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Delicious extension for Firefox 3

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Finally it is here… so now I can use Del.icio.us extension on firefox 3 — so good….

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Tags: software

The War with IE6

April 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

All of the web developer hate IE6~ AT LEAST I HATE IE6. Fixing IE6 wired display problems take 60% of the development time~ shame on you Microsoft.
So if you hate Microsoft and it’s IE as much as I do and you can’t show a warning message to all IE 6 users “Your browser is outdated” […]

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Tags: hacking · randomthought · software

Fring for iPhone

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Today just tried the new Fring for iPhone. That’s the best way to connect IM on iPhone I’ve ever seen. Although many web apps (such as JiveTalk) already made connect to popular IM such as MSN and Google Chat on iPhone possible, most of them are not stable and cannot maintain connection when you […]

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Tags: software

OH MY GOD! Google App Engine is true

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

You know? When Amazon started its’ elastic hosting services (EC2, S3 and SimpleDB), the world of web development have changed.
AND NOW, GOOGLE WANT TO CHANGE IT MORE DRAMATICALLY!
Google App Engine, is a full stack of web application development environment based on Google Infrastructure, so basically you’re deploying your application as reliable as google’s one.
In contrast […]

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Tags: google · software · web2.0

Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out!

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out! With such a nice integration with OSX! Unlike Beta 2 this version runs perfectly on my Mac OSX (for a morning) — even with Chinese Characters input. With a relatively small memory footprint!
Mozillalinks have a deep look to firefox 3 beta 3 review, and there is also a screenshots […]

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Tags: osx · software

Debate on Micro-kernel

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Just came across an article on Micro-kernel, worth reading for those who want to know a bit about the debate (and it don’t have many technical information). I agree that the micro-kernel (MINIX 3) written by the article author, is really the most easy-to-understand operating system in the world! I’ve been playing around with it, […]

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Tags: hacking · randomthought · software

Gmail now have a internal help for shortcut key

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: software

WYSIWYG Wiki , any recommendation?

November 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Wiki is a platform allows users to collaborate on text. I’m using a lot of Wiki personally, either for personal organization / notes keeping, or for collaborate with others.
Recently I’ve come across a problem — what happen when others on your team are not so capable in IT and can’t even learn those Wiki markup? […]

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Tags: randomthought · software · wiki