How to disable Facebook News Ticker

Don't like the Facebook News Ticker? Here is a simple video to teach you how to do it. A picture worth a thousand words, a video worth a million words? Never mind, just click play on the video below.



Note: for FireFox and Chrome only.

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source: See the original author of the video(?) http://googleplus.wonderhowto.com/corkboard/hide-facebook-news-ticker-firefox-and-google-chrome-0130089/

The Google Plus Song

With Google Plus open up to public, meaning everyone can register with Google Plus. If you still not on Google Plus, you no longer need someone in Google Plus to invite you. Just go to the Google Plus link and click to register.
http://plus.google.com/

Here is a song to help you to understand what Google Plus can do, although the song is not nice at all, IMHO. :P



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source: I wrote this, and video is from youtube!

[Android Game] Drop the Star

See the video first:


How? Nice? You can download this Android game from this link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.happyangel.dropthestar

From the author:
Description:
Our cute star is afraid of the height. Use your finger to destroy the blocks, and land the star on the safe base.
You can earn points by completing levels, and use the earned points to buy powerups in the in-game store.
- 8 different worlds (120 levels, more levels will be included in the updates).
- Simple, funny, colorful, relaxing.
- Many creative, and challenging levels.
- 3 different powerups.
- 3 relaxing music tracks.
- Unique menu style.
- High resolution graphics.
- Auto-save at the end of each level.
- All saved game files are stored on your SD card. You can copy the files, and transfer them to other devices.

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source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17733979&posted=1#post17733979

Samsung Epic 4G Touch teardown

Samsung Epic 4G Touch is the brother of Samsung Galaxy S 2. And this is not Samsung Epic 4G, that is with physical slide out keyboard. There is "Touch" behind it. The marketing guys at Samsung are very lazy huh. :P

How similar between this phone with Samsung Galaxy S 2? Look at the comparison on GSM Arena:
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3956&idPhone2=3621

Anyway, this Samsung Epic 4G Touch is CDMA only. So many Asian country cannot use it. So here is the teardown:




Or if you prefer to look at the iFixit website, click here:
Samsung Epic 4G Touch Teardown

Samsung Galaxy S 2 teardown also being featured in this blog:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2011/07/samsung-galaxy-s-2-teardown.html

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Oct 4 Is iPhone 5 Day?

Rumor says Oct4 is the day iPhone 5 will be announce. Sure or not? Usually rumor can be 50% true and 50% false. However, wait and see. Apple already lost an iPhone5 at a bar in US recently, however that didn't create much news because people know it is a fake news, bahhahah.

:D Have a nice weekend!

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source: all over the world is talking about it :D

My kind of Windows Explorer - Explorer++

If you are Windows user, regardless Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 (anyone already on Windows 8???), you should have use Windows Explorer before. Even you always use "My Computer" to find the files, but it is actually Windows Explorer, just without the Folder view.

I use Windows Explorer a lot, both at work or at home. Copy files, move files, delete files, open files. And I use a few of Windows Explorer windows at any time, because I am too lazy to browse through the folder again every time I need to open it, so I just leave it. But that become very cluster, and messy with so many windows opened. So I start thinking if there is any multi-tab Windows Explorer? We have some many multi-tab web browsers, Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE also before multi-tab after some many years lack of this function after FF or Safari or Opera already have multi-tab.

Forget about web browsers, and there is a multi-tab Windows Explorer, but as always, it is not from Microsoft. But luckily this multi-tab Windows Explorer is a free software! Yeah!

Explorer++ (yes, it is Explorer with 2 plus symbols behind) can be come with installation version or portable version. This is another plus point, no installation! I have tried many file explorers, like Total Commander (need to pay), or some other which I forgot the names, because I simply switch back to use Windows Explorer after a few days of trying these file explorers. So you can know these file explorers are as bad as original Windows Explorer. :P

Because I am too lazy to take snapshot of Explorer++, so I just take the screenshots from it's website, hehe. And I will do some intro to the features of Explorer++.

Firstly, the view, it can be just like the original Windows Explorer, nothing much. Of course you can customize to add in more column in detail view, again, same like original Windows Explorer.

Second, it can show folder size at detail view. Don't this feature available

Third, you can change the attribute of files, again, same like Windows Explorer, but you can change the modification/creation/accessed date of each file. To do that, select the file(s) and then click "File" and then "Set File Attributes".

Forth, it can bookmark the folder that you want to open regularly.

And best of all, it is multi-tab, if you click on any of the picture above, you can already see the multi-tab. So no more messy with more than 10 Windows Explorer, because all of them can be open in muti-tab of Explorer++.

Okay, to get it, you can either get it from portableaps.com which will install the portable version for you.
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/explorerplusplus_portable

Or just download the zip version and unzip the files on your own. 64bits version available here. :)
http://www.explorerplusplus.com/download

The website:
http://www.explorerplusplus.com/home

Have a nice Sunday and a nice week ahead. :)

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source: I wrote this, but pictures are from explorerplusplus website :P

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Free Angry Birds Rio For Windows - limited period - expired

This free download expire on September 29, 2011, just a few more days, go download it now!

Update: it is expire now, now it cost US$4.99 at Intel AppUp. However there are still a lot of free apps available at AppUp, I am trying a few of them now. :)

I only found out this recently, everyone can get Angry Birds Rio for Windows for Free! Thanks to Intel AppUp, if you register with Intel AppUp now, you can get Angry Birds Rio for your Windows XP and Windows 7, and it is completely free and also it is a legal download software, so no need to worry that is it illegal download or not. It didn't mention about Windows Vista though, but I think it should work as well.

What you need to do is go to Intel AppUp:
Intel AppUp

Download Intel AppUp and install it on your Windows.

Launch Intel AppUp, Click "Sign In" and then "Get one here" to create new account in a pop up windows, fill in name, email, password, and check on to agree terms and conditions blah blah blah, the trick is to stop at payment option registration.

Okay, now go back to the AppUp, sign in with email and password you registered just now, wait for it to sign in and download whatever needed to be download. You should able to find Angry Birds Rio for free on the AppUp. Click download and wait for it. Depend on your network/broadband, it will take a while since it is ~46MB.

Installation will begin automatically right after download completed. Wait for it to complete installation. And once it is done, click "Launch" on AppUp to start playing Angry Birds Rio! :D

Things to note:
1. Not sure you still can get Angry Birds Rio for free if you already register with Intel AppUp, but the FAQ did mention that we can register multiple account, meaning you can use another email to register, and get a-hem-a-hem this free Angry Birds Rio. :)

2. I can only launch this game from AppUp. I cannot launch Angry Birds Rio directly with the shortcut created on desktop during installation, it gives me an error. I tried to launch it by clicking the .exe of Angry Birds Rio, also same error. So I think we have to keep Intel AppUp while to keep playing this game. Update: I can now play Angry Birds Rio by clicking the shortcut directly, probably the installation was not complete at that time. :)


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source: Intel AppUp

p/s: I am lazy to take snapshot, just go download it now before expire!