General items about technology, including hardware, software and miscellaneous gadgets not classified elsewhere.
This post is related to one of my previous posts, Why PowerPoint is evil. Firstly, a disclaimer. I am not an expert in giving presentations. I don’t think my words have a lot of authority in relation to this particular subject. There are better places on the Internet (and outside it) for that, such as: […]
Just to keep things moving along from my previous post on a new power supply, I got this the other day. It’s a Gainward Bliss 7900 GS video card. Apparently it’s a more powerful video card that is within my budget. Whoopee!
To kickstart nerdiness for 2007, I would like to announce that I got a new power supply for my computer: an Antec TruePower 2.0. Why it’s better: It delivers more power—-430 watts versus the old 350 watts It’s quieter—-the only things I can hear now are the CPU fan and the hard disk, which means […]
It’s that time again. My mobile phone contract is about to expire, which means I now have to decide whether to get a new phone or to keep my existing one. But since one of the button on my existing phone is less than optimal, it may appear I may get a new one towards […]
The following is a public service announcement. There is an undocumented command in Microsoft Windows, cacls, which is basically the equivalent of chmod from Unix. It allows one to change the access control list for a file or a directory in Windows using the command line. This is particularly useful in Windows XP Home Edition, […]
DownStream Connection Speed 19437 kbps UpStream Connection Speed 1023 kbps Whoopee!
This is slightly out of date, but registrations for the collaborative word-processing tool, Writely, are now open again. Writely is basically a combination of an online word processor which also allows documents to be shared and edited by multiple people at the same time. It borrows collaborative concepts from wikis and applies them nicely in […]
Well not quite. This article in the Sydney Morning Herald discusses the psychological isolation of those young people that do not have mobile phones. Mobile phones are increasing being used as a mechanism of social networking rather than simple communication. It is now viewed as more important for people to receive a large number of […]
Just in case you did not know, I upgraded my monitor to a Samsung 730BF. It is 17 inch LCD monitor, with a 4 ms refresh rate. And I bought an Apple iPod nano for my brother’s birthday. He really liked it. Maybe you could buy him some accessories. Alternatively, follow Guan’s (of Matthias Media […]
Rank the following items in decreasing order of usefulness: A Palm TX personal digital assistant, replacing a Palm m130 A Samsung 730BF 17 inch LCD monitor, with a 4 ms refresh rate, replacing a 17 inch CRT A Canon PowerShot A620 ditigal camera, not replacing anything