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“Shake and Fold” technique to save paper towel

william — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:08:37 +0000

Most people use more than one piece of paper towel to dry their hands after washing them. Watch this TED video to see how you can make a simple change to save paper. http://on.ted.com/C8eq

Makes your Mac’s trackpad and mouse moves faster

william — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:50:01 +0000

Many Mac users who switched from Windows may find the speed of the trackpad or mouse is too slow for them. Even there is a mouse and trackpad preference panel to adjust the speed, the maximum speed is still too slow. MouseZoom X is at your rescue. It is a preference panel which you can double click to the file to install. You can then use this new preference panel to speed up the movement of mouse cursor.

Download MouseZoom X at: http://benh57.com/mousezoom.html

HP has chosen the worst way to end the production of webOS devices

william — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:29:56 +0000

HP decided to leave the comparatively not profiting consuming and turning to a more profitable market by providing enterprise solutions. It is understandable from the point of view of maximizing profit. But HP made various mistakes making consumer doubts whether management of HP used their brains.

First, HP stopped the production of webOS devices before signing a licensee which will promise to make new webOS devices. This simply scares developers away as there will not make any sense for them to develop for the platform while no one producing new devices. They even has chosen not to talk much about what they want to do with the OS.

Second, they made themselves a bad example for PR. There has been no crisis management and proper internal communication at all. They are providing too little information to the public regarding the change and showing no picture of what HP will become in the future. The PSG is said to be spin off and webOS is going no where.

What made the decision a chaos later on is that HP decided to slash to price of their existing phones and tablets. The discount is ridiculously too deep and hurting real users. The firesale has driven too many people to hunt for the devices allowing people to grab a bunch and resell for a profit while the real users can hardly enjoy the offer.

The chaos doesn’t ended there. Local offices of HP has been making bad decisions to recall the stock of Pre 3′s and TouchPads, throwing to channels which is not proven to be capable to handle it. For example, HP Hong Kong recalled the stock of TouchPad and letting a distributor, MC Founder to sell it on its website (mobicares.com). While such announcement was only made on HP Hong Kong’s facebook page, the firesale offer may have been attracted thousands of people to access the website effectively making the site unreachable for most people until the announcement of sold out is made about 2 hours after the sale began. Disappointed customers later on found a person is posting TouchPad on a forum and selling it for doubled price which drive them outrageous. HP Hong Kong should read the news of firesales in other countries before doing their plans to clear the stocks of TouchPad which may help them avoid a lot of problems.

On the other hand, HP management absolutely underestimated the effect of the firesale at such discount and didn’t consider the feeling of the existing webOS users (or wannabe users).

Clearing stock by providing discounts is good but selling it off for such a unthinkable discount is simply stupid. They are making troubles for themselves, creating disasters and crisis for the company’s image.

As a webOS users, owned a Pre, a Pixi and a Pre 2, I am really disappointed about HP’s decision and how they handled the transition. The sudden change of direction of HP become the biggest disaster and challenge for webOS while HP should have done better to reduce the damage to their corporate image and provide a better roadmap for webOS.

Hopefully, HP can sell its PSG alongside with webOS to someone else (for example Samsung) which can become a better home for webOS. HP is no longer a trustful place for webOS to grow after such big change.

Palm Pre 2

william — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:36:55 +0000

I really cannot understand why HP (Palm) insist releasing separate versions of Palm Pre 2 for US and Europe while Apple can release single version of iPhone (the only difference between models of the same generation is the flash memory size). Isn’t having single model is easier to manufacture and helping them to easily selling them? Why HP (Palm) is not doing it the same way? I just can’t get it.

Troubleshooting In-app Purchase for iOS App

william — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:28:53 +0000

Tested and failed for days and hours for a project and finally I reached the following guides which finally helped me to solved the problem of invalid product ids (the response object returning no products).

http://troybrant.net/blog/2010/01/invalid-product-ids/

The following walkthrough also worth a look.

http://troybrant.net/blog/2010/01/in-app-purchases-a-full-walkthrough/

Recently I started using Mac to develop …

william — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:13:06 +0000

Recently I started using Mac to develop iOS software and discovered a number of useful software to make our lives easier. The first one I would like to recommend is BetterTouchTool. It can enhance your touchpad or mouse (or even magic mouse) experience by adding gestures (swipes) and handy actions (including resizing windows when drag to screen edge) which ease my pain of resizing windows in Mac OS.

Making a blog looks like a micro-blog le…

william — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:22 +0000

Making a blog looks like a micro-blog lessen the burden to update the blog. Easy to start by typing a few words and eventually it will become a full entry. Hope this theme helps.

Does your web site or blog scare off your visitors?

william — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:56:45 +0000

Many people start their website or blog becuase they want to be heard (of their products, their own lifestyles, their point of views, etc). But many not aware that their website is committing a number of web design mistakes which can scare off their visitors. The following interesting website has a check list which can help you to figure out what the mistakes are and how you can improve.

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/does-my-web-site-suck/does-my-web-site-suck-checklist-part-one.html

How good are your ears?

william — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:05:12 +0000

The following website provides a test for your ears. I find it interesting. Give it a try.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/hearing.html

Newer is not always better…

william — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:13:48 +0000

Newest software may seem cool but not always better than their previous versions. Sometimes they just go into a wrong direction — adding useless functions and make them become monster big and horribly slow. I have come across a website claimed that they have the old versions for popular programs. Quite promising but some links are just not working very well. Worth a look, though.

http://www.oldversion.com/

Keep your shoelaces from loosing

william — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:29:07 +0000

For those who wear shoes, you may share the problem of having the shoelaces loosing all the time. Being enough for that, I got to have a little googling recently. I come up with the following great website which saved my life from re-tying the shoelaces all the time. Check out the author’s picks of fastening shoelaces!

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

Best Windows Search Replacement

william — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:53:18 +0000

Locate32 is a powerful and fast file search engine for searching file by their names for Windows platform. If you usually find files by their names instead of by their content, Locate32 will be your fastest and best choice. Indexing and searching is lightning fast. The indexing process of other desktop search applications like google desktop search are much slower (since they index the file names and content). Searching critirea are very flexible. You may even use regular expression to find files! (Google desktop doen’t support boolean search!)

Download it from:

http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/english/softwares.shtml

Free Encyclopaedia and Books Online

william — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:46:33 +0000

I am not talking about books and encyclopaedias which are sold in bookstores are giving away for free. Wikipedia and Wikibooks are projects which contents are solely written by internet users or are adopted from public domain (free to use and distrubute). Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) has enormous number of articles and increasing every day. Similar to the wikipedia project, wikibooks are also available for free and the books are well maintained therefore they are also very useful for internet users. The topics of the books is very broad including not only computer-related books but also books about language learning, and even recipes(!).

Protected: “You are Hired!”

william — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:03:51 +0000

The school which they interviewed me at the end of last month contacted me today.

In fact, since I have not got their called for a week, I have already felt that I am not being chosen. I am a suprised receiving their call this afternoon. They are going to hire me as a Teaching Assistant and therefore I am no longer unemployed (I worked as freelance worker after quiting my last job). I am looking forward to working in that school.

Radio programme about blogging

william — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:50:58 +0000

Last night, a new radio programme about blogging is being launched in RTHK (Radio and Television of Hong Kong). It is called åŽŸæž—éƒ¨è½ in Chinese. Thought I missed the live programme last night, I listened to the programme by checking out its archive which is very convenient to me. RTHK also provide podcast versions of their programmes. Check them out!

Rebuilding my blog

william — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:57:59 +0000

Stay tuned! Contents are coming back!