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Gmail Feedback
On the 4th of June, I wrote to the Gmail Team and gave them some feedback on my Gmail usage. They sent me an automated reply. I thought it was the actual reply tho, till I received another reply. Leona wrote: Hi, I had been using Gmail for a while now, I must say it’s a great service. I found almost all the features to be really neat and useful. however, maybe u could add a feature which we can add people from the contacts by selecting them from a list, instead of the current where when we type the person’s name in the TO: field only the email appears.…
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Plentiful of Avatars
My Yahoo Avatar My Self Portrait MY Southpark Lollipop Loving Character The latest version of Yahoo Messenger comes complete with the capability to create your own avatar which appears next to your nick. Above is what I created in my Yahoo Messenger. Before all that, what does Avatar really means? In the Geek world, it’s a word very often used, but rarely understood. The Wepopedia defined the word as “A graphical icon that represents a real person in a cyberspace system. When you enter the system, you can choose from a number of fanciful avatars. Sophisticated 3D avatars even change shape depending on what they are doing (e.g., walking, sitting,…
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Of Opensource, Ops Tulen, Limited Space and more.
With the recent hype by BSA on catching distribution of pirated software, some of the distributor companies I know are taking precautions to ensure a they won’t get caught. Precautions include uninstalling all the non licensed software such as MS Office, Norton Antivirus, Windows and more. Licensed software are also selling like hot cakes coz of the scare. The place I work, however, is not as terrified with the the threats of the Gov. They merely asked us to shut the office should we get a suspiscious feeling that the Ops people are coming. Er, not very helpful I reckon. Personally, I feel that distributing or even using Pirated softwares…
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Star Epaper vs Star Paper
The Star EPaper (Electronic Paper for short) was launched on 31 May 2004. It was quite an exciting er. happening, being one of the few to offer such a service in Malaysia. I immediately checked it out that day, but to my disappointment, it wasn’t up and running till evening of that day. Nevertheless, this is not about that…This is a comparison post on The Star Epaper Vs The Star Paper. In my opinion, (call me old fashioned) I still prefer the paper version of this paper. I found a few things about the Epaper that caused some disturbances in my head. Here’s a list… 1)The epaper takes TIME to…
