Yes when prompt to accept contact. Now whatever text you chat with the newly added contact will be return with the targeted translation text. It’s pretty cool and it support many 12 languages. Below official text from Google Talk web site;
Translation bots
Send a message in one language and have it instantly translated into another. Just add a translation bot to your contacts using the following format: [from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com. There are 24 bots available:
(ar = Arabic, de = German, el = Greek, en = English, es = Spanish, fr = French, it = Italian, ja = Japanese, ko = Korean, nl = Dutch, ru = Russian, zh = Chinese)
Below are explanation from the official web site.
What is Creative Docs .NET?
Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more.
The interface is tailored for high productivity: it does never get in your way. Creative Docs .NET tools are simple, yet powerful. All styles and attributes can be modified interactively with a minimum number of mouse clicks. A color gradient, for instance, can be modified directly by dragging its handles in the document window.
With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!
With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!
Outlook Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:
Google had launch a new services called Lively. It’s a 3D world which allow chat and you can create your own Virtual Room, choose from a set of Avatar (you can customise your avatar with dress and other outfit). You can also decorate the room with furniture.
Currently the top room are bearing Sex theme… Looks like sex still appeals. So far run without any problem on my PC with integrated Intel GMA graphic card. Will try at home to check did my Nvidia GeForce provide better experience.
This is how my certificate looks like. Need one for yourself, just check use the link, if you had pledge for the download you should be receiving the link via email.
FF3 Download Certificate
This map shown how Malaysian downloaded FF3 on the Download Day.
The Bata version of Acrobat.com My Files – Online file sharing services allow you stored up to 5GB of files. One things not sure was what is the biggest single files allowed? Will try upload and checked.
Update: Not problem upload a PDF file size 43MB
Did a quick test on Adobe BuzzWord…
Following applications has a new version, what are you waiting for go download it.
Some department in my company are on cost saving drive and the first thing they did is to cut down the paper usage. Below are some solutions which can be done.
A colleague of my asked me how to print an A2 PDF file into multiple A4 pages (to be exact 4 pages of A4, because A2= 4 x A4)? After some searching and finding below are the possible solutions. I divide the solutions to two part, printing Images and printing PDF documents (non Image).
Microsoft Paint
Yes Microsoft Paint actually support Poster Printing, this features are hidden from most of the users (including me, only discover recently). Below are steps to do it in Ms Paint.
Freeware
There is freeware / shareware which support this features. Below I listed two freeware, you may Google “poster printing freeware” to check out more.
Printer Driver
If your printer driver support this, you are lucky else you need to rely on others method / virtual printer driver as describe later. In screen below my HP 2420dn support poster printing while my HP 4200 don’t. If your printer support poster printing you should be able to find the setting under Printer Printing Preferences.
Virtual Printer Driver
PrintGhot 1.0 from UsefulSoft allow you print any documents into multi page. Basically it is a virtual printer driver allow you output anything printable documents to multi page (poster print). http://usefulsoft.com/printghost/
Possible Solutions
This might work, but I have not try. It is just an idea only, in anyone try this out let me know.
This might work for PostScript printer driver which can produce image files.
Yup… it’s final and to my surprise the Google Toolbar works (it’s not working in RC2). Below are Plug-ins I used in FF2 which does not work in FF3.
Need another reason to upgrade to FireFox 3, check this article, it does a benchmark using between browser on JavaScript and ACID 3.
Fuji Xerox release an universal printer driver which claim can be used for all printer, below is a quick review on it. In summary work pretty well with Laser Printer, so far able to detect a few HP LaserJet I added and one plus point I like about this printer drivers was it
Link to official site :
http://www.office.xerox.com/software-solutions/global-printer-driver/enus.html
Had upgraded the my Microsoft Live Writer to Technical Preview edition, below are some of the new features.
SDK Updates
This release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK, which now includes hooks for pre- and post-publish events. These updates are still experimental and these APIs are not stable--we may make changes based on your feedback that break plug-ins that use these new methods. However, we’re really excited about the new set of scenarios have been unlocked and look forward to hearing feedback from all of you Writer plug-in developers out there.
For more details about the SDK, please see the blog post on Windows Live Dev.
New Features
You’ll also get an early look at some improvements and new features we’ve been working on:
Video and Image Publishing Enhancements
- Upload videos to Soapbox
- Image cropping and tilting
- Additional border styles
- Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
- Support for centering images
Editing Enhancements
- Auto Linking
- Smart quotes/typographic characters
- Word count
UI Improvements
- Revised main toolbar
- Tabs for view switching
- Improved category control with search/filtering
Here is your change to take part in this, as highlighted in the web site;
Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
By the way, the official date for the launch of Firefox 3 will be posted here soon - so check back! Join our community and this effort by pledging today.
Adobe ConnectNow is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work together — all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that is easy to access and simple to use. It's free, so sign up now.
http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/ another big player who start to offer web conference services. According to the web site it offer following features. Will give it a try and provide some feedback if time permit.
Basically all the features offered by Microsoft Live Meeting and WebEx.
If you like to include attachment links in Windows SharePoint Services posting I would recommend you post it as relative link instead of the whole URL link. Doing it using relative link will make sure it work if your administrator decided to extent the SharePoint site. Below are how a relative link looks like as compare to the full URL link.
Full Link
http://<server-name>/SiteName/attachment.jpg
Relative Link
/SiteName/attachment.jpg
Found the zoom and full screen features in Firefox 3 very useful, just take following scenario. Figure 1 are before using the Zoom and Fuulscreen mode, in Figure 2 the reading experience are so much better.
If you follow my previous entry, you can now browse Zinio (selected) Magazine free. In default mode the viewing experience are not that good, but after using the zoom mode it's so much better. Just compare the screen yourself.
Bump into this article, interesting and I am able to view it.
iPhone users have it all - to the extent that they are able to read selected Zinio e-magazines for free using the Safari browser on the iPhone. But, the rest of us, the mere mortals, should have no fear - some enterprising chappie has found a way for us to enjoy those same e-magazines that iPhone users are reading, all for free!
Here are the steps to enjoy your free read:
Code:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)
After some resdings and findings, below is a simple guide on how to setup the SSL (https) for WSS v3.
You might need to change the access mapping to reflect the URL if your WSS is going to publish to the Internet. the path are Central Administration > Operations > Alternate Access Mappings
Next steps is to setup your IIS SSL Certificate.
To further enchance the security you might want to implement the Client certificates.
A quick dos command which let you map and un-map a network shared resources. Below are how to use it;
PUSHD \\<server name>\shared
The above command will map the drive and auto change to the mapped drive letter. Drive Letter are mapped from Z - A order.
POPD
The above command will un-map shared drive from Z to A order.
If you are using vPro and not using the AMT, you may turn off following services to save some memory.
Since I am using spb Menu as my main application launcher, I decided to disable my BioTouch to save some memory (having memory issue because using Blue Touch ROM v5 Windows Mobile 6.1 - 8MB Page Pool). After some searching found this guide in XDA-Developer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=372657
Above guide show you how to change the BioTouch to MortButtons, what I did to change it to spb Menu by changing the VJTarget.lnk to spb Menu.link.
Updated following software to my HP dc7700p Minitower
sp39087.exe - PDF Complete Update
This package contains an embedded utility for the supported desktop models and operating systems that enables users to convert files to the Adobe .pdf format from within Microsoft Office.
Update: Had remove this because it's just a bloatdware which allow you print 50 pages of PDF. Crap will use MagicPDF instead
sp37615.exe - Intel Graphics Driver for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
(VERSION: 6.14.10.4864 Rev. A )This package contains the driver for the Intel graphics in the supported desktop models and operating systems.
sp38596.exe - Realtek High-Definition Audio Driver
VERSION: 5.10.0.5567 Rev. A
After reading an article about 6 excellent FF extension, I had installed followings. Did not install other because Tab Mix Plus did a better job. :-)
1. Hyperwords - Select any word or words on any web page. A menu pops-up. Choose from any one of the many powerful commands. And that's it. Fully customizable menu and behavior.
2. Read it Later - This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: “It’s a ’staging area’ for bookmarks.”
Source:
6 Excellent Firefox Extensions Made To Save Your Time
Google release a beta edition of GTalk, with advance features like Group Chat, Emoticons and a new Desktop Notification services. Two main features missing are File Transfer and Voice Call. So I need to skip this and wait for the latest release.
Yup it's Beta 5 now. Unfortunately still no Google Toolbars for this beta version. IMO the best way to test FireFox 3.0 will be using the portable edition, with this you can have both v2 and v3 running. http://www.portableapps.com
Other application release today and worth you attentions are;
WinMerge 2.8
FileZella 3.0.9 RC1
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/6-1/default.mspx
for comparison between the version check out link below
Compare versions of Windows Mobile
Lot's of new features added to the Standard Edition, for Professional Edition my favourites will be the Speed improvement and Threaded Text Messaging.
Last weekend spend few hours to flash my HTC Touch to Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. Being using it for 2 days and the major features I like most about WM6.1 was speed.
Below are brief improvement for WM61.
If your not able to view the SAP Note in PDF, kindly refer to Note 1131299. As indicated in Note 1131299, you need to go to your SAP Support Portal, click my Profile the follow by the Save button.
Depends on your PDF setting, your may get a corrupted PDF file call sapnote.pdf (in actual fact this is a HTML file with following message.
"An error occurred when formatting the SAP Note."
Interested to know see what's is inside on those Gadget and Computer. Tech Republic had a section dedicated to this, it shown all images on those gadget which was crack and open. My favourites are those classic computer and gadgets. Some list below;
Interesting piece of information on how Firefox development team handle the Memory issue in the latest Firefox development.
Beside COMODO Personal Firewall (Free) another free firewall your should consider will be Online Amour. Both firewall score close to 100% on Motousec Firewall Challenge
http://www.tallemu.com - Online Amour.
Another free PDF creator. MagicPDF. PDF file created my magic is more optimised in size as compare to doPDF. I will give it a try and will report if there is any special finding.
The main reason was Tab Mix Plus not supported and I don't like default way of handling the Tab by FF 3. Now I think there is more reason to use it because the dev. build for TMP can install in FF3.
The version I used are 071228. Below is the link for TMP Nightly Build. You can also use the later build but your FF also need to be the latest build. I shall shay with B3 at this moment.
http://tmp.garyr.net/dev-builds/tab_mix_plus-0.3.6.0.071228.xpi
http://tmp.garyr.net/dev-builds/