Windows Live Writer Beta

For those who upload chunks of pictures on your blog, windows live writer is an excellent alternative to uploading them manually online.

Inserting pictures is easy, just click on the ‘insert picture’ link at the right, choose your picture and ta-dah, your picture appears in windows live writer, with options to edit its properties. Pretty nifty tool.

For those who post screenshots of programs and website reviews regulary, there is a plugin you can download called: snipping tool integration. Works for vista with the snipping tool.

Well there you have it. An easier way to blog. :) The WIndows Live Beta series is getting more and more appealing with extra features that make our jobs easier.

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Internet explorer, Firefox and Chrome

I decided to do a comparison between the three browsers that I have, also to compare whether Google Chrome really uses less resources than firefox.

First of all I had to disable all my firefox extensions otherwise it will not be fair. All the browsers did not have any plugins installed. Here are the results:





Chrome took up about 13Mb, firefox took 21Mb and IE used about 31Mb.

Hence, the clear winner is..

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The pokeball. :) The reviews out there saying that chrome is faster than other browsers may not be totally false after all. 

So for those who wish to get a hold of pokeball, you can download it here.

There may be things I missed out during comparison; let me know in the comments. :)

Technorati Tags: Web Browsers,Google Chrome,Internet Explorer,Firefox

Toughbook

Look what I saw while attending Games Convention Asia. XD


























An advertisement for Toughbook. I applaude the marketing department. :)

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Read blogs with Google Reader

Have you ever felt like you had to visit too many friends' blogs for updates? Here's where technology comes in to help us out. I use something called Google Reader to help me keep updated on my friends' blogs, without having to visit them every other day to see if they have updated.

Google Reader is very easy to use. But for those who are a little confused, here is a mini tutorial to get you going.

















First, type: www.google.com/reader in your address bar and sign in into your google account. Create a new one if you don't already have one.
















Next, click the 'add subscription' link at the left side of the page.

















Enter the URL of the site you wish to subscribe to.
*Hint* If google reader shows an error message like 'no feed available' after you type in the url, try this little trick.

Type in '/atom.xml' after the url. In other words:

Lets say google blog does not have a feed. In the 'add subscription' box I would type in:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml

However, this does not work for blogs which are protected and require you to sign in first to read.


















And ta-dah! You have subscribed to a blog!





















A faster way to subscribe to blogs or websites is to click the rss button in your address bar. It will only appear if the site has an rss feed.
















Choose where you would like to view your feed, and you're done! :)

Technorati Tags: Google Reader,Google Chrome,RSS,Atom,Feed

Mac

Hey guys guess what.

I bought a mac. :)

ok I'm kidding. I merely changed my ubuntu to look like a mac.




















I had spent almost 4 hours trying the terminal way to do it, in the end alot of it didn't work out. Then I found the mac pack. There are ways in windows to make your vista or xp look like a mac too; google is your best friend. :)

Technorati Tags: Mac,Ubuntu,Linux,Windows XP,Google,The Mac Pack