To Mac, or to Windows? That’s your question, here’s my answer

Find out why I think Macs are a real compelling platform to consider as your next PC, even if you still need Windows to run some of your stuff.

Keep your MacBook alive with an SSD upgrade

If you really want a fast and responsive machine, instead of buying a new system, consider upgrading with an SSD storage. You will be surprise how responsive your MacBook can be just by using an SSD!

How to access your files anywhere with SugarSync

Ever felt that even having a tablet, you still could never leave your notebook behind because you always have 'that' file that you might need. Well, here's how SugarSync, a cloud storage solution, can help you leave that notebook behind for good.

Parallels or VMWare Virtual Machines on an SSD: Is it worth it?

SSD is very expensive in terms of it's real estate and you simply do not want to put just about any junk you have that's not worth it's space there. Therefore, you would want to make sure if it's really worth plunking the tens of GBs worth of VM image onto your precious SSD storage. So, should you or should you not? Is there significant performance improvements that warrant the large chunk of the SSD dedicated to the VM image? Read on to find out!

VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7: A User’s POV

If you are uncertain whether to go for Parallels Desktop 7 or VMWare Fusion 4, perhaps this article could help you. Here's my A usability-based comparison of VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7. No useless benchmarks, no pointless feature-by-feature comparisons. Just purely based on my use of the two.

How to get your own email domain name with Gmail

Ever wanted to get your own domain name for your email address? What if I say that's really a simple process and you can get the email service for FREE! Yes, you just need to register your domain name for a nominal fee of less than US$10 per year and thanks to Google Apps, you can get all this done within a single day!

Posts tagged fix

Fix: Recovering from a suspect Microsoft SQL Server database

September 26, 2010

by Ken Ng

Recently, (NO) thanks to our wonderful host, we had to recover from a RAID failure which caused severe data corruption on our dedicated server’s RAID array. And upon recovering from the fiasco and spending several hours getting the server back up, we discovered multiple lost files and worst of all, corrupted database files!

And we had both MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express running on the server. We managed to backup the critical More >

Fix: Parallels iPhone Service won’t start

August 4, 2010

by Ken Ng

Here’s a quick tip to fix for those of you Mac users who are using Parallels 5 as the virtualization solution.

Support came back to me with the following steps to fix the problem. First, quit Parallels if it’s already running. Then go through the steps noted below.

Go to /Library/Parallels/

Right-click on “Parallels Service.app” -> Show Package Contents

Go to /Contents/PlugIns/

Right-click on “Parallels Network Start.app” -> Show Package More >

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Fixing the slow iPhone synchronization with iTunes

April 27, 2010

by Ken Ng

Updated 28 April 2010 – Looks like synchronizing photos is trickier than I thought! Read the full post to find out why and how to fix it.

Have you ever waited for more than 10 hours trying to just sync your iPhone with iTunes? Well, you’re not alone. I recently just had that exact problem. I started syncing my iPhone at 8pm last night and when I woke up at 7am this morning, it was still synchronizing. And to makes things worse, iTunes don’t More >

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Fixing the ORA-12519: TNS:no appropriate service handler found error

January 15, 2010

by Ken Ng

Here’s a quick post to share a quick fix to a problem that I faced this morning while trying to setup a proof-of-concept environment for the Oracle Service Bus. If you think I’m writing Greek, then you may skip this rather g(r)eeky post. However, if you’re like me having this problem and wondering why there are so little post online that easily explains what the problem is and how to quickly fix it, then here’s a quick tip to save your time More >

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Fix: Getting Linksys WMP300N to work on Ubuntu

January 7, 2010

by Ken Ng

This is a little old actually, but it looks like it’s still getting hits on my old blog, so here it is being migrated over to this new blog. The Linksys WMP300N is not as widely used so it seems and therefore, it’s quite hard to find much resources on it. So I guess this might be good post to keep alive as well.

If you somehow happens to be having the Linksys WMP300N and Ubuntu 8.10, well, you’d probably be wondering how to get the wireless More >

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Vista Help: User Profile Service failed the logon

January 6, 2010

by Ken Ng

My brother just had this problem where he was not able to log on into his Vista Home premium notebook. It happened when he accidentally shut down his notebook while the Dell utility was updating his machine. The next thing he knew, he got the following error message when he tried to log on to his machine.

The user profile service service failed the login. User profile cannot be loaded.

After stumbling around a little, I manage to help him More >

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“The owner SID on per-user subscription doesn’t exist” error on DVD Maker

January 2, 2010

by Ken Ng

Windows Vista DVD Maker

If you’re a Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate user, you would probably have noticed the Windows DVD Maker and might even have tried it out. And in all honesty, I’d have to say that I actually like it.

One of the main reason why I think that the Windows Movie Maker is kinda cool is that it’s just so easy to use. All you need to do is just the few steps as the following:

Launch Windows DVD Maker

Drag More >

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Fix: Getting Chrome to work on WinXP SP3

December 28, 2009

by Ken Ng

Pretty much everyone harping about Google’s Chrome these days. I know. I’m one of them too. Which is also why it’s so frustrating when I couldn’t get Chrome to work on my work notebook which is running Windows XP SP3. Countless searches showed quite a number too suffered the same problem as I did. Google Chrome would install. But it would mysteriously close the import settings dialog box nor would it uninstall itself. The portable version More >

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