24 Nov
I made my first purchase from iPhone App Store today. Indeed, I pondered overnight and plunged down $0.99 of my hard earned money on a game called Ace Tennis Online. My hesitation was because:
I am not a hardcore gamer. One of my more regrettable past purchases is the PS2 and the few games.
There is no [...]
21 May
I just tried Firefox 3.0 RC1 this afternoon at work (Firefox 2.x was getting intolerably slow). Let me just say that Firefox 3.0 RC1 is so much better that I started to installed it at home as well.
24 Apr
Two days ago I started trying out Digsby as my IM software of choice. It looks beautiful and works well as a multi-protocol instant messenger. The downside are its big memory footprint and the required online account registration (although the online account is then used to synchronize your customizations across different Digsby instances [...]
7 Dec
I spent a better half of the afternoon and evening installing Visual Studio 2008 over my old VS2005. It went something like this:
Uninstalled VS2005.
Mistakenly uninstalled VS2005 Tools for Office before VS2005 itself. VS2005 uninstall failed miserably afterwards.
Had to ‘repair’ VS2005 prior to continuing.
Uninstalled other VS2005 and .NET components, excluding .NET 2.0, which [...]
23 Nov
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 have been officially released. Woohoo, new ‘toys’ to play with.
23 Sep
I have experimented with a few photo management software in the past few years, starting with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 and ending (for now) with Adobe Lightroom 1.2. Here is a summary of my thoughts on each.
Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0
(Photoshop Album is now part of Adobe Photo Elements and is no longer available by itself.)
I [...]
10 Sep
There is no real content in this post. This is a test post from the ‘new’ Windows Live Writer. It’s much improved over the old old version I had played with months ago.
This map thing is pretty nice. At least the Live Writer adds something new that I couldn’t easily do before. By the way, [...]
30 Aug
I love tools that help me enjoy my computing more. Typically I run across them by chance followed by comparative research, that’s how I discovered and settled on Console, Xplorer2, and Launchy. My point is, it isn’t everyday I see a compiled list of recommended tools for power Windows users, but I saw [...]
23 Aug
My laptop has been running sluggishly for the past 2 days. The culprit seems to be a TrustedInstaller.exe process that’s hogging all the CPU cycles. A bit of Googling reveals that iTunes on Vista is bad: iTunes/iPhone syncing touches lots of files and Vista’s indexing services forever plays catchup.
I have now effectively turned [...]
20 Aug
Since I am no longer able to sync my iPhone directly with my company’s Exchange server, I need a way to get my work calendar into my home Outlook to be synced with iPhone. Guess what, syncing calendar with Outlook means I have to sync work emails. Redundant data, but acceptable for now.
The [...]
