July 29, 2009
July 17, 2009
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
Sometime the solution to a problem that look very complicated is actually very simple. Try to take the test above and see how fast you can solve the problem.
April 17, 2009
HOW TO DIRECTLY EDIT A PDF FILE
In the course of my work, I often deal with documents in pdf format which, as most of you know, very difficult to edit. With the right software, you can convert the pdf file into Words format, edit it and re-convert it back to pdf. However, this may not always the best option as sometime, the re-converted copy may not look like the original copy (more…)
March 12, 2009
HOW TO REMEMBER, OR BE REMINDED OF, IMPORTANT DATES
Over time, as we grow older and our circle of friends and relatives grow bigger, we have more dates to remember:birthdays, anniversaries, credit cards payment, etc. Fortunately this is 2009 and you can get a little help from Remindr. (more…)
February 25, 2009
MANAGE YOUR DAILY TASKS WITH GUBB
Over the years, I have tried quite a numbers of web-based tools to manage my “to-do” or task lists. Recently, a friend recommended to me www.gubb.net, and I have been using it ever since. Gubb has a very clean interface and very easy to use. The interface is arranged in such a way that you don’t have to spent hours learning it. You can write down all your tasks in Gubb and arrange them according to priority using background colours. You can put a deadline to all the tasks. Apart from the excellent functions, another thing that I like about Gubb is that (more…)
February 1, 2009
HOW TO MAKE WEBPAGE LOAD FASTER WITHOUT THE PHOTOS
With broadband connection, web pages load up with blazing speed. However, some web pages may take ages to load up when you are surfing on a dial-up connection or on a non-3G handphone. News websites such as CNN or BBC or Bernama or Utusan Malaysia would sometime take a long time to load because of the photos and other graphics on their website. If for some reason you want to access a website just to read the texts ONLY (and the photos are not important to you), you can use another unique function of Google to help you (more…)
January 30, 2009
GOOGLE’S LITTLE KNOWN BUT USEFUL FUNCTIONS
GOOGLE’S LITTLE KNOWN BUT USEFUL FUNCTIONS
Do you know that, apart from being an excellent search engine, Google can also perform a few other useful functions to get instant information. If you want to know the definition of some word, say “elated”, just type “define:elated” in Google (make sure that you type it continuously i.e. no break in-between) and Google will immediately returns the definition of the word from a few sources. If for some reason you want to know what time is it in certain city around the world (more…)
January 29, 2009
HOW TO SNOOZE YOUR INCOMING EMAILS
SNOOZE YOUR INCOMING EMAILS.
Have you ever experienced a day when you were overwhelmed by important, but not quite urgent, emails? Different people have different way of handling this problem. Now there is a new service that enable you to “snooze” your incoming emails. When you’re too busy to respond to an email right away, just forward it to 24@hitmelater.com and the email will be resend to you (more…)
January 26, 2009
HOW TO QUICKLY SWITCH YOUR MOBILE PHONE TO SILENT MODE
Fastest and easiest way to switch your mobile phone to “silent” mode.
Switching your mobile phone to “silent mode” normally require you to press a few buttons on your mobile phone. If you have a mobile phone with Symbian S60 operating system (most Nokia N and E series phones run on Symbian S60), you can easily and quickly switch your mobile phone to “silent mode” by pressing (more…)
