Here is what I expect from the next version of Windows from Microsoft — Windows 8 (Windows Eight). Read more...
What I expect in Windows 8
October 29th, 2009What the perfect MS Windows is like?
October 25th, 2009Windows 7 has just been released in the market, and it has got a lot of media attention. Still it is just an upgrade of the previous Windows and another step forward on the familiar design track of Microsoft. As time goes by, this will not work very well on this Internet age. Here I offer some advice to MS on how to make a better OS in this Internet age. Read more...
Two handy screen capture tools
October 19th, 2009Both Snag-It and Hypersnap are ovekill for getting fast screenshots for a blog post. My search led me to two light-weight screen caputure tools. Read more...
Getting things done with To-Do Desklist
October 18th, 2009So often does the computer become a lonely person’s companion rather than a tool to process information. I found myself aimlessly clicking my time away hither and thither on the computer without focusing on what I am supposed to do in this electronic box. Making a to-do list is one way of prompting action and avoiding procrastination. Unfortunately tools such as Tudomo, Task Coach and the popular web-based NXT are overkill for this purpose if they are not distractions themselves. Today, I found a nice tool called To-do Desklist and it does the exact thing as I expected: you create a list of things on your desktop and mark them as done when you finish them. Read more...
How to avoid WordPress cropping images into thumnails
October 18th, 2009I am always frustrated with the way WordPress handles pictures in a post: when you upload an image, WordPress automatically crops it into a thumbnail, a medium and a large sized picture. The result is a crowded upload folder and a mess of file names that makes it hard to pinpoint the picture you really want to show to the readers. It’s time for change. Read more...
Migrating this site to a new place
October 1st, 2009I am choosing a new place for this site. That’s means probably a few days downtime. I’ll restore this site once I find another vps. I will keep writing. Read more...
Quickly delete an unwanted song in Foobar2000
September 14th, 2009When I play music with foobar2000, there are certain music files I don’t like and I want to immediately delete them for good when they start playing. The plugin foo_deletecurrent does exactly this job and it works great with the latest foobar2000 (as of version 0.9.6.8). Read more...
A few things to do every day
September 14th, 2009Once I got back to the supposedly easy life in China as a somewhat changed person, I found it was so easy to fall back into the old routine life and idle away. So in this morning of a new semester, I am thinking of doing the following things daily in order to make progress little by little: Read more...
A few nice WordPress themes
August 9th, 2009Browsing WordPress forum, I came across a few nice themes that I may consider using in the future. Tarski and Dkret3 will always be the themes of my choice. Both are well designed, with the former more suitable for serious topics and the later for more casual writing. Read more...
Setting the global size limit of Postfix mail
August 7th, 2009Only one parameter and some basic math are required to set the size limit of an email message under Postfix. Read more...