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!

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!

Fixing Lion’s iCal’s CalDAV password problem

If you keep getting prompts to reenter the password for your CalDAV calendars on OS X Lion, here's a fix that might work for you.

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.

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 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.

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5 Reasons Why I Jailbroke my iPhone

May 28, 2010

by Ken Ng

Yes. I finally took the plunge and jailbroke my phone. One reason why I took so long to do it was the fact that it’s quite an easy task to jailbreak an unlocked iPhone without the risk of losing anything existing on the phone. If you want to know how I got it done, just hop over to http://spiritjb.com/.

I’m actually known for my insistence of buying apps and games legitimately off App Store. And since don’t exactly own a tree that grows money, More >

Guide: iPhone 3G Tethering on Linux Mint or Ubuntu

April 26, 2010

by Ken Ng

One of the reasons that I was quite reluctant to move over to Linux from Windows was the ease of tethering Internet connection from my iPhone. In Windows, all you need is to install iTunes (which would install the required drivers) and voila, all you need is just enable tethering on your iPhone and connect the USB cable to your PC. That’s it!

However, thankfully there’s the Bluetooth PAN option as well for tethering. And since the iPhone uses More >

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Tip: Enabling VMX support for Dell Latitude E6400

March 29, 2010

by Ken Ng

Here’s a quick tip if you’ve been trying to enable Virtualization support for the Dell Latitude E6400 and wasn’t able to. If you’re like me, you’d probably enabled all the settings available under the Virtualization section of the BIOS. Well, apparently, that’s a BIG mistake.

What you need to set is actually the following:-

Virtualization support – ON
VT for Direct I/O Access – ON
Trusted Execution – OFF

Where I got it wrong was to also More >

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Tip: Getting Java on Google Chrome for Linux

March 16, 2010

by Ken Ng

I’ve recently jumped on the Linux bandwagon and installed Linux Mint as the primary OS on my work machine. Cutting the long story short, I installed Chrome and discovered that it didn’t have the Java plugin pre-installed. Bummer.

So naturally, I went to download the latest Java runtime for Linux (jre-6u18-linux-x64.bin) here and installed it at /opt/java. For you Linux newbies, I’ll go easy on you as I too was a Linux n00b not too long ago

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How to re-arrange your Windows XP taskbar

January 21, 2010

by Ken Ng

The ability to re-arrange the applications on the taskbar is one of the nice new features of Windows 7. This is of course nothing exceptionally new, as the dock on Apple Macs allows you to do it for quite some time.

But if you’re still stuck in realm of Windows XP or even Vista, like me on my Win XP work machine, you’ll need some extra help to re-arrange those running applications on the taskbar.

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5 useful Chrome extensions that everyone should have

January 17, 2010

by Ken Ng

If you do not already know, Chrome today supports extensions to further enhances your browsing experience. Extensions are nothing new if you’re been using Firefox or Maxthon before. But before you go nuts trying to figure out why Chrome on your machine don’t seem to work, do note that it’s actually only supported on the latest beta version of Chrome. So yeah, you’ve to upgrade it (link here) if you’re using the latest official release of 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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Who else wants push e-mail, even when it’s not supported?

January 13, 2010

by Ken Ng

Push e-mail seems to be the in thing these days. O.K. It’s the in thing ever since berries started to grow batteries and sold by phone companies. And since then, the iPhone has caught up as well. Unfortunately, it’s only available on Microsoft Exchange, Apple’s MobileMe, Gmail (via Google Sync), and Yahoo Mail.

However, if you are have more than one email accounts that uses Exchange ActiveSync, or, if your email server is not supported by the More >

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