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September 8th, 2009 - 9:48 am § in Software Usage

Clearing cookies in your browser doesn’t really clear all tracking items from your machine

Wired.com’s article mentioned another kind of tracking cookies used by many sites which we may have overlooked. Many sites (like Google and eBay) are storing their local tracking objects with Flash plug-in. When you clear the cookies in your browsers, these objects is not removed. You need to manually delete these items, or if you are using Firefox, there is an extension to help.

Wired article: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again


August 27th, 2009 - 7:10 pm § in Software Usage

Stopping Windows to install updates during shutdown

When I try to shut down windows of my netbook, it just try to install updates which stops me from closing it and put it into my bag. Therefore I did some googling and found the solution. Start gpedit.msc (with run…) Navigate to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administra[...]


January 18th, 2009 - 3:51 pm § in Software Usage

Have your wallpaper filled with your friends’ photos!

You can keep up with your friends in facebook in no time with this wonderful piece of software, the John’s Background switcher. It helps you by refreshing your desktop’s background with photos of your friends’ albums, just like the screenshot my desktop. [...]


January 16th, 2009 - 7:22 pm § in Blogging

Changing web hosting

This site has just got a new home! I recently found a real bargain of web hosting and subscribed it a few days ago. The new server seems to be stable. The whole process has taken me a few days to move all the domain names I have registered and setting up the email forwarding. [...]


November 14th, 2008 - 12:00 am § in Mobile Technologies

Wish list for 2008

After a few months my bag was stolen, I have been buying new gadgets replacing the missing ones: Nokia Internet Tablet N800 (replacing Creative Zen Stone Plus, Sony MP3 Walkman, and Dell Axim x51v) Asus EeePC 901 (replacing EeePC 900) FX Creation computer bag (replacing the stolen sumdex comput[...]


November 13th, 2008 - 4:31 am § in Blogging

Site revamped with a new theme

Have just found a good theme to change to. Not very difficult to customize the theme to match with current content. I need to put some pictures to liven up this page anyway. Of course, the default colours will be changed also. [...]


November 12th, 2008 - 4:10 pm § in Blogging

Do you proofread your blog post?

I have read some blogs whose owner don’t care about thier spelling mistakes and typos. I was irritated when reading such blog entries because I need to guess the correct word and how the words should have been typed. Reading such blogs is no longer a leisure but a brain exercise. Not bad thoug[...]