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Aug 10, 2008
SY Tan

Consolidate and Streamline Messaging Activities Via Mozilla’s Snowl

Website has developed from a pre-defined information presentation platform in those early days to a more dynamic and communicative place. It has become a trend in this techno era whereby users are enjoying conversing or messaging facilities available online such as leaving comment threads, RSS feeds, forum, Twitter, etc. With an increasing variety of protocols and providers on this conversing activity, monitoring or keeping track of individual’s own conversations is harder. To make life easier, Mozilla labs have brought to Firefox users a new messaging experience via its newly released plugin, Snowl.
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Jul 19, 2008
SY Tan

Fitness via Wii Fit

Who says playing video games will make you lethargic and obese? Nintendo’s wacky fitness peripheral called Wii Fit is designed to help you keep fit and healthy. It features a Wii balance board with four rubber feet to prevent slipping. It is highly sensitive and reacts to changes in weight distribution and pressure. Running on four AA batteries, it connects with the Wii console via Bluetooth. It is a user-friendly plug-in device whereby you only need to insert the batteries into the Wii balance board and start up the Wii Fit.
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Jul 12, 2008
SY Tan

Backup and Disk Imaging via Macrium Reflect Free Edition

All computer hard discs will eventually wear out and cause disastrous results or inconveniences to users. Thus, it is important to have a contingency plan to backup all the important and valuable data such as photos, projects reports, email, financial records, etc. Disk Imaging Software is a good solution to assist users to backup or duplicate their data without spending a lot of time. There are various good disk imaging software available in the market such as Acronis True Image, Paragon Drive Backup, Norton Ghost, etc. Most of these applications are not free and the prices generally range from $30 to $100. Anyway, if you are looking for a disk imaging software but cost is a concern to you, probably you should look at Macrium Reflect.
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Jul 9, 2008
SY Tan

How to Enable Bluetooth in Windows Server 2008 64bit Standard Edition

Users who are using Windows Server 2008 64bit Standard Edition generally face a common problem on its Bluetooth part. All applications seem to work well except for the Bluetooth drivers. Users can search and add Bluetooth devices to their computer but these devices appear as unknown in the system. If users try to browse for the drivers, the system will indicate the drivers are not found. Even though Windows Server 2008 has built in Bluetooth service, but due to some reasons, Microsoft seems to have imposed some limitations to it and it can’t work properly without some additional settings.
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Jul 5, 2008
SY Tan

FriendMobilizer for Windows Mobile Phone Users to Enjoy Full Access to Facebook

Macrospecs Inc has brought good news to Windows Mobile phone users by unveiling a new software application, FriendMobilizer, which allows users to enjoy full access to their Facebook account while they are on the move. Keeping track with friends via the social networking website, Facebook, has become a new trend in this latest technological era. For avid travelers, they can access their Facebook via mobile phone to know their friends’ status, update information, etc. However, there seems to be a lack of good applications for Windows Mobile Phone users to enjoy this social networking website via their mobile phones. Thus, FriendMobilizer is introduced just in time.
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Jun 21, 2008
SY Tan

Useful But Rare Google Tools

The emergence of Google has changed the way users utilize the internet significantly. Most net users Google information via Google’s browser, check email via their Gmail account, locate their girl friend’s house with Google Earth, and so on. Besides these useful and common tools frequently seen from Google, there are a lot more Google’s products available. A fan of Google has compiled a list of useful but not commonly known tools. Probably you’ve never heard of these tools, but it is worthwhile to give them a try.
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Jun 20, 2008
SY Tan

Download Delicious Plug-in for IE

Yahoo has released the plug-in of its popular social bookmarking web service, “Del.icio.us” (pronounced Delicious) for Internet Explorer browser. This Delicious Bookmark Add-on for Internet Explorer is in beta and the emergence of this Add-on will make the social bookmarking site much easier to use.
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May 29, 2008
SY Tan

Travel The Galaxies With Microsoft WorldWide Telescope

Astronomers, space enthusiasts or star gazers probably have traveled the galaxies to see the constellation or watch the planets’ movement with Google Sky. If the experience doesn’t seem to be convincing with Google’s application, Microsoft would like to welcome you to its recently announced free tool, WorldWide Telescope, for exploring and enhancing the universe experience.
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