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Turbo-boost your Chrome browser (Rockmelt too!)
0March 9, 2011
by Ken Ng
If you’re using Google Chrome or any other browser that’s based of the Chromium project, such as Rockmelt, here’s a neat trick to add some more speed to the already zippy browser.
Yes. You can never get enough speed.
It seems that Chrome has a ‘hidden’ section where you can enable some experimental tweaks to enable features that’s so new, it could potentially blow up your browser (sort of).
Fixing the Mac App Store Error 100 issue
0January 7, 2011
by Ken Ng
If you’ve just updated your Mac today, you’ll notice the new Mac App Store sitting on your dock.
All is great when you immediately fire it up and try to download an application. But after doing so, you might get a nasty ‘unknown error (100)’ problem.
So how do you fix this problem if it’s unknown? Well, the solution to this problem is actually rather simple.
The main issue with this problem, so it seems, is that the Mac App Store (obviously More >
To Mac, or to Windows? That’s your question, here’s my answer
0January 5, 2011
by Ken Ng
If you’re looking to get a new PC or notebook, chances are, you’ll be asking the question above. So, should you be getting a Mac or Windows machine? Well, in my humble opinion, the answer is pretty simple. If you are willing to fork out a little more (to get more too of course), then go for the Mac option as I had.
Sure, like I mentioned, the Mac option will be a little bit more expensive when compared with the ‘equivalent’ Windows option from More >
How to get your own email domain name with Gmail
5December 14, 2010
by Ken Ng
Some of you may have wondered how I got my own domain name for my email address. I thought it was kinda cool to have an email address with a domain names based on my condominium where I live. In fact, there’s been a couple of times where I mistakenly thought to be working for my condominium as I wrote down my email address, which is happens to have my condominium’s name.
And if you follow what The Oatmeal says about email addresses, you would More >
Tip: Calibrating the MacBook and iPhone battery to maximize it’s life
1July 1, 2010
by Ken Ng
Everyone knows that the battery on the new MacBooks and iPhone are built-in and non-replaceable. Therefore, it’s extra important to try and maintain the battery to maximize its lifetime.
And since both the MacBooks and iPhones uses a lithium-based battery, there are a few golden rules on how we can keep the batteries in tip-top conditions.
Firstly, lithium-based batteries likes their electrons to keep moving. That way, the battery stays ‘fresh’ More >
Tip: Enabling ‘native’ NTFS read and write support on Snow Leopard, at your own risk
0June 21, 2010
by Ken Ng
If you’re use both Mac and Windows workstations, then you’d probably also have a bunch of removable hard disks that’s formatted as NTFS laying around. And you’d also obviously know that OS X does read from an NTFS partition. The trouble is, you don’t get NTFS write by default.
In Snow Leopard, both read and write capability is apparently available natively. The reason why it’s not officially available, it seems, is due to licensing issues More >
The Ultimate Shopping Guide for the iPad or Netbook!
0February 7, 2010
by Ken Ng
So you think you need a new device in addition to your collection of 7321902208367 devices you currently own. And the in thing today seems like an in between device, something that’s not quite as small as your smartphone and not quite as large as your notebook. It seems like everyone in Starbucks is lugging this newfangled category of mobile devices. You definitely feel left out and you start to wonder how that happened. Steve Jobs didn’ More >
