Archive for January 2009

I’m unsure if Google is having a glitch, but Google is claiming that every single website is having malware. Even when I Google for Google, Google itself claims that Google.com may harm my computer. Ridiculous.

And when I click on it, it shows:

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Is it just me or everyone else?
Update: It was due to human [...]

Wanted to try out Ubuntu on your Windows machine but decides that the hassle to partition manually, download and burn the Ubuntu CD, then reboot and configure everything else is no fun? What if you can dual boot Windows and Ubuntu within clicks, without needing to be tech savvy or worry of messing things up?

Using “Windows Add or Remove Programs” might be sufficient if you hardly install any softwares on your computer. But if you are adventurous in testing new softwares on your computer every now and then, you will need a more complete uninstaller so that it wouldn’t be a pain to to dump unwanted softwares, and more [...]

Gmail has been my primary email client for years already—for its simplicity, effectiveness and speed. With the new incoming feature in Gmail Labs, namely Offline Gmail, Google had successfully stopped me from bothering to look at any alternatives.

As title, Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate available on 26th of January. I have already tested Internet Explorer 8 a while ago on Windows 7 (will be writing about it after I’m done exploring).
To assure you that it’s worth knowing more about Internet Explorer 8, yes, it passed the Acid2 Browser [...]

(Windows only): Turning off the computer screen can be as easy as a button press for desktop computers, but most laptops do not come with a button or even a shortcut key to do just that. If that is the case, you can either configure your laptop to turn off the display after x minutes, [...]