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My old keyboard was dead few months ago and I’ve been using my housemate’s keyboard during this period. Since I’m going to Lowyat, so I decided to buy a new keyboard. At first, I actually plan to buy the Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 as reviewed by Sian Siew. But my budget is quite tight, so I have no choice but to choose a cheaper keyboard. I decided to go with with cost me RM23. It is quite cheap for a branded keyboard since some unbranded keyboard can cost up to RM18!
Full review after the jump!
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One of the things that I hate about email that forwarded to me is all the extra symbols such as the ‘>’ that added in front of every line! It is damn frustrating if you want to remove it one by one.
Thank fully, I found a website that can help you remove all the symbols! Check out the e-mail Cleaner! All you need to do is paste your email in the text box and click a button to clean the email. It is that easy!
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Tired of spam? Well, disposable email is here for you! So, what exactly is disposable email? Disposable email is an email that require no registration and the mail in the inbox will be deleted within a certain time frame. For example, when a website require you to provide your email address during registration, you can simply type anything you want (ie: dave@dodgeit.com) and register! Next, go to the website of the temporary email provider and type in the user name that you use to register (in this case, dave) to check for the activation mail! If the website sells your email to spam list, all the spam will go to this email! (And will be deleted automatically!)
But please remember that the email address is public. So, it is not advisable to use this email to store any confidential data such as password. And also, the email will only be keep for a short time. If you need to save it for reference use, you can either copy the content of the email or just use a permanent email address.
Here is a list of temporary email provider:
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Posted by: HMMaster in Review
I finally manage to try out two online file converter that I mentioned in my earlier post. The two converters are Zamzar and Media Convert.
The file that I try to converter is a Microsoft Word file. The format that I want it to be converted is PDF. The doc is quite big, which is around 8mb. I try to convert the doc file using media convert first. The upload process is quite easy and there is a progress bar for the upload. It takes few minutes to convert the file once it is finish upload to the server. Media Convert will provide the download link of the converted file after it finish converting. This is definitely a plus since several online pdf converter require me to enter my email address and send the file to my email. This is quite time consuming.
Next, I tried converting the file using Zamzar. Zamzar’s interface is quite clean and Web 2.0-ish. You can upload multiple files at once, which is great. But Zamzar require you to enter your email because it will send the download link to your email. Zamzar also display a progress bar for the upload process. It even allows you to cancel the upload. If you upload multiple files, Zamzar will provide a zip file that contains all the converted file along with individual link for each file! I really love this feature.
Even though Media Convert manage to convert my doc to pdf successfully, but I can’t open the file. I tried several times, but the result is still the same. I’m not sure whether it is because I’m using the track changes in the doc that caused this problem. But I don’t have problem converting the same file using Zamzar.
For me, I definitely recommend Zamzar because of several features that it offer and Media Convert does not offer. But the only downside is that I can’t download the file directly after it finish converting.
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Recently, Sian Siew posted an article about problem viewing Microsoft Word Document on non-MS viewer (such as Open Office). The way he suggested is to convert the doc file to pdf. But his suggestion require you to install some software to convert the document. This might be a bit inconvenient if you are not using your own computer. To solve this problem, the easiest way is to use online file converter. One of my favorite online doc-to-pdf converter is NeeVia’s Document Converter eXPress. It supports large number of input format, which is very good. Some of the less common filetype, such as *.pub (which is a Microsoft Publisher file) is also supported. You also can configure some of the settings for the output file such as the resolution of the pdf file.
I also found two online file converter that convert file to format other than document/text file. These converters support both audio and video format. The two converters are Zamzar and Media Convert. I haven’t try these converters yet, but I think it is a good site for those who want to convert video such as flv to avi. [via TechCrunch]
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Google finally updated their web-based RSS Reader! The previous version of Google is just waayyyy to sucks. I have no idea why Google can come out with something like this.
The old Google Reader
The new version of Reader is way better than the old one. Now it looks more like a normal rss reader and the interface is quite similar to GMail. In the previous version, there is no category for you to select form. All feeds are jumbled up together, which something I don’t like since it is very hard to read the feeds.
The new Google Reader
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Microsoft just released a blog authoring tool not too long ago. This tool is Windows Live Writer, which is part of Microsoft’s Windows Live family.
Windows Live Writer (WLW) is a WYSIWYG blog authoring tool. So, what you edited in WLW will look exactly the same when you published it. This make blog posting much easier. Currently, there are few blogging service that provide WYSIWYG editing, but web interface is still not as good as an offline application.
WLW is compatible with Windows Live Spaces, which is a blogging service by Microsoft. But don’t worry, WLW is also compatible with other blogging site such as Blogger. It is also compatible with blogging platform such as Wordpress and MovableType.
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This is my mini review on Writely. Once you login, you’ll see a list of documents that you recently use. The interface is simple and clean. There is no ad at the site, but this may change in the future.
The main page of Writely after login
Documents are divided into four types (or view): Active, Starred, Tagged, All Documents. Active means the documents that you recently use (within 1 month). Starred documents are documents that you marked, something like favorite/bookmark. If you are GMail user, I’m sure that you see the feature before. You can also apply tag to your document.Tagging is one of the best way to organize your files. This is because you’re not restricted to one type of tag. You can add several tags to one document. For the ‘All Documents’ tab, as the title said, it view all the documents that you created and saved. There is also a trash function where you can recover documents that you deleted.
Tagging a document
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