Archive for July, 2007

Firefox add-on: Split browser

Posted by Benny Chew in Firefox, Tips & Tweaks, Web on July 24th, 2007

A Firefox extension (add-on) which enables a Firefox window to have multiple tabs tiled to however you like which is useful if you have a widescreen LCD monitor. To read more, click here.

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Will It Blend? – iPhone

Posted by Benny Chew in Gadgets, Humour, Web on July 12th, 2007

And the iPhone craze continues..

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For more blending action, head over here.

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YamiPod write up

Posted by Benny Chew in Gadgets, General Tech, Linux, Open Source, Tips & Tweaks, Windows on July 9th, 2007

Just posted a write up on YamiPod (Yet another iPod manager) which is an alternative iPod management software to iTunes here.

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Driver installation problems with Sony WALKMAN

Posted by Benny Chew in Gadgets, General Tech, Tips & Tweaks, Windows on July 7th, 2007

My sister got a Sony WALKMAN NW-E013F as a free gift recently and the installation of drivers continually terminated abruptly at about 70%. Initially she thought it was her fault but after some googling, it was Sony’s. >:| They somehow shipped CD-ROMs with defective drivers in them, which caused that installation troubles.

Taken from here:

Important information regarding the CD-ROM software supplied with the following WALKMAN: NW-E013/E015/E016/E013F/E015F/E016F

Some CD-ROM provided with the above mentioned models may not be used. Therefore, the Hardware Operation Guide (PDF) may not be opened and the Driver for Microsoft Windows 2000 users may not be installed.

If you’re having the same issues, just get the drivers from here and it should install fine. ;)

And here‘s the link to SonicStage 4.3 which is the software used to transfer your music to the device (similar to how iTunes works with the iPod).

Sony Asia Pacific’s announcement regarding this issue can be found here.

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Eclipse IDE 3.3 (Europa) released

Posted by Benny Chew in Coding/Development, Java on July 2nd, 2007

EclipseIf you’re developing in Java and have not used Eclipse before, you don’t know what you’re missing out. :)

Probably would test out the Web Tools project of the Europa release as web services and distribution seems to be my domain at work in recent times..

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Javascript setInterval() issues

Posted by Benny Chew in Coding/Development, Javascript on July 2nd, 2007

I decided to use AJAX calls to get the browser to make keep-alive calls every 2 minutes (using setInterval) and somehow stumbled into an issue where it makes the call once, and then stops. After talking the Javascript and Flash god in the office, we found out that it was because the script goes out of scope and thus stops looping as it should.

A quick fix for this can be found here. It’s been working for me without any adverse effects since. ;)

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