Geeky Things

I think many people don’t know gmail have a lot of keyboard shortcut which is very handy for those who use gmail extensively. For instance I tends to use keys to navigate through the inbox.
Just got the news from Lifehacker — now you can press “?” to have a in-Gmail help of keyboard shortcut if […]

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Compact Calender 2008 by David Seah
Nice One Page 2008 Compact Calendar.
(tags: calendar productivity design business)

Website Test behind the Great Firewall of China
Simple tools to test if your site is blocked in China. USE WITH CAUTION.
(tags: censorship china GFW)

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It seems many students and alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), are going to launch a campaign against Dr. Lau, the Vice-chancellor of Chinese University of Hong Kong. The video below conclude what he did to make CUHK a “restaurant” instead of a University. (As Dr. Lau once had a analogy between […]

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One of the best multimedia player VLC, which I was using even back to the day when I was using Ubuntu as my desktop, is very buggy in Mac OSX Leopard (10.5).
An recent update (0.8.6d) aims at resolve the issues with Leopard.  I Strongly recommend Leopard users should go and grab the update now!

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Gmail recently launched a series of new interface and functionality including GTalk Group Chat (which is my number 1 wanted feature).
Today colored label is also provided. Users may customize each label with different color, and label are displayed with a small “X”so that users can remove the label quickly.
It is a very important UI improvement […]

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Splashup
(tags: drawing design editor flash graphics photo webdesign)

Sketchr
(tags: Ajax design drawing flash graphics inspiration web2.0 vector webdesign)

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Recently, everyone seems focused on facebook…
Beside beacon’s privacy issue, Facebook’s collaboration with ABC News had stirred up a lot of discussion and demonstrated a new model of news reporting through social network. ABC News started this trial by having it’s political reporters setup facebook accounts, so that readers can follow their coverage on political news […]

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2:27am: Anson Chan - 131832 vs Regina Ip - 105957
That’s the result of Hong Kong Island Legislative Council By-election at 2:27am.
Well, we don’t know the final result before tomorrow morning.But really thanks all those who have voted morally and rationally today.:-)

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Open Source Web Design - Download free web design templates.
A lot of nice open sources web design template
(tags: css design inspiration opensource webdesign theme)

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Optimizing startup time for GWT hosted mode
Some tips of optimizing startup time for GWT application
(tags: GWT tips web2.0 ajax javascript)

Wallpaper Clocks | Vladstudio.com - free desktop wallpapers, high resolution, widescreen and dual-monitor images, web design and development
Small software to set wallpaper according to current time
(tags: desktop wallpapers osx)

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