Wolfram Alpha - Knowledge Search Engine

Wolfram Alpha, the knowledge base search engine. It will answer all your question accurately, BUT provided you ask the correct answer. As compare with google search engine, Wolfram Alpha is more towards knowledge base search, whereas google is a public search. So i will say that Wolfram Alpha is more useful to students or researchers in certain area compare to google, especially in mathematical computation!

pic 1: a powerful maths computer

pic 2: show you result of total calories of foods

pic 3: currency converter

Bad-guy to Turn Off Video Games

Parents now have a solution to limit their children's game playing time. All you need to do is just a device set the time you allowed for video game play, when time is up, the game timer automatically powers off the game system. The device is price at $29.99. Check out here.

All About Technology's Weekly Recap

Weekly recap from 15/07 - 19/07.
1) Gmail Keyboard Shortcut
- Setup gmail keyboard shortcut

2) Speedup Firefox Web Browser
- Tricks to speedup your firefox web browser signifiantly

3) Windows LIVE Writer - Mush Have for Blogger
- LIVE Writer installation guide and usage

4) Office 2010: The Movie
- Watch the Office 2010: The Movie from youtube

URL Search Engine Submission

If you are new as a blogger, the very first thing you need to do to promote your blog is to submit your url to various search engines.

Below are a few important search engine submission page:
1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Bing
4. Alexa

Office 2010: The Movie

Microsoft confirmed that the latest Microsoft Office 2010 will come in 2 versions, the 32bit and 64bit version, as compare to previous Office only has 32bit and 16bit version. Office 2010 will run on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

Let's watch the movie 'Office 2010' from youtube.



For more info about MS Office 2010, go to Microsoft's website.

Windows LIVE Writer – Must Have for Blogger

As a regular writer to update your blog, i will recommend you to install the Windows LIVE Writer. This application come with many great features, including special inserting tools, whereby allow you to insert tables, images, videos easily. Another feature is offline control of your blog, means you can edit your post offline, then later only publish it online. The Writer also come together with spell checker, so now you should not have spelling error in your blog!

PS: This post was written using Windows LIVE Writer

You may follow below guide to setup your Windows LIVE Writer.

pic 1: start installing Windows LIVE Writer

pic 2: only tick on Writer, other options let it blank

pic 3: select the blog service that you’re using

pic 4: type the url of your blog & user name & password to login your blog

pic 5: installation in progress

pic 6: Edit mode to create/edit your post

pic 7: Preview mode to preview your post

pic 8: after you click the Publish button, above screen appear

Speedup Firefox Web Browser

There are few tricks available to speedup your firefox web browser significantly. Just give it a try by following some steps below:
1. key in 'about:config' in the firefox address bar
2. then navigate to below 'Preference Name' and set the value as per recommended-
network.http.pipelining (true)
network.http.proxy.pipelining (true)
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (8)
network.dns.disableIPv6 (true)
plugin.expose_full_path (true)

OK, now try your firefox's performance. It should be much more faster in loading pages. Hope this helpful to you.

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts

Ever want to speedup your writing when you compose an email in gmail ? Gmail keyboard shortcuts will enable to compose email without using a mouse. But before you can use the gmail keyboard shortcuts, you need to turn on the setting in gmail. First, you go to gmail's setting page, then look for 'keyboard shortcuts' and turn it on. Now, you are ready to use the shortcut keys.



Here are some common used shortcut keys:
c - compose
n - move your cursor to next message
p - move your cursor to previous message
r - reply to message sender
f - forward an email
z - undo your previous action
? - display keyboard shortcut help menu

All About Technology's Weekly Recap

Weekly recap from 06/07 - 11/07.
1) Hack Windows XP Password
- Introduce software to hack Windows XP Password

2) Complimentary PC World Magazine
- Redeem you complimentary copies for 6 months

3) Antivirus + Antispyware
- VIPRE's combo set of antivirus & antispyware review

Antivirus + Antispyware

Today i would like to introduce a combo set of antivirus + antispyware. VIPRE antivirus & antispyware is a high-performance security software that doesn't slow down your PC like older, traditional antivirus products. Accroding to PC Magazine's security expert, they gave VIPRE an excellent review with 4 stars. I believe VIPRE (Virus Intrusion Protection Remediation Engine) will be able to protect your PC against virus, adware & spyware.

If your PC is using Windows 95/98/ME, then you will not be able to install the application. Also minimum 512MB RAM is required.

Below screenshot is a comparison of VIPRE performace (CPU usage during scan) against other competitors:

NOTE: derived from VIPRE's website

You can download the free trial version HERE.

Magazine PC World - FREE

For a limited time, PC World magazines is offering complimentary 6 months free subscription. The offer is open to qualifying residents of the 50 U.S. States, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. There is no credit card information required, and of course no purchase needed. All you need to do is just fill up a simple form here.



I am not qualify because i am staying in Asia. For those who qualify, grab your free copy asap.

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Hack Windows XP Password

Forgot your Windows XP password or trying to hack someone's computer? You can try the xpPasswordBreaker. Burn the application to a cd. After that just boot from the cd-rom drive:
1) type setup.exe
2) choose your harddrive where you install Windows, normally drive C:
3) after that select ADMIN and you can modify the password

All About Technology's Weekly Recap

Weekly recap from 29/06 - 04/07.
1) Disable Read/Write to USB
- steps to disable read/write access to USB harddrive/pendrive

2) Maybank2u.com Phishing Email
- beware of latest M2u phishing email

3) Ping Your Blog. Promote Your Blog
- Ping your blog to promote it

4) Update Your Driver Frequently
- update PC driver for better performance

5) AntiFreeze Your Windows
- software recommendation to antifreeze your windows

6) HealthMap - Track Swine Flu H1N1
- keep track on swine flu H1N1 using google map

7) Useful Microsoft Word Shortcut Key
- MS Word shortcut keys

Useful Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys

In order to speedup your daily jobs, you need to know some commonly used Microsoft Word shortcut keys, below is the list

Ctrl + A Select all contents of the page.
Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection.
Ctrl + C Copy selected text.
Ctrl + X Cut selected text.
Ctrl + P Open the print window.
Ctrl + F Open find box.
Ctrl + I Italic highlighted selection.
Ctrl + K Insert link.
Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection.
Ctrl + V Paste.
Ctrl + Y Redo the last action performed.
Ctrl + Z Undo last action.
Ctrl + L Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen.
Ctrl + E Aligns the line or selected text to the center of the screen.
Ctrl + R Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen.
Ctrl + M Indent the paragraph.

For a complete list of all the Microsoft Word shortcut keys, you can visit Microsoft's website.

HealthMap - Track Swine Flu H1N1

Lost track on news regarding swine flu H1N1? In fact you can have a clear overview of the cases around he world by using HealthMap. It is a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP application using google map technology to provide users with a better visualisation of outbreak in different geographical areas. The map is not restricted to provide outbreak data for swine flu, but also for diseases like fever, dengue, avian influenza, hepatitis, etc.

AntiFreeze Your Windows

Sometimes our Windows will hang and become unresponsive. I believe we all encounter this problem before. If you are working on something really important and urgent, and the Windows hang, what do you do IF you did not save your work? Maybe you can try the Windows Task Manager, with the hope it can unfreeze the Windows. But most of the times, Windows Task Manager is not helping.



AntiFreeze offers you last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. All you need to do when your computer hang, just press hotkeys (ALT+CTRL+WIN+HOME) and it will start the AntiFreeze Task Manager. You can kill some of the applications by pressing the 'End Process' button to unFreeze your Windows.

Currently AntiFreeze is free for non-commercial use only.

Update Your Driver Frequently

Remember when is the last time you update the drivers for your computer? Or you totally never update your drivers before since the day you bought the computer? Why updating driver is so important? Driver acts as a crucial element to rely information between hardware, software and Windows. Without a proper driver, some of your computer peripheral equipments may not function. Sometimes installed the wrong drivers may cause your computer to hang. (to unfreeze your Windows, read my post here)



The fast and easy way to update computer drivers is by using DriverCure. The software application will scan your computer, to determine which driver your hardware needed and update the latest version for you. But this is NOT free, it will cost you $9.95.

In order to save your $9.95, you can try the DriverCure InstantScan for free, then go to the vendor's site to manually update your driver with latest version.

Ping Your Blog, Promote Your Blog

There are many ways to promote your blogs. One of them is to PING your blog. The purpose of ping is to notify search engines that there is an update to your blogs. Ping is a mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated.

List of free services that you can use to ping your blog:
ping-o-matic
ping.sg/
king ping
google blog search ping service