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Security,
Tools on October 22nd, 2009 by Kent
Whether you want to be a good guy who just wants to protect yourself or a bad guy who wants to insult others, you need to cover your own ass, no matter what, especially when doing things online. That’s how hidemyass.com comes in play.
Hide My Ass! helps hundreds of thousands of people daily by protecting their privacy and identity online. They offer a range of unique services, from our web proxy enabling you to surf the web anonymously to our free file hosting with advanced privacy features. Best of all, most of them are free of charge. Here are…
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Information Technology on October 22nd, 2009 by Kent
Windows 7 is about to launch today, actually it was already launched in Australia because of the time. However, since the release of RTM, manufactories were busy on building their pre-load copy of Windows 7 for their machines. Those big corporations that have plan to upgrade will also be busying building their Windows 7 image files for deploying. One of the many ways that help them to do that is to use the Windows Automated Installation Kit, aka WAIK.
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and the deployment…
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Information Technology on October 22nd, 2009 by Kent
The book was written by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker, along with the Windows Server Team at Microsoft. It’s a wonderful resource that can get your hands on this new released Windows Server. And what is more awesome is that Microsoft offers this introduction book through Windows Server 2008 R2 site for FREE. Not sure how long this offer will last, so go and grab your own copy before it’s too late.
The book includes 8 chapters that covers pretty all basic stuff that you need to get started. Here is the table of contents:
Chapter…
Posted in
WordPress on October 21st, 2009 by Kent
I love Live Writer so much that I use it almost everyday. It’s the best blogging tool in my own opinion. If you still haven’t used it I urge you to give it a try right away. It’s a life saving tool for any type of blogger.
The tool is so powerful and feature rich that I never found a need that requires me to use any type of plug-ins, even though there are tons out there on Windows Live Gallery for me to download for free. But I can’t ignore this…
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Tools on October 17th, 2009 by Kent
As an IT pro, I feel always comfortable walking to a computer with a handful tools in my hands. Hunting for good tools in portable format is always on my top 10 list that I need to keep my eyes on it pretty much all the time. Why is portable applications so useful?
With portable applications, you can leave your laptop behind; plug in the thumb drive in any client machine, run the application without worrying about leaving anything behind. In this post, we attempt to show a collection of useful and free applications you can run independently
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Posted in
Internet on October 17th, 2009 by Kent
Finally, Twitter has started rolling out a very long missed feature, Lists, that is pretty similar to Groups or Favorite Users that are on 3rd party Twitter client tools. It first appeared on one of my two twitter account above the all status updates but disappeared now. So I guess they are still testing and working on this new feature.
I created a new list called Windows-7-Giveaway at the time when I saw this new feature showing up, in a hope using it to manage the Windows 7 Giveaway contest we are running at the moment. So…
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WordPress on October 17th, 2009 by Kent
If you had spent some time playing around in WordPress, you may find this full list of hooks that are used in WordPress handy. It’s a better than cheat sheet type of thing that will totally benefit any of WordPress lover who also likes to tweak around inside the theme. Definitely worth not only checking out but saving in bookmark as well.
Note that all blue links are clickable, which takes you to the detail hook directory page that explains the specific hook in details.
List of all WordPress hooks via Adam R Brown, shared by
Posted in
Stuff in General on October 11th, 2009 by Kent
With the arrival of the twin girls on Monday Oct 5, 2009, I am now officially a father to 3 lovely girls, Samantha, Arianna, and Brianna.
My motivation of doing anything just got promoted triple times, which left me no time doing things that are wasting time, e.g. writing this post.
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Cheat Sheet on October 2nd, 2009 by Kent
These cheat sheets may be old but are still useful as a quick reference guild in essential to those who are building the websites. Well, at least, they are useful to me.
All 5 cheat sheets are from Added Bytes, so
if you like the cheat sheets, and want to say thanks, please consider buying me something from my Amazon Wishlist. Thankyou very much to those who have already hunted it down and sent me something nice – I’m very grateful!
And here we go.
HTML Cheat Sheet
It’s a one-page A4 printable…
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Information Technology on September 29th, 2009 by Kent
Here are two books offered for free, one in PDF format and one in paper copy. If you are a fan of virtualization, or even Microsoft Hyper-V, you should go and grab them before the deals are gone.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Inside Guide to Microsoft’s Hypervisor
NetApp offers this book for free to everyone who register on their website by Nov 20th, 2009. The book has 384 pages long and was written by John Kelbley, Mike Sterling and Allen Stewart. Once registered, you will be able to download Chapter 9 immediately but will have to wait 2-4 weeks…
