Standby and hibernate are 2 extremely useful functions that you can use because of the time it saves you from booting up your computer. Once you’re done with your work session, and need to leave your desk, simply choose standby or hibernate. These two sleep modes are fantastic for laptops as well. But what’s the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
Urgh. I wanted to get a new keyboard for myself because I’m using a 17″ LCD monitor to extend my desktop from my Thinkpad notebook, so an external keyboard and mouse makes things easier to use. I thought keyboards were all the same, and the only difference was the touch or feeling of the keys. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Recently I’ve been seeing ads for this company called BustedTees, so I popped over to check them out. Well, I thought I’d seen every kind of funny t-shirts around, but I was proven so wrong after I took a look at BustedTees’ catalogue. They have some seriously funny and witty tshirts. Check these out: I [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 31, 2007
After Friendster, Facebook and MySpace, WeeWorld has come along with a really refreshing concept — no more real mugs of yourself! WeeMee operates on an avatar system at its core, so you can design how your avatar (called a WeeMee) looks. This makes monetisation an almost natural process for WeeWorld, as they can sell products [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 30, 2007
You’ve seen all the CAPTCHA images around – you know, those images that have numbers or letters in them that you have to type in correctly before you’re allowed to make a post or submit a form. Well, reCAPTCHA is a free project (reCAPTCHA website) by the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science at Carnegie [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 21, 2007
I use both Firefox and Internet Explorer, and one of the pet peeves that I have is that both of them don’t share bookmarks / favourites. This is a problem because when I save a site in Firefox, I want to be able to access it in Internet Explorer and vice versa. Well, here’s the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 16, 2007
I used to think that Microsoft Paint was just a bare-bones basic image editing software that couldn’t really serve much use — clunky and under-featured. Until I saw this video. Then I thought maybe the problem lay with me Just look at how this guy does it — it’s AMAZING. He/she completely reproduces the Mona [...]
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
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