Monthly Archives: September 2008

Recommended Freeware List

Posted on September 13, 2008 by admin

The new recommended freeware list is now hosted at: The 88 Best Freeware Here are some of the freewares I used before. GIMP Quick Media Converter Picasa CamStudio

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Sogou Pinyin

Posted on September 6, 2008 by admin

Today Joojen from Nanjing introduced Sogou Pinyin – a popular Chinese character input method editor developed by Sogou, a Chinese search engine. I have been using Microsoft default pinyin and recently has just switched to the Google Pinyin. However, Sogou … Continue reading →

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Problem installing Google Talk on Vista

Posted on September 6, 2008 by admin

Recently I faced the following when installing Google Talk in my Vista machine: “The new version of Google Talk cannot be installed because you are running an older version of Google Talk that is not compatible with Windows Vista. Please … Continue reading →

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Cisco DHCP Configuration

Posted on September 5, 2008 by admin

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is one of the most popular TCP/IP protocol uses today. It is used by networked devices to obtain information required to operate on an Internet Protocol network. These information may include IP address Default gateway … Continue reading →

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What is Windows Clustering

Posted on September 5, 2008 by admin

Clustering is the connection of multiple devices together in such a way that to the outside world, the cluster appears to be a single system. Each device in a cluster is referred to as a node. If critical service is … Continue reading →

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Chrome – Google’s browser

Posted on September 4, 2008 by admin

Google has just released an open source browser – Google Chrome. It is now available at http://www.google.com/chrome. As with other Google application, it is available freely to the public. In my tests, Chrome performed excellent in access to Gmail, Blogger … Continue reading →

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SkyDrive

Posted on September 1, 2008 by admin

Found this new service from Microsoft the other day. This is really what I search for so far. Like Google toolbar that save my bookmark which I can use whenever access to the Internet, SkyDrive offer free diskspace for me … Continue reading →

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