Google seems to have more than just Gmail up its sleeves in Beta Testing. I found out about this nifty tool called Google Scholar that searches through the net for only “scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. ” I find it extremely useful when one is looking for a particular article by a certain writer about quite a general subject. For example, searching for ‘Multimedia’ in Google Search will turn out all sorts of useless resellers and company sites. Using Google Scholar I can be sure to find some published journals and educational research materials. Wow, Google really…

Just got a new cam phone, and now trying out moblogging with the help of Flickr. Pretty cool,even tho I’ve reached 100% usage in Flickr, I can still upload thru my phone.

Recently, if you read many Pc magazines and newspapers, you would find more articles on stopping spywares than on viruses. Spywares and ad wares are starting to emerge in armies and declaring their war with timid computer users like never before. I personally think spywares and spybots are more dangerous than viruses as it is like a parasite that attaches itself to your system invisibly and slowly opening backdoors just a little bit to let in the maliscious bots. Viruses are more open with their attacks and usually the effects can be seen clearly. However, most computer users are ignorant of the fact that spybots exist and are living in…

Oh my gosh! It is all done!! I had mentioned earlier that my sis just picked up blogging after much persuasion. Well, not really. In order to get her a great site, I offered to set it all up for her. Thanks to LiewCF for kindly hosting the Movable Type site. This is my first time trying to set up an MT site, just wanna learn something. Previously, Itchyhands had helped me set mine up. So, not surprisingly it took me pretty long to do the whole thing. Actually, it was all uploaded and configured in a day, but due to certain server complications, I had to wait a few…