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Automation without abstraction is like a bicycle without pedals

30th Nov 2010 10 0 News Clips

Automation is just transforming information from one format to another format, it won’t make the information any easier to work with. Abstraction drops irrelevant information and keeping only the useful information at the right… [...]

Anki, flash card program

23rd Sep 2009 69 0 Daily Scribble
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A flash card software works like an old fashion flash card. You write new words on the side of the card and definition on the other side. You randomly draw cards from the deck to test how well you remember the words. A flash card software has more… [...]

DesignSync to Subversion

10th Jul 2009 300 1 Daily Scribble

The IT department of our company love to change software in the name of cost cutting, but they often neglect real cost of switch over, the time cost of retraining everyone to learn the new software. Their book looks better in the expense of the… [...]

Google OS

8th Jul 2009 27 2 News Clips

Everyone has been speculating for years Google is going to make their own OS. Finally the rumor is confirmed. Now the question is whether the Google OS will fall flat like Android, or would be just Android in disguise?… [...]

My favorite text editor

13th Jun 2009 81 0 Daily Scribble
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Vi has been my favorite text editor for many years. I learned how to use Vi in university and I never use any other text editor since then. Vi is an open source software and it come with any Linux distribution. Vi is still the most powerful and most… [...]

Sumo Paint

27th May 2009 107 0 Websites
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Sumo Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support.… [...]

Open source as alternative

25th Apr 2009 101 0 Websites
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Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software… [...]

Tax return

23rd Apr 2009 101 2 Daily Scribble

April is the time to file the tax return.  This year’s tax return is a little difference than last year’s.  My status in the file has changed from single to married.  In the point of view of Revenue Canada, nothing much is changed. … [...]

Firefox 3

17th Jun 2008 54 1 Daily Scribble

Firefox 3 is released today!  I have been a long time firefox fans, so naturally I downloaded the latest version at once.  The installation went very smoothly, it only took a few minutes.  Unlike the long and troublesome IE7 upgrade which… [...]

Firefox add-on

5th Feb 2008 157 3 Daily Scribble

Recently, I found my Firefox is crashing very often and take up lots of CPU time. At first, I thought there are some virus or Trojan horse hijacking my browser. After I run extensive anti-virus scan and found nothing. I am suspecting it is the fault… [...]

Reinstall Windows

3rd Feb 2008 29 0 Daily Scribble

After I upgraded my motherboard and add a couple of new hard disk, I have been spending most of my time installing Windows XP and applications.  I didn’t keep track of how many times I reboot my computer over the weekend.  Somehow many… [...]

worldwind

22nd Mar 2005 32 0 Daily Scribble

Worldwind is createdby NASA and is free to download. It is a model of earth with satellite photos overlay on the 3D terran, which you can fly over using different camera angle. The software also provide animation on different measurements on… [...]

picasa

7th Mar 2005 22 0 Daily Scribble

Today when I download the google desktop search bar, I came across a photo management tool from google, picasa. So I installed and tried out both softwares. The searchbar is nothing special, just yet another search tool. But I’m quite… [...]