Monthly Archives: June 2008
Firefox for Web Development?
| 30 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Installing lots of extensions on a single Firefox installation can turns Firefox into a bloated, heavy and memory hogging browser for web surfing. If you love to use Firefox in your web development and design, you should install the addons for web development to a separate Firefox installation, not the one that you use for daily web browsing.
Quick Updates #1
| 29 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Downloads
Halite Torrent – Stable release of Halite 0.3.1 is available for download. Halite Torrent is the best bittorrent client to bypass traffic shaping. I use it now since uTorrent 1.8 beta is now not very effective compared with Halite.
Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 – First alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10, code name "Intrepid Ibex". Re-merging changes from Debian, upgrade of Linux kernel to a pre-release version of 2.6.26.
Gaming
Diablo III announced! – When it comes to Blizzard, only 1 thing we can say… Awesome!!! From Starcraft, Diablo & Diablo II, Warcraft series and World of Warcraft, now Blizzard announced the latest game from Diablo series. The game is expected to be released before December 2009.
News
Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft | Looking back, moving ahead – Bill Gates are now retired from Microsoft, he now remains as non-executive chairman of Microsoft and now working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation full time.
Worth to visit
24 Unforgettable Advertisements
FailBlog – Pictures of failed, owned and pawned moments.
First Look: AT&T Pogo Web Browser
| 29 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
A few days ago I received the invitation to join the Project Pogo Limited Beta by the Pogo Development Team. AT&T Pogo is a Mozilla Firefox based web browser developed by AT&T and Vizible. The current version is based on Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14. Currently AT&T Pogo is in early limited beta stage. What is so unique about AT&T Pogo? While most of other web browsers will display the same flat 2D interface, AT&T Pogo will offers you a more visually appealing 3D interface. The future of web browsing is here! (Large images warning!)
Fast Text File Encryption
| 28 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Steganos LockNote is a free and open source utility that offers you fast encryption for text files. Why encrypting text files is so important? Well.. if you are someone who like to store your passwords and other sensitive notes in a text file, of course you don’t want that particular file to be in the wrong hands.
Encrypting is the best solution to prevent unauthorized individual from accessing the data in the text file. Why Steganos LockNote is the best software to do this job? First of all, the software doesn’t requires any installation, which means it is portable. It is also small in size (312 KB for version 1.0.4).
Check Software Updates for Your Computer
| 28 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
This is actually a quick n dirty solution to check software updates and keep your system up to date with the latest version of the software that you use.
FileHippo.com is offering an update checker software. Currently it is still in open beta stage. The update checker will check your system for installed software, and then send the version information to FileHippo.com server to check whether there are any new versions. The updates will be shown on your browser. The links to download the software updates will also be displayed.
Opera-like Mouse Gestures in Firefox
| 25 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
One of the features that I love in Opera is its mouse gestures. The gestures that I use most is right click + right/left which enables me to go Back and Forward a web page. Ever since I migrate to Flock (Firefox based web browser) I somehow miss those features.
FireGestures is a great Firefox add-on that allows you to have the Opera-like mouse gestures in Firefox. It works outside of the box without the need to change any settings. If you are someone that love to tweak a software to its full potential, here are the features of FireGestures:
VLC Alternative?
| 25 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
VLC is one of the most popular media player. It is free, open source, and usually can play all the files that won’t play in other players. But, if you find VLC sometimes not very suitable for you, then you might look for other alternative media player.
I sometimes found that VLC cannot play x264 video very well on my slower Pentium 4 machine if the web browser that I use uses a lot of CPU and memory. The playback is not smooth and sometimes stuck.
Generating Harmonic Color Scheme
| 25 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If you are a website designer, or you love designing new themes of blogging platforms, then harmonic color scheme is very important to you. Harmonic colors is very important when it comes to styling. Even you have a good site layout, if the color is not harmonic, it will not look that nice.
Disable Automatic Restart After Windows Update
| 21 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If you set your Windows to automatic receive Windows Updates, usually after the updates had been installed, you will be prompt to restart you computer. Even if you hit the Restart Later button, the annoying popup will prompt you again to restart you computer. This is annoying if you not really in the mood to perform a system restart in that moment.
Here are some simple trick to make the annoying popup disappear:
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Converting PowerPoint Presentation to Web Friendly Flash
| 21 June 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
You have a few cool PowerPoint presentations, and now you want to share it with your blog/website reader without the need for them to download your PowerPoint presentation. Flash elements are popular nowadays, so converting your PowerPoint presentation to flash movie might be the solution for you. Here are 2 examples of PowerPoint presentations converted to flash:
iSpring Free is a great Microsoft PowerPoint plugin that will let you convert your PowerPoint presentation to flash movie with just one click without any hassle. It supports all PowerPoint formats including the latest “.pptx” format. The output will be in one flash movie, ready to be put on your website or blog. The presentation will be played using the built in player, as you can see in the sample above.
iSpring Free features:
- Supports PowerPoint 2000/XP/2003/2007
- Hyperlinks and action buttons
- Animations and hyperlinks on Slide Masters
- 180+ PowerPoint animation effects
- All PowerPoint slide transitions
- One click conversion
- Embedded music and audio narrations
- Synchronization of animations and sounds
- Embedded video clips and Flash movies
- Flash based Player
iSpring Free is free.
[Original PowerPoint Presentation (used without permission)] [Download: iSpring Free via MyDigitalLife]
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