Posted in Open Source, Productivity, Reviews, Windows on August 22nd, 2007 by Ben Jim Comments Off
With the available 2-in-1/3-in-1 or 4-in-1 offerings of printers today, there are still numerous people out there with a separate standalone printer and scanner either to save cost or not losing both functions when a the multiple-in-1 unit konks-off.
While you can easily scan and then print, there is a free solution called iCopy that would [...]
Posted in Open Source, Productivity, Reviews on July 30th, 2007 by Ben Jim Comments Off
How to Catalogue your CDs/DVDs
I lots of files in my hard drive and i burn out gigabytes of data every month to keep my already overcapacitied hard disk from blowing. This translates into hundreds of CDs/DVDs. One thing I’ve noticed is that there is only so much space on the disk label to write down [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Productivity on July 24th, 2007 by Benny Chew Comments Off
With media these days being produced and released in widescreen formats, it’s not surprising that most people would choose a widescreen LCD over a normal aspect ratio LCD (notice the fat black bands at the top and bottom of your screen?). This switch was further accelerated with widescreen LCD prices offered at relatively competitive prices [...]
There are a couple of applications that may fail to start and complaint because its port is being used by a different application. This is a quick and dirty way of knowing which application is responsible for tying up a port on a Windows box.
Most people who own iPods would probably have iTunes installed to transfer/organise music on their iPod and most likely be coerced to use iTunes as their music player on their computer (it’s so tightly integrated that Apple labels it as iPod + iTunes, and apple.com/ipod goes to apple.com/itunes).
Unfortunately, I absolutely loathe iTunes (slow and clunky) [...]
Posted in Guides, Productivity on April 4th, 2007 by ck 1 Comment »
Want to control your hall’s PC while you’re physically in your room, but too lazy to walk over there? You wish there’s a “remote control” for you to initiate a torrent download in your hall’s PC, from your room’s PC? The answer will be “Virtual Network Computing” aka VNC
Here’s a dummy tutorial to show you [...]
These few months, I had been suffering an annoying problem whereby whenever I startup my company notebook, I had to wait for around 10 minutes due to a system process called “svchost.exe” that took away all the CPU time, and because of that I couldn’t do anything until the process “cool down” by itself
Clueless [...]
Got my new rig in the last day of Jan 2007, together with a copy of OEM Windows Vista Home Premium edition. As promised, I’m writing a review of the OS.
While this review is obviously not as complete or professional as other articles that you could find elsewhere, it gives you my very own and [...]
Posted in Fun, Product Marketing, Productivity on December 5th, 2006 by Ben Jim Comments Off
If you’re neither an engineer, industrial designer or interior designer that uses professional CAD softwares and the like, then I’ve three softwares that’s all in for unproductivity (at least for me) that’s fun as hell meant for novices or people (like me) with nothing better to do and would like to kill some time.
Posted in Productivity, Reviews on December 3rd, 2006 by ck 2 Comments »
Rainlendar is a light calendar application but complete in term of functionalities. It’s integrated into your desktop, supports unicode and works on both Windows and Linux. The reason why I’m writing a review for this simple yet sophisticated application is because I feel it simply deserves it.