http://teewe.com blogging gadgets and digital lifestyle Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:00:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 computer bag) Still there are some lost items are not ... http://teewe.com/2008/11/14/wish-list-for-2008/ 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. http://teewe.com/2008/11/13/site-revamped/ 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 ... http://teewe.com/2008/11/12/do-you-proofread-your-blog-post/ Today, I receive my new Eee PC in white colour bundled with 5800mAh battery! http://teewe.com/2008/05/02/eee-pc-900-with-5800mah-battery/ This was taken in my office :) http://teewe.com/2008/03/19/centro-in-a-cat/ Never try this at home. Subscribe to a number of high volume blog sites and try to finish reading. You will be never able to finish and the frustration will hit you. Every day these sites try to stuff you more than 30 entries. If you have left the RSS ... http://teewe.com/2008/01/20/how-to-feel-frustrated-reading-blogs/ 1ClickInstaller is simply awesome! After installing this plug-in, you will no longer need to use ftp to upload a new theme or another plug-in again! It will add a "OneClickInstall" button in your dashboard page and you will be able to upload the plug-ins or themes right in your browser. Or ... http://teewe.com/2007/11/12/the-wordpress-plug-in-you-must-install/ Recently, I need to refine a PowerPoint file which is already badly translated by software. It is even harder for me to translate it from original English version what badly translated is even uncomprehensible! Though there is an English version exist, but the version I have is newer and has many more ... http://teewe.com/2007/11/12/never-use-a-machine-translated-document/ If you are like me - have bought a wide-screen monitor - and have difficulties finding suitable wallpaper, you'd better check out the following web site. InterfaceLIFT provides wallpapers for all resolutions. You can find it at: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/ http://teewe.com/2007/08/16/screen-lcds/ Technology is advancing so fast and I have just found a Quantum 1.2 GB Bigfoot Harddisk in my office. You can see how big when it is comparing with a has-been world's smallest 1GB thumb drive (Kingmax) I bought a few months ago.. http://teewe.com/2007/07/20/1-gb-vs-12-gb/ I have just taken it from a KCR train. Please be assured - the thing that can't boot up isn't the train. It won't crash anyway. It is just the Newsline Express (the TV set which show Cable TV News) can't boot up. But it is so funny that ... http://teewe.com/2007/05/11/can-anyone-help-it-to-boot/ I am now at MTR Admiralty station at the end of a queue. It is really hot here.Can you see how many people are waiting for taking the train? I have to wait for four trains in order to get on board! http://teewe.com/2007/05/04/wow-so-many-people-in-mtr/ Can you think of you can play the classic 8-bit games in your browser at any time you are online? Try nintendo8.com! The games runs on any browser with Java Runtime Environment installed. You can even search for your favourite games! http://teewe.com/2007/05/02/play-nintendo-nesfamicom-in-your-browser/ Don't you think this cat is cute? Why does this cat keep its tongue exposing? It is because it accustomed to do so when it had a decayed tooth before. It keeps this habit even the decayed tooth is fixed. http://teewe.com/2007/05/02/its-so-cute/ I mentioned that I will change my job very shortly. And I did success in making the switch. I will be working with my new employer from 23 May. It will be my first job in IT field and will have a lot of opportunities to work with different notable ... http://teewe.com/2007/04/30/career-change/ Yeah, you have got them right. The writer of the notice got "cigarette" and "garbagge" spelt wrong. "Why are the people throwing their cabbages out of their windows?" What a joke! http://teewe.com/2007/04/30/whats-wrong-with-this-notice-cont/ http://teewe.com/2007/04/22/do-you-know-whats-wrong-with-this-notice-2/ The article really worth a look. It collects the open-source and free alternatives of the most wanted software, like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, even After Effects! Take a look! http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1402&tag=fea_txt http://teewe.com/2007/04/19/cnet-roll-your-own-adobe-cs3-for-free/ I have found an easy-to-use tool for downloading videos from YouTube and Google Video. Though its homepage mostly written in language other than English, there are still some simple explanation in English available. You should be able to find the download link of the VDownloader easily. The rest of the article contains ... http://teewe.com/2007/04/17/download-youtube-video-easy-and-fast/ The egg tart is introduced by a taxi driver in Macau. Its shell is very crispy and it is delicious! http://teewe.com/2007/04/16/macau-egg-tart/ Working in Education Sector for nearly 4.5 years, I am now actively seeking an opportunity to change my job nature in business sector. I am trying to find a new job which can utilitize both my technical skills and communication skills. Yesterday, a friend introduced me to have a job ... http://teewe.com/2007/04/12/hoping-for-a-career-advancement/ But I still want to have Palm OS in it instead of Windows Mobile... http://teewe.com/2007/04/10/treo-750-now-in-store-in-mongkok/ The avatar is made with abi-station.com. If you know me in person, you may tell me if the icon looks like me or not. XD http://teewe.com/2007/04/03/new-icon-for-my-internet-identity/ If you have joined a GPRS service and you have Wordpress installed in your server, you can add blog entries with you mobile phone by sending an email to your blog's email account (with help of Postie Plugin). This blog entry is written with my Treo 680 and send via ... http://teewe.com/2007/04/03/blog-with-my-mobile-phone/ [First posted on PalmAddicts] Recently, I rediscovered the loveliness of Handyshopper on my Treo 650 as an "array of alarm clocks". I have been using Diddlebug as my alarm clock since it is quick and easy to add new tasks and alarms. However, it doesn't use the notification manager of ... http://teewe.com/2007/01/05/how-i-use-handyshopper-with-my-treo-650/ When you are like me have to do a lot of mail merge to create documents. You may find that you will get US format date merged to the documents even your date format of your system or in Excel file is set to UK format. Here's the solution I ... http://teewe.com/2006/12/14/having-incorrect-date-format-for-mail-merge-in-microsoft-word/ Added a big bunch of new functions: 24-hour/AM PM mode An option to show today's date Procrastination Hack - (10 + 2) * 5 Customizable Timer alarm Font Face/Font Size/Font Colour/Bold/Italics Selection Changing Alignment (Left/Right/Centre) Download OSD Clock 2.0.1 http://teewe.com/2006/10/13/osd-clock-20/ If you don't have an English version of Microsoft Office (XP or 2003), you will find the Text-to-speech function is not working. I have just discovered the following website which provided a very simple way to make your Excel speak. But you need some programming work to make it really ... http://teewe.com/2006/09/26/do-some-programming-to-make-your-spreadsheets-speak/ I recently found my Internet Explorer having a lot of problems while loading whatever pages! So I have done some research and found the following solution to repair my crappy Internet Explorer. It works and my IE is now back to normal! http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_ie6.htm http://teewe.com/2006/08/20/repair-internet-explorer-6/ Do you remember the notable screensaver of the times of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95? Some techies online find ways to let you install them on your Windows XP. Will the toasters fly in your screens again? Download After Dark and install it on Windows XP http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/11/4694/ The Flying Toaster are Back (for ... http://teewe.com/2006/08/10/the-classics-is-back/ Windows Update is great to ensure your computer is updated but it usually prompts you to restart Windows when update is finsihed which is very annoying. Want to get rid of the prompt? The following link is a quick fix. Enjoy! http://www.lifehacker.com/software/windows/get-rid-of-windows-update-restart-nag-183976.php http://teewe.com/2006/08/10/quick-fix-for-annoying-dialog-box-of-windows-update/ I have been using WinKey (freeware) for month without any problem to create shortcut keys to let me quickly launch programs on my computer (e.g. Win + W to launch MS Word). However, the program functions are just very basic (can launch programs, folders, and file only) and is no longer ... http://teewe.com/2006/06/15/autohotkey-is-great/ 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 http://teewe.com/2006/06/14/how-good-are-your-ears/ Recently, I have the need to extract some texts from a PowerPoint file at work. And I got to find out a website which provided a nice tip. You can also try this if you have a gmail account. Just simple mail the file you want to convert to your gmail account, ... http://teewe.com/2006/05/22/free-file-conversion-tool-right-in-your-mailbox/ NirCmd is a small but very useful command-line tool. You can do some actions without using clicking your mouse, open up external apps... just a little command will do the job. For example, you can create a shortcut with the command, "nircmd mutesysvolume 1", to turn off the sound card (much more ... http://teewe.com/2006/05/22/useful-utility-makes-your-life-easier/ Today, when I googling for a free Photoshop replacement for my office PC, I found GIMPshop, a mod of GIMP which aimed to provided a Photoshop's look-and-feel for Photoshop users. It looks very promising and it is as powerful as the open-source GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) which is ... http://teewe.com/2006/05/19/finally-there-is-an-open-source-photoshop-clone/ Seems not bad. Supports bi-directional English to Chinese, Japanese to Chinese and Kor Translation. It also has some useful tools such as English name finder. www.mytrans.com.tw http://teewe.com/2006/05/17/a-online-translation-website/ The treonauts.com website has some pictures of the upcoming 'Hollywood' Treo Phone. Sleek antenna-less design looks very cool, but it's showing a Windows Mobie 5 screen... http://blog.treonauts.com/2006/04/first_real_treo.html http://teewe.com/2006/04/19/hollywood-treo-coming-running-wm5/ 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. ... http://teewe.com/2006/04/19/newer-is-not-always-better/ 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 ... http://teewe.com/2006/03/16/keep-your-shoelaces-from-loosing/ I have been looking for an alarm clock software for Windows to wake me up every morning recently. However, I can't find a good one which: 1. is freeware; 2. can play songs randomly; 3. can repeat every weekday (Monday to Friday); 4. is reliable. Finally, I come up with ... http://teewe.com/2006/02/20/need-an-alarm-clock-for-windows/ 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 ... http://teewe.com/2005/12/12/best-windows-search-replacement/ Are we the ones among who want to choose the very best products? Waiting for the next Treo, the better Tungsten X, and even dreaming of PalmOS 6 or Linux-Palm devices to be launched ;-). We may need to learn to choose "good enough". We have many (and increasing) choices ... http://teewe.com/2005/12/04/less-satisfaction-with-newer-products/ 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 ... http://teewe.com/2005/12/02/free-encyclopaedia-and-books-online/ I recently created an avatar icon for my identity with a web service availabe at http://www.abi-station.com/ (You may select Chinese or English if you don't know Japanese). You can create an avatar which looks like you or one more cartoon-like. Try it! The avatar created have a lot of uses. I ... http://teewe.com/2005/11/21/my-new-avatar/ Recently, I have started trying out making programs for my Treo 650. Firstly, I tested PalmOS Developer Suite but as I am not familar with the programming style of it, I then switched to SmallBASIC. I chose SmallBASIC because it is very easy to use and have enough documentation right ... http://teewe.com/2005/11/07/start-writing-programs-for-palmos/ I encountered a lot of problem while helping a friend upgrading the Symantec Products. And I finally found this information from Symantec website... Click here http://teewe.com/2005/10/08/how-to-completely-uninstall-symantec-products/ 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 ... http://teewe.com/2005/10/06/protected-you-are-hired/ Recently, I have just bought a new PC and assembled it by myself. Though there has been a number of problems appeared before I finished installing Windows XP on it, the process of PC "DIY" is fun. I enjoyed the new PC very much, too. My new PC's CPU is a ... http://teewe.com/2005/10/06/bought-a-new-pc/ Recently, I have found many people and radio stations in Hong Kong started podcasting. Podcasting has become a trend. After participated in production of a podcast, I am addicted to it. I began purchasing better equipments for my recording "studio" (which actually is my tiny and untidy room). I ... http://teewe.com/2005/10/01/why-podcasting-becomes-hot/