Posted in Guides, Recommendations, Software on Dec 13th, 2006 No Comments »
Instead of working hard, you’ve to work smart too. You just have to be amazed with how many hours could be saved if you were to choose the right tools to do the right things.
There are some useful and lightweight applications that I always use to improve productivity and keep my job fun. Here’s the [...]
Posted in Mini Reviews, Recommendations, Software on Dec 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »
Rainlendar is a light calendar application but complete in term of functionalities. It’s integrated into your desktop, supports unicode and works on both Windows and Linux.
The reason why I’m writing a review for this simple yet sophisticated application is because I feel it simply deserves it.
Read the rest of the review in Spherebox
Posted in Guides, Internet, Recommendations, Software on Nov 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Are you a victim of suspected TMnet’s P2P traffic throttling recently? Are you suffering ultra-low download speed at 5KB/s while you used to get 100KB/s before? I’m one of the victims, even my favourite µTorrent gives me fluctuating download speed that will never exceed 15KB/s, that’s really disappointing.
But recently in Lowyat.net discussion forum, UNDERGROUND suggested [...]
Posted in Guides, Recommendations, Software, Windows on Nov 28th, 2006 2 Comments »
Feeling sinful while using non-legal copy of software? Reluctant to pay for expensive license fee? While copyright is meant to be respected, not everyone (especially students) can afford buying expensive software.
But don’t worry, there’s always freeware alternative for you (err…at least for non-commercial use). I’m going to list out several categories here, and in each [...]
Posted in Guides, Internet, Recommendations, Software on Nov 7th, 2006 1 Comment »
Many people said Firefox is not as good as Opera and/or Maxthon because it has less functions; they claimed, goodies like mouse gesture and super drag-and-go should be included by default in Firefox, instead of relying third party developers to deliver them through the form of extension.
IMO, Firefox is on the right track. I’d anytime [...]
Posted in Internet, Recommendations on Nov 6th, 2006 No Comments »
RSS is not a fresh term to those who frequently read news/blogs/articles online, what is so good about it? With it, I don’t have to visit all my different favorite sites to get myself updated. Instead, I can subscribe to those sites and view it in a central location, saving the hassle of opening different [...]
Posted in Recommendations, Software on Nov 1st, 2006 2 Comments »
As a heavy Interbutt Internet user, I’ve too many login/passwords to keep and remember. Forums, webmail accounts, blogs, online banking, ISP password, all together 40 of them.
Because of the following reasons, I can’t have the same universal login/password for all my online accounts:-
Difference in policies, for example, Citibank Malaysia has a very unique requirement that [...]
