Friday, March 12th, 2010

Category: Software

First Look at Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 by Peter Zhang

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I woke up this morning and found an Office 2010 Technical Preview invitation waiting for me. I could not stop my excitement and quickly downloaded it. Join me in downloading + installing this wonderful product!

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New Firefox Addons Page… FF3.5 coming soon?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 by Peter Zhang

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A new design of the Firefox addons page just went online. The new interface is much more beautiful to look at and somewhat easier to use. Addons can now be viewed in grids, instead of just lists – lets the users see more addons in one page.

Hmm… a new design makes me wonder… is Firefox 3.5 coming soon? Well, Beta 4 released not a long while ago… If Gold isn’t releasing soon, I suspect at least RC is. (Review on software development stage: Alpha –> Beta –> RC (Feature freeze, if no more bugs, release gold) –> Gold (Final))

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Songbird – an iTunes Replacement, finally!

Saturday, March 14th, 2009 by Peter Zhang

VLooking for a replacement of iTunes to sync all your songs and manage your enormous library of music? Try Songbird! Powered by Mozilla, it guarantees basically all you can find on Firefox: Stability, Addons, and easiness.

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Safari 4

Saturday, March 7th, 2009 by Jonathan Lau

Safari 4 has been released in beta stage for quite awhile. This is apparently the first web browser that passed the AcidTest 3. Here’s an overview of some of its features.

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Faster and Faster – Boot-up tricks

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 by Peter Zhang

From now and on, TechCube will bring tips for a faster computer on a Windows Machine every week. This week, we are going to focus on boot-ups.

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Sync between computers easily (and freely) with Windows Live Mesh

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 by Peter Zhang

Multiple computers for one person is not that rare nowadays. Most people have different computers at work and at home, or even a UMPC to carry out. Syncing the files between the two computers have always been a problem, but now with Windows Live Mesh, the problem is no more!

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The Future is Fusion – AMD Fusion for Gaming

Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by Peter Zhang

When AMD’s new product Phenom II lost quite miserably against Intel’s i7, they introduce another slogan “The Future is Fusion”. From its title, we can tell that it has something to do with a special bond between AMD CPUs and ATi graphics… and possibly more products. But, how do you actually apply it?

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AMD has just released a tool designed to help you discover its “fusion” experience, namely AMD Fusion for Gaming.

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fring – Turn your iTouch into an iPhone

Thursday, February 12th, 2009 by Jonathan Lau

Want to make calls on your iTouch and use it just like an iPhone? With VOIP and wireless technology, its not impossible. Of course, you would only be able to call in places where there is wi-fi coverage.

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Translating using Poedit

Saturday, February 7th, 2009 by Jonathan Lau

Want to help the community by translating software to your language? This post sums up all the steps you need to take.

The software we will be using to achieve this is Poedit. Poedit is an open-source cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it (although it was only tested on Unix with GTK+ and Windows). It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the file by hand.

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Google Chrome new version & coming to Mac and Linux?

Monday, January 26th, 2009 by Peter Zhang

Google Chrome 2.0.158.0

Google Chrome new version 2.0.158.0 is out, with the introduction of faetures like profiles, auto form submittion. To install, you will need to follow this guide here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel. I have, however, found a problem with the tabs management in Chrome in Windows 7. Meh, as software in beta stage, you can’t really expect much. :P

To learn more on getting this release, visit this link: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-chrome-20-pre-beta.html

As for Google Chrome on Mac and Linux, there is a bunch of guys that made it here. Although not official and definitely should not be ued as a main browser, but is definitely a step towards it. If you want to get the first news on Chrome on Mac and Linux, it is the best to subscibe to the official newsletter at here (linux) or here.

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