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Dual booting with Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:09:31 -0700

My dell computer laptop is about two years old already and I’m running a little short on storage space. I have been dual booting the dell computer laptop with Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista, however I didn’t think it out thoroughly on the partitioning and thus I have linux partition here and there in between [...]

Red Fox FT44 MP3 Wireless FM Modulator

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:53:24 -0700

The Red Fox FT44 MP3 Wireless FM Modulator is the latest model on sale for playing MP3 or WMA music in your car using radio transmission to your car radio. My older FM modulator was getting cranky and with the new model with new features on sale, I decided to get a new MP3 wireless [...]

Windows Live Writer for Personal Blogs

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:08:35 -0700

This is interesting. This Windows Live Writer for use with personal blogs like Wordpress, Google Blogger provides another avenue to how you can post your blogs. Instead of writing your personal blog in your Microsoft Office Word software, and then copy and paste into your blogging site. You now can write your blog post and [...]

Are you wasting time blogging?

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:13:27 -0700

Do you make your own web site or make a blogging web site? What is the purpose of blogging anyway? There is a difference between blogging and building a web site. Blogging is linear, it has no structure while a web site has a pyramid form where people can navigate to find relevant information. [...]

Flock a better browser experience than Firefox

Jan — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:47:00 -0700

I decided to give Flock browser a try and see what it is like. Turn out to be rather interesting. I had a much better browsing experience than Firefox despite the fact that Flock is based on the same Mozilla Firefox engine.Flock is meant to be useful for those who log in frequently to their social web sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, MSN Live, Delicious, etc. Since I have almost all

Build a Free Web Site with Webs

Jan — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:41:00 -0700

Webs.com was formerly Freewebs.com. You can build a free web site here too! They have been around since 2001, longer than Yola but not as long as Bravenet. They use a free web site builder to make your own web site. It's free, so I sign up just to have a look see. So here's my URL JanLeow.Webs.com. Because they use the provided free web site builder, I'm stuck with their choices of free web site

IE vs Firefox, Opera, Chrome browsers

Jan — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:21:00 -0700

Internet Explorer is still bloated and slow as ever. And it is very telling. Just open your Gmail account and click on any inbox entry. It takes 5 long seconds for the message to open. It takes just as long to return to the Inbox list. In comparison, Firefox, Opera and Chrome takes only an instant. I couldn't even start counting the seconds (you know, one thousand one, one thousand two, etc to

Twitter for Palm - MoTwit

Jan — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:54:00 -0700

Can't have enough of Twittering? Own a Palm mobile phone like Centro, Treo or something like that? Then give this freeware app a try! It's call MoTwit (formerly known as TreoTwit). Useful for those who own a Palm mobile phone and wanted to twit using mobile phone but not residing in US, UK, India or Sweden. Actually you can SMS but the cost would be very expensive since it will become an

Build a free web site with Yola

Jan — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:20:00 -0700

Build a free web site using Yola. So what is it? Well, free web site hosting is good for those who do not wish to pay out of the pocket. So I decided to sign up and see what's it all about, after all it is free! This site is fairly new, so don't bank on it just yet. They still need to work out their monetizing model to support their freebie. It they can't find a way to generate income, they will

Windows 7 RC is free! For awhile anyway.

Jan — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:06:00 -0700

Microsoft is releasing a preview version of Windows 7 RC (release candidate) which you can use until it expires in June 2010. That means about 13 months free usage from current date (May 2008). PC World reported that this is the longest trial usage ever given by Microsoft. The Vista trial usage was given about 7 months usage from release till its expiry in June 2007. Once it expired Windows Vista

Make money online from blogging?

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:14:46 -0700

A friend commented, “Wah! You got so many web sites! Heard that can make money from blogging. Wanna try too.” Well, it is not as simple as that. If it were so, I would have been a rich man by now. Sure it is no harm trying. Especially if you can build a web site for [...]

Format FAT32 big partition using Linux

Jan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:01:00 -0700

I was attempting to format big partition size >100GB for a FAT32 file system for the WD My Passport portable hard disk. Turn out to be very tedious because the FAT32 format utility provided by Western Digital could not work in Windows Vista. So I tried to find alternative way, but to no avail, until...There is limit to the FAT32 partition on your hard disk. It cannot exceed more than 32GB. To

Expandable Post

Jan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:56:00 -0700

Finally it was done. It wasn't too difficult to understand and implement expandable post in Google Blogger. Now the post functions just like those Wordpress websites. ie the front page will show a teaser of paragraph, if the visitors likes it, can click the "Read More" link to expand the the teaser to a full post for further reading.Now the frontpage don't have to be a looooong page of many posts

Can always use this like Twitter

Jan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:00:00 -0700

I can always use this blogger like Twitter minus the 140 character limit. Instead of calling it micro blogging, just call it mini blogging! Plus you can tag it to and with more options! Yeah!

Got to figure this out

Jan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:30:00 -0700

Rfwk has done it, guess I will have to figure it out. Blogger can't break long post with the use of breakers like or such as those used by Wordpress or Drupal. Instead it needs special hacking using either CSS or JavaScript. Since this need time to figure it out, will do it later.

Make, build a free web site

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Make, create and build a free web site using available free web hosting online.

Cure for Cancer? Alternate/Nutrition/Complimentary Medicine

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:10:02 -0700

Thanks for the virtual candle vigil. Let me share this. My bro-in-law was diagnose cancer (nasal area, cannot operate). After study the current radio/chemo therapy methods; conclusion this method is dangerous, expensive and survival rate very low (3-7%). Now going for alternate medicine/nutrition medicine way. So far he has been going on this method for 2-3 [...]

Comment spoilers

Jan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:06:00 -0700

Lately I get a few bad mouth comments in my blogs and various other sites. I don't know whether it is the stress of the current economic downturn or it is just a coincidence of bat attitude people passing by my web site and deciding to leave bad unconstructive criticism.Perhaps I myself am also having a bad mood or something because usually I just shrug my shoulders and leave those distasteful

Simplepie multifeed sorting by date is working

Jan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:14:00 -0700

Finally got the simplepie multifeed to sort various RSS feeds by date. According to Simplepie it should work, and the reason it didn't work was because there wasn't any date or proper formatting of date in the RSS feed. Turn out my manually made RSS had date formatting errors. Now it is working like a charm!

Decided to re-use blogger

Jan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Playing around with CNAME, I think I found another use for blogger. Even though I'm already using my Wordpress websites software on my own domain, I found that I could use CNAME to map a subdomain onto Google's blogger service and make the blogspot software as part of my main web site. Cool!

Internet brand, trademarks and internet intellectual property rights protection

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:01:10 -0700

I received an email from WorldWideNetwork.asia purporting that someone by the name of Peter Alldis was attempting to register my name with a .cn and .asia top level domain (TLD) name. Because they discovered that a janleow.com exist in the internet, they would like to offer the chance to register .cn and .asia first to [...]

Philips GoGear 2GB MP3/WMA Player

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:49:56 -0700

Now this was fast. I submitted my Citibank Rewards for a Philips GoGear 2GB MP3/WMA Player and I received it in just a week even though they mentioned it will take several weeks. I have amassed sufficient Citibank Reward Points and decided to redeem the Philips GoGear MP3/WMA Player. It needs 41,000points and I thought [...]

Reboiling water is harmful?

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:15:04 -0700

I received an email from my sis-in-law about a newspaper article saying that reboiling water is harmful. Being a bit dubious about this, a quick check in the net, I found out why reboiling water may be harmful and why it is not as harmful as one thought, why it is not harmful at all [...]

Very slow internet connection again - Conficker worm or Streamyx problem?

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:45:31 -0700

Argh! Not again! The internet connection is atrociously slow. This time who should I blame? Streamyx or Conficker worm? Perhaps both? Apparently the Conficker worm has been wrecking havoc around the world since it was triggered on April Fool’s day and has managed to infect thousands of web servers, web sites and millions of computers [...]

Transcend StoreJet 25F Portable Hard Drive

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:22:13 -0700

I’ve been mulling around for a portable hard drive, wondering which brand and model to use for my storage needs. Finally I decided to go for Transcend StoreJet 25F after briefly checking out the good points about each available models in the market. It would have been a fairly simple to just grab any portable [...]

Palm Pre - having a pre-look at it

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:18:24 -0700

I heard from Fresh Gear shop that Palm was launching a new mobile phone called the Palm Pre using a new platform called Web OS. It still hasn’t reached the shores of Malaysia so I’m still waiting for the shop to have stock before having a good look at it. Perhaps as a long time [...]

The problem with hardware warranty claims

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:37:21 -0700

Now that my Gigabyte motherboard CMOS/BIOS is half-dead and no longer functioning, I find it a tad irritating to have to update / adjust the Vista time in order for it to its automated functions like Windows update, Kapersky anti-virus update, and all the other essential automatic updates. Since they all rely on the system [...]

Archive backup files using compressed zip files

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:38:33 -0700

It is very important to keep backup of files that you use regularly whether it is for work or personal files. You never know the files may get corrupted. Files in your PC are easier to backup while those in your web site of course it becomes more complicated. However many people do not seem [...]

There goes my Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H BIOS

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:20:54 -0700

The computer time was not up to date for the pass one week or so, and I wondered what was wrong with my PC. Usually if the time was not keeping, it meant that the CR2032 flat button battery in the Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H motherboard was either weak or dead. So I went out to get [...]

Blood test result out - how’s my health fitness?

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:18:49 -0700

So it was about time to check out my health fitness position. Though I have been trying to keep myself fit, there is no way to know your personal health fitness situation until you do a medical check up. Lena decided to give this nutritional medicinal method a go and we went for a blood [...]

Sony Ericson T700 mobile phone

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:04:58 -0700

Recently Lena signed up a new package with Maxis. As a bonus for signing up the 150 package was a free Sony Ericson T700 mobile phone. This hand phone probably retails for below RM1000 so I guess it was a good deal. There were other free phones like Nokia and LG, but the T700 looked [...]

USB Fan

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:57:17 -0700

Lena said that her office always shuts off the air-con after office hours and the environment gets a little warm afterwards. Perhaps this little nifty little gadget might help some. It is a USB powered fan. Really cheapo! Going for RM8.80 as sold in All IT computer store. It sounded like a good idea at [...]

Make money online - Adsense vs Nuffnang vs Advertlets and other entrepreneur ideas

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:57:05 -0700

I picked up the latest copy of Personal Money magazine from the newsstand recently as one of the articles was about Nuffnang and about online entrepreneurs. The magazine article talked about three companies namely Elevyn.com, Nuffnang.com and Popfolio.net. These entrepreneurs are not like us infopreneurs, they try to make their concept work by dealing with real [...]

Links and Anchors in your web site

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:00:00 -0700

Creating links and anchors when you make your own web site

Nutrition way for cancer attrition

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:29:05 -0700

Today we visited a medical consultant who uses complementary medical method of treating cancer or tumour. My brother-in-law has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and the standard method of cure using radiotherapy and chemotherapy was very damaging to his health. In addition, his high blood pressure and obesity wasn’t helping either. However the alternative [...]

Bluehost finally agreed there was something wrong with the web server

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:59:11 -0700

The current server that my web hosting account residing in Bluehost seem to be in constant unusual heavy loads. I have experience frequent downtime whenever I needed to access my Wordpress websites blog or do some exploring or testing some bits of web site feature. It was getting rather frustrating and I was even contemplating [...]

Adding images to your web site

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:00:00 -0800

Adding images to your web site will spice up your information content, especially useful if you are running a travel destinations related web site.

More HTML text formatting

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 -0800

More HTML text formatting, like tag attributes to control and format the HTML codes

Internet Marketing Secrets? What is SEO?

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:25:00 -0800

Internet marketing secret, SEO: How to increase web site traffic when you make your own web site.

It is important to keep one’s health fitness in good order

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:21:58 -0800

The news came as a shock to us all. Kenny’s simple medical procedure to drain fluid from his ear went smoothly without a hitch. However the doctor found something else and decided to do additional test to found out what it was. And today the result just came in and the prognosis was not good. [...]

Wordpress websites

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:02:00 -0800

Make your own Wordpress websites using Bluehost Fantastico autoinstalls or Simple Scripts

The first web page - the index file

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:02:00 -0800

Your first web page, the index.html file

How I made my web site

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:02:00 -0800

How I got started to make my own web site

Make your own web site browser troubleshooting

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:31:47 -0800

Sometimes different browsers react differently to the HTML/CSS when you make your own web site, you have to watch out and test it on each browser. Kind of a drag if you want to make sure IE/Firefox/Opera/Chrome works flawlessly. If that is too much of a chore, then just concentrate on the main one which [...]

Learning HTML text formatting

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:02:00 -0800

Learning the HTML text formatting. What are the essential HTML tags to learn.

Make your own web site note about browser differences

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:19:10 -0800

It may be interesting and fun to make your own web site. However the way each browser (IE/Firefox/Opera/Chrome) handles the HTML/CSS codes leaves you with many headaches. Although my browser of choice is Firefox, there is still a large user base for Internet Explorer. I can say that roughly as much as 70% of users [...]

End of the road for this old faithful iWill BD100+ computer

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:19:31 -0800

I guess eventually it will come to this. I actually wanted to pass this old PC of mine to somebody who could make use of it. My IWILL BD100 plus motherboard running on Pentium 3 CPU with four pieces of assorted SD-RAM totalling about 288MB, a 20GB hard disk and a 32MB NVIDIA graphic card [...]

Learning HTML video tutorial

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:02:00 -0800

Learning the basics of HTML

Build your web site page by page or use open source software?

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:01:00 -0800

Which way do you want to build your web site? Page by page or use CMS / open source software

Looking around your web hosting account

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:00:00 -0800

After signing up with your web hosting company. Look around and get familirize with your hosting account and get to know its features.

Web Hosting - what to look out for

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:00:00 -0800

No two web hosting company is the same. Each has their own features and pricing. Of course cheap web hosting saves money but not always the best idea.

Getting started to make your own web site

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:00 -0800

Getting started to make your own web site. What do you need to create web site? Domain name and web hosting company

Make Your Own Web Site Introduction

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:04:00 -0800

Introduction to make your own web site

Make your own web site

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:00:00 -0800

Make your own web site for fun and profit

Shifting my personal blog to a new site

Jan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:52:00 -0800

I've decided to shift my personal blog to my very own personal website! I've decided to call it Blogs about life; after all success is a journey, not a destination. I've also set up a simple mobile blog @ vox for blogging from my Palm Centro smartphone.After all, once you have reached a pinnacle point, it is still not the end of your journey. I also do like lots of techie stuff, so my new site is

Welcome to My Blog

Jan — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:31:00 -0700

This is my first personal blog. Hopefully more will be published as days go by. Right now I am at a loss as to what to type in. But writer's block does not apply to blogging, right?I was setting up my Cameron Highlands website, but it takes time to come up with content. Well hopefully I can complete my project and something will come out from my endeavor.I think the present modern day is rather