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Three ways to use Twitter on Symbian phones

tw — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:30:18 +0000

I am no twitter fan but as G.F*W gets so omnipotent, I guess I should dig a tiny hole in it by using twitter anyway. » » »

How to bypass firewalls under Firefox

tw — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:54:13 +0000

I previously used QuickProxy addon for Firefox but found that it failed to load Youtube for me. Today I changed my proxyfier into FoxyProxy and it solved all my problems. Here is a brief tutorial of how to use it under Firefox. » » »

Two handy screen capture tools

tw — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:34:39 +0000

Both 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. » » »

Getting things done with To-Do Desklist

tw — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:44:16 +0000

So 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. » » »

Quickly delete an unwanted song in Foobar2000

tw — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:48:25 +0000

When 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). » » »