Browsing articles from "March, 2008"
Mar 29, 2008
SY Wong

Download Free Call Firewall + SMS Blocker Version 1.4 to Block Calls with Auto SMS Notification

Want to have a peace of mind during weekend without disturbance from boss or customer‘s call? This software tool may able to help you. Known as Call Firewall + SMS Blocker Version 1.4, the utility will be able to filter out any annoyance calls on you Windows Mobile Smart Phone intentionally anywhere.


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Mar 28, 2008
SY Tan

Reduce Large Digital Photo File Sizes for Easy Emailing and Use on Websites

Most internet users deal with digital photos everyday. Photographers, web designers, bloggers or webmasters upload digital photos to their websites or online photo albums; net users forward their digital photos to friends, colleagues, etc. Dealing with digital photos can be a tedious job when you come to resizing digital photo matter. Those digital images taken from digital cameras with high resolution settings will be huge in capacity and size. One single photo with high resolution quality probably might require more than 1MB. To upload this onto the internet or send off to friends via email might consume a lot of time. Thus, most users will resize their photos before sending. Resizing digital photos might be simple for single or a few images. However, if you need to resize or compress photos in bulk, using normal photo editing tools might kill you. If you need to organize and resize your digital photo file sizes in bulk regularly, you can try some useful applications below.
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Mar 28, 2008
Nic Cho

Western Digital Launches My Passport Elite Portable USB Drives

The well-known manufacturer of a large proportion of the world’s hard disks, Western Digital has recently launched a new line of external/portable USB drives, named as My Passport Elite, which weights less than 5 ounces, aiming to make it easy to carry the important files and e-mail between work and home or on the road and keeping them in sync.


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Mar 28, 2008
Tip and Trick Editorial

PHP Fatal Error on Call to Add_Query_Var in Taxonomy.php After Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 RC2

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5 RC2, some WordPress iinstallation will return completely blank web page or all blog posts, pages and even wp-admin administrator dashboard and other administrative panel. Or the following error will be displayed (the error message will also be logged and captured in Apache error_log).
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Mar 28, 2008
Tip and Trick Editorial

How to Uninstall Windows XP SP3 Beta and Release Candiate Versions

With the impending release of latest service pack for Windows XP – Service Pack 3 (SP3), users who install beta or release candidate test versions of Windows XP may wish to uninstall the the beta releases or RC versions of the service pack, as the final RTM version of SP3 for Windows XP may not install if there is any previous test release installed, or not on Windows XP SP2 status.
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Mar 27, 2008
SY Tan

Shakespeare’s Complete Quartos Go Online

Shakespeare’s complete quartos go online For lovers of Shakespeare’s works, all the 75 editions of the Bard’s plays printed in quarto format before 1641 will be available online soon. The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington have teamed up to download their vast collections, capitalizing on the work of the British Library which digitalized its collection of quarto editions four years ago. The downloading is expected to take a year to complete.

There is no greater proof of the merging of art and science. Hamlet will not only breathe through the pages of a book or the theater stage and film, but also through the computer screen.
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Mar 27, 2008
SY Wong

Taproot Develops WalkingHotSpot Software Solution for Seamless Connectivity and Mobility

TapRoot System, a leading smartphone software developer has just unveiled a new software based solution that is able to turn a mobile phone into a Wi-Fi access point, making a mobile hotspot a reality for cellular market. Known as WalkingHotSpot, it is targeted for those mobile internet users that would like to extend broadband access to other network devices anywhere on the move.


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Mar 27, 2008
SY Tan

The ‘Tiny’ Challenge by Modu Mobile Group

Modu PhoneHow small can a mobile phone be? An Israeli company, Modu Mobile, released a tiny mobile phone weighing around 40.1g and measuring 72mm x 37mm x 7.8mm. Modu Mobile which was funded by Dov Moran, who sold msystems to SanDisk claimed that this newly launched handset is the world’s smallest and lightest mobile phone available. The Modu phone was designed in a very unique way. It can operate as a standalone phone and also can be fitted into different cases or so called ‘jackets’. Users can slot the underlying Modu phone to different jackets from time to time to have different graphics or color schemes on its display. Besides, users also can slot the Modu phone to some jackets which can enhance or add extra functions of the original device. For instance, users can slot Modu into a GPS device to display maps for addresses that a user has saved on the phone. A home cordless phone could display numbers and other address book information when a Modu is plugged into its base.
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