Posted in Internet, computer stuff, plugins, tweaking / hacking / fixing on Feb 9th, 2010 5 Comments »
This past weekend, I upgraded from a Blackberry Curve 8320 to a Blackberry Bold 9700 and I noticed that there was a new Blackberry Enhanced GMAIL plug-in that gives you access to your GMAIL (and Google Apps Mail) account labels, as well as “mark as spam” and the ability to “star” a message. Great! However, [...]
Posted in Internet, computer stuff, network security, spyware / viruses / worms on Aug 7th, 2009 No Comments »
A very odd thing just happened to me this morning. While browsing on NewEgg in Firefox 3.5.2, I noticed that my browser slowed down. Using TCPview, I noticed that I had a lot of TCP connections opened to cpe-24-29-138-176.nyc.res.rr.com. That struck me as very odd. I thought I had spyware loaded [...]
Posted in Internet, Microsoft Windows, computer stuff, tweaking / hacking / fixing on Jul 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
How to remove Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant Extension from Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5
I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and realized that Microsoft snuck in (spyware-like installation, without user acknowledgment) an extension to Firefox 3.0 that is not compatible with Firefox 3.5, that extension is the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0.
Microsoft has released a newer [...]
Posted in Internet, network security on Jun 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
Reference Source: TechCrunch – Censorship 2.0: China Blocks Google Search, Apps, Gmail, And More
Google for some reason started to blocking access to everything Google today. It is really preventing my clients with China offices from doing their work. Especially since they use Google Apps for their e-mail. When will China join the [...]
Posted in Internet, blogging, computer stuff on Jun 9th, 2009 1 Comment »
I came across this site on my friend’s blog.
Blind Search – the search engine taste test
You should give it a try. It may be interesting to see how branding affects perceived search engine results.
NOTE: the programmer is working for Microsoft, but claims this side project has nothing to do with Microsoft. Hmmm… [...]
Posted in Internet, computer stuff, free stuff, plugins on Jun 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Adblock Plus add-on for Mozilla Firefox … I know this has been around for a few years. I’ve been meaning to install it but never got it done. Tonight, my friend, John Wong, started to talking about it so I finally installed it. Works nice.
Then goto http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions and add the following lists [...]
Posted in Internet, computer stuff, free stuff, software on Jun 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
I just came across this from Google. The Google Wave is awesome! At lease from their YouTube video from their developers conference.
Watch this 80 minute video. It is worth every minute of it. It blows your mind as to what Google is doing. Top it off, they are [...]
Posted in Internet, Microsoft Windows, computer stuff, software on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Why does Microsoft make it so difficult to find the links to download Internet Explorer 8 as a standalone installer? It use to be at the bottom of the stub-installer download page. Well after some digging, I found them and here are direct links to the standalone off-line installers of the release [...]
Posted in Internet, computer stuff, network security on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Facebook announced that it would support OpenID and it finally went live with it according to this article: Facebook Becomes Largest OpenID Relying Party.
var addthis_pub = ‘jchin’;
var addthis_brand = ‘Johnny Chin’;var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_header_background = ‘#2255CC’;var addthis_header_color = ‘#FFFFFF’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;
Posted in Internet, blogging, finance, news & politics on Apr 28th, 2009 No Comments »
People needs to be very careful of what they twitter, especially corporate ‘tweets’. According to a Wall Street Journal article, Corporate Blogs and ‘Tweets’ Must Keep SEC in Mind, some regulations may need to be put in place.
var addthis_pub = ‘jchin’;
var addthis_brand = ‘Johnny Chin’;var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_header_background = ‘#2255CC’;var addthis_header_color = ‘#FFFFFF’;var [...]