Are you tired of every time switching to Incognito mode after each time you run Google Chrome web browser. There is a simple solution to this by adding a simple command line switch to the Google Chrome shortcut. I had successfully tried this in version 0.3.154.0, 0.3.154.6 and 0.3.154.9 but can’t get it working in version version 0.2.149.30.
Right click on the Google Chrome shortcut and select Properties. In Google Chrome Properties and select Shortcut menu. In the Target text box, insert “–incognito” with a space at the end as show below: -
Click OK button to apply the setting. Finally, you have enable your Google Chrome to start in Incognito mode. And, don’t forget to download the latest beta release 0.3.154.9 offline installer released on Oct 29, 2008.
Dell Inspiron Mini 12, the larger version of Mini 9 is available in Dell Japan website. Whereas the author of APC, David Flynn has the opportunity to review the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 handed to him by Michael Dell in Shanghai while attending a regional Dell event. You can read and view more in APCmag.com website. The specification is quite similar to the earlier post on Dell Inspiron Z530 in my blog. Would you go for a Mini 9 or Mini 12?
An official Dell Inspiron Mini 9 commercial in Youtube.
Notepad++ is my favorite free text editor that I use daily. The current latest version is 5.1 and it supports various languages. It is currently available in the Windows platform and it is licensed under GPL.
I would like to introduce one useful plugin comes with Notepad++ is MIME Tools. This is a very useful plugin for me to perform troubleshooting on SMTP AUTH using telnet because we need to enter the full email address and the password encoded in Base64. Let’s do a simple test.
Run the Notepad++. Open a new normal text file. Key in “password” and highlight it in the text file as below.
Next, go to Plugins menu, then MIME Tools and select Base64 Encode as below.
And, you get the output of the Base64 Encode as below.
To reverse the encoded Base64, we need to decode it by going to Plugins menu, then MIME Tools and select Base64 Decode as below.
Is that simple? Give it a try and you will begin to love Notepad++ inside out.
This post will cover an upgrading process for Citrix XenServer Express Edition from 4.1.0 to 5.0.0 only. Let’s get started. Insert the Citrix XenServer Express Edition 5.0.0 CD into the CD-ROM drive. Reboot your server. The installation process starts automatically. You will see the initial boot messages as below.
WordPress 2.6.3 is released today as of Oct 24, 2008 because of a vulnerability in the Snoopy library. Snoopy is used in WordPress to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. This vulnerability is low risk but it is advisable to perform an upgrade to WordPress 2.6.3 to avoid any exploit happen to your site. You can download WordPress 2.6.3 right now. Also, you can just download the following two files below without downloading the whole release to get the security fix. Just copy them to your WordPress 2.6.2 installation folder. I will be performing the upgrade soon.
I have a great news to share with you. Namecheap is offering low priced registrations and renewals of domain for this October 2008 month. For the next 48 hours, you are eligible to register or renew a domain in Namecheap for $8.88 using this coupon code OCTNEWS. Well, great news will not stop here. Namecheap transfer special is back too with the offering of low priced domain transfer fee of $6.99 with the coupon code TRANSCHEAP for the next 72 hours.
However, you can also use the coupon code OCTNEWS to purchase Namecheap regular web hosting packages for 25% off the regular price and any reseller package for 30% off too. So, act fast now before both these Namecheap coupons code expires.
Google Chrome, the open source and free web browser developed by Google was released on September 2, 2008. Since the day one of the release, it has been widely accepted by huge numbers of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and even Opera users. Well, glad to say that I am poisoned and now addicted to Google Chrome. I remembered that the first time I installed Google Chrome, I need to download a small 474KB setup file ChromeSetup.exe from Google Chrome official website. Then, this setup file will download the required 7 to 8MB file to finish the installation.
Google Chrome 0.2.149.30 (running on Windows 2003)
In a nutshell, this is very annoying to me because I have to perform 2 steps to actually try the look and feel of Google Chrome. Without wasting time on this, I googled around and found there is solution to it; Google Chrome offline installer. You can download the latest beta build 0.2.149.30 released on September 18, 2008 or the latest development build 0.3.154.3 released on October 15, 2008.
Google Chrome 0.3.154.3 (running on Windows Vista)
As the result, you don’t have to worry now. You have this Google Chrome offline installer that enables you to install as many systems as you want anytime anywhere without any hassle. Nevertheless, you can go to Google Chrome Releases blog to read more on the latest announcements and release notes.
ShopWiki is a must visit online shopping search engine for various shoppers in the Internet. ShopWiki offers shoppers detailed product buying guide information to lessen shopper’s peace of mind when purchasing any product. I had been thinking of getting one LCD TV but have a lot of doubts. Thank to ShopWiki and I had made my decision to purchase a LCD TV after reading the LCD TV buying guide page in ShopWiki for this coming Christmas.
ShopWiki has the advanced Web-crawling capability technology with the combination of consumer-written wiki which offers shoppers the ease on finding product on the Internet. With ShopWiki, shoppers have the power to search everything from their 30,000 stores on the internet with easy to understand buying guides inclusive the LCD TV buying guide I read.
In the LCD TV buying guide page, I am able to learn the advantages and disadvantages of LCD TVs. You can also know what is going to come out from your pocket when purchasing the type and features of the LCD TV you wanted by reading the LCD TV buying guide page. ShopWiki also tells you what you should consider for when buying a LCD TV like screen size, resolution and the placement of your LCD TV as well. All the information in the LCD TV buying guide is very informative. As the result, ShopWiki is now my favorite product search engine.
Well, Maybank2U (aka M2U) website where it is a complete one-stop financial portal offering online services to its customers such as banking, insurance and stock broking. As a customers, I always pay bills, enquire balance and conduct other financial services transactions using M2U. And, I have been using the all new M2U website since the day one of the launching on October 16, 2008.
However, I am very upset and angry with the difficulties that I am facing while I am accessing the M2U. This new M2U website loads slower than the previous version. I prefer the old one (aka Classic) and as just a user and I don’t really look at the brand new design. Perhaps, the team in M2U should be emphasize more on the easy and simple usage of it rather than giving more steps when performing any transaction in the new M2U website. Also, I did noticed that the IP address has changed. The old IP address is 12.x.x.x and the new is 202.162.17.68. Hmm…I wonder if they have also moved data center and what is the bandwidth they are getting (access speed is like snail). I even faced system busy message from M2U.
Thankfully, the Classic version of M2U is now accessible through the new M2U main page. You can head to this all-you M2U blog to read the recent updates on the new M2U website. Blogger Danny Foo also facing the same issue. You can read his post here.
A simple guy trying to put his name into the WWW place.