Why becoming a product reviewer is not as easy as you thought – Part 1

I had a bit of discussion with a friend of mine a few days ago. She said how lucky I am (because I’ve been getting those wonderful gadgets to try and review on) and how easy it is to review those “free” review products. I tried to defend myself and told her that it wasn’t [...]

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How to fix Razer Megalodon’s microphone noise problem

March 2, 2010 | 0 comments

I was surprised to find out that my friends couldn’t hear a thing I said after I plugged my Razer Megalodon (a 7.1 surround sound gaming headset) for the first time. They heard a loud noise coming from my microphone. After updating the driver, they still couldn’t hear me properly. It’s better but they could [...]

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OGAEXEC.exe error upon Windows restart?

February 11, 2010 | 2 comments

If you’ve been getting the OGAEXEC.exe crash report like I did (the Office Genuine Advantage error) whenever you restart your Windows, here is what you need to do to make the problem go away.

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Google URL shortener without using the Google Toolbar

December 21, 2009 | 9 comments

As we all know it, Google has its own URL shortening service called goo.gl. At the moment, you need to have a Google Toolbar in order to use the URL shortening service. However, with a Firefox extension called “goo.gl lite”, you’ll be able to use goo.gl without having to install the Google toolbar!

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Having a YouTube Slow Loading problem?

November 9, 2009 | 3 comments

Recently I was having a YouTube problem at home every time I wanted to open up a YouTube movie. This never happened before and I knew my internet was fast enough to handle the connection. The YouTube screen went blank for a very long time as if the movie couldn’t be loaded at all. Sometimes [...]

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Twitter Lists – what is it?

November 2, 2009 | 12 comments

When I logged on to my Twitter on the web a couple of days ago, I noticed a new message on the top of the page (screenshot above) about the new Twitter feature called the Twitter Lists. What are Twitter Lists? How do you use them?

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Beware of a Facebook update email scam!

October 29, 2009 | 4 comments

So I got this email today “from Facebook”. It looked very legitimate and real. You must have realized by now that there was a major update to your Facebook’s front page with the News Feed and Live Feed. This email might fool lots of people thinking that they really need to do something because of [...]

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How to configure Google Apps email to work with Mailman mailing list

October 19, 2009 | 3 comments

Here was my problem earlier: I administer an organization’s mailing list (my church) with its own domain name for years.  Found out about this wonderful Google Apps and I thought, “Cool! Let’s migrate the email and everything to Google Apps for a better collaboration and archival in the future”. I didn’t realize though that Google [...]

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How to add Google Translator to your site/blog and test that it works

October 2, 2009 | 15 comments

Google has just added a new website translator gadget that will automatically suggest a user to translate your website content into their preferred language (based on their browsers’ language settings). It will add a nice overlay on the top asking whether they want Google to translate the post they are viewing. What you need to [...]

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How to add an image to a Gmail’s signature

August 17, 2009 | 41 comments

I’ve been trying to find out how to insert image into Gmail’s email signature last week and it seems that Gmail doesn’t directly support putting images on the email signature. If you go to Gmail settings to change your default signature, you can see that Google only gives you a text-based signature.
However, with a few [...]

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