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WordPress 2.0.3

Leion — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:09:34 +0000

This is the newest version. Though I knew of it in the afternoon when it was 1 hour old from here, I have only upgraded it just now. It is easy. Download the files and overwrite the old ones. Then click a special link. amos upgraded it and gave me confidence that the sky will not fall on me and hence I did it.

This blog is now globalised

Leion — Wed, 31 May 2006 18:01:38 +0000

I have added a really cool translate widget from here.

Just click on the little flags to have google translate the page for you. Nice and easy.

Great work Trev and google!

Spammers kept out

Leion — Tue, 30 May 2006 06:57:33 +0000

This is a new blog and I find spammers coming my way.

Here is a picture of what was caught.

NICE!

It auto approved comments from my friends and stopped and removed spammers comment and trackback. I am very statisfied with what it does. If you do not know what it is, it is Spam Karma 2. Just install this and forget about it. It is really good.

Taskbar rearrangement

Leion — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:34:41 +0000

Taskbar Shuffle brings in the much needed feature that is lacking in windows.
I have always wanted to have the control of where to place my taskbar buttons irregardless of when I started my programs. Now I can finally do it easily. Seem like this program comes with a heavy installer and some memory usage because of the system tray icon. There is also a splashscreen whenever it is loaded.

Previously, I was using TaskArrange to order my task buttons. The interface was a list and I get to drag the task names in that list around and when I press ‘ok’, the real task buttons will be arranged to the order I liked. TaskArrange does from the zip and need not be installed. It has a smaller memory size and does not take up space after using it. I think this is better if there is less need to drag the task buttons around.

I should think that I will still stick around with TaskArrange. I like to keep my system tray small. It has already too many icons.

A way to cut Firefox memory usage

Leion — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:17:51 +0000

Now I can cut memory usage on my beloved firefox on demand! The way to do it is simple. All I need to do is to minimise my FF window, then I restore it again. This is exactly what I am always doing when I work on my computer. So this is really painless for me. However there is a step that is needed to be done before the magic trick mentioned above can work. The trick is to do it:

Type about:config in the Firefox address bar
Writeclick on the page and choose New Boolean
Enter config.trim_on_minimize into the preference name
Set it to true
Restart your Firefox baby.

I got the information from here. I think this is a good way to check memory usage of Firefox and that it will keep out memory wastage. Try it. It really helps.

What else can you do with your thumb?

Leion — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:02:06 +0000

I mean the thumb drive actually.

I have a 256mb original thumb drive. Original because it is from Trek, the Singaporean company, that invented the portable drive.

Though I kind of neglected my thumb drive now that I have my laptop with me almost all the time, I still bring the thumb drive with me all everywhere I go. Portable Firefox is a must for someone who loves Firefox as much as I do.

This drive houses my treasured programs and my school work, which I find it very hard to synchronise the files on my computer and my thumbdrive.(I have stupidly overwritten my new data with my old one before). I just find out that there is a program by MS,? called Windows Briefcase.

How to get it to work: Go to windows explorer, select the drive, then click File, New, Briefcase. then copy the files from the computer to the new Briefcase folder. So the next time when you want to synchronise the files, just right click the briefcase folder and choose update all.

Alternatively, there is a even newer toy:? SyncToy for Windows XP

SyncToy v1.0 is available as a free download on the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers.

This new toy has more advance functions that can make the synchronisation smarter. I have installed it and it seems impressive.

256mb may not be big enough to put a windows in, however, Damn small linux, as the name already suggested, is really small. It is 50mb only and can fit easily into a thumbdrive. The ablity to boot up from my thumb is nice however I am too lazy to try it out

NICE little drive I have and I am not going to throw it aside yet.

OpenOffice

Leion — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:10:37 +0000

I have decided to embrace Open Office for my laptop though I know 99.99% of the people here are still using MS Office, I still think I wanna give this freeware a try.

I have tried to use it to open many documents and powerpoint slides without problems.

I almost think that it can be used to replace the whole of the MS Office when just now, I get a excel spreadsheet from a friend. He has generatered a few graphs in the excel file.

I opened the xls file with OO calc and I was thinking why did he not generate the graph fully and I was actually trying to redo the graphs… I am never a excel person, not to say the calc person. I spend like 1 hour plus trying to generate the graphs again and again, only to fail terribly. Finally I remembered that I should open the file in MS Office to see if my calc has opened the file as what my friend had wanted me to see.

I on my home PC and opened the file. OH YES!
The graphs are different on the 2 systems!
How I hate myself for doing extra ZERO work. I could have been sleeping if not for my lousy mistake!

I hope the OO can open the MS Office files more accurately next time….
Meanwhile, I will still stick to my OO on my laptop. I am beginning to love the difference!

Do you like me?

Leion — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:09:35 +0000

Do you like me?
I may not know.

Or am I bothering you?
I do have a way of finding out….

If you are chatting with your friend online, then will you close the chat window whilst the chat is still going on? No I think. But what are the reasons to do so?
I have come up with a few:

You are busy and the chat is hindering your work.
You do not like your chatter.
Your taskbar is too overcrowded with programs…
You are at somewhere, where you do not wan others to know that you are chatting
Being seen chatting with this chatter is embarrassing.

Most of us are users of msn messenger and we do not have a way to know if the other party has been closing that chat window….

BUT

What if that is a way to get that information? How will you feel if your crush/good friend/buddy has been doing this all the time? How will you feel?

Look at this:

This is GAIM
It is a 3rd party messenger client for MSN, ICQ and other chat networks.
This is what I use when I log into my Ubuntu OS.

Sometimes I see the windows closing information I will take that the person is busy. But if I see it all the time, I know about my status in that person's mind?

Vista

Leion — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:59:35 +0000

My friend, Amos, installed a beta version of Vista or better known as long horn. according to him, the IE7 looks very much like firefox…… haha I agree with him too… the desktop looks very much the same as the winxp now.. Maybe the official release will have more to offer…

here is this url: http://www.eediot.org/archives/2005/08/windows_vista.php

Portable Firefox

Leion — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:12:56 +0000

Oh yes!

It has been my dream to have my firefox with me whereever I go, with the same settings and extensions that I have on my home computer. Now, I have it!

The program is called portable firefox.

Download from here: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

It is a zip file. Just unzip the files and copy your profiles settings into the profile folder of the zip. Launch the portable firefox program and we are free to surf the net with our very own settings and extensions!

Cool! Keep up the good work!