Archive | July, 2008
ThinkPad x60s Battery Quirk
I love my Thinkpad x60s for its great durability and performance in a small and lightweight package. It has loads of programs, like its own harddrive protection system, its own wireless manager, encryption manager, computer diagnostics utility, and today, I discovered that it even has its own version of time! No, I’m not kidding. I’m [...]
Continue reading...Adobe Photoshop Text Tool – Paragraph Type and Point Type
26. July 2008
I’ve been bugged about how sometimes I get text boxes that are word-wrapped (i.e. I can adjust the size of the box so that the text automatically fits into the textbox area) and text boxes that are free-form, without any boundaries. The problem was, I didn’t know how to switch from one mode to the [...]
Continue reading...How To Create a Stored Procedure using C#, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008
24. July 2008
Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 is amazing. It truly is an integrated development environment, because EVERYTHING is integrated. I just learnt about stored procedures today and how creating stored procedures is so easy in Visual Studio. Here’s the steps that you need. In Visual Studio, create a solution if you haven’t, and to that solution, add [...]
Continue reading...What Does Blue Square Icon or Blue E Icon on iPhone Mean?
21. July 2008
The iPhone uses a pretty simplified and minimalistic interface which is great 99% of the time, but occasionally it does show some icons that come without labels which I don’t understand. For instance, I was trying to figure out what a solid blue square in the iPhone’s status bar meant. And sometimes it appears as [...]
Continue reading...Zen Stories
18. July 2008
I was watching Charlie Wilson’s War when I came to the part where Gust told Charlie the story of the Zen Master. It was something I had heard before, but nevertheless it still aroused my curiousity and led me to search around for Zen stories. Here’s a bunch of interesting ones that I found: Maybe [...]
Continue reading...New Creative EP-630i With In-Line Microphone For iPhone!
16. July 2008
Creative Technology Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, today announced the Creative EP-630i In-Ear Stereo Headset exclusively designed for the iPhone and iPod. The difference between the Creative EP-630i and the Creative EP-630 is that the Creative EP-630i comes with an in-line microphone! So if you have been searching for a pair of [...]
Continue reading...Can’t Call Out With The iPhone? How To Fix To The Call Failed Problem with iPhone
13. July 2008
I found out that my new iPhone has terrible reception, even in places with supposedly good coverage. It turns out that it’s because of certain settings that I didn’t configure properly. After I changed them, all was good again! So if your iPhone is like mine and you see “Call Ended” and then “Call Failed” [...]
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30. July 2008
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