Let me google that for you
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour, Web on December 1st, 2008
If you participate in online forums or groups, you would realise that a majority of queries could be answered simply by googling. Colleague sent this site around today which potentially could help those whom are in need of guidance: Let me google that for you
- Type in the phrase in the search box.
- Hit Google Search.
- Copy and paste the link to the person who requires guidance.
For e.g., click here.
Steal this comic
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on October 14th, 2008
Create iPhone ringtones via iTunes
Posted by Benny Chew in Tips & Tweaks on October 12th, 2008
The article title says on Windows, but I think it should work on Mac OS X as well. Link over here.
iTunes 100% CPU on closing
Posted by Benny Chew in Tips & Tweaks, Windows on October 12th, 2008
After I got my iPhone 3G a couple about 2 months ago, I had no other choice but to use iTunes for all the syncing, backups, music etc as Apple wants total control of what you can or can’t do with its devices (was using YamiPod previously, writeup here). :|
My loathing for it got worse as it didn’t seem to be closing gracefully on quitting besides causing software restores which all ended up with iTunes.exe taking up 100% CPU. I decided to stop swearing at it and search around for the root cause as this behaviour wasn’t replicated on my work machine and on colleague’s variety of machines.
Turns out it wasn’t iTunes, but the antivirus (NOD32 2.7) which wasn’t playing nice. After adding various iTunes paths to AMON/IMON exclusion lists, there has not been crashes or 100% CPU since (instructions on how to do this here). Guess I was cursing the wrong software but anyhow..
Just a note, this is a fairly belated post as I was having this issue with iTunes 7.x and have since upgraded to 8.0.1 which may no longer require this workaround. ;)
Firefox 3 is out
Posted by Benny Chew in Firefox, Humour, Open Source on June 18th, 2008
After trying it out for the past 24 hours, I must say I’m very impressed by the improvements over version 2. For starters, it has not hogged up to 500+MB of memory after a couple of hours, no crashes thus far too. Besides that, the new location bar (a.k.a. AwesomeBar) is simply fantastic. Most extensions have been updated to work with the latest version but you may have to switch to different ones if they aren’t updated anymore (or do some workarounds). Go get your copy of Firefox 3 here.
While on the subject of Firefox 3, BBspot has an article on it here. And before you go about saying ‘about time!’, BBspot is a satire news site. :P
My Google Reader shared items
Posted by Benny Chew in General Tech on June 17th, 2008
I subscribe to a considerable amount of feeds (which occasionally can get tiresome to clear, removed Digg as the volume was way too great) and I have a filtered list/feed available here which are items from feeds which I think is noteworthy.
It can be added to any RSS reader if you wish to be kept updated of the items which I share. ;)
Cross street in Google Maps
Posted by Benny Chew in General Tech, Tips & Tweaks, Web on June 16th, 2008
I decided to find out if cross streets (intersections) can be easily searched via Google Maps rather than searching for one street and just scrolling around to find the intersection with the other recently, and realised there was a keyword to do that.
For e.g., typing a very frequently used rendezvous point into Google Maps:
Swanston St at Bourke St VIC 3000
Would give you the intersection of Swanston St and Bourke St (ex-Nike Melbourne). Link to the page here.
Pretty nifty since it’s common place for shop lot locations to be listed as ‘corner X road and Y road’.
via MalekTips
Jose Mourinho on Setanta Sports
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on December 27th, 2007
If you’re versed with EPL and know of the ex-Chelsea manager, have a watch of this hilarious clip..
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