I stumbled upon this great resource that provides an excellent deal for buying books online. It’s called The Book Repository and offers great prices and most importantly, FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING to Malaysia. Double checking the prices between The Book Repository and Amazon.com shows that more often than not, TBR is able to match or even […]
Author Archives: Howard
Office 2010: The 64-bit Question
Office 2007 introduced a lot of new features and a brand new Ribbon interface that has fans either loving it or despising the way the whole thing functioned. That was three years ago. With 2010, a new Office release is scheduled to hit stores in June, earlier if you keep your eyes peeled on torrent […]
Podcast Manager Recommendations
Podcasting offers a wonderful world of user-created content ranging from small, independent (or even one person) podcasts such as the Mr Brown show, a popular Singaporean comedy program, to large studio project such as The Official Lost Podcast. There are literally thousands of streams of podcasts out there, some more exciting than others, but I […]
To Windows 7 “free user”: M$ update detects activation workarounds
The latest news has it that Microsoft has released a new update that attempts to detect any signs that the software’s activation systems have been compromised, either via the popular RemoveWAT 2.0 crack or the older BIOS modification hack. The new update is designed to discover these illegal attempts at activating Windows 7 and then […]
Getting the most out of your Netbooks
So you’ve caved into the corporate marketing machine and got yourself a fancy little netbook which looks like a smaller notebook and behaves exactly like one, just slower and more annoying to use due to the small keyboard and screen. Well, you get what you paid for, so what can you do to get the […]
Delivering Great Presentations like Steve Jobs
With the announcement of Apple iPad just behind us, it’s time to look at the legend behind Apple’s meteoric success, CEO Steve Jobs and his captivating presentations. What is the secret to this man’s success? Well, beyond the obvious hard work, practice, and attention to detail to each and every one of his slides and […]
3 Points for Better Computer Stability
A lot of times I get bombarded by friends and relatives about pc-related problems such as restarts, virus attacks, unstable systems and other similar problems that could have been prevented if proper steps have been followed. Windows XP bears the brunt of the problem due to the fact that piracy is rampant and many hackers […]
Playstation 3 finally hacked by iPhone developer Geohot
Massive news over the weekend as hacker prodigy Geohot, who’s claim to fame is being the first hacker to successful break one of the iPhone’s system. Geohot posted this on his website:
Will Apple iPad Succeed?
The recent Apple event reveals for the first time Apple’s latest creation – the iPad. The hype that has been churning since 3 years ago has culminated to this point and the results are… well, not as exciting as I had hoped. But for the millions of Apple fanatics out there, the iPad will be […]
Beware the Dell Inspiron 1420 NVIDIA Defect
I am writing this in because I have been personally affected by what many are calling the NVIDIA Defect. Hopefully others will be more aware of this situation should their laptop experience a premature death. My laptop was purchased back in 2007 and upgraded to the 8400M graphics system instead of using the default Intel […]